List of Alternate History Fiction - TV Shows

TV Shows

• 1963-2009 Doctor Who, has made extensive use of alternative history, especially (but not exclusively) since its relaunch in 2005. These include Inferno, Day of the Daleks, Pyramids of Mars (a brief glimpse of a dead Earth), Father's Day, Rise of the Cybermen. As well as Doomsday, and the two-parter Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead. It has also featured attempts to create alternate histories, particularly in the "Doctor-lite" episode of series four, Turn Left, where Donna Noble decides to not work at HC Clemments, and therefore never meets the Doctor. The result is a "what if" scenario starting from the series three Christmas Special The Runaway Bride, through Smith and Jones, Voyage of the Damned, and several other episodes of series four.
• 1966-2005. Star Trek, has used the theme several times. Examples include: TOS- "City on the Edge of Forever" (alternate World War II outcome); Animated Series- "Yesteryear"; NG- "Yesterday's Enterprise". Enterprise- "Storm Front" where Nazis seized East Coast of America. Also, the universe of "Mirror, Mirror", while in the original episode was just implied to be a parallel universe, was in later episodes shown to be an alternate history.
• 1978 An Englishman's Castle, a 3-part BBC mini-series focusing on television writer Peter Ingram, who lives in a present-day Britain in which Nazi Germany won World War II.
• 1985. Otherworld, a family is transported to an alternate Earth while exploring the Great Pyramid of Giza.
• 1995-2000. Sliders, gang of scientists, musician, and others as travellers who "slide" between parallel worlds by use of a wormhole referred to as an "Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky bridge". First episode was Soviet-ruled America after Soviets seized Americas. Other episodes were many alternate Earths as British America, Ancient Egyptian-ruled America, Spanish America, Druids-controlling America, Atomic Bomb never exist, and others.
• 1995. Spellbinder, in an alternate world where static electricity is used as a power source.
• 1997. Spellbinder 2: Land of the Dragon Lord, sequel to original TV show.
• 1997. Red Dwarf, the episode Tikka to Ride deals with a time line in which John F Kennedy was never assassinated.
• 2004-2005. Zipang, a Japanese warship is sent back in time to World War II, altering much of the situation at Midway, but also alters the loss of USS Wasp (CV-7), in which she is destroyed by a Tomahawk missile instead of being lost to a submarine.
• 2006. The Best Christmas Story Never (American Dad!), Martin Scorsese gives up drugs in 1970 leading to the Soviet Union conquering America.
• 2006. Return of the King (The Boondocks), Martin Luther King, Jr. survives his assassination, by in a 32 year Coma.
• 2006-2008. Heroes, The character Peter Petrelli travels through time to attempt to alter future and past events and outcomes. Starting with the attempted assassination of his brother Nathan Petrelli because of his belief that Nathan will cause unwanted future results by his disclosure of his knowledge of super human powers and abilities.
• 2006. Code Geass, in which Britannia, the descendant of what was once Britain, is the primary world power and conquers Japan through the use of mecha called knightmares; an exiled Britannian prince leads the Japanese resistance against them.
• 2009. Family Guy, episode Road to the Multiverse one of the universes Brian and Stewie visit has the United States not dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, as well as a timeline in which the present-day is in the middle of an ice age. In another episode, Brian alters the past, preventing the September 11 attacks, which ultimately leads to a nuclear Second American Civil War.
• 2011. Futurama, episode All the Presidents' Heads. During a trip back in time, Fry accidentally causes Paul Revere to misdirect the American Revolutionaries, creating a timeline in which the American Revolution failed, and Great Britain went on to conquer all of North America, renaming it "West Britannia".
• 2011. Family Guy episode Back to the Pilot. Brian warns his past self about a 9/11, enabling him to stop them from happening. The cause George W. Bush loses the 2004 Election to Al Gore and convinces Texas and the other Southern States to secede, causing a Second American Civil War and nuclear holocaust few years later.