Obscure/forgotten Sci-Fi series

[Krystal]

Originally posted by summershake
I can remember Time Trax! But I can't remember a good-looking actor...LOL :rolly2:
He was not my man...
It's not been very long since alien nation was on the air here in austria.
Can anybody remember the series "Strange Luck"?
I guess it's not too old.

I remember Time Trax, I enjoy it. Also remember Strange Luck, find it a very good series.
So bad it was a short one. Do any one remember Nowhere Man? I think that is the name but
I'm not sure. Is a story alike First Wave and I think it wasn't bad. Another one I enjoy that have
a short life was Kindred: The Embrace .

Krystal

 

[Slater]

There was also "Earth 2", "Space: Above and Beyond", and the old "Battlestar Galactica" series. Thought the Cylon fighter was pretty cool.

 

[Dave]

Some of these shows aren't that obscure.

Kelsi- I meant the 1970's version of the 'Tomorrow People' rather than a 1990's remake that I caught. Don't have any links but I bet that their are some - I'll look. This one looks good:

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~davej/ttp/index.htm

Neo- 'The Champions' did have neat haistyles and suits- they were in an aircrash in Tibet and taken to some Shangi-La like place where monks fixed up there bodies, better than they had been before. Wanting to put their new skills to good use they went to work for a secret organisation devoted to world peace, as you do!

I liked the humor in it. Especially the way their boss knew there was something going on, but just couldn't quite work it out.

Anyone like "The Time Tunnel", "The Adams Family" or "The Invaders"?

 

[Dave]

Another one---" V ".

I've just read that it may be coming back to our TV screens:

V the Next Generation.

<<Kenneth Johnson, creator of TV series V,is talking with about reviving the show. "It's come up over and over again, and I'm talking to a couple of guys at Warners," Johnson reportedly said. "I have a notion of a way to do the second generation."

Johnson added, "I think the way the story would have to play out is that, at the end of the original miniseries, we send a signal for help out to another alien race that is supposedly the Visitors' enemies. This story would pick up from there. The sea levels have dropped 50 feet, and Faye Grant and Marc Singer are the matriarch and patriarch of the resistance. There's a whole generation of young people who have grown up not knowing anything except occupation. Suddenly there is a new group of people who are saying, 'Hey, we got your message and we're here to help.' But are they here to help? That's the question: are we trading Hitler for Mussolini or vice versa?">>

I liked it when they ate live hamsters and mice!!! It was very unrealistic and too campy, but fun stuff.

 

[Krystal]

Originally posted by Slater
There was also "Earth 2", "Space: Above and Beyond", and the old "Battlestar Galactica" series.

Love that three. Also enjoy "V", I forgot that one.
My brother and I was totally into it.

Krystal

 

[tokyogirl]

did anyone use to watch 'Eerie, Indiana'? i loved that show.

 

[DarkCity545]

Time Trax was great! Tracker starring Adrian Paul (Highlander) has a show with the SAME plot (but it sucks).

Mann & Machine was a great show it starred Yancy Butler who nows plays The Witchblade.

Starman has been brought back by Scifi, it plays early in the afternoon in the States.

Eerrie Indiana was great but short lived!! So was American Gothic!

Sliders is back on Scifi!!!

 

[Tabitha]

Originally posted by tokyogirl
did anyone use to watch 'Eerie, Indiana'? i loved that show.

So weird! I was just thinking of coming in here and posting a thread about Eerie Indiana! I loved the show, it was sooo strange. I wonder what ever happened to the kids? I always thought of it as a supernatural "Wonder Years".

 

[tokyogirl]

know which one i always remember? the one with the girl that could draw things and then make them real. i always thought that was so cool.

 

[Lonewolf89]

I've never caught a showing but I've read most of the episode synopsis at the Fan Sites:

Deepwater Black aka Mission Genesis.

Has anyone seen it?

 

[DarkCity545]

Originally posted by Tabitha
supernatural "Wonder Years".

ROFLMAO!!!

 

[Dave]

I've thought of a few more from my youth....

The Tomorrow People

I started a thread on this because it is still shown, and there was a recent re-imaging series.
http://www.ascifi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=14521

The Ace of Wands

I never really got to see it. I've just posted about why here:
http://www.ascifi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=14514

Catweazle

Even I'm a little too young for this one, but I've seen some repeats, and it was essential viewing for those a few years my senior.

from members.tripod.com/~eraust/fbabfactfile/catweazle.html

Catweazle was a magician who lived in the eleventh century, but however hard he tried, his spells hardly ever worked.

Then one day was different. First of all he had two bad omens - a bad dream and an owl hooting in daylight. Then Norman soldiers tried to capture him, so in desperation he used some magic, and it worked! The only trouble was that it had worked in the wrong way: Catweazle flew through Time instead of Space, and ended up in a place Hexwood Farm, nine centuries later, where of course he thought everything he saw - motor cars, telephones, electric light ('Electrickery') - all happened by magic.

How Catweazle is befriended by the farmer's son, Carrot, and how he finds his feet in the twentieth century, while hiding from the world in a water tower, makes a riotously funny story, as anyone who has watched the London Weekend Television serial of Catweazle will know.

There is another review here: British Sixties Pop Culture

 

[ray gower]

I remember Catweazle!

Yes it was very funny. The production was good as well, not something that can always be said of childrens fantasy.

Unless one counts Worzel Gummidge and the Borrowers?

 

[ray gower]

Another forgotten series that would be worth reshowing:- Tripods a BBC series based upon the John Christopher books

 

[Tabitha]

I have very vague memories of that - and it is odd that it is another Wyndham story, as i immediately thought of the triffids when I read 'tripods' in your post...

 

[ray gower]

Gosh Yes!
I remember The Day of the Triffids. That was back in the 70's

 

[Tabitha]

Yep, they used to scare the bejesus outta me

I think they still might if I saw reruns...

 

[Dave]

The BBC 'Day of the Triffids' was more faithfull to the book, unlike the Hollywood movie! But I just saw it recently and they do change quite a bit.

I never saw the 'Tripods' series, though I read all the books at school and loved them.

I've thought of a few others people don't mention: 'Knight Rider', 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea', 'Time Tunnel', 'Land of the Giants', 'The Fantastic Journey', and 'Max Headroom'.

 

[Tabitha]

I remember Automan too - very vaguely. And from the same era was "Manimal", not really scifi - it was about a bloke that could turn himself into whatever animal he wanted. The two are connected somehow in my head, maybe they have the same leading man or something...

 

[captainneelix]

Time Trax was a great series. I thought the idea of having someone come back from the future to capture criminals was unique. Normally when people thought of time travel, they associated it with going to the future and not the other way around. Then again, having a computer that you could both see and hear was pretty cool, and the way Selma looked certainly did not hurt the ratings.