What's your favorite Science Fiction Movie or TV show?

[Chris]

When it comes to movies, I will fall back on a classic I have liked since I was a kid, H.G. Wells Time Machine. The 60's version, not the newest version.

[RichardMEL]

thanks Chris. I didn't really mention movies (I was distracted...)

Alien is a classic, and Aliens is a great second installment.. the next two.. well... yeah...

Time Machine is a classic movie, and for the time they did a good job in 1960. Agree the 2002(?) remake was poor (as with Planet of the Apes - the original was oh so much better). The 70's had some classic movies, even if you look back now and think "huh?" or "look at those pathetic effects" - I'm thinking here of films like Dark Star, Silent Running(an ecological message), Soylent Green (is people!) and even Logan's Run. Star Wars of course set the benchmark for such movies, and had many poor immitations(eg: Battle beyond the stars). The 80's saw most of the Trek movies of varying quality - The Wrath of Khan being the standout classic of the series. We also had the Back to the Future movies. Robocop another classic if you can handle the gore(very violent for 1987).

More recently some good movies have been Minority Report(despite Tom Cruise) and even the recent War of the Worlds(again Cruise) had some decent points to it(and some horrid ones).

Back to TV - throw in The Twilight Zone (original, not 80's) and Outer Limits (both versions have some good episodes), sliders and more recently Journeyman(RIP), Fringe, Chuck and even Dollhouse. Oh and of course The Big Bang Theory.

[fc2821]

         Richard,  some PBS stations ran Red Dwarf in the US.  I thought it was a great show.  I agree with you the orignal Twlight Zone is the best. 
        National Public Radio sttions ran the radio version of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".   It was great.   Didn't like the movie, never saw the TV show. 

[Zog]

Currently I'm waiting to watch the next Doctor Who... although I think the science is very thin and the fiction is thick.

If LOST could qualify as science fiction, then that's my favorite.

My favorite as a teenager was Star Trek, The Next Generation.  There are a lot of themes in it that speak to dialysis patients.  Like the episode where Geordi's visor saves the planet with eugenics.  Data trying to be human even though he is a machine.  I guess you could look at going to clinic as plugging into the Borg collective.  "Prepare to be assimilated", nurse sticks needle in...   Sorry, I have a dark sense of humor.  One of my favorite STNG episodes is "The Offspring" where Data builds a daughter.  I thought of it some when we had our daughter.

[Chris]

  One of my favorite STNG episodes is "The Offspring" where Data builds a daughter.  I thought of it some when we made our daughter.

Never sen that one, even in reruns.

[Ang]

tv shows= the amazing  race

                2 and a half men


   sci  fi

[jbeany]

Aww, come on, Ang - come over to the nerd side with the rest of us!

[twirl]

I loved teaching The War of The Worlds and The Time Machine.

[Chris]

Well Ang did get part of it right, the Fiction part! 

[twirl]

2 and a half men = science fiction

who many women could an old Charlie Sheen really screw 
a drunken old man and how he dresses ----
those shorts and those shirts
pleassssssssssssssssssssssssseeeeeeeee

[Ang]

Aww, come on, Ang - come over to the nerd side with the rest of us!

sorry  jbeany,sci  fi  just  does'nt  do  much  of  anything  for  this  little  black duck

[Hanify]

Remember Lost in Space?  Oh I loved that show.  Help me Will Robinson Help me!

[Chris]

Remember Lost in Space?  Oh I loved that show.  Help me Will Robinson Help me!

Who could forget Mr. Smith who was much better than the current movie version.

[Zach]

Remember Lost in Space?  Oh I loved that show.  Help me Will Robinson Help me!

Season One (all black & white) were some of the best stories.  And in the early episodes Dr. Smith was truly evil.

http://www.hulu.com/lost-in-space
(You do need to have the current Flash software or you can download it from hulu)

 

[fc2821]

     Liked "lost In Space" when I was a kid.  And, of course Billy Mummy went on to play in Babylon 5.    like many of you I likedthe origional Dr Smth best.  And, Guy Williams was great in Zoro when I was younger than I was when he wss in "lost In Space".  We need an echo chamber to say that.

     Saw Ro Thines in a Law and Order rerun this morning.  Reminded me of "The Invaders" which he stared in. Anyone rembere that show? I liked that  show, myself. Don't forget to check the little finger on people you met   

[thegrammalady]

easy to answer.....  dr who....old and new!!!! then there's firefly and serenity, (do you know there's a club, the brown coats, that's everything firefly and serenity)(and then there's "you can't stop the serenity" the annual showing of the serenity movie. a bunch of us went last year and had a blast) all of the versions of star trek are pretty high on the list.  and stargate, but i'd give them all up for a dr who marathon.

[fc2821]

   I didn't know that.  Thanks for sharing that.   

   Anyone remember the original Prisoner"?  Was it science Fiction?  There were the balls, after all.
   

[rocker]

     Liked "lost In Space" when I was a kid.  And, of course Billy Mummy went on to play in Babylon 5.   

And don't forget that he was half of the band "Barnes and Barnes", which recorded the immortal saga "Fish Heads".

 

[RichardMEL]

Lost in Space is on on the weekends here on a cable channel. They just finished the first season. I record 'em and watch them. Smith to the robot is hilarious - you bubble headed booby!

[fc2821]

     Liked "lost In Space" when I was a kid.  And, of course Billy Mummy went on to play in Babylon 5.   

And don't forget that he was half of the band "Barnes and Barnes", which recorded the immortal saga "Fish Heads".

 

      rocker, I had forgoten that..  Great song