Best Sci-Fi TV Shows
Best Sci-Fi TV shows of all time
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Camelot is a historical-fantasy-drama television series based on the Arthurian legend, was produced by Graham King, Morgan O'Sullivan and Michael Hirst.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Starz |
Created By: | Michael Hirst, Chris Chibnall |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.7 / 10 (44) |
An MIT grad student and a tech superstar bring a low-level Pentagon official a staggering discovery that an asteroid is just six months away from colliding with Earth.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Matt JL Wheeler, Elizabeth Kruger, Craig Shapiro |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (161) |
Follow the first human mission to Mars, exploring the challenges of taking the first steps toward interplanetary colonization. The story focuses not only on the astronauts, but also on their families and loved ones, as well as the ground team on Earth.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Hulu |
Created By: | Beau Willimon |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (11) |
4400 centers on the return of 4400 people who, previously presumed dead or reported missing, reappear on Earth. Though they have not aged physically, some of them seem to have deeper alterations ranging from superhuman strength to an unexplained healing t
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | USA Network |
Created By: | René Echevarria, Scott Peters |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (187) |
Elena Micheals thought she left the world of supernatural behind when she left Stonehaven behind 'for good this time' she thought. Until the night she got the mysterious call from her pack leader asking her to come back. So now she is heading back, leavin
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Networks: | Syfy, Space |
Created By: | Daegan Fryklind |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.9 / 10 (68) |
The story of the mysterious and brilliant Jack Parsons in 1940s Los Angeles as by day he helps birth the discipline of American rocketry and by night is a performer of sex magick rituals and a disciple to occultist Aleister Crowley.
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | CBS All Access |
Created By: | Mark Heyman |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (6) |
FBI agent Audrey Parker arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine to solve a murder and soon discovers the town's many secrets—which also hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her lost past.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | Jim Dunn, Sam Ernst |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (157) |
Helix is an intense thriller about a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control who travel to a high-tech research facility in the Arctic to investigate a possible disease outbreak, only to find themselves pulled into a terrifying life-and-de
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | Ronald D. Moore, Cameron Porsandeh |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (161) |
In a mystical and dark city filled with humans, fairies and other creatures, a police detective investigates a series of gruesome murders leveled against the fairy population. During his investigation, the detective becomes the prime suspect and must find
Genre: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Amazon |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (52) |
An alternate American history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey, as they watch the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xenophobic populist, who becomes president and turns the nation toward fascism.
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | David Simon, Ed Burns |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (41) |
Mary, Queen of Scots, faces political and sexual intrigue in the treacherous world of the French court.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | The CW |
Created By: | Laurie McCarthy, Stephanie Sengupta |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (122) |
Late-night series featuring a mix of vérité documentary, musical performances, surrealist melodrama and humorous animation as a stream-of-consciousness response to the contemporary American mediascape.
Genres: | Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Terence Nance |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
Josh Futturman, a janitor by day/world-ranked gamer by night, is tasked with preventing the extinction of humanity after mysterious visitors from the future proclaim him the key to defeating the imminent super-race invasion.
Genres: | Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Hulu |
Created By: | Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (60) |
One cannot quench his all-consuming thirst. The other cannot tame the beast clawing its way out. In the sleepy Pennsylvania village of Hemlock Grove, two young men struggle to accept painful truths: about family, themselves, the mystery of the White Tower
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Brian McGreevy |
Status: | Ended |
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (121) |
Kindred: The Embraced is an American television series produced by John Leekley Productions and Spelling Television. Loosely based on the role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade, the series premiered on Fox on April 2, 1996, and ran for eight episodes b
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Mark Rein·Hagen, John Leekley |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (10) |
After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | ITV |
Created By: | Patrick McGoohan, George Markstein |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (70) |
A police officer and a doctor face an emotionally charged mystery when seven local residents inexplicably return from the dead in peak physical form.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Created By: | Louise Fox, Tony Ayres |
Network: | ABC |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | AU |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (64) |
Transylvania, 1897. The blood-drinking Count Dracula is drawing his plans against Victorian London. And be warned: the dead travel fast.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat, Claes Bang |
Network: | BBC One |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | GB |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (93) |
Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good an
Publisher: | Blown Deadline Productions |
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | David Simon |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.4 / 10 (739) |
Based on the Pretty Little Liars series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard, the series follows the lives of four girls — Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily — whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their queen bee, Alison. One year later, they
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Networks: | ABC Family, Freeform |
Created By: | I. Marlene King |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.2 / 10 (438) |
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch is an American sitcom based on the Archie comic book series of the same name. The show premiered on September 27, 1996 on ABC to over 17 million viewers in its "T.G.I.F." line-up. The show stars Melissa Joan Hart as Sabrina Spe
Genres: | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Networks: | ABC, The WB |
Created By: | Nell Scovell |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.2 / 10 (101) |
David Haller, AKA Legion, is a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he’s confronted with the possibili
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | FX |
Created By: | Noah Hawley |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (516) |
When a teenage couple runs away to be together, the extraordinary gift they possess unleashes powerful forces intent on dividing them forever.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Hania Elkington, Simon Duric |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (19) |
Dead Like Me follows a group of undead grim reapers tasked with shepherding the recently departed into the afterlife.
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Bryan Fuller |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (143) |
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack is an American animated television series created by Thurop Van Orman for Cartoon Network that premiered on June 5, 2008, and ended on August 30, 2010. On April 20, 2012, this series returned to Cartoon Network to s
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy, Animation |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Cartoon Network |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (21) |
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) |
An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke and a cult.
Publisher: | FX Productions |
Genres: | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | FX |
Created By: | Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (981) |
Before there was Batman, there was GOTHAM. Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world's greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon's story and his rise from rookie d
Genres: | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Bruno Heller |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (954) |
A vast international plot explodes when a beautiful Jane Doe is discovered naked in Times Square, completely covered in mysterious, intricate tattoos with no memory of who she is or how she got there. But there's one tattoo that is impossible to miss: the
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Martin Gero |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (553) |
Based on Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel about an ex-con who becomes the traveling partner of a conman who turns out to be one of the older gods trying to recruit troops to battle the upstart deities.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Starz |
Created By: | Neil Gaiman, Michael Green, Bryan Fuller |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (441) |
Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Daniel Knauf |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (164) |
Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, 'but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing.' Most of Melinda's efforts involve resolving conflicts that are preventing the spirits from passing over. The s
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | John Gray |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.8 / 10 (139) |
What would you do to have everything you desire? Step inside 666 Park Avenue, New York's most seductive address. We all have some burning needs, desires and ambitions. For the residents of The Drake, the premier apartment building on Manhattan's Upper
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | David Wilcox |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (45) |
Courage the Cowardly Dog is an American comedy horror animated television series created by John R. Dilworth for Cartoon Network. Its central plot revolves around a somewhat anthropomorphic pink/purple dog named Courage who lives with his owners, Muriel a
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Cartoon Network |
Created By: | John R. Dilworth |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (117) |
Three paranormal roommates, a ghost, a vampire, and a werewolf, struggle to keep their dark secrets from the world, while helping each other navigate the complexities of living double lives.
Genres: | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Networks: | Syfy, Space |
Created By: | Toby Whithouse |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (60) |
Welcome to a place where being normal is really quite strange. In a remote Texas town no one is who they seem. From vampires and witches to psychics and hit men, Midnight is a mysterious safe haven for those who are different. As the town members fight of
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Monica Breen |
Status: | Returning Series, Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (88) |
Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof, Jeffrey Lieber |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (1145) |
Adventure Time is an American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network. The series follows the adventures of Finn, a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape and gr
Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 10 |
Network: | Cartoon Network |
Created By: | Pendleton Ward |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (165) |
Prairie Johnson, blind as a child, comes home to the community she grew up in with her sight restored. Some hail her a miracle, others a dangerous mystery, but Prairie won’t talk with the FBI or her parents about the seven years she went missing.
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Brit Marling, Zal Batmanglij |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (272) |
Under the Dome is based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. It tells the story of the residents of the small town of Chester's Mill in Maine, where a massive, transparent, indestructible dome suddenly cuts them off from the rest of the world. W
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Brian K. Vaughan |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.2 / 10 (420) |