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Star Trek is 'most missed' series
BBC ^ | 12/28/05 | n/a

Posted on 12/28/2005 10:03:09 AM PST by kiriath_jearim

Star Trek is 'most missed' series

Sci-fi series Star Trek is the show most people want to see returned to their TV screens, a survey has found. Originally broadcast in the US in 1966, it topped a poll of more than 1,000 viewers commissioned by UK interactive TV firm Home Media Networks.

Fantasy action series Buffy the Vampire Slayer was second, followed by long-running sitcom Friends.

Star Trek's latest spin-off TV series, Enterprise, was axed in February following poor ratings.

MOST MISSED TV SERIES 1. Star Trek 2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer 3. Friends 4. Fawlty Towers 5. Blake's 7 6. The X-Files 7. Babylon 5 8. Stargate 9. Seinfeld 10. The A-Team Source: Home Media Networks

Star Trek also spawned 10 movie spin-offs, the most recent being Nemesis in 2002.

Sitcom Fawlty Towers was the highest ranking UK show in the list, in fourth place.

Sci-fi shows featured heavily in the top 10, including UK series Blake's 7 and US shows Babylon 5 and Stargate.

Popular US sitcom Seinfeld, which spawned ongoing series Curb Your Enthusiasm, was in ninth place.


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: btvs; buffy; scifi; startrek
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1 posted on 12/28/2005 10:03:10 AM PST by kiriath_jearim
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To: kiriath_jearim

full house, hello?


2 posted on 12/28/2005 10:04:33 AM PST by philsfan24
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To: kiriath_jearim

The A-Team? Oh puh-leeeeez!


3 posted on 12/28/2005 10:06:36 AM PST by socal_parrot (The diet starts today!)
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I love the original Star Trek, but all of the spin offs have missed what made the original so good.


4 posted on 12/28/2005 10:06:43 AM PST by Wolfstar ("We must...all hang together or...we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Police Squad.


5 posted on 12/28/2005 10:06:50 AM PST by BTHOtu
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To: BTHOtu

The Man from Atlantis STarring Patrick Duffy


6 posted on 12/28/2005 10:07:27 AM PST by Holicheese (Would you like a beer? No thanks, I will have a bud light.)
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To: kiriath_jearim
I miss Star Trek "Enterprise".
I thought the Vulcan babe was HOT!
7 posted on 12/28/2005 10:07:50 AM PST by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: kiriath_jearim

I miss Baa Baa Black Sheep.


8 posted on 12/28/2005 10:08:08 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: wingnutx; Brett66; RightWhale; EsmeraldaA; Paul_Denton; ShakeNJake; N3WBI3; Nachum
Stargate is still on... Bring back Firefly...


9 posted on 12/28/2005 10:09:13 AM PST by KevinDavis (http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
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To: kiriath_jearim

I was a soph at NYU in 1966..the year the show first ran..it was on Friday nights...the frats at NYU all held "open houses"..on Friday nights..we'd get a keg and some chips, and you'd have thousands of girls descend on the Villiage looking to meet guys..Our house was always packed..but when Star Trek came on..we turned ON the TV in the house and everyone watched it for the hour..


10 posted on 12/28/2005 10:09:25 AM PST by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: kiriath_jearim
Vengeance Unlimited.


11 posted on 12/28/2005 10:09:32 AM PST by Dahoser (Time to condense the nonsense: Terry Tate for Congressional Linebacker.)
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I'd rather drink a cup of rancid buttermilk than watch Star Trek. What a terrible show.


12 posted on 12/28/2005 10:09:38 AM PST by jcs1744
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To: kiriath_jearim

Fawlty Towers.

Major - Why do we bother, Fawlty.

Fawlty - I wasn't aware that you did, Major.


13 posted on 12/28/2005 10:09:40 AM PST by BuglerTex
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To: Wolfstar
I love the original Star Trek, but all of the spin offs have missed what made the original so good...

what made the original so good was Captian Kirk.

14 posted on 12/28/2005 10:09:42 AM PST by Ouderkirk (Funny how death and destruction seems to happen wherever Muslims gather...)
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To: kiriath_jearim

PLEASE PLEASE bring back Star Trek! Preferably set in the time right after Enterprise, but anything is fine.


15 posted on 12/28/2005 10:10:14 AM PST by Decombobulator
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To: kiriath_jearim

Monty Python wasn't mentioned?!


16 posted on 12/28/2005 10:10:17 AM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: kiriath_jearim
8. Stargate

Stargate SG-1 is still being produced. Season 10 kicks off January 6th on the Sci-Fi channel. Aside from Richard Dean Anderson leaving, Beau Bridges has joined the cast. Last year, Anderson made a couple of surprise visits, so I would expect the same again...
17 posted on 12/28/2005 10:10:40 AM PST by andyk (Fear my strategery of misunderestimation.)
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To: kiriath_jearim

The Night Stalker (original) and Freaks & Geeks.


18 posted on 12/28/2005 10:11:13 AM PST by Snake65 (Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!)
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To: kiriath_jearim

I miss Hee Haw, but I'm aware that I'm the only one.


19 posted on 12/28/2005 10:11:16 AM PST by RetroSexual
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To: jcs1744

I think Eddie Murphy said it best about Star Trek and Kirk's alien liaisons, "If the b@tch is green, there's something wrong with the p---y."


20 posted on 12/28/2005 10:11:30 AM PST by dfwgator
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