Your Favourite SF TV Series ever & Why.

POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Friday, October 22, 2010 14:46
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Monday, October 18, 2010 1:20 AM

Men into Space was the show that introduced me to serious science fiction. I still have a memory of one of the episodes. I can't say that about to many other shows from that time period, science fiction or not.

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IMNOTHERE

Wednesday, October 20, 2010 10:25 PM

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-Space 1999

I remember that series had a strange hypnotic quality- the photography, the music...

Hmm - giant tentacled monsters spitting out digested corpses; people entombed alive and conscious in suspended animation chambers... when I first saw it it scared the bejeezus out of me (but I was fairly young at the time).

However, that doesn't compete on the scare-ometer with watching Doctor Who in the 1970s during a miners strike when you knew that sometime during the show the power was going to go off and you would be plunged into darkness. (The Curse of Peladon I think).

STORYMARK

Wednesday, October 20, 2010 10:48 PM

I'd like to say Firefly, but I don't really even count it as a series, as short lived as it was. I classify it as a mini-series.

My favorite strict "sci-fi" show would be Babylon 5. As bad as the FX look these days, and as cheesy as the acting could be, nothing holds up to it as for as writing goes.

LOST and Star Trek DS9 would be my runners-up.

My favorite "fantasy" series (I assume we are considering that an alternate category) would be probably Highlander. Granted, it's often not very good, gets very melodramatic, and is very dated. But hey, I still dig it.

Better shows that I also love (that just don't quite hit that "favorite" sweet spot for whatever reason) would be Buffy and Angel.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

THEHAPPYTRADER

Wednesday, October 20, 2010 11:59 PM

Firefly of course

Star Trek DS9 I loved DS9 cause they stayed, more or less, in one location and built a fascinating 'verse around them with recurring characters and the like that kept if from feeling the "planet of the week" roaming spaceship show like the other treks. 'Course, I imagine they were called Star Trek for a reason...

Stargate SG-1 How can you not like it, they've got fricken Macguyver in charge! The other three are amusing characters as well. I haven't scene Atlantis or Universe yet, but I doubt they can match the awesome that is SG-1.

Chuck Clumsy nerd spy hero + Jayne, oh sorry I mean Casey = awesome!

Star Trek original Series This might climb up the list as I see more of them. Something about the characters Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are just more interesting than most characters I'm used to seeing in modern television.

GREENKA61

Thursday, October 21, 2010 2:09 AM

A dichotomy? My favourite series depicts future harmony, and my favourite movie depicts future discord.
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I guess I'm... complicated.

I guess I'm complicated too, because I understand your dichotomy. I used to like Trek a lot - DS9 was my favorite because it was the first of the Treks to feature a Starfleet officer who was a jerk (at least for the first season)That, to me was realistic.

But actually, aside from Firefly, my favorite sci-fi show is either The Wild Wild West (which I consider to be steampunk) or Lost. I guess neither of them are traditional scifi, but in my mind, they fit.

Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. --Teilhard de Chardin

JONGSSTRAW

Thursday, October 21, 2010 11:30 AM

My favorite TV show of all time is definitely Star Trek. With 79 episodes, there are enough to always keep it fairly fresh. As I get older I appreciate the genius of the show, the actors, and the production team. I love Star Trek more today than at any other time in the past.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Friday, October 22, 2010 2:46 PM

Six Million Dollar Man.

Firefly.

Dark Angel.

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