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Shows that are sci-fi/fantasy shows and nobody knows it.

Most of the CSIs would count as this due to the vast amount of improbable techniques and technology used in them.
 
The Simpsons

Springfield is forever locked in a bubble of unreality where time is always being overwritten and characters somehow repeat the same cycles of living for decades without ever ageing.
 
Most of the CSIs would count as this due to the vast amount of improbable techniques and technology used in them.
Hell, I would call it fantasy just for the magical recreations of meaningful images from heavily pixelated photgraphs.
 
The West Wing had an armed space shuttle controlled by the US Airforce.

THEREFORE Bartlet had a Space Navy, and was probably getting around to putting a Space navy Admiral on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, when he ran out of time.
 
Does it count if the show was marketed as something else? This was the case for Being Erica, which had a really great concept. It was marketed as a drama, but it was really more of a light sci-fi. You have this 30-something girl trying to figure her life out, which she feels is a mess. She has her own therapist with a special ability to send her back in time to moments in her life she feels she could do better on and see how things would work out with different decisions, and most of the time learns that isn't the case. But as the show progresses over 4 seasons, we learn that there's a whole network of these therapists helping people and she eventually becomes one herself.
 
Only people that have never seen a full episode of being Erica, would ever think that it's not about time travel.

Have you noticed how little mention there is anymore that Daniel Jackson is a Ghostwhisperer on Saving Hope these days?
 
The same thing Happened to Richard Mulligan on Soap. :)

There's a Youtube red show called "Escape the night" which is a reality show murder mystery, where the "competitors" accept that they have TIME travelled to a different ERA to have a dinner party where most of them will be murdered.
 
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Technically you could argue just about any family sitcom that ever had a Christmas episode where Santa turns out to be real.

Family Matters, of course, toward the end the inventions Urkel would come up with.
 
That blew my mind, the next day at school every one was talking about it. The teachers must have been rolling their eyes because to them, the news was ten years old.
 
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