What Are Your Top 10 Fantasy TV Shows?

Nominate the fantasy TV shows you think we should include in our list by adding a comment to this post. You don't have to nominate 10 shows, nominate as many as you want, but please give a brief description as to why you think it should be nominated.
Game of Thrones is my top fantasy TV pick. What's yours
Game of Thrones is my top fantasy TV pick. What's yours?

We're putting together top 10 lists of our favorite movies, books, and TV shows for you to vote on next week.

Yesterday we asked you to nominate your favorite sci-fi TV shows, and you can still add nominations to that list until next Sunday. Today we are looking for nominations for the top fantasy TV shows. What's the difference? Our quick definitions are:

Sci-fi: Future/space/technology as primary theme.
Fantasy: Supernatural/magic/mythical as primary theme.

That's not to say that sci-fi can't have magic or fantasy have technology, but we ask you to look at the primary themes. If you disagree with someone else's classification during the nomination period, we invite you to comment.

So, to get the list started, here is my personal list of my top 10 favorite fantasy TV shows:

  1. Game of Thrones: This is a show so good, even people who "don't like fantasy" love it.
  2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: This series changed the way I looked at fantasy TV. In many ways, it was the Star Trek of fantasy TV, legitimizing the genre with an older audience.
  3. The Twilight Zone (1959): Also in my sci-fi list, this show still amazes me with the incredible depth of storytelling, the likes of which I don't believe has ever been equaled.
  4. Batman: The Animated Series (1992): This was one of the first cartoons after the quagmire of the 1970s and 1980s to feature great art and great stories at the same time.
  5. Lost: Truly epic storytelling on the small screen.
  6. Xena: Warrior Princess: Sexy, smart and powerful: everything you want in a warrior princess.
  7. The X-Files: Although the last season fizzled and the movies never really went anywhere, overall, the X-Files gave us some great stories.
  8. The Addams Family: This is the show that made it okay to be weird.
  9. Warehouse 13: Fantasy fun for the whole family.
  10. Dark Shadows (1966): Although not as good as most people remember (when re-watching recently I fast-forwarded through a lot of the townsfolk taking in the bar stuff), at the time this gothy soap opera was a breath of fresh air from the grave.

Fantasy TV seems to have gotten off to much later start than sci-fi. Although there are a few comedic examples — such as Bewitched, The Addams Family, and I Dream of Jeannie — serious fantasy TV shows don't seem to have cropped up much until the late 1980s. That changed, especially after the success of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and now with Game of Thrones, fantasy genre shows are likely to be the next big thing on TV.

So what are your favorite fantasy TV shows? Tell us in the comments and then you can cast your vote next week for the best fantasy TV show.

And don't forget to nominate your favorite sci-fi TV shows as well!

Tomorrow: Nominate your top sci-fi book.