Scifi TV Animated & Live Action Shows - The Big List

• 4400 - The 4400 is built around a deceptively simple, dramatically rich premise. What if all the people, who had ever been abducted by aliens, were suddenly returned to Earth? What would happen? Although they look exactly as they did when they left, they have no knowledge of where they were or why they were taken. Now some even have special powers, like clairvoyance.
• Alien Nation - They get drunk on sour milk. They have two hearts and bald, spotted heads. They're highly intelligent, but if you drop them in seawater they'll melt into a puddle of goop. They're "Newcomers," and they arrived as refugees in a massive alien slave-ship, quarantined for three years and then reluctantly accepted as citizens of Earth. To some humans--including seasoned Los Angeles cop Matt Sykes (James Caan)--the Newcomers are unwelcome "slags." Sykes's own virulent "speciesism" intensifies when Newcomer thugs kill his partner, but he sees logic in teaming up with Sam Francisco (Mandy Patinkin), the first Newcomer detective in the LAPD. Francisco's Newcomer knowledge is vital to their investigation of an alien drug ring, and a friendship grows from life-or-death circumstances.
• Amazing Stories - Steven Spielberg's short stories for TV.
• Andromeda - Captain Dylan Hunt is played by Kevin Sorbo. He's a sympathetically flawed idealist in command of the Andromeda Ascendant, a massive starship of the now-disbanded Systems Commonwealth. The fall of civilization has meant that although she ought to be a relic she remains the zenith of technological advancement.
• Ark II - In a post apocalyptic world, the crew of the Ark II travels across the country righting wrongs, promoting peace and understanding, and helping the underdogs. The crew of the Ark II consisted of Jonah, the leader; Ruth; Samuel; and Adam, a talking, intelligent chimpanzee. The Ark II was basically a transport vehicle with the latest in technology. The Ark II crew also had access to the Ark Roamer, a jeep like vehicle, and jet packs to get to areas the Ark II couldn't.
• Babylon 5 - The episodic story of a five-mile-long space station in the year 2257.
• Battlestar Galactica - In the deepest reaches of space, the fight to save all human life from extinction has begun. Hopeful for lasting peace following centuries of intense warfare, the Twelve Colonies gather to sign a treaty with their dreaded enemies, The Cylons. But after an act of treachery on the eve of the ceremony, the Cylons launch a devastating surprise attack, destroying the Colonies' home planets and most of their military strength. A lone flagship battlestar, the Galactica, remains to aid the surviving colonists on their epic journey for a new home to a far-off legendary planet--Earth. They must survive the pursuing Cylons in a series of epic battles that will determine the fate of the human race in this non-stop action-packed classic filled with cutting-edge special effects by John Dykstra.
• Battlestar Galactica (2005) - With the 12 colonies of man virtually destroyed in the climax of a hundred-year war with the Cylon Empire, President Rosin (Mary McDonnell) and Commander Ad ama (Edward James Limos) gather up the few humans left and embark on a journey to find the mythical planet Earth,
• Bionic Woman - The story of Jamie Summers who has a skydiving accident and is repaired with bionic parts.
• Black Scorpion - As a crime-fighting icon, Black Scorpion is an immediate success, our 21st Century is better fitted with a powerful female to bring law and order. Michelle Lintel proves to be an adequate heroine. Her self-confident entrances with corny jokes are the equal of Batman at his best. The colorful villains are made even better by their inherent lack of credibility. This is escapism at its best.
• Blakes 7 - Blake is a freedom fighter who was captured and brainwashed by the Federation. He discovers his identity once more, but is placed on a Federation prison ship bound for the prison planet Cygnus Alpha. With the help of fellow criminals, they escape the Federation by capturing a remarkable starship - The Liberator. With the chance of a new start, Blake gathers together a small band of outlaws, who begin to search for a way to stop the Federation. The destruction of which means their freedom and the freedom of the galaxy.
• Buck Rogers of the 25th Century - Capt. William "Buck" Rogers is a jovial space cowboy who is accidentally time-warped from 1987 to 2491. Earth is engaged in interplanetary war following a global holocaust, and Buck's piloting skills make him an ideal starfighter recruit for the Earth Defense Directorate, where his closest colleagues are Dr. Huer (Tim O'Connor), squadron leader Col. Wilma Deering (former model Erin Gray), the wisecracking robot Twiki (voiced by cartoon legend Mel Blanc), and a portable computer-brain named Dr. Theopolis, who's carried by Twiki.
• Cleopatra 2525 - Action goddess Gina Torres stars in the sizzling series about a cryogenically frozen exotic dancer who, after accidentally being thawed in the year 2525, joins two sexy freedom fighters in their battle against evil robots called Bailies. Led by the mysterious "Voice," this tempestuous trio must out-fight, out-seduce and out-maneuver the forces that threaten to destroy the world.
• Crusade - 2267 A.D. The battle is won, the war may be lost. After fending off the fierce attack of Drakh combatants, Earth faces an unseen yet even greater foe - a microbial, biogenetic plague that will destroy all life on the planet in five years if a cure isn't found. Crusade follows the race against time to find that cure - an urgent and hazardous quest that sends an Earth force expedition across the reaches of space to explore technologies more advanced than Earth's. Leading this high-stakes archeological mission is a starship of the new Interstellar Alliance, the Excalibur, and its crew drawn from the Alliance's elite troubleshooting corps, the Rangers. With 7 billion lives at stake, action and courage against insurmountable odds must prevail in this Crusade.
• Dark Angel - Jessica Alba is impressive as Max, bred and trained as a super-soldier but reclaiming her individual humanity; Michael Weatherly is scruffily attractive as Eyes Only, who sits semi-paralyzed in his eyrie above Seattle uncovering crime, corruption, and other skullduggeries and assigning deadly errands to the woman he hopelessly loves.
• Dark Skies - Dark Skies is set in the 1960's and includes a government employee and his fiance. His quest for the truth leads him to Majestic-12, a secret government operation dealing with extra-terrestrials.
• Deep Space 9 - In the Star Trek universe, Deep Space 9 is an exciting adventure on the edge of the galaxy at a space station positioned near a wormhole.
• Dr. Shrinker - Dr. Shrinker, an evil scientist, lives on an island with his assistant, Hugo, working on various inventions, including a shrinking machine. Brad, BJ and her brother, Gordie, are three teenagers who crash land on the island. Dr. Shrinker decides to use the three teens as guinea pigs to test his shrinking ray, but they manage to escape from Dr. Shrinker's lab. Dr. Shrinker spends the rest of the series thinking up of new ways to capture the teens.
• Dr. Who - With his two granddaughters, Roberta Tovey and Jennie Linden (and Roy Castle along for comic relief), the Doctor becomes an intermediary in a conflict between the robotic Daleks and angelic Thals on the almost-dead world of Skaro.
• Earth 2 - Embark on the quest to find a new home planet for humanity in the year 2192. The thrilling story of Devon Adair (Debrah Farentino), who is struggling to find a healthy environment for her deathly ill son, Ulysses. Disregarding government orders, she puts together an expedition to found a new civilization on an Earth-like planet 22 light years in the future. But after their ship crash-lands on the wrong side of planet G889, the "colonists" quickly discover that their new home already has some very strange and hostile inhabitants.
• Earth Final Conflict - They have come to Earth with the promise of peace-an alien race called the Taelons. People call them "The Companions." Many see the Taelons as saviors of humankind. Indeed, they do help Earth to solve many pressing problems, such as famine and disease. But in this not-too-distant future, some are wary of the Taelons' motives and see a darker agenda. These few form the Resistance. With them lies the fate of humanity... and the future of Earth.
• EarthSea - Based on Ursula K. Le Guin's multiple award-winning classic tale comes this richly imagined epic mini-series. In the magical world of EarthSea, the Amulet of Peace has ensured harmony between humans and dragons for centuries. But when the Amulet is broken and a piece of it disappears, it's up to a neophyte wizard to restore balance and stop a nefarious king from conquering EarthSea's islands.
• Enterprise - Beginning in the year 2151 and establishing a pre-Federation focus on humanity's delicate relationship with the Vulcans, the controversial launch of the NX-01 Enterprise on an exploratory mission, and the potentially devastating consequences of the mysterious Temporal Cold War involving a time-traveling splinter group of the Suliban, a nomadic alien race.
• Farscape - American astronaut John Crichton (Ben Browder) is flung through a wormhole and comes out in the midst of an interstellar prison escape on the other side of the universe. When the galactic cops (called "Peacekeepers") mark him as the new public enemy number one, Crichton is forced to ally himself with the convicts: hulking warrior D'Argo (Anthony Simcoe), blue-skinned priest Zhaan (Virginia Hey), fugitive peacekeeper Aeryn (Claudia Black), exiled king Rygel (Jonathan Hardy), and Pilot, the giant insectlike nerve center of their living ship, Moya.
• Far Out Space Nuts - "I said "Lunch" not Launch !". So starts the adventure of the Far Out Space Nuts. Stars Bob Denver (Gilligan). "Tower of Tagot"--While Junior and Barney are on another planet, the beautiful Queen of the Serrians becomes imprisoned high in the Tower of Tagot. "Secrets Of Hexagon"--Junior and Barney get tricked into trading their ship for a mysterious hexagon key that supposedly operates a duplicating machine that can make a new spaceship to get them home.
• Firefly - Five hundred years in the future, there is a whole new frontier, and the crew of the Firefly-class spaceship Serenity is eager to stake a claim on the action. They'll take any job, legal or illegal, to keep fuel in the tanks and food on the table. But things get a bit more complicated after they take on a passenger wanted by the new totalitarian Alliance regime. Now they find themselves on the run, desperate to steer clear of Alliance ships and the flesh-eating Reavers.
• First Wave - Cade Foster thought he had seen everything; then he learned of the secrets hidden within the quatrains of the ancient prophet Nostradamus, predictions of an alien invasion that would come in three waves and conquer the human race. The invaders would be known as the Gua, and their conquest was foretold.
• Invasion - Amid the chaos of the hurricane, little Rose is the only one to notice a group of strange lights dropping from the sky into the water, then Mariel disappears only to turn up in a swamp the next morning, seemingly unharmed but now with a strange affinity for water. Not so lucky is Dave, whose investigation of Rose's colored lights leads to the discovery that those lights have a pretty fierce set of teeth. And what does the sheriff have to hide?
• Jake 2.0 - Jake Foley is a computer technician who is transformed into a secret agent for the National Security Agency (NSA) after he is accidentally infected with nanites based on the real life, beyond-state-of-the-art nanotechnology that reduces the size of a computer to the molecular level.  These nanites give Jake superhuman strength, lightning-fast speed, heightened hearing, magnified vision and the telepathic abilities to communicate with computers. (The BEST episode "Double Agent" is with Lee Majors "tentively" as the Six Million Dollar Man. Way cool.)
• Jason of Star Command - Hidden away on the same base as Space Academy, Jason and his various partners (Nicole, Parsafoot and Samantha) and his pocket-sized robot, Wiki work as agents for Star Command, a secret organization whose mission is to combat evil. Dragos, Jason's main adversary, intends to rule the galaxy and it is up to Jason and the Star Command gang to stop him.
• Land of the Giants - Land of the Giants is a roller coaster ride befitting the "larger-than-life" escapades of the crew and passengers of the Spindrift as they try to survive in a world of gargantuan proportions.
• Land of the Lost - Free-fall through an open time portal . . . to a world where menacing dinosaurs roam free! Get acquainted with Cha-Ka and once visit the ruins of Lost City. No matter which path of adventure you choose to follow - above all else: Beware of Sleestak! For heeding that last little bit of advice alone should assure you survival in this anything-but-routine expedition with Marshall, Will, and Holly. Grab hold to the side of the raft! The falls lie just up ahead. Hang on! You'll soon be in the LAND OF THE LOST.
• LEXX - This is truly one of the most odd and strange renderings of an alien society. The world of Lexx is brutal, funny, sometimes sexy and nihilistic.
• Logans Run - Set in the year 2274, when ecological disaster has driven civilization to the protection of domed cities, the story revolves around a society that holds a ceremonial death ritual for all citizens who reach the age of 30.
• Lost In Space - Lost in Space began life in 1965 as a science-fiction take on The Swiss Family Robinson. Produced by Irwin Allen, then in the midst of his run of spectacular TV scifi (before he became the master of big-screen disaster movies), the show featured a family of all-American space colonists cast away on a mysterious planet.
• Lost Saucer - Ruth Buzzi and Jim Neighbors play androids Fi and Fum who pick up a kid and his baby sitter and take off in their flying saucer, and cant find their way back to earth to take them home.
• Man from Atlantis - A mysterious man is discovered who can swim in the sea. To find out who he is he helps an undersea crew to explore the oceans. Stars Patrick Duffy.
• Max Headroom - Greedy executive corporations, and television ratings being more important than life itself, and all within a decaying, crumbling, miserable, hopeless future society. People who weren't registered as (say..."people who exist"), were what they called "Blanks". Matt Frewer played the main key role in this series as a "hit-the-streets" reporter, out to expose the very medium whom he works for.
• Mutant X - The Genomex Corporation conducted radical genetic experiments on humans, which gave them powerful abilities. Genomex now ruthlessly hunts them down in an attempt to cover up its blunder. And only Mutant X can stop them!
• My Favorite Martian - The hilarious antics of L.A. Sun reporter Tim O'Hara (Bill Bixby) who has taken in a Martian (Ray Walston) known as his "Uncle Martin".
• Outer Limits - There is nothing wrong with your television set," on September 16, 1963, The Outer Limits was destined for greatness. The dazzling, long-beloved series was a daring experiment in "omnibus" TV, trading the speculative fantasies of The Twilight Zone for farther-out scifi concepts.
• Planet of the Apes - In the 1974 TV Series Ron Harper and James Naughton star as two astronauts who crash-land on the simian-ruled planet.
• Powers of Mathew Star - Matthew Star just wants to be like all the other kids at Crest Ridge High School in California, and he wishes those dumb superpowers would take a hike--especially after an osculatory disaster in which his girlfriend kisses him and he gets zapped by the "blue fire" of his paranormal hormones. Sixteen years ago, you see, Matthew was an infant prince on the distant planet Quadris, marked for death by cruel invaders. He was rescued by his guardian, Walt Shepard, and brought to safety on Earth, but those interplanetary enemies are still after him.
• Prisoner (The) - If a top-level spy decided he didn't want to be a spy anymore, could he just walk into HQ and hand in his resignation? With all that classified knowledge in his head, would he be allowed to become a civilian again, free to go about his life? The answer for The Prisoner, is a resounding no. In fact, instead of receiving a gold watch for his years of faithful service, our hero (played by Patrick McGoohan) is followed home to his London flat and knocked unconscious. When he awakens, he finds himself in a picturesque village where everyone is known by a number. Where is it? Why was he brought here? And, most important, how does he leave?
• Quantum Leap - Scott Bakula plays Sam Beckett, a scientist who's part of a time-travel experiment that "went a little wrong." Unable to return to his own time, and aided only by Al (Dean Stockwell), his cigar-smoking, peculiar-dressing, sex-obsessed, holographic "enabler," Sam "leaps" unpredictably from one time period and person to another, usually completely out of his element (as a pilot, a boxer, a cowboy, an English lit professor, even an elderly black man in segregated '50s Alabama) and always in a situation that needs to be "made right" before he can leap onward.
• Red Dwarf - Slob Dave Lister (Craig Charles) is the last human alive after a radiation leak wipes out the crew of the vast mining vessel Red Dwarf (episode 1, "The End"). He bums around the spaceship with the perpetually uptight and annoyed hologram of his dead bunkmate, Arnold Rimmer (Chris Barrie, the show's greatest comedy asset), and a creature evolved from a cat (dapper Danny John-Jules). They are guided rather haphazardly by Holly, the worryingly thick main computer (lugubrious Norman Lovett).
• Roswell - Alien teenagers trying to sort out their identities while emotionally involved with their human contemporaries. It is also a show in which you were never sure which adults you could trust--William Sadleir trod a fine line of ambiguity as the local sheriff and Julie Benz was silkily sinister as an FBI agent.
• Seaquest - A Scientist invents an undersea exploration submarine and travels the oceans.
• Six Million Dollar Man - Astronaut Steve Austin has a aircraft crash and is repaired with bionic parts.
• Sliders - Jerry O'Connell leads the appealing cast as a college student who accidentally discovers a portal into alternate dimensions; with the help of his professor (Lord of the Rings' John Rhys-Davies), a spunky Girl Friday (Sabrina Lloyd), and a soul crooner (Cleavant Derricks), O'Connell encounters a host of strange parallel Earths, including a British-ruled United States and one where dinosaurs roam a national park.
• Space Above and Beyond - It's the year 2063. After 150 years of deep space exploration, the people of Earth feel certain they are alone in the universe. Then word comes that two Earth outposts light-years away from home have been brutally attacked by an advanced alien civilization. Now the new young recruits of the United States Marine Corps Space Aviator Calvary are heading for the front lines of space in the toughest battle the world has ever faced. Thrust into an intergalactic war beyond imagination, these untested fighter pilots suddenly find themselves waging a life-and-death struggle to protect Earth and to save mankind from total annihilation.
• Space Academy - A group of young adults with various powers, skills, and backgrounds came together at the Space Academy. Under the guidance of Commander Isaac Gampu, the crew of Space Academy encountered new life forms, planets and civilization as part of their training and mission. One of the first things they encountered was Loki, a young boy with the power of invisibility. Aiding the team in their mission was Peepo, a short robot with its own personality. Each adventure provided a learning experience for the crew and almost all of the stories had a moral to them.
• Space Precinct - Gerry Andersons law enforcement agency in the year 2040. Based in the City of Demeter, the officers of Precinct 88 were sworn to serve and protect a variety of alien life forms on and near the Planet Altor.
• Space Rangers - An outpost for Rangers who patrol space. A 5 person crew of aliens and humans of one particular ship is the focus. Stars Clint Howard.
• Space 1999 - On September 13, 1999, a massive explosion at a lunar nuclear waste dump sends the Moon out of Earth orbit. Without warning--and with return to Earth impossible--the 311 men and women of Moon base Alpha find themselves on a perilous journey to the far reaches of space...
• Stargate Atlantis - Now, a new team has gained access (via the Stargate, the "wormhole" our heroes use to travel to different worlds) to the legendary sunken city, where new adventures and deadly new enemies await.
• Stargate SG1 - The Stargate--an artificially created "wormhole" through which one can travel to different worlds light years away from Earth.The result is a show with multidimensional heroes and villains and consistently compelling story lines.
• Star Trek - STAR TREK THE ORIGINAL SERIES features the adventures of the U.S. S. Enterprise under the command of Capt. James Kirk (Shatner) and his first officer, Lt. Cmdr Spock (Nimoy) during the 23rd century. They are on a mission in outer space to explore new worlds, where the Enterprise encounters Klingons, Romulans, time paradoxes, tribbles and genetic supermen.
• Star Trek - Next Generation - Like its predecessor in the 1960s, TNG pioneered visual effects on TV, making it an increasingly jaw-dropping show to look at. And thanks also to the enduring success of the original show, phasers, tricorders, communicators and even phase inverters were already familiar to most viewers.
• Tek Wars - Starring Greg Evigan and William Shatner. An ex-policeman caught in the schemes of drug lords, unscrupulous businessmen, and his one-time allies turns private detective to track down a missing scientist whose invention could win the war against the insidious computerized drug known as "Tek." Set in a futuristic, high-tech world of robots, androids, and designer drugs.
• Time Tunnel - The U.S. government has a US $ 7 billion project to build a device to allow traveling in time. A senator is sent by the congress to the installation in order to inspect the situation at that moment and to decide if the government should spend more money in it. As the senator seems to be disappointed, prof. Tony Newman takes his chances and uses the "Time Tunnel" in a trip to the past to demonstrate the device efficiency. He arrives aboard the "TITANIC" in 1912 a few hours before it sunk. Prof. Douglas Philips go to rescue him, but the things go wrong and both become lost in time.
• The Tomorrow People - Welcome to the next stage of human evolution. Not your everyday Homo sapiens, the Tomorrow People are Homo superiors, children with amazing powers--here in our world TODAY.
• Twilight Zone - Rod Serling's classic, groundbreaking series exploring the fantastic and the frightening
• UFO - In the near future, a high-tech secret organization, SHADO, wages covert war against mysterious alien attackers. Ed Bishop played the American head of SHADO.
• V - They came for water. And for food. And as it turned out, we were the food. But humanity bravely resisted . Yet the war continues. The heroic conflict comes to a surprising outcome. Once again, Earth is the main battleground. But now the aliens whose human guise hides their true reptilian natures are wiser. They believe the secret to their survival on Earth lies in the DNA of the newly born half-human, half-spaceling Starchild. They intend to capture her. But that's something the world's Resistance Fighters cannot allow.
• Voyager - Caught in a sudden plasma storm while hunting down a ship full of Maquis terrorists, Starfleet Command's Voyager is thrust some 75,000 light years away from the Federation. Trapped in the Gamma Quadrant with their Maquis quarry, the Voyager crew, headed by Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), are forced to form an alliance and deal with perils and adventure.
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - While the Seaview, the world's most advanced experimental submarine, maneuvers under the North Pole, the Van Allen radiation belt catches fire, giving the concept "global warming" an entirely new dimension. As the Earth broils in temperatures approaching 170 degrees F, Admiral Nelson hijacks the Seaview and plays tag with the world's combined naval forces on a race to the South Pacific, where he plans to extinguish the interstellar fire with a well-placed nuclear missile.
• VR-5 - Lori Singer sensitively portrays the lonely genius Sydney Bloom, who doesn't comprehend her own potential.
• X-Files - Scully is the serious-minded medical scientist assigned to join Mulder on the X-Files, a division of the FBI dealing with the paranormal. Mulder is the intuitive thinker with a dry wit, a passionate believer in the existence of paranormal phenomena and one of the few characters on television smart enough to figure out who the bad guy is before the audience does. Their muddled relationship, a deep friendship laced with sexual tension, provides the human heart in a world where the bizarre and horrible lurk in everyday society.

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