Best Fantasy TV Shows
Best fantasy TV shows
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One day, Usagi Tsukino, clumsy 2nd-year middle school student (8th grader), stumbles upon a talking cat named Luna. Luna tells her that she is destined to be Sailor Moon, "champion of love and justice", and she must search for the fabled Moon Princess. Us
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | TV Asahi |
Created By: | Naoko Takeuchi |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (34) |
Five ordinary people with superhuman physical and mental abilities are brought together to form one extraordinary team of Alphas. Operating within the U.S. Department of Defense, the team investigates cases that point to others with Alpha abilities.
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | Zak Penn |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (110) |
After saving the life of the President, two secret service agents - Myka Bering and Pete Lattimer - find themselves assigned to the top secret Warehouse 13. The Warehouse is a massive, top secret facility that houses dangerous and fantastical objects. Tog
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy, Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | Jane Espenson, D. Brent Mote |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (222) |
Sydney Bristow, an agent who has been tricked to believe she is working for the U.S. government, is actually working for a criminal organization named the Alliance of Twelve. Upon learning this, Sydney becomes a double agent for the real CIA.
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | J.J. Abrams |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.1 / 10 (264) |
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the hear
Genres: | Drama, Thriller, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Networks: | ABC, Showtime |
Created By: | David Lynch, Mark Frost |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (698) |
A drama about the local field office that investigates criminal cases affecting military personnel in The Big Easy, a city known for its music, entertainment and decadence.
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Gary Glasberg |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (143) |
The series follows Las Vegas criminalists working for the Las Vegas Police Department as they use physical evidence to solve grisly murders in this unusually graphic drama, which has inspired a host of other cop-show "procedurals". The series mixes deduct
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 15 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Anthony Zuiker, Ann Donahue |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (282) |
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is l
Genres: | Western, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 20 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | John Meston |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (46) |
24 is an American television series produced for the Fox network and syndicated worldwide, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method of na
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Robert Cochran, Joel Surnow |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (479) |
Given superstrength and durability by a sabotaged experiment, a wrongly accused man escapes prison to become a superhero for hire.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Cheo Hodari Coker |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.9 / 10 (568) |
Moonlighting is an American television series that aired on ABC from March 3, 1985, to May 14, 1989. The network aired a total of 66 episodes. Starring Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd as private detectives, the show was a mixture of drama, comedy, and ro
Genres: | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Glenn Gordon Caron |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (112) |
After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Richard Price, Steven Zaillian |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (280) |
Reporter Camille Preaker confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two young girls.
Genres: | Drama, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Marti Noxon |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (95) |
A diverse group of recruits has arrived at the FBI Quantico Base for training. They are the best, the brightest and the most vetted, so it seems impossible that one of them is suspected of masterminding the biggest attack on New York City since 9/11.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Joshua Safran |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (292) |
The orphaned Baudelaire children face trials, tribulations and the evil Count Olaf, all in their quest to uncover the secret of their parents' death.
Genres: | Drama, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Daniel Handler, Barry Sonnenfeld, Lemony Snicket |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (202) |
Two teenagers from very different backgrounds awaken to newly acquired superpowers which mysteriously link them to one another.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Freeform |
Created By: | Joe Pokaski |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (78) |
Jonathan Ames, a young Brooklyn writer, is feeling lost. He's just gone through a painful break-up, thanks in part to his drinking, can't write his second novel, and carouses too much with his magazine editor. Rather than face reality, Jonathan turns inst
Genres: | Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Jonathan Ames |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (92) |
In a world where superheroes have been real for decades, an accountant with zero powers comes to realize his city is owned by a super villain. As he struggles to uncover this conspiracy, he falls in league with a strange blue superhero.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Animation |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Networks: | Amazon, FOX, Comedy Central |
Created By: | Ben Edlund, 黄向阳 |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (29) |
Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist join forces to take on common enemies as a sinister conspiracy threatens New York City.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Douglas Petrie, Marco Ramirez |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (340) |
A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.
Genres: | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Tony Jordan |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (61) |
A war veteran turned private detective operates out of a tiny office in London’s Denmark Street. Although wounded both physically and psychologically, his unique insight and background as a military police investigator prove crucial in solving complex cri
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | BBC One |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (42) |
Wyatt Earp's great granddaughter Wynonna battles demons and other creatures with her unique abilities and a posse of dysfunctional allies - the only thing that can bring the paranormal to justice.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Western |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Networks: | Syfy, Space, CHCH-DT |
Created By: | Emily Andras |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.2 / 10 (114) |
Set two generations before the destruction of the legendary Man of Steel’s home planet, Krypton follows Superman’s grandfather — whose House of El was ostracized and shamed — as he fights to redeem his family’s honor and save his beloved world from chaos.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | David S. Goyer, Ian B. Goldberg, Damian Kindler |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (56) |
With the Ancients' city of Atlantis discovered in the Pegasus Galaxy by Stargate Command, Dr. Elizabeth Weir and Major Sheppard lead a scientific expedition to the ancient abandoned city. Once there, the team not only find themselves unable to contact Ear
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | Brad Wright, Robert C. Cooper |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (310) |
One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as "Sensates."
Publisher: | Anarchos Productions, Georgeville Television, Studio JMS, Unpronounceable Productions |
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, J. Michael Straczynski |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (463) |
NCIS is an American police procedural drama television series, revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 16 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Don McGill, Donald P. Bellisario |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (678) |
A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nig
Genres: | Drama, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Robert Doherty |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (573) |
Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad). Years later, Shawn's frequent tips to the police lead to him being falsely accused of a crime he solved.
Genres: | Drama, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | USA Network |
Created By: | Steve Franks |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (238) |
Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama-mystery series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. It aired Sundays at 9 P.M. Eastern/8 P.M. Central, on ABC from October 3, 2004, until May 13, 2012. Execu
Genres: | Drama, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Marc Cherry |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (229) |
Dexter's Laboratory is an American comic science fiction animated children's television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky for Cartoon Network. The series follows Dexter, a boy-genius with a secret laboratory filled with his collection of inventions. He
Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Cartoon Network |
Created By: | Genndy Tartakovsky |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (149) |
When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | Ronald D. Moore, Glen A. Larson |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (571) |
A missing FBI agent reappears six years after being declared dead.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | AXN |
Created By: | Matthew Cirulnick, Gaia Violo |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (42) |
Based on Michael Connelly's best-selling novels, these are the stories of relentless LAPD homicide Detective Harry Bosch who pursues justice at all costs. But behind his tireless momentum is a man who is haunted by his past and struggles to remain loyal t
Genres: | Drama, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Eric Overmyer |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (137) |
The story of military hero Eric Carter’s return to the U.S. and the trouble that follows him back – compelling him to ask CTU for help in saving his life, and stopping what potentially could be one of the largest-scale terror attacks on American soil.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Evan Katz, Manny Coto, atom100 |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 5.5 / 10 (86) |
The life of Gumball Watterson, a 12-year old cat who attends middle school in Elmore. Accompanied by his pet, adoptive brother, and best friend Darwin Watterson, he frequently finds himself involved in various shenanigans around the city, during which he
Genres: | Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | Cartoon Network |
Created By: | Ben Bocquelet |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (61) |
Dragon Ball Z is a Japanese animated television series produced by Toei Animation. Dragon Ball Z is the sequel to the Dragon Ball anime and adapts the last 26 volumes of the original 42 volume Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama The series
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Animation, Comedy, Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Networks: | Fuji TV, Cartoon Network, TF1 |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (244) |
In 2071, roughly fifty years after an accident with a hyperspace gateway made the Earth almost uninhabitable, humanity has colonized most of the rocky planets and moons of the Solar System. Amid a rising crime rate, the Inter Solar System Police (ISSP) se
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | TV Tokyo, WOWOW Prime |
Created By: | Shinichiro Watanabe |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.3 / 10 (275) |
Three years after the zombie virus has gutted the country, a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of the plague from New York to California, where the last functioning viral lab waits for his blood.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | Karl Schaefer, Craig Engler |
Status: | Returning Series, Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (255) |
The unlikely friendship between Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers, and Prince Arthur, heir to the crown of Camelot.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Jake Michie, Johnny Capps, Julian Murphy, Julian Jones |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (184) |
The adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny many billions of light years distant from the Milky Way Galaxy. They evacuated there and are now trying to figure out a way to return to Earth, whil
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | Brad Wright, Robert C. Cooper |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (248) |