Many American and Canadian sci-fi/fantasy/horror television series have one episode (and usually only one episode) that centers around the Amish, or another group of religious believers who similarly disdain modern technology.

Presumably, this is because the Amish represent an "exotic" culture, and their settlements are easier and cheaper to recreate than taking a television crew to any other "exotic" locale.

By extension, with its late-19th-century isolationist setting, The Village can be considered M. Night Shyamalan's Amish episode, since all of his movies fall into the same supernatural vein as television series with Amish episodes.

List of Amish episodes

• Babylon 5: "Believers"
• Crusade: "Patterns of The Soul "
• Earth: Final Conflict: "Float Like a Butterfly "
• Farscape: "I, E.T. "
• Friday the 13th: The Series: "The Quilt of Hathor (2-part)"
• Miracles : "Mother's Daughter "
• Murder, She Wrote: "Murder, Plain & Simple " (not a "supernatural" show, but included anyway)
• Sliders: "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? "
• Star Trek: Enterprise: "North Star"
• Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Up the Long Ladder"
• The X-Files: "Genderbender "
• Sledge Hammer!: "Witless" (A parody of the movie Witness)
• Stargate Atlantis: "Underground"