Another Gerry Anderson show. I've always loved his live-action work. Never really saw his marionette shows that much though, so I don't have much nostalgia for them.
Anderson did his usual great job on teh modelwork there, but the standout has to be how good the prosthetic effects looked considering the shoestring budget they were working with - and how many aliens were on screen week after week. Some pretty solid plots, too. The whole series is up on YT the last I looked. Re-watched it during the COVID shutdown, held up quite well.
@@lurkerrekrul I enjoy Stingray, and I have no nostalgia for it, it is a fairly new show to me. I can't get into the original Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlett and the Mysterons is ok, as long as the episodes are focused on the Angel Squadron or individual Angel Pilots.
Remember how annoying/goofy it was that in the opening credits there was a young girl listed whose character was only briefly in the first episode and never even mentioned again. I guess I get why they didn’t change it, but I never understood why she was included in the first place.
Common observation from men of certain ages. Her outfit in the TV show was toned down quite a lot from the film, where she was basically naked from some angles.
A show I never, ever hear about these days is "The Highwayman", a short-lived series by Glen A. Larson from 1987. It starred Sam J. Jones (of Flash Gordon fame) as a crime fighting agent driving around America in a huge truck that could convert into a helicopter. It was thematically very similar to Larson's earlier and much more successful show Knight Rider, and only lasted one season. I think we got it late night on ITV in the late eighties.
I remember it very fondly. I think it was one of the first things I remember watching 'late night' on ITV as I got older. It made me realise there were a ton of cool US shows on 'Late Night Late' which were better than stuff on TV earlier. Highwayman, Equalizer, Spenser for Hire, Midnight Caller, Beauty and the Beast. My school career was ruined...
I love Seaview DSV but the running joke was that DSV stood for Don't Set Video. Fireball XL5 is being shown from the beginning on the UK Channel Talking Pictures.
I loved Alien Nation. The TV series only got one season, but it continued into the late 90s with TV movies and specials that are worth checking out if you haven't seen.
Seaquest! I fricken loved that show. It had the best SF cast for a tv show that I've ever seen, and talking dolphins! And the Deluise had gills! Alien Nation was pretty awesome too.
I love “Ark II.” To this day, one of the coolest sci-fi vehicles ever built. I watched it as a kid and I am now the proud owner of a very rare DVD box set release of Filmation’s “Ark II,” “Space Academy” and “Jason of Star Command.” I watched all three when they were on and l love watching them on DVD to this day.
@@Jreb1865 - Unfortunately, reruns of it are hard to come by. It’s not currently streaming; it’s not in syndication that I’m aware of. The only way to watch them is on DVD, which had a single release from Entertainment Rights (now DreamWorks Classics) back in the 2000’s. But it’s been out of print for a long time, so the set is difficult and expensive to come by. I’m very lucky to own one.
I loved Ark II. Sadly the vehicle was cut up to become the main spaceship prop/set for their next show Space Academy/Jason of Star Command. The Truck chassis was removed and Ark II became the Seeker Shuttles. Parts of it were found rotting years ago. Supposedly all of the vehicles on the show were a nightmare. Ark II the Rover and especially the Hughes Flight Belt, aka The Jetpack. It was the real deal. Somehow Filmation managed to pick up one of the only 2 prototype Flight Belts ever made at some sort of garage sale.
@@andrewtaylor940 - It's a fancinating history and the behind-the-scenes interviews in the box set are very interesting. Jean Marie Hon (Ruth) of course went on to play one of the regular bridge crew of the Cetacean (futuristic submarine) on "Man From Atlantis" with Patrick Duffy.
The funny thing about the follow-up TV movies of Alien Nation was the fact that the actors obviously aged 4 years between the series and TV movies, but George's baby of the didn't age at all.
I watched the TV series of Logan's Run every Saturday morning when it was aired in the late 70's. It wasn't a patch on the film version, but it was still entertaining enough to fill half an hour, (or was it an hour), of TV. I'm sure there was an android of some kind they met up with in some of the later episodes. The Gerry Anderson ones are known, but wasn't of age to see either when first broadcast, and the repeats were patchy to say the least. Unlike the more Established Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Stingray, which were shown numerous times well into the 90's. The Bionic Woman was, of course, a spin-off from The 6 Million Dollar Man. Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea was one of those repeated by Channel 4 on Sunday lunchtimes, as I remember. I could never really get into it, though. Sliders was one I remember watching along with shows like Lexx and Farscape.
@@centrevezgaming4862 Loved the movie. In the late 90s on the internet , you could find an early LARP game of "Logan's Run" that a group of people could get together and play...
I remember a show from the 70s. Set in the future in a city surrounded by ice and snow. Child had memories from a person from the past. Can't remember the show's name.
The Andersons had quite a large number of scifi shows in the 1960s through to the 1980s - Joe 90 and FB XL5 as mentioned, also Space Patrol and Space Precinct, UFO, Space 1999, Terra Hawks, Stingray and my favourite, Thunderbirds. F.A.B.🚀
Everyone forgets Secret Service about Father Stanley Unwin, vicar and secret agent with a miniaturization machine. I'll throw the amazing captain Nemo in again and Space: Above and Beyond. Might as well mention Dark Season, too.
I have the dvd's of all there shows. they were just the best ones to do sci fi of there time there was a few more that you have not listed. like torchy
The Six Million Dollar Man/The Bionic Woman - I watched both these shows and enjoyed them, but one thing always bugged me: No matter how strong their bionic limbs were, they were attached to a normal, flesh and blood body. Maybe their arms would be able to lift thousands of pounds, but they would end up ripping out of their shoulders in the process. Sliders - I loved the show when it first started, but after Jerry O'Connell and Sabrina Lloyd left the cast, i thought the show went downhill. Especially after they introduced the Cromags as the recurring bad guys.
That depends on how the weight is distributed when using those bionic appendages/prosthetics for example a modern prosthetic hand has far more strength than a regular hand just in the show they could crush a baseball or a pool ball if calibrated to exert that strength but that's where it gets tricky because normally they are calibrated to exert normal human strength so people can easily grab things without accidentally crushing them in the process in the show it was a direct neural link to the brain so Steve and Jamie could tell their prosthetics just how much strength to use but in the real world while we have figured how to make a prosthetic respond to a an impulse from our nerves they haven't figured out how to make a prosthetic know when beyond human strength is needed but I'm guessing artificial intelligence would play a part.
Yeah, the bionics took a fair bit of suspension of disbelief. Still enjoyable enough as campy scifi, though. Sliders kept running a few seasons too long IMO. Dipped at the end - something Seaquest suffered from too.
@@RoyCyberPunk True, if the action is all confined to the limb, then everything is fine. It's when the rest of the body comes into play. Think of it like this: What would happen if you made the post of a car jack out of wood? The base, racket and bracket on top would all be fine, but when you tried to crank it up, the wooden post would just splinter and crack under the weight. The same thing would happen to their bodies if they tried to lift a car. Their bionic limbs would be fine, but the bones that they're attached to would break.
My granda called me Joe 90 all through my early childhood coz I wore NHS glasses and a patch to correct a lazy eye. It worked and the nickname stuck! Still get it from those in the know at Christmas. Great vid btw! Keep them coming!
There’s other channels where they covered it I came across the original show many years ago on SYFY and have it on my Xbox console lastly I had an crush on Jane Badler.
I know there were only two one off dramas, but I loved the time travel sci-fi The Flipside of Dominic Hide from 1980. It had a haunting theme song by Meal Ticket
@63mckenzie..starring Peter Firth (scooter from the double-deckers and Harry from spooks), Caroline Langrishe, and Patrick McGee. Found both shows recently on UA-cam and did the whole nostalgia trip.
Logan's Run (tv series) was based on Logan's Run (film) which is based on Logan's Run (book). The book is considerably different to the film and tv series.
For a time, Irwin Allen dominated in the amount of syfy shows seen on TV in the 60s, 70s and into the 80s. "Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Time Tunnel.
For another show, try Stargate SG-1. It's like Star Trek, but no ship carrying the cast to distant worlds, more militant, and races that are more human than humanoid
Well, no ship initially. Earth winds up with a fair spacefleet of their own before too long goes by. The gates are always important but it started to feel a bit like Baylon 5 after a while for all the big fleet battles going on.
StarGate SG-1 is pretty well-known. It ran for 10 seasons, starred McGuyver, spawned a few movies, had the StarGate Atlantis spin-off (w/Jason Momoa), and reruns are still being shown over the air (on the free COMET network).
@@owenreynolds8718I don't think the show needs to be popular to be in this series. As long as it's sci-fi from the late 20th century, there could be a chance
@@marcusblackwell2372 To be here a show CAN'T be too popular. Remember how (at 3:58) they say "The Bionic Woman is a spin-off of the popular series The Six Million Dollar Man"? They don't talk about T6MDM since everyone already knows about it; we already know Lee Majors plays Steve Austin and so on. StarGate SG-1 is the same way for many people who can still name Daniel Jackson, Til'k, Samantha Carter, Na'quata, System Lords, Asgardians Thor and the Prometheus... .
Finally some shows I've actually heard of! Alien Nation was brilliant, Bionic Woman was of modest quality. I didn't know there was a TV series of Logan's Run. Joe I saw 1 minute of. FB XL5 was part of my childhood and I spent ages trying to duplicate the ship in plasticine - great theme song, Max Headroom was a great little oddity at the beginning of the AI era. Never saw Sliders, but it was, of course famous for John Rhys-Davies of Indiana Jones fame. Great trip down memory lane made all the better for some show that actually weren't crocks.
There were also two sequel novels to Logan's Run, Logan's World and Logan's Search. If you have any fondness for the film, I'd advise avoiding them, they're do bad things to the concept and setting. I rather liked Bionic Woman for its sheer campiness. Max the bionic dog and the fembots are particularly standout elements, although not quite up to the bionic Bigfoot over in the Six Million Dollar Man - played by Andre the giant, no less. Sliders and Seaquest DSV both started strong but overstayed their welcome a bit IMO. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea has a fair bit of primo Cold War paranoia in it at first, but increasingly lapsed into alien invasion plots and more far-out stuff as the years went by. Alien Nation was probably the best of this lot, although both of Anderson's shows here are classics and really show off his bizarre storytelling chops.
I loved Ark2 as a child it was awesome. But a lot of Sci-Fi was hard to come by in Canada. even having Cable did not guarantee anything. But when I could get it on a snowy UHF channel I was happy.
I've never seen it commented on, but there was an episode of The Bionic Woman that had exactly the same premise, and almost identical script - even down to the last line, "I cut myself shaving". In each, the lead helped save the passengers of a plane that crash landed on a deserted island.
In the original novelization of Logan’s run the expiry age is 20 the age got changed to 30 for film and television adaptation because exects thought that 20 was way too young so they altered it to an much older age of 30.
Goodness me, one I'd not heard of. That would be Ark two, which was entirely new to me. My ITV region showed Alien Nation. In the small hours of the morning in 1994, four years after it aired. The show was cancelled after one season. But in due course it got four tv movies to round the story off. I know the first of those, Dark Horizon, was on channel five once. Not sure about the others.
most fo these I do remember. ahh Seaquest, what could have been . It could have been so much better. The first season was great and it went downhill from there. Most f these shows mentioned were great! Voyage t the bottom of the sea is still a favorite!
Whilst never a great fan of television sci-fi I spent many of my formative years reading UK and US science fiction. (from maybe 1975 or so?) Thanks in no small part to the fact that my home town of Rotherham had an excellent public library where I spent many happy hours before video games took over my interest/s. Mainly short stories. 'Day Million' being one I remember to this day. But also many where it was touted that humans would be given just limited life-spans to enable new people to enter a world where just exisiting as a person was considered a limited commodity. Because of course, China was already going down that route of '1 child is enough..'
I vaguely recall a show on British tv in the 80's where people got stuck on an alternate earth run by women, I think it was called Gender but cannot find any info about it.
is it bad that I have seen all but ark 2. and most of these I like watching. sci fi is def my thing. you have to ask in Joe 90 all the knowledge on one very short bit of tape. and would you be happy to send your own 10 yr old into danger.
The relationship between SF and some of these shows is tenuous at best. Bionic Woman, SF? Hahaha! Fantasy for sure. It has one SF idea that it uses without any exploration of it at all. She’s given something like a genie from a bottle might. That’s it. Loads of others are similarly not SF in any meaningful way.
@@susanscott8653 I watched it as a kid. I remember liking it but don't actually remember what it was about. I do of course remember the haunting catchy theme music 😊
Don’t know if you’ve covered ‘Space Precinct’ yet but I’ve noticed it’s been gaining in nostalgic popularity very recently.
I really loved Space Precinct
Another Gerry Anderson show. I've always loved his live-action work. Never really saw his marionette shows that much though, so I don't have much nostalgia for them.
Anderson did his usual great job on teh modelwork there, but the standout has to be how good the prosthetic effects looked considering the shoestring budget they were working with - and how many aliens were on screen week after week. Some pretty solid plots, too.
The whole series is up on YT the last I looked. Re-watched it during the COVID shutdown, held up quite well.
@@lurkerrekrul I enjoy Stingray, and I have no nostalgia for it, it is a fairly new show to me. I can't get into the original Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlett and the Mysterons is ok, as long as the episodes are focused on the Angel Squadron or individual Angel Pilots.
Fireball X L 5 my childhood loved this still do
I really liked Alien Nation. Too bad it only had one season.
Remember how annoying/goofy it was that in the opening credits there was a young girl listed whose character was only briefly in the first episode and never even mentioned again. I guess I get why they didn’t change it, but I never understood why she was included in the first place.
I loved the movie, I don't remember if it was a continuation? Anyway, the show was awesome too. GEORGE FRANCISCO!
But it spawned at least 4 movies
Lexx was a great show. Completely nuts, but excellent.
Jessica on Logans Run was definitely an early crush before i even knew why 😂
Common observation from men of certain ages. Her outfit in the TV show was toned down quite a lot from the film, where she was basically naked from some angles.
@@richmcgee434 I was 7
@@hairywelder5188 Precocious.
A show I never, ever hear about these days is "The Highwayman", a short-lived series by Glen A. Larson from 1987. It starred Sam J. Jones (of Flash Gordon fame) as a crime fighting agent driving around America in a huge truck that could convert into a helicopter. It was thematically very similar to Larson's earlier and much more successful show Knight Rider, and only lasted one season. I think we got it late night on ITV in the late eighties.
actually watched it! It was originally a tv movie and they tried to make it into a series. It was bad. You didn't miss anything!
I remember it very fondly. I think it was one of the first things I remember watching 'late night' on ITV as I got older. It made me realise there were a ton of cool US shows on 'Late Night Late' which were better than stuff on TV earlier. Highwayman, Equalizer, Spenser for Hire, Midnight Caller, Beauty and the Beast. My school career was ruined...
I love Seaview DSV but the running joke was that DSV stood for Don't Set Video. Fireball XL5 is being shown from the beginning on the UK Channel Talking Pictures.
I actually enjoyed Seaquest DSV (Deep Sea Vehicle).
I loved Alien Nation. The TV series only got one season, but it continued into the late 90s with TV movies and specials that are worth checking out if you haven't seen.
Joe 90 was my neighbour for many years, well, more accurately, Len Jones who voiced him did. Lovely bloke.
Seaquest! I fricken loved that show. It had the best SF cast for a tv show that I've ever seen, and talking dolphins! And the Deluise had gills!
Alien Nation was pretty awesome too.
I love “Ark II.” To this day, one of the coolest sci-fi vehicles ever built. I watched it as a kid and I am now the proud owner of a very rare DVD box set release of Filmation’s “Ark II,” “Space Academy” and “Jason of Star Command.” I watched all three when they were on and l love watching them on DVD to this day.
agree! Loved Ark II!
I remember it barely, but I'd love to see reruns of it...
@@Jreb1865 - Unfortunately, reruns of it are hard to come by. It’s not currently streaming; it’s not in syndication that I’m aware of. The only way to watch them is on DVD, which had a single release from Entertainment Rights (now DreamWorks Classics) back in the 2000’s. But it’s been out of print for a long time, so the set is difficult and expensive to come by. I’m very lucky to own one.
I loved Ark II. Sadly the vehicle was cut up to become the main spaceship prop/set for their next show Space Academy/Jason of Star Command. The Truck chassis was removed and Ark II became the Seeker Shuttles. Parts of it were found rotting years ago. Supposedly all of the vehicles on the show were a nightmare. Ark II the Rover and especially the Hughes Flight Belt, aka The Jetpack. It was the real deal. Somehow Filmation managed to pick up one of the only 2 prototype Flight Belts ever made at some sort of garage sale.
@@andrewtaylor940 - It's a fancinating history and the behind-the-scenes interviews in the box set are very interesting. Jean Marie Hon (Ruth) of course went on to play one of the regular bridge crew of the Cetacean (futuristic submarine) on "Man From Atlantis" with Patrick Duffy.
I'd argue Seaquest and Seaquest 2032 were different shows but given your coverage of Sci Fi I'll let that go :)
The funny thing about the follow-up TV movies of Alien Nation was the fact that the actors obviously aged 4 years between the series and TV movies, but George's baby of the didn't age at all.
One which was short lived was a coproduction between Australia and USA called the Highwayman featuring Sam Jones and Mark "Jacko" Jackson
David Hedison,who played "Lee Crane" (Captain of the Seaview),later called his sojourn on the show "Voyage to the Bottom of my career" (!).
1 word - The Flipside of Domonick Hide! BBC1 1980 - ok, not 1 word, but was still a classic.
And the sequel. :)
@@killakoala10 What was the sequel called?
@@brettsolway5089 'Another Flip For Dominick.' It was released in 1982. It is on youtube if you search for it. :)
I remember seeing both of them!
I watched the TV series of Logan's Run every Saturday morning when it was aired in the late 70's. It wasn't a patch on the film version, but it was still entertaining enough to fill half an hour, (or was it an hour), of TV. I'm sure there was an android of some kind they met up with in some of the later episodes. The Gerry Anderson ones are known, but wasn't of age to see either when first broadcast, and the repeats were patchy to say the least. Unlike the more Established Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Stingray, which were shown numerous times well into the 90's. The Bionic Woman was, of course, a spin-off from The 6 Million Dollar Man. Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea was one of those repeated by Channel 4 on Sunday lunchtimes, as I remember. I could never really get into it, though. Sliders was one I remember watching along with shows like Lexx and Farscape.
I seen both versions of Logan’s run I preferred the movie version.
@@centrevezgaming4862 Loved the movie. In the late 90s on the internet , you could find an early LARP game of "Logan's Run" that a group of people could get together and play...
Joe 90, in my personal opinion, has one of the best theme tunes for its time.
Don’t you mean ever?😀
Barry Gray wrote a series of iconic theme tunes for the Andersons!
I remember a show from the 70s. Set in the future in a city surrounded by ice and snow. Child had memories from a person from the past. Can't remember the show's name.
Logan's run was a show I loved. Can't find it anywhere these days
The Andersons had quite a large number of scifi shows in the 1960s through to the 1980s - Joe 90 and FB XL5 as mentioned, also Space Patrol and Space Precinct, UFO, Space 1999, Terra Hawks, Stingray and my favourite, Thunderbirds. F.A.B.🚀
Everyone forgets Secret Service about Father Stanley Unwin, vicar and secret agent with a miniaturization machine.
I'll throw the amazing captain Nemo in again and Space: Above and Beyond. Might as well mention Dark Season, too.
It should be mentioned that UFO, Space 1999, and Space Precinct were live actions shows, while the others all used elaborate marionettes.
I have the dvd's of all there shows. they were just the best ones to do sci fi of there time
there was a few more that you have not listed. like torchy
Oh and Far-scape 90's I think.
It started in 1999, so yes.
@@paultapner2769 thank you x
The Six Million Dollar Man/The Bionic Woman - I watched both these shows and enjoyed them, but one thing always bugged me: No matter how strong their bionic limbs were, they were attached to a normal, flesh and blood body. Maybe their arms would be able to lift thousands of pounds, but they would end up ripping out of their shoulders in the process.
Sliders - I loved the show when it first started, but after Jerry O'Connell and Sabrina Lloyd left the cast, i thought the show went downhill. Especially after they introduced the Cromags as the recurring bad guys.
That depends on how the weight is distributed when using those bionic appendages/prosthetics for example a modern prosthetic hand has far more strength than a regular hand just in the show they could crush a baseball or a pool ball if calibrated to exert that strength but that's where it gets tricky because normally they are calibrated to exert normal human strength so people can easily grab things without accidentally crushing them in the process in the show it was a direct neural link to the brain so Steve and Jamie could tell their prosthetics just how much strength to use but in the real world while we have figured how to make a prosthetic respond to a an impulse from our nerves they haven't figured out how to make a prosthetic know when beyond human strength is needed but I'm guessing artificial intelligence would play a part.
Yeah, the bionics took a fair bit of suspension of disbelief. Still enjoyable enough as campy scifi, though.
Sliders kept running a few seasons too long IMO. Dipped at the end - something Seaquest suffered from too.
@@RoyCyberPunk True, if the action is all confined to the limb, then everything is fine. It's when the rest of the body comes into play.
Think of it like this: What would happen if you made the post of a car jack out of wood? The base, racket and bracket on top would all be fine, but when you tried to crank it up, the wooden post would just splinter and crack under the weight.
The same thing would happen to their bodies if they tried to lift a car. Their bionic limbs would be fine, but the bones that they're attached to would break.
My granda called me Joe 90 all through my early childhood coz I wore NHS glasses and a patch to correct a lazy eye. It worked and the nickname stuck! Still get it from those in the know at Christmas. Great vid btw! Keep them coming!
No sign of V yet shame on you
Must get some more canaries
I'm starving lol 😀
There’s other channels where they covered it I came across the original show many years ago on SYFY and have it on my Xbox console lastly I had an crush on Jane Badler.
I know there were only two one off dramas, but I loved the time travel sci-fi The Flipside of Dominic Hide from 1980. It had a haunting theme song by Meal Ticket
@63mckenzie..starring Peter Firth (scooter from the double-deckers and Harry from spooks), Caroline Langrishe, and Patrick McGee. Found both shows recently on UA-cam and did the whole nostalgia trip.
@@obi-ron It hasn't aged as badly as other stuff from the period.
Logan's Run (tv series) was based on Logan's Run (film) which is based on Logan's Run (book). The book is considerably different to the film and tv series.
enjoyed arc II as a child.
For a time, Irwin Allen dominated in the amount of syfy shows seen on TV in the 60s, 70s and into the 80s. "Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Time Tunnel.
For another show, try Stargate SG-1. It's like Star Trek, but no ship carrying the cast to distant worlds, more militant, and races that are more human than humanoid
Well, no ship initially. Earth winds up with a fair spacefleet of their own before too long goes by. The gates are always important but it started to feel a bit like Baylon 5 after a while for all the big fleet battles going on.
StarGate SG-1 is pretty well-known. It ran for 10 seasons, starred McGuyver, spawned a few movies, had the StarGate Atlantis spin-off (w/Jason Momoa), and reruns are still being shown over the air (on the free COMET network).
@@richmcgee434I thought the gates were always used for interstellar travel, not counting space battles
@@owenreynolds8718I don't think the show needs to be popular to be in this series. As long as it's sci-fi from the late 20th century, there could be a chance
@@marcusblackwell2372 To be here a show CAN'T be too popular. Remember how (at 3:58) they say "The Bionic Woman is a spin-off of the popular series The Six Million Dollar Man"? They don't talk about T6MDM since everyone already knows about it; we already know Lee Majors plays Steve Austin and so on. StarGate SG-1 is the same way for many people who can still name Daniel Jackson, Til'k, Samantha Carter, Na'quata, System Lords, Asgardians Thor and the Prometheus... .
Not sure if you've coverered "The Martian Chronicles" (1980 Rock Hudson) in a previous video
I’ve got the DVD of that series, quite ‘different’.
I always thought 'Fireball' was an unfortunate name for a spaceship.
Finally some shows I've actually heard of! Alien Nation was brilliant, Bionic Woman was of modest quality. I didn't know there was a TV series of Logan's Run. Joe I saw 1 minute of. FB XL5 was part of my childhood and I spent ages trying to duplicate the ship in plasticine - great theme song, Max Headroom was a great little oddity at the beginning of the AI era. Never saw Sliders, but it was, of course famous for John Rhys-Davies of Indiana Jones fame. Great trip down memory lane made all the better for some show that actually weren't crocks.
There were also two sequel novels to Logan's Run, Logan's World and Logan's Search. If you have any fondness for the film, I'd advise avoiding them, they're do bad things to the concept and setting.
I rather liked Bionic Woman for its sheer campiness. Max the bionic dog and the fembots are particularly standout elements, although not quite up to the bionic Bigfoot over in the Six Million Dollar Man - played by Andre the giant, no less.
Sliders and Seaquest DSV both started strong but overstayed their welcome a bit IMO. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea has a fair bit of primo Cold War paranoia in it at first, but increasingly lapsed into alien invasion plots and more far-out stuff as the years went by.
Alien Nation was probably the best of this lot, although both of Anderson's shows here are classics and really show off his bizarre storytelling chops.
I loved Ark2 as a child it was awesome. But a lot of Sci-Fi was hard to come by in Canada. even having Cable did not guarantee anything.
But when I could get it on a snowy UHF channel I was happy.
The series Alien Nation was from a movie of the same name with James Caan
Some of my favourites in that list.
I've never seen it commented on, but there was an episode of The Bionic Woman that had exactly the same premise, and almost identical script - even down to the last line, "I cut myself shaving". In each, the lead helped save the passengers of a plane that crash landed on a deserted island.
Bionic Girl Sandra Bullock
The Fantastic Journey (1977)
The return of Captain Nemo.
Love those 70s Sci Fi fonts.
In the original novelization of Logan’s run the expiry age is 20 the age got changed to 30 for film and television adaptation because exects thought that 20 was way too young so they altered it to an much older age of 30.
Goodness me, one I'd not heard of. That would be Ark two, which was entirely new to me.
My ITV region showed Alien Nation. In the small hours of the morning in 1994, four years after it aired. The show was cancelled after one season. But in due course it got four tv movies to round the story off. I know the first of those, Dark Horizon, was on channel five once. Not sure about the others.
I remember watching both Logan's Run and Ark 2 here in New Zealand in the mid 70s.
Alien nation is so great
most fo these I do remember. ahh Seaquest, what could have been . It could have been so much better. The first season was great and it went downhill from there. Most f these shows mentioned were great! Voyage t the bottom of the sea is still a favorite!
Yeah, but Michael Ironside.
@@DeltaMikeTorrevieja even he couldn't save it! Marvelous actor but it was too late by that time!
Whilst never a great fan of television sci-fi I spent many of my formative years reading UK and US science fiction. (from maybe 1975 or so?) Thanks in no small part to the fact that my home town of Rotherham had an excellent public library where I spent many happy hours before video games took over my interest/s.
Mainly short stories. 'Day Million' being one I remember to this day. But also many where it was touted that humans would be given just limited life-spans to enable new people to enter a world where just exisiting as a person was considered a limited commodity. Because of course, China was already going down that route of '1 child is enough..'
Would have been nice to have shown Seaquest sub and crew your whole clip is of a sub sent to destroy Seaquest.
Ark Two
Gesundheit
I vaguely recall a show on British tv in the 80's where people got stuck on an alternate earth run by women, I think it was called Gender but cannot find any info about it.
The fem-bots from "The Bionic Woman" were terrifying to 9 year old me.
The _Logan's Run_ TV series is based on the film _Logan's Run_ not the book.
The Quality of the supporting videos are a bit low quality - crap...
Have you covered 'timeslip'? 1970 and 1971. ITV.
Yes that's definitely on one of the vids somewhere
Samuel was not played by Jean Marie Hon she played Ruth
is it bad that I have seen all but ark 2. and most of these I like watching. sci fi is def my thing.
you have to ask in Joe 90 all the knowledge on one very short bit of tape. and would you be happy to send your own 10 yr old into danger.
What about doctor who and star trek
Joe 90 had the funkiest theme tune ever!
So did UFO - also by the Andersons.
@@susanscott8653 - I agree. Both funky!
Kenneth Johnson didn't create Alien Nation the movie im sure Dan O'Bannon co wrote it though
Kenneth created the TV series
Have you covered the late 1970s tv adaptation of Spiderman(?)
Jo 90s Dad's invention would be a boon for credit card fraudsters.
The relationship between SF and some of these shows is tenuous at best. Bionic Woman, SF? Hahaha! Fantasy for sure. It has one SF idea that it uses without any exploration of it at all. She’s given something like a genie from a bottle might. That’s it. Loads of others are similarly not SF in any meaningful way.
Nuclear powered replacement limbs aren't sci-fi enough for you? Oscar Goldman and Rudi Wells disagree.
Thumbnail. Perky.
Why was the dog bionic as well, he wasn't injured in the parachute landing like she was.
Not sure if you have mentioned it yet, and it falls into fantasy drama rather than sci-fi, but does anyone remember Little Box of Delights?
I have heard of it, repeatedly, but never actually seen it.
@@susanscott8653 I watched it as a kid. I remember liking it but don't actually remember what it was about. I do of course remember the haunting catchy theme music 😊
Definitely. Was on in the run-up to Christmas.
Very atmospheric. Fondly remembered.