Speculative Fiction TV shows

[grinner]

This list was lost in another thread... just wondering if anyone else has any shows that should be added. I don't know about adding Anime or Pilots/TV movies... but will add if anyone has a good reason. Thanks
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A for Andromeda/ The Andromeda
Ace of Wands
Adam Adamant Lives!
The Addams Family
The Adventure Game
Adventure Inc.
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
The Adventures of Don Quick
The Adventures of Fu Manchu
The Adventures of Sinbad
The Adventures of Superboy
Airwolf
AJ's Time Travelers
Akuma Kun
Alf
Alias
Alien Nation
Aliens in the Family
All Souls
Alpha Scorpio
Amazing Live Sea Monkeys
The Amazing Spiderman
Amazing Stories
American Gothic
Andra
Andromeda
Angel
Animorphs
Aquila
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Ark II
Astronauts
Atlantis High
Atom Squad
Automan
The Avengers(including the New Avengers)
Babylon 5
Bagpuss
Batman
Battle Fever J - 1979
Battle of the Planets
BattleStar Galactica
Beauty and the Beast
Benji, Zax and the Alien Prince
Bewitched
Beyond Reality
Beyond Westworld
Big John Little John
The Big Pull
The Bionic Woman
The Birds of Prey
Blakes 7 (also know as Blake's 7)
Black Scorpion
Bliss
The Boy from Andromeda
Breakthru
Brimstone
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bugaloos
BUGS
The Burning Zone
Button Moon
The Clangers
Carnivale
Captain Midnight
Captain Nice
Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterions
Captain Video and his Video Rangers
Captain Zep-Space Detective
Catweazle
Century Falls
The Champions
Charmed
The Charmings
The Changes
Children of the Dog Star
Children of the Stones
Chimera
Chocky
Chocky's Children
Chojin Sentai Jetman (Birdman Task Force Jetman
Chojuu Sentai Liveman (Super Beast Task Force Liveman)
Choriki Sentai Ohranger (Super Task Force Ohranger)
The Chronicle
City Beneath the Sea
Cleopatra 2525
Cliff Hangers-Stop Susan Williams
Cliff Hangers-The Curse of Dracula
Cliff Hangers-The Secret Empire
Cold Lazarus
Come Back Mrs. Noah
Conan the Adventurer
Counterstrike
Crime Traveler
The Cronicle
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
The Crusade
Danger Man
Darkroom
Dark Angel
Darkman
Dark Season
Dark Shadows
Dark Shadows(1991)
Dark Skies
The Day of the Triffids
Dead At 21
Dead Like Me
The Dead Zone
Deepwater Black
The Delta Wave
The Demon Headmaster
Denshi Sentai Denjiman (Electronic Task Force Denziman)
Dimension of Fear
Dinotopia
Doctor Who
Doomwatch
Dracula: The Series
Dramarama
Early Edition
Earth 2
Eerie, Indiana
Edge of Darkness
Erasmus Microman
Escape from Jupiter
Escape Into Night
The Escape of R.D.7
FarScape
The Fantastic Journey
Fireball XL5
FireFly
FirstBorn
First Wave
The Flash
Flash Gordon
Flatland
The Flip Side of Dominic Hyde
The Flying Nun
Forbidden Island
Forever Knight
The 4400
Four Feather Falls
Freaky Links
Freddy's Nightmares
Friday the 13th: The Series
F/X: The Series
Galactica 1980
Galloping Galaxies
Galidor
Gemini Man
Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict
The Georgian House
Get Smart
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
The Girl from Tomorrow
Goodnight Sweetheart
Good Vs. Evil(GvsE)
The Greatest American Hero
Green Lantern
The Guardians
Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left
Hard Time on Planet Earth
Harsh Realm
Haunted
Helping Henry
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
The Highlander: The Series
The Highlander: The Raven
Hikari Sentai Maskman (Light Task Force Maskman)
Himitsu Sentai Goranger (Secret Task Force GoRanger)
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Holmes and Yoyo
Homeboys in Outer Space
Honey, I shrunk the Kids
HR Puff n' Stuff
I Dream of Jeannie
The Immortal(1970)
The Immortal(2000)
The Incredible Hulk
Into the Labyrinth
The Invaders
Invasion
The Invisible Man(1958-59)
The Invisible Man(1975)
The Invisible Man(1984)
The Invisible Man(1999-2002)(Also known as I-Man)
Isis
It's about Time
Jack of All Trades
JAKQ Dengekitai (JAKQ Blitzkrieg Squad
Jamie
Jason of the Star Command
Jason and the Argonauts
Jeopardy
Jet Jackson, the Flying Commando
Jeremiah
Joe 90
John Doe
Johny Sokko and His Flying Robot
Journey to the Unknown
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jupiter Moon
Kagaku Sentai Dynaman (Science Task Force Dynaman
Kamen Rider
Kappatoo
Kindred: The Embrace
King of the Castle
Kinvig
Knights of God
Knight Rider
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Kosoku Sentai Turboranger (High Speed Task Force Turboranger)
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Kyoryuu Sentai Zyuranger (Dinosaur Task Force Zyuranger)
Land of the Giants
Land of the Lost(1974)
Land of the Lost(1991)
The Last Train (Mini Series)
Legend
The Legend of Death
The Legend of William Tell
Le Femme Nikita
Level 9
Lexx(Tales from a Parallel Universe)
Logan's Run
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
The Lone Gunmen
LOST
Lost In Space
The Lost Saucer
The Lost Planet
The Lost World
Luna
MacGyver
The Magic Boomerang
Magma Taishi (Ambassador Magma)
Mann & Machine
A Man Called Sloane
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (including The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.)
Man Dog
Maniac Mansion
Manimal
Man From Atlantis
M.A.N.T.I.S.
Martian Chronicles
The Master
Matabharat
Mataku
Max Headroom
Me and Meep
Meego
Men Into Space
Metal Mickey
Mercy Point
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
Mike & Angelo
Millennium
Miracles
Misfits of Science
Mission Eureka
Mission Genesis
Mister Merlin
Mister Pye
Mister Trimble
Monkey
Monsters
Moonbase 3
Moon Stallion
Mork & Mindy
Mortal Kombat
The Munsters
Mutant X
My Favorite Martian
My Hero
My Mother The Car
My Secret Identity
MST3K (Mystery Science Theater 3000)
NetForce
Neverwhere
The New Adventures of Beans Baxter
Night Gallery
NightMan
The Nightmare Man
1990
Noggin The Nog
Now and Again
Nowhere Man
Ocean Odyssey(A.K.A. Ocean Girl)
Object Z(including Object Z Returns)
Odessey 5
The Omega Factor
Once a Thief
One Step Beyond
The Others'
OtherWorld
Outer Limits
Out of the Unknown
Out of this World(including Dumb Martian)
Out of this World(US)
Pathfinders
The Phantom Empire
Phoenix Five
A Pig's Breakfast
Planet of the Apes
Plateau of Fear
Play for Tomorrow
Pogles wood
Poltergeist: The Legacy
The Powers of Matthew Star
The Pretender
Prey
The Prisoner
Prisoners of Gravity
The Privateers
Probe
Profiler
Project UFO
Psi Factor
Q.E.D.
Quantum Leap
Quark
Quatermass(including The Quatermass Experiment, Quatermass II, Quatermass and the Pit, Quatermass)
The Queen of Swords
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
The Ray Bradbury Theater
Really Wierd Tales
Red Dwarf
Relic Hunter
Rentaghost
Return to Jupiter
Revelations
Roar
RoboCop
Roswell
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Salvage-1
Sapphire & Steel
Science Fiction Theater
Sealab 2020
Seaquest DSV
Search
Search Control
The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
Secret Beneath the Sea
The Secret Service
The Secret World of Alex Mack
The Secret World of Polly Flint
Seeing Things
The Sentinel
Seven Days
The Seventh Portal
Shadow Chasers
Shazaam
She Came Out of the Sky (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077083/) (aka as Spadla z oblakov)
She-Wolf of London
Sierra Nine
Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sixth Sense (1972)
Sky
SleepWalkers
Sliders
A Small Problem
Small Wonder
Smallville
Something Is Out There
Space: Above and Beyond
Space Academy
Space Cadets
Space Cases
Space Command (1953)
Space Giant
Space: 1999
Space Patrol(UK)
Space Patrol(US)
Space Precinct
Space Rangers
Space School
SpaceVets
Special Unit 2
Specterman
Spellbinder
Spiderman - 1978
Stainless Steel and the Star Spies
Star Cops
Star Fleet
Star Hunter
Star Maidens
Star Trek(TOS)
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate SG1
Stargate: Atlantis
Stark
The Starlost
Starman
Stephen King's Golden Years
Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories
Stig of the Dump
Stingray
Storyteller (Henson)
The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris
Strange Days at Blake Holsey High (aka Black Hole High)
Strange Luck
The Strange World of Planet X
The Stranger
Stranger from Space
Streethawk
Stronger Than The Sun (Mini-Series)
Surface
Superboy
Superman
Supercar
Survivors
Swamp Thing
Taiyou Sentai Sunvulcan (Solar Task Force Sunvulcan)
Tales from the Crypt
Tales from the Dark Side
Tales of Mystery
Tales of the Unexpected
Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills
Target Luna
Team Knight Rider
Teen Angel
TekWar
Terrahawks
They Came From Somewhere Else
3rd Rock from the Sun
Threshold
Thunderbirds
Time Cop
Time Express
Time Is The Enemy
Time Trax
The Time Tunnel
Timeslip
Time Riders
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
The Tomorrow People(1973)
The Tomorrow People(1992)
Total Recall 2070
Touched by an Angel
Torch
A Traveller In Time
Tremors - The series
The Tribe
The Tripods
The Trollenberg Terror
Tru Calling
Tucker's Witch
The Twilight Zone(1959-64)
The Twilight Zone(1985-86)
Twin Peaks
A Twist in the Tale
Uchuu Keiji Gavan (Space Sheriff Gavan)
UFO
UltraMan
Ultraviolet
Undermind
Under the Volcano
The Unforseen
V
Venus Partol
Veritas: The Quest
The Visitor
VooDoo Factor
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Voyagers
VR5
War of the Worlds
Watt on Earth
Weird Science
Welcome to Paradox
Werewolf
The Wild, Wild West
WitchBlade
Wizards and Warriors
Whoops Apocalypse
Wolf Lake
Wonder Woman
World of Giants
Worlds Beyond
Worzel Gummidge
Xena: Warrior Princess
The X-Files
The Year of the Sex Olympics(1968)
Young Hercules
Young Indiana Jones Cronicles
Z is for Zacharia

[NebariNookiee]

:eek4: :thud:
My god! You really did your homework! I can't think of any you may have missed.

[RojAvon]

That's a frelling amazing list....everytime I think of some obscure program that I'd swear you couldn't possibly have on the list....I scroll down.....just knowing I've got you.....and there it is....

Well done....

[grinner]

Well, I had help from Egg and ThirdEye and a lot of it came from... hey here's irony... "The SCI-FI Channels Encyclopedia of TV Science Fiction" by Roger Fulton and John Betancourt. So at one time Skiffy knew what Science Fiction was. It took about an hour to type it up and whenever someone adds a show... it goes to the list. I just wanted to put it by itself so that people would see it and maybe think of a show that we missed.

[Demonique]

You forgot Special Unit 2

And what about all those animated SF/Fantasty/Horror shows?

Like Transformers, GArgoyles and Shadow Raiders?

Not all cartoons are kids stuff, y'know

[blue]

And Supergirl, which was very welcome to girls, finally.

[grinner]

Well, if you start adding animated shows... then you have to add all the Anime that is from Japan, as well as every cartoon that has ever had a premise of Science Fiction. That would be a huge list in and of itself. The Jetsons, Futurama, The Flintstones, Tom and Jerry, etc...

Special Unit 2 will be added.

[grinner]

Originally posted by blue
And Supergirl, which was very welcome to girls, finally.
I do not think that this was ever a TV show. I think it was just a movie. TV Tome has no mention of Supergirl. If you can show me some info on a TV show, it will go on the list.

[AgentSun]

Mortal Kombat
Once a Thief (classified as scifi if you're counting alias, since OaT is a spy show...sort of)
Probe
The Queen of Swords
Earth: Final Conflict


are we counting cartoons? cause i'm sure the Star Trek cartoon counts, if you have Invader Zim (Which is what i assume Zim at the bottom of the list is)...

[grinner]

Originally posted by AgentSun
Mortal Kombat
Once a Thief (classified as scifi if you're counting alias, since OaT is a spy show...sort of)
Probe
The Queen of Swords
Earth: Final Conflict


are we counting cartoons? cause i'm sure the Star Trek cartoon counts, if you have Invader Zim (Which is what i assume Zim at the bottom of the list is)...
I have no idea about Zim. I think Egg told me it was a British show.

I have been adding Genre shows to the list, because this is about Genre TV not just Science Fiction. But Alias has some SF attributes to it... as does Once A Thief.

But, I would have a problem as explained above about cartoons. Unless people think that I should add cartoons, then I will. But with Anime... there would be immense amounts of shows. Voltron, Robotech, Macross, BubbleGum Crisis/Crash... etc...

[grinner]

Originally posted by AgentSun

Earth: Final Conflict



This is on there under 'Gene Roddenberry's Earth: The Final Conflict

[Paul Cousins]

Originally posted by grinner
I have no idea about Zim. I think Egg told me it was a British show.

I have been adding Genre shows to the list, because this is about Genre TV not just Science Fiction. But Alias has some SF attributes to it... as does Once A Thief.

But, I would have a problem as explained above about cartoons. Unless people think that I should add cartoons, then I will. But with Anime... there would be immense amounts of shows. Voltron, Robotech, Macross, BubbleGum Crisis/Crash... etc...

Do not forget the Gundam Sagas.

Also you forgot to add the Blade Runner ripoff; Total Recall the Series.

[grinner]

Yeah, but should we consider Cartoons/Anime?

[Paul Cousins]

Originally posted by grinner
Yeah, but should we consider Cartoons/Anime?

Why do you even ask this question. Sci-fi is Sci-fi whether it's form is book, comic, live-action movies or TV series, cartoons, anime OVAs/TV Series/Movies.

By the way, how much anime have you seen?

[grinner]

Well, I have about 200 casettes/dvd's of anime... have been watching them since the 70's. But my point is the list would be unwieldy if we were to add each and every cartoon/anime show ever shown worldwide. Do you know how much anime is shown in Japan?

[Paul Cousins]

Originally posted by grinner
Well, I have about 200 casettes/dvd's of anime... have been watching them since the 70's. But my point is the list would be unwieldy if we were to add each and every cartoon/anime show ever shown worldwide. Do you know how much anime is shown in Japan?

You're the one who wanted to make a list of Science Fiction TV shows. No one said would be easy.

Include the sci-fi anime series you know of and don't worry about the rest. I am sure the people here are more than happy to help you out with your list.

[grinner]

Actually, I am not the one that wanted the list. I am just the one that compiled the list. Other boards that I am on agree with the leave them off the list... and I really don't want to attempt it. So, only Live Action Genre shows on the list.

[Paul Cousins]

Originally posted by grinner
Actually, I am not the one that wanted the list. I am just the one that compiled the list. Other boards that I am on agree with the leave them off the list... and I really don't want to attempt it. So, only Live Action Genre shows on the list.

That is your lose. Personally I find anime to have the best selection and quality of sci-fi I know of, (this includes books, comics and live action series/movies).

Farscape being one of the few exceptions to that rule.

[grinner]

Then you list them. I could double the list right now if I were to add all the anime that I personally own. I am going to place Cartoons/Anime along side Movies... in that they don't belong in the TV series niche of the genre.

[Egg]

Paul you add the sub list aok
If anything goes I'll add mine, but you're knitpicking

[AvengerCO]

I offer the have your cake and eat it too scenario.

Keep going on this live-action list. Save it before it disapears into the dark archives of abandoned topics.

In a couple of months or weeks when this topic is no longer in the top 100 listed, then we regroup and go for a separate animae/toon/cartoon list.
"Stay on topic! Stay on TOPIC!"
No animals were harmed in the making of this post - but a serious number of electrons were very inconvenienced.
:beer:

[spectecjr]

Battle of the Planets
*There are 3 versions of Max Headroom; the US sci-fi serial, the UK TV movie, and the UK music VJ show.
Metal Mickey
* Chocky's Children (the sequel to Chocky)
Saturday Starship (no, seriously!)
**The Adventure Game
Man From Atlantis
Marine Boy
Maths-In-A-Box
Words And Pictures (no, seriously! - they ran sci-fi stories a LOT)
** Also see "Look and Read" - which did the same as Words and Pictures.
Me and Meep
Mister Benn
Mister Merlin
Mister Pye
Mister Trimble
*Monkey
The Moomins
Button Moon
Moon Stallion
Murder In Space
Escape Into Night
*Ulysses 31
Under the Volcano
*A Very Peculiar Practice (may count... been a long time since I saw it, so I'm going off what I can read)
Vice Versa
Whoops Apocalypse
WonderMaths
**Threads (TV movie... always wanted to see it again... I shouldn't have watched it when I did; I was only a kid)
Worzel Gummidge
Blackadder (the millennium movie)
Z is for Zacharia
*Cats Eyes
Get Fresh
Sealab 2020
Search Control
**The Moondial
Sky
A Small Problem
Stainless Steel and the Star Spies
Stig of the Dump
The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris
Streethawk
Stronger Than The Sun
SuperTed


THere's lots and lots out there.... Check out www.tvcream.org for a big fat list of them. I'm stopping now, because I'm running out of patience for this.

BTW: I'm trying to work out the name of the show that ITV or Channel 4 showed where Judith from Tomorrow's World (mocked as "The World Tomorrow" on the show) dropped a flash of flesh-eating bacteria that wiped out the world's population, leaving only about 3 people left. That was the 1st episode.


I was really surprised to see Luna listed... :)

* = really good.
** = really incredibly don't miss it good, possibly hazed with nostalgia.

[Egg]

Were we doing this right then if we go real actors and not puppets, anime or animation, we can strike one , two , three off the list.
Starting with Thunderbirds, and....several others(I don't need to name, you know) just recheck!
I would rather have a list all sci-fi, every which way but it's a MONSTER list, all countries all genres all ages obscure to obvious,
it goes on.
You could spend the next ten years of your life doing the defin. book of books, and then grinner would say on this forum "hey you forgot this one" . His revenge would be so sweet!:rollin:

[VBKatLou]

Sorry, I've been busy in RL and missed this post. OK, I was the one who originally asked for the list. The explanation for why I wanted it is below.

I had no idea 1) just how much scifi was out there, and 2) what an incredibly knowledgeable group of people are coming to this board. :P

What if we did this:

Have four lists. One for scifi, one for fantasy, one for cartoon/animation/anime and one for "we don't know where it fits in yet and we don't want to figure it out today, we'll figure it out tomorrow".

We can keep all the lists on one thread, or have a separate thread for each catagory (personally I think 1 thread would be easier for now but you guys can discuss and decide). Maybe we could ask one of the mods to make this post (or start a new post that more acurately discribes what we're looking for) a sticky thing so that it always stays at the top of the first page of this forum.

We would need four people, each to be in charge of a list. By that I don't mean that they have to do all the research, they would just keep up with editing. grinner - you could continue with scifi. I'll volunteer to keep track of fantasy (as soon as someone posts some). So we need a volunteer for "animation" and one for miscellaneous. Yay/nay? Discussion?


The reason I asked for the list in the first place was because I'm working with some people here to try to gather support from the whole "scifi" community. This started with a post by jadeshand here:

http://www.watchfarscape.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8623

The mods here (I think), started a new board for anyone to discuss how to get networks to include quality scifi shows in their programming lineup (or maybe bring back some old shows that were killed off before their time). Here's the URL for the new board:

http://www.wdsection.com/community/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=45

As you can see, things are just getting started so there is not alot happening. We're putting together an invitation and will be posting it on other bulletin boards. I'm conducting searches using the names of scifi shows to find Bboards. I'm keeping the URLs in a list. Once the invitation is ready, we're going to post to these boards.

So, in typical Scaper style, what started out as something small, grew into something a lot bigger :rollin:

Who knows, maybe we'll end up taking these lists and creating a web site w/links to info about all the shows we've found. But not today. I've got planting to do.

So what do you think?

[Demonique]

Here's two you forgot

The Tribe
The Last Train

[grinner]

Well, my list does contain alot of shows that could be considered Fantasy... I can think of a bunch.
I will add those shows to the list... but Metal Mickey is already on the list. It has been told to me 7 times... and it has been on the list since the begining. I will still be adding to the list, but will start to seperate them into different catagories. I will add Anime/Cartoons. just PM me with shows... or just post them on another thread that I am going to start. Thanks.

Oh, and Egg... Thunderbirds is in the same family of Genre as live action... it still has actors working the strings. Different than cartoons.

[Egg]

I remember..................supermarionation........ ..skilled actors, every moving part of them:rollin:

[grinner]

Originally posted by spectecjr
Battle of the Planets
*There are 3 versions of Max Headroom; the US sci-fi serial, the UK TV movie, and the UK music VJ show.
Metal Mickey
* Chocky's Children (the sequel to Chocky)
Saturday Starship (no, seriously!)
**The Adventure Game
Man From Atlantis
Marine Boy
Maths-In-A-Box
Words And Pictures (no, seriously! - they ran sci-fi stories a LOT)
** Also see "Look and Read" - which did the same as Words and Pictures.
Me and Meep
Mister Benn
Mister Merlin
Mister Pye
Mister Trimble
*Monkey
The Moomins
Button Moon
Moon Stallion
Murder In Space
Escape Into Night
*Ulysses 31
Under the Volcano
*A Very Peculiar Practice (may count... been a long time since I saw it, so I'm going off what I can read)
Vice Versa
Whoops Apocalypse
WonderMaths
**Threads (TV movie... always wanted to see it again... I shouldn't have watched it when I did; I was only a kid)
Worzel Gummidge
Blackadder (the millennium movie)
Z is for Zacharia
*Cats Eyes
Get Fresh
Sealab 2020
Search Control
**The Moondial
Sky
A Small Problem
Stainless Steel and the Star Spies
Stig of the Dump
The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris
Streethawk
Stronger Than The Sun
SuperTed


THere's lots and lots out there.... Check out www.tvcream.org for a big fat list of them. I'm stopping now, because I'm running out of patience for this.

BTW: I'm trying to work out the name of the show that ITV or Channel 4 showed where Judith from Tomorrow's World (mocked as "The World Tomorrow" on the show) dropped a flash of flesh-eating bacteria that wiped out the world's population, leaving only about 3 people left. That was the 1st episode.


I was really surprised to see Luna listed... :)

* = really good.
** = really incredibly don't miss it good, possibly hazed with nostalgia.

Hey... are these cartoons? I am having a hard time finding any info on most of these shows. Give me some info please.

[grinner]

Originally posted by Demonique

The Last Train
should this count? It is only a 6 part miniseries. Votes?
_____________________________
Welcome to The Last Train guide at TV Tome.

The Last Train was a gripping six part post-holocaust drama series made by Granada Television. The plot concerns the survivors of a catastrophe (namely the Earth being hit by a giant meteorite) who were cryogenically frozen in a railway carriage, due to the actions of a scientist called Harriet Ambrose (Nicola Walker). The series follows their adventures in the devastated new world, where everything they had known is now dead and gone. Harriet leads the group and insists they must reach 'Ark' to find help. Other principal characters included Amita Dhiri ('Milly' in This Life) as mother of two - Jandra, Christopher Fulford as impulsive Ian Hart, Treva Etienne as bad boy and former criminal Mick Sizer and Zoe Telford as the sensible Roe Germaine.

The series was very popular and was repeated on ITV2 in 2001. Fans of the BBC TV series Survivors have commented that The Last Train revisits some of the same scenarios and ideas as the classic 70s series. Survivors is also featured on TV Tome.

The Last Train's producer, Sita Williams, is also producer of the current 2002 production of The Forsyte Saga which began its run on Sunday 7th April.

The Last Train was broadcast under the title "Cruel Earth" in Canada. This was also the working title for the series.
Show Information Contribute Edit
First Aired April 1999
Last Aired May 1999
Running Time 55 min
Country United Kingdom
Network ITV1
Show Stars Contribute Edit
Ralph Brown - Jonathan Geddes
Caroline Carver - Hild
Janet Dale - Jean Wilson
Sacha Dhawan - Leo Nixon
Amita Dhiri - Jandra Nixon
Treva Etienne - Mick Sizer
Christopher Fulford - Ian Hart
Dinita Gohil - Anita Nixon
James Hazeldine - Austin Danforth
Steve Huison - Colin Wallis
Zoë Telford - Roe Germaine
Nicola Walker - Harriet Ambrose
Show Crew Contribute Details Edit
Matthew Graham - Creator

[blue]

When you start to cut a list like this into SciFi vs Fantasy--there will be a lot of overlap and judgment calls and even impossible delemmas--They bleed into each other, SciFi and Fantasy--is Farscape Scifi? There are episodes like the ones with Maldus--does that make the show only Fantasy? Sometimes what is considered pure fantasy ends up being part of science much later - like ESP research-- should all shows with some sort of telepathy or precognition be labeled fantasy? Some would say definitely not, others would say of course. The old "Fantasy and Science Fiction" Magazine never tried to distinguish--call it imaginitive fiction--Where will you put something like Third Rock? Fantasy? Of course, but it is mostly about the concept of aliens on Earth, which would be SciFi. I wonder if trying to pigeonhole the members of this list into one or the other is worth the effort--there won't be agreement. A lot of the categorizations will look arbitrary to people with different perspectives.

edited--Unless you let many of the shows appear on both lists. Forget the either-or.

[grinner]

I am not going to split this list... I am making a second Anime/cartoon list. I think that this list is actually a Science Fiction/Fantasy/Supernatural Genre list and should stay that way. You are right about the judgement calls. Besides, I DON'T want to even think about starting to seperate this list... someone else can. All I want is for people to add shows as they think of them. I may as the threads get long, pull the list out like I did to start this list. It makes the list unwieldy if you have to search thru 3 or more pages to see new shows.

[VBKatLou]

OK, that's fine w/me. Two lists then.
edited to add - all the anal people will just have to go get some chocolate to deal with it. :P
As far as "The Last Train" goes.....what the hell.....add it. Why don't you put "mini-series" next to it in parantheses.

[grinner]

Good idea Kat... will do.

[spectecjr]

Originally posted by grinner
Hey... are these cartoons? I am having a hard time finding any info on most of these shows. Give me some info please.

OK... Cartoons are marked with a C.
Educational with an E
Live Action with an A
Puppets with a P
Mixed Format with an M
Game Shows with a G

Oh, and I'm only including the Puppet moniker for those shows which have *only* puppets.

(Mixed format, for example, would be Words & Pictures or Look and Read, which both had sci-fi stories embedded into their format.... and sci-fi characters doing the teaching).

C: Battle of the Planets
A: *There are 3 versions of Max Headroom; the US sci-fi serial, the UK TV movie, and the UK music VJ show.
A: Metal Mickey (oops - sorry !)
A: * Chocky's Children (the sequel to Chocky)
MA: Saturday Starship (no, seriously!) -- saturday morning kids-show format, where the day would start around 8:30 and finish at 12pm. In between the segments set on the starship, you'd have short 30min shows, cartoons, and skits. See also Get Fresh.
GA:**The Adventure Game -- very cool sci-fi celebrity game show. The losers had to walk home. Which takes a long time when the show is held about 20 light-years away.
A: Man From Atlantis
C: Marine Boy
EA: Maths-In-A-Box -- a more strictly educational version of Dr. Who. No kidding.
EMAP: Words And Pictures (no, seriously! - they ran sci-fi stories a LOT)
EMAP: ** Also see "Look and Read" - which did the same as Words and Pictures.
A: Me and Meep
C: Mister Benn -- london businessman keeps visiting a costume shop, and goes through a portal to the appropriate setting for his costume. Very cool. :)
A: Mister Merlin
A: Mister Pye -- very weird. Mr. Pye was... well... some kind of angel. When he did good things, his wings grew.... when he did bad things, he grew horns. Much to the consternation of the local residents. Derek Jacobi was in the title role. :)
A: Mister Trimble
A: *Monkey -- Japanese mythos sfx-laden fighting show. Monkey had a quarterstaff he could shrink and hide in his ear; Pigsy was descended from a pig... lots of magic. Monkey flew around on a cloud a lot of the time. If you've ever wondered where all those fighting games get their ideas from, this is one of the places. That, and Warriors of Xu Mountain.
CP: The Moomins (stop motion animation... a later series was cartooned). A family of alien hippopotomi on a weird planet. Strange.
P: Button Moon ... the journeys of Mr. Spoon to Button Moon (made, obviously, from a button), in his home-made rocket ship. Great for the under 5s.
A: Moon Stallion - future visions in a plot regarding one of the white horses cut into the British countryside.
A: Murder In Space - One off live-action whodunnit where you could win $10,000 for guessing who was... well... the killer. US/UK/AUS coproduction.
A: Escape Into Night -- ever see the movie Paperhouse? Well, this is what that was based on.
C: *Ulysses 31 -- epic retelling of the Odyssey in 44 episodes. Currently being made into a movie by the guys who brought you Delicatessen, City of the Lost Children, Aliens Resurrection, and Amelie (well, one half of the team made that).
A: Under the Volcano -- (from TV Cream: (1981)
KIDS' DRAMA series set in either Australia or NZ, featuring a boy and girl who lived on a beach overlooking an island/mountain/volcano a short distance away. There was a creepy family called the Horrobins who lived in a large Addams Family style Gothic mansion. To the rest of the world this family seem spooky, but harmless... however (inevitably) these meddling kids discover the family are aliens placed on earth in an advance-of-the-invasion recce. The best bit was when we realise the slime on the island has been left by these transmogrifying creatures ( big blue n' purple blobs, highly scary) who actually live Under The Mountain. They travelled at great speed back and forth from the island to the mainland by means of a maze of tunnels causing untold misery. )
A: *A Very Peculiar Practice (may count... been a long time since I saw it, so I'm going off what I can read) -- Peter Davison has weird things happen to him.
A: Vice Versa -- father and son swap bodies.
A: Whoops Apocalypse -- World War 3 starts in a political satire show. The world is destroyed at the end by mistake.
EA: WonderMaths -- crew of a spaceship fly around the galaxy solving maths problems. "Problems included drifting through a 'Sea of Reflections', getting caught in a space spider's web that wouldn't tesselate and working out the junctions on a space motorway."
**Threads (TV movie... always wanted to see it again... I shouldn't have watched it when I did; I was only a kid). World War 3 occurs. People deal with the aftermath. Shocking stuff. http://www.unc.edu/~landon/threads.html
A: Worzel Gummidge -- Jon Pertwee is a scarecrow, brought to life by the Crowmaker. He can swap heads, depending on the needs of the occasion. Kind of freaky.
A: Blackadder (the millennium movie) -- Baldrick builds a fake time-machine for Blackadder for a millennium-eve scam. Unfortunately, it actually works.
A: Z is for Zacharia -- Lone girl survivor in the middle of the Post-Nuclear Apocalypse Welsh countryside.
A: *Cats Eyes -- Not very far along the sci-fi axis, but getting there (especially with the LSD-trip episode). Kind of the british version of Charlie's Angels.
A: Get Fresh -- the starship from Saturday Starship finally works out how to land, and turns into the Millennium Dustbin -- a huge prop which landed at various places around the british countryside every saturday morning. (See Saturday Starship).
A: Sealab 2020
A: Search Control (from TVCream: FUTURISTIC (for its time) adventure series following the exploits of cyber-sleuths HUGH O'BRIEN, ANTHONY FRANCIOSA and DOUG McCLURE, backed up by irascible controller BURGESS MEREDITH. The gimmick was that the three were linked by radio implants and other groovy gadgets to a central control, where Meredith and his team of chairborne smartarses would use computers to instantly access vital data and pass it instantly to our heroes.")
A: **The Moondial -- Absolutely FANTASTIC darker retread of the ground forged by Tom's Midnight Garden, merging the traditional Ghost story with elements of time-travel and period Victorian history.
A: Tom's Midnight Garden -- similar ground to The Moondial, but without so much of the ghost angle. Excellent stuff. The 1989 remake (done after The Moondial) was the best one.
A: Sky
A: A Small Problem -- In a futuristic Gattacaesque society (the show predates Gattaca by more than 10 years), people below a certain height are discriminated against. The show missed its mark more often than not,and a lot of people didn't quite get it, thinking the whole thing was a slur on dwarves.
A: Stainless Steel and the Star Spies -- kids show; alien robots take over the earth.
A: Stig of the Dump -- a caveman is found living in a landfill.
A: The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris
A: Streethawk -- a guy and a supersonic motorbike. Think Knight Rider, or Airwolf, but with a bike.
A: Stronger Than The Sun -- miniseries about yet another nuclear catastrophe. :)
C: SuperTed -- a discarded teddybear is animated by a yellow-spotted alien to help fight crime throughout the universe.



BTW: Note: There ARE a lot more out there. This is just a few that I dug up (I've seen about half of these shows... maybe more) from TV Cream. There's still all of the As, Bs, Cs... etc to go through on there :)

[ichinen]

I seem to remember a show super-hero show called "Misfits of Science". I think Courteney Cox was in it. My favorite guy was the mechanic that could shoot lightning bolts. :finger:

[grinner]

spectecjr: I will add the live action... but I don't think that one-offs or the game shows will be added. Unless I add pilots of shows. I did add the pilot for B5: Legends of the Rangers, but I have gotten grief over that. Should we add Pilots of shows that were not made?

[spectecjr]

Originally posted by grinner
spectecjr: I will add the live action... but I don't think that one-offs or the game shows will be added. Unless I add pilots of shows. I did add the pilot for B5: Legends of the Rangers, but I have gotten grief over that. Should we add Pilots of shows that were not made?

If you don't include The Adventure Game, you're making a big mistake.

Site dedicated to The Adventure Game (http://www.joolsweb.co.uk/tag/)

The BBC's Cult TV site (http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/tv/adventuregame/)


UK Gameshows - The Adventure Game (http://www.ukgameshows.com/atoz/programmes/a/adventure_game/index.htm)


Strictly speaking, The Crystal Maze should also be included, as it was indeed based around a sci-fi plot.

[spectecjr]

Originally posted by spectecjr
If you don't include The Adventure Game, you're making a big mistake.

Site dedicated to The Adventure Game (http://www.joolsweb.co.uk/tag/)

The BBC's Cult TV site (http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/tv/adventuregame/)


UK Gameshows - The Adventure Game (http://www.ukgameshows.com/atoz/programmes/a/adventure_game/index.htm)


Strictly speaking, The Crystal Maze should also be included, as it was indeed based around a sci-fi plot.

Oh, and specifically, check this out:

The Adventure Game - Opening Titles, with a little of the show (http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/tv/titles/adventuregametitle.shtml)

[grinner]

Originally posted by spectecjr
OK... Cartoons are marked with a C.
Educational with an E
Live Action with an A
Puppets with a P
Mixed Format with an M
Game Shows with a G

Oh, and I'm only including the Puppet moniker for those shows which have *only* puppets.

(Mixed format, for example, would be Words & Pictures or Look and Read, which both had sci-fi stories embedded into their format.... and sci-fi characters doing the teaching).

C: Battle of the Planets
A: *There are 3 versions of Max Headroom; the US sci-fi serial, the UK TV movie, and the UK music VJ show.
A: Metal Mickey (oops - sorry !)
A: * Chocky's Children (the sequel to Chocky)
MA: Saturday Starship (no, seriously!) -- saturday morning kids-show format, where the day would start around 8:30 and finish at 12pm. In between the segments set on the starship, you'd have short 30min shows, cartoons, and skits. See also Get Fresh.
GA:**The Adventure Game -- very cool sci-fi celebrity game show. The losers had to walk home. Which takes a long time when the show is held about 20 light-years away.
A: Man From Atlantis
C: Marine Boy
EA: Maths-In-A-Box -- a more strictly educational version of Dr. Who. No kidding.
EMAP: Words And Pictures (no, seriously! - they ran sci-fi stories a LOT)
EMAP: ** Also see "Look and Read" - which did the same as Words and Pictures.
A: Me and Meep
C: Mister Benn -- london businessman keeps visiting a costume shop, and goes through a portal to the appropriate setting for his costume. Very cool. :)
A: Mister Merlin
A: Mister Pye -- very weird. Mr. Pye was... well... some kind of angel. When he did good things, his wings grew.... when he did bad things, he grew horns. Much to the consternation of the local residents. Derek Jacobi was in the title role. :)
A: Mister Trimble
A: *Monkey -- Japanese mythos sfx-laden fighting show. Monkey had a quarterstaff he could shrink and hide in his ear; Pigsy was descended from a pig... lots of magic. Monkey flew around on a cloud a lot of the time. If you've ever wondered where all those fighting games get their ideas from, this is one of the places. That, and Warriors of Xu Mountain.
CP: The Moomins (stop motion animation... a later series was cartooned). A family of alien hippopotomi on a weird planet. Strange.
P: Button Moon ... the journeys of Mr. Spoon to Button Moon (made, obviously, from a button), in his home-made rocket ship. Great for the under 5s.
A: Moon Stallion - future visions in a plot regarding one of the white horses cut into the British countryside.
A: Murder In Space - One off live-action whodunnit where you could win $10,000 for guessing who was... well... the killer. US/UK/AUS coproduction.
A: Escape Into Night -- ever see the movie Paperhouse? Well, this is what that was based on.
C: *Ulysses 31 -- epic retelling of the Odyssey in 44 episodes. Currently being made into a movie by the guys who brought you Delicatessen, City of the Lost Children, Aliens Resurrection, and Amelie (well, one half of the team made that).
A: Under the Volcano -- (from TV Cream: (1981)
KIDS' DRAMA series set in either Australia or NZ, featuring a boy and girl who lived on a beach overlooking an island/mountain/volcano a short distance away. There was a creepy family called the Horrobins who lived in a large Addams Family style Gothic mansion. To the rest of the world this family seem spooky, but harmless... however (inevitably) these meddling kids discover the family are aliens placed on earth in an advance-of-the-invasion recce. The best bit was when we realise the slime on the island has been left by these transmogrifying creatures ( big blue n' purple blobs, highly scary) who actually live Under The Mountain. They travelled at great speed back and forth from the island to the mainland by means of a maze of tunnels causing untold misery. )
A: *A Very Peculiar Practice (may count... been a long time since I saw it, so I'm going off what I can read) -- Peter Davison has weird things happen to him.
A: Vice Versa -- father and son swap bodies.
A: Whoops Apocalypse -- World War 3 starts in a political satire show. The world is destroyed at the end by mistake.
EA: WonderMaths -- crew of a spaceship fly around the galaxy solving maths problems. "Problems included drifting through a 'Sea of Reflections', getting caught in a space spider's web that wouldn't tesselate and working out the junctions on a space motorway."
**Threads (TV movie... always wanted to see it again... I shouldn't have watched it when I did; I was only a kid). World War 3 occurs. People deal with the aftermath. Shocking stuff. http://www.unc.edu/~landon/threads.html
A: Worzel Gummidge -- Jon Pertwee is a scarecrow, brought to life by the Crowmaker. He can swap heads, depending on the needs of the occasion. Kind of freaky.
A: Blackadder (the millennium movie) -- Baldrick builds a fake time-machine for Blackadder for a millennium-eve scam. Unfortunately, it actually works.
A: Z is for Zacharia -- Lone girl survivor in the middle of the Post-Nuclear Apocalypse Welsh countryside.
A: *Cats Eyes -- Not very far along the sci-fi axis, but getting there (especially with the LSD-trip episode). Kind of the british version of Charlie's Angels.
A: Get Fresh -- the starship from Saturday Starship finally works out how to land, and turns into the Millennium Dustbin -- a huge prop which landed at various places around the british countryside every saturday morning. (See Saturday Starship).
A: Sealab 2020
A: Search Control (from TVCream: FUTURISTIC (for its time) adventure series following the exploits of cyber-sleuths HUGH O'BRIEN, ANTHONY FRANCIOSA and DOUG McCLURE, backed up by irascible controller BURGESS MEREDITH. The gimmick was that the three were linked by radio implants and other groovy gadgets to a central control, where Meredith and his team of chairborne smartarses would use computers to instantly access vital data and pass it instantly to our heroes.")
A: **The Moondial -- Absolutely FANTASTIC darker retread of the ground forged by Tom's Midnight Garden, merging the traditional Ghost story with elements of time-travel and period Victorian history.
A: Tom's Midnight Garden -- similar ground to The Moondial, but without so much of the ghost angle. Excellent stuff. The 1989 remake (done after The Moondial) was the best one.
A: Sky
A: A Small Problem -- In a futuristic Gattacaesque society (the show predates Gattaca by more than 10 years), people below a certain height are discriminated against. The show missed its mark more often than not,and a lot of people didn't quite get it, thinking the whole thing was a slur on dwarves.
A: Stainless Steel and the Star Spies -- kids show; alien robots take over the earth.
A: Stig of the Dump -- a caveman is found living in a landfill.
A: The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris
A: Streethawk -- a guy and a supersonic motorbike. Think Knight Rider, or Airwolf, but with a bike.
A: Stronger Than The Sun -- miniseries about yet another nuclear catastrophe. :)
C: SuperTed -- a discarded teddybear is animated by a yellow-spotted alien to help fight crime throughout the universe.



BTW: Note: There ARE a lot more out there. This is just a few that I dug up (I've seen about half of these shows... maybe more) from TV Cream. There's still all of the As, Bs, Cs... etc to go through on there :)

Are some of these one-offs or movies? If so, I would like to post if the are after the title.

[spectecjr]

Erm... it's hard to make that distinction for British TV. A lot of British shows had seasons where each episode was 30 minutes, and there could be as few as 6 episodes. These would then be treated as "TV Movies" in one big lump in the US (c.f. Dr. Who)

For example, Cracker (not SciFi, but it'll do for this example) was a show in the UK with 1 hour episodes, shown once a week. In the US, each episode was crammed together with the other episodes in that particular story and shown as a TV movie (or in Cracker's case, a series of TV movies).

So it's hard to make that distinction. Where possible, I've tried to make it clear if it's what would be considered a movie (eg. the Blackadder Millennium movie -- but that's also a TV show spinoff... and if you include Blackadder's Christmas Carol... then you get into even more difficult water). I mean, how do you decide what to make of Tom's Midnight Garden, or The Moondial? Both were 6 to 12 part stories, shown once a week, each episode about 30 minutes to an hour long. Is that a TV movie, a one-off (because it's a single story, not a continuing episodic format like say Doctor Who), or what?

Simon

[spectecjr]

How the hell would you quantify/pigeonhole Matabharat, which IIRC is a 30 to 100 hour long movie?

Simon

[grinner]

Originally posted by spectecjr
Erm... it's hard to make that distinction for British TV. A lot of British shows had seasons where each episode was 30 minutes, and there could be as few as 6 episodes. These would then be treated as "TV Movies" in one big lump in the US (c.f. Dr. Who) I would not consider Doctor Who to be a series of TV movies. When I saw it, it was shown once a week, the entire story...just as any American show would be shown. I would consider that to be a regular TV show.

For example, Cracker (not SciFi, but it'll do for this example) was a show in the UK with 1 hour episodes, shown once a week. In the US, each episode was crammed together with the other episodes in that particular story and shown as a TV movie (or in Cracker's case, a series of TV movies).
Since it was shown as a serial in the UK... it is a series as I would understand it. I am not going to say that all shows have to follow the American pattern. If it was shown on TV weekly in the UK or anywhere in the world... it is a show. 20 minutes... half hour... one hour... it is a show. 2 hours gets into the Movie range, so I would have a problem calling those series.

So it's hard to make that distinction. Where possible, I've tried to make it clear if it's what would be considered a movie (eg. the Blackadder Millennium movie -- but that's also a TV show spinoff... and if you include Blackadder's Christmas Carol... then you get into even more difficult water). I mean, how do you decide what to make of Tom's Midnight Garden, or The Moondial? Both were 6 to 12 part stories, shown once a week, each episode about 30 minutes to an hour long. Is that a TV movie, a one-off (because it's a single story, not a continuing episodic format like say Doctor Who), or what?

Simon How do I consider Black Adder... if I consider Millenium... do I have to add Black Adder, Black Adder 2, Black Adder Goes Forth... That is a question.

[grinner]

Originally posted by spectecjr
How the hell would you quantify/pigeonhole Matabharat, which IIRC is a 30 to 100 hour long movie?

Simon
Que? What is Matabharat?

[spectecjr]

It's an indian epic myth... includes all of the hindu/vishnu gods, IIRC.

[Mivonks]

How about The Omega Factor, a BBC TV series from the late 70's.

Based on 'the highly-secret government organisation Department 7' who investigate the Supernatural.

An early version of The X-Files.

Matt
Another Obscure Brit Series :aok:

[Egg]

Originally posted by spectecjr
It's an indian epic myth... includes all of the hindu/vishnu gods, IIRC.
Heres a link to a boxed set advert.
http://www.intelindia.com/mahabharat/mbondvd.htm

The links help

[grinner]

Okay, Matabharat is on because it seems to be a series... so, hey, works for me.

[Egg]

Deepwater Black

http://www.scifi.com/missiongenesis/dwbindex.html

[grinner]

now I do.

[Demonique]

Originally posted by grinner
Oh, and Egg... Thunderbirds is in the same family of Genre as live action... it still has actors working the strings. Different than cartoons.

As well as close-ups of live actors' hands. One time a technician in one ep looked at his watch, got a close-up of his hand, obviously a live actor's hand 'cause there's no way in frell they'd have gone to all the trouble of putting tiny little hairs on a puppet's hand.

Another time there was a close-up of Lady Peneloped clicking her fingers to keep time with something or other. Used a live actress's hand there too

[Egg]

Aquila
http://www.geocities.com/KTVAUK/shows/Aquila.html
and HR Puff n Stuff
http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/tv/kids/hrpufnstuf.htm

:)

[AgentSun]

not to be nitpicky (well, maybe) but does anyone else think it was weird for them to rename SeaQuest DSV to SeaQuest 2032 when they brought in a revised cast? and SeaQuest DSV was far superior...i just noticed that DSV was there and then i thought of 2032 and thought of how strange it was for me.

[RobinC]

In case nobody's named these yet, for the cartoon/anime list I'd love to see:
Roughnecks: Starship Troopers
Reboot

[Demonique]

Originally posted by RobinC
In case nobody's named these yet, for the cartoon/anime list I'd love to see:
Roughnecks: Starship Troopers
Reboot

Reboot was in Grinner's list in the first post, I added Roughnecks though it was under the name Starship Troopers.

BTW, did you know there's going to be a sequel to the SS Troopers movie? Dina Meyer probably won't be in it seeing as her character died (and SST doesn't look like the movie to pull the 'ol bringing 'em back to life gig) and it's not known at present if Casper Van Dien (what's he doing now? Anyone know?) will be reprising his role as Johnny Rico

[AgentSun]

seriously? a sequel? oy...

i think the first movie was good as a summer blockbuster, if you ignored that it was based on heilein but as a tribute to heilein, it was horrible...

[grinner]

Originally posted by AgentSun
not to be nitpicky (well, maybe) but does anyone else think it was weird for them to rename SeaQuest DSV to SeaQuest 2032 when they brought in a revised cast? and SeaQuest DSV was far superior...i just noticed that DSV was there and then i thought of 2032 and thought of how strange it was for me. That show is another example of the rediculous decisions to dumb down and sex up a show.

[grinner]

Originally posted by AgentSun
seriously? a sequel? oy...

i think the first movie was good as a summer blockbuster, if you ignored that it was based on heilein but as a tribute to heilein, it was horrible... forget the n AgentSun? Heinlein. Starship Troopers sucked... Mr. Director should stick to making titty films instead of action films.

[grinner]

Originally posted by Demonique
Reboot was in Grinner's list in the first post,
Lowercase g please... grinner, Not Grinner. Grinner is TM and I had problems many years ago on a comicbook BB with that name. Lawyer was trolling for easy money or something. I can use grinner only if it is lowercase. But it has been 10 years since the commotion... I would rather not push anything.

[AgentSun]

forget the n AgentSun? Heinlein. Starship Troopers sucked... Mr. Director should stick to making titty films instead of action films.

i KNEW there was something wrong with that post. LOL, i did forget the n. i couldnt figure out what was wrong with the post and it never occurred to me that i spelled heinlein wrong, lol...

[FrellinScarran]

I don't think anyone has mentioned "Tracker", the new Adrian Paul series.
I started to watch it because it had Gerant Wyn Davies, but everytime I watch he has only one short scene or isn't on at all.

Anyway, theres another for the list.

[grinner]

done

[tyzermo]

Aquila??? sifi about two kids that fall in a hole and find a spaceship, go joyriding.
About as obscure as you get, but it exists.
Ha! You don’t have it!

[Selena]

Probably a silly question but does the list include movies too or just TV Shows?

Does the cartoon series The Jetsons qualify?

[Demonique]

Originally posted by Selena
Probably a silly question but does the list include movies too or just TV Shows?

Does the cartoon series The Jetsons qualify?

No movies, just TV Shows.

Live action only, no cartoons, but there's a seperate thread for animated TV shows

[FrellinScarran]

There was a futuristic secret agent type show in the early '70s called "Search", it was created and produced by "The Outer Limits" (original) creator Leslie Stevens. It starred Hugh O'Brian, Doug McClure and Tony Franciosa. They alternated from week to week (they never appeared in the same episode together). It also had Burgess Meridith as the guy who ran the central command. They had little radios implanted just under one of their ears, and a ring with a little camera. The show took place in "present day" but with a very futuristic look. I remember it because I was a huge fan. I also have a View Master picture packet of it.

[grinner]

Originally posted by FrellinScarran
There was a futuristic secret agent type show in the early '70s called "Search", it was created and produced by "The Outer Limits" (original) creator Leslie Stevens. It starred Hugh O'Brian, Doug McClure and Tony Franciosa. They alternated from week to week (they never appeared in the same episode together). It also had Burgess Meridith as the guy who ran the central command. They had little radios implanted just under one of their ears, and a ring with a little camera. The show took place in "present day" but with a very futuristic look. I remember it because I was a huge fan. I also have a View Master picture packet of it.
you mean this show?Contribute Edit
The premise of the show centered on Probe, a division of World Securities Corporation. Individuals, companies, governments would hire the Probe Division to "search and recover that which was missing." Probe's agents were equiped with miniturized television scanners, which transmitted picture, sound, medical telemetry and anything else the script writers could think of back to Probe Control, where computer specialists monitored the agent's progress, and analyzed the information the scanner was transmitting. The scanners were small and round and had a magnetic back so they could attach to a ring, tie-tack, locket, or anything with a metal surface. That way the scanner appeared to be an exotic piece of jewelry. The agents also had a small audio receiver implanted behind the left ear, so they could hear sound transmitted from Probe Control. The Control personnel would link up to any data base, government or private, to retrieve information that would help the agent work the case. The agents also had a dental implant they could use to send beep tones back to control (once for yes, twice for no or continuous for emergency) if the scanner were unavailable or if there were people present...as the agents did not reveal how they were wired for picture and sound if they could help it. Search had three rotating stars. Hugh O'Brian played agent Hugh Lockwood, whose designation was Probe One. He handled all types of cases that were not specifically crime/mob related. Tony Franciosa played agent Nick Bianco...designation Omega Probe. The Omega division specialized in criminal/organized crime cases. Doug McClure played agent C.R. Grover...designated Stand By Probe. He was called in if a last minute case or emergency required an agent to step in at a moment's notice. The C.R. stood for "Christopher Robin". Back at Control supervising the missions was V.C.R Cameron, played by Burgess Meredith. Cameron supervised the room full of computer/telemetry specialists, making sure the agents had whatever they needed to solve the case, keep them from getting injured, and keep them from breaking too many of Probe Division's regulations.
Show Information Contribute Edit
First Aired September 1972
Last Aired August 1973
Running Time 60 min
Country United States
Currently Appears Wednesday 10:00 PM
Network NBC
Show Stars Contribute Edit
Anthony Franciosa - Nick Bianco
Doug McClure - C.R. Grover
Burgess Meredith - V.C.R. Cameron
Hugh O'Brian - Hugh Lockwood
Angel Tompkins - Gloria Harding
Show Crew Contribute Details Edit
Leslie Stevens - Executive Producer
Leslie Stevens - Creator

[grinner]

Originally posted by tyzermo
Aquila??? sifi about two kids that fall in a hole and find a spaceship, go joyriding.
About as obscure as you get, but it exists.
Ha! You don’t have it! I do now. It is on the list

[grinner]

Originally posted by Selena
Probably a silly question but does the list include movies too or just TV Shows?

Does the cartoon series The Jetsons qualify?
I am leaning on maybe putting Pilot movies on the list, as there have been a number of people asking about them. Cartoons are on a different list.

[Egg]

Originally posted by grinner
I am leaning on maybe putting Pilot movies on the list, as there have been a number of people asking about them. Cartoons are on a different list.
I agree Pilot should have his own movies!:)

[grinner]

That's what I have been saying. IT IS ALL ABOUT PILOT. He's the man.

[RobinC]

Haven't seen Futurama yet. Also, how about Captain Scarlet and Venus Patrol (two old marionette shows).

[grinner]

look for Futurama on this list.
http://www.watchfarscape.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9356
Captain Scarlet is already on the list as
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterions and Venus Partol is now on the list.

[FrellinScarran]

:aok:
That's it!! It was on only a year and I remember beig very dissapointed when it was cancelled :(

[tyzermo]

Well if ya gonna put Aquila on the list then maybe you’ll wanna put Jeopardy on there.
Bunch of Scot’s go hiking in Australia armed with cameras. Loads of weird things happen. One of them gets abducted and they discover they have strange powers. Kind of like the Blair Witch Project only with aliens. Really good for such a low budget show. You properly won’t get it in the State’s, but I reckon it should be on the list.

[grinner]

Is the name Jeopardy? Cause there is a game show of the same name. When I did a search for Jeopardy only the game show came up.

[tyzermo]

Had me a little look on BBCI. This is the only link I could find but it failed. the rest were all on that bloody game show. grrrrrr

www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/drama/progr.../popup_jeopardy.html

[FrellinScarran]

Hey Grinner!
I was alive (barely) in 1968 and I don't remember any TV show called "The Year Of The Sex Olympics".:eek: I mean, not that I'm doubting you.... Tell me more!!! :lizard:

[grinner]

Are you sure that is the title of the show? I have spent a bit of time looking for info on this show. Anyone else from the UK know about this show? Egg?

[grinner]

We should thank Egg for this one... he is the one that told me about it.

Originally posted by FrellinScarran
Hey Grinner!
I was alive (barely) in 1968 and I don't remember any TV show called "The Year Of The Sex Olympics".:eek: I mean, not that I'm doubting you.... Tell me more!!! :lizard: THE YEAR OF THE SEX OLYMPICS (1968).

Considering its salacious title, followed by the Olympics' interlocked rings transforming into male and female symbols, you might think this is just some weird sex flick. But with Nigel Kneale's name on the teleplay, you can only wonder what the Quatermass creator has up his sleeve. Made for British-TV, with production values that make DR. WHO look like DR. ZHIVAGO, Kneale and director Michael Elliott bombard their audience with a sci-fi scenario that's less lascivious than prophetic, and offers radically original ideas. In the future ("Sooner than you think..."), the live-telecast Sex Olympics are a major draw, since the passive public would rather watch handsome couples screwing on TV than do it in real life -- and thus save the planet from overpopulation. Leonard Rossiter (2001, BARRY LYNDON) turns up as pony-tailed TV-executive Ugo Priest, who remembers the early days of unacceptable pornography, long before this enlightened age of televised fuck-fests, which are specifically designed to placate the zombified masses. Hell, even their "Auto- Chess" machines don't play against a human opponent -- instead, it simply plays both sides of the board, as onlookers mindlessly watch. As their audience's attention begins to wan, Rossiter gets a fresh idea when an actual death is caught on camera and the viewers love it! So in one of the most prescient plot twists, a couple (Tony Bogel and Suzanne Neve) volunteer for a daring new pilot, "The Live-Life Show." This SURVIVOR meets BIG BROTHER reality- based program strands this pampered pair on a deserted island, minus all modern technology, with 24-7 cameras watching them hunt, plant, love, and face such previously-unheard-of concepts as fire, cold, fresh air, and even death. But while the viewers eat it up (and consider their primitive plight funny!), devious TV-exec Lasar Opie plans to manipulate the show into ever more dramatic territory. Co-starring Brian Cox (MANHUNTER's Hannibal Lecter) as Opie and Martin Potter as an angst-packed artist who brings "tension" to the stupefied masses, what begins like a simple satire of modern sexual openness turns into a powerful dystopian vision of modern voyeurism and inhumanity, with a surprisingly emotional pay-off. Its sci-fi trappings are often crude, with characters talking into plastic wristbands, eating from toothpaste-like tubes, sporting outlandish hairdos, and resembling an Ed Wood production of THE JETSONS. What it lacks in production values, it makes up for in admirably straight-faced performances and bold conceits, in what has to be one of Kneale's most unpredictably provocative works.

or
http://www.btinternet.com/~screeny/guides/sexolympics.htm

or
THE YEAR OF THE SEX OLYMPICS

UK / BBC2 'Theatre 625' / 1x105m-e / 1968 29 July

Writer: Nigel Kneale / Design: Roger Andrews / Producer: Ronald Travers / Director: Michael Elliott

Scifi drama. In an England of the future, the population is split in two, those who make TV programmes and those who watch. One family agree to have their lives broadcast 24 hours a day. Talk about prophetic, the strangeness that is Big Brother has clear echoes of this play.

With:- LEONARD ROSSITER as Co-Ordinator Ugo Priest / SUZANNE NEVE as Deannie Webb / TONY VOGEL as Nat Mender / VICKERY TURNER as Misch / BRIAN COX as Luger Opie

[FrellinScarran]

re: The Year Of The Sex Olympics

That sounds like an episode of Lexx.
I wonder if it's on video?

Thanks for the info Grinner.:scramble:

[grinner]

I have yet to see it on DVD or video cassette. It must be somewhere, unless it was destroyed in the late 70's like a lot of BBC television shows... like Doctor Who... among others.

[GcleffGinger]

Okay, you may have this on your list and I cannot recall the name but Christopher George played a robot? cyborg? some sort of superhuman. Show was in the 70's and short lived. I know there was the pilot movie and I thought a few shows following.

Secondly, I cannot say that there was a show but this book I have illudes to it: Something about an Ewok planet, take off from Star Wars, and it was live action with children in the mix.

[grinner]

The Ewoks movie was a Made For TV special event. It was only one episode... a 2 hour movie.

[FrellinScarran]

To: GcleffGinger re:Chris George series:

You're thinking of "The Immortal". The storyline was he had special blood that allowed him to live forever.

[grinner]

Originally posted by FrellinScarran
To: GcleffGinger re:Chris George series:

You're thinking of "The Immortal". The storyline was he had special blood that allowed him to live forever. Contribute Edit
Welcome to The Immortal guide at TV Tome.

"An oath sworn is an oath answered. An oath of vengeance for a life taken. A past destroyed, a future threatened. Enemy of darkness, he walks the earth, relentless. His mission, to hunt the messengers of evil, and drive them back to Hell. Now, the light of the earth depends on...the Immortal.

With this opening narration, we find out about the backstory of Raphael Cain, a Dutch seamen stranded in Japan in the 17th century and who becomes married to Mikiko, a Japanese woman, and has a daughter. However, demons kill his wife and kidnap his daughter. His father-in-law, Yashiro, gives him the power to swear an oath that so long as there are demons walking the Earth, Raphael shall live as long as it takes to send them all back to Hell. Accompanied by his equally immortal "squire," Goodwin, the two have been around 300 years. Now, allied with a parapsychologist, Dr. Sara Beckman, they battle demons in the modern-day and hope that they will be able to recover Rafe's daughter Kiyomi.

(pictured l. to r.: April Telek, Lorenzo Lamas, Steve Braun)
Show Information Contribute Edit
First Aired October 2000
Running Time 60 min
Country United States
Network Syndicated
Show Stars Contribute Edit
Steve Braun - Goodwin
Robert Ito - Yashiro
Lorenzo Lamas - Raphael "Rafe" Cain
April Telek - Dr. Sara Beckham


__________________________
or this one?
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Contribute Edit
Welcome to The Immortal (1970) guide at TV Tome.

There is no editor for this show. If you would like to be the editor look here for details.
Show Information Contribute Edit
First Aired September 1970
Last Aired January 1971
Running Time 60 min
Country United States
Network ABC
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David Brian - Maitland
Christopher George - Ben Richards
Don Knight - Fletcher
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Anthony Wilson - Executive Producer
Robert Specht - Creator (Series Concept Creator)
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[Demonique]

Originally posted by tyzermo
Well if ya gonna put Aquila on the list then maybe you’ll wanna put Jeopardy on there.
Bunch of Scot’s go hiking in Australia armed with cameras. Loads of weird things happen. One of them gets abducted and they discover they have strange powers. Kind of like the Blair Witch Project only with aliens. Really good for such a low budget show. You properly won’t get it in the State’s, but I reckon it should be on the list.

Jeopardy also starred some Australian actress that you've probably never heard of, name's Tammy Macintosh

[grinner]

Is that the name of it... Jeopardy? I can find nothing on it. But if two people say they saw it... then it must be.

[Demonique]

Originally posted by grinner
Is that the name of it... Jeopardy? I can find nothing on it. But if two people say they saw it... then it must be.

I saw a few eps in the second season, none of the first season and that's the season TAmmy was in it

[tyzermo]

No……
cant find anything else on Jeopardy, sorry.
but it's on, so that’s cool.:aok:

[grinner]

well, I had a person PM me saying that they had heard of it, plus you two... so I felt it had to go on the list.

[GcleffGinger]

OMG! I thought of another one!! "It's about Time."

I'm so old I can even sing the theme song.....(Clears throat)
"... It's about two astronauts, It's about their fate,
It's about a woman and her prehistoric mate."

[VBKatLou]

OMG - that struck at chord w/me! Wasn't it something like:

It's about Time
It's about Space
It's about two men...........

now I can't remember the rest, but I can even remember the tune. Ok, now I've got to go search on it or this will drive me nuts all night. I see it's already on the list, unless grinner added it after your post.

[VBKatLou]

God I love the internet :P


Title: "It's About Time"
By: "Gerald Fried and Sherwood Schwartz"



It's about time,
It's about space,
About strange people in the strangest place.

It's about time,
It's about flight,
Travelin' faster than the speed of light.

About space people and a brave crew,
As through the barrier of time they flew.
Pass the Roman Senators,
Pass an armored knight,
Pass the firing Minutemen,
To this modern site.

It's about time for you and me
To meet these people of amazing feats.
It's about two astronauts and how they educate
A pre-historic woman and her pre-historic mate.

It's about time
It's about space
About strange people in the strangest place.

They will be here
With all of us
Dodging a taxi, a car, a bus.

Where will they go
What will they do
In this strange place where everything is new.

Will they manage to survive
Watch each week and see.
Will they get accustomed to the Twentieth Century.

It's about time
For our good byes
To all our pre-historic gals and guys.

And now,
It's About Time
It's About Time
It's About Time
It's About Time!

[GcleffGinger]

VBCatLou,

You are good. I can't believe you found it. Now can I blame you if I walk around all day with that ditzy song running through my head?

Ging

[Egg]

Originally posted by tyzermo
No……
cant find anything else on Jeopardy, sorry.
but it's on, so that’s cool.:aok:

Here's a link
http://www.abc.net.au/rollercoaster/kidstv/shows/prog204.htm

[VBKatLou]

Hey, can you guys do me a favor and do like Egg and post links to places that have info on these shows? I may be using this list for more than just to search for Bboards.

Thanks,

VBKatLou

Oh, and GcleffGinger - No you can not blame me, you started it :lol

[grinner]

Originally posted by VBKatLou
Hey, can you guys do me a favor and do like Egg and post links to places that have info on these shows? I may be using this list for more than just to search for Bboards.


Thanks,

VBKatLou

Wow Kat, my list isn't good enough for you? Now you want website info? You are such the woman :P
I have been using www.us.imdb.com or http://www.tvtome.com/ to search out info for these shows.

[Egg]

Originally posted by grinner
Wow Kat, my list isn't good enough for you? Now you want website info? You are such the woman :P
I have been using www.us.imdb.com or http://www.tvtome.com/ to search out info for these shows.
They're good but are they really good:finger: :ewink: :rollin:
Rentaghost
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/tv/rentaghost/
For the list grinner????:aok: :rollin:

[grinner]

Man, you Brits had some really cool SF children's programs. I am jealous. All I watched was SpecterMan.

Power... from space
He'll save... the human race
Bet they'll never see the face
Of SPECTERMAN!!

[Egg]

Laughs in the face of Spectorman....Hah ...where's your link?

[grinner]

UltraMan
http://www.waynebrain.com/ultra/man.html

[grinner]

SpectreMan
http://mo5.com/gori/misc/spectre/

[grinner]

JOHNNY SOKKO AND HIS FLYING ROBOT
http://www.dalekempire.com/GiantRobo1.html

[Egg]

Originally posted by grinner
UltraMan
http://www.waynebrain.com/ultra/man.html
you shifted the goalposts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
try
HR Puff n Stuff
http:www.nostalgiacentral.com/tv/kids/hrpufnstuf.htm
(hope the link works)

[grinner]

UltraQ
http://www.monstershindig.com/tv/ultraq01.html

[grinner]

Akuma Kun
http://www.monstershindig.com/tv/akumakun01.html

[grinner]

Origins of SUPER SENTAI
http://www.rovang.org/sentai/origins.htm

[Egg]

I counter you with the absolute classic
http://www.blackstar.co.uk/video/item/7000000018788
Da Da..Pogles wood

[grinner]

Originally posted by Egg
I counter you with the absolute classic
http://www.blackstar.co.uk/video/item/7000000018788
Da Da..Pogles wood
Dude check the list... that is already on it.:rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :finger:

[Egg]

The Clangers first appeared in an episode of Noggin the Nog, spin off series,of the first kind!!!

[Egg]

Originally posted by grinner
Dude check the list... that is already on it.:rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :finger:
I repeat myself...big hug!:rofl:

[grinner]

No worries mate

[Egg]

I give you the link you put it where it belongs
(I've offered this before)
The classic Blue Peter story from the 60's
http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/tombstone/890/bleep.htm

[grinner]

Dude, post that to the other thread. I will put it on there, but it is animated.

[Egg]

Anyone...
Can you remember the Pied Piper of Hamlien, as a 15 to 20 minute kids programme in the 60's, not a film!!!!!
This is busting my brain cell!
Any help, older scapers?

[grinner]

Any thoughts on this? Should it be on the list?

Covington Cross

A fanciful drama about life in medieval England for Sir Thomas, a widower, and his four children. Richard and Armus are stalwart young knights, but the other two children only wish they were. Cedric is in training to be a cleric as his late mother wished. Eleanor finds it difficult because of her sex, although she is as good on a horse and with a crossbow as any man. (Another son, William, left for the Crusades after the pilot episode and was barely mentioned again.)

Sir Thomas has developed a relationship with Lady Elizabeth, who lives in her own castle nearby. Their other neighbor, Baron John Mullens, is continually plotting to ruin Sir Thomas and take his land.
d August 1992
Last Aired October 1992
Running Time 60 min
Country United States
Network ABC
Show Stars Contribute Edit
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Paul Brooke - Friar
James Faulkner - Sir John Mullens
Jonathan Firth - Richard Grey
Tim Killick - Armus Grey (not in pilot)
Cherie Lunghi - Lady Elizabeth
Glenn Quinn - Cedric Grey
Ione Skye - Eleanor Grey
Nigel Terry - Sir Thomas Grey

[grinner]

http://www.suite101.com/subjectheadings/contents.cfm/103
Another site with speculative fiction shows.

[grinner]

http://www.scifidimensions.com/television.htm

[grinner]

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Zone/2168/

[grinner]

Hey Kat, this is the site you need to see.


http://www.magicdragon.com/UltimateSF/tv.html

[grinner]

Hey Egg, would this help?
http://www.tnelson.demon.co.uk/cult/

[grinner]

A Pig's Breakfast
http://pigsbreakfast.homestead.com/home.html

[grinner]

Kat, here is another site that lists web sites for shows.
http://www.daviestrek.com/tv/scifi.html

[VBKatLou]

My Gog! You guys are incredible! Don't you ever sleep? Thanks for all the links.



Covington Cross

A fanciful drama about life in medieval England for Sir Thomas, a widower, and his four children. Richard and Armus are stalwart young knights, but the other two children only wish they were. Cedric is in training to be a cleric as his late mother wished. Eleanor finds it difficult because of her sex, although she is as good on a horse and with a crossbow as any man. (Another son, William, left for the Crusades after the pilot episode and was barely mentioned again.)

Exactly what makes this science fiction?

[grinner]

I have no idea. It was asked in a PM so I thought to post it and see what you all thought.

[grinner]

http://www.umich.edu/~umfandsf/m_links.html

this is another site that might help you Kat. They even call the Scifi channels board "The Dominion" still.

[Egg]

Originally posted by grinner
Hey Egg, would this help?
http://www.tnelson.demon.co.uk/cult/

I like this site, am having a good sniff round it,
Cheers grinner:aok:

[Egg]

Originally posted by Egg
I like this site, am having a good sniff round it,
Cheers grinner:aok:
Just changed my mind!

[grinner]

Not a problem, Egg. Thought you might like it.

[Bettie Laven]

Don't forget RoboJox by Stuart Gordon. Fun flick.

[grinner]

Originally posted by Bettie Laven
Don't forget RoboJox by Stuart Gordon. Fun flick.
This list is just for Speculative Fiction television shows. Even though that is a good film... it was never a tv show.

[Bettie Laven]

To quote my kids, "my bad". Keep up the good work. Sci fi and Farscape are good for everybody, no matter what age. Bettie

[grinner]

no worries. If I were to make a Speculative Fiction movie list... that would be frelling huge. No thanks. Do you know any shows that we missed?

[Egg]

Here's another oldie I came across
The Lost Saucer
http://www.krofft.com/shows/lostsaucer/

[grinner]

The Lost Saucer added

[Egg]

The Magic Boomerang

1 9 6 5 - 1 9 6 6 (Australia)
39 x 30 minute episodes

This black and white children's TV series from Australia centered around Tom Thumbleton, a 13 year old boy living on an outback sheep farm.

He finds a magic boomerang which, in flight, can make everything (including time) stand still. The boomerang then becomes the means of dealing with villains and ne'er-do-wells.

The series was extremely conscious in its deployment of Australian symbols which no doubt helped its marketing overseas. The series screened in Australia on the ABC and was sold to Canada and Britain.

Episodes

The Discovery
Christmas Cracker
A Visit From Grandma
Wombat Finds A Friend
The Hunter
No Mail Today
A Matter Of Survival
The Bushranger
Ill Wind
The Thief Who Believed In Magic
Fire Trap
The Hypnotist
The Uncatchables
North To Warralinga
The Big Catch
Moonlight Reef
Aunt Matilda
The Cattle Duffers
The Saucer From Venus
Masked Man From Manangatang Moomba
Gentleman Jackaroo
Head Of The River
The Vanishing Spell
The Stand-In
Race Against Time
The Auction
A Lesson For Wombat
Friend Or Foe
The Good Turn
Pony Express
The Last Lap
Salt 'n' Pepper
Mothers Day
A Night At The Thumbleton's
My Friend Higgins
Stranger In Town
Mr. Santa Claus
The Messenger

[grinner]

The Magic Boomerang is on the list

[Egg]

Hey grinner, have you noticed for all the super list you've got we don't get many people here saying "I remember that"
and remin!

[grinner]

Yeah, I have noticed that. I wish more people would look at the list so that if they knew another show that should be on the list... I could put it on the list.

[Bettie Laven]

Well, I'll add some reflection....One of the best shows on the list is Space: Above and Beyond. I found it riviting, realistic and stillfull of fantasy. Wish they could have had a longer run. I would rather see another year of it than more BattleStar Gallactica.
Also, Babylon 5 was wonderful!!! Any aggrement out there?

[grinner]

I agree... but I am highly biased towards shows that are not mindless drivel.

[Egg]

Originally posted by grinner
I agree... but I am highly biased towards shows that are not mindless drivel.
Just spotted this!
So that rules out 90% of all T.V. then, and of the remainder, 30% is adverts showing us what not to watch!!!!!
I agree,not, maybe , err not sure
Quality always gets stuffed by braindead quantity!
As a thought.
This forum deserves its own reality T.V. series, put several spokespersons (from scifi shows) on another planet give them meaningless tasks and see if they can get home!
The bog stupid recipe for a sci fi series!
Plasma vented!:rollin:

[Egg]

Whoops I meant the programme makers rather than the people here,
I've spent the weekend watching Dr who and am very P'''''
once again that another great example of this genre got canned.

[Warhola]

How about the new tv show Paradox, that is a sci fi show as well.
It is kinda similar to Outer Limits, its also a provocativ sci fi show. Furthermore I actually got nothing to add and this list is quite impressive showing all the sci fi and fantasy stuff that is out there. Thanks for compiling this list :-)

[grinner]

If you mean Welcome to Paradox... then that is already on the list. I cannot find anything on a show called "Paradox".

Is it Welcome to Paradox that you mean?

Not a problem... I enjoyed compiling this list... it was a very difficult undertaking... in that I spent way to much time on TVTome, us.imdb.com and other sites searching for Speculative Fiction shows.

[Warhola]

You're right Grinner, the show is Welcome To Paradox...I made a mistake cuz here in Holland they always put Paradox in the programming lists so I thought it was another show, sorry.

[grinner]

Why be sorry. I would never disparage a fellow dutchman.

[Warhola]

Anyway if i do find another show, i'll let you know. It's kinda late out here now so i'd better go now :-)

[grinner]

Later

[Warhola]

Hey Grinner, did ya already had Spellbinder in your list? Maybe i overlooked it again.
http://www.tvshow.com/tv/shows/scifi
here's a link for example about that show that is sort of a combination of sci fi and fantasy.
Anyway i'll hear wether you already had it or not.

[grinner]

On the list now. Thanks.

[Warhola]

np mate :) , btw ive seen peops talking about the tv show Its About Time in earlier pages in this thread, too bad ive never seen any of that... cuz it seems interesting to me, the words of the opening theme seem interesting anyway...

[grinner]

That show is a little before my time... but I have seen a few episodes. It was typical of the shows that were on US television back in the 60's.

[Antrobus]

that I pulled from the back of my brain - The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.
It was first a film I think. But there was a television series I'm quite certain. I think it starred Hope Lange. :think:

[grinner]

Thanks... do you remember any others that we might have forgotten.

[Antrobus]

I'll keep thinking. I keep it in the back of my mind and then out of nowhere I'll remember one! The mind is a strange thing!!

[grinner]

How do you think alot of the Japanese shows got on the list. I remembered one... and then I found a site and voila... tons of shows that I remember... but couldn't think of the names.

[Antrobus]

I'll keep thinking. I keep it in the back of my mind and then out of nowhere I'll remember one! The mind is a strange thing!!

[grinner]

Whoa.... Deja vu

[Harveylives]

I didn't see "Werewolf" on the list. It was late eighties on Fox about a werewolf trying to track down his sire and find a way to cure himself. He had a pentagram on his palm that always started to swell before he changed. His sire's face was never shown, but he had a tatto of an octupuss on his back. I loved that show.

[grinner]

It is on the list now. Any others that you can think of?

[Harveylives]

I don't know if this would count but another early Fox show "Bean's Baxter". The link below will take you to the episode guide, where you can decide if it belongs on the list.

http://www.innermind.com/myguides/guides/beans.htm

[grinner]

The New Adventures of Beans Baxter will go on the list. us.imdb.com says it is Get Smart for kids... so since Get Smart is on the list... this will also go on.

[Harveylives]

Grinner,

Here is a website that has some shows that I did not see on your list.

http://epguides.com/Book/

[grinner]

Wow... I have some that he doesn't have... but his list is amazing.
Thanks... I will have to read thru it.

[grinner]

I also need to get that book. And try to find the 1st edition as well.

[Harveylives]

Both yours and his lists are amazing. I never realized how much scifi tv was out there. It's depressing looking at the lists and then looking at scifi's program lineup. SCIFI channel could be so much more.

[grinner]

There have been more Science Fiction/Speculative Fiction shows that have only lasted one season that any shows of any other genre. That is sad. BUT... Speculative Fiction shows do cost more on average... but they don't need all the special effects... Blake's 7 didn't use then... Doctor Who didn't use them. I don't see the need for all of it.

[Spedoinkel]

I tried but I can't find anything missing. You win this round Grinner.

[Lord Loser]

grinner my man, not sure if it fits here, but there was a short lived series, probably on CBS, I remember a long time ago (mid 70's) called "Clifhangers" (if memory serves). It was three stories that they gave about 20 minutes each to and serialed them along. Susan Anton was in one, Michael Nouri was a vampire in another, and the third took place in the old west, but involved a race of people that lived underground and had to use little black rubber looking respirators when they visited the surface to pillage the local townsfolk.

Anyone else remember this? :shrug:

:loser:

[Egg]

Here's one just popped into the old brain cells

Ultraviolet

http://www.world-productions.com/wp/content/shows/other/uv/uvhome.htm

Only one series, I quite liked it.

[grinner]

Originally posted by Spedoinkel
I tried but I can't find anything missing. You win this round Grinner. wow... I never thought of this as a game... it was more of a tool for those that wanted to see what speculative fiction shows have been on and if you wanted to search for more info... all the better.

[grinner]

Originally posted by Lord Loser
grinner my man, not sure if it fits here, but there was a short lived series, probably on CBS, I remember a long time ago (mid 70's) called "Clifhangers" (if memory serves). It was three stories that they gave about 20 minutes each to and serialed them along. Susan Anton was in one, Michael Nouri was a vampire in another, and the third took place in the old west, but involved a race of people that lived underground and had to use little black rubber looking respirators when they visited the surface to pillage the local townsfolk.

Anyone else remember this? :shrug:

:loser: I can not find anything about this. imdb doesn't show any show that the actors you mentioned being in together... or rather the same show at different times

[Egg]

Originally posted by Lord Loser
grinner my man, not sure if it fits here, but there was a short lived series, probably on CBS, I remember a long time ago (mid 70's) called "Clifhangers" (if memory serves). It was three stories that they gave about 20 minutes each to and serialed them along. Susan Anton was in one, Michael Nouri was a vampire in another, and the third took place in the old west, but involved a race of people that lived underground and had to use little black rubber looking respirators when they visited the surface to pillage the local townsfolk.

Anyone else remember this? :shrug:

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Only three serials made it into the short-lived series, which ran on NBC from February to May of 1979, before it died a quick death.
Stop Susan Williams starred Susan Anton as a stunning news photographer trying to track down her brother's murderers. Ray Walston (My Favorite Martian) played her editor. In The Curse of Dracula, Michael Nouri (Flashdance) starred as the sharp-toothed count, who taught a college course in order to be near his young female victims. The Secret Empire was a sci-fi/western hybrid that found intrepid Marshal Jim Donner (Geoffrey Scott) going up against subterranean aliens.

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So... since it only has the 3 eps... it doesn't fall into the 12 ep minimum. If we allow this... then we would have to allow mini series. Or should we?

[Lord Loser]

grinner, it was three stories stretched out over several eps, I'm not sure how many.

Egg, you the man!!! :clap: Maybe you know the finer details grinner seeks.

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We have been having a discourse over PM about this show. There were 12 episodes... but we think only 8 were shown. We are trying to decide if we should use it as 3 seperate shows or one show with 3 subtitles.
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Question: I've looked through your archives trying to find the answer to this one, but I guess you haven't mentioned it. In the late 1970s there was a show of serial-type cliffhangers. I even believe that was the name of the show: Cliffhanger. If memory serves me, one of the cliffhangers had to do with vampire hunters, another was about a female reporter caught up in adventure and intrigue, and another was some kind of a cross between a western and science fiction. Am I going crazy, or did this show really exist? What were all of the serials and how long did it run? Did it feature anyone famous? Is there any other trivial tidbits about the show you'd like to share? Thank you!!! — Your loyal reader, Dave Coleman

Televisionary: No problem, Dave — and thank you for the loyalty. May I and my successors (for when a Televisionary passes on another steps in to take up the mantle) continue to be worthy of it.

The short-lived Cliff Hangers was a great idea that failed to find a following. As you say, it sought to bring back the old movie-house shorts that usually told a continuing story in a dozen or so installments. In keeping with the flavor of those, the tales were of the over-the-top sort. Only three serials made it into the short-lived series, which ran on NBC from February to May of 1979, before it died a quick death.

Stop Susan Williams starred Susan Anton as a stunning news photographer trying to track down her brother's murderers. Ray Walston (My Favorite Martian) played her editor. In The Curse of Dracula, Michael Nouri (Flashdance) starred as the sharp-toothed count, who taught a college course in order to be near his young female victims. The Secret Empire was a sci-fi/western hybrid that found intrepid Marshal Jim Donner (Geoffrey Scott) going up against subterranean aliens.

Fun stuff, I thought, but unfortunately it went the way of the theatrical serial very quickly.

[Lord Loser]

I remember my brother and I were bummed when it went off the air. As I recall, the only one they concluded before going defunct was the Curse of Dracula, and then it never came on again to resolve Stop Susan Williams or The Secret Empire.

Originally posted by grinner
We have been having a discourse over PM about this show. There were 12 episodes... but we think only 8 were shown. We are trying to decide if we should use it as 3 seperate shows or one show with 3 subtitles.


What's PM?

[grinner]

Private Message's if go to your user control panel you will see a section that says Private Message. This is where you can read them.

If you want to PM someone... you click on the link at the bottom of their post that is next to profile... pm... search... buddy.

I am PMing you right now.

[Lord Loser]

As Aeryn said while watching Sesame Street on earth, "Man, this {insert Lord Loser here}'s slow."

Still learning the lingo.

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I put all three under Cliff Hangers. But each is in their own line.

[MrFlibble]

I haven't read all the posts for this, so forgive me if this has already been mentioned...

I wonder if Skiffy could take this list and try some real programming for a change!

Personally, I would love to see Land of the Giants, The Time Tunnel, or Thunderbirds on TV again.

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Thunderbirds are on TechTV is the US.