Survey: Your Favourite AND Least Favourite Sci-Fi Shows

[Anonymous]

Hi, just a little survey… 🙂

What are your ten (or more, or less ;)) [i]favourite[/i] sci-fi shows? Please list in order of your preference (10 -1 scale). Note: if some shows hold the same value to you, you can rank them the same. E.g. at number 2: Galactica 1980 and Enterprise.

Thanks. 😀

Edited to include least favourite shows (10-1 scale) and reedited for excessive typos.

So your favourite and least favourite show will get 10 points; second favourite and least favourite 9 points etc. for easy calculation. And rememeber, this survey is hardly definitive or scientific, so…

[Fatguy]

1. Lost In Space.
2. Star Trek.
3 Twilight Zone.
4. Outer Limits.
5. Land Of The Giants
6. Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea.
7. Space 1999.
8. UFO.
9. The Thunder Birds.
10. Lexx (really wanted to put “Captain Scarlet” in here but do not want to incur the wrath…..).

Maurice – Am I dating myself?

[Anonymous]

I really don’t have a Lettermans list but hmm lemme give it a go

TV shows only, particular stuff in ()

1) Earth Final Conflict(Seasons 2,3,4)

2) LEXX (Series 2,3)

3) Outer Limits (old)

4) Star Trek TNG

5) Cleopatra2525

6) Babylon 5 (season 3,4)

7) V

8) I-Man (Sci-FI USA version)

9) Outer Limits (90s)

10) Red Dwarf (series 2)

I know I’m forgetting stuff that personally I would put in the top 10, but my mind is cluttered at the moment.

[fluffy bunny]

Hmm

Quantum Leap
Babylon 5 (not the last series or crusade)
Star Trek: TOS (1st 2 series not the weird series 3)
X-files (early series)
Captain Scarlett
Farscape
Red Dwarf
Sapphire and Steel
Star Trek: DS9
UFO
Knight Rider/ The A-team/ Buck Rogers/ Battlestar Galactica/The Fugitive/The man from UNCLE

[DaveCole]

Looks like a good place for a first post.

1. Babylon 5

2. Lexx

3. The Chronicle

4. Invisible Man

5. Stargate SG-1

6. Prisoner

7. X-Files

8. ST DS9 and Next Generation

9. Battlestar Galactica

10. Buck Rogers

[lexxrobotech]

Here are my top ten sci-fi shows…

1) ROBOTECH
2) LEXX
3) Tripping the Rift
4) Star Trek
5) V
6) The Twighlight Zone
7) Megazone
8) Angel
9) Dexter’s Lab
10) Tales From the Crypt

[Sidhecafe]

Yikes it’s hard rank these:

1. Farscape
2. Gundam Wing
3. Star Trek (original series-though Picard’s a heartthrob)
4. Star Blazers
5. Voyager -early seasons esp. Q, Janeway’s a pain
6. Robotech, the first year
7. Capt. Harlock & The Queen of A Thousand Years
8. Babylon 5
9. Battlestar Galactica
10. G Force- one of the best bad guys!!!

[Headgehog]

1) Babylon 5
2) Reboot
3) Babylon 5: Crusade
4) Space: Above and Beyond
5) Sliders
6) Futurama
7) Outer Limits (new)
8 ) Stargate SG-1
9) Star Trek: Deep Space 9

Trippring the Rift (when it [i]finally[/i] airs) will also find its place somewhere on this list.

[nursewhen]

Blake’s 7
Star Trek (original series)
Babylon 5
Lexx
Space 1999
Red Dwarf
Sapphire and Steel
The twilight zone
The Prisoner
V

[streudel]

I’ll start off by saying welcome to Sad’s, Dave Cole. This is a good place to drop a first post.

Yoinks, questions like these drive me bonkers. I can never make my mind up on anything.

1.Lexx
2.Red Dwarf
3.Doctor Who
4.The Prisoner
5.Star Trek ( TOS )
6.Babylon 5
7.ST ( Next Gen )
8.ST ( Voyager )
9.Twilight Zone
10.StarGate SG1

Ask me tommorrow and it’ll be different…

[pet]

1. The Prisoner/ Space:Above and Beyond
3. Firefly
4. Futurama
5. Stargate SG-1
6. Farscape
7. Star Trek TOS
8. Babylon 5
9. Twin Peaks (does that count?)
10. Space 1999

Number 1 and Number 6 had great final episodes. [i]Aggravating[/i], but thought-provoking.

83;D

[IblisGinjo]

1: ST:TNG
2: Babylon 5
3: Automan (anyone remember that one?)
4: Battlestar Galactica
5: Highlander The Series (I know, I know – I just can’t help myself)
6: Farscape
7: Manimal
8: The Adventures of Brisco County Junior (It counts! Steampunk…)
9: ST:TOS
10: Seaquest DSV…

[Anonymous]

I’ve given your number one choice 10 points, your second choice 9 points down to one for your tenth favourite show and added up the points for each show from your lists (with the help of Excel — really it took very little time). Of course I could have done this any number of ways… So Babylon 5 is the most popular using this method (I may have made some mistakes here):

[color=orange]Babylon 5 ([b]62 points[/b])
Star Trek (TOS) 53
Lexx 44
Farscape 25
Star Trek (Next Gen.) 24
The Prisoner 24
Red Dwarf 19
The Twilight Zone (all original series?) 18
Space: Above and Beyond 17
Stargate SG-1 (16)
Robotech 15
Outer Limits (old) 15
Futurama 12
X-Files 11
V 11
Space 1999 11
Battlestar Galactica 11
Quantum Leap 10
Lost In Space. 10
Earth Final Conflict 10
Blake’s 7 (10)
Star Trek (Voyager) 9
Reboot 9
Gundam Wing 9
Tripping the Rift 8
The Chronicle 8
Firefly 8
Doctor Who 8
Babylon 5: Crusade 8
Automan 8
Star Trek: DS9 (7)
Star Blazers 7
Invisible Man 7
Sliders 6
Outer Limits (90s) 6
Land Of The Giants 6
Highlander The Series 6
Cleopatra2525 (6)
Captain Scarlett 6
Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea 5
UFO 4
Sapphire and Steel 4
Megazone 4
Manimal 4
Capt. Harlock & The Queen of A Thousand Years 4
The Adventures of Brisco County Junior 3
Sapphire and Steel 3
I-Man (Sci-FI USA version) 3
Angel 3
Twin Peaks (“does that count?”) [it counts if you think it counts :D] 2
The Thunder Birds 2
Dexter’s Lab 2
Tales From the Crypt 1
Seaquest DSV… 1
G Force- one of the best bad guys!!! 1
Buck Rogers 1[/color]

Now here’s my scifiish list (not included in the results of the last list):

1. The Twilight Zone (original)
2. The Prisoner
3. First Born (aka The Gor Saga –, a miniseries)
4. The Outer Limits (original)
5. Dr. Who (Pertwee particularly)
6. Star Trek TOS
7. Lexx
8. UFO
9. The Invaders
10. Space 1999

Very honourable mention goes to: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Red Dwarf, The Day of the Triffids, Cold Lazarus, Lost In Space, Babylon 5, V, X Files, and a whole lot more. Really, my list is kind of arbitrary, the honourable mentions could it into my top ten easily and the order could be played around with considerably.

BTW, I remember AutoMan, and Manimal unfortunately. 😉 Though it did give us one of televison’s most memorable lines: “I am not an animal, I am a free Manimal!”

Oh, and I’ll say it here, welcome to the forums DaveCole, Sidhecafe, and IblisGinjo. 😀

[ShadowedVenus]

ok

1. Babylon 5 (including Crusade)/Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2. The hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
3. The Prisoner/Ultraviolet
4. Deep Space Nine/Blake’s Seven
5. Angel
6. Farscape
7. The X-Files
8. ghormenghast (a miniseries)
9. Lexx
10. Star Trek; the Next Generation/Twin Peaks

So I have three miniseries of great genius, and am I the only one who thinks a second series of Ultraviolet should have been made?
Both No. 1s, the Prisoner and Blake’s 7 have FANTASTIC finales, surreal, beautiful, completely unexpected or just gorgeously tragic, and sadly i have included 2 members of the Star Trek franchise, though the 10th is mainly for Picard/Data, and DS9 because it was genuinely funny and at least tried to be complex rather than just relocating 50s Westerns to space.

[pet]

[quote=”Number 5″]I’ve given your number one choice 10 points, your second choice 9 points down to one for your tenth favourite show and added up the points for each show from your lists (with the help of Excel — really it took very little time). Of course I could have done this any number of ways… So Babylon 5 is the most popular using this method (I may have made some mistakes here):

[color=orange]Babylon 5 ([b]62 points[/b])
Star Trek (TOS) 53
Lexx 44
Farscape 25
Star Trek (Next Gen.) 24
[b]The Prisoner 24[/b]
[/color]

[/quote]

Ahahahaha! There can be no mistake in your calculations, as The Prisoner is Number 6 again! 😆

[Sidhecafe]

There was a Gor mini series???? ❗
I had no idea…. I think the one I read was “Slaves of Gor” all about earth women kidnapped to become sex slaves…. 😈
That was back in high school. Any one else read that????
And who did the mini series? When?

[Anonymous]

I read quite a few of the Gor (counterearth) novels when I inherited them from my Grandfather, but I gave up in the end because they just got worse and worse.

[Sidhecafe]

My friend and I used to read Slaves of Gor outloud to each other and laugh! It was like the Story of O just pulp scifi!!!! couldn’t help but love it for the sheer schlock value!!! Like Samuel Delaney without any of the philsophical discourse at worse case scenario.

The Top Ten List is like a history of the tv shows I grew up with!!!

Nice to see some shows that even forget about alot!

[Anonymous]

I’ve also read the Gor books, kinda bad but enjoyable. Was wondering if anyone else would remember those.

Monkey business…

Actually, [i]First Born[/i] as a BBC made show only in three 45 minute parts about a human-gorilla hybrid who is raised by the scientist who created him — he doesn’t realise that he’s half ape (shoulda guessed with a name like Gor). You could say it’s part soap opera too, he has a fling with his human half-sister (not realising that she is a blood relative — they were raised in the same family) who gets pregnant. I found the story very moving. Was based on a novel called [i]Gor’s Saga[/i].

Anyway, here’s the updated list (wish I’d originally alpahabetised it in descending order):

[color=orange]Babylon 5 (72 points)
Star Trek (TOS) 53
Lexx 50
The Prisoner 41
Farscape 30
Star Trek (Next Gen.) 30
The Twilight Zone (all original series?) 28
Outer Limits (old) 22
Red Dwarf 19
Space: Above and Beyond 17
Blake’s 7 (17)
Stargate SG-1 (16)
X-Files 15
Robotech 15
Star Trek: DS9 (14)
Doctor Who 14
Space 1999 12
Futurama 12
V 11
Battlestar Galactica 11
Quantum Leap 10
Lost In Space. 10
Earth Final Conflict 10
Star Trek (Voyager) 9
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 9
Reboot 9
Gundam Wing 9
Angel 9
Tripping the Rift 8
The Chronicle 8
First Born 8
Firefly 8
Ultraviolet 8
Babylon 5: Crusade 8
Automan 8
UFO 7
Star Blazers 7
Sapphire and Steel 7
Invisible Man 7
Sliders 6
Outer Limits (90s) 6
Land Of The Giants 6
Highlander The Series 6
Cleopatra2525 (6)
Captain Scarlett 6
Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea 5
Megazone 4
Manimal 4
Capt. Harlock & The Queen of A Thousand Years 4
The Adventures of Brisco County Junior 3
I-Man (Sci-FI USA version) 3
Twin Peaks (“does that count?”) [it counts if you think it counts ] 3
Ghormenghast 3
Thunderbirds 2
Dexter’s Lab 2
The Invaders 1
Tales From the Crypt 1
Seaquest DSV… 1
G Force 1
Buck Rogers 1[/color]

Edited for one glaring mistake. Sorry [i]Sapphire and Steel[/i]; you’ve been promoted!

[Sidhecafe]

Boo-hoo! You mean no crazy mini series based on gratuitous body building society?!

Really,
Gor’s Saga, it does sound interesting. who wrote the book do you rememeber?

[Anonymous]

[quote=”Sidhecafe”]Boo-hoo! You mean no crazy mini series based on gratuitous body building society?!

Really,
Gor’s Saga, it does sound interesting. who wrote the book do you rememeber?[/quote]

Yeah, what a shame! 🙁 😉 If it had been about that, then it would have definitely topped my list! 😀

I haven’t read it to tell you the truth, but the author is Maureen Duffy — had to look it up and came across an interesting webpage on genetic engineering (including GE in sci-fi) which very briefly mentions the book and show [url=http://www.shalako.demon.co.uk/srn/define_genetic.htm](CLICK!)[/url]

[Sidhecafe]

Thanks for that, I will read that later when I’m not at work. 😯 😀
it actually has some baring on a story I’m trying to work on presently.

I know I Planet Gor series, I picture something like Conan The Destroyer! ❗

[Anonymous]

The books were written by John Norman (I counted nine under a thick blanket of dust on my top cupboard)

I seem to remember once seeing a scary website about the philosophy of Counterearth.

[Anonymous]

Rather than starting a new thread: What are your 10 least favourite sci-fi shows? And if you haven’t included your ten favourites, please do so.

So your favourite and least favourite show will get 10 points; second favourite and second least favourite 9 points… etc. for easy calculation.

[bambooshoot]

Favourite Sci-Fi has to be:

1) Babylon 5
2) Farscape
3) Red Dwarf
4) Futurama
5) Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
6) Outer Limits (Old!)
7) Stargate SG-1
8 ) Star Trek (TOS)
9) Doctor Who
10) Land of the Giants (yes I know 🙄 )

Worst Sci Fi? Eeep…going to get flamed for this!

1) (worst) – Twin Peaks (Maybe I was too young to enjoy it?)
2) Dark Shadows (Don’t know if anyone remembers it? Used to be on the Sci-Fi channel in the UK…really enjoyably bad!)
3) Andromeda
4) Space Precinct

Don’t know how many of these count as sci fi and I can’t think of any more! May edit later if I think of some!

Bambooshoot 😆 🙄

[theFrey]

I miss Max Headroom. That was a short lived, but much loved favorite of mine.

[Shrapnel_Jack]

Top 10: (thanks for that summary list, Logan, I had completely forgotten how much I liked Brisco County Jr.)

-Stargate SG-1
-X-Files
-The Secret Adventures of Jules Vern (love the steampunk genre)
-Star Trek TNG
-The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. (more steampunk, sort of)
-Farscape
-Star Trek ENT
-Star Trek VGR
-Star Trek DS9
-Star Trek TOS
Honorable Mention to Amazing Stories

Worst:

-Dark Shadows (although really isnt sci-fi, is the worst show of all time in any category)
-Lexx (flame on, I don’t care)
-Manimal
-V (80’s ABC series)
-Seaquest DSV
-Alien Nation
-Andromeda

[sgtdraino]

Here’s my top ten, with 10 being most favorite, as ordered.

10: Space: Above and Beyond
9: The Prisoner
8: Blake’s 7
7: Red Dwarf
6: Lexx
5: Babylon 5
4: The Adventures of Brisco County Junior
3: Cowboy Bebop
2: Doctor Who
1: Star Trek (any except Voyager

Edited because I didn’t realize Brisco counted as Sci-Fi! 🙂

[Anonymous]

n5-Kopele’s topic put me in mind of this old one. Thought it might be fun to cross-reference, and I’ll find that link to the old TV sci-fi poll off the front page later. So, I’m finally getting around to updating the Sad favourites list with the later, yet still old, submissions… (minus Shrapnel_Jack’s cause I’m not totally sure if that list runs best (10) to worst of the best (1), or worst to best). Not really enough responses yet to warrant tallying up the worst of sci-fi TV, methinks.

Babylon 5 (87 points)
Star Trek (TOS) 56
Lexx 56
The Prisoner 50
Farscape 39
Red Dwarf 34
Star Trek (Next Gen.) 30
The Twilight Zone (all original series?) 28
Outer Limits (old) 27
Space: Above and Beyond 27
Blake’s 7 (25)
Stargate SG-1 (20)
Futurama 19
Doctor Who 18
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 15
X-Files 15
Robotech 15
Star Trek: DS9 (14)
Space 1999 12
V 11
Battlestar Galactica 11
Quantum Leap 10
Lost In Space. 10
Earth Final Conflict 10
Star Trek (Voyager) 9
Reboot 9
Gundam Wing 9
Angel 9
Tripping the Rift 8
The Chronicle 8
First Born 8
Firefly 8
Ultraviolet 8
Babylon 5: Crusade 8
Automan 8
UFO 7
Star Blazers 7
Sapphire and Steel 7
Invisible Man 7
The Adventures of Brisco County Junior 7
Land Of The Giants 7
Sliders 6
Outer Limits (90s) 6
Highlander The Series 6
Cleopatra2525 (6)
Captain Scarlett 6
Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea 5
Megazone 4
Manimal 4
Capt. Harlock & The Queen of A Thousand Years 4
I-Man (Sci-FI USA version) 3
Twin Peaks (“does that count?”) [it counts if you think it counts ] 3
Ghormenghast 3
Cowboy Bebop 3
Thunderbirds 2
Dexter’s Lab 2
The Invaders 1
Tales From the Crypt 1
Seaquest DSV… 1
G Force 1
Buck Rogers 1
Star Treks (any except Voyager) 1 (including Enterprise)

Kinda disappointed that The Invaders didn’t do better. I imagine that considering the critical and popular success of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica and the new series[s] of Doctor Who there would be significant changes if I were to start it all-over. And I’d like to nominate Charlie Jade. Been some very good sci-fi of late, I think.

[kokopelli]

Favourites
————-
10: The Prisoner
9: Twilight Zone (original)
8: Outer Limits (Original)
7: Star Trek ((TOS)
6: Star Trek(TNG)
5: Star Trek (Voyager)
4: Tripping the Rift
3: Stargate-SG1
2: 4400
1: BSG (New)

[spooookie]

1. Blakes 7

2.Farscape

3.Firefly

4.Dr Who

5.Deep Space Nine

6.Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy

7.Babylon 5

8. Red Dwarf

9.Space 1999

10. The Clangers

[Jhevz]

Hi Fellow Sci-Fi Fans,
My favourites are:
1) Dr Who
2) Star Trek (Original)
3) TNG
4) V
5) The X-Files
6) The Prisoner
7) Red Dwarf
8) Battlestar Galactica (70’s)
9) Buck Rogers

My least favourites are:
1) Lost in Space
2) Dark Shadows
3) Galactica 80

Sci-Fi Fans Unite,
Jhevz 😉

[Author]

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