Nothing wrong with earth girls...
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.
Can't really think of a single one.
I read in an interview where the story-writers would just put "insert techno-speak here" when working on plots, and then they had some technical writers create the solution to the storyline problem with mumbo jumbo (usually using the words "tachyon particles" and "recalibrate"). I thought it explained the vapidness of the program. Whereas the original Star Trek took scientific concepts and made them integral to the story line, STNG was simply a soap opera with science fiction used as a crutch to create a solution to the story line. "Q" was the gayest character I've ever seen.
Not exactly...
Yes it was.
BTW, according to my college students, quoting Monty Python is absolute proof that you're an old f*rt.
They used to say that Jonathan Frakes could show only two emotions. With beard and without.
But I'll settle for it on DVD.
I miss Petticoat Junction, which was WAY more successful than SEINFELD at being a show on which "nothing happened".
What's wrong with Earth girls? Or is it OK to outsource your libido? :)
Yeah, I think it's been 10 years now. The short seasons are a little weird. I'm looking forward to Galactica, and even though it took a while to grow on me, I like Atlantis now.
"STNG was simply a soap opera with science fiction "
You're right. I also thought the Cmdr Data stories were beyond stupid. But, grudgingly, I give credit to STNG for giving us the Borg. Some of the all time great bad guys.
Voyager was Gilligan's Island in space, and nearly as stupid.
Enterprise suffered from Berman's lack of imagination. It was starting to find it's legs when it was cancelled. I though Enterprise had the elements to be very good. The characters were good, the effects awesome. Oh well.
My beef with Atlantis is that it is too international.. I have always thought that us Yanks should be running the city..
Nothing wrong with earth girls...
10 full seasons. I think it will become the longest, in production, running SF series in TV history.
Yeah, what's the deal with the Canadian being the 'smart' guy? :)
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