Best Sci-Fi TV Shows
Best Sci-Fi TV shows of all time
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In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human it's transforming the way we live.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Channel 4 |
Created By: | Jonathan Brackley, Sam Vincent |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (254) |
A Chicago-based wizard works as a private investigator.
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | Jim Butcher |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.9 / 10 (40) |
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make
Publisher: | Fox Productions |
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 11 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Chris Carter |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (897) |
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) |
A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Networks: | Syfy, Amazon |
Created By: | James S. A. Corey |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (638) |
A high concept thriller that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient and e
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | FX |
Created By: | Guillermo del Toro, Carlton Cuse |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (440) |
The story of two vampire brothers obsessed with the same girl, who bears a striking resemblance to the beautiful but ruthless vampire they knew and loved in 1864.
Genres: | Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | The CW |
Created By: | Kevin Williamson, Julie Plec |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.9 / 10 (627) |
Michael lives in two separate realities after a car accident. In one reality, his wife Hannah survives the accident; in the other reality, his son Rex survives. Michael does not know which reality is "real", and uses the wristbands to differentiate the tw
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Kyle Killen |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (81) |
Two bored groundskeepers, Mordecai (a six-foot-tall blue jay) and Rigby (a hyperactive raccoon) are best friends who spend their days trying to entertain themselves by any means necessary, much to the displeasure of their boss. Their everyday pursuits oft
Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | Cartoon Network |
Created By: | J.G. Quintel |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (87) |
The series is a dramatization of the Duck universe comic series created by Carl Barks. The viewer follows the adventures of Scrooge McDuck and his three grandnephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie. Important secondary characters, that often take part in the adve
Genres: | Family, Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Networks: | Disney Channel, Broadcast Syndication |
Created By: | Carl Barks |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (159) |
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.
Publisher: | 21 Laps Entertainment |
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Ross Duffer, Matt Duffer |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.4 / 10 (2017) |
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's W
Publisher: | Home Box Office, Generator Entertainment, Television 360, Bighead Littlehead, Revolution Sun Studios |
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | David Benioff, D. B. Weiss |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (5147) |
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) |
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) |
Steve McGarrett returns home to Oahu, in order to find his father's killer. The governor offers him the chance to run his own task force (Five-0). Steve's team is joined by Chin Ho Kelly, Danny "Danno" Williams, and Kono Kalakaua.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Leonard Freeman, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (322) |
Brakebills University is a secret institution specializing in magic. There, amidst an unorthodox education of spellcasting, a group of twenty-something friends soon discover that a magical fantasy world they read about as children is all too real— and pos
Genres: | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | Sera Gamble |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (306) |