The Best TV Shows on UPN

Every UPN Show Ranked From Best To Worst

UPN has over 20 shows broadcast from as early as 1995 and as recent as 2005. Highlighting UPN’s quality programming, Star Trek: Voyager and Nowhere Man stand out, premiering in 1995 and 1995. Our curated list, current as of January 2026, showcases over 20 of UPN’s highest-rated series.

  • The Parkers
    The Parkers (1999)8.2

    Spunky daughter Kim is mortified when her bigger-than-life mom, Nikki, decides to go back to school at the same junior college she attends.

  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)8.1

    Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer.

  • Everybody Hates Chris
    Everybody Hates Chris (2005)8.1

    Chris is a teenager growing up as the eldest of three children in Brooklyn, New York during the early 1980s. Uprooted to a new neighborhood and bused to a predominantly white middle school two-hours away by his strict, hard-working parents, Chris struggles to find his place while keeping his siblings in line at home and surmounting the challenges of junior high.

  • The Weekenders
    The Weekenders (2000)8.0

    Four friends, Tino, Carver, Lor, and Tish, spend each weekend discovering and creating new levels of fun, while negotiating the obligatory obstacles of adolescence.

  • One on One
    One on One (2001)8.0

    A sportscaster becomes a full-time dad when his ex-wife decides to accept a job out of the country and his teenage daughter, Breanna, moves in with him.

  • Star Trek: Voyager
    Star Trek: Voyager (1995)7.8

    Pulled to the far side of the galaxy, where the Federation is 75 years away at maximum warp speed, a Starfleet ship must cooperate with Maquis rebels to find a way home.

  • Veronica Mars
    Veronica Mars (2004)7.8

    In the fictional town of Neptune, California, student Veronica Mars progresses from high school to college while moonlighting as a private investigator under the tutelage of her detective father.

  • Nowhere Man
    Nowhere Man (1995)7.7

    Thomas Veil is a documentary photographer who, in the course of one evening, seemingly has his whole existence erased...

  • Recess
    Recess (1997)7.7

    Join a group of six fourth-grade best friends at Third Street Elementary School on their fun-filled adventures in their school playground. Through the ups-and-downs of adolescence, they must wrestle with authority, avoid the school snitch, and try their best to win at kick-ball.

  • Roswell
    Roswell (1999)7.7

    Bizarre things start happening in the little New Mexico town where UFOs were spotted in 1947. Cut to 1999, when a cute high-school student saves the life of a teenage waitress. Surrounded by cliques of clever, angst-filled classmates, the two form a bond that threatens the survival of a secret universe involving superhuman powers, a yen for hot sauce and an alien gene pool.

  • WWE SmackDown
    WWE SmackDown (1999)7.5

    The superstars of World Wrestling Entertainment's "SmackDown" brand collide each and every Friday on WWE Friday Night SmackDown.

  • Star Trek: Enterprise
    Star Trek: Enterprise (2001)7.5

    During the mid-22nd century, a century before Captain Kirk's five-year mission, Jonathan Archer captains the United Earth ship Enterprise during the early years of Starfleet, leading up to the Earth-Romulan War and the formation of the Federation.

  • Girlfriends
    Girlfriends (2000)7.3

    The series revolves around the friendship of four African-American women in different phases of their lives. They explore the many trials and tribulations that most women face today such as relationships, family, friends and other current issues that will interest most women. Whether it’s getting over a divorce, finding a career, or looking for true love, Girlfriends delivers along with comedy and wit.

  • All of Us
    All of Us (2003)7.3

    Robert James, an entertainment reporter for a local Los Angeles television station, is handsome, smart and thoroughly modern in his thinking. Recently divorced from the somewhat self-absorbed Neesee, the mother of their endearing 6-year-old son, Robert refuses to buy into the old stereotype that being divorced means you can't get along with the ex.

  • The Twilight Zone
    The Twilight Zone (2002)7.2

    A 2002 revival of Rod Serling's 1950/60s television series, The Twilight Zone, with actor Forest Whitaker assuming Serling's role as narrator and on-screen host.

  • The Sentinel
    The Sentinel (1996)7.1

    The Sentinel is a Canadian-produced television series. In the jungles of peru, the fight for survival heightened his senses. Now, Detective Jim Ellison is a sentinel in the fight for justice. Anthropologist Blair Sandburg works side by side with Jim, helping him develop these senses.

  • Moesha
    Moesha (1996)7.0

    The everyday life of Moesha Mitchell, a vivacious young woman juggling romance, school, ever-changing family dynamics, and friendships.

  • The Legend of Tarzan
    The Legend of Tarzan (2001)6.9

    The Legend of Tarzan picks up where the 1999 feature film left off, with the title character adjusting to his new role as leader of the apes following Kerchak's death, and Jane adjusting to life in the jungle. Rounding out the cast are Jane's father, Professor Archimedes Porter; Tantor, the germophobic elephant; and Terk, a wisecracking female gorilla and Tarzan's old wrestling buddy.

  • Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
    Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (2000)6.6

    Buzz Lightyear’s adventures as he patrols the galaxy with his team of Space Rangers, battling evildoers “to infinity and beyond.”

  • America's Next Top Model
    America's Next Top Model (2003)5.3

    Aspiring models compete for a chance to break into the business with a panel of judges critiquing their progress throughout the competition.