What is your favorite Sci Fi series of all time?

[The Zanti Regent]

Poll question: What is your favorite Sci Fi series of all time?

Tried to look at the tube tonight and got real bored. I can still remember when TV had SOMETHING interesting on it!

[davidinalameda]

1. Night Gallery

it was more horror than Sci-Fi but still my favorite

[SheilaT]

2. One Step Beyond.

I'm not entirely sure it was real science-fiction, as it purported to relate true stories, but it was quite creepy.

[nuxvomica]

10. Only TV show I know of where the host did peyote on camera

That was an odd episode.

[Skip Intro]

13. mmmmmm, peyote

gurgle gurgle

[Newsjock]

3. Nowhere Man

One of the original UPN shows. "The Prisoner" reinterpreted for the 1990s, in a way.

[xray s]

4. Tough call

I voted for Twilight Zone because it not only scared the tar out of me when I was little, but it tackled some sensitive social issues as well. Rod Serling was a great director and had to fight to get many of his themes past the suits.

The Outer Limits was really creepy. I remember watching the first episode at my friends house and running home after it was over. Some alien climbing out of a radio transmitter because the night DJ turned the power up too high.

And Science Fiction Theatre! Man, that used to be on Sunday morning in Chicago. Loved the theme song.

[HamstersFromHell]

20. That outer limits premier...

..was "The Galaxy Being". I was all of 5 when it aired and it scared me sh!tless.

I also remember "Wolf 359" being another good episode.

[SilasSoule]

5. I Just had a discussion with my yr old son about this.

He goes with Star Wars but I went with Star Trek and it's spinofffs.

The appeal that Star Trek has to me is much the same as a fan rooting for his hometown sports team. The Humans on Star trek represented a future us, a possible path for us that leads to embracing enlightenment and science. The historical refrerences made in Star Trek and almost any episode dealing with time travel were my favorties. After The Next Generation, the best spinoff for me was Voyager - I loved every episode - and the premise - a Starfleet ship and crew lost in Space, flung to the far reaches of the universe knowing it would take 75 yrs at max warp to get back. Some of Voyagers time travel and Borg episodes were truly great work.

[mikehiggins]

6. I can't beleive you didn't list Babylon Five on the poll. n/t

[The Zanti Regent]

7. Mike, I forgot about that, Sorry!

OOPS!

[MinnFats]

8. 'Twilight Zone,' far and away.

He broke new ground in a spectacular way.
he made a lot of points about war, racism, facism....he was a WWII vet who had seen the horror of war up close and wanted people to understand the horror.
He insisted on using black actors for roles that weren't necessarily written for black characters, and was one of the first to do that, too....

also, he could be damn funny.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

9. B5 followed closely by

FarScape, then Star Trek (The Original Series).

Least favorite: Space 1999

[jobycom]

11. Dr Who, and only Dr Who! NT

NT

[Screaming Lord Byron]

25. Agreed. n/t

[pansypoo53219]

12. HEY!!!

where's Dr. Who???

[The Zanti Regent]

14. I stand corrected (again)

You can cast your Dr Who votes now

[Skip Intro]

15. Star Trek, followed closely by B5 and Outer Limits (n/t)

[durutti]

16. X-Files!

How could you forget that one?

[LizW]

35. I second that

Who could forget Scully and Mulder?

[Syncronaut Seven]

17. Hey! What about Red Dwarf?

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[Iverson]

39. hilarious sci-fi farce

I'm with you, although it could be considered primarily comedy instead of primarily science fiction.

[CanuckAmok]

18. I loved the wooden supermarionette-actors in Space 1999.

Oh, wait, that was Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, and Barry Morse!

[mykpart]

19. I voted for Star Trek, but

only because you didn't have "Far Out Space Nuts" on your list!

[TOhioLiberal]

21. Guess!

The name's TREKKERLASS...Take a wild guess at which one I picked...
B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) LOL...Seeya later!

[jimbo fett]

22. Battlestar Galactica! Hello?

Maybe it's just me but I LOVED Battlestar Galactica.

[Enraged_Ape]

36. I liked Battlestar Galactica too

Just caught the new one last week and I liked it too. A lot of the good stuff from the original show without all the dumb stuff (like three-to-a-fighter Cylons that can't shoot straight). I hope it goes to a regular series.

[WoodrowFan]

23. Star Trek, then B5 then Far Scape

Star Trek but mostly because I liked its sequels (including Enterprise) but I thought the B5 sequels (show and movies) were LAME, LAME, LAME. All in all, I think the original B5 was better than any one single Trek series, but Trek is the better overall franchise.

[Bertha Venation]

24. Quantum Leap

n/t

[Love Bug]

26. I almost hate to admit it, but

as much as loving Star Trek and being a SF fan has affected my life, I just loooooovvvvveeee Babylon 5. It was a much, much better written series overall. Yeah, Trek has had some great shows, but I prefer B5 for its texture and amazing continuity.

[GregW]

27. Space: Above and Beyond

How this got canceled is beyond me :eyes:

[Dogmudgeon]

29. Another *Space: Above and Beyond* fan

Space: Above and Beyond wasn't just the best science fiction series ever made, it was one of the best series ever made, period.

I'd have to say that it was too subversive for military sci-fi freaks (many of whom are politically conservative) and way too deep for the crowd that just wants eye-candy, but S:AAB supposedly got fairly decent ratings, like another excellent series that got ignoired by FOX-TV, Alien Nation.

According to James Morrison, who played Col. McQueen, the in-vitro commander of the "Wild Cards", he knew that Fox wasn't behind the show at all when one of their execs suggested a backstory involving McQueen's father (click here for Morrison`s description of the event). As an in-vitro, McQueen would have had no parents.

The new Battlestar Galactica had a lot of the same "stuff" that made S:AAB a great series. Which does not bode well for it, I'm afraid.

There's a lot of S:AAB fan sites, too. This one has a fair number of decent links, including where to get hard-to-find S:AAB stuff.

--bkl

[Orrin_73]

30. The new Battlestar Galactica sucks dude

they (scifi channel) should have made a continuation not a reimagined version. Too bad it could have been so big.


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[noonwitch]

28. Mystery Science Theater!

I love that show! It is so funny.

As far as "serious" sci/fi, I like Star Trek TNG best, better than the original or any of the other "recent" shows. The cast was great and only had a few weak spots (Dr. Crusher & son come to mind). That show also had Q, who was a great villain.

[Garage Queen]

37. Yep, either MST3K or Quantum Leap

Though, ST:TNG was pretty good (seasons 2 and on, season 1 sucked rotting blue whale)

[Bridget Burke]

31. Sentimental vote for Dr. Who

Specifically, the Tom Baker episodes.



However, even as a teenager, Rod Serling's stuff seemed truer to the "serious" science fiction I'd read. Not that I disliked Star Trek--perhaps TNG is my favorite but all the variations are OK (not counting Enterprise).

More recently, Red Dwarf is a fave--a descendant of Dr Who. Farscape was also excellent--I HATE the SCI-FI Channel.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

32. Tom Baker. Is. The. Man.

I always thought of him as a TV Anarchist.

[peekaloo]

33. Dang! No 'Lost in Space'

The pain, THE PAIN.

I voted TZ, but 'The Outer Limits' wins hands down on "all time creepiest" Sci-Fi show.

[Neshanic]

34. Really, how can Lost in Space not be on the list?

That show was a classic. Dr. Smith alone was worth the show being on. He broke two barriers. The first gay/doctor shown on network television.

[terryg11]

38. was UFO that official looking show from late seventies early 80's

didn't last real long but I believe involved the air force or something?

[Iverson]

40. not listed, but certainly a contender

The State of the Union Address.