Science Fiction Television

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A wormhole-tested guide to starships, strange worlds, artificial minds, impossible futures and shows cancelled several seasons too early.

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Skully would like to wish a very happy birthday to Jovan Adepo, who turns 38 today.

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14 October 2026 · UK

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25 November 2026 · UK

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22 January 2027 · UK

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Space Adventures

Starships, distant worlds and crews who definitely skipped the safety briefing.

14 matching guides Alien Encounters

First contact, invasions and visitors whose motives remain inconveniently vague.

16 matching guides Time Travel

Loops, paradoxes and people making history considerably more complicated.

18 matching guides Dystopian Futures

Broken societies, sealed worlds and governments with extremely reassuring slogans.

17 matching guides AI & Cyberpunk

Artificial minds, digital worlds and technology quietly updating its plans for humanity.

13 matching guides Mind-Bending Sci-Fi

Conspiracies, fractured realities and questions that arrive with three more questions.

19 matching guides Retro Sci-Fi

Analogue futures, practical effects and control panels containing heroic quantities of switches.

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Highest-scoring transmissions

Skully's Top 5

  1. Babylon 59.5/10
  2. Dark9.4/10
  3. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine9.3/10
  4. The X-Files9.3/10
  5. Buffy the Vampire Slayer9.2/10
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Silo

✨ Byte-Sized Overview Ten thousand people live beneath the earth in a vast concrete silo. They work, raise families and maintain the…

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Surface 2000s

Surface

✨ Byte-Sized Overview The ocean covers most of the planet, which makes it a particularly inconvenient place for humanity to discover something…

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Heroes 2000s

Heroes

✨ Byte-Sized Overview Before superhero television required a flowchart of interconnected films, spin-offs and alternate universes, Heroes asked a disarmingly simple question:…

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Dark 2010s

Dark

✨ Byte-Sized Overview Winden has a missing child, a nuclear power station and a cave that no responsible local council would leave…

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Supernatural

Supernatural

✨ Byte-Sized Overview Sam and Dean Winchester travel across the United States in a black 1967 Chevrolet Impala, investigating ghosts, demons, monsters…

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Fallout 2020s

Fallout

✨ Byte-Sized Overview More than two centuries after nuclear war obliterated civilisation, thousands of people remain safely tucked away inside underground Vaults.…

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Falling Skies 2010s

Falling Skies

✨ Byte-Sized Overview The aliens have already invaded, Earth has already lost, and humanity’s remaining military strategy largely involves salvaged weapons, unreliable…

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