List of science fiction television - Definition and Overview

List of television shows with significant science fiction elements.

Aliens on Earth

• ALF
• Alien Nation
• Mork & Mindy
• My Favorite Martian
• Ocean Girl
• Roswell
• 3rd Rock from the Sun
• Tracker

Alien invasion

• Captain Scarlet
• Dark Skies
• Earth: Final Conflict
• The Invaders
• Project U.F.O.
• The Tripods
• UFO
• The X-Files
• V

Anthologies

• Science Fiction Theater
• The Twilight Zone
• The Outer Limits
• Out of the Unknown

Children's series

• Century Falls
• Children of the Dog Star
• Chocky
• Chocky's Challenge
• Chocky's Children
• Dark Season
• The Clangers
• Galidor
• The Girl from Tomorrow
• Jonny Quest
• Land of the Lost (and its 1991 remake)
• Ocean Girl
• Power Rangers
• ReBoot
• Silversun
• Space Cases
• Spellbinder
• The Tomorrow People
• Stargate Infinity

Crime fighting

• Alias
• Alien Nation
• The Avengers (many fantastic and science fictional elements)
• VR-5

Disaster and destruction

• Doomwatch
• Survivors
• Thunderbirds

Earthlings on alien world(s)

• Earth 2
• Stargate SG-1
• Stargate Atlantis

Life in the future

• Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
• Century City
• Cleopatra 2525
• Futurama
• Jeremiah
• The Jetsons
• The Tribe
• Logan's Run
• Max Headroom
• Mann & Machine
• Planet of the Apes

Parallel universes

• Land of the Giants
• Land of the Lost (and its 1991 remake)
• Otherworld
• Sliders

Paranormal investigations

• Baywatch Nights (second season)
• Millennium
• Psi-Factor
• The X-Files
• Ultraviolet

Satire/comedy

• 3rd Rock from the Sun
• ALF
• Futurama
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Mork & Mindy
• My Favorite Martian
• Mystery Science Theater 3000
• Red Dwarf
• Tripping the Rift

Spaceship based

• Andromeda
• Battlestar Galactica
• Blake's 7
• Crusade
• Deepwater Black
• Farscape
• Fireball XL5
• Firefly
• Lexx
• Lost in Space
• Red Dwarf
• Space 1999 (technically on the Moon, but unrealistically hurtling through space)
• Space 2000
• Space: Above and Beyond
• Space Patrol
• Space Rangers
• The Starlost
• Star Trek: Enterprise
• Star Trek
• Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Star Trek: Voyager
• Salvage One

Space station based

• Babylon 5
• Mercy Point
• Prisoners of Gravity
• Star Cops
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Steampunk

• The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
• Gormenghast
• Jack of All Trades
• Legend
• Read or Die
• The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
• The Wild Wild West

Superhumans

• The Bionic Woman
• Birds of Prey
• Captain Scarlet
• Dark Angel
• The Greatest American Hero
• The Incredible Hulk
• Man from Atlantis
• Misfits of Science
• Mutant X
• The Six Million Dollar Man
• Sapphire & Steel (two enigmatic agents with psi powers)
• Smallville
• Superman (several TV shows, cartoons, and movies)

Time travel based

• Crime Traveller
• Dark Shadows (much of its run)
• Doctor Who
• The Girl from Tomorrow
• Goodnight Sweetheart
• Quantum Leap
• Seven Days
• The Time Tunnel
• Time Trax
• Timeslip
• Voyagers

Vehicle based

• Knight Rider
• seaQuest DSV
• Stingray
• Street Hawk
• Supercar
• Thunderbirds
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Miscellaneous

• The 4400
• Deadly Games
• Galaxy High
• Joe 90
• Nineteen Eighty-Four
• The Omega Factor
• The Quatermass Experiment
• Quatermass II
• Quatermass and the Pit
• Quatermass

See also

• Science fiction television
• Science fiction sitcom
• List of science fiction short stories
• Canadian science fiction
• US television science fiction