Warehouse 13, Season 3
(Syfy, 2011)
Re-watching season three of Warehouse 13, one could easily imagine this perfect blend of action, humour and pseudo-science running for a decade or more. With its wide family appeal and endless capacity for wonder, it could have been the next Doctor Who.
Warehouse 13, Season 1
(Syfy, 2009)
This quirky science fantasy takes several episodes to find its feet, establish a premise and strike the right balance between serious action and humorous character interaction. With the dynamic in place (mid-season), Warehouse 13 quickly starts to make good on its promise.
Doctor Who, Series 9
BBC, 2015
Bookended by Steven Moffat’s tulipomaniacal stake-raising and overblown (if ingenious) retrofitting of Doctor Who’s mythology, the other writers of Series 9 have crafted a straight flush of dark, self-contained science fantasy; gothic disturbances in which Peter Capaldi adds depth to his characterisation.