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Best Sci-Fi TV Series of the 1950s

24 Sci-Fi series that started in the 1950s, ranked by popularity

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24 series

Quatermass and the Pit

★ 8.0
1K 6 1958–1959
Drama · Horror · Sci-Fi

Atom Man vs. Superman

★ 6.6
962 15 1950–present
Action · Family · Sci-Fi

Quatermass II

★ 7.1
550 6 1955–1955
Drama · Horror · Sci-Fi

The Quatermass Experiment

★ 7.1
533 6 1953–1953
Drama · Horror · Sci-Fi

The Invisible Man

★ 7.0
501 27 1958–1960
Drama · Sci-Fi · Thriller

Rocky Jones, Space Ranger

★ 5.7
270 40 1953–1954
Family · Sci-Fi

Men Into Space

★ 7.7
246 38 1959–1960
Sci-Fi

Captain Midnight

★ 7.6
188 40 1954–1958
Sci-Fi

Peabody's Improbable History

★ 7.9
163 91 1959–1963
Animation · Comedy · Sci-Fi

Colonel Bleep

★ 6.5
105 104 1956–present
Animation · Family · Sci-Fi

Buck Rogers

★ 6.8
84 10 1950–1951
Sci-Fi

Captain Z-Ro

★ 6.5
77 26 1955–1956
Sci-Fi

World of Giants

★ 7.2
72 13 1959–1959
Sci-Fi

The Trollenberg Terror

★ 6.6
68 6 1956–1957
Sci-Fi

Johnny Jupiter

★ 5.5
56 63 1953–1954
Family · Fantasy · Sci-Fi

Space Command

★ 6.6
56 151 1953–1954
Sci-Fi

Out There

★ 6.5
37 12 1951–1952
Sci-Fi

Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers

★ 6.3
31 59 1953–1954
Family · Sci-Fi

The Voodoo Factor

★ 7.3
23 6 1959–present
Horror · Sci-Fi

Atom Squad

★ 6.1
21 26 1953–1954
Adventure · Fantasy · Sci-Fi

The Strange World of Planet X

★ 5.3
15 6 1956–1956
Sci-Fi

MrSheltonTV: Godzillathon

★ 5.0
12 27 1954–present
Documentary · Sci-Fi

Morgen gebeurt het

★ 6.3
11 18 1957–1959
Adventure · Sci-Fi

Mighty Atom

★ 7.5
10 13 1959–present
Drama · Fantasy · Sci-Fi
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