Comments on Sci-Fi Lists: Fantasy TV shows
My original post was 5 years ago so it’s time for an update. If there’s a * in the “My rating” column then I have some interest in watching the show. If there’s nothing there then I have no particular interest in watching it.
Here is the list I’m commenting on — of course it’s changed a bit in the last 5 years.
Their ranking | Title | Rating | My comments |
1 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | 5 | Buffy slays vampires with a little help from her friends. |
2 | Lost | 5 | A plane crashes on what seems like a deserted island — but it’s not. |
3 | Heroes | 4.5 | A small number of people discover they have extraordinary powers. |
4 | Xena – Warrior Princess | ||
5 | Charmed | ||
6 | Supernatural | ||
7 | Angel | 5 | A spinoff of “Buffy” — Angel goes to LA to help people. |
8 | The X-Files | 5 | Mulder and Scully investigate the cases no one else can solve. |
9 | Highlander | ||
10 | True Blood | ||
11 | Bewitched | ||
12 | Sabrina the Teenage Witch | ||
13 | Legend of the Seeker | ||
14 | Merlin (2008) | ||
15 | Ghost Whisperer | ||
16 | Touched By an Angel | ||
17 | Kyle XY | ||
18 | Game of Thrones | ||
19 | Hercules – Legendary Journeys | ||
20 | Pushing Daisies | 4.5 | A fun and clever show about a guy who can bring the dead back to life by touching them. |
21 | The Twilight Zone (Original) | * | |
22 | Dark Shadows | ||
23 | Medium | ||
24 | The Vampire Diaries | ||
25 | Batman | ||
26 | The Prisoner | 3.5 | A show from the 1960s where a spy is captured and kept in a strange town. |
27 | Moonlight | ||
28 | I Dream of Jeannie | ||
29 | Fantasy Island | ||
30 | The Dresden Files | ||
31 | The Addams Family | ||
32 | Forever Knight | ||
33 | Dead Like Me | 4.5 | George dies and because a grim reaper — she gradually gets used to the new deal. |
34 | Tales From the Crypt | ||
35 | Carnivale | * | |
36 | Are You Afraid of the Dark? | ||
37 | Poltergeist – The Legacy | ||
38 | Worzel Gummidge | ||
39 | The Walking Dead | ||
40 | Once Upon a Time | 4.5 | Fairy tale characters are trapped in our world because of a curse. |
41 | The Mists of Avalon | ||
42 | Wonder Woman | ||
43 | The Wild Wild West | ||
44 | The Pretender | ||
45 | The 10th Kingdom | * | |
46 | Mister Ed | ||
47 | The Avengers (with Emma Peel) | ||
48 | The Lost Room | 4.5 | A miniseries in which items from a hotel room have magical properties. |
49 | Beauty & the Beast | * | |
50 | Early Edition | ||
51 | The Worst Witch | ||
52 | Dinotopia | ||
53 | Blood Ties | ||
54 | Hex | ||
55 | Joan of Arcadia | ||
56 | Blade: The Series | ||
57 | Friday the 13th | ||
58 | Sapphire & Steel | ||
59 | Ray Bradbury Theatre | ||
60 | The Chronicles of Narnia | ||
61 | Tru Calling | I watched a few episodes but they didn’t wow me. | |
62 | Faerie Tale Theatre | ||
63 | Kingdom Hospital | ||
64 | Grimm | ||
65 | Goosebumps | ||
66 | Goodnight Sweetheart | ||
67 | That’s So Raven | ||
68 | Kung Fu – The Legend Continues | ||
69 | Beastmaster | ||
70 | The Dead Zone | * | |
71 | Rocko’s Modern Life | ||
72 | Neverwhere | ||
73 | The Flying Nun | ||
74 | Witchblade | ||
75 | The Munsters | ||
76 | Merlin | ||
77 | Big Wolf on Campus | ||
78 | The Twilight Zone (80s) | * | |
79 | Highway to Heaven | I watched this as a kid — not sure what it would be like now. | |
80 | Kolchak – The Night Stalker | ||
81 | Night Gallery | ||
82 | The Lost World | ||
83 | Round the Twist | ||
84 | Tales From the Darkside | ||
85 | The Adventures of Sinbad | ||
86 | Land of the Lost | ||
87 | The Storyteller | * | |
88 | Dungeons & Dragons | ||
89 | Eastwick | ||
90 | Monkey | ||
91 | The Mighty Boosh | ||
92 | So Weird | ||
93 | Beyond Belief – Fact or Fiction | ||
94 | The Tick | ||
95 | One Step Beyond | ||
96 | Relic Hunter | ||
97 | Herman’s Head | ||
98 | Swamp Thing | ||
99 | The Listener | * | |
100 | Dinosaurs |
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There are a few shows missing from the list:
Agent Carter | 4.5 | Peggy Carter works at the SSR in 1946 to protect the US from dangerous items with magical properties. | |
Agents of SHIELD | 4.5 | Agent Coulson and his team try to protect the world from threats of a paranormal nature. | |
God, the Devil and Bob | 4.5 | The fate of the world rests on Bob. A funny animated show that sadly only lasted 13 episodes. | |
Gotham | 5 | When Bruce Wayne is a kid, Detective Gordon tries to keep Gotham safe from unusual criminals. | |
The Muppets | 4.5 | A behind the scenes look at Miss Piggy’s talk show, on which the Muppets all work including Kermit as producer. | |
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland | 5 | Alice returns to Wonderland as an adult to find her love and thwart Jafar and the Red Queen. | |
Stranger Things | 4.5 | In 1983 a boy disappears and a girl is found, with a tattoo of “11” on her arm, who has telekinetic powers. | |
Supergirl | 4.5 | As Kara Danvers she works at CatCo as Cat Grant’s assistant, and as Supergirl she protects National City. | |
Wonderfalls | 4.5 | A young woman who works in a gift store in Niagara Falls starts hearing inanimate objects talking to her. |