While the shows don’t all have to be solely about vampires, each of the series on this list must have significant characters with the urge to suck blood. Rotten Tomatoes has compiled a list of TV’s best and worst vampire series. Off-kilter 1960s sitcom The Munsters included bloodsuckers in its cast of spooky characters, and supernatural soap opera Dark Shadows, which debuted in 1966, introduced several nightwalkers over its six-year run.
While the fall 2008 premieres of True Blood on HBO and Twilight in theaters ushered in the vampire craze of the aughts and early 2010s, television immortalized the mythological creatures in series dating back to the early days of the medium. (Photo by BBC America HBO ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection FX Andrew Eccles / © CW / Courtesy: Everett Collection) 60 TV Vampire Shows Ranked By Tomatometer
