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Fantastic Four (1994 TV series)

Fantastic Four: The Animated Series (1994-1996) is a 26-episode Marvel cartoon syndicated in the Marvel Action Hour with Iron Man, known for a weak first season and a much-improved, comic-faithful second season.

Fantasy Island

Fantasy Island is an American television drama series that ran on ABC from 1978 to 1984, starring Ricardo Montalbán as Mr. Roarke and Hervé Villechaize as Tattoo on an island where guests' fantasies come true.

Fantasy Island (2021 TV series)

Fantasy Island (2021–2023) is a Fox drama sequel to the 1977 ABC series, created by Liz Craft and Sarah Fain, starring Roselyn Sanchez as Elena Roarke, filmed in Puerto Rico, canceled after two seasons and 23 episodes.

Far Beyond the Stars

"Far Beyond the Stars" is a 1998 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode (S6E13) in which Captain Benjamin Sisko visions himself as Benny Russell, a Black 1950s Harlem science fiction writer whose story of a Black space-station captain is suppressed; Avery Brooks directed and starred.

Far Lands or Bust

Far Lands or Bust (FLoB) is KurtJMac's Minecraft series, begun March 2011, walking in Survival Mode in Beta 1.7.3 to the Far Lands glitch at about 12,550,821 blocks; completed October 4, 2025, raising over $530,000 for charity.

Fargo (TV series)

Fargo is an FX black comedy-crime anthology series created by Noah Hawley, inspired by the 1996 Coen brothers film. Five installments (2014-2023, 51 episodes) tell separate Midwestern crime stories; MGM Television and FX Productions produce.

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.

Farzi (फ़र्ज़ी)

Farzi (फ़र्ज़ी) is a 2023 Hindi black-comedy crime thriller on Prime Video by Raj & DK, starring Shahid Kapoor as counterfeiter Sunny and Vijay Sethupathi as officer Michael; season 2 confirmed 2026, expected mid-2027.

Fast & Furious

Fast & Furious: Universal Pictures action franchise begun with The Fast and the Furious (2001), also called the Fast Saga, spanning eleven films, over $7 billion worldwide, and the finale Fast Forever (March 17, 2028).

Fast & Furious Spy Racers

Fast & Furious: Spy Racers is a DreamWorks Animation and Universal animated Netflix series (2019-2021, six seasons, 52 episodes) about Tony Toretto and teen racers infiltrating the SH1FT3R crime league, with a 2021 Rise of SH1FT3R video game.

Fastlane (TV series)

Fastlane is an American Fox action crime drama (September 18, 2002 to April 25, 2003), one 22-episode season created by McG and John McNamara, starring Facinelli, Bellamy, and Thiessen, canceled after one season over high production costs.

Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids

Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, also known as Fat Albert and the Junkyard Gang, is an American animated series created and hosted by Bill Cosby, airing from 1972.

Fat Friends

Fat Friends: ITV comedy drama (2000-2005, four series, 25 episodes) by Kay Mellor about a Leeds slimming club, starring Alison Steadman and Ruth Jones, launching Corden and Jones's Gavin & Stacey partnership.

Fat Tony (The Simpsons)

Fat Tony (Marion Anthony D'Amico, alias William Williams) is the recurring Springfield Mafia boss in The Simpsons, voiced by Joe Mantegna and introduced in "Bart the Murderer".

Fatal Attraction (2023 TV series)

Fatal Attraction (2023) is a Paramount+ eight-episode psychological thriller reimagining the 1987 film, developed by Alexandra Cunningham, starring Joshua Jackson, Lizzy Caplan, and Amanda Peet; it ran April 30 to May 28, 2023 and was canceled that October.

Fate (franchise)

Fate is a Japanese multimedia franchise by Kinoko Nasu and Takashi Takeuchi for Type-Moon, beginning with the 2004 visual novel Fate/stay night and its Holy Grail War premise, later expanded through anime adaptations, spin-offs, and Fate/Grand Order.

Fate: The Winx Saga

Fate: The Winx Saga is a Netflix live-action teen fantasy drama (2021–2022), a dark reimagining of Iginio Straffi's Italian cartoon Winx Club, created by Brian Young, starring Abigail Cowen as Bloom at Alfea, canceled after two seasons.

Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya (Fate/kaleid liner プリズマ☆イリヤ)

Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya (Fate/kaleid liner プリズマ☆イリヤ) is Hiroshi Hiroyama's TYPE-MOON magical girl manga spin-off of Fate/stay night, serialized in Comp Ace from 2007, in which Illya collects Class Cards; adapted by Silver Link into TV series from 2013 and films, concluding with the 2027 FINALE anime.

Fate/Stay Night (フェイト/ステイナイト) (2006 TV series)

Fate/stay night (フェイト/ステイナイト), 2006 TV series: Studio Deen's 24-episode anime (January–June 2006, dir. Yuji Yamaguchi), the first adaptation of TYPE-MOON's 2004 visual novel, based on the Fate route with material from other routes.

Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel

Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel is ufotable's three-film anime adaptation (2017-2020, director Tomonori Sudo) of the third Sakura route of the Fate/stay night visual novel, starring Shirou Emiya and Sakura Matou, with music by Yuki Kajiura.

Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works (TV series)

Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] is ufotable's 2014–2015 two-part TV anime adapting the Rin Tohsaka route of Type-Moon's 2004 visual novel, directed by Takahiro Miura, distinct from the 2006 Studio Deen series and 2010 film.

Fate/Zero (TV series)

Fate/Zero (フェイト/ゼロ) is a 2011–2012 ufotable anime TV series adapting Gen Urobuchi's TYPE-MOON×Nitroplus prequel novel about the Fourth Holy Grail War, directed by Ei Aoki with music by Yuki Kajiura, 25 episodes in two seasons.

Fated Hearts (一笑随歌)

Fated Hearts (一笑随歌, also Yi Xiao Sui Ge) is a 2025 iQIYI Chinese historical romance drama adapted from Chi Yi Qian Yu's novel Yi Xiao, starring Li Qin as archer Fu Yixiao and Chen Zheyuan as prince Feng Suige, 38 episodes from October 2, 2025.

Fated to Love You (命中注定我爱你) (2008 TV series)

Fated to Love You (命中注定我愛你), also You're My Destiny, is a 2008 Sanlih/TTV Taiwanese idol drama directed by Chen Mingzhang, starring Joe Chen and Ethan Juan; it set Taiwan idol-drama ratings records (10.91% single-episode average, 13.64% segment) and was remade in Korea and China.

Fated to My Forbidden Alpha

Fated to My Forbidden Alpha (also My Alpha, My Forbidden Fate) is a 2023 ReelShort vertical werewolf romance, 60 one-minute episodes, starring Autumn Noel as Selene, a kidnapped Luna whose fated mate Alpha Jackson plans to reject her.

Fateful Love (流光引)

Fateful Love (流光引) is a 2024 Chinese costume fantasy romance web drama adapted from the novel Po Chong Yongbing Wangfei, starring Zhang Han and Zhu Xudan in a transmigration love story.

Father Brown (2013 TV series)

Father Brown (2013 TV series): BBC One Daytime period detective drama starring Mark Williams as Chesterton's priest-detective, set in 1950s Cotswolds village Kembleford; made by BBC Birmingham Drama Village, running since January 2013.

Father Dougal McGuire

Father Dougal McGuire is the fictional dim-witted young curate of Craggy Island in the sitcom Father Ted (1995–1998), played by Ardal O'Hanlon; known for the Blackrock incident, My Lovely Horse, and Careful Now placards.

Father Guido Sarducci

Father Guido Sarducci is the chain-smoking Vatican gossip-columnist priest character created and performed by Don Novello, famous on SNL's Weekend Update from 1978 and the record-holding most-used fictional SNL character.

Father Knows Best

Father Knows Best: American family sitcom created by Ed James with Robert Young and Eugene B. Rodney; NBC radio 1949–1953 (title then had a question mark), CBS/NBC/CBS television 1954–1960, 203 episodes, Anderson family in Springfield.