Sci/Fi Fantasy TV by Rating, a list by Mark Gauci

9.0

/107172/

86

/2467/

84

/978/

92

/68/

95

age 10+

An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

87

8.4

/16076/

81

/539/

77

/202/

4.1

/913/

100

/16/

93

age 13+

After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.

86

8.4

/61846/

82

/3911/

78

/443/

96

/46/

95

85

/44/

age 14+

A pie-maker, with the power to bring dead people back to life, solves murder mysteries with his alive-again childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and a lovesick waitress.

85

8.0

/71205/

77

/5174/

76

/820/

100

/15/

97

age 14+

Hundreds of years from now, the last surviving humans discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These "travelers" assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly working as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible future.

85

8.6

/27483/

82

/644/

76

/215/

87

/69/

98

81

/6/

age 13+

A stranded spaceship pilot captured by mad scientists survives a blitz of cheesy B movies by riffing on them with his funny robot pals.

85

8.2

/216136/

82

/18209/

80

/1871/

97

/233/

90

82

/48/

age 14+

Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the afterlife where she comes to realize that she hasn't been a very good person. With the help of her wise afterlife mentor, she's determined to shed her old way of living and discover the awesome (or at least the pretty good) person within.

85

8.5

/21466/

82

/875/

80

/172/

4.4

/16654/

87

/23/

94

age 15+

When the Hellmouth opens beneath Darkplace Hospital in downtown Romford, kiddy doctor, Vietnam veteran and ex-warlock Dr. Rick Dagless M.D. is the only man who can close it. Joined by best buddy Dr. Lucien Sanchez, fiery hospital boss Thornton Reed, and woman Liz Asher, Dagless must fight the forces of Darkness while dealing with the burden of day-to-day admin. From the chilling pen of best-selling horror writer Garth Marenghi comes this lost masterpiece of televisual terror. Dare you enter Garth's Darkplace?

84

8.3

/123791/

83

/12890/

78

/1361/

93

/135/

93

76

/70/

age 17+

A streetwise hustler is pulled into a compelling conspiracy after witnessing the suicide of a girl who looks just like her.

82

7.9

/46861/

77

/2159/

79

/351/

97

/43/

89

73

/26/

age 14+

Samantha and Jay throw caution to the wind when they convert their recently inherited country estate into a bed-and-breakfast. Call it mislaid plans. Not only is the place falling apart, but it’s also inhabited by spirits of previous residents -- whom only Samantha can see and hear.

82

8.3

/13534/

79

/610/

76

/111/

76

/17/

100

age 15+

Jaye Tyler, a recent Brown University graduate with a philosophy degree, holds a dead-end job as a sales clerk at a Niagara Falls gift shop. Jaye is the reluctant participant in conversations with various animal figurines — a wax lion, brass monkey, stuffed bear, and mounted fish, among others — which direct her via oblique instructions to help people in need.

82

8.3

/36884/

81

/2146/

75

/338/

4.1

/15489/

89

/65/

88

78

/24/

age 17+

As Britain is rocked by unstable political, economic and technological advances, members of the Lyons family converge on one crucial night in 2019. Over the next 15 years, the twists and turns of their everyday lives are explored as we find out if this ordinary family could change the world.

82

8.1

/31441/

77

/561/

75

/243/

4.3

/21903/

91

/32/

90

Follow six New Yorkers whose lives intersect amidst the AIDS crisis and the rapidly changing socio-political climate of 1985.

82

8.3

/196817/

81

/8937/

81

/2754/

90

/132/

85

76

/68/

age 17+

The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

82

8.2

/138379/

80

/9106/

78

/1453/

91

/101/

90

74

/60/

age 18+

Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together these classic horror origin stories into a new adult drama.

82

8.0

/34034/

78

/2726/

74

/395/

100

/72/

85

76

/22/

age 16+

Howard Silk is a lowly cog in a bureaucratic UN agency who is turning the last corner of a life filled with regret when he discovers the agency he works for is guarding a secret: a crossing to a parallel dimension.

82

8.4

/38983/

83

/2371/

80

/416/

The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.

81

8.1

/83644/

81

/6031/

77

/850/

92

/147/

82

75

/55/

age 15+

Explore an aspirational world where NASA and the space program remained a priority and a focal point of our hopes and dreams as told through the lives of NASA astronauts, engineers, and their families.

81

8.1

/112072/

78

/8474/

76

/968/

92

/46/

80

age 18+

When five young outsiders on Community Service get caught in a strange storm, they discover that they have developed superpowers.

80

7.7

/16398/

77

/936/

77

/211/

91

/24/

92

69

/8/

age 14+

Maddie, a teen stuck in the afterlife investigating her own mysterious disappearance, goes on a crime-solving journey as she adjusts to high school purgatory, but the closer she gets to discovering the truth, the more secrets and lies she uncovers.

80

8.2

/73079/

81

/4375/

79

/694/

94

/112/

70

79

/36/

age 10+

Follow Captain Christopher Pike, Science Officer Spock and Number One in the years before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.

80

7.9

/45573/

77

/4016/

74

/668/

94

/92/

85

76

/30/

age 14+

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.

80

8.0

/14950/

77

/943/

73

/173/

3.9

/2373/

92

/36/

87

73

/16/

age 14+

With magic long since lost to England, two men are destined to bring it back; the reclusive Mr. Norrell and daring novice Jonathan Strange. So begins a dangerous battle between two great minds.

79

7.6

/32563/

75

/1628/

74

/266/

3.8

/5922/

95

/20/

88

71

/8/

age 15+

Lucy wakes every night at exactly 3:33am. Nothing in her life has made sense for a long time. But the answers are out there, somewhere, at the end of a trail of brutal murders.

80

79

8.2

/17401/

78

/437/

81

/601/

age 7+

This spooky anthology series for kids recounts ghost stories told by the young members of the Midnight Society as they gather around a campfire. Each episode opens with members of the Midnight Society at their secret spot in the woods, where they prepare their fire and the night's storyteller announces the title of the his or her offering. However, the cameras soon leave the storyteller and switch to the tale being told.

79

8.2

/170314/

81

/13093/

77

/1780/

86

/136/

84

66

/32/

age 17+

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."

79

8.1

/17406/

80

/1377/

73

/155/

88

/50/

93

64

/30/

age 12+

Once upon a time, the dashing hero, Prince Galavant lost the love of his life, Madalena, to the evil King Richard. Now, our fallen hero is ready to take revenge and restore his “happily ever after.” But it won't be without a few twists and turns along the way in this fairytale musical.

79

7.8

/11601/

74

/886/

70

/126/

94

/54/

87

71

/35/

age 15+

Josh Greenberg is a naive romantic on a desperate quest for love. When his longtime girlfriend dumps him, Josh enters the dating scene, a nightmarish hellscape of untold horror. Despite the agony, Josh continues his search in the hopes of finding someone who will make all the misery worth it.

80

79

7.7

/6056/

72

/364/

72

/97/

88

/24/

90

82

/26/

Based on Ben Edlund's cult comic, a mysterious blue avenger teams up with an odd group of superheroes to fight crime.

84

79

8.2

/10166/

75

/244/

77

/158/

93

/14/

92

age 10+

The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.

79

8.5

/261455/

86

/19604/

75

/3261/

90

/424/

64

77

/54/

age 11+

The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.

78

IMDb 98

8.0

/484465/

Trakt

79

/20716/

83

/10196/

80

/202/

81

66

/57/

age 14+

Smart, sarcastic and a little dead inside, Wednesday Addams investigates twisted mysteries while making new friends — and foes — at Nevermore Academy.

78

7.7

/176192/

80

/10551/

85

/4589/

81

/89/

85

66

/22/

age 13+

Scott McCall, a high school student living in the town of Beacon Hills has his life drastically changed when he's bitten by a werewolf, becoming one himself. He must henceforth learn to balance his problematic new identity with his day-to-day teenage life. The following characters are instrumental to his struggle: Stiles, his best friend; Allison, his love interest who comes from a family of werewolf hunters; and Derek, a mysterious werewolf with a dark past. Throughout the series, he strives to keep his loved ones safe while maintaining normal relationships with them.

79

78

8.0

/10041/

80

/496/

77

/104/

age 15+

A comedy sketch show featuring David Mitchell and Robert Webb.

78

7.8

/27625/

77

/1577/

70

/225/

100

/43/

86

58

/17/

Deciding to turn over a new leaf, a group of friends who also happen to be vampires and werewolves move into a house together, only to find that it is haunted by ghosts of people who have been killed under mysterious circumstances. As they deal with the challenges of being supernatural creatures, their desire to be human bonds them.

78

8.0

/29236/

78

/922/

80

/946/

82

/39/

92

56

/9/

Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?

78

7.6

/65043/

76

/3684/

74

/959/

84

/49/

88

73

/28/

age 14+

The series picks up four years after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day with John and Sarah Connor trying to stay under-the-radar from the government, as they plot to destroy the computer network, Skynet, in hopes of preventing Armageddon.

77

7.5

/7315/

74

/602/

72

/82/

3.5

/531/

83

/12/

92

69

/8/

age 14+

Seventeen-year old Paul can see the spirits of the dead. When one of these restless spirits crosses back into the living world, he is forced into a fight to prevent the apocalypse.

77

7.6

/92163/

73

/5245/

73

/946/

3.9

/93541/

84

/103/

84

76

/24/

age 16+

Two strangers are drawn to a mysterious pharmaceutical trial that will, they're assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all of their problems, permanently. Things do not go as planned.

77

7.8

/73662/

77

/3690/

78

/817/

87

/64/

78

67

/16/

age 14+

Closet witch Diana Bishop and centuries-old vampire Matthew Clairmont are drawn into a deadly mystery and forbidden romance when a magical book shows up in an Oxford library.

77

7.8

/21927/

79

/940/

74

/397/

3.5

/2376/

The show takes place from 1944 to 2002 and follows the lives of three families: the Crawfords, who seek to cover up the Roswell crash and the existence of aliens; the Keys, who are subject to frequent experimentation by the aliens; and the Clarkes, who sheltered one of the surviving aliens from the crash.

77

7.7

/14736/

79

/505/

76

/229/

Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.

77

8.0

/7999/

76

/685/

75

/98/

3.5

/840/

age 16+

Tom Jackman is learning to cope with his alter ego, the dark and mysterious Hyde, who threatens his life and family. They also have to live in the same body while on the run from a mysterious organization that is hunting them.

77

8.4

/49097/

82

/2320/

79

/441/

63

/39/

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 free will and destiny; the storyline mixes Christian theology with gnosticism and Masonic lore, particularly that of the Knights Templar.

76

7.8

/21919/

75

/1738/

70

/190/

81

/31/

80

74

/29/

age 14+

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 two. He sees two therapists: Dr. Jonathan Lee in the "red reality" and Dr. Judith Evans in the "green reality". At work, Michael's erratic behavior triggers clashes with his team; they do not know about Michael's uncanny ability to solve crimes using details from both realities.

76

8.2

/158752/

82

/8259/

85

/3518/

84

/51/

72

52

/16/

age 14+

The Vampire Diaries spin-off that follows the Mikaelsons, a family of millennia-old, power-hungry vampires who want to reclaim the city they built, New Orleans, and dominate all those who have wronged them.

76

7.6

/59626/

77

/6099/

75

/1660/

91

/123/

74

65

/38/

age 14+

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 poses grave danger to humanity.

76

7.6

/8310/

73

/572/

67

/112/

83

/35/

88

71

/28/

age 14+

When the news is announced that a comet is on an unavoidable collision course with Earth, the most hilarious and unexpected chain of events imaginable is set in motion.

76

8.1

/11996/

80

/587/

76

/110/