A Fan’s Guide to the Top Fantasy Television Series from the 60s to Today!
From black and white classics to worldwide experiences, there’s a lot of fantastic fantasy out there!
Fantasy, as a genre, is a bit of a “fuzzy set”. There are so many different things that go into making something “fantastic” that it can be hard to pin down exactly what someone even means by fantasy!
For my part, I say, “we know it when we see it”. If science fiction is the fiction of the possible or the potential, fantasy is the fiction of the impossible, and there is something in the imagined impossible realities that delights audiences around the world.
I’ve loved fantasy television series ever since I watched Xena: Warrior Princess as a kid, and since then, I’ve only grown to love the genre more.
Modern series, like The Game of Thrones, have helped to popularize the genre as something reasonable for everyone to watch (it actually always was, social stigmas against adults loving fantasy are stupid).
But The Game of Thrones is only one type of fantasy fiction, and it paints upon a very limited canvas. There is a whole colorful menagerie of great fantasy television out in the storytelling wilderness, and explorers who are willing to be pleasantly…
