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A for Andromeda
A for Andromeda: 1961 BBC seven-part science fiction serial by Fred Hoyle and John Elliot; a signal from the Andromeda galaxy yields a computer that creates a humanoid, Andromeda (Julie Christie). Mostly wiped; sequel The Andromeda Breakthrough (1962); remade 2006.
Alien (TV series)
Alien: Earth, Noah Hawley's FX series, is the first live-action Alien TV series; premiered August 12, 2025 on FX and Hulu, set in 2120 two years before Alien (1979), eight episodes, 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, renewed for Season 2.
Another Life (2019 TV series)
Another Life (2019 TV series): Netflix sci-fi drama created by Aaron Martin, starring Katee Sackhoff as astronaut Niko Breckinridge investigating an alien artifact aboard the Salvare. Two 10-episode seasons, 2019-2021, cancelled 2022.
Ascension (miniseries)
Ascension is a 2014 Syfy six-hour science fiction miniseries created by Philip Levens and Adrian Cruz, about a covert 1963 generation-ship mission whose colonists discover the voyage is an Earth-based experiment; it ended unresolved after three nights.
Avenue 5
Avenue 5 is an HBO science-fiction comedy created by Armando Iannucci, starring Hugh Laurie as fake space-cruise captain Ryan Clark; two seasons, 2020–2022, about a Saturn cruise thrown three years off course.
Away (TV series)
Away (2020) is a Netflix science fiction drama created by Andrew Hinderaker, starring Hilary Swank as astronaut Emma Green commanding a Mars mission. Ten episodes premiered September 4, 2020; cancelled October 20, 2020 after one season.
Babylon 5
Babylon 5 is an American 1994-1998 space-station science fiction series created by J. Michael Straczynski, five seasons and 110 episodes, noted for its pre-planned five-year story arc, early CGI effects, spin-off Crusade, and influence on serialized television.
Beacon 23
Beacon 23 is an MGM+ science fiction series (2023–2024) created by Zak Penn from Hugh Howey's 2015 short-story collection, starring Lena Headey and Stephan James as strangers trapped on a space lighthouse; two eight-episode seasons, mixed reviews.
Blake's 7
Blake's 7 (also Blake's Seven) is a BBC1 science fiction series created by Terry Nation, 52 episodes 1978–1981, about rebels against the Federation aboard the Liberator, ending with the notorious finale 'Blake'.
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series)
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science fiction television series on NBC from 1979 to 1981, starring Gil Gerard as an astronaut awakened after 504 years.
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons is a 1967-68 British Supermarionation series by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's Century 21 for ITC: 32 episodes in which indestructible Captain Scarlet and Spectrum fight the Martian Mysterons' war of nerves in 2068.
Class (2016 TV series)
Class (2016 TV series): Doctor Who spin-off by Patrick Ness, eight episodes on BBC Three from 22 October 2016, set at Coal Hill School, starring Greg Austin, Fady Elsayed, Sophie Hopkins, Vivian Oparah, and Katherine Kelly; cancelled 2017, continued by Big Finish audio.
Cowboy Bebop (2021 TV series)
Cowboy Bebop (2021) is Netflix's live-action adaptation of the 1998 anime, starring John Cho, Mustafa Shakir, and Daniella Pineda, showrun by André Nemec, with Yoko Kanno scoring. Premiered November 19, 2021; canceled after one 10-episode season in December 2021.
Earth 2 (TV series)
Earth 2 (1994-1995) is an NBC science fiction series from Amblin Television and Universal Television, created by Michael Duggan, Carol Flint, Mark Levin, and Billy Ray; 21 episodes about colonists crash-landed on planet G889 trekking to New Pacifica, cancelled after one season.
Earth: Final Conflict
Earth: Final Conflict, originally Battleground: Earth, is a syndicated American-Canadian sci-fi series (1997-2002, 110 episodes) developed posthumously from Gene Roddenberry's notes, about the Taelon Companions and a human resistance.
Farscape
Farscape is an Australian-American space opera TV series (1999-2003, plus the 2005 Peacekeeper Wars miniseries), created by Rockne S. O'Bannon with the Jim Henson Company, starring Ben Browder and Claudia Black, famous for Creature Shop animatronic puppets and its fan-campaign revival.
Final Space
Final Space is an American adult animated space opera comedy-drama created by Olan Rogers and David Sacks for TBS, airing 2018–2021 in three seasons (36 episodes) about astronaut Gary and the alien Mooncake; it was removed from streaming in 2022 and continued as a graphic novel.
Firefly (TV series)
Firefly (2002) is Joss Whedon's space western TV series for Fox about the crew of the ship Serenity 500 years in the future. Cancelled after 11 of 14 episodes, it spawned the 2005 film Serenity and a 2026 animated revival.
For All Mankind (TV series)
For All Mankind is an Apple TV+ alternate-history drama created by Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert, and Ben Nedivi, premiering November 1, 2019, in which the Soviets land on the Moon first in 1969 and the space race never ends; five seasons have aired, with a sixth and final season and the Star City spinoff announced.
Galactica 1980
Galactica 1980, also called Battlestar Galactica 1980, is the 10-episode 1980 ABC spin-off of the 1978 Battlestar Galactica, in which the fleet reaches a technologically backward Earth; it flopped, with only The Return of Starbuck praised.
Invasion (2021 TV series)
Invasion is an Apple TV+ science fiction drama created by Simon Kinberg and David Weil, premiering October 22, 2021. It follows a global alien invasion in real time through five ordinary people across continents, running three seasons through 2025.
Jonny Quest (TV series)
Jonny Quest is a 1964 Hanna-Barbera prime-time animated action-adventure series created by Doug Wildey, airing 26 episodes on ABC. It follows Jonny, Dr. Benton Quest, Race Bannon, Hadji, and Bandit, and spawned 1986 and 1996 revivals.
Land of the Giants
Land of the Giants is an Irwin Allen ABC science fiction series (1968–1970, 51 episodes) about Spindrift castaways stranded on a planet twelve times Earth's scale, budgeted at $250,000 per episode.
Lexx
Lexx (Lexx – The Dark Zone; Tales from a Parallel Universe) is a 1997–2002 Canadian-German-British space opera TV series by Lex Gigeroff and the Donovan brothers: 61 episodes about misfits fleeing an evil empire on a living ship.
Lost in Space
Lost in Space is an American sci-fi franchise about the Robinson family, adapted from The Swiss Family Robinson: the CBS series (1965–1968, Irwin Allen, 83 episodes), the poorly reviewed 1998 New Line film, and the Netflix reboot (2018–2021, three seasons).
Lost in Space (2018 TV series)
Lost in Space (2018–2021) is Netflix's reboot of Irwin Allen's 1965 series, created by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, showrun by Zack Estrin, starring Molly Parker, Toby Stephens, and Parker Posey in three seasons about the stranded Robinson family.
Missions
Missions is a French science-fiction TV series (2017–2022) created by Ami Cohen, Henri Debeurme, and Julien Lacombe for OCS, about the first crewed Mars mission becoming a rescue mission; three seasons, ten episodes each.
Moonhaven
Moonhaven is a 2022 American sci-fi series created by Peter Ocko for AMC+, set in 2201 in a lunar utopia guided by an AI named Io. Six episodes; renewed then canceled in December 2022 amid AMC Networks cost cuts.
Night Sky (TV series)
Night Sky, earlier titled Lightyears, is an American sci-fi drama created by Holden Miller for Prime Video, starring Sissy Spacek and J.K. Simmons as a couple guarding a backyard portal to a deserted planet; it premiered May 20, 2022 and was canceled after one season.
Nightflyers (TV series)
Nightflyers is a 10-episode Syfy/Netflix sci-fi horror series (2018) adapted from George R.R. Martin's 1980 novella, set in 2093 aboard the starship Nightflyer; canceled after one season.