Best Episodic Series

Star Wars: Visions presents an animated anthology series exploring established and expanded Star Wars lore through distinct Japanese animation styles. Eight independent episodes, produced by multiple studios, offer unique interpretations of the galaxy’s themes and characters. The project highlights...

Armchair Theatre was a long-running British television anthology series broadcast by ITV from 1956 to 1974. It featured a new, self-contained dramatic play each week, establishing itself as a significant force in live television drama. The series showcased established and emerging writers and actors...

"Accused" is a British television anthology series created by screenwriter Jimmy McGovern, airing on BBC One from 2010 to 2012. Each standalone episode follows a different individual sitting in a courtroom dock awaiting a criminal verdict, using a non-linear narrative to reveal the events that led t...

Criminal: UK is a British police procedural anthology series created by George Kay and Jim Field Smith for Netflix. First released in 2019, it is staged almost entirely in an interrogation room and the adjacent observation area, with each episode centered on a different suspect and a self-contained...

"Little America" is an anthology television series created by Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon that premiered on the Apple TV+ streaming platform in 2020. The show is based on true stories originally published in Epic Magazine, with each standalone half-hour episode focusing on a different immigr...

The Wonderful World of Disney began as 'Disneyland' on ABC in 1954, created by Walt Disney as his company's first regular television program. The anthology series has aired under various names across ABC, NBC, and CBS, making it one of the longest-running primetime series in American television hist...

The Outer Limits is an American science fiction anthology television series that originally aired on ABC from 1963 to 1965. Created by Leslie Stevens, the show is distinguished by its self-contained episodes, each featuring a distinct monster or science fiction premise. The series utilized a monster...

One Step Beyond is an American anthology television series that originally aired from 1959 to 1961. Hosted and directed in many episodes by John Newland, it presented dramatized stories involving premonitions, ghosts, unexplained coincidences, and other purportedly paranormal events. Unlike a conven...

Hammer House of Horror is a British television anthology series produced by Hammer Film Productions and first broadcast on ITV in 1980. Its episodes tell independent stories involving supernatural threats, psychological disturbance, murder, and other forms of horror, with new characters and settings...

R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour is a children's horror anthology television series based on works by author R.L. Stine. Premiering in 2010, it tells a largely self-contained story in each episode, with plots involving ghosts, monsters, cursed objects, and other supernatural threats. Its suspense and...

Beasts is a British horror anthology series created by Nigel Kneale that aired on ITV in 1976. Produced by Thames Television, the show consists of six standalone episodes that explore sinister, unnatural creatures and psychological horrors threatening humanity. Kneale grounded the supernatural eleme...

Batman: The Telltale Series is a 2016 episodic adventure game developed by Telltale Games based on the DC Comics character Batman. The game features point-and-click gameplay and explores the Batman mythos independently of prior adaptations. A sequel, Batman: The Enemy Within, was released in 2017 an...

"WonderWorks" was an American family television anthology series that aired on PBS from 1984 to 1996. Co-produced by various international broadcasters, the series presented high-quality live-action and animated films aimed at children and young adults. Its episodes often adapted notable children's...

"Criminal: Germany" is a 2019 German-language police procedural anthology series released on Netflix. As part of the international "Criminal" franchise—which includes versions set in the UK, France, and Spain—the show focuses entirely on the psychological tension of police interrogations. Each episo...

"Calls" is a 2021 American television anthology series created by Fede Álvarez for the streaming service Apple TV+. The experimental series tells suspenseful, mystery-driven stories entirely through audio recordings of telephone conversations. Instead of traditional visual elements, the screen displ...

Marvel Studios' What If...? is an animated anthology series created for Disney+ that explores alternate timelines within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Premiering in 2021, the show examines how major events from the franchise would unfold if key moments occurred differently, such as Peggy Carter rec...

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction is an American television anthology series produced by the Fox network, airing originally from 1997 to 2002. Each episode presents five short tales dealing with supernatural, mysterious, or bizarre occurrences. Hosted successively by James Brolin and Jonathan Frakes, t...

Folktales from Japan is a family-friendly anime anthology series that premiered in 2012, designed to introduce audiences to traditional Japanese folklore. Each self-contained episode typically features multiple segments that animate classic myths, legends, and regional stories passed down through ge...

The Ray Bradbury Theater is a Canadian and American anthology television series that aired from 1985 to 1992. Spanning 65 episodes, the series consists entirely of adaptations of the science fiction and fantasy short stories of celebrated author Ray Bradbury. Bradbury maintained a high degree of cre...

Criminal: Spain (Criminal: España) is a 2019 Spanish-language anthology series produced for Netflix as part of the Criminal franchise. The franchise comprises separate series set in four countries—Spain, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom—each following police investigations conducted entirely...

Dramarama is a British children's anthology television series broadcast from 1983 to 1989. Produced by several regional companies within the ITV network, it presented self-contained dramatic stories rather than a continuous cast or plot, allowing episodes to move among fantasy, science fiction, soci...

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams is a science-fiction anthology television series first broadcast in 2017, with distribution involving Channel 4 and Amazon Video. Each self-contained episode adapts or draws from a different short story by Philip K. Dick, using separate casts, settings, and creative...

The Expanse: A Telltale Series is a 2023 episodic narrative adventure developed by Telltale Games and Deck Nine Games. Set before the television series The Expanse, it follows Camina Drummer, portrayed by Cara Gee, as she serves aboard the scavenger ship Artemis. Players explore hazardous locations...

Dolly Parton's Heartstrings is an American anthology drama series released by Netflix in 2019. Each standalone episode builds a fictional or biographical story around a song written and performed by Dolly Parton, with Parton introducing the material and sometimes appearing within the drama. The seri...

Ghost Story is an American supernatural anthology television series that premiered on NBC in 1972, with Sebastian Cabot serving as host. Its self-contained episodes featured hauntings, psychic phenomena, supernatural threats, and other forms of suspense rather than a continuing group of characters....

The Nightmare Room is an American children's horror anthology television series that aired on Kids' WB during the 2001 to 2002 season. Based on the book series by R. L. Stine, it tells largely self contained stories in which young characters encounter supernatural threats, altered realities, monster...

Night Visions is an American horror and science-fiction anthology television series that aired on Fox in 2001, with Henry Rollins serving as host. Most broadcasts contain two separate half-hour stories featuring different characters, settings, and supernatural or psychological threats. Its rotating...

Accused is an American crime and legal anthology television series developed by Howard Gordon for Fox and based on the British series of the same name created by Jimmy McGovern. Each episode follows different characters, settings, and alleged crimes, opening with a defendant on trial before revealin...

Tales of Tomorrow is an American science fiction anthology television series that aired live on the ABC network from 1951 to 1953. It was one of the first television programs dedicated exclusively to the science fiction genre, presenting original stories alongside adaptations of works by prominent a...