Chud top 50 SciFi shows. - Page 2

Ryoken, Orion Quest was the name of the hero in...Jim Terry's Force Five Grandizer. The series lasted 25 episodes. I would guess that our hero never reunited with his sister Maria Grace, and that there were no Grandizer support ships piloted by MGF, the farmer's daughter, or Koji Kobuto, as that happened 2/3ds of the way through...Grendizer. Spotlight only aired the compilation films...other cities had the full Force Five series of 125 episodes. I finally got to watch the entire Ufo Robot Grendizer series subtitled on...Youtube.com, a few years ago.

Wow...earned your giant robot fan credentials back there, Duke.

1. Lost
2. Dr Who
3. Star Trek
4. The Twilight Zone
5. The Prisoner
6. Space Above & Beyond
7. Quantum Leap
8. The X-Files
9. Battlestar Galactica (2004)
10. Futurama
11. Battlestar Galactica (1979)
12. Lost In Space
13. Babylon 5
14. Sapphire and Steel
15. Buck Rogers In The 25th Century
16. Red Dwarf
17. Farscape
18. Star Blazers/Space Battleship Yamato
19. MST3K
20. Robotech
21. Quatermass
22. Ufo Robot Grendizer
23. The Outer Limits
24. Stargate SG-1
25. Terrahawks
26. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Yes, I know the flack the new generation of trek shows brings on. And I think there are some really great episodes of The Next Generation as well as a better cast. But this show appealed to me in the sense that it was thoughtful and examined culture from a socio-political point of view. Instead of Gene Rodddenberry's "wagon train to the stars" idea, the station grounded the series with a stable base of operations and all the benefits and liabilities that entailed. Thoughtful and (early on) more than a little intelligent, it sported Avery Brooks as a captain that would easily fit in the same realm as Picard.

27) Firefly

The 'Browncoats' may get a lot of flack for their brand of overexuberent fandom, but Whedon's sci-fi labor of love remains a fairly stunning achievement cut short of what could have been real glory. Equal parts silly, badass and poignant, Firefly is gold in them thar sci-fi hills. It's the show that gave fandom Nathan Fillion, and if that were all it had accomplished it would still be worth mentioning. But it also gave us memorable dialogue, thorny political and ethical problems, sharply-drawn characters, and some significant advances in the way that television effects were filmed to convey realism. Do you like the hand-held camera space shots in Battlestar Galactica? You can thank Firefly for pioneering that technique.

28. 7 Days

On the surface, this was a standard-issue action-adventure show, with super-secret government installations, a loose-cannon hero, stodgy superiors, nerdy scientists, and an unattainably sexy lady. The concept, of a 'chrononaut' who could be sent one week back in time to undo cataclysmic events, tended to support a strict plot formula. But the disaster scenarios themselves were often extremely plausible, even prescient: one episode from 1998 depicted terrorists crashing an aircraft into a New York landmark.

The 'science' of time travel was well-thought-out and original, and most every conceivable paradox was addressed, if only with tongue in cheek. Also of note was the excellent cast, few of whom have remained visible in the genre and some of whom have disappeared completely. Reports are that the chemistry was as fiery off-camera as on, and that this led to the show's premature cancellation.

29. Sliders

I remember looking forward to catching this dimension hopping show after getting home from high school. It was full of a bunch of good ideas and it's fair share of corny one too. I think the show went downhill after John Rhys-Davies left the regular cast.