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10 of the Worst Sci-Fi TV Shows of All Time
The Cheat Sheet ^ | January 20, 2017 | Robert Yaniz Jr

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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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: sciencefiction; scifi
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To: Covenantor
Isaac Asimov

Dr. Asimov was a great writer of science, fact and fiction. In his personal life, he was a leftist of the first magnitude, from what I recall of his autobiography.

A good example of loving the work, but SMH at the person doing it. He lived in an era where he understood that spewing his political beliefs could alienate much of his audience, though, so he seldom popped off. Would that some of the morons in entertainment today would follow his principle.

261 posted on 02/12/2017 5:42:54 PM PST by ssaftler (January 20, 2017: Morning in America)
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To: Tax-chick

yeah, but I’d say Amazon Women on the Moon is a comedy really, like the Kentucky Fried Movie. Not sure I’d classify it a sci fi.

It was funny, but not as funny as KFM.


262 posted on 02/12/2017 5:43:30 PM PST by correctthought (Oh goody, another lefty riot.)
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To: Tax-chick

yeah, but I’d say Amazon Women on the Moon is a comedy really, like the Kentucky Fried Movie. Not sure I’d classify it a sci fi.

It was funny, but not as funny as KFM.


263 posted on 02/12/2017 5:43:48 PM PST by correctthought (Oh goody, another lefty riot.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

The psychology was marvelous. I liked the way they explored religion, as well. Everyone has religious beliefs; sometimes they can be harmonized, and sometimes they can’t. It made much more sense than the “Star Trek” idea that religion would disappear because technology.


264 posted on 02/12/2017 5:44:19 PM PST by Tax-chick ("If you think free speech is assault but assault is free speech, you're a moron.")
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To: EveningStar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIXlSMsndp0


265 posted on 02/12/2017 5:45:08 PM PST by CJ Wolf (just a conspiracy theory, no facts behind the above post.)
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To: BradyLS

Jim Nabors , Ruth Buzzi in The Lost Saucer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Saucer


266 posted on 02/12/2017 5:45:10 PM PST by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: correctthought

I have not actually watched it. I only know of its existence.


267 posted on 02/12/2017 5:46:53 PM PST by Tax-chick ("If you think free speech is assault but assault is free speech, you're a moron.")
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To: Tax-chick

Ok, fair enough, I watched it, and can only remember a snippet or two. So I guess for me not really memorable.


268 posted on 02/12/2017 6:00:25 PM PST by correctthought (Oh goody, another lefty riot.)
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To: correctthought

The world is full of movies, books, etc., that one knows a little about but hasn’t actually engaged.


269 posted on 02/12/2017 6:01:32 PM PST by Tax-chick ("If you think free speech is assault but assault is free speech, you're a moron.")
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To: Brookhaven

I see two redeeming qualities right there


270 posted on 02/12/2017 6:05:11 PM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: tbw2
A case study of why Speilberg shouldn’t direct.

Thanks, I didn't catch that it was one of his productions.

271 posted on 02/12/2017 6:05:17 PM PST by amorphous
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To: EveningStar

Tom Corbett - Space Cadet.....


272 posted on 02/12/2017 6:16:04 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Charles Martel

I always liked Wanda V.


273 posted on 02/12/2017 6:19:24 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Fred Hayek

At least it was original.


274 posted on 02/12/2017 6:19:57 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: BradyLS

SeaQuest was such a let down.

I liked Airwolf as implausible as it was. Blue Thunder was good.


275 posted on 02/12/2017 6:21:09 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Reily

I thought B5 was very fair to religion.

JMS wrote a good scriptwriting book. I have a copy.


276 posted on 02/12/2017 6:24:12 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: yarddog

Years ago back in public TV land, we had a show called “What In The World Is It?”

People brought in oddball and unusual antiques and oddities. The resident experts had to work out what it was or at least come close if possible.

One time a guy had some of the original TOS props. He had the communicators, little phaser, and maybe the bigger one.

The communicator dials according to him were off Matchbox cars.


277 posted on 02/12/2017 6:27:43 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: boop
Dragon's Domain. This one eyed, hypnotizing monster that vacuumed up astronauts and spit out their charred corpses. Scared the crap out of me when I was 9.

Ditto!

278 posted on 02/12/2017 6:45:18 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: boop
I DO remember Salvage I.

Andy Griffith

279 posted on 02/12/2017 6:46:21 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: SMGFan

Yeah, that’s a blast from the past! I forgot that one. Lidsville, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, The Bugaloos, HR Puff-n-stuff... I’m probably forgetting another one!


280 posted on 02/12/2017 6:49:23 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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