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The Wild, Wild West
104 episodes (1965-1969) 60m

Early steampunk technothriller set in 19th-century America's Wild West. Good guy spies battle a gallery of surreal villains, including height-disadvantaged superscientist Dr Miguelito Loveless, played by Michael Dunn. A surprise hit for the American CBS network, after the premiere season the show hit the outer limits in full glorious colour. Re-runs remain extremely popular with sci-fi fans.

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The Avengers (with Emma Peel)
50 episodes (1965-1967) 60m

At least 17 episodes of this series can be safely classified as sci-fi, with several others containing science fictional elements. The show hit a creative peak from 1965-67 when Diana Rigg (playing Emma Peel) took over as secret agent John Steed's sidekick. Most of the SF episodes were penned by Philip Levene. A "complete Emma Peel mega-set" is available on DVD.

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The Prisoner
17 episodes (1967-1968) 60m

Only the British could get away with making a TV series this surreal. Star Patrick McGoohan (Number 6), who also wrote and financed the series, gets incarcerated and confronts a succession of Number 2s in trying to escape from 'The Village'... with large guardian-balls thwarting every attempt. Lost? Number 6 could never get a straight answer to a question either.

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Millennium
67 episodes (1996-1999) 60m

An X-Files spin-off also created by Chris Carter. A retired FBI agent can't get away from work when his psychic abilities allow him to see murders through the eyes of the killers. Expecting a turbulent future, he joins the enigmatic Millennium Group in the hope he can shield his family from society's ills. Splendid sci-fi mystery show with plenty of exciting action.

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Killjoys
50 episodes (2015-2019) 60m

A trio of hard-living bounty hunters working for the Reclamation Apprehension Coalition (RAC) trip around a four planet-and-moon system known as the Quad looking for crims. Taking on warrants to apprehend people or property, RAC Agents are given high authority by their agency. As part of their job, they swear to remain neutral in conflicts and to maintain allegiance to the RAC.

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Counterpart
20 episodes (2017-2019) 60m

After discovering that the spy agency he works for is hiding a gateway to a parallel Earth (the "Prime World"), a low-level UN bureaucrat in Berlin is thrust into a shadowy world of intrigue and danger and must determine if he can trust his near-identical counterpart in the other world. Things get interesting when the Prime World suspects our Earth of infecting it with a deadly virus.

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Altered Carbon
18+ episodes (2018-pres) 60m

In a world where consciousness can be transferred to different bodies, Takeshi Kovacs, a former soldier turned investigator, must solve a murder. Set 360 years into the future, a person's memories and consciousness can be decanted in a disk-shaped device of alien design called a cortical stack, which is implanted in the vertebrae at the back of the neck. Cutting-edge cyberpunk.

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The Mandalorian
24+ episodes (2019-pres) 30m

Star Wars spin-off set after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order. A lone gunfighter/bounty hunter travels the outer reaches of the galaxy, far from the authority of the New Republic. He ends up getting stuck with a painfully cute baby Yoda (The Child) with a bounty on its' head. Protecting the child from other bounty hunters is no easy task.

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Severance
19+ episodes (2022-pres) 60m

Lumon Industries, a biotechnology corporation, uses a mindwipe called 'severance' so its employees can't remember what they did at work once back in the outside world, and vice versa. One employee, Mark, eventually starts to unravel the conspiratorial truth. A dark psychological thriller with some nice comedic touches, Severance received widespread acclaim on release.