My friend wrote the theme tune and sang the theme tune to Captain Zep with his band The Spacewalkers. They still do stuff occasionally. They released a Christmas single called the Bells of Christmas and a cover of Nowhere Man a few years ago. They also did background music for Take Hart too in the '80s. Talking of which, it's also nice to see Colin Bennett again there in Luna. Such a lovely chap. I worked with him many times in the '90s. He even filmed me on an episode of his ITV after the pub late night show called Night Shift.
My father had broke fingers on one of his hands shortly after WWII and I never noticed it until I was in elementary school in the 60's and the Invaders aired on TV. My older brother used to scare me when he always brought it up that my fathers smallest fingers always stuck out when he held the phone because his knuckles were fused just like the alien invaders in the show.
I watched V, Terrahawks and Metal Mickey as a kid, plus Triffids which scared the $h!t out of me at a young age...I had some of the Terrahawks action figures, inc the Windsor Davies rolling ball robot. I rewatched V during lockdown. It aged quite badly, but I spotted an early turn by Robert Englund before he went on to become Freddy Krueger.
Excellent prog as usual. Just one suggestion, how about doing an episode on Sci-Fi cartoons? Some have already mentioned Ulysses 31, then there's also G-Force, The New Sentinels, and the animated Star Trek that was on kids' telly back in the 70s. There are many more shows I could mention, but you get the gist.
Also Bravestar, Mask, Thundercats, TMNT (oops, sorry, HERO, can’t say Ninja), The Jetsons... there really are too many to list, from the 80s alone. (I know, Jetsons was sixties)
And you can't forget the very first Anime. Stargazers aka Space Battleship Yamoto. And how about some Australian stuff like Ocean Girl, The Girl from Tomorrow or Spellbinder. Made for kids, but still good enough for adults to enjoy
Just remembered another one - Neverwhere. Does Ultraviolet count as it was about Vampires in London? Farscape was excellent. Lexx was weird and Ulysses 31 probably had the best theme tune of the 80s
A good few I didn’t know there, but I just have to say that that version of Day Of The Triffids still remains my favourite, it just felt oddly real to me, though I guess if a show is set in familiar territory that you yourself reside in that helps a ton for that.
Lost in Space- the robot wasn't mischievous, Dr Smith was ;-) The Prisoner- No2 (multiple) is in charge, we never meet No.1 (well, we sort of do, but that is the whole plot ending). You should mention that the entire series is shot on location at Portmeirion, which is a hotel you can stay at today if you wish (still on my bucket list). Metal Mickey- you missed the most important fact out, that the Brummie series was Directed by ex Monkey's drummer Micky Dolenz. Keep up the nostalgia.
The Prisoner is not filmed entirely in Portmeirion, only about 40% of the footage was filmed there with the rest being either Studio work of filmed in various other locations around the South East of England, though most of the scenes set in the Village were filmed in Portmeirion there were a few pick up shots where it is obvious that a sound stage was used. If you’re a fan of the series then there is a brilliant group of FaceBook about both the Prisoner and Danger Man where the series is discussed and new information is always coming to light, even having one of the Number 2 actors as a member (Darren Nesbit) as well as one of the few people who knew Patrick McGoohan and his Daughter (a gent by the name of Rich Davy who runs the Unmutual website and is a Moderator for the group)
There are two I can think of that I don't think you've mentioned yet, Chimera from 1991 and First Born from 1998. I think they would both come under the sci fi horror banner.
There was a War of the Worlds series back in the late 80s(?) based on the 1950s George Pal movie version of the HG Wells novel. I think it ran for two series (seasons) and aired in a the post-pub-something-to-watch-while-eating-a-kebab slot which, as we all can agree on, is the REAL primetime
No. It stared Jared Martin. The aliens they thought had been killed by bacteria in the film are just hibernating and get woken up when exposed to nuclear waste which kills the germs but not them.
I've been enjoying this Sci-fi nostalgia series. Especially series from the 60s and 70s... Here are some I remember (Apologies, for any you already covered). Marine Boy (animated) The Clangers (animated) The Invaders Land Of The Giants Timeslip The Champions The Magic Fountain The Tomorrow People Sky Fantastic Journey Fantastic voyage (animated) Battle of the Planets (animated) All the Gerry Anderson series: Supercar, Stingray, Joe90, Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds, etc.. While it was definitely not one of my favourites... It may be worth mentioning: "Come Back Mrs Noah" if only for the cringe value. Molly Sugden's character from: Are You Being Served, shot into space.
I recently watched The Omega Factor. Not sure if you've seen it? I really enjoyed it and agree there's something about nostalgic sci-fi that hits home.
I have been trying for weeks to remember what this was called! But all I could remember of it was the little boy talking about laser mazer phaser blasters... or something...
Few more to add; Dark Season (an early Russell T Davies drama with Jacqueline Pearce from Blake’s 7), Crime Traveller (with Chloe Annett from Red Dwarf), The Strangerers (from Rob Grant of Red Dwarf fame), Torchwood - the Doctor Who spin off
How can you mention Torchwood but not Sarah Jane adventures? (Both 21st century. This channel seems more interested in retro stuff, so, I'd say a little too new)
the strangerers was mad with williams and doherty going all out weirdy as the alien ... vegetables ... played them to a tee 👾 also sarah alexander in a skin tight outfit ... but no one want's to know about that ... i have the entire series still on vhs, and it was very funny too
Pamelyn Ferndin from Space Academy was also in the Star Trek TOS ep. 'And The Children Shall Lead', alongside Brian Tochi , who was also in Space Academy, and went on to have smaller parts in Star Trek TNG.
I was terrified of V, I was probably too young for it but as the youngest of 3, it was what everyone else was watching & we only had 1 TV. The birth scene sticks in my mind. Don’t rememberGalloping Galaxies but it looks good, a bit like Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for kids.
V was first shown in american on the saturday night, then here on the sunday, and it was HUGE!!! diana wasn't the leader, that was john ... lloyd patenter of crop rotation ... she should have been, and she eventually was, because she was a BAD ASS!!! and yeah the twins ... elizabeth and baby with forked tongue ... and don't bother with the remake series, the first five minutes is all you need, the rest is excrement
This video jolted some long lost memories of Galloping Galaxies. Somehow, the design of SID with his transparent globe and yellow colour schemed frame gave me flashbacks of some of the toys that the company 'Britains' released as part of their 'Space' theme in the early 1980s. Anyone else get that ?
K9 & Company, The Incredible Hulk, Quantum Leap, Lexx, Now and again, Red Dwarf, Homeboys from outer space, First born, Tripods, Hyperdrive, Manimal, Adam Adamant lives, ALF, Watt on Earth, Helping Henry, Benji Zax & the Alien Prince.
When I heard the name Jo Wyatt, who played Luna in the 2nd series, I wondered why it was familiar. Turns out she does lots of voice work for cartoons and games, most notably as Ciri in The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt. 👍😄👍
Funny. Jonathan Harris played Dr. Smith in Lost in Space, and the commander in Space Acadamy. And the set was exactly the same in Space Acadamy as in Jason of Star Command.
I clearly remember the Day of the Triffids plant design and death sting and found it horrifying. I’m 43, which means I would’ve been 2 years old at the time of airing. Must be my earliest memory unless the BBC ran repeats. Indelible!!!
The robot from Lost in Space is named Robbie and he has quite the filmography. He's appeared in a variety of projects over the years. He even appeared in Wonder Woman I think,
@@caronstout354 It's the same robot with a man inside and it has been used in various TV shows and movies of the years including Lost in Space and Wonder Woman. It's usually credited as Robbie the Robot.
V was the show that..er.."inspired" David Icke with his claim of alien lizard people, Terrahawks i thought notba patch on the Andersons previous eg thunderbirds. dont recall Galloping Galaxies at all, or Lunar, missed that one, same for Captain Zep, and i didnt see any of Space Academy either. Lost in Space, who can forget the duplicitous but likeable Dr Smith. The Prisoner I loved, definitely had some sci-fi elements. Metal Mickey must have started up north before being aired down south as the robot i first saw on Jim'l'Fix It, and id never heard of it. Later the show aired in the London area.
V was a major television event in the UK, i remember it very well! It was quite scary at the time; also as a young boy i had an unexplainable crush on Diana!
Lost In Space was loosely based on the Comicbook Space Family Robinson, which was loosely based upon the Novel The Swiss Family Robinson. The Comicbook series was eventually retooled to resemble the TV programme.
One thing you didn't mention about Terrahawks: it was the only "musical" Anderson show, courtesy of Kate Kestrel, who is not only a Terrahawk, but also a pop star and piano player
Now i dont know if you did that on pupose but, you had lost in space and the last words were spoken by Jonathan Harris, Dr Smith, then, the first words spoken on space academy were spoken by Jonathan Harris, Issac Gampu 😃
Great series a few that you haven't covered yet. The Nightmare Man from 1981. Also, Marine Boy and Moonbase 3 the series had James Burke as a technical advisor.
Moonbase Three. BBC one series that ran for just six episodes. Created by Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks, who were the architects of Jon Pertwee's Doctor Who era. It's the story of life on a Moonbase in the near future. It tried to be totally realistic science fiction. Which possibly didn't help. Because it was just a bit too dry. The first episode is quite good. The second and third are a bit dull. The fourth is really dull. The fifth involves a dramatic rescue in space. And is utterly tedious. But the last episode, when a nuclear test on Earth that has a slim chance of destroying the atmosphere seems to have done that as the Moonbase loses all communication with the home planet, and the people there think they're the sole survivors of humanity, is utterly brilliant. Never saw them but: Jupiter Moon. A science fiction soap opera, set at a base on one of the moons of Jupiter. Ran on Bskyb early in the 90's. Before that vanished when it merged with Sky. Space Island one: life on a space station in Earth orbit. Ran on sky one somewhen in the 2000's. Don't think you've mentioned Survivors. Life after a pandemic kills off most of the world and a handful of people survive. Three seasons on bbc1 in the mid 70's. Mystery Science Theater 3000. Cult comedy science fiction show. Mad scientists want to brainwash the Earth via screening bad movies so they can take over the world. They test the films out on a man and two robots who are prisoners on a space station called the satellite of Love. They survive by riffing - making fun of - the films. Not well known in this country, but a huge cult in the states. Ran for eleven years there 1988 - 1999. And has been revived on Netflix and then it';s own streaming platform the gizmoplex. I know our version of the sci fi channel ran some episodes [it went from comedy central to sci fi for it's last three years] as I saw them when house sitting for someone who had cable back in 2000. The Flash. 1990 version of the dc superhero. Ran for one full season. John Wesley Shipp as Barry Allen in a show that did go with the style of Tim Burton's first Batman.
Moonbase 3 - I enjoyed watching it a decade or so ago, but I imagine a show this grimly 'realistic' wouldn't appeal to most. Especially with Space 1999 doing the whole lunar base at peril thing with more pizzazz not long after.
I have always been a big fan of Gerry Anderson stuff but I could never take to Terrahawks. Bonkers would be kind, stupid would be a fair assessment of it.
Luna is very interesting to me. I like the idea of a TV show where you have to learn new words to understand the characters. I don't suppose there's anywhere this can be watched or obtained?
Space Academy had a spin off series called Jason of Star Command. More action than Space Academy, For the first season James Doohan played the commander.
Metal Mickey was dire, I even thought so as a kid. Terrible scripts and clunky acting. Weirdly, I was only thinking about it on the bus yesterday because I overheard another passenger's phone notification go off which was Metal Mickey's famous catchphrase "boogie boogie". I thought to myself 'crikey....he must have actually enjoyed that programme!'.
I remember a new series of The Twilight Zone thst was broadcast in the 1980s. There was also a new series of The Outer Limits in the 1990s. There were one off dramas about nuclear war. The American show was called The Day After. But Threads, made by the BBC, was far more realistic and scary
ohh THAT twilight zone! so there i was skimming the channels late night, and up pops this, watched the first story with bruce willis, so far so good THEN THE SECOND ONE, with an ending that will freeze your actual blood ... still haunts me to this day, especially in the mid eighties!!! and speaking of nuclear armageddon, yes threads (which i have on dvd) and day after, but for some reason stv showed a documentary on how tokyo would be obliterated ... on a sunday afternoon ...
Not bad. Didn't know they did a triffids series. However space academy most certainly did not take place n the 22nd century. In the intro it says it was founded in the star yer 3732 so I would think ti would be a bit after that ! trust e this is one of my favorite shows. Alas most of these I've never heard of. Wouldn't mind checking some of them out though.
Here's one I'm trying to find more info on: Channel 4 cartoon from the late 80s/early 90s. I think it was called "The Robots" (which makes it really hard to Google). The characters all resembled crudely-drawn Darth Vader but in white armour. The main protagonist was called "0" or "absolute zero" or some such and spent every episode trying to ascend the ranks from the bottom.
Well, you you did ask for series you may have missed.. here in the states you had "The Huighwayman", "Knight Rider", "Airwolf", "Ark II" and "Battlestar Galactica" all of teh were 70's or 80's shows..
V - The original miniseries was excellent. The sequel miniseries was OK, but had a dumb ending. The series kind of sucked. The budget limitations were obvious in the re-used footage of the Visitor ships, the humans foregoing using laser weapons, and the dropping of the Visitor's voice effects, which allows Diana to pass for human in the first episode. Space Academy - One of the shows you detailed previously, Jason of Star Command, was a spin-off from this show. Personally, I preferred this one. It always bugged me in JOSC that it was supposed to be set in a secret portion of the same asteroid, but yet the Space Academy crew never noticed the evil alien ships that would threaten the base. I mean, I knew it was because they were two different shows, it's just that the obvious continuity goof bothered me. Lost in Space - I loved this show! It was a little before my time, but I grew up watching the syndicated reruns (back then, there were a lot more on TV, you didn't need a special "vintage" channel to air them, local channels just filled the time with whatever they could get the rights to cheaply), and the robot was always my favorite character. Even as a kid, I realized how silly many of the episode were. My favorites were always the B/W episode of the first season, where it had a more serious tone.
Would never have guessed that was Patsy Kensit, even when she was talking about it and the two were side by side, shame all that botox has turned her face to concrete, she was in a few things as a kid and is unrecognisable in all of them lol.
My friend wrote the theme tune and sang the theme tune to Captain Zep with his band The Spacewalkers. They still do stuff occasionally. They released a Christmas single called the Bells of Christmas and a cover of Nowhere Man a few years ago. They also did background music for Take Hart too in the '80s. Talking of which, it's also nice to see Colin Bennett again there in Luna. Such a lovely chap. I worked with him many times in the '90s. He even filmed me on an episode of his ITV after the pub late night show called Night Shift.
Was your friend Dennis Waterman by any chance?
Thanks putting Luna up.
I don't remember much about the program.
Only that I fancied the pants off of Patsy Kensit.
My first crush.
Lol
Day of the Triffids was ace. I remember making my mum a Mother’s Day card with a triffid on…what a lovely child 😁
Scared the hell out of me as a kid. As an adult I'm still disturbed by them, but also John Duttine's beard!
Aww, that's so sweet! ☺️ It's the thought that counts x
@@katewolfspirit6722 I can still remember my mum’s slightly confused look 😁
@@RichardCJohnson At least you were original! 😁
My father had broke fingers on one of his hands shortly after WWII and I never noticed it until I was in elementary school in the 60's and the Invaders aired on TV. My older brother used to scare me when he always brought it up that my fathers smallest fingers always stuck out when he held the phone because his knuckles were fused just like the alien invaders in the show.
I'm just gonna mention Ullyses 31 again because a) it was brilliant and b) that theme tune and intro sequence
I've been watching that just recently. It's all on UA-cam
I remember Philip Schofield singing the theme tune in his "broom cupboard". I'll be buggered if I can remember what happened to him.
Oh dear buggered is the wrong choice of phrase when talking about Philip schofield.
@@alexjohnston8889I’m positive that the word was intentional for obvious comedy value.
@@fegstachops6746 yes I think so
V The Mini Series scared the hell out of me. It was the scene when Donovan saw what they really looked like that did it for me.
Thanks for showing Luna. And I'm impressed you found decent quality footage!
I watched V, Terrahawks and Metal Mickey as a kid, plus Triffids which scared the $h!t out of me at a young age...I had some of the Terrahawks action figures, inc the Windsor Davies rolling ball robot. I rewatched V during lockdown. It aged quite badly, but I spotted an early turn by Robert Englund before he went on to become Freddy Krueger.
Kappatoo? I binged Terrahawks on Prime a couple of years back. It was so much weirder than I remembered it as a kid.
I’ve just rewatched Prisoner recently! Way ahead of its time and classic British trippy sci fi!!! 😎😎😎😎👌👌👌👌👍👍👍👍👍
One episode, Patrick McGoohan wasn't available so they got someone else to play Number 6 and because it was The Prisoner, you just accepted it.
@@billyhills9933 wow, thanks I didn’t know that! 👍👍👍
@billyhills9933 the body swap one.
Terrahawks and Metal Mickey are my favourites from this list, loved them growing up
Captain zep... i recall Tracey Childs in a silver bustier...
Excellent prog as usual. Just one suggestion, how about doing an episode on Sci-Fi cartoons? Some have already mentioned Ulysses 31, then there's also G-Force, The New Sentinels, and the animated Star Trek that was on kids' telly back in the 70s. There are many more shows I could mention, but you get the gist.
Also Bravestar, Mask, Thundercats, TMNT (oops, sorry, HERO, can’t say Ninja), The Jetsons... there really are too many to list, from the 80s alone. (I know, Jetsons was sixties)
And you can't forget the very first Anime. Stargazers aka Space Battleship Yamoto. And how about some Australian stuff like Ocean Girl, The Girl from Tomorrow or Spellbinder. Made for kids, but still good enough for adults to enjoy
I forgot Sport Billy, The mysterious cities of gold, Marine Boy, Astro Boy and Sabre Rider.
Great series this, dont forget 'First Wave' (1998), 'Dark Skies' (1996) and uk tv show 'Bugs' 😎👍
Just remembered another one - Neverwhere. Does Ultraviolet count as it was about Vampires in London? Farscape was excellent. Lexx was weird and Ulysses 31 probably had the best theme tune of the 80s
I have the first three on DVD, I'll have to get Lexx. "I worship His Shadow!"
A good few I didn’t know there, but I just have to say that that version of Day Of The Triffids still remains my favourite, it just felt oddly real to me, though I guess if a show is set in familiar territory that you yourself reside in that helps a ton for that.
Lost in Space- the robot wasn't mischievous, Dr Smith was ;-) The Prisoner- No2 (multiple) is in charge, we never meet No.1 (well, we sort of do, but that is the whole plot ending). You should mention that the entire series is shot on location at Portmeirion, which is a hotel you can stay at today if you wish (still on my bucket list). Metal Mickey- you missed the most important fact out, that the Brummie series was Directed by ex Monkey's drummer Micky Dolenz. Keep up the nostalgia.
The Prisoner is not filmed entirely in Portmeirion, only about 40% of the footage was filmed there with the rest being either Studio work of filmed in various other locations around the South East of England, though most of the scenes set in the Village were filmed in Portmeirion there were a few pick up shots where it is obvious that a sound stage was used. If you’re a fan of the series then there is a brilliant group of FaceBook about both the Prisoner and Danger Man where the series is discussed and new information is always coming to light, even having one of the Number 2 actors as a member (Darren Nesbit) as well as one of the few people who knew Patrick McGoohan and his Daughter (a gent by the name of Rich Davy who runs the Unmutual website and is a Moderator for the group)
There are two I can think of that I don't think you've mentioned yet, Chimera from 1991 and First Born from 1998. I think they would both come under the sci fi horror banner.
Was First Born about scientists creating a gorilla human hybrid? I remember one like that but in the late 80s.
I’ve got Chimera on DVD, it’s very good.
@@mgthestrange9098yeah, it starred Charles Dance.
@@kalbai4 was that on in the late 80s/early 90s?
I read the novel.
There was a War of the Worlds series back in the late 80s(?) based on the 1950s George Pal movie version of the HG Wells novel. I think it ran for two series (seasons) and aired in a the post-pub-something-to-watch-while-eating-a-kebab slot which, as we all can agree on, is the REAL primetime
Are you thinking of Tripods?
Yeah it was on Fridays after news at ten, I was usually hammered watching it 😅
@@hairywelder5188 🍻Cheers
No. It stared Jared Martin. The aliens they thought had been killed by bacteria in the film are just hibernating and get woken up when exposed to nuclear waste which kills the germs but not them.
@@ClearLight1967no that was Saturday teatime..
Two seasons never finished the third
I've been enjoying this Sci-fi nostalgia series. Especially series from the 60s and 70s...
Here are some I remember (Apologies, for any you already covered).
Marine Boy (animated)
The Clangers (animated)
The Invaders
Land Of The Giants
Timeslip
The Champions
The Magic Fountain
The Tomorrow People
Sky
Fantastic Journey
Fantastic voyage (animated)
Battle of the Planets (animated)
All the Gerry Anderson series: Supercar, Stingray, Joe90, Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds, etc..
While it was definitely not one of my favourites... It may be worth mentioning: "Come Back Mrs Noah" if only for the cringe value. Molly Sugden's character from: Are You Being Served, shot into space.
I recently watched The Omega Factor. Not sure if you've seen it? I really enjoyed it and agree there's something about nostalgic sci-fi that hits home.
Luna was quite innovative re the language. How many words do we use today that people 50 years ago would have no idea what we are talking about?
I have been trying for weeks to remember what this was called! But all I could remember of it was the little boy talking about laser mazer phaser blasters... or something...
Few more to add; Dark Season (an early Russell T Davies drama with Jacqueline Pearce from Blake’s 7), Crime Traveller (with Chloe Annett from Red Dwarf), The Strangerers (from Rob Grant of Red Dwarf fame), Torchwood - the Doctor Who spin off
How can you mention Torchwood but not Sarah Jane adventures? (Both 21st century. This channel seems more interested in retro stuff, so, I'd say a little too new)
Absolutely, also K9 and company the forerunner of SJA
the strangerers was mad with williams and doherty going all out weirdy as the alien ... vegetables ... played them to a tee 👾
also sarah alexander in a skin tight outfit ... but no one want's to know about that ...
i have the entire series still on vhs, and it was very funny too
Pamelyn Ferndin from Space Academy was also in the Star Trek TOS ep. 'And The Children Shall Lead', alongside Brian Tochi , who was also in Space Academy, and went on to have smaller parts in Star Trek TNG.
From MST3K
SERVO : "Mark Singer walks up in a loincloth. What do you say?"
NELSON: " Now I know why the show is called 'V'"..
😉
I was terrified of V, I was probably too young for it but as the youngest of 3, it was what everyone else was watching & we only had 1 TV. The birth scene sticks in my mind. Don’t rememberGalloping Galaxies but it looks good, a bit like Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for kids.
V was first shown in american on the saturday night, then here on the sunday, and it was HUGE!!!
diana wasn't the leader, that was john ... lloyd patenter of crop rotation ... she should have been, and she eventually was, because she was a BAD ASS!!!
and yeah the twins ... elizabeth and baby with forked tongue ...
and don't bother with the remake series, the first five minutes is all you need, the rest is excrement
This video jolted some long lost memories of Galloping Galaxies. Somehow, the design of SID with his transparent globe and yellow colour schemed frame gave me flashbacks of some of the toys that the company 'Britains' released as part of their 'Space' theme in the early 1980s. Anyone else get that ?
K9 & Company, The Incredible Hulk, Quantum Leap, Lexx, Now and again, Red Dwarf, Homeboys from outer space, First born, Tripods, Hyperdrive, Manimal, Adam Adamant lives, ALF, Watt on Earth, Helping Henry, Benji Zax & the Alien Prince.
Never could take Triffids seriously. Looked too much like 'walking' stalks of rhubarb to me.
When I heard the name Jo Wyatt, who played Luna in the 2nd series, I wondered why it was familiar. Turns out she does lots of voice work for cartoons and games, most notably as Ciri in The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt. 👍😄👍
Funny. Jonathan Harris played Dr. Smith in Lost in Space, and the commander in Space Acadamy. And the set was exactly the same in Space Acadamy as in Jason of Star Command.
I didn't think I had seen Space Academy, but I remember seeing him as this character so I must have. 🤨
My mum had a bin lid that looked like Metal Mickey's head. I use to put it on and wouldn't answer to my own name, only MM. It drove her mad.
All great ones. I doubt they could be made today. Let's take the example of V's recent 'reimagining' for instance.
Loved a lot of these, especially Terrahawks ❤
‘I think The Prisoner is science fiction’
Um…have we invented sentient weather balloons yet?
A short lived BBC series called ‘Strange’ as well with Sam Womack/Janus and Richard Coyle from Coupling.
3:05 nice to see they reused specail effects from Blake's Seven. 😏😁
The Diana eating the hamster was a major talking point the next day 😃
I clearly remember the Day of the Triffids plant design and death sting and found it horrifying. I’m 43, which means I would’ve been 2 years old at the time of airing. Must be my earliest memory unless the BBC ran repeats. Indelible!!!
Project U.F.O. An American show about U.F.O sightings investigators.I used to rush home from school for that one.
"Jason of Space Command" was the sequel to "Space Academy"
The robot from Lost in Space is named Robbie and he has quite the filmography. He's appeared in a variety of projects over the years. He even appeared in Wonder Woman I think,
The robot from Lost In Space had no official name..Robby the Robot was built by the same man, but for "Forbidden Planet" years before the tv series.
@@caronstout354 It's the same robot with a man inside and it has been used in various TV shows and movies of the years including Lost in Space and Wonder Woman. It's usually credited as Robbie the Robot.
V was the show that..er.."inspired" David Icke with his claim of alien lizard people, Terrahawks i thought notba patch on the Andersons previous eg thunderbirds. dont recall Galloping Galaxies at all, or Lunar, missed that one, same for Captain Zep, and i didnt see any of Space Academy either. Lost in Space, who can forget the duplicitous but likeable Dr Smith. The Prisoner I loved, definitely had some sci-fi elements. Metal Mickey must have started up north before being aired down south as the robot i first saw on Jim'l'Fix It, and id never heard of it. Later the show aired in the London area.
No comment on V also including Freddy Krueger as a friendly alien, not to mention Michael Ironside? :-)
You did Triffids in a previous one.
Didn't know the legend, Windsor Davies, voiced in Terrahawks!
Who else could play a sergeant major?
Was going to post the same thing! Such a unique voice, so many of these folks no longer with us
Luna. My first TV crush…
Triffids are the funniest Monsters to me. 😀😃😄😁😆😆😆😆 Even the name Triffids sounds hilarious 😂 😂
V was a major television event in the UK, i remember it very well! It was quite scary at the time; also as a young boy i had an unexplainable crush on Diana!
Good list as usual though I have never heard of Galloping Galaxies and I am familiar with English shows.
Exosquad, Roughnecks: The Starshiptroopers Chronicles, Cleopatra 2525,and Probe to name some others
Lost In Space was loosely based on the Comicbook Space Family Robinson, which was loosely based upon the Novel The Swiss Family Robinson. The Comicbook series was eventually retooled to resemble the TV programme.
One thing you didn't mention about Terrahawks: it was the only "musical" Anderson show, courtesy of Kate Kestrel, who is not only a Terrahawk, but also a pop star and piano player
was pretty obsessed with SOS, when i rediscovered it several year ago, fantastic song
@@mrdsjenzieIndeed it is. All of her songs are
Now i dont know if you did that on pupose but, you had lost in space and the last words were spoken by Jonathan Harris, Dr Smith, then, the first words spoken on space academy were spoken by Jonathan Harris, Issac Gampu 😃
Loved watching V when it was first shown on ITV
I miss Red Dwarf serie 😱😱
Great series a few that you haven't covered yet. The Nightmare Man from 1981. Also, Marine Boy and Moonbase 3 the series had James Burke as a technical advisor.
We in the US called it "Techobabble"
Loved The Prisoner! Portmeiron is a great place to visit!
The US attempt at this was crap!
Kappatoo! Kids TV show from the late 80s on ITV.
Moonbase Three. BBC one series that ran for just six episodes. Created by Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks, who were the architects of Jon Pertwee's Doctor Who era. It's the story of life on a Moonbase in the near future.
It tried to be totally realistic science fiction. Which possibly didn't help. Because it was just a bit too dry. The first episode is quite good. The second and third are a bit dull. The fourth is really dull. The fifth involves a dramatic rescue in space. And is utterly tedious. But the last episode, when a nuclear test on Earth that has a slim chance of destroying the atmosphere seems to have done that as the Moonbase loses all communication with the home planet, and the people there think they're the sole survivors of humanity, is utterly brilliant.
Never saw them but: Jupiter Moon. A science fiction soap opera, set at a base on one of the moons of Jupiter. Ran on Bskyb early in the 90's. Before that vanished when it merged with Sky.
Space Island one: life on a space station in Earth orbit. Ran on sky one somewhen in the 2000's.
Don't think you've mentioned Survivors. Life after a pandemic kills off most of the world and a handful of people survive. Three seasons on bbc1 in the mid 70's.
Mystery Science Theater 3000. Cult comedy science fiction show. Mad scientists want to brainwash the Earth via screening bad movies so they can take over the world. They test the films out on a man and two robots who are prisoners on a space station called the satellite of Love. They survive by riffing - making fun of - the films.
Not well known in this country, but a huge cult in the states. Ran for eleven years there 1988 - 1999. And has been revived on Netflix and then it';s own streaming platform the gizmoplex. I know our version of the sci fi channel ran some episodes [it went from comedy central to sci fi for it's last three years] as I saw them when house sitting for someone who had cable back in 2000.
The Flash. 1990 version of the dc superhero. Ran for one full season. John Wesley Shipp as Barry Allen in a show that did go with the style of Tim Burton's first Batman.
Moonbase 3 - I enjoyed watching it a decade or so ago, but I imagine a show this grimly 'realistic' wouldn't appeal to most. Especially with Space 1999 doing the whole lunar base at peril thing with more pizzazz not long after.
Some of my best 70's/80's memories are of Star Fleet and Jayce and the Wheeled warriors and Tripods. Peace All
You forgot Brookside nothing more scfi than that program lol 😀
Scouse fi
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I have always been a big fan of Gerry Anderson stuff but I could never take to Terrahawks. Bonkers would be kind, stupid would be a fair assessment of it.
Luna is very interesting to me. I like the idea of a TV show where you have to learn new words to understand the characters. I don't suppose there's anywhere this can be watched or obtained?
Space Academy had a spin off series called Jason of Star Command. More action than Space Academy, For the first season James Doohan played the commander.
Also missing Jupiter moon
is "mork and mindy" scifi ? Mork was from Ork and sent here to take in "earth culture"
Metal Mickey was dire, I even thought so as a kid. Terrible scripts and clunky acting. Weirdly, I was only thinking about it on the bus yesterday because I overheard another passenger's phone notification go off which was Metal Mickey's famous catchphrase "boogie boogie". I thought to myself 'crikey....he must have actually enjoyed that programme!'.
I loved Metal Mickey!
I loved it. Yeah it was clunky and cheap but it had an anthropomorphised robot and as a kid that was all I needed.
I remember a new series of The Twilight Zone thst was broadcast in the 1980s. There was also a new series of The Outer Limits in the 1990s. There were one off dramas about nuclear war. The American show was called The Day After. But Threads, made by the BBC, was far more realistic and scary
ohh THAT twilight zone!
so there i was skimming the channels late night, and up pops this, watched the first story with bruce willis, so far so good
THEN THE SECOND ONE, with an ending that will freeze your actual blood ... still haunts me to this day, especially in the mid eighties!!!
and speaking of nuclear armageddon, yes threads (which i have on dvd) and day after, but for some reason stv showed a documentary on how tokyo would be obliterated ... on a sunday afternoon ...
They had to gain air time against the x-files, PSI factor,...
There was also a weird one made around 1980 called The Omega Factor. Forces TV showed it a couple of years ago
Not bad. Didn't know they did a triffids series. However space academy most certainly did not take place n the 22nd century. In the intro it says it was founded in the star yer 3732 so I would think ti would be a bit after that ! trust e this is one of my favorite shows. Alas most of these I've never heard of. Wouldn't mind checking some of them out though.
What about ALF? It was an American series.
And was I the only one who watched the old Flash Gordon serials on TV on a Saturday?🤨
I also enjoyed the old Flash Gordon repeats. But it's a 1950s series.
@@danielfreeman8136 I watched those on TV back in the late 70s, early 80s. I knew they were old, thought maybe even 40s or 30s.
Space Precinct (1994-95)
Here's one I'm trying to find more info on: Channel 4 cartoon from the late 80s/early 90s. I think it was called "The Robots" (which makes it really hard to Google). The characters all resembled crudely-drawn Darth Vader but in white armour. The main protagonist was called "0" or "absolute zero" or some such and spent every episode trying to ascend the ranks from the bottom.
Babylon 5. Farscape.
Farscape is SO underrated!
Dont forget the 6 part SF series SKY
Missing Knights of God
Captain Zep would have made a good computer game, in my opinion
Your thumbnail game is strong.
Wow! I loved V! Didn't they try to reboot it?
How about Monkey, or is it not considered sci-fi? Mortal Kombat (The live action series)
You could do a dystopian special featuring the likes of Noah's Castle, The Changes and The Guardians.
Have you done Super Gran?
I don't believe the robot in Lost in Space was mischievous. I believe Doctor Smith was the mischievous (and cowardly) one.
Not seen all your posts have you mentioned The Invaders from 67-68
Actually the Aliens in V wanted to steal the Earth's water.
Well, you you did ask for series you may have missed.. here in the states you had "The Huighwayman", "Knight Rider", "Airwolf", "Ark II" and "Battlestar Galactica" all of teh were 70's or 80's shows..
And Buck Rogers!
Have you done T-Bag yet?
Yes, it has video all of its own.
Ya know, I'm not sure the intro music to these excellent videos works as well for Sci-Fi as it did for sitcoms.
How did Metal Mickey get away with stealing the Cylon voice? Copyright?
The last train was around 97/98. Don't think it was alever released on DVD.
Yeah you missed that show that had that chick in the loose white that was barely hanging on her top
V - The original miniseries was excellent. The sequel miniseries was OK, but had a dumb ending. The series kind of sucked. The budget limitations were obvious in the re-used footage of the Visitor ships, the humans foregoing using laser weapons, and the dropping of the Visitor's voice effects, which allows Diana to pass for human in the first episode.
Space Academy - One of the shows you detailed previously, Jason of Star Command, was a spin-off from this show. Personally, I preferred this one. It always bugged me in JOSC that it was supposed to be set in a secret portion of the same asteroid, but yet the Space Academy crew never noticed the evil alien ships that would threaten the base. I mean, I knew it was because they were two different shows, it's just that the obvious continuity goof bothered me.
Lost in Space - I loved this show! It was a little before my time, but I grew up watching the syndicated reruns (back then, there were a lot more on TV, you didn't need a special "vintage" channel to air them, local channels just filled the time with whatever they could get the rights to cheaply), and the robot was always my favorite character. Even as a kid, I realized how silly many of the episode were. My favorites were always the B/W episode of the first season, where it had a more serious tone.
Who are the ones in the thumbnail? I recognise the puppet from Terrahawks, but the girl and what that thing behind centre is has me baffled.
I think the middle pic is the head and stem of a Triffid. The one on the left has the name Clicky Bait 😂
I think the lady is Patsy Kensit,pictured in a more grown up role.
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I thought he was number 7 lol
Prisoner brilliant full on paranoia I was about 6
The prisoner is the greatest
Alien Nation
Would never have guessed that was Patsy Kensit, even when she was talking about it and the two were side by side, shame all that botox has turned her face to concrete, she was in a few things as a kid and is unrecognisable in all of them lol.
Should have gone to Specsavers.
Have I missed K9 and Friends and The Sarah Jane Adventures?
K9 and Company.
Enjoyed the video but your thumbnail was a bit of click bait.