What was your first Sci-Fi show?

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Perusing YouTube, i found a clip of the opening credits of a show that shaped the way i saw Science Fiction

when i think of “Flying Saucers” i immediately think of the ship in the linked vid, filled with chaser lights, huge, archaic control panels, lots of blinkies, you name it, the Saucer in that vid is the classic “flying saucer”…

The Lost Saucer was the first Sci-Fi show i remember growing up watching, growing up during the 70’s was an interesting time, subjected to the nightmarish/drug induced stylings of the Kroffts, it seemed that the only “normal-ish” Krofft shows were The Lost Saucer, Land of the Lost and Bigfoot and Wildboy…

Still, The Lost Saucer sticks in my mind as the flying saucer

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My first memory of any science fiction show was either The Outer Limits or The Twighlight Zone.

I used to watch them on sunday afternoon back when we only had 3 channels.

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Doctor Who, Pertwee era for me. The story that sticks most in the mind is The Green Death. Those maggoty things freaked me out big time.

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I’d say “Twilight Zone” (it was my dad’s favorite show), but I honestly don’t know if I’d label it science fiction…fantasy definitely, though.

The first what I consider to be science fiction? Babylon 5. It was the first show I could watch because it wasn’t all about flying saucers and such.

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Man Into Space, a circa 1959 show about astronauts in space. So far as I know, it has never been syndicated, rebroadcast, or available on VHS or DVD. Until recently I couldn’t find anything at all on it, even in books devoted to SF on TV. But there have now been websites and the like, giving episodes and info. My recollections are extremely vague, but it seems to have been “hard core” sf, accurate in its portrayals and showing things as they expected them to be in the near future – no artificial gravity, or faster than lightb travel, or aliens. And, of course, it all took place in earth orbit and the moon and other nearby space locales. Kind of like much of 2001.

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Twilight Zone, certainly. But the one that made the biggest impression was Star Trek.

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The Twilight Zone (like many others it seems). My sister and I used to stay up late most nights watching Nick at Nite-- Mary Tyler Moore, Dick van Dyke, Dobie Gillis, Bewitched, I Love Lucy, etc. I loved (and still love) all of those shows, but it was The Twilight Zone that whet my appetite for fantasy and sci-fi.

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Doctor Who, tail end of the Troughton era. And I was most indignant that the Doctor was taking a break to give screen time to an uppity American spaceman show. I still remember the first clip I saw (on “Junior Points of View”) which was from Arena where Kirk sneaks up on the Gorn and tumbles a boulder down on him. “Rather sneaky” was Robert Robinson’s comment.

In due course I changed my opinion on Star Trek. :smiley:

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After school, one station would play either Star Trek or Time Tunnel, depending on the day. I never cottoned to Trek (until College), but I was a huge TT fan. I used to get into debates with my classmates about which one was better.

I saw an episode of TT as an adult, and man, did it ever suck. The protagonists went back in time to the battle of the Alamo, where an alien landed in a space ship because he wanted to “destroy the Earth.” WTF was that?

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Star Trek. Momma Odds is a fan, so I was watching Kirk’s antics back when everyone was seeing it for the first time. I didn’t understand what I was watching until it made its first tour through syndication though.

Second would be Twilight Zone - Dad liked that and The Outer Limits.

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Re-runs of TO Star Trek because my dad was into it. I wasn’t much into TOS, but when I was about 10-11 ST: TNG came out and I was instantly hooked.

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The Nazi science fiction TV series (really), The Space Explorers. Started a lifelong love for the genre. By the time The Outer Limits was on the air (I never watched Twilight Zone – it was on too late for me), I was already reading Tom Swift and any SF I could get my hands on and wanted to be a science fiction writer when I grew up.

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Star Trek - the original. I remember seeing one of the first run episodes in color, but was too young to really understand it. It was one of my favourite shows when it came back in syndication. I felt that I was born too soon in history and was really missing out on all the cool adventures to come. I was also really into a time travel program.

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Lost in Space and Star Trek, both very important to my young self growing up in the 1960’s.

You know, I recently bought the boxed set DVD’s of Lost in Space and they held up quite well, some damn funny episodes that really entertained me.

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“The Incredible Hulk.” I adored that show.

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Lost In Space, Voyage To the Bottom of the Sea (sometime in the late 80s, my Flying Sub model got lost - dammit!), and Ultraman (although I don’t know if that counts as “Sci-fi” or not).

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The first science fiction TV show I remember watching was Doctor Who on Saturday 11th September 1965 (a little more than two weeks before my third birthday).

I know I was a fan of Gerry Anderson’s Stingray at around the same time, but I don’t actually remember watching it.

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I had almost forgotten about this show. It’s actually **Men Into Space. ** A quick Google found all the epsiodes available here:
http://www.skaryguyvideo.com/mis.htm

I also remember **Science Fiction Theater ** and **Way Out ** as early sci-fi influences.

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Far Out Spcace Nuts. We kids would watch anything Krofft back then.

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Star Trek. As in the real Star Trek, not the later wanna-bes. :smiley: I recall Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, but my house didn’t watch it. And no one I knew bothered with Lost in Space. Ugh.