10 of the Worst Sci-Fi TV Shows of All Time

The Cheat Sheet ^ | January 20, 2017 | Robert Yaniz Jr

[EveningStar]

In the past decade or so, science fiction on television has seen a dramatic uptick in both quantity and quality. Shows like Westworld are keeping critics engaged and audiences coming back for more week after week, but while a number of sci-fi shows over the years have developed significant cult followings, others have become notorious examples of just how bad the genre can be when it isn’t executed effectively. Here’s our look at some of the worst sci-fi shows to ever hit the small-screen. For the record, we’re focusing specifically on live-action series only. So any infamous animated shows won’t be appearing below.

[rlmorel]

Thing is, Star Trek was a thing of its time. Most people didn’t see the UN for the evil it is, and it is true, the show is very liberal in many of its themes.

I watch a lot of movies. I am plumbing further and further into the past to watch movies, watching a lot from the 30’s, 40’s, 50s and 60’s now. I make it a point when watching it, to attempt to watch it from a cultural perspective of those times if I can, rather than watch it with today’s perspectives. It often isn’t easy to do, but I can occasionally succeed and it has helped me to enjoy a movie I otherwise might have turned off.

That is how I try to watch old Star Trek episodes when I encounter them. And even then, most of the time I get bored with it pretty quickly.

I must say-one of my favorite satire movies is “Galaxy Quest”! I find that movie hilarious, since it is so spot on!

[DiogenesLamp]

Yup, I never missed an episode. I also liked Star Trek *Enterprize* with Scott Bakula. I did not care for the *The Next Generation* shows.

My kids and I have started watching a Next Generation episode once a week. I am now reminded of how *LIBERAL* they were.

I remember back in the 1990s I eventually got tired of the Liberal idiocy and I just stopped watching the show. The show where Riker was involved with the homosexual alien was the last straw for me.

[Enlightened1]

[BradyLS]

“Beedlee-beedlee-beedlee…Wilma really knows how a drive a stick, Buck!”

[yarddog]

I recently saw photos of “Judy” and Angela Cartwright. Judy has held up remarkably well. Angela looks about like an older lady should. No longer pretty but what do you expect.

[Flick Lives]

Babylon 5 was an awesome series.

I'd agree. It was one of the first series where the aliens actually looked alien. Plus, the show may have been one of the first sci-fi shows designed from the start with a story-arc for the whole series.

[wally_bert]

I’ve kept up with the B5’ers.

Amazing how many of them are gone.

At DragonCons, they always seemed to be very fan friendly for the most part.

Peter Jurasik remembered me and my wife every time we visited his table.

The last one I went to several years ago had Martin Landau and it was a real pleasure to meet him. He drew a huge room.

[Gideon7]

The other British series besides UFO , Space: 1999, featured the Catherine Schell and Barbara Bain. That's gotta count for something. :-)

[rlmorel]

I have to clarify-that was my impression about Jonathan Harris, not reality. In reality he was married to his childhood sweetheart until he died. I realized my post would impugn him if I didn’t clarify.

[SMGFan]

I saw this Woops! 1992
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woops!

and Tru Calling ( Groundhog Day type)

[Enlightened1]

I BET... she did!

[SMGFan]

remember Holmes & Yoyo ?

[Sirius Lee]

I remember watching Lost in Space reruns in the 70's. I knew that, even at 6 or 7, I wanted to tap this:

Tha's a whole 'nother magnitude of Judy right there.

[Sirius Lee]

I remember watching Lost in Space reruns in the 70's. I knew that, even at 6 or 7, I wanted to tap this:

Tha's a whole 'nother magnitude of Judy right there.

[Flavious_Maximus]

Heather Menzies was definitely easy on the eyes, but I would not call her an upgrade to Jenny Agutter. Jenny is still hot.

The worst Scf-Fi TV show has to be the Planet of the Apes series. That was pure schlock.

[wgmalabama]

There was a Japanese cartoon when I was a kid about a battleship in space. Only saw a few of them. Not sure why this tread made me think of that. Don’t know the name of it but would have been early 1970s.

[rlmorel]

As a little kid who still harbored the mindset that girls are probably the enemy, I did have a major crush on Judy Robinson.

It was only a few years later when I saw Raquel Welch this movie that I began to realize girls might NOT be the enemy!

When they had to rip the antibodies off of her skin-tight wet suit, the theater began to feel very er...warm.

[Hugin]

They also wrote on to use the Depression era sets, but that one was pretty good too.

[Springman]

Bump for later.

[wally_bert]

Land Of The Lost wasn’t that bad.

It beat a lot of the rest of Sid & Marty fare.

Don’t forget Electra-Woman & Dynagirl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HU7bblWwPQ

Apparently it’s a movie or at least a trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtkPbA3J510