Your Best and Worst Sci-Fi TV Shows!

[Klaus]

I'll cave in and list some of the sci-fi TV shows that made up my childhood:
Buck Rogers
Automan
Manimal
Battlestar Galactica
Six-Million-Dollar Man
Incredible Hulk
Lost World (sleeeeeesssstaaaaaks!)

Let the mocking commence!

 

[Khayman]

2- Space Rangers --Anybody remeber this one (...)

Unfortunately, yes. But it was still better than Manimal.

What was it, 1993 or 94? Lasted a whole 4 episodes. Dorky looking android in pancake makeup --- imagine an albino Kryten from Red Dwarf. Shapeshifting assassin. yawwwwwwn

 

[Datt]

Best:Honorable mention goes to the show where this ship sets out to colonize another planet and ends up crashing on it. The name escapes me.

Earth 2 with the delicious Rebecca Gayheart.

 

[Hand of Evil]

BEST
1...Farscape
2...Angel
3...Babylon 5
4...Stargate SG1
5...Firefly
6...Buffy
7...LOST - going to drop if they don't get some new shows on
8...Twilight Zone - Outer Limits - Night Stalker
9...Dr Who
10..Sea Quest - Lost in Space - Space 1889

Worst
1...Star Trek - I know it is in my best list but that was ST
2...X-Files
3...BattleStar Galactica (both)
4...Earth: Final Conflict
5...Andromeda
6...Buck Rogers

 

[jonesy]

Earth 2 with the delicious Rebecca Gayheart.

Yes! That's the one. Thank you. What a wonderful show that was.

 

[Hypersmurf]

5. Cleopatra 2525- yeck!

Hey, I worked on Cleo!

... well, okay, fair point

I'll name one series that really scared me as a kid: V. The scene with the Visitor lady swallowing the rat really spooked me when I was 8!

Oooh, Jane Badler. I had such a crush on Jane Badler.

-Hyp.

 

[Tauric]

Best:

1. Farscape
2. Stargate SG-1
3. Invisible Man
4. Deep Space 9
5. SeaQuest DSV

I would have included Buffy, Angel, G vs. E, and Highlander, but I don't consider them sci-fi, to me they're more fantasy (emphasis on magic, supernatural, and all).

Worst:

1. Andromeda
2. Tracker
3. Sliders
4. Roswell
5. BSG (the original)

 

[Dark Psion]

Live action Best
1: Babylon 5: Epic storytelling, should be required viewing for all future TV producers.
2: Star Trek DS9: Star Trek, Now with conflict, less than perfect people and profit$$.
3: Battlestar Galatica (Sci-Fi): I was prepared to hate it, but it just blew me away.
4: Dr Who: Where to start, you have 27 years of viewing just to catch up to the new Doctor.
5: Firefly: What could have been?

Honorable Mention: Space Above & Beyond: When I get DVDs, then I'll add it to the list.

Animated Best
1: X-men Evolution: Another I prepared to hate, but they pulled it off perfectly.
2: Galaxy Rangers: One of my favorites growing up and now on DVD.
3: Batman TAS: Best Batman ever!
4: Battle of the Planets/G-Force/ Gatchaman: It is coming out on DVD, but re-edited back to the original dialog.
5: Witch Hunter Robin: My personal favorite Anime.

Honorable Mention: Bionic Six: Just waiting for those DVDs

Live Action Worst
1: Andromeda/Final Conflict: Both started off so good and had so much potiential and then went to TV Hell.
2: Star Trek Voyager/ Enterprise: Berman And Bragga, Nuff said!
3: Original Battlestar Galactica/ Galactica 1980: Another example of the network screwing up a series.
4: X-Files: Just went on too long without finding that truth that was out there.
5: Every other version of the Twilight Zone: Nothing compares to the original.

Animated Worst
1: Yu-gi-oh, Dragonball Z, One Piece and every other imported anime that gets edited for an American audience. Leave them Alone!
2: All those Live actor to Cartoon shows from long ago Saturday morinings: MrT, Harlem Globetrotters, Mork, Fonzie, and yes, The Gary Coleman show
3: Any Re-imagined classic cartoon characters, See the new Loonitics and Buzz Bunny.

 

[Wombat]

I have watched little tv over the past few years, and due to that and some other points, I shall only list the shows that I loved

1) Star Trek: Deep Space Nine -- simply a fantastic show; great characters, great stories, deep development
2) X-Files -- again, great characters and deep development, although by the end the development was so deep that no one understood it anymore...
3) Star Trek (TOS) -- what can I say? Unlike the other shows that were on at the same period, this show was head and shoulders above. Dated now, yes, but compare it to the shows that beat it in the ratings (Lost In Space, Time Tunnel).
4) Dr. Who -- this show got people interested in history, in sci fi, and was proof that tight scripts and good acting will always be more important than a reliance on special effects.
5) Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and/or Neverwhere -- whopping great fun, imaginative, and purely wild!

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

I would have included Buffy, Angel...but I don't consider them sci-fi, to me they're more fantasy (emphasis on magic, supernatural, and all).

Hey now. At various times Buffy had robots, cyborgs, an Internet monster, ray guns, hacking, and psychic powers. Hell, Angel had ROBOT NINJAS.