For it’s time, UFO was seriously good scifi. I just finished watching the remastered series and I did not know that Space:1999 was originally supposed to be an extension of UFO. The idea was to progress the UFO storyline 20 years from the original UFO series, however the idea was shelved for the Space 1999 premise instead.
For anyone tjhinking of rewatching the series, invest in the just released DVD set. The extras are awesome and the remastering adds much to the feel of the series.
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Anyone remember Battle of the Planets (possibly called “G-Force” in the USA)?
Hails from the mid '70’s I think but had me racing outta bed bright and early on a Saturday morning.
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Battle of the Planets/G-Force was syndicated on the weekday afternoon slot in my area.
I hear that it was much more serious in it’s original (Gatchaman) Japanese form, but was dumbed down for the kiddies here in the states.
Thus the crazy tourettes kid (Chee-op?) and the added comic relief robots (7-zark-7 and K-9?).
Am slightly curious as to the original, but I imagine it would still pale against Starblazers and Robotech.
Interestingly, there have been some epic battles on BSG (I don’t remember which) of battlestars swarmed by cylons that truly evoke the space battles of the good spacecruiser yamato in Starblazers.
My most obscure reference to date.
I would be totally surprised if anyone remembers this one.
There was a cartoon running at around the same time as the animated Star Trek called The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty. in it a young cat who was prone to daydreaming imagined himself in famous stories. At times he’d become Cat Man, Catzan, The Lone Kitty… all pretty goofy.
…And one episode was a total Star Trek parody. Sure, it was just as goofy as the other eps., but being a sci-fi geek even then, I ate it up. …Cat shaped spaceship and all. (Just like Trek, I think it was a Filmation show too, which would be why they had access to the real bridge sound effects.)
Anyone?
Star Blazers?
May have missed it scanning through the previous posts so apologies if already mentioned but how about “Man from Atlantis”? Now that’s forgotten sci-fi.
Architect,
Maybe there should be a “Better Left Forgotten” thread too !!? 
Heck, I spent a whole summer trying to swim like Patrick Duffy. Learned the hard way why those clips were only a second or two long.
I kinda was embarrassed to even have brought it up! :o
These are just some random scifi movies and shows I remember
Battle Beyond The Stars
The Ice Pirates
Swamp Thing films and series
Tek Wars movies and series
Buck Rogers (I still got my toys)
Strange Invaders
Robotech
Gobots
Nemesis
Babylon 5
Robocop films and series
Laser Blast.
Small-town underdog done wrong finds strength in the form of an alien weapon. But is he wielding it, or is it wielding him?
Does anyone else remember Rom the Spaceknight? I have a memory of a live action movie, but I think it is my imaginatoin.
A few months ago
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It had alien powered battle armor and cheesy kung foo
and Mark Hamil
If I remember correctly, both The Micronauts & ROM the Spacenight started out as toys, and then both got their own comics. Though I think The Micronauts guest stared in an episode of some animated Fantastic Four iteration, I don’t ever remember seeing any ROM movie (live action or otherwise).
Did find this promo .WMV though…
http://www.stonefoundationentertainment.com/rom.wmv
Does anyone remember Major Matt Mason ?? Astronaut toy character who had cool accessories, vehicles, space-stations, etc ? We’re talking late 60’s here, when toys were allowed to cause minor bodily injury without being yanked off the shelves. I had them all, and they’re all gone. :mad:
I go into a frenzy when I search EBay and elsewhere and look up all the Matt Mason stuff I once had. The character spawned a few books and I believe some animation too.
Am I remembering this right?
Did the evil robot in Sarurn 5 (tried and failed to emulate Alien’s space horror thing …but showed Farrah’s boobies) kill people just like the Maximillian robot did in The Black Hole?
Wow. The only thing I remember is the ‘mote in the eye’ scene.
There was another Alien mood ripper-offer, that I not only sat through but read the Heavy Metal comic adaptation of, staring Sean Connery called Outland.
It was no Zardoz, let me tell you.
Would have been much better if it had been Berke Breathed’s Outland.
You know, the one staring the portly penguin in the bow tie…
My sister and I used to watch ‘Land of the Lost’ all the time. I still freak her out with my Sleestak imitation.
I loved ‘Return to the Planet of the Apes’. The best was how they would play the same soundtrack and animation for every chase scene. It’s embedded in my brain. I’m humming it right now.
There was also the live-action ‘Planet of the Apes’ with Roddy McDowall, Ron Harper, and James Naughton. I used to catch that after Batman with “POW” Adam West.
When the heck did Fonzie time-travel? I thought jumping the shark was bad enough.
I had such an affinity for Ark II. Maybe it was all the cool gadgets like the six-wheeled RV (I so want that), the jet pack called the ‘Jet jumper’ (I so want that), and the Ark Roamer (mmmm, maybe not).
Hey don’t knock it. When it first came out, my bud and I used to ride our bikes and pretend we were Troy and Dillon on those kick-ass Flying Motorcycles.
There were so many shows with motorcycles at the time: Captain America, CHiPs, ummmm that’s all I got. Sorry.
Nope that was ‘Logan’s Run’. She played Holly 13 and died gruesomely. At the time I was coming-of-age and was turned on and horrorified at the same time.
<<Uncomfortable pause>>
I’m sick. I know.