* Show [start year.mo] - [end year.mo] (#eps) Short explanation.

* Twin Peaks 1990.04 - 1991.06 (30) A town where everyone knows everyone and nothing is what it seems.
* Quantum Leap 1989.03 - 1993,05 (96) A scientist becomes lost in time following a botched experimentand has a sidekick/best friend appear as a hologram that only Sam and a select few others can see or hear.
* Forever Knight 1992.00 - 1996.00 (72) Nick Knight is an 800-year-old vampire working as a detective in modern day Toronto. Nicholas is angst-ridden and the first example of a good vampire on television.
* Space: Above and Beyond 1995.09 - 1996.06 (24) Set in the years 2063–2064, the show focuses on the "Wildcards", a group of United States Marines based on the space carrier USS Saratoga.
* Neverwhere 1996.09 - 1996.10 (6) Richard Mayhewhelps an injured girl named Door on the street one night, and unfortunately therefore suddenly ceases to exist for regular people and becomes real only to the denizens of 'London Below', whose inhabitants are generally invisible and non-existent to the people of 'London Above'.
* Ultraviolet 1998.00 - 1998.00 (6) A government-funded paramilitary police unit, which may have connections to the Roman Catholic Church, fights a secret war against a worldwide vampire conspiracy.
* Total Recall 2070 1999.01 - 1999.06 (22) Detective David Hume and his android partner Ian Farve investigate crimes in the year 2070.
* Babylon 5 1993.01 - 1998.11 (110) The show centers on the Babylon 5 space station: a focal point for politics, diplomacy, and conflict during the years 2257-2262.
* Crusade 1999.06 - 1999.09 (13) A Babylon 5 spin-off. Its plot is set in A.D. 2267, five years after the events of Babylon 5. A race called the Drakh have released a nanovirus plague on Earth, which will destroy all life on Earth within five years if it is not stopped. To that end, the destroyer Excalibur has been sent out to look for anything that could help the search for a cure.
* Sliders 1995.03 - 1999.12 (88) A group of travelers "slide" between parallel worlds by use of a wormhole.
* Cleopatra 2525 2000.01 - 2001.03 (28) Cleo is an exotic dancer from the 20th century who was put into suspended animation after complications during breast augmentation surgery. She awakes 500 years in the future and teams with two other women, joining their fight against the Baileys, armed flying machines who control the surface of the Earth.
* Xena: Warrior Princess 1995.09 - 2001.05 (134) Xena's quest to seek redemption for her past sins as a ruthless warlord by using her formidable fighting skills to help people.
* Seven Days 1998.10 - 2001.05 (66) Secret agent jumps back 7 days to prevent disaster
* The Outer Limits 1995.03 - 2002.01 (154) There is nothing wrong with your television. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are now controlling the transmission. We control the horizontal, and the vertical. We can deluge you with a thousand channels or expand one single image to crystal clarity – and beyond. We can shape your vision to anything our imagination can conceive. For the next hour we will control all that you see and hear. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the deepest inner mind to... The Outer Limits.
* Lexx 1997.04 - 2002.04 (61) Follows the adventures of a group of mismatched individuals aboard the organic space craft Lexx, traveling through two universes.
* The X-Files 1993.09 - 2002.05 (202)
* Dark Angel 2000.10 - 2002.05 (43) A group of genetically-enhanced children escape from a lab project. Years later we meet Max, one of the escapees who now works for a messenger service in the post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest.
* Witchblade 2001.06 - 2002.08 (24) NY cop Sara Pezzini wears the Witchblade, an ancient, intelligent, living weapon so powerful it can battle Earth's darkest evil forces.
* Birds of Prey 2002.10 - 2003.02 (13) The series is set in New Gotham City, several years after it has been abandoned by Batman. In his absence, Oracle and the Huntress have taken over his war on crime. The two are joined by Dinah; Alfred Pennyworth, who serves Helena as she is heir to the Wayne estate; and Detective Jesse Reese, a police officer confronted with crimes and abilities he cannot explain.
* Veritas: The Quest 2003.01 - 2003.03 (13) A top-secret team embarks on a global search for secrets to ancient civilizations.
* Firefly 2002.09 - 2003.08 (14) The renegade crew of Serenity have adventures.
* Jeremiah 2002.03 - 2004.01 (35) The year is 2021, 15 years after a plague has killed nearly everyone over the age of puberty (both the event and the virus itself are referred to as "The Big Death"). The children who survived are now grown, and find themselves faced with two choices: either continue to scavenge off the diminishing remains of the old world, or begin trying to rebuild.
* Jake 2.0 2003.09 - 2004.01 (16) A computer expert who works for the U.S. National Security Agency is accidentally infected by nanobots which give him superhuman powers.
* Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1997.03 - 2003.05 (144) Buffy Summers and her group of friends protect the Hellmouth from various vampires and demons.
* Angel 1999.10 - 2004.05 (110) A spin-off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the show details the ongoing trials of Angel, a vampire whose human soul was restored to him by gypsies as a punishment for the murder of one of their own.
* Farscape 1999.03 - 2004.10 (92) John Crichton goes through a wormhole and explores the universe with odd friends.
* Dead Like Me 2003.06 - 2004.10 (29) Georgia Lass dies and becomes one of the "undead", a grim reaper. A Reaper's job is to remove the souls of people, preferably right before they die, and escort them until they move on into their afterlife.
* Wonderfalls 2004.03 - 2004.12 (13) Jaye Tyler is the reluctant participant in conversations with various animal figurines which direct her via oblique instructions to help people in need.
* Tru Calling 2003.10 - 2005.04 (26) Corpses ask Tru for help and transport her back a day.
* Anromeda 2000.10 - 2005.05 (110) After being frozen in time for 300 years, captain Dylan Hunt and his sentient warship Andromeda sets out to restore peace and civilization to the known universe.
* Star Trek: The Next Generation 1987.09 - 1994.05 (178)
* Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 1993.01 - 1999.06 (176)
* Star Trek: Voyager 1995.01 - 2001.05 (172)
* Star Trek: Enterprise 2001.09 - 2005.05 (98)
* Charlie Jade 2005.04 - 2005.08 (20) Filmed mainly in Cape Town, South Africa, a detective from a parallel universe who finds himself trapped in our universe.
* Surface 2005.09 - 2006.02 (15) A marine biologist, an insurance salesman and a teen-aged boy find their lives fundamentally changed by the emergence of a new, and often dangerous, species of sea life, while government agents work to keep the affair under wraps.
* Threshold 2005.09 - 2006.02 (13) A secret government project investigates first contact with an extraterrestrial species.
* Invasion 2005.09 - 2006.05 (22) Weird things happen after a hurricane in a small Florida town.
* Alias 2001.09 - 2006.05 (105) Sydney Bristow assumes multiple aliases and kicks ass
* The Lost Room 2006.12 - 2006.12 (3) Miniseries revolving around the titular room and some of the everyday items from that room which possess unusual powers.
* Life on Mars 2006.01 - 2007.04 (16) DCI Sam Tyler of the Greater Manchester Police, after being hit by a car in 2006, finds himself in the year 1973. The series centres on the ambiguity concerning Tyler's predicament: it is unclear whether he is insane, in a coma, or if he really has travelled back in time.
* The Dresden Files 2007.01 - 2007.04 (12) A Chicago-based wizard works as a private investigator.
* Jekyll 2007.06 - 2007.07 (6) Sequel to the novella
* The 4400 2004.07 - 2007.09 (45) What was originally thought to be a comet deposits a group of exactly 4400 people at a beach near Mount Rainier, Washington. Each of the 4400 had disappeared at various times starting from 1946 in a beam of white light. None of the 4400 have aged from the time of their disappearance. Confused and disoriented, they remember nothing between the time of their disappearance and their return.
* Bionic Woman 2007.09 - 2007.11 (8) A re-imagining of the original television series; the series revolves around bartender Jaime Sommers, who is saved from death after receiving experimental medical implants. While adjusting to her new bionic powers and raising a rebellious younger sister, Jaime agrees to work for the Berkut Group, a quasi-governmental private organization that performed her surgery.
* Journeyman 2007.09 - 2007.12 (13) A San Francisco reporter involuntarily jumps back and forth in history
* Tin Man 2007.12 - 2007.12 (3) A reimagining and continuation of the classic story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
* Flash Gordon 2007.07 - 2008.02 (22) Rifts in space appear between Earth and the planet Mongo. Steven "Flash" Gordon battles Mongo's ruthless dictator Ming.
* Jericho 2006.09 - 2008.03 (29) A series of terrorist attacks leaves the US in a state of disaster. A small Kansas town must come together to deal with a new reality
* New Amsterdam 2008.03 - 2008.04 (8) A New York homicide detective is cursed with immortality.
* Moonlight 2007.09 - 2008.05 (16) Mick St. John, a private investigator and a vampire, meets Beth Turner, a reporter.
* Day Break 2006.11 - 2008.06 (13) Detective Brett Hopper is framed for the murder of Assistant District Attorney Alberto Garza. Due to a time loop, Hopper lives the same day over and over. The series revolves around his attempt to solve the mystery of the murder, and find out who is behind the conspiracy to frame him.
* The Middleman 2008.06 - 2008.09 (12) A struggling female artist is recruited by a secret agency to fight against evil forces.
* Stargate SG-1 1997.07 - 2007.03 (214) A network of ancient alien devices called Stargates connects the far reaches of several galaxies for near-instantaneous interstellar travel. Stargate SG-1 chronicles the adventures of SG-1, the flagship team of over two dozen teams from Earth who explore the galaxy and defend Earth against alien threats.
* Stargate Atlantis 2004.07 - 2009.01 (100) SG-1 spin-off in another galaxy
* Battlestar Galactica 2004.10 - 2009.03 (75) Re-imagining; chronicles the journey of the last surviving humans from the Twelve Colonies of Kobol after their nuclear annihilation by the Cylons
* Kyle XY 2006.06 - 2009.03 (43) A boy wakes in a forest outside Seattle, Washington, suffering from amnesia. The series follows Kyle as he tries to understand the mysteries of who he is and why he has no memory of being a child.
* Knight Rider 2008.09 - 2009.03 (17) Remake of the original
* Red Dwarf 1988.02 - 2009.04 (55)
* Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles 2008.01 - 2009.04 (31) Events after T2.
* Primeval 2007.02 - 2009.06 (23) A team of five scientists is tasked with investigating the appearance of temporal anomalies across Great Britain and containing prehistoric and futuristic creatures which enter the present.
* Pushing Daisies 2007.10 - 2009.06 (22) A "forensic fairy tale", centering around a pie-maker with the ability to bring the dead back to life with minor stipulations.

* Doctor Who 1963.11 - - (753) The Doctor travels in the TARDIS with his companions
* Torchwood 2006.10 - - (31) Dr Who spin-off dealing with the machinations and activities of the Cardiff branch of the fictional Torchwood Institute
* Smallville 2001.10 - - (174) The adventures of Clark Kent
* Lost 2004.09 - - (103) A plane crashes on a mysterious tropical island and people survive
* Supernatural 2005.09 - - (82) Two brothers hunt demons and other figures of the paranormal
* Eureka 2006.07 - - (33) Eureka is a town inhabited entirely by brilliant scientists working on new scientific advancements for the United States government that frequently go disastrously awry.
* Heroes 2006.09 - - (59) Apparently ordinary individuals from around the world mysteriously develop superhuman abilities, and who then seek to use them to prevent the end of the world.
* Being Human 2008.02 - - (7) Three apparent twenty-something characters sharing a house in Bristol, trying to live a normal social life, despite being a ghost, a werewolf and a vampire.
* Fringe 2008.09 - - (20) The FBI Fringe Division uses unorthodox "fringe" science and FBI investigative techniques to investigate "the Pattern", a series of unexplained, often ghastly occurrences which are occurring all over the world.
* True Blood 2008.09 - - (15) Sookie Stackhouse is a barmaid living in Louisiana who can read people's minds. Her life is turned upside down when she meets the vampire Bill two years after vampires 'came out of the coffin' on national television.
* Dollhouse 2009.02 - - (14) Dolls are people whose personalities and existence in the outside world have been wiped clean so they can be imprinted with any number of new personas.
* The Listener 2009.03 - - (13) A young paramedic has the ability to listen to people's most intimate thoughts.