That is exactly correct.
I remember it was kind of a comedy as well.
Yes it was, but with some drama in it as well. If I remember correctly, there were some close calls when things didn't go right.
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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Ah, yes - a spacecraft made from a concrete mixer's drum. IIRC, the initial plot was to go get all the valuable stuff we'd left behind on the moon.
That’s a favorite. They were a text book study in how enemies could form alliances when it suited their purposes, but there could never be a “kumbaya” moment between the Narn and Centauri, the interplay was magnificent.
Quark was never intended to be a "serious" ski-fi show. It was a Buck Henry spoof of the entire genre (but mostly Star Trek, Imo), launched in the post-Star Wars bubble of science fiction popularity resurgence.
1. Space 1999.Actually those were the weak points of 1999.I totally agree! And it was such a waste and a tragedy. Actors Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, and the best SFX of the era.
WHAT could POSSIBLY go wrong?
Dr Who killed it. the BBC shifted the Who season forward two months They said it was to move Who to a more appropriate part of the year so the last episodes didn't get shown at 6PM summer evenings
By pure coincident, the first of the seasons episodes screened just one week before the 1999 premiere.
Second week of "Who": massive audience drop. Third week, back to normal (top rating) when the viewrs realised 1999 had the budget and SFX, but "Who" had the writers, and Landau and Bain on their best days, were no match for Tom Baker and Lis Sladen on their worst.
That is exactly correct.
I remember it was kind of a comedy as well.
Yes it was, but with some drama in it as well. If I remember correctly, there were some close calls when things didn't go right.
Yes it did, but I didn't notice it much at the time. It demonstrated private industry accomplishing the same thing as government, but more efficiently.
Star Trek Voyager. . . just plain awful (PC covered on all bases).
Ya. Saturday nights: Space 1999 and Sha Na Na. Memories...
I LOVED Tom Baker as Dr. Who.
He also was a great Rasputin in “Nicholas and Alexandra”.
:-)
The West Wing starring Martin Sheen.
It ran for several seasons. Yes, it was awful. Yes, the paper maché head on the chimp was probably the worst costuming in television sci-fi history. And yes, the whole Dr. Smith - Will Robinson pederast vibe was creepy way before anything like that was ever discussed in public. But somehow the show made money for the network.
That Quark was the DS9 character who grew on me some.
The Atlas Shrugged movie was a noble idea but alas it didn’t make it.
We used to sing “ It’s about time, it’s about space. It’s about time I slapped your face.” I never knew it was based on an actual song.
Having the larger plot arc actually improves Babylon 5 because they have the long term character development built in - the alien ambassador who caused a war now healing the divide between species, Londo starting off as a nostalgic and ignored official to emperor (losing his freedom and nearly all he loves as he gains power), the telepath who starts as a loyal member of the corrupt Psi Corps to become the instrument of its destruction and liberation of the telepaths. Dr. Franklin who wants to build relationships with other species becomes the head of the medical division of Sheridan’s “Federation”.
Some of the minor character arcs are just as amazingly developed. The man who had his mind wiped as a punishment for murder and lives as a monk, wonders if he’d be as strong as Jesus at Gethsemene, gets murdered in retribution, and his murderer is sentenced to the same fate he had.
Her response to the invading fleet of “Who am I?” is epic. She’s a strong woman with convictions but not the liberated feminazi type. And a military character to boot.
What about the old Saturday morning show “Land of the Lost?” The Sleestaks!
The first two seasons of Sliders was OK. When they started on the “find the guy draining people’s brains of fluids”, it stank. And when you’ve replaced all but one character of the original team, you’ve failed.
One of the best monologues on screen anywhere.
She was always super nice to us when we dropped by her table at multiple DragonCons when we were regular attendees.
It was politically correct beyond its time. Strong but incompetent female leader doing everything to save her son, which was mildly redeeming. Single father raising his strong daughter. Female doctor spy. White guy pilot from ancient times learning about liberated current society. Worst of all to me was the bureaucrat married to a strong Earth born woman who was such a freaking wimp it was painful.
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