Top Ten TV sci-fi

Not classic enough yet, but I agree with Orph on the Thinderbirds.

B5 should have been in there, but it doesn't have quite the broad appeal of something like Buffy or the X-Files.

I was a little suprised not to see Buffy but I don't know what the criteria were for selecting the "candidate" programs.

I'm not suprised to find ST at the top but as i'm not the biggest ST fan it was amusing to hear that the "Original" series was stopped after the third season beacause it was so off plot. ( ha ha).

Interesting list. Buck Rogers was campier than Galactica. Surprised Galactica didn't make it. Dr. Who is a given, so is Star Trek. Loved Space 1999. The moon flying around loose in space. Cool.

Bidididdididididdidididdididi. Go get em' Buck !

I never saw any Buck Rogers but from the clip they showed on the program I would have liked to have seen some Sapphire and Steel. It looked ...........different.

Don't tell me Ush you've got some on tape.

ST HAD no plot, at least nothing so defined that the third series could have breached it It was cancelled because it had become so utterly crap and the actors had started to hate it.

Orpheus... yes, I have, though they gave away far too much of the ending.

Well half of them I've never seen because they've never shown them over here.

Most of them are English.

Four are American, six British. Americans are unlikely to have seen Sapphire and Steel, but the rest were very successful exports. Dr. Whi is the second most exported sci-fi show ever (first is Trek) and Tomorrow People is the thrid (going in 55 countries and only being refused by Sweden)

Who ? Dr. Whi ?

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Apparently Sweden rejected The Tomorrow People because it was too 'psychologically violent'. Hmm...

I never saw it. So you're saying it was like, Clockwork Orange ?

The Tomorrow People was effectively a kids show; couldn;t be less like Clockwork Orange.

Sapphire and Steel was the darkly weird one but was always shown at a later hour. VERY atmospheric show. It revolved around the idea that you never had a clue who the main characters actually were.

does anyone remember ultraviolet?

Now you're talking decent telly. pity they only made six episodes.

Stunning series. We are talking the UK version here of course, Finti. I never saw the American version.

Yes UK version, so the yanks had a version of their own hmmm

I really hated that show.

go eat some haggis, if Ush and I can agree on a sci fi tv show it must be great.

Interesting. Ultraviolet is also the name of a lotion you can use in tanning beds over here. Its about $75.00 a tube.

It's probably more entertaining than the show. 🤣