Shows Like Sapphire & Steel
If you liked Sapphire & Steel (1979), a drama and sci-fi & fantasy 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.
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The 4400 (2004)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasy4400 centers on the return of 4400 people who, previously presumed dead or reported missing, reappear on Earth. Though they have not aged physically, some of them seem to have deeper alterations ranging from superhuman…
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Spellbinder (1995)
★ 7.7/10Also sci-fi & fantasyA group of teenagers go on a school camp in the Blue Mountains in Australia. While at the camp, Paul Reynolds accidentally goes into a parallel universe. This other world is inhabited by a more hierarchic and…
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The Dead Zone (2002)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasyJohnny Smith discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma.
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The Langoliers (1995)
★ 6.4/10Also sci-fi & fantasyA jet leaves on a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston. But early in the flight, ten passengers awaken to a startling realization: All of the other passengers have vanished.
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WandaVision (2021)
★ 8.2/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and dramaWanda Maximoff and Vision—two super-powered beings living idealized suburban lives—begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.
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Doctor Who (2005)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasyThe 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…
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Land of the Giants (1968)
★ 6.8/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and dramaSet 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…
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Quantum Leap (1989)
★ 8/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and dramaTheorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not…
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The Bionic Woman (1976)
★ 7/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and dramaAfter fully recovering from her near fatal bout of bionic rejection, Jaime Sommers, the first female cyborg, is assigned to spy missions of her own.
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Nancy Drew (2019)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasyNancy Drew makes plans to leave her hometown for college, but finds herself drawn into a supernatural murder mystery instead.
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Max Headroom (1987)
★ 7/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasyTelevision networks battle one another in an unrelenting ratings war. Whoever controls the airwaves controls the dystopic world in which they broadcast. So when Network 23's star reporter, Edison Carter, uncovers a…
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Doctor Who (1963)
★ 7.9/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasyThe adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which…
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Secrets of Sulphur Springs (2021)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasy12-year-old Griffin Campbell and his family move to the small town of Sulphur Springs and take ownership of an abandoned hotel rumored to be haunted by the ghost of a girl who disappeared decades ago. Griffin befriends…
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Nowhere Boys (2013)
★ 6.8/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and dramaFour teenage boys get lost in the forest and discover, when they return home, that they are in an alternate world identical to theirs except for one startling difference - they were never born.
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The Twilight Zone (1959)
★ 8.5/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and dramaAn anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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The Way Home (2023)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasyWhen three generations of women reunite after being estranged for more than two decades, they embark on an enlightening – and surprising – journey toward healing none of them could have imagined as they learn how to…
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Back to the Future (1991)
★ 6.3/10Also sci-fi & fantasyAn animated series for television based on the Back to the Future trilogy of feature films. Based on the highly successful Back to the Future movie trilogy, this series is set, um, "after" the events of the last film…
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Ghost Whisperer (2005)
★ 8.1/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and dramaNewlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing. Most of Melinda's efforts involve resolving conflicts that are preventing…
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Star Trek: Voyager (1995)
★ 7.8/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and dramaPulled to the far side of the galaxy, where the Federation is 75 years away at maximum warp speed, a Starfleet ship must cooperate with Maquis rebels to find a way home.
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Charmed (2018)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasySet in the fictional college town of Hilltowne, Charmed follows the lives of three sisters, Macy, Mel and Maggie Vera who, after the tragic death of their mother, discover they are three of the most powerful witches of…