Best scifi series ever

[whipped]

Jacye and the Wheeled Warriors.

Failing that SAAB, B5, B7, STS9 and Red Dwarf Series 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.

 

[Maljonic]

Originally posted by Lester
Anyone remember Sapphire and Steel? There was an episode in a train station where this blackness just kept surrounding them. Still remember it to this day.

in a WWI setting, with some soldier whistling 'pack up your troubles in your old kit bag'....





























cows in the meadowwwww....

 

[Jonny_Darko]

Crime Traveller!

Cleopatra 2045!

/me shall get my coat

Tell you what, if it wasn't cancelled Firefly would have had a good chance of being here in a few years time.

 

[throdgrain]

Originally posted by Maljonic
in a WWI setting, with some soldier whistling 'pack up your troubles in your old kit bag'....





























cows in the meadowwwww....

Fs I still remember that too !

 

[gremlin]

Time Traxx.. for great justice.

 

[MYstIC G]

Originally posted by xane
I would have said that one, but (a) it let down the books IMO, and (b) it isn't really a "series".

(c) change your name

 

[lynchet]

Anyone remember Sapphire and Steel? There was an episode in a train station where this blackness just kept surrounding them. Still remember it to this day

Transiranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life... Saphire and Steel have been assigned !


I am sad and have them on tape --- still very good.
The first one -- the old house with nursery rhymes whispered and the past breaking through to the present.


Dr Who still wins overall tho ----- but the likes of Saphire and Steel/ Red Dwarf/ Hitch Hikers/ Babylon 5 etc are still great.

 

[cjravey]

Who Else. Ah ha ha.

Doctor Who is the one. Let's face it, it went through so many different style changes from season to season, producer to producer, Doctor to Doctor that it would probably rank as several of the best sci-fi series (in all but shallow production values).

I have a big soft spot for Blake's 7, but that's four series of good, similar stuff compared to 27 years (and countless great novels - including Virgin New Adventures classics Nightshade and Human Nature and Who Killed Kennedy) some genuinely good comics - it's the longest running comic strip based on a TV series - and, um, a shit spin-off (K9 and Company). The new audio dramas are cracking too (particularly Spare Parts).

It wins all the polls, it rocks, yet it's still the under-dog, and it's a way of life

Ahem, back to work.

Colin

BTW, V is coming back - Kenneth Johnson (who created it then left it after the first mini-series, and then it jumped the shark ever more so until the 'A Team with Aliens' series abominmation) is behind it, so fingers crossed, people.

 

[Wij]

Originally posted by throdgrain
Fs I still remember that too !

Me too.

What about the episode where the woman appeared with no face, just a blank head with hair on.

Top stuff. Gave me the mega-willies as a kid.

/edit: And how did it end ppl ?

 

[old.Kez]

Originally posted by nath
Stargate is laem. It takes itself altogether far too seriously.

No more than buffy, tbh.

 

[plightstar]

B5 after Sinclair left for minbar

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

Originally posted by old.Kez
No more than buffy, tbh.

YUO CAN'T SAY THAT WITHOUT BASIS OMGS YUO SUXX THE GUARDIAN SAYS BUFFY IS THE BEST THING EVAH

 

[dysfunction]

Yeah!!

And whatever is written down in a newspaper is a FACT!!!!!11

 

[old.D0LLySh33p]

I hate to say this but...

Star Trek.

 

[mr.Blacky]

Re: Who Else. Ah ha ha.

Originally posted by cjravey
BTW, V is coming back - Kenneth Johnson (who created it then left it after the first mini-series, and then it jumped the shark ever more so until the 'A Team with Aliens' series abominmation) is behind it, so fingers crossed, people.

I know there was a pre-production thing, just to promote it to execs of tv shows but is it going to be made for real? I can't wait to see the big ships with moving sensors

 

[Munkey-]

Theres so many :/

Star TrekS9 (after a few series, the first few were shite)
Red Dwarf (still watching it on BBC PRIME, timeless)
Dr Who (scared the shite outta me as a kid. One that sticks is where he's trapped underground with maggots)
Battlestar Galactica (great series, even if it did get crap when they reached earth)
blake 7 (diddnt appeal to me but a good watch nonetheless)

and finally

The Prisoner

What do you want?
Information.

 

[cjravey]

Originally posted by Munkey-

Dr Who (scared the shite outta me as a kid. One that sticks is where he's trapped underground with maggots)

You're showing your age - Green Death, from 1973 You can jog your memories with this silly story finder on the BBC, mildy amusing.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/episodeguide/oohum/index.shtml

And do stop baiting Jonny about Buffy, chaps, I have work for him to do...

 

[.Cask]

Star Trek has been really pissing me off lately. Story lines are too damn simple. It's like an ideal american future. Most of the characters are so 1-dimensional it isn't funny.

I mean can you just imagine any of the characters from DS9 sitting on the toilet straining away. It seems like they never piss, they hardly ever eat, they never secrete bodily fluids etc etc. There aren't even toilets in their fuckin quarters for gods sake the walls should be covered in piss.

We need a sci-fi series that is a cross between Rab C Nesbit and Babylon 5.

 

[PhreakyByNature]

Me likes stargate - it has some decent funny eps.

mainly me likes red dwarf. loved h2g2 books but shows didn't do much justice as mentioned... movie is coming sometime...

nah the leetest scifi series is 3rd rock from the sun! w00t.

 

[Maljonic]

sitcom

 

[bodhi]

I would like to change my answer. As leet as H2G2 was it still wasn't up there with the greatest sci-fi series ever.



Buck Rogers = teh daddeh.

 

[GDW]

Bedlelebedlelebedle

 

[mank!]

Originally posted by bodhi
I would like to change my answer. As leet as H2G2 was it still wasn't up there with the greatest sci-fi series ever.



Buck Rogers = teh daddeh.

I am highly disillusion bods, you've ruined everything

 

[old.Fweddy]

No, Buck Rogers really was great. I can't believe I forgot it.

 

[mank!]

I've never seen it but that's besides the point. H2G2 is king.

 

[djpringle]

Buck wasn't even the best thing in the series, Erin Grey (I think that's her name) was

 

[dysfunction]

Buck Rogers
Battlestar Galactica
Knight Rider (is this Sci Fi?)
Quantum Leap
X-Files (Not the last couple of series as it went downhill after a while)
Twilight Zone

 

[~YuckFou~]

Original Star Trek.
Dr Who.
Captain Scarlet.

 

[Jonny_Darko]

I'd actually throw Ultraviolet into the mix. Not the best obviously but damn good (if short).

But there's something everyone's forgotten, something I possibly like even more than Buffy / Angel - arguably the best sci-fi series ever (if it counts though?)...

Spaced!!! If not sci-fi it's certainly the best geek-friendly show out there.

"Now I don't care, if you've saved up all your little 50ps, just take your money, AND GET OUT!"

The Empire Strikes Back ending scene with Mike yawning as Chewbacca was one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

 

[Jonny_Darko]

Ooh, and big up to Futurama as well. Third series just out on DVD finally \o/.