Syfy
22 shows, 22 sequences, oldest first.
2 of these moved between networks during their run and appear under each one.
1 sequenceThe Dresden Files
2007SyfySci-Fi
Jim Butcher's wizard private investigator in Chicago, cancelled after one season.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSanctuary
2008–2011SyfySci-Fi
A refuge for cryptids run by a 150-year-old doctor, shot almost entirely on green screen.
- Season 1
1 sequenceStargate Universe
2009–2011SyfySci-Fi
The franchise's darkest entry, and its plainest opening — no fanfare, no gate, just a ship going somewhere nobody chose.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWarehouse 13
2009–2014SyfySci-Fi
Artefacts on shelves, filmed like a museum inventory that has started moving on its own.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCaprica
2010SyfySci-Fi
The Battlestar Galactica prequel, fifty years earlier, about the invention of the Cylons rather than the war with them.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHaven
2010–2015SyfySci-Fi
A Maine town where the afflictions are supernatural and hereditary, from the Stephen King novella.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLost Girl
2010–2016Showcase / SyfySci-Fi
A succubus choosing neither Fae court, in one of Canada's longest-running genre exports.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAlphas
2011–2012SyfySci-Fi
People with abilities that each cost them something, run as a case-of-the-week team show.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDefiance
2013–2015SyfySci-Fi
A terraformed St. Louis shared by seven alien species, launched alongside a video game set in the same world.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDominion
2014–2015SyfySci-Fi
Archangels at war over a walled Las Vegas, twenty-five years after the film it follows.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHelix
2014–2015SyfyHorror
A CDC team at an Arctic research base, opened in ten seconds because the show never slows down either.
- Season 1
1 sequence12 Monkeys
2015–2018SyfySci-Fi
The Terry Gilliam film expanded into four seasons of time travel that actually resolves.
- Season 1
1 sequenceChildhood's End
2015SyfySci-Fi
The Arthur C. Clarke novel adapted across three nights.
- Season 1
1 sequenceKilljoys
2015–2019SyfySci-Fi
Fourteen seconds, a logo and a bass hit — a bounty-hunter show with no interest in explaining itself first.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Expanse
2015–2022Syfy / Amazon Prime VideoSci-Fi
Orbital mechanics as graphic design — stations, ships and the Belt drawn as engineering schematics rather than spectacle.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Magicians
2015–2020SyfySci-Fi
Magic treated as postgraduate study, opened with the seriousness of a university prospectus.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVan Helsing
2016–2021SyfyHorror
A descendant of the vampire hunter waking into an America the vampires already hold.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWynonna Earp
2016–2021SyfyHorror
Twenty-one seconds of western iconography and a revolver, for a show about Wyatt Earp's great-great-granddaughter.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBlood Drive
2017SyfyHorror
A grindhouse pastiche about cars that run on human blood, cancelled after one season.
- Season 1
1 sequenceKrypton
2018–2019SyfySci-Fi
Superman's grandfather two hundred years before the planet dies, which the audience already knows it will.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDeadly Class
2019SyfyDrama
A boarding school for assassins in 1987, from the Rick Remender comic.
- Season 1
1 sequenceResident Alien
2021–SyfySci-Fi
An alien stranded in small-town Colorado, impersonating the doctor whose body he took.
- Season 1