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Doctor Who (2005)
196+ episodes (2005-pres) 60m
The new Doctor Who has managed to bring the show into the modern world without ever losing its sense of historical identity. Now featuring mainly self-contained episodes, star Christopher Eccleston used up an entire regeneration when he quit after only one series, ably replaced by David Tennant. Quality revival well-received by the fans and looking set for a long stay.
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Primeval
36 episodes (2007-2011) 60m
A team of scientists investigate the appearance of prehistoric creatures that arrive in Great Britain through temporal anomalies. From its relatively humble beginnings at ITV, the show is now produced by a conglomerate and has grown to attract a global audience. Its mainstays are topnotch special effects, terrific (but not too cerebral) storylines and generally family-friendly production.
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FlashForward
22 episodes (2009-2010) 60m
A mysterious event causes nearly everyone on the planet to simultaneously lose consciousness for 137 seconds, during which people see what appear to be visions of their lives approximately six months in the future. A team of Los Angeles FBI agents begin the process of determining what happened, why, and whether it will happen again. An original take on the time travel theme.
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Continuum
42 episodes (2012-2015) 60m
A Vancouver City Protective Services officer, is transported from the year 2077 to 2012 when eight ruthless terrorists, known as Liber8, attempt to escape execution through time travel. With the help of a 17 year old tech genius and a VPD officer, she must survive in our time period and capture Liber8 before they can alter the course of history and change the future. Canada does it again.
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The Man in the High Castle
40 episodes (2015-2019) 60m
Based on the Philip K. Dick novel, this alternate has Germany and Japan had winning WWII. Set in 1962, the victors are playing dangerous games against each other in the former United States, now divided into three zones, the third being a neutral zone in the middle. Alternate worlds eventually emerge and, of course, the Nazis intend to use a portal to conquer them all. Mind-boggling.
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12 Monkeys
47 episodes (2015-2018) 60m
Using a dangerous and untested method, a time traveler arrives from a post-apocalyptic future to the present day. His mission is to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will eventually decimate 93.6% of the human race. He assembles a team to stop the clandestine 'Army of the 12 Monkeys' from releasing the virus. Only loosely based on the 1995 film of the same name.
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Timeless
28 episodes (2016-2018) 60m
A cold-blooded criminal (who later looks like he's not all bad) steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine, intent on destroying America as we know it by changing the past. A scientist, a soldier and a history professor must use the machine's prototype to travel back in time to critical events and tangle with the apparently evil Rittenhouse organisation, all while not altering the future.
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Travelers
34 episodes (2016-2018) 60m
Hundreds of years from now, the last surviving humans discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, to people in the 21st century tracking them through their smartphones. They work to strict protocols when they assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly working as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible future.
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Night Sky
8 episodes (2022) 60m
Some years ago Franklin and Irene York (J.K. Simmons and Sissy Spacek) discovered a portal in their backyard which leads to a mysterious uninhabited planet. When an enigmatic young man shows up, the Yorks' lives go topsy turvy and secrets begin to unravel. The Guardian notes the show is three stories in one... a love story, an intergalactic mystery and an intercontinental thriller.