| 1994 | Earth-2 | Crash-landed scientists meet the (human-like) aliens and make a camp | Intrigue with a disease to cure, a religious cult on earth wanting to shut them down |
| 1996 | Kindred: The Embraced | Intrigue with the vampires which secretely run San Fransisco | Strongly based on the vampire role-playing game |
| 2000-2002 | Dark Angel | Secret gvmnt super-mutant escapes, flees, rescues pod-mates | James Cameron, Jessica Alba |
| 2001-2006 | Smallville | A teen-aged superman in Smallville learns new powers, make friends, fall in love | We meet a not-yet-evil, bald at 20, Lex Luther |
| 2001:8eps | Wolf Lake | Werewolves try to live peacefully near Seattle | Every episode they have some minor problem? |
| 2004:9eps | Century city | Lawyers in 2030 deal with cyberpunk issues | They help with unethical gene treatments and so on |
| 2006-2010 | Heroes | Huge fan-service ensemble with global mutants | "Save the Cheerleader", eventually The Psyler Show (rips powers out of peoples' brains, but is a good guy?) |
| 2011 | The Secret Circle | New girl joins witch coven at high school. They bicker and fight demons | |
| 2011 | Terra Nova | Time-travel colony established in dinosaur land. Evil corporation | Steven Speilburg |
| 2014-2019 | Gotham | Batman backstory, mostly young commissioner Gordan | We meet very young Bruce Wayne, who befriends catgirl; mobster-ridden Gotham as super-villains are born in surprising ways |
| 2014-2020 | The 100 | Teen-age gangs fight in far, far post-apocolyptic earth, fall in love | Based on a YA book. Kind of a soap opera |
| 2015-2019 | iZombie | A coroner turned into a fully-thinking non-evil zombie solves zombie crime | A sports drink did it. Main badguy sells brains to other zombies in fancy restaurant; zombies eventually run Seattle. Gimmick: eating victims' brain sees their memories, but gains their personality |
| 2018-2021 | The Outpost | Fantasy. A princess on-the-run, a mysterious elf from an alternate dimension. Zombies | Episodes could be slow, but this actually resolved plots and grew news ones. Even had an ending. The swordswoman had shoulder muscles! |