Shows like Doctor Who: 20 to watch next
If you loved Doctor Who (2005) — a action & adventure, drama and sci-fi & fantasy series — these 20 shows are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Doctor Who most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like time travel, time machine and alien. 6 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Doctor Who 2024★ 6.4
Shares: Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
The Doctor and his companion travel across time and space encountering incredible friends and foes.
Stream in India on VI movies and tv
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Doctor Who 1963★ 7.9
Shares: Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Andromeda 2000★ 7.1
Shares: Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Captain Dylan Hunt and his crew quest to restore a government that once presided over an extended peace and prosperity.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Seven Days 1998★ 6.8
Shares: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama
"Ever wish you could live your last week all over again? Well, my name's Frank B. Parker, and I do it all the time. I work for a secret government project experimenting in time travel. When things really get screwed up, I'm the guinea pig they send back to take care of it. The catch is, I can only go back 7 days."
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Time Tunnel 1966★ 7.7
Shares: Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama
The Time Tunnel is a 1966–1967 U.S. color science fiction TV series, written around a theme of time travel adventure. The show was creator-producer Irwin Allen's third science fiction television series, released by 20th Century Fox and broadcast on ABC. The show ran for one season of 30 episodes. Reruns are viewable on cable and by internet streaming. A pilot for a new series was produced in 2002, although it was not picked up.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Invaders 1967★ 6.9
Shares: Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama
The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them, for him it began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a shortcut that he never found. It began with a closed deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey. It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy. Now, David Vincent knows that the Invaders are here, that they have taken human form. Somehow he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Ben 10: Omniverse 2012★ 8.2
Shares: Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
A year after the events that took place during the "Final Battle" and equipped with an all-new completed Omnitrix, 16-year-old Ben Tennyson has to face new enemies.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Quantum Leap 1989★ 8.0
Shares: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Land of the Giants 1968★ 6.8
Shares: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama
Set fifteen years in the then-future year 1983, the series tells the tale of the crew and passengers of a sub-orbital transport ship named Spindrift. In the pilot episode, the Spindrift is en route from Los Angeles to London, on an ultra-fast sub-orbital flight. Just beyond Earth's boundary with space, the Spindrift encounters a magnetic space storm, and is dragged through a space warp to a mysterious planet where everything is twelve times larger than on Earth, whose inhabitants the Earthlings nickname "the Giants". The Spindrift crash-lands, and the damage renders it inoperable.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons 1967★ 7.5
Shares: Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Captain Scarlet heads up an international intelligence agency as they battle against the Mysterons, an alien species from Mars that vows vengeance after a misunderstanding with humans.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Timeless 2016★ 7.2
Shares: Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
A mysterious criminal steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine, intent on destroying America as we know it by changing the past. Our only hope is an unexpected team: a scientist, a soldier and a history professor, who must use the machine's prototype to travel back in time to critical events. While they must make every effort not to affect the past themselves, they must also stay one step ahead of this dangerous fugitive. But can this handpicked team uncover the mystery behind it all and end his destruction before it's too late?
Stream in India on Sony Pictures Amazon Channel
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The Way Home 2023★ 7.4
Shares: Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
When three generations of women reunite after being estranged for more than two decades, they embark on an enlightening – and surprising – journey toward healing none of them could have imagined as they learn how to find their way back to each other.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Crossing 2018★ 6.8
Shares: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure
Refugees from a war-torn country start showing up to seek asylum in an American town. Only the country these people are from is America and the war they are fleeing is 250 years in the future. The local sheriff with a past, a federal agent and a mother in search of her missing refugee daughter drive this allegory with a surprising conspiracy at the center.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Earth: Final Conflict 1997★ 6.9
Shares: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Action & Adventure
Years ago, the Taelons came to Earth, offering friendship and technology to humanity. But there are those who believe the Taelons have more sinister motives.
Stream in India on Movie Sphere+
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The 4400 2004★ 7.1
Shares: Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
4400 centers on the return of 4400 people who, previously presumed dead or reported missing, reappear on Earth. Though they have not aged physically, some of them seem to have deeper alterations ranging from superhuman strength to an unexplained healing touch. A government agency is formed to track the 4400 people after one of them commits a murder.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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Star Wars: Clone Wars 2003★ 7.8
Shares: Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama
During the Clone Wars, Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi leads an assault on the planet Muunilinst, home of the Intergalactic Banking Clan; and his Padawan, Anakin Skywalker, is appointed by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine to lead the Republic’s space forces. Meanwhile, Separatist leader and Sith Lord Count Dooku takes in Force-sensitive gladiator Asajj Ventress as his Sith apprentice, and tasks her with eliminating Skywalker.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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Firefly 2002★ 8.4
Shares: Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
In the year 2517, the universe is a vast frontier where lawlessness reigns and adventure awaits! Join Captain Malcolm Reynolds and his ragtag crew aboard the spaceship Serenity as they navigate the fringes of society, battling the oppressive Alliance and facing off against ruthless bounty hunters.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Bionic Woman 1976★ 7.0
Shares: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama
After fully recovering from her near fatal bout of bionic rejection, Jaime Sommers, the first female cyborg, is assigned to spy missions of her own.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Six Million Dollar Man 1974★ 7.3
Shares: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama
Follow the adventures of Steve Austin, cybernetically enhanced astronaut turned secret agent, employed by the OSI, under the command of Oscar Goldman and supervised by the scientist who created his cybernetics, Rudy Wells. Steve uses the superior strength and speed provided by his bionic arm and legs, and the enhanced vision provided by his artificial eye, to fight enemy agents, aliens, mad scientists, and a wide variety of other villains.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Farscape 1999★ 7.9
Shares: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama
A freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults Astronaut John Crichton across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield.
Stream in India on Tubi TV, Plex