14 best fantasy tv-series of 1988

List of the 14 best TV shows of 1988 as selected by visitors to our site: Friday the 13th: The Series, Beauty and the Beast, BraveStarr, Transformers: The Headmasters, Devilman - Volume 1: The Birth, The Storyteller, The Munsters Today, Amerika, The New Adventures of Beans Baxter, Kimagure Orange Road, The Chronicles of Narnia, Ronin Warriors, Vampire Princess Miyu, Monsters
Markimdb: 7.6
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, adventure
CountryCanada

Micki and Ryan with the help of their friend Jack try to recover cursed antiques so they can store them in safety inside the antique store's vault.

Markimdb: 7
Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration00:43

Beauty and the Beast is an American drama series which first aired on CBS in 1987. Creator Ron Koslow's updated version of the fairy tale has a double focus: the relationship between Vincent, a mythic, noble man-beast, and Catherine, a savvy Assistant District Attorney in New York; and a secret Utopian community of social outcasts living in a subterranean sanctuary. Through an empathetic bond, Vincent senses Catherine's emotions, and becomes her guardian.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, western, cartoon
CountryUSA

BraveStarr is an American Space Western animated television series. The original episodes aired from September 1987 to February 1988 in syndication. It was created simultaneously with a collection of action figures. BraveStarr was the last animated series produced by Filmation and Group W Productions to be broadcast. Bravo!, a spin-off series was in production along with Bugzburg when the studio closed down. Reruns of the show aired on Qubo Night Owl from 2010 to 2013, and reruns air on the Retro Television Network from 2010 to Present.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure, cartoon, anime
CountryUSA, Japan, South Korea

Following on The Return of Optimus Prime (and in place of The Rebirth), The Headmasters is the first Japanese-exclusive Transformers franchise.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrehorror, action, fantasy, cartoon, anime
CountryJapan

Akira is just another normal kid in modern-day Tokyo, until an old friend of his, Ryo, shows up and turns his world upside down. Akira learns that there is an upcoming war of demons on humanity and he has just been enlisted for a major tour of duty. But the only way to fight a demon is with their power, so Akira and Ryo risk a dangerous ceremony in an attempt to create humanity's only hope: the powerful Devilman.

Markimdb: 8.8
Genrehorror, fantasy, drama, adventure, family
CountryUnited Kingdom

The Storyteller aided by his cynical dog, narrates classic folk tales, fables, and legends.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, family
CountryUSA

The Munsters Today is an American sitcom that aired in syndication from 1988 to 1991. The series served as a sequel to the 1960s sitcom The Munsters.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genreaction, fantasy, drama
CountryUSA

Amerika is a miniseries about life in the United States, ten years after a bloodless takeover engineered by the Soviet Union.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA

The New Adventures of Beans Baxter is an adventure/comedy television series The show revolves around the spy activities of Benjamin "Beans" Baxter Jr., a Kansas teenager who just moved with his parents and younger brother to Washington, D.C., as part of his father's reassignment as an employee of the US Postal Service.Beans witnesses his father's assassination via a bomb placed in his postal vehicle, then gets hired by the mysterious "Number Two", an agent/second-in-command of The Network, a secret spy agency.The main nemesis of The Network is the evil organization UGLI, headed by the equally evil Mr Sue and comedian Taylor Negron as his second-in-command henchman.Shortly after settling in his new hometown, Beans struck up a friendship with an all-around guy nicknamed "Woodshop" and his love life began in earnest when he later met a beautiful student nicknamed "Cake Lace". In one episode, former Miss Universe Shawn Weatherly played herself.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, cartoon, anime
CountryJapan

Kyosuke Kasuga, fifteen, moves to a new city and falls for Madoka Ayukawa. She's friendly when they're alone, but acts like a delinquent when in front of others. Kyosuke meanwhile struggles not to break the heart of Hikaru Hiyama, who fell in love after seeing him make an impossible basketball shot. To add the cherry to this particular sundae, Kyosuke and his family (sisters, grandfather, and cousins) all have various powers. And while Kyosuke's desperate to keep those powers a secret, his younger sisters (among others) aren't quite as concerned about it.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrefantasy, drama, adventure, family
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration02:51

Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are evacuated from London at the beginning of the Second World War, little dreaming of the magical adventures that lie ahead.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genreaction, fantasy, adventure, cartoon, anime
CountryJapan

Five young men with mystical armor fight to save the mortal from the evil Talpa.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrehorror, fantasy, drama, cartoon, anime
CountryJapan

Its central characters are a vampire girl named Miyu and her demonic companion Larva. Miyu is the daughter of both a human and a shinma (demon) and as such she was awakened as the guardian whose destiny is to hunt down all stray shinma and send them back to the darkness.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, detective
CountryUSA

Monsters is a syndicated horror anthology series which originally ran from 1988 to 1991 and reran on the Sci-Fi Channel during the 1990s. As of 2011, Monsters airs on NBC Universal's horror/suspense-themed cable channel Chiller in sporadic weekday marathons.In a similar vein to Tales from the Darkside, Monsters shared the same producer, and in some ways succeeded the show. It differed in some respects nonetheless. While Tales sometimes dabbled in stories of science fiction and fantasy, this series was more strictly horror. As the name implies, each episode of Monsters featured a different monster which the story concerned, from the animatronic puppet of a fictional children's television program to mutated, weapon-wielding lab rats.Similar to Tales, however, the stories in Monsters were rarely very straightforward action plots and often contained some ironic twist in which a character's conceit or greed would do him in, often with gruesome results. Adding to this was a sense of comedy often lost on horror productions which might in some instances lighten the audience's mood but in many cases added to the overall eeriness of the production.




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