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Posted on 02/12/2017 1:33:33 PM PST by 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.
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Captain Nice would have to be on any ‘worst of’ list.
What was so unique about the old shows is that they combined children’s excitement with adult tongue-in-cheek humor: shows had to appeal to all the family back before cable. “Lost In Space” is an excellent example.
Me neither! :-D
Salvage I had a bit of anti government regulator spin to it.
Loved the review of that series.
“Salvage One - audience nothing.”
I remember It’s About Time. I think I was about 12 when that was on...am now 61, sheesh!
I remember it, too. Stefanie Powers had a great guest role in the "Bigfoot" episodes.
How come no one has mentioned Time Tunnel?
LOVED IT as an 8 year old!
Saw it again years later, boy did it ever suck!
Same thing goes for Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Where does Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea or SeaQuest DSV fit in relation to this list? To they qualify as sci-fi? :-)
“Purple corduroy pants with bright-orange pockets and striping down the seams.”
Everybody looked like a pimp. I remember it well.
Space 1999 may not have had the greatest writing at times but the special effects and miniature work that was done still holds up very well.
It also has an incredible number of guest stars who went on to other things like Christopher Lee, Julian Glover, Peter Cushing, Brian Blessed, etc.
The camera work was also something to really enjoy, as it could really set up a suspenseful moment or recreate the feeling of isolation and loneliness for the inhabitants of Moon Base Alpha.
It helped me develop a love of all things space related, as did Cosmos and other sci-fi series.
Yep, but you could never replicate the Gene/Jean character now. The LGBTXYZ crowd would burn down the studio.
In great irony he played Dr. Potter, from the State Science Institute in the bad Atlad Shrugged movie... as anti-capitalist a character as can be...
My parents took lots of pictures. My older brother had an Afro in 1978. We are not black; he just had the hair for it.
Love B5 and the character development of G’Kar and Lando was a great part of it.
The episode that got me hooked was the one where they were trapped in the elevator together. “I hate my life!” ... “So do I.”
He was a great Lenin in an early (may have been the 1st!) Masterpiece Theater series “A Fall of Eagles”.
I had an afro for a while at about the same time. Carried a pick, too. I’m so white it’s not funny.
You forgot one that I absolutely loathed-—”Lost in Space”.
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