Nikola Tesla and the End of the World

"Nikola Tesla and the End of the World" is a low-budget British sci-fi web series created by Ian Strang that blends time travel, multiverse theory, and quirky humor. In Season 1, a young London physicist named Sophie Clarke discovers long-lost blueprints for a mysterious device called the Teslascope (a wireless energy transmitter inspired by Nikola Tesla's inventions). When she builds and activates the machine, it unexpectedly pulls the real historical inventor Nikola Tesla from the past into modern-day London — along with an unwanted autocratic automaton that threatens chaos. Sophie and the bewildered but brilliant Tesla must team up to contain the escalating dangers, including explosive threats and confrontations with a sinister "Voice" entity, all while Tesla grapples with the wonders and absurdities of 21st-century life.

Season 2 shifts focus to multiverse adventures, picking up years later as Sophie (and new characters like physicist Harriet Goldring) work with Tesla under the enigmatic Multiverse Unification Agency. The team uses Tesla's advanced device to hop between parallel versions of Brooklyn in an effort to rescue a lost loved one and settle a cosmic "debt," facing bureaucratic oddities, alternate realities, and further threats tied to Tesla's inventions that could unravel existence itself. The short-episode format (often around 5 minutes each) delivers fast-paced, Doctor Who-esque fun with strong performances, particularly Paul O'Neill as Tesla and Gillian MacGregor as Sophie, earning the series several indie awards.

The entire series is compact and light-hearted, mixing historical reverence for Tesla's genius with playful sci-fi tropes. It's available on platforms like Amazon Prime Video, CBC Gem, and YouTube (via channels like DUST).