Comments on Sci-Fi Lists: Fantasy TV shows
Here are my thoughts on this list. If I don’t put anything in “My rating” then I have no particular interest in seeing it. Where there are stars in that column, here’s what they mean:
* The 5 TV shows I’m likely to watch first.
** The 5 TV shows I’m likely to watch second.
*** The 5 TV shows I’m likely to watch third.
| Their ranking | Title | Rating | My comments |
| 1 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | 5 | Buffy slays vampires with a little help from her friends. |
| 2 | Lost | * | |
| 3 | Heroes | 4.5 | A small number of people discover they have extraordinary powers. |
| 4 | Xena – Warrior Princess | ** | |
| 5 | Charmed | ||
| 6 | Angel | 5 | A spinoff of “Buffy” — Angel goes to LA to help people. |
| 7 | Supernatural | ||
| 8 | Highlander | ||
| 9 | The X-Files | 5 | Mulder and Scully investigate the cases no one else can solve. |
| 10 | Bewitched | ||
| 11 | Sabrina the Teenage Witch | ||
| 12 | True Blood | ||
| 13 | Touched By an Angel | ||
| 14 | Ghost Whisperer | *** | |
| 15 | Kyle XY | ||
| 16 | Legend of the Seeker | ||
| 17 | Pushing Daisies | * | |
| 18 | Dark Shadows | ||
| 19 | Medium | ||
| 20 | Hercules – Legendary Journeys | ** | |
| 21 | Merlin (2008) | ||
| 22 | Batman | ||
| 23 | The Prisoner | * | |
| 24 | The Twilight Zone (Original) | *** | |
| 25 | Moonlight | ||
| 26 | Fantasy Island | ||
| 27 | I Dream of Jeannie | ||
| 28 | Forever Knight | ||
| 29 | The Dresden Files | ||
| 30 | The Vampire Diaries | ||
| 31 | Poltergeist – The Legacy | ||
| 32 | Tales From the Crypt | ||
| 33 | Worzel Gummidge | ||
| 34 | Are You Afraid of the Dark? | ||
| 35 | Mister Ed | ||
| 36 | Carnivale | *** | |
| 37 | The Addams Family | ||
| 38 | Dead Like Me | *** | |
| 39 | The Wild Wild West | ||
| 40 | Wonder Woman | ||
| 41 | The Mists of Avalon | ||
| 42 | Beauty & the Beast | * | |
| 43 | Blood Ties | ||
| 44 | Blade: The Series | ||
| 45 | Early Edition | ||
| 46 | Ray Bradbury Theatre | ||
| 47 | Faerie Tale Theatre | ||
| 48 | The Worst Witch | ||
| 49 | Sapphire & Steel | ||
| 50 | The Pretender | ||
| 51 | The Avengers (with Emma Peel) | ||
| 52 | Dinotopia | ||
| 53 | Goodnight Sweetheart | ||
| 54 | Joan of Arcadia | ||
| 55 | The Lost Room | 4.5 | A miniseries in which items from a hotel room have magical properties. |
| 56 | Friday the 13th | ||
| 57 | Goosebumps | ||
| 58 | That’s So Raven | ||
| 59 | Kingdom Hospital | ||
| 60 | Rocko’s Modern Life | ||
| 61 | Hex | ||
| 62 | Neverwhere | ||
| 63 | Highway to Heaven | I watched this as a kid — not sure what it would be like now. | |
| 64 | The Dead Zone | * | |
| 65 | Kung Fu – The Legend Continues | ||
| 66 | The Flying Nun | ||
| 67 | Beastmaster | ||
| 68 | Witchblade | ||
| 69 | The Chronicles of Narnia | ||
| 70 | The 10th Kingdom | ** | |
| 71 | Big Wolf on Campus | ||
| 72 | Round the Twist | ||
| 73 | Tru Calling | ** | |
| 74 | The Lost World | ||
| 75 | The Munsters | ||
| 76 | Merlin | ||
| 77 | So Weird | ||
| 78 | Herman’s Head | ||
| 79 | Night Gallery | ||
| 80 | One Step Beyond | ||
| 81 | Tales From the Darkside | ||
| 82 | The Storyteller | ** | |
| 83 | Land of the Lost | ||
| 84 | Swamp Thing | ||
| 85 | Monkey | ||
| 86 | The Adventures of Sinbad | ||
| 87 | Eastwick | ||
| 88 | Beyond Belief – Fact or Fiction | ||
| 89 | Dinosaurs | ||
| 90 | Lights Out | ||
| 91 | New Adventures of Robin Hood | ||
| 92 | The Twilight Zone (80s) | ||
| 93 | The Mighty Boosh | ||
| 94 | The Listener | *** | |
| 95 | Dungeons & Dragons | ||
| 96 | Randall & Hopkirk (2000-01) | ||
| 97 | Relic Hunter | ||
| 98 | The Tick | ||
| 99 | Maniac Mansion | ||
| 100 | Catweazle |
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I predict the new show Once Upon a Time will make a meteoric and deserved rise up the list.