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TV Shows & Series: Best "based on short story" TV Shows/Series

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Love, Death & Robots(2019-)

TV-MA
| Animation, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
4.1/5 (with 1,482 votes)

Terrifying creatures, wicked surprises and dark comedy converge in this NSFW anthology of animated stories presented by Tim Miller and David Fincher.

Most Dangerous Game(2020-2023)

TV-MA
| 9min per episode | Drama, Action & Adventure
3.5/5 (with 70 votes)

Desperate to take care of his pregnant wife before a terminal illness can take his life, Dodge Maynard accepts an offer to participate in a deadly game where he soon discovers that he’s not the hunter but the prey.

With Liam Hemsworth, Sarah Gadon, Christoph Waltz

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams(2017-2018)

TV-MA
| 52min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 132 votes)

A diverse anthology of ambitious, moving tales inspired by Philip K Dick's short stories.

Sex/Life(2021-2023)

TV-MA
| Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 622 votes)

A woman's daring sexual past collides with her married-with-kids present when the bad-boy ex she can't stop fantasizing about crashes back into her life.

Directed by Stacy Rukeyser - With Sarah Shahi, Mike Vogel, Adam Demos, Amber Goldfarb, Jonathan Sadowski, Li Jun Li, ...
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The Fall of the House of Usher(2023)

TV-MA
| Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 184 votes)

Ruthless siblings Roderick and Madeline Usher have built Fortunato Pharmaceuticals into an empire of wealth, privilege and power. But past secrets come to light when the heirs to the Usher dynasty start dying at the hands of a mysterious woman from their youth.

Directed by Michael Fimognari, Mike Flanagan - With Bruce Greenwood, Carla Gugino, Mary McDonnell, Carl Lumbly, Mark Hamill

Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King(2006)

Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 45 votes)

An anthology series based on the works of Stephen King.

Directed by Rob Bowman - With Tom Berenger

Chapelwaite(2021)

NR
| Drama, Mystery
3.7/5 (with 97 votes)

In the 1850s, Captain Charles Boone relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea. Charles will soon have to confront the secrets of his family’s sordid history, and fight to end the darkness that has plagued the Boones for generations.

With Adrien Brody

Captain David Grief(1957-1960)

30min per episode | Action & Adventure

Captain David Grief is an American action/adventure series that aired in syndication from October 1957, to 1960. The program was based on a series of Jack London short-stories centered around the South Seas tradesman and adventurer David Grief.

With Maxwell Reed

Father Brown(1974)

TV-PG
| 50min per episode | Crime, Mystery, Drama
3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

Father Brown was a Catholic priest who doubled as an amateur detective in order to solve mysteries.

With Kenneth More

Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories(2016)

Drama
3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

A unique collection of extraordinary fantastical short stories from the pen of Neil Gaiman, directed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. With a score by Jarvis Cocker and starring a host of British acting talent led by Tom Hughes, Johnny Vegas, George MacKay, Rita Tushingham and Kenneth Cranham.

Welcome to Irabu's Office(2009)

TV-MA
| 23min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Drama
4.1/5 (with 5 votes)

Welcome to Irabu's Office, where you may be greeted by a man in a bear mask, holding a giant needle, who’s ready to cure your ills. Get to know the eccentric Dr. Ichirou Irabu who has a fetish for injections, and a rather strange methodology. Despite his weird approach, Dr. Irabu (who changes his appearance more than Madonna), does succeed in helping each of his patients... eventually.

Theatre Macabre(1971-1972)

10h 10min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama
1.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Christopher Lee hosts this horror anthology series from Poland with stories from various classic authors.

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Úsměvy světa(1969-1972)

Comedy

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Ze staré drogerie(1983)

1h 10min per episode | Comedy
4.2/5 (with 2 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

Ants without Umbrella(2016)

19min per episode | Drama
2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Jun Hashimoto is a sci-fi novel writer, but he isn't popular at all. He lives off of his savings. One day, his editor Tateyama assigns him a job: he is to write a "love" themed short story for a web magazine oriented towards youths. At first Jun refuses, because he has never written a love story before, but Tateyama pushes him to write one. The deadline is imminent. Jun's childhood friend Keisuke Murata then appears in front of him. Jun complains to Keisuke that he can't write, but while talking to him, he comes up with an idea.

Čapkovy kapsy(2011)

28min per episode | Crime, Comedy

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Vojtěch Moravec, Rozálie Kohoutová, Martin Kopp, Jan Vejnar, Josef Tuka, ... - With Oldřich Vízner, Karel Heřmánek, Jiří Strach, Tomáš Töpfer, František Němec, Václav Postránecký, ...

Suns, kurš prata dziedāt(1991)

Kids & Family, Kids & Family
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -