Your earliest sci-fi memory...

nixie said:
Daleks, but for the life of me I can't remember if the Doctor was Patrick Hartnell or Jon Pertwee
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I think you mean Patrick Troughton, the 2nd Doctor. William Hartnell was the 1st.

Mr Troughton was my first encounter with Timelord. Scared the pants off me & I was hooked.
 
I have vague memories of Doctor Who, The Tomorrow people, Space 1999, and Planet of the Apes though I dont think I watched them a lot. The earliest things I can remember really enjoying were more fantasy than sci-fi, films like Jason and the Argonauts , Jack the Giantkiller and the Sinbad films.
One TV show I can remember liking was a US show called The Fantasic Journey.
 
I can tell you my daughters' first SF memories. Sort of.

When I was pregnant with Daughter No. 1, in 1977, I went to a showing of Star Wars (the first movie) in San Francisco. It was a BIG deal--long lines, lots of hype, packed theater and all.

When I was pregnant with Daughter No. 2 in 1982, I was on bed rest, but snuck out once--to go see E.T. in the theater. Again, a pretty big deal since there was so much buzz about the movie at the time.
 
Stenevor said:
I have vague memories of Doctor Who, The Tomorrow people, Space 1999, and Planet of the Apes though I dont think I watched them a lot. The earliest things I can remember really enjoying were more fantasy than sci-fi, films like Jason and the Argonauts , Jack the Giantkiller and the Sinbad films.
One TV show I can remember liking was a US show called The Fantasic Journey.
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I used to love The Tomorrow People, John was the leader and Tim was the computer. Most of the other series you've mentioned have been repeated at one time or another, most recently, Planet of the Apes and Space 1999 on ITV4. The Tomorrow People seems to have been overlooked, I can't even find them on DVD.

Was it The Fantastic Journey or The Fantastic Voyage?
 
Valko said:
The Tomorrow People seems to have been overlooked, I can't even find them on DVD.
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It was shown on UK Gold about 2 or 3 years ago and DVDs have been released though they may now been out of stock.

And I think it was 'The Fanatstic Journey' in the UK, but 'The Fantastic Voyage' in the US.
 
Dave said:
It was shown on UK Gold about 2 or 3 years ago and DVDs have been released though they may now been out of stock.
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That's just my luck. Thanks for the info Dave.
 
I keep thinking that it was seeing the original version of The Mummy on TV when I was five years old and my cousins kept trying to make me leave the room becaue I was "too young and would get scared." And, before you say that The Mummy wasn't science fiction...it had archaeologists, so it qualifies, at least in my opinion.

But I think I was even younger than that when I was staying the night at my grandma's house and I watched an old science fiction movie on TV with her. But I know I had seen science fiction even before that, because my father loved it and watched it all the time, as well as reading it.
 
"The Fantastic Journey" (1977) - Fantasic Journey according to IMDB. Had the boy who was in the Witch Mountain films in it. Ive got a couple of episodes somewhere that I found on a torrent site and looked forward to watching them. I was a bit underwhelmed if im honest, not as good as I had remembered.
 
On The Tomorrow People -- I've recently seen a boxed set of the DVDs here, so I think it's probably still available most places. No guarantees, but it's worth looking into....
 
Thanks JD, I found the complete series on Amazon and ordered them
 
Cloud said:
I can tell you my daughters' first SF memories. Sort of.

When I was pregnant with Daughter No. 1, in 1977, I went to a showing of Star Wars (the first movie) in San Francisco. It was a BIG deal--long lines, lots of hype, packed theater and all.

When I was pregnant with Daughter No. 2 in 1982, I was on bed rest, but snuck out once--to go see E.T. in the theater. Again, a pretty big deal since there was so much buzz about the movie at the time.
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I didn't see this post before, but come to think of it my first exposure to science fiction probably came while I was in the womb. :D
 
close encounters is my first memory and i thought i like it but my mum said i **** my self and wouldnt get off her lap all though the film
 
The more people post in this thread, the more I remember.
I remember now the tagline from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,
"You'll live in the year 1970!" That was a decent show for about half a season before it became "Monster of the Week." Lost In Space had an interesting pilot but went down hill rapidly. Even at 12, I watched it only because there was little else in the way of Science Fiction TV. There was the Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. The former frequently move from Science FIction to Fantasy or just straight irony and the latter eventually sunk to the "Monster of the week." Life was tough until 1966 when Star Trek first showed itself. My parents had divorced and occasionally I got to see the episode at my Dad's house. He had bought a color TV and I actually got to see some of the original episodes first run in color. Life was good!
 
'Thunderbirds' by Gerry Anderson. Saw it as a very young child and was blown away by it. Couldn't stop drawing spaceships and machines and building them with Lego afterwards. Other early Sci-Fi memories: Star Wars of course and various cartoons and comics. Too many to mention really. My imagination was kick-started and I was off!..;)
 
Star Wars Episode IV when I was like 4! ~Basically THE ultimate sci-fi experience of all time.
 
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