Ditto. And the really old Flash Gordon reruns.
Reruns of Star Trek TOS for me.
One of the first was the original Star Trek. Another one was the German Raumpatrouille (Space Patrol).
1970’s version of Buck Rogers. I know I saw the movie in the theatre when I was a kid.
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.
Oh! how could I forget Ultraman! I can still sing the theme song!
and Jonnhy Sokko and his Flying Robot!
Outer Limits (the original) for me. I always had a thing for monsters rather than straight-up sci-fi.
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.
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…
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.
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).
Does The Transformers count?
The original Outer Limits for me, and that theme song TOTALLY FUCKING RAWKED, MAN!!!
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.
That’s what I was going to ask.
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.
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.
Doctor Who, William Hartnell/Patrick Troughton era. Cybermen seriously freaked me out. Jon Pertwee was, however, by far my favourite.
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Space 1999 (In Afrikaans) - I’m pretty sure we had it before Star Trek.
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 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.