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. Quantum Leap

   1989 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / 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.

2. Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome

   2012 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

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

   Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome (a prequel to the critically acclaimed hit series, Battlestar Galactica) takes place in the midst of the First Cylon war. As the battle between humans and their creation, the sentient robotic Cylons, rages across the 12 colonial worlds, a young, talented fighter pilot, William Adama, finds himself assigned to one of the most powerful battlestars in the Colonial fleet: the Galactica. Full of ambition and in pursuit of the intense action that the Cylon war promises, Adama quickly finds himself at odds with his co-pilot, the battle-weary officer Coker. With only 47 days left in his tour of duty, Coker desires an end to battle just as much as Adama craves the start of it. Though they clash at first, the two men forge an unlikely bond when a routine escort mission with an enigmatic passenger turns dangerous and becomes a pivotal one for the desperate fleet.

3. The Sarah Jane Adventures

   2007 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Adventure 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. Loki

   2021 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Adventure 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.

5. Lanterns

   2026 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · returning

   Recommended for similar Action / Adventure profile, highly rated (8.4).

   Lanterns follows new recruit John Stewart and Lantern legend Hal Jordan, two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, Earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.

6. X-Men '97

   2024 · Action, Science-Fiction · returning

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

   X-Men '97 revisits the iconic era of the 1990s as The X-Men, a band of mutants who use their uncanny gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them, are challenged like never before, forced to face a dangerous and unexpected new future.

7. Marvel's Agent Carter

   2015 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Adventure 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.

8. Dark Angel

   2000 · Action, Science-Fiction · ended

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

   In the year 2019 the U.S. has become a third world country in the wake of the Pulse - an electromagnetic shockwave unleashed by nuclear terrorists in 2009. This is Max's world, an unforgiving place even for a genetically engineered soldier like her. On the run from her creators and constantly in search of her past, Max joins forces with the idealistic cyberjournalist "Eyes Only". She's a revved-up girl trying to make a run-down world a better place.

9. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

   2008 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / 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?

10. Defiance

    2013 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

    Recommended for similar Action / Adventure profile.

    Set on a future Earth, Defiance introduces players and viewers to a world where humans and aliens live together on a planet ravaged by decades of war and transformed by alien terra-forming machines. It centers on Jeb Nolan, the law-keeper in a bustling frontier boomtown that is one of the new world's few oasis of civility and inclusion. Nolan is a former Marine who fought in the alien conflict and suffered the loss of his wife and child in the war. The trauma transformed him into a lone wanderer in the wilds of this new and dangerous world.