nyvinter
Adventurer
It's a bit like when Showtime decided to cancel Odyssey 5 because "we're not interested in science fiction right now" despite it was their number one show ratingswise.
Old shows that you enjoy?
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trappedslider
Legend
I tried to get back into that, since i enjoy Law and Order but I couldn't handle the way they filmed it. I do know abut the single episode that's just in the interrogation room
Here's another one I just thought of; we used to watch it on our PBS station many years back.
Blakes 7
It had early Doctor Who-like levels of special effects (due to the same reason: budget constraints), but excellent characters, concepts, and imaginative writing, even if almost every planet they went down to looked remarkably like the same gravel quarry. And it had one of the most famous series ending scenes in science fiction history.
I'm basing a new PC in an upcoming D&D campaign on a character from this show: Kerr Avon.
Johnathan
Blakes 7
It had early Doctor Who-like levels of special effects (due to the same reason: budget constraints), but excellent characters, concepts, and imaginative writing, even if almost every planet they went down to looked remarkably like the same gravel quarry. And it had one of the most famous series ending scenes in science fiction history.
I'm basing a new PC in an upcoming D&D campaign on a character from this show: Kerr Avon.
Johnathan
Ulfgeir
Hero
Homicide: Life in the Streets, is that the rather gritty show that took place in Baltimore? If,so I liked it. Also was a fan of E.R. Back in the days.
Deep Space 9, obviously. Though I personally don’t think that should count, because I’m going to count “stuff that was first on TV when I was a child.” So instead, I’ll promote these two, which first aired in the U.K. 1980-2 (I was 5-7 years old) and which I remember watching when they were first broadcast in England.
Star Fleet was the U.K. adaptation of X-Bomber, a Japanese puppet show and my first introduction to the tropes of sci-fi anime. It was awesome. The Brian May theme helped.
Huckleberry Finn and His Friends was a Canadian-German production and mostly filmed in and around Vancouver, where I now live, especially at the Burnaby Village Museum and on the Samson V paddlewheeler (which I can just about see from my window, it’s a museum now).
Star Fleet was the U.K. adaptation of X-Bomber, a Japanese puppet show and my first introduction to the tropes of sci-fi anime. It was awesome. The Brian May theme helped.
Huckleberry Finn and His Friends was a Canadian-German production and mostly filmed in and around Vancouver, where I now live, especially at the Burnaby Village Museum and on the Samson V paddlewheeler (which I can just about see from my window, it’s a museum now).
nyvinter
Adventurer
Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
As an AI talking head its almost prophetic!
Mad_Jack
Legend
Can't believe we're eight pages into the thread and nobody's even mentioned Tales Of The Gold Monkey with Jeff Collins...
An American pilot with a one-eyed dog and a drunk mechanic flying cargo runs around the South Pacific Islands in 1939, mixing it up with lost tribes, American and German spies, the Japanese army and a Dragon Lady and her criminal empire... Did I mention the exploding volcano? Box set available if you can find it, but the pilot and a lot of episodes are on Youtube.
An American pilot with a one-eyed dog and a drunk mechanic flying cargo runs around the South Pacific Islands in 1939, mixing it up with lost tribes, American and German spies, the Japanese army and a Dragon Lady and her criminal empire... Did I mention the exploding volcano? Box set available if you can find it, but the pilot and a lot of episodes are on Youtube.
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Paul Farquhar
Legend
Don’t know that was ever shown in the UK. I did watch Tailspin though.
