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Little-Known Sci-Fi Shows You Loved
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Been a long time since I last watched it but I thought Ultraviolet was a good show. Vampire hunting with young Idris Elba and Jack Davenport.
Came here to post this. Very glad not to have been the first.
Loved Spellbinder when I was a kid. Looks like season 1 and 2 are on Youtube.
I want another season
Absolute travesty this got cancelled. Loved the show and Minka Kelly
Almost Human and Intelligence (with Josh Holloway) were two shows that should have got more love and another season.
Babylon 5, shame it doesnt seem to be on any of the streaming services.
Probably doesn't hold up at all but I remember back in the day liking Galador which could probably be best described as a mix of a kid-friendly Farscape and Ben 10 (years before Ben 10 was a thing). Whats funny in hindsight, despite having some of the figures It wouldn't be until years later that I caught on that it was a Lego property.
There was also a show that used to be on BBC i think, it had time travel, the main dude lived in the future where everyone lives in underwater cities, he find himself traveling back to the present day. The big twist at the end was that his mentor-turned villain turns out to be him from the farther future.
For Animated Sci-Fi shows there was The Big Guy and Rusty (think it ended on a cliff hangar where it was revealed there was one more locutus-looking robot wandering about).
Captain Scarlett (The old and the CG one) and Stingray were favourites as well but I don't know if they would classify as little known (maybe compared to Thuderbirds).
Probably doesn't hold up at all but I remember back in the day liking Galador which could probably be best described as a mix of a kid-friendly Farscape and Ben 10 (years before Ben 10 was a thing). Whats funny in hindsight, despite having some of the figures It wouldn't be until years later that I caught on that it was a Lego property.
There was also a show that used to be on BBC i think, it had time travel, the main dude lived in the future where everyone lives in underwater cities, he find himself traveling back to the present day. The big twist at the end was that his mentor-turned villain turns out to be him from the farther future.
For Animated Sci-Fi shows there was The Big Guy and Rusty (think it ended on a cliff hangar where it was revealed there was one more locutus-looking robot wandering about).
Captain Scarlett (The old and the CG one) and Stingray were favourites as well but I don't know if they would classify as little known (maybe compared to Thuderbirds).
I remember quite liking this show. Haven't seen it since it aired, though.
I did not have to post this, yay! Same here, saw it every week as it first ran. Problematic with early CGI for a creature so much on camera, but I was very fond of Nim and the promise of the last few episodes. Then it was cancelled after a cliffhanger and no amount of write-in-campaign could conjure a Serenity to close it off...
Awake is fantastic. Kyle Killen is kind of cursed to do great work that no one watches and is quickly cancelled.
Oh, another one, Baywatch Nights, but only season 2 where it basically became X-Files
Seriously, watch the season 2 promos
Oh damn, I never knew S2 went full-on camp. I need to see this.
It's a real shame this show wasn't more popular. It was on ABC Family so I'm sure that didn't help, but it was awesome.I would also like to recommend :
The Middleman was more than GREAT.
I don't know how to describe it, though. Kinda like an American Doctor Who but more comedic? Full of heart, just a fun watch, a single season. I'm pretty sure it does not end on a cliffhanger, but it's been almost 13 years.
I remember quite liking this show. Haven't seen it since it aired, though.
Heeeey I kind of remember this and liking it at the time.
Yeah I remember being annoyed they never bothered to finish the adaptation. I misremembered about the medieval stuff; looks more like 1940's.
Show was before its time.
Hell yeah. I don't know anyone that's ever seen this show besides myself. Man was I upset when it got cancelled.
Ended on a hell of a cliffhanger
I remember quite liking this show. Haven't seen it since it aired, though.
I remember seeing Lexx, but it was called Tales From A Parallel Universe on the viewer guide. It was on Showtime sometimes and Sci Fi other times. I never knew what was going on because I have never seen the first episode or really any episodes in order. I think the show did a good job of capturing the emptiness of space.
X-men show in all but name, their Professor X even turned out to be a dick
I watched this but i have no memory of plot or anything on it.
Company made a bunch of test tube mutant babies and now they are old enough to start trouble.
Just looked at a trailer showing everyones powers and wow. I remember the cat lady and the lightning dude and thats it lol.
Not enough love for this one. A tremendous show, for the most part anyway.
Colony was so good. It was fresh and could've gone to great heights.
Absolute shame it was cancelled.
Absolute shame it was cancelled.
I was wondering if anyone else would mention Earth 2 or if I was the only person who even remembered it existed.
You got that fav that no one seems to talk about any more that's actually a gem if you watch it?
I got two
Go into this one blind and an open mind. Lots of wild stories, one of the best characters in Sci Fi (Kai) and one of the best episodes (The Musical)
Lexx, oh Lexx. How weird and how wonderful it was. I should watch it again someday.
Came in to say Alien Nation and I'm happy to see it mentioned.
Lexx is such a bad show that it's great. So over the top and corny. The original movies, called Tales from a Parallel Universe, are much better than the show at riding that "so bad it's good" balance.
Lexx is such a bad show that it's great. So over the top and corny. The original movies, called Tales from a Parallel Universe, are much better than the show at riding that "so bad it's good" balance.
Yeah I was gonna post Tripods as that seems legit little known in the US, I remember watching it on PBS and liking it a lot but also I was young and haven't watched it since so no idea how it holds up.
A lot of good shows in this thread. I loved Journeyman (loved the episode where he lost his phone), Time Trax ("Transmission tones, Selma!"), Sliders (until it got bad), and Seven Days.
Allow me to humbly submit Otherworld:
A family enters a pyramid during a solar eclipse, and is transported to some other... world. This other world is divided into different zones, each run by a different style of government. The family immediately finds themselves in trouble with the law, and on the run.
And another favorite of mine from long ago, Photon:
Photon (the toy) came out just before Lazer Tag, but didn't have the same buzz. It did, however, have a TV show to market it. Average high schooler Bhodi Li gets recruited by the Photon Warriors to fight against the forces of darkness. Pretty bad by today's standards, but surprisingly decent for a kids show back then.
Allow me to humbly submit Otherworld:
A family enters a pyramid during a solar eclipse, and is transported to some other... world. This other world is divided into different zones, each run by a different style of government. The family immediately finds themselves in trouble with the law, and on the run.
And another favorite of mine from long ago, Photon:
Photon (the toy) came out just before Lazer Tag, but didn't have the same buzz. It did, however, have a TV show to market it. Average high schooler Bhodi Li gets recruited by the Photon Warriors to fight against the forces of darkness. Pretty bad by today's standards, but surprisingly decent for a kids show back then.
How about going way back? Any love for Kolchak: The Night Stalker where the dad from A Christmas Story is a reporter who always has run-ins with the paranormal?
In The Flesh was a brilliant show on BBC3 that I'm sure no one else watched. Premise is that you can cure the disease, but the person looks the same despite regaining their old persona. It's set in a small town where ex zombies are being put back into their old communities, very low key, serious and personal. Really, really good.
OTHER SPACE.
Truly the most underrated sci-fi comedy. It's a low budget ensemble cast created by Paul Fieg, featuring a STELLAR cast that includes Pillboi from The Good Place, the taxi driver from Deadpool, the AT&T girl, the creator of MST3K, and the voice of Crow T. Robot.
The show starts out a but slowly, but by the end of the first episode you'll have a grasp on the kind of comedy the show brings. I rewatched it recently and found it holds up extremely well. Some of the jokes are laugh out loud funny, and it's EXTREMELY stupid.
Here's a promo, and here's the first episode.
Truly the most underrated sci-fi comedy. It's a low budget ensemble cast created by Paul Fieg, featuring a STELLAR cast that includes Pillboi from The Good Place, the taxi driver from Deadpool, the AT&T girl, the creator of MST3K, and the voice of Crow T. Robot.
The show starts out a but slowly, but by the end of the first episode you'll have a grasp on the kind of comedy the show brings. I rewatched it recently and found it holds up extremely well. Some of the jokes are laugh out loud funny, and it's EXTREMELY stupid.
Here's a promo, and here's the first episode.
I haven't seen this since it aired but as an early teen with an X-Files obsession this was my favourite show whilst it was on. I still have nightmares with the ganglion things in.One other that popped into my head:
Dark Skies - X-Files rip off once the X-Files became popular. In 1960s America, a young couple struggle to expose the truth about a hidden alien invasion, while a secret government organization follows its own agenda in dealing with the threat.
Can't believe I forgot this one; a stop-motion Australian classic for kids from the 90s:
Best of all, the whole thing is up on Youtube.
It's been a while for me, but I think it holds up pretty well. The stories are all fairly timeless, and I think kids in particular would still connect with it.
Best of all, the whole thing is up on Youtube.
It's been a while for me, but I think it holds up pretty well. The stories are all fairly timeless, and I think kids in particular would still connect with it.
I forgot about Taken. It's probably known by many, but it's great.
Sanctuay for your basic Amanda Tapping fix as well as some always excellent Christopher Heyerdahl, or Todd as some may know him.
Oh, and Killjoys. Always killjoys.
Sanctuay for your basic Amanda Tapping fix as well as some always excellent Christopher Heyerdahl, or Todd as some may know him.
Oh, and Killjoys. Always killjoys.
Just a heads up, but last time I checked this was streaming for free on Plex TV. Pretty sure all seasons.The GOAT: Earth Final Conflict.
Season 1 is some of my favourite sci-fi out there. Show goes completely off the rails after that, but the general pitch of the show has always been real gud.
Alien refugees arrive on Earth and basically uplift us technologically, but also have an insidious plot to kinda-sorta enslave humanity. And the truth of it all is a lot more complicated than that.
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I want to watch this but my partner hasn't seen the movie. Does it make sense to see the movie first or go in without that context?12 Monkeys - wonderfully written time travel show. 4 seasons and the writers planned everything - things that happened in the first few episodes of season 1 makes sense in the last few episodes of season 4. If you like Netflix's Dark, you will love this one.
