Shows Like Dark Skies

If you liked Dark Skies (1996), a sci-fi & fantasy and drama series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Earth: Final Conflict (1997)
★ 6.8/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
Years ago, the Taelons came to Earth, offering friendship and technology to humanity. But there are those who believe the Taelons have more sinister motives.
2
UFO (1970)
★ 7.7/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
A secret, high-technology international agency called SHADO defends Earth from alien invaders.
3
Debris (2021)
★ 7/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
Two federal agents from two different continents, and two different mindsets, must work together to investigate when wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft has mysterious effects on humankind.
4
Project Blue Book (2019)
★ 8.1/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
A chronicle of the true top secret U.S. Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950s and ’60s, known as “Project Blue Book”.
5
The Invaders (1967)
★ 6.8/10Also action & adventure and sci-fi & fantasy
The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them, for him it began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a…
6
Childhood's End (2015)
★ 7/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasy
The peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious “Overlords,” whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture.
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Salvation (2017)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasy
An MIT grad student and a tech superstar bring a low-level Pentagon official a staggering discovery that an asteroid is just six months away from colliding with Earth.
8
Alphas (2011)
★ 6.8/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
Five ordinary people with superhuman physical and mental abilities are brought together to form one extraordinary team of Alphas. Operating within the U.S. Department of Defense, the team investigates cases that point…
9
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996)
★ 6.9/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal is a Canadian science fiction television series that surrounds a scientific team that deals with all manner of paranormal phenomena around the world; from alien abductions to…
10
The Crossing (2018)
★ 6.9/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and action & adventure
Refugees from a war-torn country start showing up to seek asylum in an American town. Only the country these people are from is America and the war they are fleeing is 250 years in the future. The local sheriff with a…
11
The Whispers (2015)
★ 6.7/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
We love to play games with our children. But what happens when someone else starts to play with them too? Someone we don't know. Can't see. Can't hear. In The Whispers, someone or something -- is manipulating the ones…
12
Firefly (2002)
★ 8.4/10Also drama and action & adventure
In the year 2517, the universe is a vast frontier where lawlessness reigns and adventure awaits! Join Captain Malcolm Reynolds and his ragtag crew aboard the spaceship Serenity as they navigate the fringes of society…
13
The Ray Bradbury Theater (1985)
★ 6.9/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories.
14
The Bionic Woman (1976)
★ 7/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and action & adventure
After fully recovering from her near fatal bout of bionic rejection, Jaime Sommers, the first female cyborg, is assigned to spy missions of her own.
15
The War of the Worlds (2019)
★ 6.6/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
In Edwardian England, George and his partner Amy attempt to defy society and start a life together as they face the escalating terror of an alien invasion, fighting for their lives against an enemy beyond their…
16
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
★ 8.5/10Also action & adventure and sci-fi & fantasy
Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Mace Windu and other Jedi Knights lead the Grand Army of the Republic against the droid army of the Separatists.
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Doctor Who (2005)
★ 7.6/10Also action & adventure and drama
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at…
18
Land of the Giants (1968)
★ 6.8/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and action & adventure
Set fifteen years in the then-future year 1983, the series tells the tale of the crew and passengers of a sub-orbital transport ship named Spindrift. In the pilot episode, the Spindrift is en route from Los Angeles to…
19
The Time Tunnel (1966)
★ 7.7/10Also action & adventure and sci-fi & fantasy
The Time Tunnel is a 1966–1967 U.S. color science fiction TV series, written around a theme of time travel adventure. The show was creator-producer Irwin Allen's third science fiction television series, released by…
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NEXT (2020)
★ 7.1/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
A Silicon Valley pioneer discovers that one of his own creations – a powerful A.I. – might spell global catastrophe, and teams up with a cybercrime agent to fight a villain unlike anything we’ve ever seen – one whose…