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12 Monkeys (TV series)
12 Monkeys (2015–2018) is a Syfy time-travel drama created by Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett, based on Terry Gilliam's 1995 film, starring Aaron Stanford and Amanda Schull in a mutable-timeline plague apocalypse across four seasons.
1899 (TV series)
1899 is a German multilingual Netflix mystery series (2022) by Dark creators Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar: eight episodes about immigrants on the steamship Kerberos, shot on LED Volume at Babelsberg, canceled after one season.
4400 (TV series)
4400 (TV series) covers The 4400, USA Network's 2004-2007 sci-fi drama about 4,400 vanished people returned unaged with powers, and its 2021 CW reboot 4400, a Detroit-set reimagining canceled after one season.
Alice (앨리스) (South Korean TV series)
Alice (앨리스) is a 2020 SBS Friday-Saturday South Korean sci-fi drama, 16 episodes, starring Kim Hee-sun and Joo Won, directed by Baek Soo-chan, about detective Park Jin-gyeom and time travelers from 2050.
Constellation (2024 TV series)
Constellation is a 2024 Apple TV+ psychological science fiction thriller created by Peter Harness, starring Noomi Rapace as an astronaut who returns from a space station disaster to a changed life.
Continuum (TV series)
Continuum is a Canadian sci-fi police drama created by Simon Barry, aired 2012–2015, in which future cop Kiera Cameron and the terrorist group Liber8 are stranded in 2012 Vancouver from corporate-ruled 2077.
Counterpart (TV series)
Counterpart, Starz spy-fi series (2017–2019) by Justin Marks, not to be confused with other works titled Counterpart: J.K. Simmons plays dual Howard Silks across parallel Berlins; two seasons, 20 episodes, canceled after Starz's audience pivot.
Dark (TV series)
Dark is a German Netflix science-fiction thriller (2017–2020) created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese, Netflix's first German original. Set in Winden, it follows four families and time travel via a cave wormhole across 1953–2052 over three seasons, winning Grimme Awards.
Davey & Jonesie's Locker
Davey & Jonesie's Locker is a Canadian teen sci-fi comedy created by Evany Rosen, premiering March 22, 2024 on Hulu and Prime Video; ten 28-minute episodes about best friends whose locker portals them through the multiverse.
Dimension 404
Dimension 404 is a 2017 Hulu science fiction anthology series from RocketJump and Lionsgate, created by Dez Dolly and Will Campos, narrated by Mark Hamill, six one-hour episodes, cancelled after one season.
FlashForward
FlashForward is an American science fiction television series that aired on ABC from 2009 to 2010, and ran for a single season of 22 episodes.
Frequency (TV series)
Frequency (TV series), American CW science fiction drama, 2016-2017, developed by Jeremy Carver from the 2000 film; Peyton List's Raimy contacts her dead father via ham radio; 13 episodes, cancelled May 2017.
Fringe (TV series)
Fringe (2008–2013) is an American Fox science fiction series by Abrams, Kurtzman, and Orci: 5 seasons, 100 episodes, FBI Fringe Division, Olivia Dunham, Walter and Peter Bishop, and a parallel-universe war, often compared with The X-Files.
Future Man (TV series)
Future Man is an American sci-fi comedy series on Hulu (2017-2020, 34 episodes, 3 seasons), created by Kyle Hunter, Howard Overman, and Ariel Shaffir, starring Josh Hutcherson as janitor Josh Futturman, recruited via the Biotic Wars game by time travelers Tiger and Wolf to save humanity.
La Brea (TV series)
La Brea is an NBC science fiction drama created by David Appelbaum (2021–2024), in which a Los Angeles sinkhole sends survivors, including the Harris family, to a world 10,000 years in the past. Three seasons, 30 episodes; ended by NBC in 2023.
Land of the Lost (1974 TV series)
Land of the Lost (1974 TV series), NBC Saturday-morning live-action sci-fi by Sid and Marty Krofft; 43 episodes, 1974–1976; Marshall family, dinosaurs, Pakuni, Sleestak; 1991 revival and 2009 film.
Odyssey 5
Odyssey 5 is a Canadian science fiction series created by Manny Coto. Five crew members on the shuttle Odyssey are sent back five years after witnessing Earth's destruction.
Parallels
Parallels (Para//èles) is a 2022 French Disney+ original sci-fi mystery series created by Quoc Dang Tran: six episodes in which four teenage friends are scattered into parallel dimensions by a collider-related event.
Primeval (TV series)
Primeval (2007-2011) is a British ITV science fiction drama by Tim Haines and Adrian Hodges about scientists containing creatures entering through time anomalies; 5 series, 23 episodes on ITV, spin-off Primeval: New World.
Quantum Leap (2022 TV series)
Quantum Leap (2022 TV series), also called the Quantum Leap revival, is an NBC sci-fi sequel to the 1989-1993 series, starring Raymond Lee as Dr. Ben Song, 31 episodes, canceled April 2024, later streamed on Netflix.
Sapphire & Steel
Sapphire & Steel (Sapphire and Steel), British ITV science fiction series (1979–1982) by P.J. Hammond starring Joanna Lumley and David McCallum as elemental time agents; six assignments, 34 episodes, cliffhanger ending, Big Finish audio revival.
Tales from the Loop
Tales from the Loop (Ur Varselklotet) is a 2020 American sci-fi drama series on Amazon Prime Video, created by Nathaniel Halpern from Simon Stålenhag's 2014 art book; eight episodes set in Mercer, Ohio, above a particle accelerator, starring Rebecca Hall and Jonathan Pryce.
Terra Nova (TV series)
Terra Nova (TV series) is a 2011 Fox science fiction drama created by Kelly Marcel and Craig Silverstein, executive produced by Steven Spielberg. The Shannon family leaves a dying 2149 Earth through a time fracture to join a colony 85 million years in the past. It ran 13 episodes, cost about $20 million for its pilot, and was canceled in March 2012.
The 4400
The 4400 is an American science-fiction drama series created by Scott Peters and René Echevarria that aired on USA Network from 2004 to 2007, about 4,400 missing people who return at once.
The Boroughs
The Boroughs is a 2026 Netflix sci-fi series, also called a Stranger Things-style retirement-community thriller, created by Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews with Duffer Brothers as EPs. Eight episodes premiered May 21, 2026, drew about 19 million views in 18 days, and Netflix canceled it after one season in June 2026.
The Crossing (TV series)
The Crossing (TV series): ABC American science-fiction drama, 11 episodes, April 2 to June 9, 2018. Created by Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie; refugees from America 180 years in the future flee the genetically engineered Apex. Cancelled after one season.
The Lazarus Project (TV series)
The Lazarus Project is a British time-loop sci-fi thriller created by Joe Barton, starring Paapa Essiedu as George, who joins a secret organization resetting time to July 1 to avert extinctions. Two seasons (2022, 2023) on Sky Max and TNT; cancelled March 2024.
The Man in the High Castle (TV series)
The Man in the High Castle is Amazon Prime Video's 2015-2019 alternate-history drama adapting Philip K. Dick's 1962 Hugo-winning novel, created by Frank Spotnitz with Ridley Scott, depicting a US partitioned by Axis victors, 4 seasons, 40 episodes.
The Peripheral (TV series)
The Peripheral is a Prime Video sci-fi series (2022) adapted from William Gibson's 2014 novel, starring Chloë Grace Moretz as Flynne Fisher, created by Scott B. Smith with Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan; renewed then cancelled in 2023 after strikes.
The Time Traveler's Wife (TV series)
The Time Traveler's Wife (TV series) is HBO's 2022 six-episode adaptation by Steven Moffat of Audrey Niffenegger's novel, starring Rose Leslie and Theo James, directed by David Nutter, cancelled after one season.