this is probably my favourite sci-fi show. unfortunately for me, it was rather short lived (only two seasons) and my local pbs channel decided to stop running it on it's sci-fi friday night line-up.

the plot is pretty basic: there were seven people living on a space station called "unity" in the year 2005. they all work for a high profile research company back on earth. they grow hydroponic tomatoes. it's good stuff.

also, one of the space stations guys was incredibly cute and had a really fanatstic british accent. that's probably why i started watching.

remember dr. who? that guy had a big fucking phone booth!

i don't get that show, and because i don't get it, they play it three times on friday nights.

explain it to me, spike-y.

it's been so long since i've seen it, i don't think i can. i just remember dr. who having a slight resemblance to gene wilder and drab english landscape.

fine. you come over tomorrow night, i'll make you a raspberry lime fizz, we'll watch it and then you'll explain. see how easy this is?

Hey I remember Red Dwarf on PBS!!!! hahahah funny stuff

I think Dr. Who is supposed to be a ripoff of Sherlock Holmes, yet he time travels in a phone booth.

Dr. Who terrorized me as a child, yet I couldn't look away...

That's the feeling I always got.

This isn't really obscure, but I loved me some Quantum Leap back in the day.

MANTIS on Fox. It was on before X-Files and involved a handicapped dude who made this suit that allowed him to walk and kick criminal ass. Of course, the thing was ugly as hell. So there's no way it would ever sell.

So he goes and does what all fictional characters with well-balanced moral barometers do: become a costumed superhero.

It wasn't very compelling, so that's why it got canned and became one of many Fox shows that die early. It got replaced by V5 or something like that.

i'm allergic to fizz though

This show called Star Trek sucked, they cancelled it after only 35 seasons or thereabouts

Automan. I was hooked on this weird show for a while. it tried to cash in on the effects used in the movie Tron. That strategy backfired.






aired from: Dec 1983 to: Apr 1984

13 episodes on ABC: 60 min


cast:

Desi Arnaz Jr. as Walter Nebicher

Chuck Wagner as Automan

Robert Lansing as Lt. Jack Curtis

Heather McNair as Roxanne Caldwell

Gerald S. O'Loughlin as Captain E.G. Boyd

Original

"That chippendale forgot to close his shades!"

anybody else ever see this? for some reason the boy always showed the girl, who lived on another planet, laurel and hardy shows. it was on real early saturday mornings about 20 years ago.

i'm sure it contributed to my elementary school nerddom.

is that the boy from small wonder?

no, and isn't "boy" for that kid kind of a stretch.

cripes, I didn't see this thread until just now.

I deanna


Dr. Who was the weirdest show .. the guy playing the Doctor would change every few seasons - he would get reborn or something. I liked it best when he was played by Tristan from All Creatures Great and Small (was I a PBS freak? ) but gawd, the plots were so unwieldly.

the Dr. Who fans are at least as nerdy as the Trekkies - for instance,






http://www.drwho-dfw.com/

I love Red Dwarf!