Best Action TV Shows
Best action and adventure TV shows
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Jefferson Pierce is a man wrestling with a secret. As the father of two daughters and principal of a charter high school that also serves as a safe haven for young people in a New Orleans neighborhood overrun by gang violence, he is a hero to his communit
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | The CW |
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Created By: | Salim Akil, Mara Brock Akil |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.2 / 10 (181) |
A suburban couple's ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive.
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Matt Nix |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (214) |
Smallville is an American television series developed by writers/producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. It is based on the DC Comics character Superman, originally created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The series follows the adventures of Clark Kent,
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 10 |
Networks: | The WB, The CW |
Created By: | Alfred Gough, Miles Millar |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (408) |
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
Publisher: | Darkwoods Productions, American Movie Classics, Valhalla Motion Pictures, AMC Studios, Circle of Confusion |
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | AMC |
Created By: | Frank Darabont |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (3892) |
A team of teenagers with attitude are recruited to save Angel Grove from the evil witch, Rita Repulsa, and later, Lord Zedd, Emperor of all he sees, and their horde of monsters.
Genres: | Kids, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 25 |
Networks: | Nickelodeon, ABC, FOX, ABC Family, Toon Disney |
Created By: | Haim Saban, Shuki Levy |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 4.9 / 10 (147) |
Firefly is set in the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a "Firefly-class" spaceship. The ensemble cast portrays the nine characters who live on Serenity.
Genres: | Western, Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Joss Whedon |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (891) |
Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | The CW |
Created By: | Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (2122) |