Your earliest sci-fi memory...

[loreth]

Button moon!!!

not sure if it counts as sci fi but every episode mr spoon would use his space ship to fly to button moon. it was a great childrens series. there was also my favourite childhood book zig and zag which involved two very small aliens (their ship was the size of a tennis ball) who were sent to earth by their emperor and ended up flying all round the world before stealing some gold from fort knox before returning home to get married

 

[Dave]

*sigh* Now, I'd like to see that episode... actually, I'd like to see the whole bloody story......

I find it amazing that they made most TV live and dumped these films shortly after. No one, not even those working on Doctor Who could forsee future Video players and DVD players, and the huge market for recorded programs. Now they are scrabbling around, begging, stealing and borrowing copies of episodes to make up whole stories, adding readings from original scripts where they still exist to fill in the gaps.

I probably watched practically every episode, but I barely remember anything.

 

[pixymiss]

i remember a Dr Who episode with William Hartnell, it had Tweedledum and Tweedledee in it! and that is all i can remember about it! i was probably behind the sofa!!

 

[Harpo]

Having just posted in OR's new thread about how we first got into SFF, I remembered having replied to a similar thread years ago. Here's what I said, back when I'd only been here a couple of weeks

TV: Doctor Who, I had a toy dalek that I was scared of. The earliest episode I remeber actually watching (rather than seeing as a repeat later on) was a Patrick Troughton one involving life sized toy soldiers, but I forget the title.

Book: My dad had a series of Sci-Fi stories which I think he'd got from Reader's Digest. The only one I can remember reading was called "Tiger By The Tail" (I've just checked, it was by Alan E. Nourse)

 

[Rodders]

I probably watch a little of Doctor Who too, but my earliest memory is reading 2000AD comics back in 1976 (i think). Then my dad took me to see Warlords of Atlantis, (which i loved), then going with my family to see Star Wars at Leicester Square. Truly a life changing moment for me.

 

[Graymalkin]

i remember a Dr Who episode with William Hartnell,

wow... I just missed him. He and Patrick Troughton have a mythic status for me. John Pertwee's the first one I remember seeing the terrifying sea-devils and some giant cucumbers that lived in a swamp I think or maybe that was Tom Baker (fighting the cucumbers.)

I have vivid memories from about age 9 or 10, listening to my older brother's Kraftwerk album on my grandmother's radiogram and drawing epic space battles on my dad's plasterboard panels waiting to go up on the walls.

2000AD - amazing, Star Wars - still haven't recovered - the force IS real, Astounding Tales, Weird Tales, Marvel comics from jumblies, fragments of James Mason and Gertrude the duck to Bernard Herrmann's antediluvian score...wow, how did I ever grow up? Oh...of course ... I never did.

 

[Onyx]

Sometime around when I was three I liked listening to the 2001 soundtrack and looking at the photos in the LP. Around the same time I recalled watching Space 1999 and Quark on TV, but found 1999 terrifying.

 

[Cathbad]

Wasn't 1999 a comedy?

 

[WarriorMouse]

Can't remember how old I was but I had started to read SF. My parents were looking at buying a house and in those days there was no furniture filled model houses, you just drove to where houses were being built and climbed into one that was under construction. (No health and safety nannies) I can remember being in one house that was in the wall board stage and seeing foot prints on walls and ceiling's of the rooms. I really mulled over how those foot prints got there and finally decided that they must have invented anti gravity boots and that allowed the workers to walk up the walls and to work upside down on the ceilings. Thankfully I never voiced my theory as I felt quite stupid when I found out how those footprints actually got there.

 

[Graymalkin]

Can't remember how old I was but I had started to read SF. My parents were looking at buying a house and in those days there was no furniture filled model houses, you just drove to where houses were being built and climbed into one that was under construction. (No health and safety nannies) I can remember being in one house that was in the wall board stage and seeing foot prints on walls and ceiling's of the rooms. I really mulled over how those foot prints got there and finally decided that they must have invented anti gravity boots and that allowed the workers to walk up the walls and to work upside down on the ceilings. Thankfully I never voiced my theory as I felt quite stupid when I found out how those footprints actually got there.

Wow. Yes but kind of logical conclusion given the evidence ☺

 

[Amberlen]

ahh, i totally remember staying up with my dad to watch Planet of the Apes..i had to have been somewhere between 6 and 7? (lest a younger person be mistaken, the original tv series)
also, does Land of the Lost on saturday mornings count?

 

[Graymalkin]

Hello Amberlen. I had to look up Land of the Lost. Can't post the link below for interest yet. I have a vague memory of some of the weirder looking characters but nothing clear. But I would say that dimensional travel definitely counts.
Planet of the apes was another weekly staple. Seem to remember each episode ended with Burke and Virdon walking off down another dusty road. Great wanderer format like Incredible Hulk. And so many others I guess. Saturday mornings - wonderful.

 

[Amberlen]

@Graymalkin yes! lol..alot of shows had that wandering ending during that era of tv...PoA, Hulk, Kung Fu..etc
also, omg...remember Isis? the tv show? loved it, along with BG, and i am somewhat embarrassed to say Buck Rogers

 

[Omits]

'Journey Into Space' series on the radio in the 50s got me interested.

 

[BAYLOR]

Wasn't 1999 a comedy?

It became a full blown comedy sensation in season 2

 

[Cathbad]

"NUCLEAR EXPLOSION ON MOON KICKS OFF ARMAGGEDON ON EARTH, SENDS MOON INTO FASTER THAN LIGHT FLIGHT - NO ILL AFFECTS ON HUMANS LIVING ON MOON."

~smh~

 

[BAYLOR]

"NUCLEAR EXPLOSION ON MOON KICKS OFF ARMAGGEDON ON EARTH, SENDS MOON INTO FASTER THAN LIGHT FLIGHT - NO ILL AFFECTS ON HUMANS LIVING ON MOON."

~smh~

Moonbase Alpha would have gotten fried. And there is no possible way that the moon would have achieved faster then light velocity.

 

[dask]

Think it might have been one of the early Quatermass movies, Destination Moon, Battle In Outer Space, something like that. Or those early House of Mystery and Tales Of The Unexpected comics my brother brought home in the late 50s (and which were promptly taken away from us).

 

[logan_run]

8 years old and finding a star wars trading card.

 

[mosaix]

'Journey Into Space' series on the radio in the 50s got me interested.

That and Flash Gordon at the pictures on a Saturday morning.