# What was your first Sci-Fi show? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 8, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-sci-fi-show/395117 "2007-03-08T16:09:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-sci-fi-show/395117/21 "2007-03-08T18:45:37Z")
[QUOTE=Enright3] 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. [/QUOTE] Ditto. And the really old Flash Gordon reruns. ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-sci-fi-show/395117/22 "2007-03-08T18:47:49Z")
Reruns of Star Trek TOS for me. ---
**Author:** ![kellner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c2a13f/32.png) [@kellner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellner)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-sci-fi-show/395117/23 "2007-03-08T19:01:50Z")
One of the first was the original Star Trek. Another one was the German [Raumpatrouille (Space Patrol)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR8aSPT81pA). ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-sci-fi-show/395117/24 "2007-03-08T19:19:57Z")
1970’s version of Buck Rogers. I know I saw the movie in the theatre when I was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-sci-fi-show/395117/25 "2007-03-08T19:22:20Z")
Rocky Jones, Space Ranger. Really cool finned ships, which landed tail first at a gantry. Space battles (low rent) - ships that got hit fell down. :rolleyes: I got a DVD of a few episodes, and they hold up pretty well. Also saw a few One Step Beyonds, and Science Fiction Theaters. I was an experienced viewer by the time Twilight Zone came on. The Rocky Jones DVD also had an episode of a Flash Gordon TV series which I hadn’t known about. Dreadful. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-sci-fi-show/395117/26 "2007-03-08T19:25:13Z")
[QUOTE=Zakalwe] … and _Ultraman_ (although I don’t know if that counts as “Sci-fi” or not). [/QUOTE] Oh! how could I forget Ultraman! I can still sing the theme song! and _Jonnhy Sokko and his Flying Robot_! ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-sci-fi-show/395117/27 "2007-03-08T19:28:31Z")
Outer Limits (the original) for me. I always had a thing for monsters rather than straight-up sci-fi. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-sci-fi-show/395117/28 "2007-03-08T20:52:16Z")
Not counting any cheapy Hanna-Barbera cartoons with an SF premise it would have to be Star Trek. Not that I remember it particularly clearly, but I started watching Trek very young. I didn’t have any influences in the house to direct me there, I just started doing it. I also just picked up Dr. Who at a rather young age as well. So those would be the first two series that I really followed. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-sci-fi-show/395117/29 "2007-03-08T21:08:52Z")
The original Star Trek when it went into reruns in the early '70’s. The first episode I saw was “Miri,” but I remember catching a few seconds of “Shore Leave,” the part with the White Rabbit and Alice, a night or two before that; though I didn’t watch more that night for reasons that are long forgotten, I wanted to find out what this show was. Thus was a geek born… ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-sci-fi-show/395117/30 "2007-03-08T23:00:42Z")
**Captain Midnight**. I had his decoder, which one got for a quarter and the inside label from Ovaltine. The decoded messages didn’t make any sense, but then, I wasn’t so good with the reading back then. About the same time (mid-50s), there was **Science Fiction Theater** , which I watched a lot, but thought was kind of slow. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-sci-fi-show/395117/31 "2007-03-09T02:43:58Z")
When I was 3-4 I was terrified of that robot thing on **Doctor Who**. Whose bright idea was it to put Doctor Who on after Mister Rogers?! I suppose you couldn’t say I really \*watched \* that one, though. Not long after I recall watching **The Greatest American Hero** now and then. A show is pretty bad when a preschooler thinks that it’s dumb, right? The first scifi show I actually liked was **V** (I liked the mini-series, too). ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-sci-fi-show/395117/32 "2007-03-09T03:09:15Z")
Does **The Transformers** count? ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-sci-fi-show/395117/33 "2007-03-09T03:42:45Z")
The original Outer Limits for me, and that theme song TOTALLY FUCKING RAWKED, MAN!!! ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-sci-fi-show/395117/34 "2007-03-09T03:48:35Z")
I wouldn’t be able to guess which was the first-first, but it would’ve been either _The Twilight Zone, Star Trek_ (the original) or _Battle of the Planets_. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-sci-fi-show/395117/35 "2007-03-09T03:51:02Z")
[QUOTE=gallows fodder] Does **The Transformers** count? [/QUOTE] That’s what I was going to ask. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-sci-fi-show/395117/36 "2007-03-09T04:12:22Z")
Captain Video was the first for me. Then Star Trek. There may have been some in between those two, but if so, I don’t remember them. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-sci-fi-show/395117/37 "2007-03-09T08:12:13Z")
_The Lost Saucer_? Jim Nabors, Ruth Buzzi, and the shaggy dog? No thank you, I’ll take my memories of the gripping opening to [_The Invaders_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nq1-hI3Ges). ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-sci-fi-show/395117/38 "2007-03-09T08:36:42Z")
Doctor Who, William Hartnell/Patrick Troughton era. Cybermen seriously freaked me out. Jon Pertwee was, however, by far my favourite. mm ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-sci-fi-show/395117/39 "2007-03-09T11:25:33Z")
Space 1999 (In Afrikaans) - I’m pretty sure we had it before _Star Trek_. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-sci-fi-show/395117/40 "2007-03-09T12:18:47Z")
[QUOTE=WotNot] Doctor Who on Saturday 11th September 1965 (a little more than two weeks before my third birthday). [/quote] You remember to the day and you were 3? The first Dr Who episode I remember was the one with the Autons (manifested as shop front dummies with guns for hands) I must have seen lots of episodes before that but that’s the first one I remember. > [@](#): > > I know I was a fan of Gerry Anderson’s Stingray at around the same time, but I don’t actually remember watching it. I do, and I have vague memories of Fireball XL5 but I’ve looked up the original to-air dates and I must have been watching that from the womb. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-sci-fi-show/395117.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-sci-fi-show/395117.md?page=3)