Doctor Who

Series Similar to Doctor Who

If you enjoyed Doctor Who, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Loki

   2021 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.1).

   Loki follows the trickster and shape-shifter god who pops up throughout human history as an unlikely influencer on historical events.

2. Quantum Leap

   1989 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Get ready to join Dr. Sam Beckett on the adventure of many lifetimes! Who will he be this time? Mafia hit man. Air Force test pilot. Professional boxer. Sam Beckett is a time traveler who never knows whose body he is going to "leap" into next and at what moment in history he may find himself. Sam is joined by a helpful but easily distracted holographic guide Al, who assists him on his missions and aids Sam in his ultimate goal of returning to his own life in the present.

3. The Sarah Jane Adventures

   2007 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile, also on BBC One.

   Follow Sarah Jane Smith, Luke, Clyde, Rani and Sky as they save the world from a whole universe of aliens and monsters in The Sarah Jane Adventures.

4. Primeval

   2007 · Drama, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.1).

   When rips in time called anomalies started opening across the UK, dangerous creatures from the past and future began appearing in the most unexpected places, endangering lives and placing the whole of humanity at risk.A crack team of specialists were appointed by the government to investigate and control "creature incursions," creating the Anomaly Research Center (ARC), which was later privatized. Matt, Abby, Connor and Becker do the field work while Jess mans the ARC control station under the leadership of government official James Lester and the mysterious scientist, Philip Burton

5. Sanctuary

   2008 · Drama, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8).

   Sanctuary follows the adventures of the beautiful, enigmatic and always surprising Dr. Helen Magnus, a brilliant scientist who holds the secrets of a clandestine population and a group of strange and sometimes terrifying beings that hide among humans.Along with her new recruit, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Will Zimmerman, her quirky tech wiz Henry and her fearless daughter Ashley, Magnus seeks to protect this threatened phenomena as well as unlock the mysteries behind their existence.

6. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

   2008 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.2).

   The mother of all destiny. Her son, the future leader of mankind. Their protector, a Terminator from the future. Together they must take back the future as Sarah Connor prepares her son to fight the war against machines determined to annihilate the human race. The clock is ticking. Can they stop Judgment Day?

7. Farscape

   1999 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.6).

   Astronaut John Crichton assumes he'll be home in time for dinner. But a freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults him across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield. Suddenly, he's trapped among alien creatures wielding deadly technology - a battle that 20th century sci-fi pop culture never prepared him for. Hunted by a merciless military race, Crichton begins his quest for home from a galaxy far, far away...

8. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

   1993 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.4).

   Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (DS9) focuses on the 24th century adventures of Captain Benjamin Sisko on space station Deep Space 9, an outpost situated near the mouth of a stable wormhole on the far reaches of explored space. Although Sisko commands Deep Space 9, the station actually belongs to the inhabitants of nearby Bajor, who requested Starfleet's protective presence after Bajoran freedom fighters put an end to the brutal Cardassian occupation of their world. Approximately a sixth of the station's 300 permanent residents are Starfleet personnel; there is also a sizable Bajoran militia presence. The rest of Deep Space 9's inhabitants are civilians, most of whom work in the station's Promenade, a kind of indoor marketplace. Initially, Sisko's mandate from Starfleet was to protect Bajor and the station from any hostiles who ventured into the area. But with the discovery of the nearby wormhole—a shortcut through space that leads directly to the uncharted Gamma quadrant—Sisko's mandate has expanded exponentially, as the region becomes the gateway to all manner of visitors, both friendly and extremely hostile.

9. Star Trek

   1966 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.4).

   The original Star Trek series focuses on the 23rd century adventures of Captain James T. Kirk and the U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC-1701), a powerful interstellar spacecraft dispatched by Earth-based Starfleet Command to explore the galaxy. Kirk commands a crew of 430 men and women aboard his starship, which can travel at speeds surpassing the speed of light. Kirk's five-year mission—and his mandate from Starfleet—is to seek out new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man has gone before.

10. Marvel's Agent Carter

    2015 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

    Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8).

    Marvel's Agent Carter, starring Captain America's Hayley Atwell, follows the story of Peggy Carter. It's 1946, and peace has dealt Peggy Carter a serious blow as she finds herself marginalized when the men return home from fighting abroad. Working for the covert SSR (Strategic Scientific Reserve), Peggy must balance doing administrative work and going on secret missions for Howard Stark all while trying to navigate life as a single woman in America, in the wake of losing the love of her life—Steve Rogers. Inspired by the feature films Captain America: The First Avenger and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, along with the short Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter.