Best TV Shows of All Time on Netflix
Last updated September 12, 2025
Highest Rated TV Shows with a 3.7 / 5 Star Rating
Primeval: Season 1
2007 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsThanks to a wrinkle in time, prehistoric creatures are running amok through the modern age, prompting evolutionary zoologist Nick Cutter to spring into action. With his team of experts, Cutter takes on the beasts and tries to keep a crisis at bay.
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Primeval: Season 2
2008 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsEvolutionary zoologist Nick Cutter and his team are back to do battle with more savage dinosaurs and other deadly foes, as unexplained anomalies continue to rip through the fabric of time, causing havoc in the present day.
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Primeval: Season 3
2009 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsEvolutionary zoologist Nick Cutter recruits Egyptologist Sarah Page to the team, hoping her research can shed some light on the mysterious time anomalies that continue to deposit dangerous dinosaurs in modern England.
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Primeval: Season 4
2011 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsThis sci-fi series enters its fourth season with the Anomaly Research Center team still recovering from the loss of three of their members. The team's research into time anomalies also exposes them to more odd creatures from the past and future.
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Primeval: Season 5
2011 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsBack at full strength, with Abby, Connor, Lester, Jess and Matt on board - the ARC team must race against time once again in its fight to save the public from the terrifying creatures appearing through the anomalies.
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Quantum Leap: Season 1
1989 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsSam, a physicist, travels back in time, fixing other people's mistakes in an attempt to return to the present. With the help of his wise-cracking friend Al, Sam leaps into a new life in every episode, always hoping that someday he'll leap back home.
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Quantum Leap: Season 2
1989 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsPhysicist Sam Beckett travels from one era to the next to correct past mistakes by taking over different identities. This season, he visits 1960 to help two newlyweds, 1979 to inspire an actor, 1957 to defend a wrongly accused black woman and more.
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Quantum Leap: Season 3
1990 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsTime-traveling scientist Sam and his sidekick Al continue altering the course of history in Season 3. This year, Sam winds up in his own brother's Navy SEAL squad; inhabits the body of a horror novelist; polices a beauty pageant; and more.
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Quantum Leap: Season 4
1991 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsIn this Emmy-winning time-travel series, Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) and his holographic touchstone, Al (Dean Stockwell), ping-pong through the past as they search to find a way to bring the scientist home. In the show's fourth season, Sam dons the robe of a Ku Klux Klansman to save the life of a civil rights leader; rescues a small town from drought as a rain-making huckster; and makes music as a member of an all-black girl group.
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Quantum Leap: Season 5
1992 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsPhysicist Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) can travel through time, assuming others' identities and correcting past mistakes, but he can't seem to find his way back to his own life -- or even remember it in this Emmy-winning series. In the final season, Sam and his holographic sidekick, Al (Dean Stockwell), continue to look for a way home. Along the way, Sam morphs into Lee Harvey Oswald, Elvis and more. Brooke Shields and Jennifer Aniston guest star.
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Red Dwarf: Series 1
1988 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsA lowly technician on the mining ship Red Dwarf, Dave Lister wakes up one day to find that a radiation leak has killed the rest of the crew and he's now the last human left in the universe.
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Red Dwarf: Series 2
1988 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsSeries 2 unfolds as the mining vessel's crew, summoned by a distress signal, heads to the site of a downed spacecraft and takes on a new passenger: a service android named Kryten, who can't seem to relax.
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Red Dwarf: Series 3
1989 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsRimmer and Lester find themselves marooned on an ice planet and later decide to swap bodies. Kryten comes on board as a regular member of the crew, which encounters a shape-shifting mutant that feeds on negative emotions.
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Red Dwarf: Series 4
1991 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsThe crew encounters a heroic version of Rimmer from a parallel dimension, Kryten falls in love, and Lister's curry takes on a life of its own. Plus, Rimmer gets a chance to feed his megalomania when they stumble across a world of warring wax droids.
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Red Dwarf: Series 5
1992 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsRimmer is taken prisoner inside his own mind, Kryten is found wanting by the fearsome Inquisitor, and Lister uses the luck virus to escape quarantine. Cat, meanwhile, struts about the deck in a dazzling array of suits and sunglasses.
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Red Dwarf: Series 6
1993 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsRed Dwarf has been stolen and our intrepid heroes are hot on its trail. Starbug, unable to match its speed, has to take a shortcut to overtake it. Elsewhere, Rimmer creates a world populated by his clones and Lister gets married.
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Red Dwarf: Series 7
1997 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsSeries 7 sees a change in crew as Rimmer flies off to fill the spaceboots of his galaxy-saving alter ego, Ace Rimmer, and Kochanski joins the ship, much to Kryten's consternation. Later, the crew finally learns who stole their ship.
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Red Dwarf: Series 8
1999 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsRed Dwarf itself was absent for most of the last series as the crew had mislaid it, but the mining spaceship now makes a welcome return, having been completely refitted and restored by Kryten's rogue nanobots.
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Red Dwarf: Series 9
2009 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsThe Red Dwarf crew travels through a portal that transports them to Earth in 2009. After realizing they're nothing but fictional TV characters, the gang frantically searches for the writer who created them.
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Rita: Season 1
2012 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsRita has a constant itch from which creating conflict - something she does frequently - brings her only temporary relief, for the scars from being raised by a tyrannical father never healed. But from the ashes of the inferno of her childhood rose Rita - unpredictable, politically incorrect, confrontational. A suburban Marie Antoinette, a middle-class Hugh Hefner. Not the easiest way to be when you are a teacher, but the kids love her - maybe because she is still a child herself. But things are about to change. When her son brings home his in-laws, the father turns out to be Rita's boyfriend from her late teens, the man she wasn't ready to love back then. The kind man, the good man, the man who forced her to stop and examine where all that anger came from. Now he is back in her life, and Rita gets one last chance to confront that past that is still a controlling force in her life.
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Rugrats: Season 1
1991 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsThe adults in their lives might not be able to understand 1-year-old Tommy Pickles and his baby-talking friends, but that doesn't stop these rascally Rugrats from living life to the fullest in their own busy little world.
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Rugrats: Season 2
1992 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsTommy, Chuckie, Angelica and the rest of the gang are back for a second season of pint-sized shenanigans in this popular animated series about the surprisingly bustling private lives of babies, toddlers and preschoolers.
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Rugrats: Season 3
1993 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsIn the third season of this hit animated series, Chuckie's fear of clowns drives the gang away from a circus, so Angelica stages one of her own in the backyard. Later on, Tommy sheds his diaper to live au naturel -- with messy results.
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Rugrats: Season 4
1994 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsThe kids pack into an RV with their parents for a cross-country trip to Las Vegas, the babies catch chicken pox from Chuckie, and Angelica searches for a television so she can watch her favorite Christmas special.
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Rugrats: Season 5
1997 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsAngelica overhears a TV show host say a naughty word, the babies go on the loose at the senior center, Chuckie gets a two-wheeler, the girls get diagnosed with cooties, Chas dates a police officer and more in this season of the hit animated series!
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