Yes, but as I recall it also aired in the US on prime time television. I don't know whether its format was unique in the UK, but it most certainly was in the US, and most of the creators I know of who were influenced by it are American. I was merely limiting my comments to what I knew to be true here, rather than speculate on what's going on over the pond.
The original comics and serials are influential, but the FX were not terribly groundbreaking (essentially using the techniques from BSG). BSG and BR have many parallels, but BSG barely made it in the top 20, I suspect because of the new series.
No problem then, I took from the wording that you were saying that it was a US-made show rather then US-aired.
Near as I can find, the first SF series on US television was Capt. Video. I imagine most people not alive at the time only know it now from being referenced in The Honeymooners. LiS may be the first "alien of the week" SF show. The first season is arguably the first non-anthology SF show that wasn't written strictly for kids (though it did degenerate into camp by the second season).
My fault - poor wording at a poor hour. I'd be a bit defensive too if some brit tried taking credit for The Twilight Zone.
well since Dr. Who is on there it's not just a U.S. Sci-fi list that begs the question why the hell is Mobile Suit Gundam not on that list but freacking shittastic 60's Batman is?!?! I mean First Gundam basicly started the "real" Robot genire. All Batman did was mortify a geniration of comic fans. As it stands I am a huge fan of Bats and Batman is *not* sci-fi, it's crime drama. to me it's like seeing Law & Order on that list. sorry for the rant but seeing Batman on that list set me off.
Because the shows on the list are all English language productions, even if they're not all from the US? Makes sense to me.
I see your point- but I looked at both the list and the artical in question and I saw nothing that says english laguage only.If you don't speek Japanese,well Thats why god invented subtitles. Oh and Bendimus Prime that Al and Ziggy pic is awsome, funnest thing I seen onling in a long time Quantom Leap owns my soul.
heres my own top 10 list in no order: V quantum leap BS buck rogers jason of star command thunderbirds space 2000 or sumthin'... the one with the lander looking space ship original star trek weird science - the one with the really hot chick the twilight zone
Its SFX, they've had a massive Buffy obsession since it's first season, sometimes they kinda forget its a Fantasy show and not a Sci-Fi one. Besides : this is a list of "TV shows that Shaped Sci-Fi" not "Sci-Fi TV shows that Shaped Sci-Fi" Firefly, much as I Love it hasn't yet been influentual on other sci-fi outside of the BSG remake (and even that has a lot to do with crew having worked on both projects)... Thunderbirds had nothing in it that Previous Gerry Anderson puppet shows didn't have, so rightly they've just gone for the first one of his shows that had all the common elements (Andersons shows tended to borrow very heavily from his previous work: Terrahawk's for instance could be entirely summed up as "Thunderbirds crossed with Captain Scarlet and/or UFO: Enemy Unknown", he had a formula that worked and by and large he stuck to it.) while these are good shows they've not really been influentual on other productions. (particularly not Andromeda, which doesn't really have any elements that haven't been present in some form on prior TV shows) Well kinda..... It did more-or-less start the Mecha Sub-Genre, but the Mecha Books/shows/films have had remarkably little influence on Sci-Fi outside of their own small sandbox,(although admitedly Transformers is a descendant of that Genre, so it seems very important to us) IMO Gundam has had much more influnce in the Gaming Industry than it had has on Sci-Fi.
Well, Battle of the Planets/Gatchaman was one of the most widely licensed shows in the 1980s, but it's not like it's the first. It IS the first 'sentai' show though. It started the entire 'Gang of five' ideal in sentai teams, and most of them still use the archetypes it established. You can blame power rangers on them.
Comments in bold italics. 20. Knight Rider - sure 19. Captain Video - haven't seen in forever 18. The Prisoner - never seen 17. V - sure 16. Battlestar Galactica - sure 15. Lost - don't think so 14. Kolchak: The Night Stalker - never saw 13. Battle of the Planets - sure 12. Fireball XL5 - never heard of it 11. Doctor Who - should be higher 10. Twin Peaks - never saw, but my mom LOVED it and she hates sci-fi normally 9. The Avengers - little too high, but ok 8. Quatermass - never heard of it 7. The Incredible Hulk - first show I remember ever seeing 6. Batman - campiness sure, sci-fi definitely not 5. Babylon 5 - definitely 4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer - never watched (loved Firefly though) 3. The Twilight Zone - sure 2. The X-Files - sure 1. Star Trek - absolutely Source: The Toronto Star The link also talks about Shatner and Nimoy, 40th anniversity of Star Trek, rumours to who's cast as the young Kirk and Spock, etc.[/QUOTE]
Is there an earlier example of footage from outside the original show being added to completely rewrite the story? You say that as if it's a bad thing.
