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"I used to really like Quantum Leap "
That was a superb series! The finale was terrible however; All the years of Sam’s adventures and in the last episode we are rewarded with a feeble paragraph of writing on the screen telling us that he never got back home  WTF?!  |
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By *arksMan
over a year ago
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"I used to really like Quantum Leap
That was a superb series! The finale was terrible however; All the years of Sam’s adventures and in the last episode we are rewarded with a feeble paragraph of writing on the screen telling us that he never got back home WTF?! "
I know !!! Kind of like the 4/5 years of watching Lost only to find out they were dead anyway  |
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By *ransGuyTV/TS
over a year ago
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"I used to really like Quantum Leap
That was a superb series! The finale was terrible however; All the years of Sam’s adventures and in the last episode we are rewarded with a feeble paragraph of writing on the screen telling us that he never got back home WTF?!
I know !!! Kind of like the 4/5 years of watching Lost only to find out they were dead anyway "
Hahaha! I started watching Lost recently, got halfway through then got curious and watched the last episode. Glad I did and didn't waste any more of my life on it! What a disappointment! |
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"Does anyone remember Lexx? Weird but wonderful 
Was that the one with Barry and featured a dystopian future where organs were harvested?"
You mean the actor Barry Bostwick? He was in it for the first season as I recall; The plot featured a weird trio of characters flying around in a giant bug-like space ship called the Lexx. Just to make it weirder, one was in fact dead, one was a caretaker and one was a sexy lady.....who was in reality a lizard  Bizarre I know but strangely addictive |
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By *dsindyTV/TS
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"Does anyone remember Lexx? Weird but wonderful
Was that the one with Barry and featured a dystopian future where organs were harvested?
You mean the actor Barry Bostwick? He was in it for the first season as I recall; The plot featured a weird trio of characters flying around in a giant bug-like space ship called the Lexx. Just to make it weirder, one was in fact dead, one was a caretaker and one was a sexy lady.....who was in reality a lizard Bizarre I know but strangely addictive "
Yep, that's the one  |
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Not pure sci-fi admittedly, but close enough, does anyone remember a series from the early eighties called, Manimal? It stared the late British actor, Simon MacCorkindale and revolved around his amazing ability to change into any animal in order to solve crimes (or something). Budgetary restraints meant that he invariably only transformed into either an eagle or a puma but it was nonetheless rather fun in a joyous eighties sort of way |
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"Not pure sci-fi admittedly, but close enough, does anyone remember a series from the early eighties called, Manimal? "
Someone else who remembers Manimal!!! Finally. Do you remember the Adventure Game with the insane aspidistra?
Erhem. Too many to pic from but Farscape and Firefly are in the top 5. I also really like Star Trek Next Gen. |
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"Not pure sci-fi admittedly, but close enough, does anyone remember a series from the early eighties called, Manimal?
Someone else who remembers Manimal!!! Finally. Do you remember the Adventure Game with the insane aspidistra?
Erhem. Too many to pic from but Farscape and Firefly are in the top 5. I also really like Star Trek Next Gen. "
I remember that! The contestants had to cross the board whilst avoiding it for the final game (wasn’t it turn based as I recall?) And there was also what looked like a shaking pot plant in some scenes (or am I going mad?) |
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Ok so the following is definitely not sci-fi as such but seeing as I’ll probably never get the chance to mention it on FAB again; This is undoubtedly THE greatest TV show EVER made............Monkeeeeyyyyyy!!!!!
You all remember it right? |
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"Blake’s seven"
Good shout - got them all on DVD.
I would say classic Doctor Who as I remember it from when I was a kiddie.
Sadly I saw some re-runs a few years back on a satellite channel and they were crap! So much worse than I remembered! I wish I’d never seen them again now :’( |
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(Walks in and waits for the room to fall silent, as the assembled forum members realise that, from the look on his face, the quite smile, the knowing look, that he has the winner)
Terrahawks!
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"(Walks in and waits for the room to fall silent, as the assembled forum members realise that, from the look on his face, the quite smile, the knowing look, that he has the winner)
Terrahawks!
(Drops mic)"
That was awesome and is it just me, or did Dr Tiger Ninestein bear an uncanny resemblance to Kevin Sorbo? |
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"(Walks in and waits for the room to fall silent, as the assembled forum members realise that, from the look on his face, the quite smile, the knowing look, that he has the winner)
Terrahawks!
(Drops mic)
That was awesome and is it just me, or did Dr Tiger Ninestein bear an uncanny resemblance to Kevin Sorbo? "
Flaming thunderbolts! |
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"(Walks in and waits for the room to fall silent, as the assembled forum members realise that, from the look on his face, the quite smile, the knowing look, that he has the winner)
Terrahawks!
(Drops mic)"
Ohhhhh do you remember Star Fleet too??! |
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"(Walks in and waits for the room to fall silent, as the assembled forum members realise that, from the look on his face, the quite smile, the knowing look, that he has the winner)
Terrahawks!
(Drops mic)
Ohhhhh do you remember Star Fleet too??!"
Loved that! The X-bomber was ace! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Does anyone remember Lexx? Weird but wonderful
Was that the one with Barry and featured a dystopian future where organs were harvested?"
Sounds a bit like Spares. Great novel. |
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no mention of
buck rogers
space 1999
blakes 7 was ruined after they lost the liberator
doctor who im still miffed they havent done a timelord and darlek war
prefer startrek voyager over generations
babylon 5 was ruined after series 3 episode 4 that battle was crap for the ancients
stargate atlantis is better but I also like stargate |
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By *ea_CoffeeCouple
over a year ago
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Sci fi comedy - Red Drawf
Sci fi series - Firefly
Sci fi series collection (consistent timelines) - startrek except the JJ abrahams movies
Noteable mentions
Stargate collective series with the SGU cancelation being heartbreaking
Terranova
Dark (german series dubbed to english)
Worst american adaption of a British sci fi program I have ever seen was Red drawf. What was they thinking. |
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Battlestar Galactica (2003 remake) was simply one of the best TV shows of all time, let alone sci fi. Mixed military, faith and politics brilliantly.
Firefly was fun, not sure about best but enjoyable.
Fringe, started a little slow like x-files monster of the week, but then the writers revealed the true purpose of the show and it became EPIC! |
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reading through the list its quite surprising how much corny old crap is listed .. i cant imagine sitting thru an entire season of Blakes 7 in one evening ..actually watching even one episode would be difficult ..isn't anyone else anyone watching some of the great new stuff that available..? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Ok so the following is definitely not sci-fi as such but seeing as I’ll probably never get the chance to mention it on FAB again; This is undoubtedly THE greatest TV show EVER made............Monkeeeeyyyyyy!!!!!
You all remember it right? "
Based on 'Jouney to the West' a chinese classic book
Was a cool show....make up and effects were so bad they were good. Definitely a winner although in a fantasy genre not sci fi |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"(Walks in and waits for the room to fall silent, as the assembled forum members realise that, from the look on his face, the quite smile, the knowing look, that he has the winner)
Terrahawks!
(Drops mic)
Ohhhhh do you remember Star Fleet too??!
Loved that! The X-bomber was ace! "
If we talking puppets then every Gerry Anderson 'Supermarrionation' ever made
Thunderbirds Stingray Captain Scarlett ...the list goes on |
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"(Walks in and waits for the room to fall silent, as the assembled forum members realise that, from the look on his face, the quite smile, the knowing look, that he has the winner)
Terrahawks!
(Drops mic)
That was awesome and is it just me, or did Dr Tiger Ninestein bear an uncanny resemblance to Kevin Sorbo? "
You do know that Tiger Ninestein was actually the producer..... T. I. Gerstein by name.... |
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"Oh and another one, this time from the sixties I think; The Invaders starring Roy Thinnes. I watched the reruns in the eighties and Jesus H Christ! - That music was as scary as fuck!  "
Loved this and have caught a few on sky over Xmas |
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"Ok so the following is definitely not sci-fi as such but seeing as I’ll probably never get the chance to mention it on FAB again; This is undoubtedly THE greatest TV show EVER made............Monkeeeeyyyyyy!!!!!
You all remember it right?
Based on 'Jouney to the West' a chinese classic book
Was a cool show....make up and effects were so bad they were good. Definitely a winner although in a fantasy genre not sci fi"
I remember that it used to scare me as a child (lots of talk of eating one another etc) and yet I loved it at the same time. The funniest part (apart from Monkey’s awesome flying pink cloud!) was that it was clearly a woman playing Tripitaka the MALE monk and yet no one questioned it. Apparently though, the producers chose a lady as in the original text the said character was said to be pure and beautiful. Classic show! |
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"(Walks in and waits for the room to fall silent, as the assembled forum members realise that, from the look on his face, the quite smile, the knowing look, that he has the winner)
Terrahawks!
(Drops mic)
That was awesome and is it just me, or did Dr Tiger Ninestein bear an uncanny resemblance to Kevin Sorbo?
You do know that Tiger Ninestein was actually the producer..... T. I. Gerstein by name...."
Really? Tiger was also a clone as I recall and if memory serves me, was killed off in one episode with another identical replacement assuming the mantle at the end. Let us not forget also that none other than the late, great Windsor Davis provided the voice for bot 101 |
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"Oh and another one, this time from the sixties I think; The Invaders starring Roy Thinnes. I watched the reruns in the eighties and Jesus H Christ! - That music was as scary as fuck! "
My favourite, I have both series on DVD.
Quite a few well-known actors appeared in one or more episodes!  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Oh and another one, this time from the sixties I think; The Invaders starring Roy Thinnes. I watched the reruns in the eighties and Jesus H Christ! - That music was as scary as fuck!
My favourite, I have both series on DVD.
Quite a few well-known actors appeared in one or more episodes! "
A Quinn Martin production |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Oh and another one, this time from the sixties I think; The Invaders starring Roy Thinnes. I watched the reruns in the eighties and Jesus H Christ! - That music was as scary as fuck!
My favourite, I have both series on DVD.
Quite a few well-known actors appeared in one or more episodes!
A Quinn Martin production"
One of many, all very good series! |
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"Oh and another one, this time from the sixties I think; The Invaders starring Roy Thinnes. I watched the reruns in the eighties and Jesus H Christ! - That music was as scary as fuck!
My favourite, I have both series on DVD.
Quite a few well-known actors appeared in one or more episodes! "
There was a two part reboot in the mid nineties which starred Roy Thinnes again but only for a brief few minutes screen time. Sadly, This revisiting bore none of the charm of the original series though but was seemingly designed to provide some closure to the story. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Oh and another one, this time from the sixties I think; The Invaders starring Roy Thinnes. I watched the reruns in the eighties and Jesus H Christ! - That music was as scary as fuck!
My favourite, I have both series on DVD.
Quite a few well-known actors appeared in one or more episodes!
There was a two part reboot in the mid nineties which starred Roy Thinnes again but only for a brief few minutes screen time. Sadly, This revisiting bore none of the charm of the original series though but was seemingly designed to provide some closure to the story."
Wasn’t he also in the x files? |
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"Oh and another one, this time from the sixties I think; The Invaders starring Roy Thinnes. I watched the reruns in the eighties and Jesus H Christ! - That music was as scary as fuck!
My favourite, I have both series on DVD.
Quite a few well-known actors appeared in one or more episodes!
There was a two part reboot in the mid nineties which starred Roy Thinnes again but only for a brief few minutes screen time. Sadly, This revisiting bore none of the charm of the original series though but was seemingly designed to provide some closure to the story.
Wasn’t he also in the x files?"
He was indeed - playing a shady character with knowledge about the infected bees which featured in a few episodes |
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Another two, more recent and rather good s I-fi series:
Sliders - starring Jerry ‘The piranhas aye my cock!’ O’Connell and John (Gimli!) Rhys-Davies.
It started off brilliantly but ran out of steam (and became frankly quite shit) after about two seasons.
Almost Human - starring Karl (Judge Dredd) Urban and Michael (love interest in a Beyoncé video!) Ealy.
Ok so the series was a admittedly cliched but it had a curious sort of eighties like charm to it. Needless to say, it was therefore cancelled after only one season |
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"Does anyone remember a BBC series The Tripods really frustrating as it never had a conclusion 
Yep, read the books when I was at school so I sort of know the conclusion."
I remember the first book. Didn't know it continued. |
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Great thread (thanks OP), reliving my youth thinking about The Invaders & those disk thingies they'd put on someone's neck! Very fond of Quantum Leap, 2 episodes stand out for me, one where Al was actually being impersonated by Satan and the other was where he leaped back to his home town and met his father again, oh the feels(sniff sniff). As for memory lane, anyone remember 'My favourite Martian' with Ray Walston (who I saw recently calling the fake horse race in The Sting) + the late Bill Bixby (of The Incredible Hulk & The Magician fame).
Given the site we're on(& not wanting to hijack the thread), who's your favourite Sci-fi babe Erin Gray (in Buck Rogers) or Majel Barrett/Nicholls Nicholls (Star Trek-one married to Rodenberry, the other bedded by him) or 7 of nine(Jeri Ryan)... any other suggestions- guys/gals? |
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"Space 1999"
Loved that as a kid,and just think,back then it was predicted that we would all be living on the Moon in year 2000,18yrs later were still here  |
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"Great thread (thanks OP), reliving my youth thinking about The Invaders & those disk thingies they'd put on someone's neck! Very fond of Quantum Leap, 2 episodes stand out for me, one where Al was actually being impersonated by Satan and the other was where he leaped back to his home town and met his father again, oh the feels(sniff sniff). As for memory lane, anyone remember 'My favourite Martian' with Ray Walston (who I saw recently calling the fake horse race in The Sting) + the late Bill Bixby (of The Incredible Hulk & The Magician fame).
Given the site we're on(& not wanting to hijack the thread), who's your favourite Sci-fi babe Erin Gray (in Buck Rogers) or Majel Barrett/Nicholls Nicholls (Star Trek-one married to Rodenberry, the other bedded by him) or 7 of nine(Jeri Ryan)... any other suggestions- guys/gals? "
Erin Gray was gorgeous - as was the brunette villainess from the same series. My ultimate vote goes to Xenia Seeberg though, who played the second version of Zev from Lexx. Those legs....those lips...that accent....oh my word!!!  |
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"Great thread (thanks OP), reliving my youth thinking about The Invaders & those disk thingies they'd put on someone's neck! Very fond of Quantum Leap, 2 episodes stand out for me, one where Al was actually being impersonated by Satan and the other was where he leaped back to his home town and met his father again, oh the feels(sniff sniff). As for memory lane, anyone remember 'My favourite Martian' with Ray Walston (who I saw recently calling the fake horse race in The Sting) + the late Bill Bixby (of The Incredible Hulk & The Magician fame).
Given the site we're on(& not wanting to hijack the thread), who's your favourite Sci-fi babe Erin Gray (in Buck Rogers) or Majel Barrett/Nicholls Nicholls (Star Trek-one married to Rodenberry, the other bedded by him) or 7 of nine(Jeri Ryan)... any other suggestions- guys/gals? "
Captain Janeway in the Borg series. When she had her hair down and wore a vest omg 
And the Borg Queen in First Contact wow. |
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"Lots of great ones mentioned but is there any new stuff coming.
I the last few years for me there’s a lack of anything good to watch. "
Get on Netflix! Loads on there worth watching...  |
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I loved the original V, thinking about I remembered Marc Singer, the hero/action man in a few series. He's now 69yrs old & I was shocked (obviously because I've not aged a bit myself) but the I read that his sister was Lori Singer of 'Fame' fame. |
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""V" with Robert Englund as the good alien. Rat eating, lizard faced aliens... "
I'd like to watch that again. I remember loving it first time around but not seen it since. |
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