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Antique and Obscure SciFi

Discussion in 'Tilted Entertainment' started by genuinemommy, Jul 22, 2016.

  1. genuinemommy

    genuinemommy Moderator Staff Member

    We all know about Star Trek, Star Wars, and Babylon 5...
    but what are your favorite obscure, old/antique, indy, or just plain off-the-wall science fiction shows and book series?

    Have you come across anything good recently?

    I recently found a show on YouTube. We recorded it off TV when I was a kid. It's called Earth Star Voyager. Turns out it has a bit of a cult following. The score is really very well done. It's odd how when I started watching it, the music was even more familiar to me than the story. It makes me wonder if some of the themes show up elsewhere. The composer has an impressive track record, Lalo Schifrin. Lalo Schifrin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDFF9sIT6jE


    Other favorites from my childhood:
    Twilight Zone - creepy! It kept me up at night thinking.
    Lost in Space - I was obsessed with this show when I was about 4
    The Navigator - The first time I realized the issues with spaceflight and time
    The Last Starfighter - oh man, I had a HUGE crush on Alex (Lance Guest)
    Earth 2 - who doesn't love Tim Curry as a bad guy?
    Somewhere in Time - romantic! As a preteen I was so in love with this one.
    The Andromeda Strain - made me a major germ freak for about a month when I was 12.

    I'm pretty excited about the prospect of a new revamp of Lost in Space. ‘Lost In Space’ Remake Picked Up To Series By Netflix | Deadline
     
    Last edited: Jul 22, 2016
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  2. wye

    wye Getting Tilted

    Science-fiction is perhaps my favorite genre of television, and so I've explored a number of its lesser known titles. I liked Earth 2, but I haven't watched all of it. The Twilight Zone is a classic favorite, and I've also enjoyed the similar shows Black Mirror, Inside No. 9 (though it doesn't have any SF episodes, yet?), Métal Hurlant Chronicles, and The Outer Limits. If Netflix is set to produce a Lost in Space remake, it will probably fare better than 2004's The Robinsons: Lost in Space, whose unaired pilot you can now find on YouTube.

    My favorite cult SF series that I now consider old are:

    All the Star Treks (1966-2005)
    The Prisoner (1967-68, seminal in several genres)
    Star Cops (1987, nice hard SF with a cheesy name)
    Sliders (1995-00, the first 3 seasons are the most popular)
    Space Island One (or Raumstation Unity, the far better German name, 1998)
    Cowboy Bebop (1998-99)
    MythQuest (2001, sort of SF)
    Odyssey 5 (2002-04)
    Planetes (2003-04)
    Battlestar Galactica (2003-09)
    ReGenesis (2005-08, super-hard SF)
     
    wye, Jul 25, 2016
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  3. genuinemommy

    genuinemommy Moderator Staff Member

    PlanetES was excellent! I forgot about that one.
     
    genuinemommy, Jul 25, 2016
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  4. bobby

    bobby More Than Slightly Tilted ! Donor

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  5. wye

    wye Getting Tilted

    Good link. Not only are they free but in the public domain, so they're legal to share without restriction.
     
    wye, Jul 27, 2016
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  6. rogue49

    rogue49 Tech Kung Fu Artist Staff Member

    Location:
    Baltimore/DC
    U.F.O.
    One of my favs...y'gotta love the purple hair and nehru jackets
    but I used to pretend sliding down the chute to the rocket jet from the tip of the sub :D
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    **and the music was always interesting
     
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  7. genuinemommy

    genuinemommy Moderator Staff Member

    Thanks, Bobby!
     
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  8. snowy

    snowy so kawaii Staff Member

    snowy, Jul 27, 2016
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  9. genuinemommy

    genuinemommy Moderator Staff Member

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  10. POPEYE

    POPEYE Very Tilted

    Location:
    Tulsa
    Outer Limits
    Twilight Zone
    And there has been a Vincent Price marathon on Comit TV. Now that guy is great at being creepy
     
    POPEYE, Jul 27, 2016
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