Thanks for the memories. But I think you got your invisible men mixed up. The version David McCallum starred in was a 1970s American science fiction that was set in the modern day. The clip you showed was a BBC dramatisation of the H.G. Wells story
That's what I was thinking. The David McCallum one had him wearing what was supposed to be like a rubber mask, when in reality it wasn't a mask at all. When he took it off, he obviously disappeared. It was shown during the mid-70's, if I remember correctly. Roughly at the same time the 6 million dollar man and the bionic woman was coming to an end as a series, and the likes of the man from Atlantis and the Incredible Hulk came in.
Beat me to it. I'm sure the David McCallum version was American and he had a watch which have him limited time when he was invisible and if he went over the time he'd be permanently see through. I think it was thirty minutes if my memory serves me right, but it was decades ago.
@@Zooumberg The McCallum version was American. But his character had had some science experiment accident and was permanently invisible. He had a mask and wig he used to wear when he wanted to be seen. The guy with the watch that made him invisible was Gemini Man.
@@GnrMilligan Gotcha, I said it was a few years ago. I did actually watch some of the David McCallum last night but it was a reaction video. Thanks for enlightening my ageing memory.
It's mentioned elsewhere in the comments that you've got the description of the 70's Invisible Man with a clip from the 80's one. But probably not well known is the 1950's version. HG Wells' Invisible Man. This ran for two seasons on ITV. Peter Brady is turned invisible. Reasons. He lives with his sister and young niece and carries out special crime fighting missions using his new abilities. It does still exist. My ITV region showed it late at night back in 1994. The niece was played by a very young Deborah Watling, who went onto play Dr. Who companion Victoria to Patrick Troughton's Doctor. In one episode Barry Letts, who went on to produce Jon Pertwee's Doctor Who era, appears playing an air traffic controller. The actor who played Peter Brady - with a bandaged face - appeared in one episode as a villain. And didn't try to alter his voice. It was a bit incongourous From the 90's. Lexx: ran for four seasons, each of different lengths. Snivelling coward Stanley Tweedle. Dead assassin Kai, last of warrior race the Brunnen G. Liberated love slave Zev [later Xev] and psychotically jealous robot head 790 find themselves as the sole crew of the Lexx. A giant insect spaceship that can destroy planets. Did air on channel five. Wholly original. Loved it. I can still sing the battle hymn of the Brunnen G as well.
It's been so long since I've seen "The Invisible Man" series, I'm wondering if that was the pilot movie you had clips of? I remember the tone of the series being much lighter and more "futuristic", with McCallum getting a special "dermal coating" that he used instead of just being all bandaged up.
Automan was perfect television in its time. Edit! I was hoping you'd bring up Chocky and Chockys Children eventually! I loved these shows as a kid, and the books were amazing. I loved Wyndham when I was a kid, and John Christopher too.
6 million dollar man/ bionic man. battlestar galactica. logans run. was a big fan of all 3 of these, amongst some you have already mentioned. brought so many memories back from my youth lol 😊
Have you featured The Omega Factor yet?Have I missed that one? Absolutely loved it ! The gorgeous James Hazeldine and Louise Jamieson....and best of all? Lots of Edinburgh! Great memories. Thank you.❤
I saw a clip of Doomwatch once, which had a young Robert Powell bashing a clearly fake rat on a table. It was hysterical and looked like something from a Python sketch 😂
I watched Doom Watch, the episode about intelligent rats was disturbing, UFO a precursor of the alien abduction phenomenon, Don Quick, I recall an episode in which the inhabitants of a planet are confined to tower block estates through fears of giant dogs, which Don Quick realises is a fictitious ruse to keep them confined it ended with the crew having to turn on windscreen wipers as it is raining though this is in fact a giant dog peeing on the rocketship. Children of the Stones blended Sci-Fi with the folk horror genre (typified by the 1973 film The Wicker Man) in a similar vein to a 1971 Dr Who adventure, The Daemons. Time Tunnel could be regarded as the US equivalent of Dr Who. At the end of an episode a young Italian soldier gets possessed by the spirit of Emperor Nero, his name is Benito Mussolini. I also watched Land of the Giants, which was pretty novel, the idea of shrunken people appearing in a number of TV shows and films, including Dr Who. I liked Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Lost in Space to LotG if I'm honest. A Sci-Fi show I watched more in humour despite its serious pretentions was the Tomorrow People, less said...
My favourite story around the filming of The Children of the Stones revolves around the fact that the stones at Avebury don’t actually surround the village, as was needed for the show, so the designers made some fake ones from, I believe, polystyrene. The story goes that one day as the crew were putting the fake stones in place, with only one or two men carrying each monolithic stone, a coach load of, I believe, Japanese tourists arrived and were, of course, very shocked by what they witnessed. 🤣🤣🤣
The Prisoner; Red Dwarf; Battlestar Galactica (late 70's version); Wonder Woman; Incredible Hulk; Spiderman (70's live action); Wild Wild West... But thank you for this series. It's fun to hear about shows I never heard of even growing up during this period.
@@marcusblackwell2372 it's often mentioned as a forerunner to steam punk. Here are a few of the plots I remember. A drug that makes the user super fast so it appears that everyone is frozen. Used to steal priceless jewels. A drug that Loveless invents that shrinks people. A gun capable of destroying a city in one shot.
You read the synopsis of the American series of the Invisible man from 1975 which starred David McCallum but the clip was from the BBC series from 1984 which was a period adaptation of the original HG Wells book and starred Pip Donaghy as Griffin
Anyone remember the slip up in The Invisible Man??? once he put on/took off the face mask - you could see straight through it, a kind of goof up I suppose.
I remember watching the last few mentioned here during the early 90's, as they would be shown during the, 'late-shift/night-time', slot on ITV on Friday/Saturday nights, in the wee hours of the mornings. Luckily for me, I'd just got myself a VCR and would record them to watch the next day. UFO and Time Tunnel in particular were fun to watch. The former being the first series that Gerry Anderson did without puppets that also had more of an adult feel to it. The latter one was noted for it's use of segments of film slotted in from higher budget movies whenever they had to be convincing in whatever time they happen to be in that week. The funniest one I remember was of a close-up of some Colonel or other, giving the order for field artillery to be fired by dropping his arm, for it to cut to archive footage of guns being fired from either the Korean or Second World War. The film quality and colour temperature being completely different to that which was obviously shot in a studio. It kind of added to the charm of the show. Space 1999 was another of Gerry Andersons productions that was a direct follow-on from UFO, with the defence of Earth being shifted to the moon. It had 2 series, with the first one arguably being the best, the second series changed things around quite radically with half the established cast missing, and more, 'action', sequences put in to try and make it more appealing to US audiences. It didn't really work, though. I guess another show which might be considered kind of sci-fi was Catweasel. An interesting idea that again, changed format a little from the first to the second series. A bit more up to date is Farscape, with the alien that farts helium when he gets anxious. Lovely.
There was a 70s children's show called Sky on ITV, I seem to remember - but very vaguely. Something about a boy with blue eyes appearing from nowhere and foliage(?) I've got a feeling it aired about the same time as The Tomorrow People first started, early to mid 70s-ish
Re: The Invisible Man. Firstly, the video and the title card are from the BBC's 1984 production of the original H. G. Wells story. It does NOT star David McCallum. He starred in the 1975 NBC production as Dr. Daniel Westin. In 2000, there was another version of the story from The Sci-Fi Channel starring Vincent Ventresca as Darien Fawkes. Too many invisible men for you to count, eh?
Awesome trip down memory lane for me. The last 3 shows being stand-outs here. Bigfoot and the Hendersons, X-Files, Dark Skies, Baywatch Nights, Department S, Man From Uncle, The Champions, The Avengers, Goodnight Sweetheart.
Two I remember as a youth and teen were a syfy comedy "It's About Time" (astronauts go back in time to prehistoric Era) and a show based upon the movie "Logans Run" aired about 1977?
You could mention Raumpatrouille from 1966. German SciFi series with very innovative use of everyday objects like an Iron as steering console... Or Space: 1999 from the mid 70s... (from the producers of UFO)
Since you're doing 90's shows now as well, you should include Mike and Angelo, a science fiction sitcom about an alien who lives with a human family after his home planet is destroyed
I absolutely love how the creators of science fiction stuff think that the biggest advancement in technology that will have happened in the future is that people will have wacky hair colours. But yet still be using 1950's computers even in the 25th century. And people still wearing spectacles despite corrective surgery for that particular malady being widely available by the year 1990.
I'm afraid you've got your "Invisible Man's" mixed up! The David McCallum series was American and ran for one season around 1974. The clip you showed was form a BBC eighties adaptation of the original HG Wells novel.
if you want to throw in some fantasy. pretty sure miriam margoyles and a few other british folk did voice over for Monkey Magic. An iconic and fantastic series.
The show „Star Maiden“ tells the story of the two men shown in the clip, escaping from the planet ruled by women. Their escape lead them to earth, where they hide, because the „superior“ women’s government sent out a spaceship to hunt them and bring them back to Medora. I tell you the story from the german perspective. The main parts where given to some actors well known in Germany and to some british actors. One of the two escapists is a french actor, Piere Brice, a celebrity in Germany for playing the role of the american native „Winnetou“ from the books of the german author Karl May. I have a recommendation for your list, a german-french cooperation in 1966. A 7 Part serie called „Raumpatrouille“. Started only some day after the Star Trek TOS. But, because of the hight cost, broadcasted in black and white, not in color. Is a cult in Germany. Thank you for your work!
I remember seeing a show on the French station, that seem to concern two men escaping from a female-dominated society. The last scene involved them floating in a transparent capsule on what appeared to be Earth. Was that Star Maidens?
First born (UK), Quantum Leap (US), Adam Adamant (UK), V (US), The Incredible Hulk (US), Alien Nation (US), Battle of the planets (US reworking of Japanese cartoon), Knightrider(US), Streethawk(US), Six Million dollar man/Bionic woman (US).
star maidens was one of the first sci fi show i watched ... THAT title sequence blew my tiny little mind! also the flairs ... automan ... AWESOMEman more like not seen the others fully yet ... but crossing things for the likes of fantastic journey, the martian chronicles (they blew WHAT up???) and invasion earth (which i recorded onto a FIVE our tape!) okay that isn't 70s or 80s ... shazbat! oh yeah war of the worlds counts, and the gloriousnessness of TIME TRAX!
when i was at school i watched the dark tower, but the year after my brother watched the boy from space instead (programs both played in school assembly). i managed to watch it a year or so later when it was repeated on bbc 2 i think. i was very into it at the time and the backwards talking and writing was a very interesting format. i think my brother still might have the t.v. book that was given in school, i know i still have my copy of the dark tower lol.
The invisible man first aired in the States back in the seventies I believe it was the 1976-77 season. Land of the Giants is from the Sixties. You can tell becuase of all the acid they seem to be taking during the show.
Cor, doesn't Desi Jnr look like his dad ;-) Oh, re UFO, the aliens abduct humans for organ harvesting (they have dying world). Anyhoo, I grew up during this golden age of SF TV, and I consider myself fortunate in this respect.
Doom Watch created by Kit pedlar, I'm sure that was JJB Sports original name.!! And the Adventures of Don Quick (There was a 18 plus version) Starring Robin Askwith) The odd looking space creatures sounds like they were from Rotherham, And if you've ever been there There's plenty if odd looking folks around there.
The Girl from Tomorrow (1991-92) Escape from Jupiter (1994) Babylon 5 (1993-98) The Stranger (1991-95) Aliens in the Family (1987) The Day of the Triffids (1981) Farscape (1999-2003) Lost in Space (1965-1968) You've probably already covered most of them but there may be one or two you've missed.
what about the red dwarf and the 2nd series by gene roddenberry about the man who wakes up and finds himself in an underground city and his andromeda? thanks
I was going to point out the wrong invisible man,toobut another correction, 1970s not 80s,, but wow never realised Gareth Thomas was in sfar maidens. Not too bad, that and children of the stones.
The Owl Service - not SF more psychological. Sure you've covered it already? Next to Children of the Stones I still think of it centuries later after many rebirths.
You messed up. You're conflating two shows which were both about an Invisible Man. David McCallum starred as scientist Daniel Westin in the first one, but it was in a Canadian show that Vincent Ventresca played Darien Fawkes. As for UFO, the aliens are interested in Earth because they want to harvest our organs. I always considered that a poor reason and would have preferred a mystery.
Some sci-fi shows I can think of if you include 2000s: 1. The 4400, an American Sci-fi show that aired from 2004-2007 2. I-Man. TV movie with Scott Bakula that aired in 1986 about a man and his son who get exposed to space gas and find out they can heal really quickly. 3. Lexx, a Canadian/German Sci fi series that aired from 1997-2002 4. The Questor Tapes 5, Ark II 6, Jeopardy, the BBC children's sci-fi drama TV series that aired from 2002-2005 7. The Journey of Allen Strange, (An American children's Sci-Fi drama series that aired from 1997-2000 8. Johnny Quest or The Adventures of Johnny Quest and The New Adventures of Johnny Quest 9. Eureka. Also known as A Town Called Eureka, was an American Sci-Fi comedy drama that aired from 2006-2012. 10. Dark Angel. American Sci-Fi action drama series with Jessica Alba that aired between 2000-2002 which got cancelled just after the 3rd season was approved. 11. Odyssey 5 - A Canadian Sci-fi time travel series about a group of 6 people, 4 who are astronauts, who go up to space in the space shuttle Odyssey and see the Earth destroyed in a flash of light and are given the opportunity to go back 5 years to try and find out and stop what causes Earths destruction. 12. Jake 2.0 - An American sci-fi action drama series that aired in 2003-2004 which was cancelled due to low ratings. It was about a computer expert who accidentally gets infected by nanobots and gains superhuman powers. 13. Sliders. An American Sci-fi fantasy series which aired from 1995-2000 about a group of people who "slide" between different Earths in parallel universes and while they try to get back to their own universe.
Thanks for the memories. But I think you got your invisible men mixed up. The version David McCallum starred in was a 1970s American science fiction that was set in the modern day. The clip you showed was a BBC dramatisation of the H.G. Wells story
That's what I was thinking. The David McCallum one had him wearing what was supposed to be like a rubber mask, when in reality it wasn't a mask at all. When he took it off, he obviously disappeared. It was shown during the mid-70's, if I remember correctly. Roughly at the same time the 6 million dollar man and the bionic woman was coming to an end as a series, and the likes of the man from Atlantis and the Incredible Hulk came in.
The Invisible Man clip you showed was indeed from 1984 but starred Pip Donaghy , The one with David McCallum aired in 1974
Thanks for that. I went thru the comments specifically to find out about the clip shown.
Beat me to it. I'm sure the David McCallum version was American and he had a watch which have him limited time when he was invisible and if he went over the time he'd be permanently see through. I think it was thirty minutes if my memory serves me right, but it was decades ago.
@@Zooumberg The McCallum version was American. But his character had had some science experiment accident and was permanently invisible. He had a mask and wig he used to wear when he wanted to be seen. The guy with the watch that made him invisible was Gemini Man.
@@GnrMilligan Gotcha, I said it was a few years ago. I did actually watch some of the David McCallum last night but it was a reaction video.
Thanks for enlightening my ageing memory.
@@Zooumberg Not at all Sir, my pleasure.
Never realized how often Gareth Thomas (Blake's 7) popped up on television.
Chocky scared the crap out of me when I was a kid, thanks for the wonderful memories 😢
It's mentioned elsewhere in the comments that you've got the description of the 70's Invisible Man with a clip from the 80's one. But probably not well known is the 1950's version. HG Wells' Invisible Man. This ran for two seasons on ITV. Peter Brady is turned invisible. Reasons. He lives with his sister and young niece and carries out special crime fighting missions using his new abilities. It does still exist. My ITV region showed it late at night back in 1994. The niece was played by a very young Deborah Watling, who went onto play Dr. Who companion Victoria to Patrick Troughton's Doctor. In one episode Barry Letts, who went on to produce Jon Pertwee's Doctor Who era, appears playing an air traffic controller.
The actor who played Peter Brady - with a bandaged face - appeared in one episode as a villain. And didn't try to alter his voice. It was a bit incongourous
From the 90's. Lexx: ran for four seasons, each of different lengths. Snivelling coward Stanley Tweedle. Dead assassin Kai, last of warrior race the Brunnen G. Liberated love slave Zev [later Xev] and psychotically jealous robot head 790 find themselves as the sole crew of the Lexx. A giant insect spaceship that can destroy planets. Did air on channel five. Wholly original. Loved it. I can still sing the battle hymn of the Brunnen G as well.
It's been so long since I've seen "The Invisible Man" series, I'm wondering if that was the pilot movie you had clips of? I remember the tone of the series being much lighter and more "futuristic", with McCallum getting a special "dermal coating" that he used instead of just being all bandaged up.
Automan was perfect television in its time.
Edit! I was hoping you'd bring up Chocky and Chockys Children eventually! I loved these shows as a kid, and the books were amazing. I loved Wyndham when I was a kid, and John Christopher too.
6 million dollar man/ bionic man. battlestar galactica. logans run. was a big fan of all 3 of these, amongst some you have already mentioned. brought so many memories back from my youth lol 😊
Have you featured The Omega Factor yet?Have I missed that one? Absolutely loved it ! The gorgeous James Hazeldine and Louise Jamieson....and best of all? Lots of Edinburgh!
Great memories. Thank you.❤
I saw a clip of Doomwatch once, which had a young Robert Powell bashing a clearly fake rat on a table. It was hysterical and looked like something from a Python sketch 😂
I watched Doom Watch, the episode about intelligent rats was disturbing, UFO a precursor of the alien abduction phenomenon, Don Quick, I recall an episode in which the inhabitants of a planet are confined to tower block estates through fears of giant dogs, which Don Quick realises is a fictitious ruse to keep them confined it ended with the crew having to turn on windscreen wipers as it is raining though this is in fact a giant dog peeing on the rocketship. Children of the Stones blended Sci-Fi with the folk horror genre (typified by the 1973 film The Wicker Man) in a similar vein to a 1971 Dr Who adventure, The Daemons. Time Tunnel could be regarded as the US equivalent of Dr Who. At the end of an episode a young Italian soldier gets possessed by the spirit of Emperor Nero, his name is Benito Mussolini. I also watched Land of the Giants, which was pretty novel, the idea of shrunken people appearing in a number of TV shows and films, including Dr Who. I liked Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Lost in Space to LotG if I'm honest. A Sci-Fi show I watched more in humour despite its serious pretentions was the Tomorrow People, less said...
My favourite story around the filming of The Children of the Stones revolves around the fact that the stones at Avebury don’t actually surround the village, as was needed for the show, so the designers made some fake ones from, I believe, polystyrene.
The story goes that one day as the crew were putting the fake stones in place, with only one or two men carrying each monolithic stone, a coach load of, I believe, Japanese tourists arrived and were, of course, very shocked by what they witnessed. 🤣🤣🤣
The Prisoner; Red Dwarf; Battlestar Galactica (late 70's version); Wonder Woman; Incredible Hulk; Spiderman (70's live action); Wild Wild West...
But thank you for this series. It's fun to hear about shows I never heard of even growing up during this period.
Wild Wild West? That doesn't sound right. I know it had strange inventions for the time but how is it sci-fi?
@@marcusblackwell2372 it's often mentioned as a forerunner to steam punk. Here are a few of the plots I remember.
A drug that makes the user super fast so it appears that everyone is frozen. Used to steal priceless jewels.
A drug that Loveless invents that shrinks people.
A gun capable of destroying a city in one shot.
The Time Tunnel. Clearly the inspiration for Alexie Sayle's 'Drunk In Time' sketches.
You read the synopsis of the American series of the Invisible man from 1975 which starred David McCallum but the clip was from the BBC series from 1984 which was a period adaptation of the original HG Wells book and starred Pip Donaghy as Griffin
Also the character's name was wrong he was called doctor Daniel Weston not, Darien Faulkes.
@@davidroberts5250Darien Faulkes was from a more modern version from America.
@@MrShowbiz48 oh yes, I have heard of it but, I have never seen it.
@@davidroberts5250 I remember The Invisible Man - but couldn't remember/ forgot the character's name.
Anyone remember the slip up in The Invisible Man??? once he put on/took off the face mask - you could see straight through it, a kind of goof up I suppose.
I love the fact in UFO there were only three interceptors with one rocket each defending the whole of earth!
Even as a nipper I questioned why they only had one rocket each!
@@AtheistOrphan A fatal flaw in the plan!
I remember a kids science fiction show from the 90s called Aquila, it was about two young lads who find a spaceship buried in a field.
Blake actor of Blake's 7 popped up in a couple of these! He was in Star Maidens and Children of the Stones. (Gareth Thomas)
Just found your channel, Full of nostalgia so far. Have you done a listing for 5. The Tripods (1984-1985), used to watch it on BBC after Dr. Who.
I had never heard of "Star Maidens" and am about to search for a way to watch it - it looks like an amazing show - 🛸👽✨
Just look out of the window if you want to see a planet ruled by women!
🙂🙂🙂
I saw it. It filled the gap left by space 1999 on a Sunday, when it wasn't on.
Best description... A bit cheesy.
@@AndrewHalliwell - they are all available on UA-cam and cheesy is the correct adjective
Gemini Man, Holmes & Yo-Yo, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Survivors, The Fantastic Journey.
Remembered another one - Space Academy.
I loved Holmes and Yo-yo.
I remember watching the last few mentioned here during the early 90's, as they would be shown during the, 'late-shift/night-time', slot on ITV on Friday/Saturday nights, in the wee hours of the mornings. Luckily for me, I'd just got myself a VCR and would record them to watch the next day. UFO and Time Tunnel in particular were fun to watch. The former being the first series that Gerry Anderson did without puppets that also had more of an adult feel to it. The latter one was noted for it's use of segments of film slotted in from higher budget movies whenever they had to be convincing in whatever time they happen to be in that week. The funniest one I remember was of a close-up of some Colonel or other, giving the order for field artillery to be fired by dropping his arm, for it to cut to archive footage of guns being fired from either the Korean or Second World War. The film quality and colour temperature being completely different to that which was obviously shot in a studio. It kind of added to the charm of the show.
Space 1999 was another of Gerry Andersons productions that was a direct follow-on from UFO, with the defence of Earth being shifted to the moon. It had 2 series, with the first one arguably being the best, the second series changed things around quite radically with half the established cast missing, and more, 'action', sequences put in to try and make it more appealing to US audiences. It didn't really work, though. I guess another show which might be considered kind of sci-fi was Catweasel. An interesting idea that again, changed format a little from the first to the second series. A bit more up to date is Farscape, with the alien that farts helium when he gets anxious. Lovely.
3:50 - Nice Lamborghini Countach!
There was a 70s children's show called Sky on ITV, I seem to remember - but very vaguely. Something about a boy with blue eyes appearing from nowhere and foliage(?) I've got a feeling it aired about the same time as The Tomorrow People first started, early to mid 70s-ish
Re: The Invisible Man.
Firstly, the video and the title card are from the BBC's 1984 production of the original H. G. Wells story. It does NOT star David McCallum. He starred in the 1975 NBC production as Dr. Daniel Westin. In 2000, there was another version of the story from The Sci-Fi Channel starring Vincent Ventresca as Darien Fawkes.
Too many invisible men for you to count, eh?
Awesome trip down memory lane for me. The last 3 shows being stand-outs here.
Bigfoot and the Hendersons, X-Files, Dark Skies, Baywatch Nights, Department S, Man From Uncle, The Champions, The Avengers, Goodnight Sweetheart.
Harry and the Henderson
Two I remember as a youth and teen were a syfy comedy "It's About Time" (astronauts go back in time to prehistoric Era) and a show based upon the movie "Logans Run" aired about 1977?
You could mention Raumpatrouille from 1966. German SciFi series with very innovative use of everyday objects like an Iron as steering console... Or Space: 1999 from the mid 70s... (from the producers of UFO)
You showed a clip of the wrong Invisible Man.
The reason for the alien abduction in UFO is for organ transplants, The aliens are dying and use humans as spare parts. Another dark Anderson series.
Since you're doing 90's shows now as well, you should include Mike and Angelo, a science fiction sitcom about an alien who lives with a human family after his home planet is destroyed
YES!
Hated that show
@@DollyBelladonnaToo silly?
I'd like to see 'The Champions', 'Sky', and 'Counterstrike', all tv series I loved at the time.
I absolutely love how the creators of science fiction stuff think that the biggest advancement in technology that will have happened in the future is that people will have wacky hair colours.
But yet still be using 1950's computers even in the 25th century. And people still wearing spectacles despite corrective surgery for that particular malady being widely available by the year 1990.
I'm afraid you've got your "Invisible Man's" mixed up!
The David McCallum series was American and ran for one season around 1974. The clip you showed was form a BBC eighties adaptation of the original HG Wells novel.
I enjoyed watching "The Tripods" when I was a kid.
Children of the Stones was brilliant , never understood what it was meant to be about though.
if you want to throw in some fantasy. pretty sure miriam margoyles and a few other british folk did voice over for Monkey Magic. An iconic and fantastic series.
Brilliant show ua-cam.com/video/tN1lx4EGR9s/v-deo.html
As I young boy watching UFO I experienced strange feelings I struggled to understand when Gabrielle Drake and Ayshea Brough ( 9:17 ) were on screen.
Ayshea currently lives in Grantham
@@marktrickett5081 - Thanks but I doubt I’ll be knocking on her door anytime soon, long since wandered into no man’s land!
The show „Star Maiden“ tells the story of the two men shown in the clip, escaping from the planet ruled by women. Their escape lead them to earth, where they hide, because the „superior“ women’s government sent out a spaceship to hunt them and bring them back to Medora. I tell you the story from the german perspective. The main parts where given to some actors well known in Germany and to some british actors. One of the two escapists is a french actor, Piere Brice, a celebrity in Germany for playing the role of the american native „Winnetou“ from the books of the german author Karl May. I have a recommendation for your list, a german-french cooperation in 1966. A 7 Part serie called „Raumpatrouille“. Started only some day after the Star Trek TOS. But, because of the hight cost, broadcasted in black and white, not in color. Is a cult in Germany. Thank you for your work!
I remember seeing a show on the French station, that seem to concern two men escaping from a female-dominated society. The last scene involved them floating in a transparent capsule on what appeared to be Earth. Was that Star Maidens?
First born (UK), Quantum Leap (US), Adam Adamant (UK), V (US), The Incredible Hulk (US), Alien Nation (US), Battle of the planets (US reworking of Japanese cartoon), Knightrider(US), Streethawk(US), Six Million dollar man/Bionic woman (US).
Children of the Stones’s had the scariest theme tune … !
star maidens was one of the first sci fi show i watched ... THAT title sequence blew my tiny little mind!
also the flairs ...
automan ... AWESOMEman more like
not seen the others fully yet ... but crossing things for the likes of fantastic journey, the martian chronicles (they blew WHAT up???) and invasion earth (which i recorded onto a FIVE our tape!) okay that isn't 70s or 80s ... shazbat! oh yeah war of the worlds counts, and the gloriousnessness of TIME TRAX!
Boy from space BBC School drama gave me nightmares but has a spooky but catchy theme tune
when i was at school i watched the dark tower, but the year after my brother watched the boy from space instead (programs both played in school assembly). i managed to watch it a year or so later when it was repeated on bbc 2 i think. i was very into it at the time and the backwards talking and writing was a very interesting format. i think my brother still might have the t.v. book that was given in school, i know i still have my copy of the dark tower lol.
See Gareth Thomas aka Blake(‘s Seven) turning up in several of these shows. There is also the various Quatermass stories
Manimal, Highwayman, V, Captain Zep Super Space Detective, Terrahawks,
Children of the stones was way before its time
The invisible man first aired in the States back in the seventies I believe it was the 1976-77 season. Land of the Giants is from the Sixties. You can tell becuase of all the acid they seem to be taking during the show.
The one thing that stands out for me is just how middle class we all apparently were in the 70's 😂😂😂
Cor, doesn't Desi Jnr look like his dad ;-) Oh, re UFO, the aliens abduct humans for organ harvesting (they have dying world). Anyhoo, I grew up during this golden age of SF TV, and I consider myself fortunate in this respect.
Doom Watch created by Kit pedlar, I'm sure that was JJB Sports original name.!!
And the Adventures of Don Quick (There was a 18 plus version) Starring Robin Askwith) The odd looking space creatures sounds like they were from Rotherham, And if you've ever been there There's plenty if odd looking folks around there.
Battlestar Galactica, Logan's run TV series, Ace of wands
The Girl from Tomorrow (1991-92)
Escape from Jupiter (1994)
Babylon 5 (1993-98)
The Stranger (1991-95)
Aliens in the Family (1987)
The Day of the Triffids (1981)
Farscape (1999-2003)
Lost in Space (1965-1968)
You've probably already covered most of them but there may be one or two you've missed.
Omg Babylon 5 is my favourite all time series
Would ”Get Fresh!” count? Gilbert the alien was in it!
What about Chocky's Children, and Chocky's challenge?
what about the red dwarf and the 2nd series by gene roddenberry about the man who wakes up and finds himself in an underground city and his andromeda? thanks
The Invisible Man was in the mid 70s.
I was going to point out the wrong invisible man,toobut another correction, 1970s not 80s,, but wow never realised Gareth Thomas was in sfar maidens. Not too bad, that and children of the stones.
I assumed 'Children of the Stones' was about Mick Jagger's offspring......
The Owl Service - not SF more psychological. Sure you've covered it already? Next to Children of the Stones I still think of it centuries later after many rebirths.
Another kids supernatural show on the beeb is the "Witches and the Grinnygog". (1983)
Wasn't that the one with a young Ian Beale in.
@@alexjohnston8889 yes and a handful of other actors that went on to Eastenders too.
You messed up. You're conflating two shows which were both about an Invisible Man. David McCallum starred as scientist Daniel Westin in the first one, but it was in a Canadian show that Vincent Ventresca played Darien Fawkes. As for UFO, the aliens are interested in Earth because they want to harvest our organs. I always considered that a poor reason and would have preferred a mystery.
Didn't First Born come out about the same time(ish) as Chimera, maybe before, or after???
darien fawkes was a different invisible man in the 1990's
I had problems watching Invisible Man 'cos I couldn't see 'im much from the bottom of my stairs up to't top of me 'ouse
What about the series SKY I have all 6 episodes on DVD.
The invisible man...why can we see his nose??.
Yikes...just how many programs (programmes?) did David McCallum have a role in? Lol
Much as I hate modern reboots and remakes, Children of the Stones should be revisited. The story is brilliant if poorly executed.
Some sci-fi shows I can think of if you include 2000s:
1. The 4400, an American Sci-fi show that aired from 2004-2007
2. I-Man. TV movie with Scott Bakula that aired in 1986 about a man and his son who get exposed to space gas and find out they can heal really quickly.
3. Lexx, a Canadian/German Sci fi series that aired from 1997-2002
4. The Questor Tapes
5, Ark II
6, Jeopardy, the BBC children's sci-fi drama TV series that aired from 2002-2005
7. The Journey of Allen Strange, (An American children's Sci-Fi drama series that aired from 1997-2000
8. Johnny Quest or The Adventures of Johnny Quest and The New Adventures of Johnny Quest
9. Eureka. Also known as A Town Called Eureka, was an American Sci-Fi comedy drama that aired from 2006-2012.
10. Dark Angel. American Sci-Fi action drama series with Jessica Alba that aired between 2000-2002 which got cancelled just after the 3rd season was approved.
11. Odyssey 5 - A Canadian Sci-fi time travel series about a group of 6 people, 4 who are astronauts, who go up to space in the space shuttle Odyssey and see the Earth destroyed in a flash of light and are given the opportunity to go back 5 years to try and find out and stop what causes Earths destruction.
12. Jake 2.0 - An American sci-fi action drama series that aired in 2003-2004 which was cancelled due to low ratings. It was about a computer expert who accidentally gets infected by nanobots and gains superhuman powers.
13. Sliders. An American Sci-fi fantasy series which aired from 1995-2000 about a group of people who "slide" between different Earths in parallel universes and while they try to get back to their own universe.
Er, wrong invisible man.
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Gareth Thomas gets about a bit.