A German town, a cave and four families across three centuries; the time-travel series that ties every knot.
A financial adviser launders cartel money at a Missouri lake; Jason Bateman and Laura Linney.
Two KGB sleeper agents as a Virginia couple in the Reagan years; the best spy series.
A motorcycle club in California as Hamlet; Charlie Hunnam and Katey Sagal.
A US marshal in his Kentucky home county and Boyd Crowder; Elmore Leonard on TV.
Nucky Thompson runs Atlantic City in Prohibition; Scorsese directed the pilot.
A Miami forensics analyst who kills killers; the first four seasons.
Jack Bauer in real time, one season per day; the split screen and the clock.
A CIA analyst convinced a returned POW is a terrorist; Claire Danes and the first two seasons.
The PC clone wars and the birth of the web across the 1980s; the series that found itself in season two.
A hacker with dissociative disorder takes down a conglomerate; Rami Malek and real code.
Robot hosts in a western theme park start to remember; the maze of the first season.
Earth, Mars and the Belt on the edge of war; the most realistic space series made.
A station at a wormhole and the Dominion War; the Trek that did serialised drama first.
Picard, Data and the Enterprise-D; "The Inner Light" and "The Best of Both Worlds".
A smuggler crew in a space western cancelled after fourteen episodes; the cult that got a film.
One year at a Michigan high school in 1980; eighteen episodes and every future star.
A pizza boy frozen until the year 3000; the Simpsons team does science fiction.
Four boys in a Colorado town since 1997, written a week before air; the satire nobody escapes.
A washed-up sitcom horse in Hollywood; the cartoon about depression that got better every season.
A drunk scientist and his grandson across the multiverse; Dan Harmon's nihilist cartoon.
Mark and Jez in a Croydon flat, filmed from their eyes with their thoughts on the soundtrack.
Have you tried turning it off and on again? A basement IT department in London.
Rowan Atkinson through four eras of English history; the last scene of Goes Forth.
The Ministry of Silly Walks, the Dead Parrot and the giant foot; 45 episodes from 1969.
Twelve episodes of John Cleese running a Torquay hotel badly; "don't mention the war".
Sir Humphrey runs the minister; Margaret Thatcher's favourite programme.
Malcolm Tucker swears his way through Whitehall; Armando Iannucci before Veep.
A start-up with a compression algorithm and the tech industry as farce; Mike Judge.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a vice president surrounded by idiots; the best insults on television.
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