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The magic of Merlin meets The Tudors' political intrigue in Prime Video's steamy fantasy series. Even now, years later, Merlin remains one of the BBC's most beloved fantasy shows. The deep friendship between the young wizard Merlin and the noble Arthur is a major part of its appeal, of course.

57 years later, Star Trek: The Original Series' all-time best episode has aged like fine wine. The Original Series' influence on not just the rest of the Star Trek franchise, but science fiction as a whole can't be overstated. Gene Roddenberry's iconic series developed and reinvented many of modern sci-fi's most important tropes and narrative devices, including, of course, the all-important concept of time travel.

Years before Prime Video's Young Sherlock and the BBC and BritBox's upcoming Hercule Poirot prequel series, ITV produced one of the best detective-centric prequel shows of all time. For characters as famous and well-established as Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes and Agatha Christie's Poirot, watching them as their younger selves can allow audiences to see a different side of them. How did Sherlock Holmes come to be such an arrogant, chaotic force of nature?