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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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To: kiriath_jearim
Some of my favorites:

The Prisoner
I Spy
Moonlighting
Dragnet
Hawaii 5-O

81 posted on 12/28/2005 10:33:47 AM PST by bruin66 (Time: Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.)
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To: MarkeyD; All

Who knows... I'm glad they got rid of Ford..


82 posted on 12/28/2005 10:34:07 AM PST by KevinDavis (http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
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To: kiriath_jearim
I learned what a great show this was when WGN use to have it in nitelly reruns


83 posted on 12/28/2005 10:34:38 AM PST by lunarbicep (There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.)
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To: EsmeraldaA

They've got two episodes completed and downloadable. Not bad for unpaid actors. :-)


84 posted on 12/28/2005 10:34:46 AM PST by JoeSixPack1
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To: kiriath_jearim
SCTV
85 posted on 12/28/2005 10:34:59 AM PST by PaulJ
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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.<<

I agree. However, somehow a bald-headed commander named Jean Luc Picard did nothing for me. I would say the spoof movie called Galaxy Quest with Tim Allen was the best spin-off of the original Star Trek.

Muleteam1

86 posted on 12/28/2005 10:36:48 AM PST by Muleteam1
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To: KevinDavis
My beef with Atlantis is that it is too international

I hear ya. I wonder if the producers thought that SG-1 was too nationalistic, and tried to "balance" it. I get through it by taking a drink every time a Canadian shoulder patch is shown on the screen...
87 posted on 12/28/2005 10:38:44 AM PST by andyk (Fear my strategery of misunderestimation.)
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To: toadthesecond
Out of each half-hour show, there was five minutes of pure brilliance surrounded by 25 minutes of mediocre padding in my view.

You're right.But those 5 minutes were worth the other 25.(Incidently, I always felt the same about The Rolling Stones, every album had only 1 or 2 great songs, but thet were so good they were worth the price of the album)

88 posted on 12/28/2005 10:39:31 AM PST by PaulJ
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To: RetroSexual

BR549


89 posted on 12/28/2005 10:39:35 AM PST by Muleteam1
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To: BuglerTex

"Whatever you do, don't mention the war."


90 posted on 12/28/2005 10:40:21 AM PST by Armedanddangerous (Master of Sinanju (Emeritus))
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To: kiriath_jearim

"Firefly" is number one, obviously.


91 posted on 12/28/2005 10:40:36 AM PST by jalisco555 ("The right to bear weapons is the right to be free." A. E. Van Vogt)
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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.

It's called QUALITY writing.

92 posted on 12/28/2005 10:42:27 AM PST by PJ-Comix (Join the DUmmie FUnnies PING List for the FUNNIEST Blog on the Web)
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To: MarkeyD
what's the deal with the Canadian being the 'smart' guy?

The first episode I saw (it might have been the pilot for Atlantis) had everyone in a ship that was attempting to travel through a gate. Apparently, when the ship was "unstuck", everyone wanted to know why the ship didn't start moving forward again. The brilliant scientist had to explain the concept of inertia. A very painful episode; fortunately, they got better with time.
93 posted on 12/28/2005 10:43:13 AM PST by andyk (Fear my strategery of misunderestimation.)
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To: KevinDavis
I'm glad they got rid of Ford..

Oh, he's not gone yet, is he? He's just in that semi-wraith state...
94 posted on 12/28/2005 10:44:14 AM PST by andyk (Fear my strategery of misunderestimation.)
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To: Armedanddangerous

"Don't drive over any mines, or anything."


95 posted on 12/28/2005 10:44:33 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: All

Does anyone besides me remember Crime Story?

Now THAT was a cool and hip show.


96 posted on 12/28/2005 10:45:23 AM PST by Armedanddangerous (Master of Sinanju (Emeritus))
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To: Dahoser
Is that Michael Madsen? Ever since I saw Reservoir Dogs, he's creeped me out. He could play the Pope and I'd be sketched out by that.
97 posted on 12/28/2005 10:45:41 AM PST by Xenalyte (Babies, before we're done here, y'all be wearin' gold-plated diapers.)
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To: andyk; All

Just as a guest star..


98 posted on 12/28/2005 10:46:17 AM PST by KevinDavis (http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
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To: Willie Green

Ditto!


99 posted on 12/28/2005 10:46:17 AM PST by reg45
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To: willyboyishere
>>I miss Petticoat Junction...<<

Green Acres is the place for me. What can beat a show plot where a lawyer despises NYC so much that a broken down farm seems great?

Muleteam1

100 posted on 12/28/2005 10:46:45 AM PST by Muleteam1
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