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sci-fi, so what about the old shows?
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 4:18 am
by suicide eddie
ok so you have watched the latest, firefly, bsg and the 4400 etc.
so whats your favorite old vintage series?, buck rodgers, flash gordon, superman etc
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 5:29 am
by CDN_Merlin
Battlestar Galactica
Space 1999
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 5:30 am
by Dedman
CDN_Merlin wrote:Battlestar Galactica
Space 1999
x2
sci-fi, so what about the old shows?
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 5:36 am
by rijruna1
definately 'Dr Who' which is again playing on our govt. run channel. & I cant go past 'red dwarf' [funny as hell].
just my 2 fav`s of all time
cheers
rij
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 8:12 am
by CUDA
for me its B5 without a doubt, next would probably be Star Trek original, I remember watching it in 1967 as a kid, it was ground breaking for its day, probably after that Buck Rogers, any show with Erin Grey and Pamela Henlsy in spandex can be all that bad
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 8:48 am
by suicide eddie
how do you, you know use the bathroom?. oh hinges.
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 8:59 am
by Flabby Chick
Thunderbirds.
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:19 am
by Top Gun
Star Trek TOS. Kirk FTW
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:22 am
by Robo
Flabby Chick wrote:Thunderbirds.
x 2
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 12:32 pm
by Top Wop
Star Trek TOS.
Nothing beats the original.
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 4:21 pm
by DarkShadow
CDN_Merlin wrote:Battlestar Galactica
Space 1999
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:11 pm
by TechPro
Top Gun wrote:Star Trek TOS. Kirk FTW
Top Wop wrote:Star Trek TOS.
Nothing beats the original.
x2
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:33 pm
by dissent
Star Trek TNG; oh, old!
OK. Twilight Zone and Outer Limits comes to mind.
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 4:34 am
by Sirius
I have to vote for TNG as well, if you can consider that 'vintage'. I know it's pushing it. I did also like Babylon 5, but watched less and it's much more recent. Tracking it down somewhere and watching the whole thing start to finish does appeal, but lands in the 'maybe some day' file.
Sadly, most shows before then didn't do it for me. Growing up in the 1990s meant most older sci-fi shows - like ST:TOS (at least some of it, it was reasonable at other times), Blake's 7, BSG, Buck Rogers and Logan's Run (okay, so it was a movie) looked hideously dated and actually kind of awkwardly scripted/written.
BSG and Buck Rogers in particular had far too much cheese for me to be able to watch much of. (Although for the latter the extremely frequent "I could have told you the future wouldn't look like that back then, never mind now" moments didn't help.)
Still, 20 years from now, for instance, Star Trek: Enterprise will probably have its own fair share of 'futuristic' stuff turned terribly off-tack, even if the story doesn't turn sour as well.
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 9:12 am
by suicide eddie
ah buck rogers, i remember that
there was an earier one, 1933 `buck rogers in the 25th century` filmed for the worlds fair. any of you remember that one? and if you have a copy gimme gimme
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 8:46 pm
by Asrale
When it comes to shows
not featuring space ships and interstellar travel, The Outer Limits pwns all. That show is just amazing, it beats down every other sci-fi TV show that's ever existed and will come in the future. I never caught the 50s series but the 90s one still blows me away.
The show's trademark ending style is just gold; I love how you can never bank on it being a "good" ending. Easily the best edginess and risk-taking I've ever seen on TV. A show that can leave you sad, happy, depressed, optimistic, angry, scared, stunned, freaked, or even downright plain TERRIFIED
has to be amazing!
Major props to the 60s Twilight Zone though. That series was amazing too. And the music theme is legendary dammit!