Other Science Fiction Series

Best TV series, decade by decade.

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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 1:31 AM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
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Originally posted by MacBaker:

80's-
Miami Vice


Mac, your other choices are fine, but no way Miami Vice beats out Magnum PI, St. Elsewhere, or Remington Steele, bro.

Nudge nudge

"Thanks." -Hero, 2009

The laughing Chrisisall



Hey, loved Magnum, Higgins, and "the lads" (Higgins' killer guard dogs)! "Did You See The Sunrise" was probably the best single hour of TV drama during the 80s! Hell Miami Vice even blatantly ripped off the ending of that episode!

But......Miami Vice re-defined the look and feel of TV. As cheezy as it looks now. Vice was COOL! Eddie Olmos as Castillo, is still COOL!

I'd given some thought to movin' off the edge -- not an ideal location -- thinkin' a place in the middle.

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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 1:41 AM

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Originally posted by veronic:
Buffy better than X-files????
No, no, no



Never was an X-Files fan. Sorry, but never could buy that Scully could somehow explain away anything that didn't fit into her world view. She saw to much weird ass shit, to not be a fellow believer with Mulder.

Yes, Buffy was better! Joss took the biggest cliche' in the horror genre' and turned it on it's head.

Can the blonde damsel actually be the hero? Yes!
Can a series with a name this silly, be mature enough for adults to watch? Yes.
Can it's obvious metaphors relate to teens more realistically than other non-genre shows like 90210 or Dawson's Creek could ever dream of? Hell Yes!
Is it the best series the late WB network ever aired? DUH!

I'd given some thought to movin' off the edge -- not an ideal location -- thinkin' a place in the middle.

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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 2:05 AM

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Originally posted by MacBaker:
"Did You See The Sunrise" was probably the best single hour of TV drama during the 80s!

The ep where Magnum had to tread water out in the ocean for what seemed like days was the one that really blew me away...and the one where he died...
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But......Miami Vice re-defined the look and feel of TV.

Recently bought & watched seasons 1 & 2, it was the cat's butt all right. Later seasons weren't as good though IMO.

"Thanks." -Hero, 2009

The laughing Chrisisall

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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 2:07 AM

I usede to like Magnum PI in the 80s and now I think Burn Notice is the Magnum PI of the 00s. I still prefer science fiction shows though.



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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 2:14 AM

ChrisIsAll - no Dark Shadows? That show scared the bejesus out of me when I was little

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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 4:48 AM

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Originally posted by rallem:
I usede to like Magnum PI in the 80s and now I think Burn Notice is the Magnum PI of the 00s.

Burn Notice RULES where Miami Vice once did.
If Firefly never was, BN would be the best of the 00's IMO!

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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 4:52 AM

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Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion:
ChrisIsAll - no Dark Shadows? That show scared the bejesus out of me when I was little


DS was my Buffy back then...not that I was even alive in the sixties..........
Okay, yeah, I watched on my days off from school, so what, does that make me ancient or something?
Eff you mortals & your concept of time!!!

The pre-emptive age-sensitive Highlanderisall

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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 7:22 AM

50's - Twilight Zone, Gunsmoke.

60's - Star Trek, Big Valley, Outer Limits, The Virginian.

70's - Six Milkion Dollar Man, Emergency, Fridays, Charlie's Angels.

80'2 - Hill Street Blues, New Adventures of Beans Baxter, Magnum PI.

90's - Due South, Star Trek Voyager, Outer Limits, NYPD Blue.

00's - Firefly, Dark Angel.

I'd add TTSCC to 00's except I haven't seen much this decade.

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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 12:16 PM

50s - The Wonderful World of Disney/Zorro/Leave It To Beaver

60s - The Addams Family

70s - Barney Miller

80s - V/The Dukes of Hazzard/Magnum PI/Simon and Simon

90s - Batman: The Animated Series/Frasier

00s - Firefly/Battlestar Galactica/Pushing Daisies


I have a hard time picking favorites. Suffice it to say that my favorite from this list is probably The Addams Family.

See...didn't think I was going there, huh?

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 3:16 PM

50's - The Twilight Zone

60's - The Prisoner

70's - Kung Fu

80's - The Equalizer

90's - Babylon 5

00's - LOST

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