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1. The X-Files (1993–2018)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Two F.B.I. Agents, Fox Mulder the believer and Dana Scully the skeptic, investigate the strange and unexplained, while hidden forces work to impede their efforts.

Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis

Votes: 250,237

2. The Net (1998–1999)
Episode: Diamonds Aren't Forever (1998)

TV-14 | Thriller

Angela counters a Praetorian plan to bring down the world diamond market.

Director: Michael Robison | Stars: Brooke Langton, Joseph Bottoms, Eric Szmanda, Zach Galligan

Votes: 15

3. Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007)
Episode: Camelot (2006)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Based on the information Vala gave them, SG-1 travels to the planet where Merlin may have hidden his secret weapon to defeat ascended beings. There they find an appropriately medieval ... See full summary »

Director: Martin Wood | Stars: Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Beau Bridges

Votes: 1,063

4. Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A secret military team, SG-1, is formed to explore other planets through the recently discovered Stargates.

Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge

Votes: 101,553

5. So Weird (1999–2001)

TV-Y7 | 30 min | Adventure, Family, Mystery

A preteen girl travels around the country continually stumbling over supernatural occurrences. Since nobody believes her, she posts her finds on her website, "So Weird."

Stars: Cara DeLizia, Mackenzie Phillips, Patrick Levis, Belinda Metz

Votes: 3,296

6. Cold Squad (1998–2005)
Episode: Jane Doe: Part 1 (1998)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A 12 year old case where a murdered woman's death matched the M.O. of a now-convicted killer seems to be yet another victim. Until investigation shows the killer couldn't have done it. He was already in prison.

Director: Stephen Williams | Stars: Julie Stewart, Michael Hogan, Joy Tanner, Bob Frazer

Votes: 27

7. Surviving Disaster (2006– )
Episode: Eruption at Mount St. Helens (2006)

Drama

"Fire Mountain" is the retelling of the Mount Saint Helen's eruption in 1980. The production is made for the BBC, by Big Blow Productions and is directed by Matthew Wortman

Director: Matthew Wortman | Stars: David MacInnis, Peter Hall, Sean Allen, David Thomson

Votes: 17

8. The Chris Isaak Show (2001–2004)

TV-MA | 45 min | Comedy, Music

Chris plays himself as a low-key, nebbishy rock star fumbling sincerely with mundane neighborhood and bizarre rock-god situations with the help, but more often, hindrance of his band-manager/ex-girlfriend.

Stars: Chris Isaak, Kristin Dattilo, Kenney Dale Johnson, Rowland Salley

Votes: 790

9. The Outer Limits (1995–2002)

TV-PG | 44 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A modern revival of the classic science fiction horror anthology show The Outer Limits (1963). Episodes often have twist-endings and involve aliens. Sometimes, a story from one episode continues in a later episode.

Stars: Kevin Conway, Alex Diakun, Eric Schneider, Garvin Cross

Votes: 13,800

10. So Weird (1999–2001)
Episode: Boo (1999)

TV-Y7 | Adventure, Family, Mystery

Fi discovers she and her friends are the only people in a town where the dead come back on Halloween to carry mortals to the realm of the dead where they must stay for an entire year in torment.

Director: Mark Jean | Stars: Cara DeLizia, Patrick Levis, Eric Lively, Belinda Metz

Votes: 36

11. The Dead Zone (2002–2007)
Episode: The Man Who Never Was (2003)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Isolating himself from a demanding public, Johnny gets visions of himself disappearing after making contact with something belonging to an elderly shut-in, Jeffrey Grissom, brought in by ... See full summary »

Director: James Head | Stars: Anthony Michael Hall, Nicole de Boer, Chris Bruno, John L. Adams

Votes: 142

12. Surviving Disaster (2006– )

59 min | Drama

BBC Docu-dramas exploring and re-enacting disasters of the 20th Century, from natural to military.

Stars: Bernard Hill, David MacInnis, Peter Hall, Sean Allen

Votes: 74

13. The Dead Zone (2002–2007)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Johnny had the perfect life until he was in coma for six years. When he awoke, he found his fiancee married to another man. His son doesn't know him. Everything's changed, including Johnny. With one touch, he can see things.

Stars: Anthony Michael Hall, Nicole de Boer, Chris Bruno, John L. Adams

Votes: 9,996

14. The Lone Gunmen (2001)

45 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

The X-Files' Lone Gunmen, their action-loving man-childish sidekick and patron, Jimmy Bond, and their sexy master thief frienemy, Yves, investigate crimes and conspiracies, often in a silly, comedic and over the top fashion.

Stars: Bruce Harwood, Tom Braidwood, Dean Haglund, Zuleikha Robinson

Votes: 5,746

15. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Gender Bender (1994)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A religious sect becomes the prime suspect in a murder spree.

Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Brent Hinkley, Michele Goodger

Votes: 5,944

16. The Evidence (2006)

60 min | Crime, Drama

The story of Sean Cole, a top detective who is haunted by the murder he could never solve - that of his wife.

Stars: Orlando Jones, Rob Estes, Martin Landau, Martha Christianson

Votes: 169

17. The Lone Gunmen (2001)
Episode: Madam, I'm Adam (2001)

Comedy, Drama, Mystery

The guys are approached by a desperate man in need of help who claims to have apparently been erased from existence. The Gunmen's only clue to this mystery is the man's inexplicable hate for a specific late midget wrestler.

Director: Bryan Spicer | Stars: Bruce Harwood, Tom Braidwood, Dean Haglund, Stephen Snedden

Votes: 312

18. Cold Squad (1998–2005)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The cases of a police unit specializing in revisiting old criminal files whose investigations have been inconclusive.

Stars: Julie Stewart, Garry Chalk, Tamara Marie Watson, Gregory Calpakis

Votes: 655

19. Viper (1994–1999)
Episode: Tiny Bubbles (1999)

Action, Adventure, Crime

After the top secret formula for a beverage company's famous soda is stolen, the team is pulled into the world of corporate espionage as they try to recover it before it falls into the hands of the company's rivals.

Director: Robert Lee | Stars: James McCaffrey, Heather Medway, Joe Nipote, J. Downing

Votes: 19

20. Welcome to Paradox (1998)

42 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

"Welcome to Paradox" was a science fiction series derived mostly from original stories by top science fiction authors. The unrelated stories are reset in a future Utopia, Betaville, which is being undermined by out-of-control technologies.

Stars: Michael Philip, Leanne Adachi, Conan Graham, Mayim Bialik

Votes: 190

21. The Net (1998–1999)

TV-14 | 45 min | Thriller

Computer programmer Angela Bennett discovers a shadowy group of cyber terrorists who completely erase her true identity. Falsely labeled a criminal, she finds herself on the run, and she'll never stop until she's got her life back.

Stars: Brooke Langton, Joseph Bottoms, Eric Szmanda, Mackenzie Gray

Votes: 510

22. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show (1997–2000)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Wayne Szalinski is a clumsy genius who comes up with new gadgets and experiments all the time. But something usually goes wrong and gets him and his family into trouble, danger and fantastical adventure.

Stars: Peter Scolari, Barbara Alyn Woods, Hillary Tuck, Thomas Dekker

Votes: 1,663

23. The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode: Dark Child (2002)

TV-PG | 43 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A single mother's memories of being abducted by aliens resurface when her story appears in a newspaper article. Her moody teenage daughter has an English teacher that is helping her, but also seems familiar to her mother.

Director: Steve Anker | Stars: Andrew Airlie, Gracie P. Aylward, Kevin Conway, Rhonda Dent

Votes: 152

24. The Evidence (2006)
Episode: And the Envelope Please (2006)

TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama

Bishop and Cole investigate the mysterious death of a DJ, and it leads them to another murder.

Director: Ernest R. Dickerson | Stars: Orlando Jones, Rob Estes, Martin Landau, Aníta Briem

Votes: 12

25. Viper (1994–1999)

60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

In the near future, an organized crime group known as "Outfit" becomes a major force in America.

Stars: Joe Nipote, Heather Medway, J. Downing, Jeff Kaake

Votes: 1,990

26. Miracle on the 17th Green (1999 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama, Sport

A 50 year old adman (Robert Urich) loses his job. Rather than facing trying to find a new job, he decides to try to make it on the senior golf tour. This causes him to neglect his wife (Meredith Baxter) and family.

Director: Michael Switzer | Stars: Robert Urich, Meredith Baxter, Donnelly Rhodes, Matthew Walker

Votes: 222

27. Welcome to Paradox (1998)
Episode: News from D Street (1998)

44 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

Mr. K. is an old-school detective who has been tasked to find a mysterious man who has a list of names someone wants. Mr. K encounters sinister characters, an alluring artist and the real self he never knew existed along the way.

Stars: A Martinez, Claudette Mink, J. Douglas Stewart, Ron Sauvé

Votes: 15

28. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show (1997–2000)
Episode: Honey, It's the Fixer-Uppers (2000)

TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Things go wrong when Wayne tries to fix the fridge as his hinge ruins the kitchen so now they have to clean the kitchen. Mishappenings just keep happening and as usual Jennings makes things... See full summary »

Director: Adam Weissman | Stars: Peter Scolari, Barbara Alyn Woods, Hillary Tuck, Thomas Dekker

Votes: 12

29. Saint Sinner (2002 TV Movie)

90 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

In 1815 a monk, Tomas Alcala, unwittingly unleashes two female succubi, Munkar and Nakir, upon an unsuspecting 21st century. He is chosen by God to travel through the centuries and stop the demons' rampage.

Director: Joshua Butler | Stars: Greg Serano, Gina Ravera, Mary Mara, Rebecca Harrell Tickell

Votes: 1,047

30. XES Diner (1998)

45 min | Short, Comedy

XES DINER is a character driven drama that comedic explores the conversations of one late night diner's clientele.

Director: Michael Love | Stars: Carmen Aguirre, Ligaya Allmer, Lisa Bayliss, Jim Byrnes

31. The Chris Isaak Show (2001–2004)
Episode: Home Fires (2004)

TV-MA | Comedy, Music

Chris has a yard sale to please Olivia, because she thinks he has too much "stuff". Yola schemes to buy an elderly woman's house. Anson moves into a large RV trailer.

Director: Kevin Inch | Stars: Chris Isaak, Kristin Dattilo, Kenney Dale Johnson, Rowland Salley