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Origin (TV series)
Origin is a 2018 British sci-fi horror series created by Mika Watkins for YouTube Premium, starring Natalia Tena, Tom Felton, and Sen Mitsuji as colonists stranded on a damaged ship bound for the planet Thea.
Pandora (TV series)
Pandora is an American CW science fiction series (2019-2020, 23 episodes, 2 seasons) set in 2199, starring Priscilla Quintana as Jax Zhou at Earth's Space Training Academy; filmed in Sofia, Bulgaria, canceled in 2021.
Quatermass and the Pit
Quatermass and the Pit is Nigel Kneale's 1958-59 BBC serial, third in the Quatermass series, in which a Martian spaceship dug up in London reveals aliens shaped human evolution; adapted by Hammer in 1967 as Five Million Years to Earth.
Red Dwarf
Red Dwarf: British science-fiction comedy created by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, BBC2 from 1988, 52 episodes in eight series, Dave revival 2009-2020, starring Craig Charles and Chris Barrie.
Resident Alien (TV series)
Resident Alien is an American sci-fi comedy-drama TV series created by Chris Sheridan for Syfy (2021–2025), adapted from Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse's Dark Horse comic; Alan Tudyk plays alien Dr. Harry Vanderspeigle in Patience, Colorado, across four seasons ending on USA Network.
Roswell (TV series)
Roswell (1999-2002) is an American teen sci-fi drama created by Jason Katims for The WB and UPN, adapted from Melinda Metz's Roswell High books, about alien-human hybrids Max, Isabel, and Michael in Roswell, New Mexico; distinct from the 2019 reboot Roswell, New Mexico.
Roswell, New Mexico (TV series)
Roswell, New Mexico is a CW sci-fi drama reboot of Roswell (1999-2002), both from Melinda Metz's Roswell High books. Premiered January 15, 2019; Jeanine Mason as Liz Ortecho, Nathan Dean as Max Evans; four seasons, cancelled, streams on Netflix.
SilverHawks
SilverHawks is a 1986 Rankin/Bass animated series, a ThunderCats follow-up, about cyborg police fighting Mon*Star in the Galaxy of Limbo; 65 episodes, one syndicated season, later comics by Dynamite.
Space: 1999
Space: 1999 is a British science-fiction TV series (1975-1977) created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson for ITC, in which a 1999 nuclear waste explosion blasts the Moon, and Moonbase Alpha's 311-person crew, into deep space.
Space: Above and Beyond
Space: Above and Beyond (also Space 2063) is a 1995-1996 Fox military sci-fi series by Glen Morgan and James Wong about the Wildcards squadron fighting the Chigs; cancelled after 23 episodes, it influenced Battlestar Galactica and Firefly.
Star City (TV series)
Star City is an Apple TV alternate-history drama (2026), a spinoff of For All Mankind from Ben Nedivi, Matt Wolpert, and Ronald D. Moore, showing the Soviet side of the space race after a Soviet first moon landing; eight episodes, 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Star Trek: Enterprise
Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005, UPN) is a Star Trek prequel series following Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) and the warp-5 NX-01 crew before the Federation's founding; 4 seasons, 96 episodes, Temporal Cold War arc, canceled 2005.
Star Trek: The Original Series
Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) is Gene Roddenberry's NBC science fiction series (1966–1969, 3 seasons, 79 episodes) starring William Shatner as Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as Spock aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, canceled after low ratings but revived by 1970s syndication into a franchise.
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Voyager, also called ST:VOY, is the fourth live-action Star Trek series (1995-2001, UPN), following Captain Kathryn Janeway's stranded crew making a 70-year journey home from the Delta Quadrant.
Stargate SG-1
Stargate SG-1 (1997-2007), also called SG-1, is a Canadian-American military sci-fi TV series by Glassner and Wright, spun off from the 1994 Stargate film; ten seasons, 214 episodes, airing on Showtime then Sci Fi, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge.
Taken (miniseries)
Taken is a 2002 American science-fiction miniseries created by Leslie Bohem and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, following three families across five decades of alien-abduction mythology.
The Ark (TV series)
The Ark is a SYFY space science fiction drama created by Dean Devlin and Jonathan Glassner, premiering February 1, 2023. Set 100 years in the future, it follows the surviving crew of the stricken colony ship Ark One; three seasons have aired, filmed in Serbia, starring Christie Burke as Captain Sharon Garnet.
The Expanse (TV series)
The Expanse (2015–2022) is a hard science fiction TV series adapted from James S.A. Corey's novels, airing three seasons on Syfy before Amazon revived it, depicting Earth, Mars, and the Belt on the brink of war.
The First (TV series)
The First (2018) is a Hulu and Channel 4 near-future drama created by Beau Willimon about the first crewed Mars mission, starring Sean Penn as astronaut Tom Hagerty; eight episodes, cancelled after one season.
The Invaders
The Invaders is an American science fiction series broadcast on ABC from 1967 to 1968, starring Roy Thinnes as architect David Vincent, who exposes aliens in human form.
The Orville
The Orville: Seth MacFarlane's Star Trek-homage sci-fi comedy-drama about the Planetary Union starship U.S.S. Orville; Fox 2017-2018, Hulu season 3 (New Horizons) 2022; critics panned season 1 (31%), fans loved it (93%).
The Quatermass Experiment
The Quatermass Experiment: 1953 BBC live six-part science-fiction serial by Nigel Kneale, produced by Rudolph Cartier, starring Reginald Tate; only two episodes survive; spawned Hammer films and Doctor Who's lineage.
The Silent Sea (고요의 바다) (TV series)
The Silent Sea (고요의 바다) is an eight-episode Korean Netflix sci-fi mystery thriller released December 24, 2021, starring Bae Doona, Gong Yoo, and Lee Joon, directed by Choi Hang-yong from his 2014 short film, about a lunar mission to Balhae Base on a water-starved future Earth.
The Starlost
The Starlost is a 1973–74 Canadian CTV science fiction series created by Harlan Ellison (credited as Cordwainer Bird), set aboard the generation ship Earthship Ark; Keir Dullea starred, Douglas Trumbull produced, and 16 episodes aired before cancellation.
The Whispers (TV series)
The Whispers is a 2015 ABC science fiction drama, also known by the working titles The Visitors and Forever, created by Soo Hugh from Ray Bradbury's "Zero Hour." An entity called Drill manipulates children; canceled after one season of 13 episodes.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series), Irwin Allen's 1964–1968 ABC series spun off from his 1961 film, follows Richard Basehart's Admiral Nelson and David Hedison's Captain Crane aboard the nuclear submarine Seaview across 110 episodes in four seasons.