# Vague sci-fi show question. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 7, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vague-sci-fi-show-question/471581 "2008-11-07T02:53:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vague-sci-fi-show-question/471581/1 "2008-11-07T02:53:00Z")
Okay I used to watch a show, fairly sure it was sci-fi, I think it was dubbed and I think one of the ships was called Hispaniola? Does anyone have a clue what I’m on about? Set in near future with flying cars/ships I think. No other memories. Soz. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vague-sci-fi-show-question/471581/2 "2008-11-07T03:02:43Z")
Hispaniola is a ship from _Treasure Island_, isn’t it? There was a [spanish version](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179577/) of it made in 1987 that was SF. And of course there was Disney’s _Treasure Planet_. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vague-sci-fi-show-question/471581/3 "2008-11-07T03:27:18Z")
A spanish sci-fi version of Treasure Island would make sense. Hmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vague-sci-fi-show-question/471581/4 "2008-11-07T06:42:22Z")
[Skyland](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyland)? Is animated, but dubbed from French. Has a ship call the Hyperion and a place called Puerto Angel. “The series is set on Earth during the 23rd century, at which time the planet has been shattered into millions of pieces; known individually as Blocks, and collectively as Skyland, which orbit around a central core.” ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vague-sci-fi-show-question/471581/5 "2008-11-07T12:29:19Z")
No, this was a live action series. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vague-sci-fi-show-question/471581/6 "2008-11-07T13:03:39Z")
Further to the spanish Treasure Island version I found earlier, there is [this](http://www.joblo.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2803405&postcount=138). ---
**Author:** ![Galwegian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galwegian/32/3426_2.png) [@Galwegian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galwegian)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vague-sci-fi-show-question/471581/7 "2008-11-07T13:41:23Z")
_Treasure Island in Space_? Live action, dubbed, and truly awful. And it was shown on RTE on Sundays just after 6pm IIRC, probably about twenty years ago. On [IMDB](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179577/) it’s described as an eight-hour mini-series, but I seem to remember it cut up into half-hour chunks. I vaguely remember a big, silvery saucer-shaped (or really hatbox-shaped) spaceship with lots of flame coming out of the bottom: sound familiar? ---
**Author:** ![Galwegian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galwegian/32/3426_2.png) [@Galwegian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galwegian)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vague-sci-fi-show-question/471581/8 "2008-11-07T13:47:24Z")
Check out the [screenshots](http://www.wicked-vision.com/tabelle_screenshots.php?ID=1522)! ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vague-sci-fi-show-question/471581/9 "2008-11-07T15:06:10Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > [Skyland](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyland)? Is animated, but dubbed from French. Has a ship call the Hyperion and a place called Puerto Angel. “The series is set on Earth during the 23rd century, at which time the planet has been shattered into millions of pieces; known individually as Blocks, and collectively as Skyland, which orbit around a central core.” I can’t find the thread now but someone posted awhile back that they were under the mistaken impression as a child that this was the premise of **The Jetsons** ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vague-sci-fi-show-question/471581/10 "2008-11-08T03:25:36Z")
> [@Galwegian](#): > > _Treasure Island in Space_? > > Live action, dubbed, and truly awful. And it was shown on RTE on Sundays just after 6pm IIRC, probably about twenty years ago. On [IMDB](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179577/) it’s described as an eight-hour mini-series, but I seem to remember it cut up into half-hour chunks. > > I vaguely remember a big, silvery saucer-shaped (or really hatbox-shaped) spaceship with lots of flame coming out of the bottom: sound familiar? That sounds like the one all right. I don’t recall how shit it was but I know I did watch at least 2 episodes. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vague-sci-fi-show-question/471581/11 "2014-06-21T00:33:51Z")
My memory is shot. I went looking for this vague memory again and found my own thread! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vague-sci-fi-show-question/471581/12 "2014-06-21T00:46:25Z")
See you in 2020!