Just remembered: back when Gladiators was big on ITV, they tried a similarly themed show called Scavengers. John Leslie was the host as pairs of contestants were put in a setting where they were on a spaceship trying to salvage things. There were various obstacles in their way. This did not catch on, and was swiftly moved to sunday mornings to finish out it's run.
I don't remember this programme at all despite being a massive Gladiators fan at the time. I can only remember the fill-in show that was on ITV between series of Gladiators - this show was called Ice Warriors and had a sci-fi like setting but I wouldn't call it a sci-fi show as it was just an ice skating game show.
Urko, leader of the Gorrillas chasing the humans in POTA was played by Mark Lenard. Spocks Dad. Chuck Connors character in Werewolf was called Janos Skorzeny. This is also the nsme of the vampire that Carl Kolchak uncovers in Night Stalker..
Werewolf was my favorite show from FOX when they first got started. I remember Hard Time On Planet Earth and Quantum Leap both premiered around the same time back in early '89 Starman was an excellent follow-up to the movie.
Some of these shows brought me back to my childhood, Hard Time on Planet Earth, Voyagers, Werewolf, and Starman, and I only just discovered Shadow Chasers a couple of months ago, it was like a precursor to the X-Files only with more of a comedic edge
Werewolf - Rumor has it that one company had a deluxe DVD release all set to go into production, but they couldn't clear the rights to two songs. Fox no longer had separate tracks for the dialog and music, so the songs couldn't just be replaced, so they scrapped the whole set. Personally, I wish they had just muted the audio in those scenes and included optional subtitles. Pirates would have quickly patched them using the audio from the TV versions. Otherworld - I loved this show.
There was an animated Planet of the Apes series as well. Never heard of Far out Space Nuts before, so that was interesting. Mind you talk of wacky hi jinks trying to get back to Earth reminds of Come Back Mrs. Noah. Which I really didn't want to be reminded of.... Mention of Shadow chasers reminds me of a show called Freakylinks, which was about people running a website about the supernatural and investigating cases of such as a result. Don't think we ever got it in this country, but it stuck in the mind because the title sounded a bit stupid. Think it was originally going to be called Fearsum.
good choices that benji robot forgot all about that! couple of suggestions poltergeist legacy millennium phantom 2040 streethawk Friday the 13th the series the omega factor(where idea for the x-files came from) crusade (spin off from babylon 5) the visitor
I watched the first 2 but have me stumped at the rest. There was a show in the late 90s(maybe early 2000s) called The Tenth Kingdom. More fantasy than S-F but it involved a parallel universe device. And Al Bundy was in it.
Something about "Genesis II" that not many seem to notice. Dylan Hunt. Genetically superior "mutants." This is the concept that later spawned Andromeda", starring Kevin Sorbo.
While the 1970's was full of live action sci-fi shows the 1980's was full of sci-fi cartoons. It's difficult to start on these and a few have already been covered in these videos but one cartoon was a favourite of mine back in the day - this one called Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors which, like most 1980's cartoons was just a glorified toy advert!
May be going off on a tangent here but what about Parallel 9, the 90s Saturday morning show on BBC. Especially the first series which had a weird premise of an alien banished to Parallel 9 for illegally trying to obtain knowledge. Whilst there, he only has 2 hours of awareness before being put into suspended animation until the next week. Weird show but cracking theme tune!
As a fan of Going Live back in the day I wasn't too keen on the fill-in shows such as Parallel 9 and the 8:15 From Manchester and found myself watching the ITV Saturday morning shows when these ones were on.
I remember the Planet of the Apes series quite well, despite only being a very tender age at the time. I even remember a Planet of the Apes re-enactment coming to my home town and going to see them. Pretty surreal. I can't say I remember the majority of the others featured here, though.
I remember Going Ape in 1975: All 5 (at the time there were only 5 Planet of the Apes Movies) of the Planet of the Apes Movies were played at a Drive-in Movie Cinema Theater in Mesa Arizona (USA). I was 8 and some change at the time. I was the only one in my family that stayed up for all of the films. Maybe it was 1974?
I love to believe in Bigfoot. Unfortunately the vast amounts of trail-cams out there have so far failed to catch even a fleeting glimpse. Also where is all the poo? Still a sucker for a good Bigfoot or UFO doc Though!
other world was pretty good, BUT the daughter was the REAL reason to watch the show the daughter had a rack you could do Shakespeare from, WOW she was stacked.
Planet Of The Apes was re-broadcasted on British TV on Sunday mornings in 1993 alongside re-runs of Grange Hill. I use to set my biological clock to this regular programming.
I have another: The Ghost Busters. Not the version we all think about. This one was more of a sitcom that follows two humans and an ape and the ghosts in this show are all human famous historical figures
I do love Red Dwarf...I might just have to find and give "Far Out Space Nuts" a whirl. 👍 **edit**And hey, I watched "Voyagers" back in the day...so no wonder I enjoy "Legends of Tomorrow". 😆
I had an Planet of the Apes annual, I remember the show (It must have been rerun?). I've seen Otherworld somewhere (probably on YT). I vaguely recall a programme on TV in the 1980's. There was an alien or a Soviet monster that had somehow landed in Britain and was being hunted by the military. I don't think it was a feel good show. It felt more like a dark spy / sci fi drama.
I seem to recall watching the Planet of the Apes TV programme years ago. If so it would have been shown in the UK. And why would they be 'trying to get back home'? I mean, sorry for spoilers for any youngsters, but the planet it's set on is er... earth..
Well done for compiling but the trouble is, they were all awful to begin with so a compilation video compounds the feeling of un-watchability. Why not try sitcoms from the 80s? That would be jollier.
Re 'Genesis II': Interesting, Roddenberry used a similar idea and character name (Dylan Hunt) for 'Andromeda' except that was in space.
2:46 - looks like a young Marc Singer.
It was.
Just remembered: back when Gladiators was big on ITV, they tried a similarly themed show called Scavengers. John Leslie was the host as pairs of contestants were put in a setting where they were on a spaceship trying to salvage things. There were various obstacles in their way. This did not catch on, and was swiftly moved to sunday mornings to finish out it's run.
Just edited Sunday's video and this is included on it 👍
I don't remember this programme at all despite being a massive Gladiators fan at the time. I can only remember the fill-in show that was on ITV between series of Gladiators - this show was called Ice Warriors and had a sci-fi like setting but I wouldn't call it a sci-fi show as it was just an ice skating game show.
Urko, leader of the Gorrillas chasing the humans in POTA was played by Mark Lenard. Spocks Dad.
Chuck Connors character in Werewolf was called Janos Skorzeny. This is also the nsme of the vampire that Carl Kolchak uncovers in Night Stalker..
Have you heard of "Special Unit 2"? It's from the '90s.
It always bothered me that the two guys in Planet of the Apes looked like knock off Starsky and Hutch
Some gems I was unaware of. Loving your work.
I LOVED Benji, Zax and the Alien Prince - or BZAP as I used to call it. Have you done Aliens in the Family? BBC around 1985?
Werewolf was my favorite show from FOX when they first got started. I remember Hard Time On Planet Earth and Quantum Leap both premiered around the same time back in early '89 Starman was an excellent follow-up to the movie.
Some of these shows brought me back to my childhood, Hard Time on Planet Earth, Voyagers, Werewolf, and Starman, and I only just discovered Shadow Chasers a couple of months ago, it was like a precursor to the X-Files only with more of a comedic edge
A couple of lesser known sci fi shows that I remember include The Highwayman featuring Sam Jones and Mark "Jacko" Jackson and The Journeyman
Pippin the dog on UK's children's show Come Outside (With Nurse Gladys from Open all Hours) was a descendant of Benji.
Werewolf - Rumor has it that one company had a deluxe DVD release all set to go into production, but they couldn't clear the rights to two songs. Fox no longer had separate tracks for the dialog and music, so the songs couldn't just be replaced, so they scrapped the whole set. Personally, I wish they had just muted the audio in those scenes and included optional subtitles. Pirates would have quickly patched them using the audio from the TV versions.
Otherworld - I loved this show.
There was an animated Planet of the Apes series as well.
Never heard of Far out Space Nuts before, so that was interesting. Mind you talk of wacky hi jinks trying to get back to Earth reminds of Come Back Mrs. Noah. Which I really didn't want to be reminded of....
Mention of Shadow chasers reminds me of a show called Freakylinks, which was about people running a website about the supernatural and investigating cases of such as a result. Don't think we ever got it in this country, but it stuck in the mind because the title sounded a bit stupid. Think it was originally going to be called Fearsum.
I always wished that Otherworld had lasted longer.
Voyagers was fun.
Wasn’t Werewolf a part of the Fox Network’s original lineup?
good choices that benji robot forgot all about that! couple of suggestions
poltergeist legacy
millennium
phantom 2040
streethawk
Friday the 13th the series
the omega factor(where idea for the x-files came from)
crusade (spin off from babylon 5)
the visitor
And there's Out Of This World, with the wonderful Maureen Flannigan.
Roddenberry's main character from Genesis was reused as the Captain of another Roddenberry show years later, Andromeda.
Don't know if you've already covered it, but there was also She Wolf of London. Starred Kate Hodge & Niel Dickson. :)
Hard Time on Planet Earth sounds exactly like the premise of Mr. Majeka.
I remember one in the 90s called The Uninvited. Starred Leslie Grantham and Douglass Hodge, about aliens replacing humans to take over
I watched the first 2 but have me stumped at the rest.
There was a show in the late 90s(maybe early 2000s) called The Tenth Kingdom. More fantasy than S-F but it involved a parallel universe device.
And Al Bundy was in it.
Hard Time on Planet Earth was one of my favourite shows growing up.
John Chambers, that did PoTA was constantly brought up as having made the Patterson/Gimlin Bigfoot..he's response.."I wish"
I like your thumbnail pictures!
I believe one of the costume designers on the planet of the apes movies new on of the Bigfoot filmers. Was on a show with Chris Packham.
Hard times on planet earth was just Mork and Mindy without Mindy.
Was that the guy that plays Kreese in the Karate Kid./Cobra Kai?
We were made to watch a Benji film in primary school once. I kept hoping Zax and the alien prince would show up, but alas they never did.
I remember watching as a young kid: Starman, Benji, Zax & Alien prince, Otherworld,.. I never forgot them,..
Loved Otherworld. There's another called Riverworld which is somewhat similar
Something about "Genesis II" that not many seem to notice. Dylan Hunt. Genetically superior "mutants." This is the concept that later spawned Andromeda", starring Kevin Sorbo.
While the 1970's was full of live action sci-fi shows the 1980's was full of sci-fi cartoons. It's difficult to start on these and a few have already been covered in these videos but one cartoon was a favourite of mine back in the day - this one called Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors which, like most 1980's cartoons was just a glorified toy advert!
May be going off on a tangent here but what about Parallel 9, the 90s Saturday morning show on BBC. Especially the first series which had a weird premise of an alien banished to Parallel 9 for illegally trying to obtain knowledge. Whilst there, he only has 2 hours of awareness before being put into suspended animation until the next week. Weird show but cracking theme tune!
Forgot all about that one!
As a fan of Going Live back in the day I wasn't too keen on the fill-in shows such as Parallel 9 and the 8:15 From Manchester and found myself watching the ITV Saturday morning shows when these ones were on.
I remember the Planet of the Apes series quite well, despite only being a very tender age at the time. I even remember a Planet of the Apes re-enactment coming to my home town and going to see them. Pretty surreal. I can't say I remember the majority of the others featured here, though.
I remember Going Ape in 1975: All 5 (at the time there were only 5 Planet of the Apes Movies) of the Planet of the Apes Movies were played at a Drive-in Movie Cinema Theater in Mesa Arizona (USA). I was 8 and some change at the time. I was the only one in my family that stayed up for all of the films. Maybe it was 1974?
I love to believe in Bigfoot. Unfortunately the vast amounts of trail-cams out there have so far failed to catch even a fleeting glimpse. Also where is all the poo? Still a sucker for a good Bigfoot or UFO doc Though!
Same. I'd love to think it's true (Jane Goodall said she does not 100% rule out the possibility) but it' almost certainly a myth.
How about Mathew Star. His mentor was played by Louis Gosett.
other world was pretty good, BUT the daughter was the REAL reason to watch the show the daughter had a rack you could do Shakespeare from, WOW she was stacked.
Bigfoot and wildboy great show
Love this guy! Stair Man AKA Star Man lol
Planet Of The Apes was re-broadcasted on British TV on Sunday mornings in 1993 alongside re-runs of Grange Hill. I use to set my biological clock to this regular programming.
omg, that robot! I'd forgotten all about that one.
I haven't seen that for ages: Benji, Zax and the alien - Prince.
Was Genesis rewritten as Andromeda by any chance? 👍🤔
Also if you are looking for others in the forgotten Sci Fi / Fantasy genre then look up The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage, I think you'll like it
where did the time police come from? voyagers were independent time travelers.
I have another: The Ghost Busters. Not the version we all think about. This one was more of a sitcom that follows two humans and an ape and the ghosts in this show are all human famous historical figures
That one was called The Ghost Busters and featured Larry Storch and Forrest Tucker from F Troop.
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I think I am right in saying the main characters in this show were called Spencer, Tracy and Kong, and the ape was not the one called Kong
@@lordmorley7561 that's correct
I do love Red Dwarf...I might just have to find and give "Far Out Space Nuts" a whirl. 👍
**edit**And hey, I watched "Voyagers" back in the day...so no wonder I enjoy "Legends of Tomorrow". 😆
People claim to have seen Bigfoot in the UK. Yipes!
I think it takes a bit more than being old to count as a classic.
ITV classics no one else remembers: The Champions. :D
Otherworld was short lived and got cancelled before it really had a chance.
I had an Planet of the Apes annual, I remember the show (It must have been rerun?). I've seen Otherworld somewhere (probably on YT). I vaguely recall a programme on TV in the 1980's. There was an alien or a Soviet monster that had somehow landed in Britain and was being hunted by the military. I don't think it was a feel good show. It felt more like a dark spy / sci fi drama.
Recently tried researching the first episode of Otherworld. I remember it being better than it was. 😂
Voyagers was a good show for the time and if Hexum hadn’t been a macho idiot with a blanks pistol then the show would have probably run a lot longer.
Genesis 2 was remade as the series Andromeda.
I seem to recall watching the Planet of the Apes TV programme years ago. If so it would have been shown in the UK.
And why would they be 'trying to get back home'? I mean, sorry for spoilers for any youngsters, but the planet it's set on is er... earth..
The Phoenix ABC TV movie 1981 Tv Series 1982 About a man from an ancient pyramid in South America with solar powers. A bit of a chase show.
Just edited Sunday's video and this is included on it 👍
Treasure Island in Outer Space
Walking past a camera swinging my arms was not to do with anything when I was filmed, the idiots thinking that I'm a Sasquatch are foolish.
Great love watch your vids, for the way you mispronounce things. Stairman, instead of Starman was the funniest in this one.
seven days
Well done for compiling but the trouble is, they were all awful to begin with so a compilation video compounds the feeling of un-watchability. Why not try sitcoms from the 80s? That would be jollier.
Have a look at this ua-cam.com/play/PLF2Ysx_IA3rktRTyNJNURWgjvdF05_PHt.html
Benji, Zax, & the Alien Prince - used to love watching it as a kid while eating my baked beans on toast… 👍👍
I must have seen it. I remember the little robot but nothing else. 🤔
So after shoestring and wondering whatever happened to him, he was in america making crap sci-fi.