OT - Good sci fi TV shows?

Cheeze · #1 February 25th, 2003, 06:29 AM

Just adding some information. Last week, the Sci-Fi channel played Battlestar Galactica from 11-4pm every weekday.

They are doing it again this week, but with Buck Rogers. I'm wondering if I need to set my VCR and then check back for the particularly good episodes. Oh sure, there's the "off think" one with Colonel Deerings' bumps...but how about that one with the space vampire when Wilma got turned and she started acting extra sexy?

I noticed something in the Buck Roger's movie today. They had the same flight controls as the Vipers do. Makes that 13th tribe connection more believable...so to speak.

Update: Sci-Fi was showing the Night Stalker today. Maybe they'll show Buck Rogers every Monday or something. There's always hope.

[ February 25, 2003, 18:32: Message edited by: Cheeze ]

raynor · #2 February 25th, 2003, 10:08 AM

Oh yeah.... the space vampire episode is one to watch.

Does anyone remember Space: 1999? They just delivered the DVD Megaset. It's 48 hours of sci-fi for about $120. I watched the first one Last night, and man, did it bring back memories. I used to have a walkie-talkie that looked like their communication devices.

I wonder if Star Trek: The Original Series DVD's will ever drop in price. It seems like they are still about $15 mail-order for every two episode disc.

Does anyone remember an old sci-fi series about an Ark? They had these stun weapons that reflect the sun, and they had a food technology that seemed like it was similar to replicators. I think maybe their uniforms were mostly white. I think maybe they had a smaller vehicle that would come down a ramp from the back of the 'ark'. The ark was just a big traveling ground vehicle. Wow. That was a LONG time ago.

I also remember an old sci-fi show about something like the Phoenix. It seemed like it was an Native American looking dude with a phoenix symbol on a chain that could transform or something. Hmm... okay, that is more fantasy than sci-fi.

There is another sci-fi show that was short lived called maybe Other World? It seems like a family of four was swept into this other world and was trying to get out. I remember one episode where all the people were androids because of high radiation levels. It was cute. The son fell in love with the young android girl who showed him her "light" on a master board and said it represented her "soul". I still remember having a crush on her.

raynor · #3 February 25th, 2003, 10:17 AM

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Originally posted by javaslinger:
What's that god awful series wehre people crash land on some planet. There some kind of underground race there called diggers?

It's a recent show.

I wonder if you are talking about Earth 2? They had that race of spear carrying aliens that communicated in dreams and would shoot up out of the ground and back again. They had VR gear that was pretty cool. The series was just so flat, I thought.

Cheeze · #4 February 26th, 2003, 09:59 AM

raynor...those bring back memories. I think I needed a life even then, I watched so much television, apparently.

First, Space 1999. From the same production company that did The Muppet Show. I really liked the shapeshifter, she was really cool. That was Moonbase Alpha, and hadn't the moon been yanked away from Earth or some such thing.

Phoenix was pretty fun to watch. The same actor who played Khan's number one guy in Wrath of Khan. I liked all his special powers, and how he was constantly on the run from government agents, if I remember right.

Last, Ark 2. That was Saturday morning television, before/during/after the Kroft Supershow (H.R. Puffenstuff anyone?). Was that oriented around a family in a post-apocalypse environment? I remember the sun-powered weapons...I seem to think they used a similar sound effect as the martians in the classic War of the Worlds movie. If that doesn't bring up The Land of the Lost..and not that terrible remake. And Jason and the Star Patrol. And the Bay City Rollers Saturday Morning Special...AAAAGHH!! Someone stop me!

David E. Gervais · #5 February 27th, 2003, 02:05 AM

There is another sci-fi show that was short lived called maybe Other World? It seems like a family of four was swept into this other world and was trying to get out.

Was this per chance a show called 'Fantastic Journey'? At least that is what the description sounds like! I thought it was pretty good. It was playing at the same time as another show that I liked called 'Cliffhanger' with Susan Anton.

Aaaah the memories!

Cheers!

Edit: P.S. wasn't there a TV series adaptation of 'Westworld'? That seems to ring a bell too!

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Kamog · #6 February 27th, 2003, 04:53 AM

Yeah, I remember Space: 1999. That was a good show...

Desdinova · #7 February 27th, 2003, 06:41 AM

Raynor you are correct the name of the series is Otherworld and is from 1985. it was a good series.
"The Sterlings are a typical California family who visit the Great Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt. On this day there is a particular alignment of the planets which occurs once every tens of thousands of years. At that time they pass into another dimension which constitutes a whole other universe. The family journeys through this Otherworld trying to find their way back home."

too bad there is not someway to order dvds or downloads of selected series.

[ February 27, 2003, 04:42: Message edited by: desdinova ]