Top 50 Sci-Fi Shows per Boston Globe

[DreadPirateMurphy]

http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/gallery/topscifishows/

I found this list a little...odd. They didn't really talk about the criteria they used. You have a list that has Space: 1999, but doesn't even mention Deep Space 9. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. gets a nod, but not Alias. You get both the B&W Superman and Lois and Clark, but not Smallville. Some of the shows lasted less than a season, but they were considered "superior" to Roswell. The Greatest American Hero was evidently considered superior to Mork and Mindy, which isn't mentioned.

Personally, I wouldn't have put Sliders or MST3K in the top 10. Not trying to start any flame wars, but I wouldn't have put TOS Star Trek as #1 (although if the unspecified criteria turns out to weight heavily by influence, I wouldn't argue).

 

[BrooklynKnight]

The Criteria might just be the editors personal pics. Maybe it was an op-ed?

 

[LightPhoenix]

A lot of the shows on that list I wouldn't even consider Sci-Fi. For example, Futurama, while in a futuristic setting, is an animated sit-com, not a sci-fi drama. For sci-fi comedy, why isn't Red Dwarf on the list? And why is Voyager on that list, but not DS9? I can't take it seriously when it says Voyager started off crappy and then got good by the end.

All in all, it's like most of those Top X lists... incredibly subjective to the person who made them.

 

[DonTadow]

Any list with Kevin Sorbo above farscape loses its credibility. No science in this listing at all. ... And the Jetsons!!!!

 

[RedShirtNo5]

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. gets a nod, but not Alias.

Yeah, my immediate reaction was, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., but not The Prisoner?

-RedShirt

 

[Crothian]

Dark Angel was way too high...and I agree many are not really sci fi

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Its not too bad of a list...I think the original Twilight Zone deserves the #1 or 2 spot, though, no matter how much I love the new BSG and classic Trek.

 

[Wombat]

A very idiosyncratic list, indeed.

I ended up scratching my head a lot while reading it/

Xena? Sci fi?

 

[Agback]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Someone wasn't paying attention during Sci classes at high school.

And any 'best ever' list that has room for the original Battlestar Galactica is too long.

 

[trancejeremy]

Argh - you have to go through the list one at a time?