8 Great – Sci Fi TV Shows
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Dr who up through capaldi
Can't believe you left out Babylon 5😳😳😳
Neat list. Babylon 5 should have been on it.
The Outer Limits
Space 1999
Babylon 5
C'MON!
I love sci fi, i was brought up with dr who and star trek
When you say Star Trek all I see and hear is TOS.
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Another great SyFy show from the UK is “Blake’s 7”
I know it only lasted three seasons but Lost in Space has to be mentioned
What no Lost in Space?…just kidding…no I'm not
Stargate SG1
Space 1999 and other Gerry Anderson tv shows are great examples of pioneering sci fi tv shows!!
Babylon 5. Red Dwarf. Space Above and Beyond. The Time Tunnel. V.
In no particular order: Star Trek, Doctor Who, The Twilight Zone, Babylon 5, Red Dwarf, Stargate SG1, Battlestar Galactica (original series), Max Headroom, The Outer Limits, The Six Million Dollar Man (no one thinks of this one). I'm on the fence on whether X-Files and The Prisoner are Sci-Fi, so I left them off the list, for now. If you consider them Sci-Fi, they must be on the list.
Stargate SG1. I still mis that show.
Quatermass and the Pit (1958-59); A For Andromeda/The Andromeda Breakthrough (1961-1962); Pathfinders Into Space, to Mars and to Venus (1962-63); The Invaders (1967); The Prisoner (1967-68); UFO ((1970); Blake's 7 (1977-79); The Uninvited (1997).
OUTER LIMITS ORIGINAL B.S. GALAC THE ZONE OF CORSE TREK ALL SG 1 ORIGNAL SUPPERMAN BUCK ROGERS UFO (BRITISH)
Hey now the Original Battlestar was great. Should have lasted longer.
Babylon 5 my personal favorite. Star Trek TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise. Space 1999.
I’d urge you to have a look at the British shoes Blake’s 7 and Space1999
B7 is the story of a band of freedom fighters rebelling against an Orwellian regime. It didn’t have the highest production values, but was clever and well reasoned.
Space 1999 is the story of the crew of Moonbase Alpha and the trials they faced as a massive nuclear event tore the moon out of its earth orbit. Another show with a clever premise that is overdue being remade.
One of my top 8 was the outer limits definitely original the 90's show was good I definitely have to put the original 1960's series so outer limits would be on my top 8
The 1970s , Original Battlestar Galactica.
I would have to put Roswell on that list. It may have only lasted 3 seasons but it was an great show. Season 3 got off to a slow start until it decided where it was going.
No Babylon 5 on your list? But the crappy BSG reboot made it? Shame.
No Outer Limits (TOS)? No Babylon 5? You're an idiot.
You forgot Babylon 5, a great show that in some ways was better than Star Trek. I loved Farscape, it had mostly Aussie and Kiwi actors plus the Muppets and a couple of American actors.
With all the comments about B5 missing, he must have consulted Sheldon Cooper to make his list.
A couple of honourable mentions that missed out – Blakes 7, UFO, Space: Above and Beyond and Dark Skies. Blakes 7 got better ratings than Dr Who in it's day for good reason
Joss Whedon ripped off a Canadian series, Star Hunter, when he developed Firefly. Right down to the ship captain's brown coat.
You forgot about sea QUEST d.s.v.,lost girl , seven days and wearhouse 13
I will never watch a video from this guy again. He totally ruined it for me. What's the point in showing pictures when you block parts of it with your body and your logo. Do voice over instead.
I have read the comments, however this dude said that this 8 was not the definitive list. This is his list. And while I cannot, for the life of me, understand how Space 1999 did not make the top 8…well……I understand. So this drives me to make a 10 best science fiction list, including Space 1999 and The Starlost.
So there
And the original star trek
Best sci-fi shows r the Invaders and kolchak
Star Trek is classic; the rest of the franchise was a mistake. Original BSG great, the reboot seriously stupid. Liked Farscape but I had trouble wrapping my head around it. Sliders is a big yes but it fell apart later. Love Twilight Zone but not sure it qualifies as sci-fi. Space:1999 big miss by this dork. Babylon 5 big yes. What about Andromeda?
have you seen the 1950 tales of tomorrow or one step beyond
MORPH didn't even get an honorary mention
What about V
Well then, My list would include, Galactica, Twilight Zone, and the Star Trek franchise. I would also include The Outer Limits, the format owed a debt to Twilight Zone, but was guaranteed weekly Science Fiction on your television. Very futuristic and somewhat mind blowing was The Prisoner, a product of the BBC. A quiet but intelligent anthology called, Science Fiction Theater from 1955 led the way on your TV screen. For the kid in me it was WOG 1954. World of Giants. So it seemed for the six inch tall secret agent. Irwin Allen produced a number of television Sci Fi series, Among the better of them was Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea The Atomic sub Seaview was awesome.
I really tried to get into Farscape but found it not good
Oh heck No, everything was great about BSG, i call BS. the camera work made me sick to my stomach and couldnt even watch it. Couldnt they afford rails or camera gyros. It felt like they put the cameras on the heads on the cameramen. So because of this poor choice, I did not watch it, not to mention the fact that the premise was modfied too PC.
I would have been annoyed if you hadn't mentioned Doctor Who… It's a shame about the writing for the latest incarnation – I think she could have been great, if politics hadn't mucked everything up…
I would not put firefly on the list and Slides was only good for 2 seasons. I would put Space 1999 before Battlestar
The next show (shows) that should have been on the list was one of the greatest sci-fi shows of all time (IMHO). Life on Mars (and I said shows because I would add the sequel Ashes to Ashes (yes, two David Bowie songs). LoM is about a detective in 2006 who gets hit by a car and wakes up in 1973. Is he in a coma dreaming, is he really back in 1973? He doesn't know. He spends one season trying to find out what happened (it's more like a mini-series than a TV series). He does find out but I'm not going to tell you but one of the last things he does in the series is to write a detailed report and make an audio tape detailing everything that happened and he sent it to a police physiologist. That leads to….
Ashes to Ashes -> a female police physiologist is driving down the road with her daughter. Her daughter gets into her mom's case files and starts reading about a detective who was in a car accident and was (or thinks he was) transported back to 1973. The note reads just like the opening monologue of Life on Mars. Later, the physiologist is kidnapped, taken someplace private, and is shot in the head. She wakes up in 1982 and the same cops that were in Life On Mars are there to greet her. The show lasted 3 seasons and is really worth looking up.
One warning : ABC TV in America tried to make their own Life on Mars series. They even used some of the original scripts. Stay away from it – it's 100% garbage!
Of course everybody will have a show or two (or three) that they felt should have been on this list. Here are some of my picks….
Now and Again – the critics liked it. Well written, well acted. It's about a 50ish year old man getting killed in a subway accident. His brain is placed inside of an artificially created 28 year old. The show places more focus on the characters than his powers. It also has some funny bits in it. The 28 year old ask the doctor who created his body (played wonderfully by Dennis Haysbert) if he could fly. I loved the doctor's answer : Mr. Wiseman, over the past 6 months we've performed a complicated series of operations. I'm tempted to call them transplants, but in truth, there is no "you" to transplant them to. Let's call them operations. In fact, let's agree that you have been the recipient of some of the most sophisticated surgical thinking and practice in the history of medicine. In addition, you have been inoculated with and intravenously fed over 700 highly experimental and, I believe extraordinarily promising hormones, steroids and vaccines that also were developed uniquely for you in this project. Now I mention all that because, and I'm embarrassed to admit it, that in the midst of all those surgeries, all those implant procedures, all the beta trials, tests, failures and successes… it just never occurred to any of us to shove a rocket up your ass.
The Expanse, Babylon 5, Red Dwarf, SGU, Quantum Leap, UFO. The list goes on and on…
The two Gene Roddenberry shows that few people seem to know about and are under appreciated
Andromeda
Earth: Final Conflict
Others little mentioned
The Time Tunnel
Voyage to the bottom of the sea
The Outer Limits
Lost in Space and the other Irwin Allen shows
Do marionette shows count ?
Super Car
Fireball XL 5
What no B5?