Please recommend other moving scifi/fantasy shows like Early Edition, Quantum Leap, 80’s Twilight Zone series…looking for something uplifting (mostly happy endings).
I get that most viewers (after 1992) prefer edgier, shade of grey drama so I’m probably looking for something that doesn’t exist.
I started (2 episodes of) Highway to Heaven but it’s a little slow. Someone suggested Touched by an Angel but it looks too religious for my taste.
Try “Promised Land”. It spun off from “Touched by an Angel” and lost much of the religious angle in the process.
Holy crap–this looks awesome. Hours of searching + 6 recommendation bots and didn’t notice this. +1 for human intelligence.
Have you seen Believe? Although it has some violence and a few scary scenes, it is mostly uplifting and hopeful. It’s about a young girl with ESP powers who helps strangers in each episode. The actress who plays the girl is extraordinary.
Another suggestion: Wonderfalls. This fantasy show was cute, quirky, and sweet without being cloying.
The Eureka universe might be of interest: “Eureka”, “Alphas”, and “Warehouse 13” sharing the same continuity.
I love those types of shows, and I can’t take anything too dark. Here are a few to check out, most of which involve our heroes coming in and saving the day week after week. Joan of Arcadia is a little different. It involves God, but not religion, and can be very uplifting.
The Greatest American Hero
Alien Nation
Lois & Clark
The Dead Zone
Drop Dead Diva
Joan of Arcadia
Medium
IIRC, the '90s series “Eerie, Indiana” is much in the same vein as the '80s “Twilight Zone”.
There might be too much death and dying for your taste but I’ll mention Pushing Daisies anyway. It’s not nearly as dark and depressing as a brief synopsis might suggest. Come to think about it, I could say the same of Dead Like Me.
Beautiful.
Joan, Drop Dead Diva are worth a shot. I remember Greatest (loved the theme song). My wife watched Medium, seems a little dark for my taste. Not into superhero stuff and Alien Nation is too out there (though I liked the movie).
I’m thinking I may want to go outside scifi…I was considering Chicago Hope (many of same characters as Early Edition) until I read about how bloody it was plus a focus on the main characters’ turbulent persona lives.
There has to be other late 80s / early 90s dramas that are lighthearted, uplifting, and make you cry at the end of every episode~!
Basically I want The Love Boat with tears and some sci fi elements.
I’ll be shot for saying this but the ill-fated Terra Nova wasn’t bad.
Wow, Pushing Daisies may be right up my alley. I need to watch an episode… is it just funny or are there Kleenex-worthy episodes?
Will check this one out too… reading the premise, it looks either so out there it’s ridiculous or happy, moving escapism.
It’s funny I noticed the trailer (notice anything that’s more humanistic fantasy). I tend to turn off with secret gov’t organizations chasing the kid with powers. Maybe it’s been overplayed or that I don’t like shows with everpresent bad guys. I’m probably .25% of the TV audience these days. Maybe 5% of the 40+ audience (I’m 44.)
Seconding PUSHING DAISIES.
Not in its class, but worth mentioning: A GIFTED MAN.
That’d be Mr. Roarke and Tattoo. 
“Providence” with Mike Farrell as a Rhode Island veterinarian and Concetta Tomei as his wife’s ghost.
How about “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles”?
Had you thought about MacGyver? It’s got that sort of episodic quality you’re looking for, with different stories each week, and in the later seasons especially it became less technical and more heartwarming. There are definitely plenty of Kleenex-worthy episodes.
“Journeyman” wasn’t bad.
One current series that’s really a throwback and hits all of your requirements except the sci fi is Royal Pains.