Top 5 best sci-fi shows

[billgoldberg]

I love sci-fi and am always looking for new shows.

I thought it would be an good idea to share top 5s to achieve that goal.

As it goes with these things, I'll post mine first.

1. Battlestar Galactica (2003 - )

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2. Doctor Who (2005 - )

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3. Stargate SG-1 (1997 - 2007)

http://www.freewebs.com/1stargatefan/20070420sg11.jpg

4. Life on Mars (UK series) (2006 - 2007)

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5. The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964)

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[Linuxratty]

My list:


Babylon 5
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/Smb5-s4.jpg

2. Stargate SG-1 (1997 - 2007)

http://www.freewebs.com/1stargatefan/20070420sg11.jpg

Deep Space 9;
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/48/DS9station.jpg/250px-DS9station.jpg

Alien Nation:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/36/Alien_Nation.jpg/180px-Alien_Nation.jpg

Farscape
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Farscape_cast_season3.jpg/250px-Farscape_cast_season3.jpg

[DrMega]

1. Doctor Who
2. Torchwood
3. Stargate Atlantis
4. Stargate SG1
5. Star Trek - Enterprise

[etnlIcarus]

Dr. Who (Eccelston/Tennant series)
Classic Battlestar
New Battlestar
Red Dwarf (only smegs don't include this in their top 5)
The final two seasons of Enterprise, which completely changed my expectations of Star Trek.

[DrMega]

Red Dwarf (only smegs don't include this in their top 5)

Red Dwarf, of course. How could I have forgotten to put that in. It really needs to go to about number 2 in the list, just behind Dr Who.

[melrom]

awh, i really liked firefly, though it was only one season.

but i also enjoy babylon 5 and bsg.

[LaRoza]

I saw this thread and immediately thought of Red Dwarf. I was very disappointed to see it not in the top couple of posts.

[Chame_Wizard]

1: Doctor Who 2005
2:Star Trek Voyager
3:Stargate SG1
:lolflag:

[KingTermite]

I saw this thread and immediately thought of Red Dwarf. I was very disappointed to see it not in the top couple of posts.
Is Red Dwarf on the Sci-Fi channel now? I haven't seen it or seen a commercial for it.

My list:
1. Doctor Who
2. Doctor Who
3. Doctor Who
4. Doctor Who
5. Doctor Who

Although, I can't wait until Sci-fi gets them late and then edits them to put commercials in....so I grab them from bit torrents.

[bufsabre666]

Is Red Dwarf on the Sci-Fi channel now? I haven't seen it or seen a commercial for it.

My list:
1. Doctor Who
2. Doctor Who
3. Doctor Who
4. Doctor Who
5. Doctor Who

Although, I can't wait until Sci-fi gets them late and then edits them to put commercials in....so I grab them from bit torrents.

oh this is about shows on sci-fi, i just thought it was science fiction shows, well i hate science fictions shows but if its about the channel

1)ECW
2)extreme championship wrestling
3)wwe/ecw
4)the new ecw
5)the show on tuesday from 10pm to 11pm EST called ECW wrestling

[fiddledd]

My first show will show my age as I saw it when it first aired, the other 4 are sort of current as 5 is nowhere near enough for me as I'm a bit of a SciFi addict:)

1: Star Trek (The Original Series)
2: Stargate SG1
3: Stargate Atlantis
4: Eureka
5: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

btw, if it wasn't for Star Trek a lot of the scifi shows that followed wouldn't have happened, IMHO

[OZFive]

Doctor Who (ALL OF THEM) The classic series was just awesome sitting in the living room with my dad and me watching Tom Baker and the Tardis fly through space and time. Great memories.
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Battlestar Galactica. I was a fan of the original series when I was a kid. I just thought it would be so cool to be a Colonial Warrior and destroying Cylons in my Viper. The new series is so awesome. It is a grown up Battlestar that allows me to indulge in that universe again without laughing at the dated classic series
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FarScape. What a concept. A human is the alien in a long lost universe. The story lines and arcs were wonderful. The imagery was complete and detailed. The plots were not typical old sci-fi regurgitated, but original and new. I was FURIOUS at the series ending (if you saw it you kmnow what I mean) But mollified with the Peacekeeper Wars Movie.
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The big bad, kick all of Sci-Fi series there was and is. Atlantis does not hold a candle to it no matter what they try to do. The chemistry between the actors and the stories and action, made this series one of the longest running series in Sci-Fi and well worth every minute of my time.
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Oh Firefly, what can I say but that I lost you before I hardly knew ya. I total f'Up at Fox screwed what was due to become a classic long running and rich series. I still can watch the shows over and over and never be bored. The mixture of good characters out on the fringe of things doing questionable acts to survive in a tough verse was a change form Star Trek's future of humankind where everything was just about handed to you and we lived (by todays standards) a utopia life. Fun fun fun and sometimes compelling a wonderful little show. Serenity was great! But I am upset at a few characters leaving he show prematurely (damn you Joss!) and disappointed at having River channel Buffy to save the day.
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[mthei]

1) Tied - Star Trek - The Original Series and TNG
2) Red Dwarf (thanks for reminding me about this)
3) Futurama (there, I've said it)
4) Lexx (not up here yet? seriously)
5) Battlestar (both)


I do like Farscape as well, but haven't seen it in a while.

[Atomic Dog]

Well here's my list:

1. Babylon 5 - good plot seas 2 to 4
2. Farscape - great show, good story arc seas 2 to 4
3. Battlestar Galactica - good story, exciting, plot sometimes drifts
4. Deep Space 9 - I liked the later seasons that had an arc to them
5. Star Trek -the orig series, pioneered sci fi shows

[joninkrakow]

Red Dwarf, of course. How could I have forgotten to put that in. It really needs to go to about number 2 in the list, just behind Dr Who.

I know I'm in the minority, but I would have expected it to see all five top posts (seasons 1-8, actually--all 8 top posts) ;-)

-Jon

[Lux Perpetua]

My short list:

The Twilight Zone
Heroes (season 1 only)

I guess I don't watch much sci-fi TV.

[Fenris_rising]

Dr Who (im building a full size Genesis Dalek)
Red Dwarf
Silent Running
2001
Solaris (the original russian movie)
The day the earth stood still
Forbidden planet
Star Trek OS
" TNG
" the movies
and many many more!!!

[Mr. Scott]

I'm sure from my avatar/userid my number 1 will shock none.

1. Star Trek(original series)
2. Babylon 5
3. Stargate SG-1
4. Star Trek: Enterprise
5. Star Trek TNG

[KingTermite]

oh this is about shows on sci-fi, i just thought it was science fiction showsI thought that's what OP meant, but now on re-reading, it seems its ambiguous. It could be taken either way.

If not just "sci-fi" channel, then my list is:

1. Doctor Who
2. Red Dwarf
3. Twilight Zone
4. Firefly
5. Star Trek: TNG

[jgrabham]

Whoever think that Dr Who (esspecially the newer ones) constitutes a Sci-fi needs their head screwing on.

Mine -
X-files
Voyager
Next-Gen
DS9
Enterprise

(Contains too much Trek, I know :))
And Star Trek Original series 6th, I just think that the original series can get a bit boring, so I prefer the other series

What about Films?

Aliens (thats the second Alien film BTW)
Predator 2
Alien Ressurection
Star Trek 6 (Can't remember the title, but it's the one with the Klingon peace treaty)
Star Wars 4 (or 1, depending on how you look at it, the first one they made, the one where Obi-Wan dies)

[ice60]

i don't really know, but i like these -

Star Trek - Enterprise
Lost
Alias

i'm going through all the Enterprise episodes now, they're on veoh, TNG is on youtube, and alias was at alluc.org.

check out mirror Hoshi and T'Pol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4HA1zP2Up8

[jakupl]

I saw this thread and immediately thought of Red Dwarf. I was very disappointed to see it not in the top couple of posts.

what! considering your avatar, one would not think that Red Dwarf was your first concern.

I was very disappointed to see star trek missing at the first post... just some star trek. "preferably voyager though".

[benny bronx]

Star Trek-TNG is my number 1, and the rest mentioned are a toss-up. Two not mentioned are "Dark Angel" (at least the first season) and "One Step Beyond"

[rune0077]

awh, i really liked firefly, though it was only one season.




Oh Firefly, what can I say but that I lost you before I hardly knew ya. I total f'Up at Fox screwed what was due to become a classic long running and rich series. I still can watch the shows over and over and never be bored. The mixture of good characters out on the fringe of things doing questionable acts to survive in a tough verse was a change form Star Trek's future of humankind where everything was just about handed to you and we lived (by todays standards) a utopia life. Fun fun fun and sometimes compelling a wonderful little show. Serenity was great! But I am upset at a few characters leaving he show prematurely (damn you Joss!) and disappointed at having River channel Buffy to save the day.


Firefly was great. I thought I would be a few years to old for it (it was the same guy who did Buffy, I thought it would be more of the same), but it was really good, and funny. Perfect blend of space opera and western, how can it possibly get better than that?

[Chilli Bob]

1. Dr Who (classic)
2. Dr Who (new)
3. Blakes 7
4. Life on Mars (AWESOME! Watch this if you haven't seen it.)
5. Red Dwarf

Honorable mention - Futurama

[OZFive]

Whoever think that Dr Who (esspecially the newer ones) constitutes a Sci-fi needs their head screwing on.


WHAT????

Time travel... CHECK
Spaceships... CHECK
Aliens... CHECK
Ray guns...CHECK
Futuristic Technology... CHECK
Robots/Cyborgs... CHECK
Mutants...CHECK
Weird Planets... CHECK

What the heck constitutes a SciFi show to you?



Star Trek 6 (Can't remember the title, but it's the one with the Klingon peace treaty)
Star Wars 4 (or 1, depending on how you look at it, the first one they made, the one where Obi-Wan dies)

Star Trek 6 = The Undiscovered Country
Star Wars 4 = A new Hope

[Chilli Bob]

Thinking about it, is Life on Mars strictly sci-fi?

EDIT: Wikipedia says yes........


"Life on Mars is a BAFTA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Academy_Television_Award) and Emmy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy)-winning British science fiction and police drama television (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_television) series. It was first broadcast on BBC One (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_One) between January 2006 and April 2007."

[rune0077]

Thinking about it, is Life on Mars strictly sci-fi?

I thought it was a David Bowie song? :)

[Chilli Bob]

The David Bowie song was a recurring theme in the show. It was full of great music from that era.

[guildofghostwriters]

1 Children of the Stones
2 The Tomorrow People
3 Quatermass - the old b/w ones from the 60s (how has this been overlooked here? I suppose because most of you weren't alive or in the UK when it was shown)
4 Ulysses - anime with all the violence taken out for british kids
5 Tom Baker era Dr Who

Somebody mentioned Blake's 7 - I watched that as a kid and thought it was the best thing ever but it was repeated a few years back and I didn't rate it at all. If Monkey can be classed as sci-fi than that would be number 1.

[guildofghostwriters]

Thinking about it, is Life on Mars strictly sci-fi?

EDIT: Wikipedia says yes........

I dunno if I agree with wikipedia - it was just pc cop meets the Sweeney wasn't it? Yes there might have been time travel but there might just have been a bloke in a coma dreaming it all up too and apart from the possibility of time travel it was just a 70s costume drama. A pretty entertaining one mind - especially the episode with Camberwick Green.

[rune0077]

The David Bowie song was a recurring theme in the show. It was full of great music from that era.

Cool. I never saw it (though I've heard of it). I don't think it was ever aired here.

It's a really great song, though.

[klange]

1. Stargate SG-1
2. Dr. Who
3. Star Trek (Anything except Voyager (http://random.ogunderground.com/voyager.jpg), and including Enterprise)
4. Firefly
5. ... at this point I start watching anime.

I don't understand this whole BS:G thing. I used to watch it, it used to be ok, now it's just "where the hell are they going with this?".

[etnlIcarus]

Thinking about it, is Life on Mars strictly sci-fi?

EDIT: Wikipedia says yes........

I was thinking the same thing. To me, it was just a cop drama with a singular sci-fi element. Damn good show (even if the ending was crap) but I don't think it really constitutes the common definition of sci-fi.

[tuebinger]

1. Battlestar Galactica
2. Torchwood
3. Star Trek
4. The Twilight Zone
5. Firefly

[Chilli Bob]

OK, I'll remove Life on Mars from my list (still an awesome show though) and replace it with Neon Genesis Evangelion.

[EdThaSlayer]

Time for my honorable list. :D

1. Battlestar Galactica
2. Star Trek Voyager
3. Star Trek Next generation
4. Star Trek Deep Space 9

Can't think of any others at the moment...