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Big City Greens(2018-)

11min per episode | Kids & Family, Animation, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 23 votes)

The offbeat adventures of 10-year-old Cricket Green, a mischievous and optimistic country boy who moves to the big city with his wildly out of place family – older sister Tilly, father Bill and Gramma Alice.

The Beverly Hillbillies(1962-1971)

25min per episode | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.4/5 (with 55 votes)

Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.

With Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer, Jr., Raymond Bailey, Nancy Kulp, ...

3rd Rock from the Sun(1996-2001)

30min per episode | Kids & Family, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 218 votes)

3rd Rock from the Sun is an American sitcom that aired from 1996 to 2001 on NBC. The show is about four extraterrestrials who are on an expedition to Earth, which they consider to be a very insignificant planet. The extraterrestrials pose as a human family in order to observe the behavior of human beings.

With John Lithgow, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jane Curtin, Wayne Knight, ...

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt(2015-2019)

30min per episode | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 241 votes)

When a woman is rescued from a doomsday cult and lands in New York City, she must navigate a world she didn’t think even existed anymore.

With Ellie Kemper, Tituss Burgess, Jane Krakowski, Carol Kane, Sara Chase, Lauren Adams, ...
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Sleepy Hollow(2013-2017)

45min per episode | Drama, Mystery, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.7/5 (with 468 votes)

Ichabod Crane is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers.

With Tom Mison

The Simple Life(2003-2007)

20min per episode | Reality-TV, Comedy
2.2/5 (with 15 votes)

The Simple Life is an American reality television series. The series aired from December 2, 2003 to August 5, 2007. The first three seasons aired on Fox, and the final two on E!. The series depicts two wealthy socialites, Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie, as they struggle to do manual, low-paying jobs such as cleaning rooms, farm work, serving meals in fast-food restaurants and working as camp counselors.

With Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie

Phil of the Future(2004-2006)

22min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy, Kids & Family, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 30 votes)

Meet the Diffy family, a futuristic family from the year 2121. When the eccentric dad, Lloyd, rents a time machine for their family vacation, everyone is excited. But then something goes wrong. Their time machine malfunctions and they are thrown out of the space/time continuum in the year 2004.

With Ricky Ullman, Aly Michalka, Amy Bruckner, Craig Anton, Lise Simms

Tulsa King(2022-)

Crime, Drama
4.2/5 (with 734 votes)

Just after he is released from prison after 25 years, New York mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi is unceremoniously exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Okla. Realizing that his mob family may not have his best interests in mind, Dwight slowly builds a “crew” from a group of unlikely characters, to help him establish a new criminal empire in a place that to him might as well be another planet.

Directed by Allen Coulter, Ben Richardson, Ben Semanoff - With Sylvester Stallone, Andrea Savage, Martin Starr, Jay Will, Max Casella, Domenick Lombardozzi, ...

Resident Alien(2021-)

45min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy
4.0/5 (with 296 votes)

Crash-landed alien Harry takes on the identity of a small-town Colorado doctor. Arriving with a secret mission, he starts off living a simple life…but things get a bit rocky when he’s roped into solving a local murder and realizes he needs to assimilate into his new world. As he does, he begins to wrestle with the moral dilemma of his mission and asking the big life questions like: “Are human beings worth saving?” and “Why do they fold their pizza before eating it?”

With Alan Tudyk, Corey Reynolds, Alice Wetterlund, Sara Tomko, Linda Hamilton

Jessie(2011-2015)

23min per episode | Comedy, Kids & Family, Drama, Kids & Family
4.0/5 (with 310 votes)

An idealistic teen from rural Texas embarks on the adventure of a lifetime when she decides to leave behind starry nights for big city lights. Thrilled to be on her own and determined not to be intimidated by New York City, she accepts a job as nanny for a high-profile couple with four kids. Helping to keep her moral compass in check are Bertram, the family's butler, and Tony, the building's 20-year-old doorman.

Directed by Phill Lewis - With Debby Ryan, Peyton List, Cameron Boyce, Karan Brar, Skai Jackson, Kevin Chamberlin, ...

My Parents Are Aliens(1999-2006)

23min per episode | Kids & Family, Comedy, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.3/5 (with 7 votes)

Young orphans, Mel, Josh and Lucy, can't believe their luck when they are fostered together under one roof. But just when it looks like they have the chance of a relatively normal life, they discover their new parents are aliens from planet Valux!

With Tony Gardner

To Rome with Love(1969-1971)

30min per episode | Comedy
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

To Rome with Love is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 1969 to September 1971.

Directed by Earl Bellamy, Fred de Cordova - With John Forsythe, Kay Medford, Vito Scotti, Walter Brennan
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Welcome to Sweden(2014-2015)

30min per episode | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 18 votes)

The fish-out-of-water story of New York accountant Bruce, who falls in love with a Swedish girl named Emma and follows her to Sweden.

With Greg Poehler, Josephine Bornebusch, Lena Olin, Claes Månsson, Christopher Wagelin, Per Svensson, ...

The Freak Brothers(2021-)

24min per episode | Animation, Comedy
2.8/5 (with 8 votes)

The escapades of a trio of stoner anti-establishment characters and their cat who wake up from a 50-year nap after smoking a magical strain of weed in 1969, and must adjust to life with a new family in present-day San Francisco.

Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu(2003)

24min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 15 votes)

It's back-to-school mayhem with Kaname Chidori and her war-freak classmate Sousuke Sagara as they encounter more misadventures in and out of Jindai High School. But when Kaname gets into some serious trouble, Sousuke takes the guise of Bonta-kun - the gun-wielding, butt-kicking mascot. And while he struggles to continue living as a normal teenager, Sousuke also has to deal with protecting his superior officer Teletha Testarossa, who has decided to take a vacation from Mithril and spend a couple of weeks as his and Kaname's classmate.

Continuum(2012-2015)

45min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama
3.8/5 (with 391 votes)

The series centers on the conflict between a group of rebels from the year 2077 who time-travel to Vancouver, BC, in 2012, and a police officer who accidentally accompanies them. In spite of being many years early, the rebel group decides to continue its violent campaign to stop corporations of the future from replacing governments, while the police officer endeavours to stop them without revealing to anyone that she and the rebels are from the future.

With Rachel Nichols, Victor Webster, Erik Knudsen, Tony Amendola, Lexa Doig, Richard Harmon, ...
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Kyle XY(2006-2009)

44min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 154 votes)

A suburban family that takes in a mysterious teen naive to the world around him. As Kyle begins to show signs of brilliance, solving the mystery of his origin and potential abilities becomes the family's mission.

Directed by Gil Junger, Michael Robison, Michael Rohl, Guy Bee, John T. Kretchmer, Holly Dale, ... - With Matt Dallas, Jaimie Alexander, Marguerite MacIntyre, April Matson, Kirsten Prout, Chris Olivero, ...

Time After Time(2017)

43min per episode | Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.3/5 (with 34 votes)

A young H.G. Wells time travels to modern day New York City in pursuit of the charismatic—yet secretly psychopathic—Dr. John Stevenson, better known as "Jack the Ripper," following the doctor's brazen escape from the Victorian London authorities.

Aaron's Way(1988)

42min per episode | Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Aaron's Way is a 1988 American family drama series that aired on NBC. The series stars Merlin Olsen as Aaron Miller, the husband and father of an Amish family that moves to California. The series follows the attempts of family members to adapt to California culture while retaining their personal values. Also appearing on the series were Samantha Mathis and Belinda Montgomery.

Directed by R. W. Goodwin - With Merlin Olsen

Beforeigners(2019-2022)

50min per episode | Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.8/5 (with 110 votes)

In the near future a new phenomenon starts happening all over the world with powerful flashes of light occurring in the ocean and people from the past mysteriously reappearing. Called "beforeigners," these people come from three separate time periods: the Stone Age, the Viking era and late 19th century. A couple of years later, Alfhildr – who comes from the Viking Age – has to partner up with a burned-out police officer, Lars Haaland, to investigate the murder of a beforeigner. The pair begins to unravel a larger conspiracy behind the origin of the mysterious mass arrivals.

Directed by Jens Lien - With Nicolai Cleve Broch, Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Krista Kosonen, Veslemøy Mørkrid, Eili Harboe, ...

Two Weeks to Live(2020)

30min per episode | Comedy, Action & Adventure, Crime
3.7/5 (with 97 votes)

When strange young misfit Kim Noakes was just a little girl, her father died in murky circumstances and her mother Tina whisked her away to a remote rural life of seclusion and bizarre survival techniques. Now all grown up, Kim sets out into the real world for the first time to begin a secret mission of honouring her father’s memory.

Directed by Al Campbell - With Maisie Williams, Sian Clifford, Mawaan Rizwan, Taheen Modak, Sean Pertwee, Jason Flemyng, ...

Otherworld(1985)

1h per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy
2.5/5 (with 5 votes)

Otherworld is an American science fiction series that aired for only eight episodes from January 26 to March 16, 1985 on CBS. It was created by Roderick Taylor as a sort of Lost in Space on Earth. Taylor gave himself a cameo role in each episode.

Directed by Corey Allen, Richard Compton, Paul Michael Glaser, William A. Graham, Peter Medak, Thomas J. Wright, ... - With Sam Groom, Gretchen Corbett, Tony O'Dell, Jonna Lee, Brandon Crane, Chris Hebert, ...

The Other Kingdom(2016)

30min per episode | Comedy, Drama, Kids & Family, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.3/5 (with 7 votes)

Astral is a fairy princess who lives in the secret fairy kingdom of Athenia which is full of mythical creatures. While that sounds amazing, Astral likes to fantasize about living in the human world and attending high school. Once she leaves her home to do just that, she has to try to fit in and keep her identity a secret.

Supernova(2005-2006)

40min per episode | Drama, Comedy

Supernova is a British comedy series produced by Hartswood Films and jointly commissioned by the BBC in the UK and UKTV in Australia. It follows Dr Paul Hamilton, a Welsh astronomer, who leaves a dull academic post and unloved girlfriend for a new job at the Royal Australian Observatory, deep in the Australian outback. The comedy centres around his difficulties adjusting to life in the outback and his eccentric fellow astronomers. The first series was released in the United Kingdom and Australia in October 2005 and consisted of six 30-minute episodes. The second series began airing on 3 August 2006 in the UK. The exterior scenes were shot at Broken Hill in New South Wales, Australia. The observatory itself is a CGI creation, according to the DVD commentary, and only a partial doorway was constructed on site for filming purposes.

With Rob Brydon

The Girl from Tomorrow(1992-1993)

24min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Kids & Family
3.6/5 (with 8 votes)

Alana, a girl from the year 3000, is kidnapped by Silverthorn, a criminal from the year 2500, and brought back in time to the year 1992. While in the past, Alana befriends Jenny, who helps her adapt to life in a time unfamiliar to her, and to find a way back to her own time.

With Katharine Cullen, Melissa Marshall, James Findlay, Andrew Clarke, John Howard, Miles Buchanan, ...

Charlie Jade(2005)

1h per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

Charlie Jade is a science fiction television program filmed mainly in Cape Town, South Africa. It stars Jeffrey Pierce in the title role, as a detective from a parallel universe who finds himself trapped in our universe. This is a Canadian and South African co-production filmed in conjunction with CHUM Television and the South African Industrial Development Corporation. The special effects were produced by the Montreal-based company Cinegroupe led by Michel Lemire. The show started in 2004 and was aired on the Canadian Space Channel. It premiered on the Space Channel April 16, 2005 and aired in Eastern Europe, France, Italy, on SABC 3 in South Africa, on Fox Japan, and on AXN in Hong Kong. The show began airing in the United Kingdom in October 2007, on FX. The Sci Fi Channel in the United States premiered the show on June 6, 2008, but after 2 episodes on Friday prime-time, moved it to overnight Mon/Tue.

With Jeffrey Pierce

The Neighbors(2012-2014)

22min per episode | Comedy, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Kids & Family
3.1/5 (with 36 votes)

When the Weavers move to a gated community in New Jersey, they discover that the entire neighborhood is comprised of aliens from the planet Zabvron. But as the Weavers and the aliens face the struggles of everyday life together, they discover that some things -- the ups and downs of marriage, the desire to be a good parent and raise a happy family -- are universal. Intergalactic, even.

With Jami Gertz

Meego(1997)

30min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy
1.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Meego is an American science fiction sitcom that ran for six episodes from September 1 to October 24, 1997 on the CBS television network; after its cancellation, seven additional episodes that were produced but left unaired in the United States were aired in some international markets. Created by Ross Brown, and developed by Thomas L. Miller, Robert L. Boyett and Michael Warren, the series starred Bronson Pinchot in the title role as an alien masquerading as a human being who, after his spaceship crashlands on Earth, unexpectedly becomes the nanny to a single father's three children.

Directed by Rich Correll - With Bronson Pinchot, Ed Begley, Jr., Jonathan Lipnicki, Michelle Trachtenberg, Will Estes

Here Come The Habibs(2016-)

30min per episode | Comedy
1.9/5 (with 2 votes)

After winning the lottery, the Habib family move into Sydney's richest suburb to live the Australian dream, but their poshy next door neighbours are not all to happy about it.

Living the Dream(2017-2019)

45min per episode | Drama, Comedy
4.1/5 (with 2 votes)

A British family, the Pembertons, decide it’s time to leave rainy England and move to the sunshine state of Florida. They've bought an RV Park with plans for a booming family-run business, but it soon turns out that they are not going to be living the dream they hoped.

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