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The Walking Dead: Season 1
2010 | NR | 4.5 out of 5 StarsIn a world devastated by a zombie apocalypse, a motley band of survivors pulls together to fight back and make a final stand for humanity. But the only hope they have to cling to is finding safety -- and answers -- at the Center for Disease Control.
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The Walking Dead: Season 3
2012 | NR | 4.5 out of 5 StarsIn the third season of the zombie drama, sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes and his band of survivors take shelter in an abandoned prison, then discover Woodbury, a settlement of survivors headed by a powerful man known as the Governor.
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The Walking Dead: Season 2
2011 | NR | 4.5 out of 5 StarsIn the second season of this grim and gripping zombie drama, Grimes and his cohorts continue to search for sanctuary in a ruined and dangerous landscape, hoping that in time science will halt the epidemic.
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The Walking Dead
2010 | NR | 4.5 out of 5 StarsIn the wake of a zombie apocalypse that desolates the world as we know it, a group of survivors led by police officer Rick Grimes holds on to the hope of humanity by banding together to wage a never-ending fight for their own survival.
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Arrow
2012 | NR | 4.4 out of 5 StarsThis adaptation of the story of DC Comics' Green Arrow stars Stephen Amell as the titular character, an affluent playboy who becomes an archer superhero at night, saving the city from villains with his special arrows.
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Arrow: Season 1
2012 | NR | 4.4 out of 5 StarsShipwrecked and presumed dead for five years, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen returns home a changed man. Secretly, he's the vigilante Arrow, fighting for his family and his city. But someone close to him also harbors a secret.
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Hell on Wheels: Season 1
2011 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsAfter the Civil War, Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon seeks revenge on the Union soldiers who murdered his wife. His bloody quest takes him West, where he joins the tumultuous, nation-building effort to construct the Transcontinental Railroad.
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City Hunter
2011 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsYoon Sung -- the son of a murdered government agent -- begins working in the Blue House, the presidential residence in Korea. He tries to find the five men who betrayed his father 28 years ago, and makes a plan to punish them his own way.
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Doctor Who: Season 5
2010 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsMatt Smith stars as the regenerated 11th incarnation of Doctor Who in the sci-fi show's fifth season. As the good Doctor journeys through time and space, he's joined by new companion Amy Pond in a battle of wits against a fresh batch of villains.
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Doctor Who: Season 4
2008 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsIn the fourth season of the hit BBC sci-fi series, former runaway bride Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) joins the good Doctor (David Tennant) on his intergalactic adventures, fighting for justice and solving mysteries throughout space and time.
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Firefly
2002 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsSet almost 500 years in the future, this short-lived but much-loved sci-fi series follows the adventures of the ragtag crew of the transport spaceship Serenity, who view no job as too small, too dirty or too close to the line of illegality.
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Doctor Who: Season 2
2006 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsIn Season 2 of this popular series, the Doctor and Rose bounce back in time to battle a force that threatens 18th-century Versailles, defend Queen Victoria from a creature in the Scottish Highlands and discover a bizarre hospital run by cat people.
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Sons of Anarchy: Season 5
2012 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsNow that Jax has fully committed to leading his fellow bikers, he's dealing with the consequences of brokering an arms deal with the Irish, the arrival of a Latino gang leader who becomes an uneasy ally, and Damon Pope's vow to obtain bloody revenge.
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Doctor Who: Season 6
2011 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsThe Doctor returns, alongside newlyweds Amy and Rory, to face monsters and mysteries all across time and space. Together they find themselves in 1960s America, aboard a 17th-century pirate ship, and in a bubble universe at the edge of reality.
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Firefly: The Complete Series
2002 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsSet almost 500 years in the future, this short-lived but much-loved TV series follows the adventures of the ragtag crew of the transport spaceship &NFi;Serenity&NFi_;, who view no job as too small, too dirty or too close to the line of illegality.
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Doctor Who: Season 1
2005 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsMore than 15 years after "Doctor Who" went off the airwaves, the venerable sci-fi series gets a well-received 21st-century makeover, complete with younger actors, modern editing and vibrant CGI animation.
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Doctor Who: Season 3
2007 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsThe BBC's hit sci-fi series returns starring David Tennant as the time-traveling Doctor, with Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones, a medical student who joins him on his journeys as they traverse the centuries to solve mysteries and right wrongs.
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Doctor Who
2005 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsAfter more than a decade off the air, the epic sci-fi series returns with an all-new look -- and the ninth (and beyond) incarnation of everybody's favorite time-traveling doctor, who promptly sets about fighting nefarious aliens and other foes.
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City Hunter
2011 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsYoon Sung -- the son of a murdered government agent -- begins working in the Blue House, the presidential residence in Korea. He tries to find the five men who betrayed his father 28 years ago, and makes a plan to punish them his own way.
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Hell on Wheels: Season 2
2012 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsCullen Bohannon continues to seek vengeance for his wife and son's deaths during the Civil War. Meanwhile, he lives and works in Hell on Wheels, a gritty, lawless moving settlement that houses workers constructing the transcontinental railroad.
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Hell on Wheels
2011 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsFormer Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon seeks his wife's killer as post-Civil War America struggles to rebuild its identity. His quest traverses the history of Reconstruction, peopled with railroad bosses, emancipated slaves and immigrants.
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Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll
1978 | NR | 4.2 out of 5 StarsThe Doctor and Romana arrive on the third moon of Delta Magna in search of the fifth segment of the Key to Time, only to get caught in a dispute between a work crew and the natives, who believe the intruders will awaken a dormant monster.
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Chuck: Season 5
2011 | NR | 4.2 out of 5 StarsAfter finally tying the knot with Sarah, thwarting Volkoff Industries and leaving the CIA, Chuck must adjust to life as a newlywed and a private spy. There are also complications in store for the always bumbling Morgan, who is the new Intersect.
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Merlin
2008 | NR | 4.2 out of 5 StarsThis family-oriented retelling of the popular King Arthur legend finds Merlin arriving in Camelot, where magic is banned. There, he secretly hones his sorcery skills with the help of his uncle, the court physician.
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Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
1978 | NR | 4.2 out of 5 StarsThe tracer leads the TARDIS to the boring planet of Calufrax. However, the Doctor and Romana discover that they are actually on the planet Zanak, a planet that has been hollowed out and fitted with engines so that it can travel throughout space.
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