# The best sci-fi TV series of the 2000s

Starships, time travel, mysterious islands and superheroes: the science fiction that defined 2000s TV, according to AdoroCinema and Canaltech.

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- Sep 20, 2026 · Luana Ferreira
- https://even.best/en/l/4092/the-best-sci-fi-tv-series-of-the-2000s

## Top 10

1. **Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The last humans flee the Cylons, amid moral and political dilemmas.
2. **Lost (2004-2010)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Plane-crash survivors on an island full of mysteries.
3. **Doctor Who (2005-)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The Doctor and the TARDIS, back on TV.
4. **Firefly (2002-2003)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A space western cancelled far too soon.
5. **Fringe (2008-2013)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Bizarre scientific cases and a parallel universe.
6. **Heroes (2006-2010)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ordinary people discover superpowers.
7. **Stargate Atlantis (2004-2009)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — An expedition to the Ancients' lost city.
8. **Smallville (2001-2011)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The young Clark Kent.
9. **The 4400 (2004-2007)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 4,400 missing people come back at once, without having aged.
10. **Taken (2002)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Spielberg's miniseries about three families and the aliens.
11. **Star Trek: Enterprise (2001-2005)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The first Enterprise, before Kirk.
12. **Dollhouse (2009-2010)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — People with wiped memories and made-to-order personalities.
13. **Torchwood (2006-2011)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Doctor Who's grown-up spin-off in Cardiff.
14. **Jericho (2006-2008)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A small Kansas town after nuclear attacks.

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