The original Battlestar Galactic is hardly forgotten, it's still got a very strong fanbase, spawned a reboot that ran for six seasons, as well as rumors of more movies at some point in future and numerous novels and comics. For a one season 1970's show it's had incredible staying power.
Blake's 7 was one of those shows that PBS would show at night with Doctor Who, and so it was one of the few things my mom would let me stay up and watch. Great stuff.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, KQED in San Francisco would show Doctor Who late at night. KTEH in San Jose would show Red Dwarf, Blake's 7, UFO, The Prisoner, The Invaders, Saphire and Steel and many others as well as British comedy. Great memories.
@@Alfetta158 one of my greatest feats was getting my friends to all watch Red Dwarf when our PBS station started showing it in the early 90s. My one friend could do a spot on impression of The Cat. Great times.
Get your shows straight. Number Six, the humanoid Cylon was in the reboot with Edward James Olmos, not the 70s original with Lorne Greene. You people don't ever get it right.
Yeah, where did "Humanoid Cylon Number 6" suddenly appear from???? Interestingly, Humanoid Cylons were introduced in Galactica 1980, "The Night the Cylons Landed."
Buck Rogers deserves honorary mention even if the final episode was filmed in 1981. I thought it was ahead of its time in the sense that the hero was both a larger than life combination of super hero and astronaut having all kinds of wild swashbuckling adventures but at the end of the day he was a very sad and very lonely man who never fully overcame his trauma. That duality was interesting.
@@kpowers Well its pretty iffy because the admittedly awful continuation of Battlestar Galactica called GALACTICA 1980 was filmed in 1980 ergo that show should possibly have been "disqualified".
I can see it both ways, it may have been 1980(81) BUT it definitely had that 70s feel and Star Wars influence so would comfortable fit right in. Like several mentioned I always felt that Buck Rogers could have been so much better if it had not been geared to an audience of 12-year-old boys, same as the original BSG. IF the writers had been willing to be a little more dark and adult with the plot lines.....Buck trying to find a reason to carry on when everything he knew and loved is gone, earth/humanity trying to find its place in the galaxy while still trying to recover from near extinction......yes this series could have been so much better with just a little different direction. IMHO.
@@twilightgamedesigns4887 Not sure if I agree with you about it being aimed for an audience of 12-year-old boys. Lost in Space was for sure aimed at young kids. My parents both big Star Trek fans love the show. There were some things not really aimed for children such as the sexual innuendos throughout the series. Darker??? Well that Space Vampire episode still scares me till today. The episode "The Dorian Secret" was pretty dark for the times. Yeah sure maybe if they showed more of the mutant humans they showed briefly in the movie/pilot when Buck went exploring in down town Chicago would have been interesting. Overall I think it was presented well for the times. For season 1 It was a Sci-Fi show with having Buck as an agent so at times it had that James Bond/Mission Impossible feel to it. Season 2 was was more of a Sci-Fi show with it's Star Trek exploring the Galaxy vibe to it. Some may not like season 2 but I did.
Couldn't even use wiki for these shows. He got the characters wrong so many times. Quark didn't have a shape changing character. Ficus was a humanoid plant, gene/jene was transmute aka both male and female, Plus, Betty 1 and betty 2 didn't know who was the real person and who was the clone. On the fantastic journey, he called Scott a robot when he was the son of a scientist, and Fred was a doctor. Sorry but poor research on these shows.
'Return to the Planet of the apes' and the astronauts you mentioned were the cartoon series. The clips you use are from the live action series 'Planet of the Apes' with the astronauts Verdon and Burke. Regarding 'The Tomorrow People' this was actually a British ITV children's program that went out about 5:00PM. Another children's ITV program which is actually better than TTP from the early 1970s is 'Timeslip'.
The Tomorrow People was my favourite tv show when I was a kid. Absolutely loved it! It's worth including for the opening credits alone. Particularly the fantastic music! :)
Did this script get written by an AI? It keeps making ALMOST right statements about these shows. (Avon was not an assasin, but a hacker, Number Six is not a character in the 1970's version of Battlestar, Return to the Planet of the Apes was not animated, etc).
Probably, there are a ton of channels like this, everything from history, military history, firearms, knives, military equipment, etc, that all are almost right in what they say, but if you know a little about the topic at hand, you realize that it is factually incorrect. It could be that they made these videos with early versions of 'AI' (not really AI, but it is marketed as that. It is just machine learning combined with other computer science techniques, like search or chat bots) to see how accurate it could be, or just a test to see if the 'AI' could generate RUclips content. Could be the Tech Sector, could be US Intelligence Agencies, Foreign Intelligence Agencies, could be an Academic exercise, could be Chinese or Estonian hackers running either monetary generation with these videos, or testing how to put out easily consumable 'misinformation' as fact. Think of it as a test PsyOp.
Yeah, first noticed it when they were mixing up details between the original BSG series and the reboot (and it's been a long time since I'd seen the series before that)...
Land of the Lost should have been on this list. That show totally fascinated me as a child and for a low budget show meant for children filmed in the mid 1970s it was awesome.
@@joemachine4714 As a child I was totally fascinated by the "matrix tables" and the pylons were bigger on the inside than the outside which was also kind of trippy.
Gravity defying hairstyles...Gravity defying hairstyles...Gravity defying hairstyles...Gravity defying hairstyles... in every scene, ok, almost every scene
I am amazed that you did not know that Space 1999 was originally made as a sequel to U.F.O, many of the writers, directors and others are shared. Also the Tomorrow people was remade twice.
Well its dated now since 1999 was 25 years ago and we still cannot get back to the moon but if they ever film a remake how about calling it Space 2099?
@@Alfetta158 Yes, Space 1999 was originally conceived to be season 2 of UFO but UFO got cancelled and they needed a new Sci-Fi show they could sell in the US.
and the remakes were awful... ok the last one had one of the amell brothers (the one in lots of current sci-fy) ... but still couldnt watch the last episode,,,
“Underappreciated and forgotten…” Many of these shows are iconic, and far from forgotten. Classic BSG in particular was never forgotten. Insanely well remembered for a one season show, in fact! Still gets new novels and comic books to this day.
@@Fred-gu6pk No, that's 100% an error. I stopped watching at that point, as it sounds like information copied and pasted together by someone who didn't understand the context.
Blake's 7!!!! My favorite! Correction. Avon was NOT an assassin; he was a computer genius who had stolen millions of credits from the Federation bank. On Quark, Ficus was NOT an android. Fantastic Journey...Android? What android? Are you thinking about the TV series based on Logan's Run? Ummm...You mixed up Planet of the Apes series and the animated series.
Good choices, good to see Blake's 7 in there. Saphire and Steel started in '79 and is an incredibly unique series, way beyond anything else in the 70s or 80s. If you haven't seen it I can't recommend it enough.
Sapphire and Steel freaked me out as a kid and gave me nightmares particurly the one where the building was made from living animals. The one about the ghosts in the train station is skin crawingly creepy, I saw it a couple of of years ago and it's still creepy!
There were several points in the summary that combined the original and the reboot, such as both the humans and the Cylons contemplating their place in the universe.
In a line of dialog, it was mentioned that Baltar’s assistant, Lucifer, was a 6000 series Cylon. Ron Moore said he incorporated as much as possible from the original into the reboot that he could in one way or another. If you binge watch and pay attention to the original series then the reboot you will notice what he incorporated and surprised at some that he twisted up a bit.
I watched Blake's 7 in the 90's on PBS here in the US. I was an automatic fan of the show. I have seen it all the way through 2 times and would love to own it.
That was horrible. You mixed up the live action "Planet of the Apes" series with the separate animated one. Added elements of the 2004 "Battlestar Galactica" to the 1978 series. The "Logan's Run" series barely touched on "ageism" (or any of the other points you mentioned). That was the original movie. The series was basically a random "chase and fix problems" series. It was interchangeable with "The Starlost". Speaking of "The Starlost", you mentioned it starred 2001's Keir Dullea, but not that it was co-created by 2001's legendary special effects wizard Doug Trumbull, who brought Dullea in with him. As far as saying it tells writers "what not to do", the series bible was written by Harlan Ellison, who won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay for the pilot episode "Phoenix Without Ashes". Another episode was adapted from a story by Ursula K. Le Guin. There were episodes by legends like Norman Klenman, Arthur Heinemann, and Norman Klenman. If anything, it's a lesson in how not to produce a series. As was "Space: 1999".
Vila: "Kerr Avon. When it comes to computers, he's the number two man in all the Federated worlds." Bystander: "Who's number one?" Vila: "The guy who caught him."
A trip down memory lane. I watch all these shows as kid on first airing. Blake 7 like so many other British BBC shows the budget was no where near that of its American counterparts so had to rely on many corridor runs, quarry shots and wobbly sets. However at the time there was no CGI, Hi Def animations so we at the time were more engrossed in the story line. Also Avon Kerr was not an assasin rather a Computer "programmer" who embezzled lots of money from the federation.
Yep, back then the BBC had to rely on quality scriptwriting and well-crafted character development. Oh, and when they wanted to present some theme/topic, they understood that they needed to be carefully woven into an engaging story. These days they have shiny, flashy, hyper-realistic effects and their writing sucks (or is so weighted down with "the message" that there's no room for an actual plot).
I was going to comment when I saw your post. I just finished research to be sure since it's been over 40 years and confirmed my memory of no humanoid Cylon on galactica. I'm getting old
Blake’s 7 I had finally seen in syndication during the 90s. After many years of classic Doctor Who, I easily admired how Blake’s 7 could succeed for the stories and characters rather than dependency on visual effects. The Starlost I enjoyed when I was a little kid right alongside Star Trek.
For the Starlost, a I commend a great retrospective by Harlan Ellison, who won a WGA award for the original screenplay, "Phoenix without Ashes." He goes into great detail about how it went sideways and crashed and burned.
yes while the story line were pretty good and great weird costumes it did suffer from pacing too many long closeups and long reaction shots with little reaction it was kind of spaced out
Well, there's no reason we couldn't have hoped for both shows. UFO definitely needed more budget for a greater variety than the canned space battles. In this era of remakes, someone could take up the torch and add to the UFO canon. (and I don't mean Abrams)
another series the bbc kept trying to kill, hated it when they destroyed the liberator (finally though)... zen was a fine computer, and the liberator an iconic ... hated slave and its ship (the scorpio maybe).
better than original BSG? umm Just RUclipsd it. Sorry man, it sounds like I'm at a 70s disco party. Don't get me wrong I like some disco. But that's not hitting my ears well. 1st season of Space: 1999 had a better Disco themed tune, if you like that style.
UFO, Space 1999, Battlestar Galactica, yup watch them often. Now I just ordered The Starlost and Blakes 7. These were truly imaginative shows. I've never seen Quark, so I'll have to get that. It looks campy like Lost in Space, which I watch every Saturday.
Not to get into any sort of argument over it, I think you're going to regret getting The Starlost. It's not so awful that it's good, it's just really awful.
@@jhonwask In the Mission of the Darians, at the end, everybody is going to die because they don't have the basic nutrients for the colony to survive. The problem they had at the start, still exists at the end. They are missing key ingredients for survival. What the Darians should have asked for is if these key ingredients could be obtained by moon base alpha to allow them to survive. Then they wouldn't have to be predators on the mutants. And you can argue that the StarLost had an interesting premise, but it's entirely wasted. Giant bees? Space precinct? What would have been better is if the first episode a technologically advanced society expelled some of their members immediately run into another group that was from a very primitive society, BUT has had a great deal of experience meeting other societies having themselves been expelled YEARS ago, teaming up, and they set about fixing the ark. Something like that. Same overall premise, but you end up with two teams of experts. People that knew how to fix technology, and people that could take them to resources they had previously run across that could help them find the resources. They kind of had the opportunity when they ran into a bunch of those stupid kids that were on a training simulation forever. Hey, they know how to run the ship, and hey, these guys have met a bunch of different societies and know how to deal with them. Maybe... That's where the series should have BEGUN.
The Starlost was a Canadian production, and as a Canadian, I wanted to support it ... but I can't. It is one of the worst TV shows ever. The narrator was being VERY generous with it. I remember one scene where the 3 leads are looking at a screen supposedly showing a spaceship docking. This went on for a long time, with the 3 of them looking in 3 different directions. They couldn't even get the 3 actors to look at the same place. If you are in need of sleep, by all means, watch this.
Quark was created by Buck Henry who co-created Get Smart, and you can see the influences. Basically a satire of other sci-fi shows. Apart from being factually wrong, the description in the video doesn't do it justice.
10)Space 1999 (1975) 9)Blake 7 (1978) 8)Battlestar Galactica (1978) 7)The Starlost (1973) 6)Quark (1977-1978) 5)UFO (1970-1971) 4) The Fantastic Journey (1977)\ 3) The Tomorrow People (1973-1979) 2) Return to the Planet of the Apes 1975) 1) Logan's Run (1977-1978) Adam Quark the main character Richard Benjamin played on Quark would fit perfectly on the Orville.
brings back memories Thankyou :), I would have added a few more shows like Saphire & Steel, Doomwatch, and Survivors to mention but a few well worth a look f you can find them
I love all of these shows, especially Space: 1999 and Battlestar Galactica. But there's a little goof here. Return to the Planet of the Apes was the animated series. The live action series was just called Planet of the Apes. It's really cool though that the footage shown here from that show was from the episode that guest starred William Smith(a frequent sci-fi and horror actor) and Marc Singer(from V and Beastmaster). The 70's was a great decade for sci-fi.
Since you mentioned them in your first sentence Battlestar has a reputation for being the first TV show to use modern special effects but I personally think that designation is deserved by Space 1999.
He did say 'animated' a couple of times while discussing it, which made me wonder why he mentiond it, and not the Planet of the Apes TV show he was using footage from.
@@martinhsl68hw On the topic of "repeated effects" Star Trek Next Gen and the Orville both have a REPEATING PATTERN of light going by as they go at "warp speed" or "quantum speed" (which is for literary purposes basically the same thing). For me it kills the illusion of space travel because the light patterns in the background from going past stars would not be EXACTLY the same and let's be real even at warp or quantum speed they would not be going past a star every few SECONDS when they are LIGHT YEARS apart.
@@Zurround I like the story that they asked Stanley Kubrick to film faked moon landings, but he wanted it to be so realistic he went to the moon to film it.
Also, something nobody seemed to acknowledge about Space:1999. What happened to the Earth after the Moon left orbit and what happened to the other planets when such a large almost planet sized object entered their vicinity? There had to be major devastating effects.
Well as far as the Earths’ fate went I’m pretty sure there was an episode where Earth was now in the future and reached out to Alpha. They had some kind of teleport device I think. The Earth had been ravaged by the consequences of losing the moon and was now an earthquake-ridden desert. The remaining humans lived in futuristic towers elevated above the ground. Memory a bit sketchy but the humans were friendly and offered to use their version of a teleporter to bring over the Alphans. Who were like “nah, we’re good” 🤣 6:56
@timlemmon2332 Not really, in the 1st series episode, "another time, another place," the moon passed through an anomaly that duplicated everything with Alpha, and they ended back in earth's orbit. That episode showed us an earth completely devastated from the loss of the moon. It also showed a second moon ( believed to be the duplicate moon ) already in orbit as well. They find people that are their future self's with children on earth as the only living beings. In the second series, " Journey to Where?" The earth suffers badly, but the people survived. After contacting Alpha, they can transfer them back, but the moon will still be lost in space. This is just one problem with both seasons not matching up with each other. Both have different fates for earth losing its moon. For the different styles, some fans reject the 2nd series, while others will say it's the duplicate moon that passed through a portal in a new universe.
Great Video, Lovely nostalgia. I remember about half of them but the most memorable protagonist, bad ass girl boss of them all , who gave many a teenager such as me much fantasy thoughts was not even shown! That being Jaqueline Pierce as Servalan the Supreme Commander in Blake 7. She had the best wardrobe by a mile or too!
This is what happens when you have ChatGPT write a script instead of researching the source material for yourself. As others have said Six aka Caprica was in the reboot. Space 1999 season two was Star Trek lite. At least Galactica 1980 amd Buck Rogers weren't listed.....
@@jackwells8107 I asked chatGPT "describe a Rickenbacker" It described the Rickenbacker bridge instead of a bass or guitar... That's why it was so bad doing this article.
Buck Rogers featured one of the last regular performances of Mel Blanc as Twikki. He was well known to everyone who enjoyed Warner Brothers cartoons as the voice of Bugs Bunny, Sylvester Cat, Tweety, Yosemite Sam, Daffy Duck and countless others. I think his last movie performance was in the film Strange Brew where he was the voice of the father of the boys.
I was always partial to _The Man From Atlantis_ with a young Patrick Duffy and _The Invisible Man_ with David McCallum. They're not space (not that all ten of these were), but they're still sci-fi (according to imdb).
I still keep hoping someone will remember Jack Webb's Project UFO, it only lasted two seasons, but i really enjoyed it and made me think of the later X-Files.
The special effects back then were better, not worse! The original battlestar looked like you could reach out and touch its metal hull. The new one looked like a two-dimensional painting.
I remember watching The Fantastic Journey and upset that it was cancelled so quickly. I wonder how much it inspired shows that came after, like Sliders and Fringe. Another show I really liked then was Kolchak: The Night Stalker, the inspiration for X-Files (loved the episode with Darren McGavin).
The 1970's have apparently been some sort of golden age for Sci-Fi TV series. It's just a shame that many of them seem to be quite forgotten. I didn't know nearly all of the ones presented in this video. I have Battle Star Galactica on Blu-ray box.
Perhaps after the moon landing there was a hope that humanity would go to the stars. Didn't quite happen that way. Half a century later we haven't even set food on Mars yet (just sent machines).
What about Salvage One, Future Cop,Holmes Yo-Yo,Time Express Gemini Man,Far Out Space Nuts,,Lost Saucer,Ark 2,Space Academy,Man From Atlantis,Six Million Dollar Man,Bionic Woman ,Buck Rodgers in the 25th. century all these above 1970,s tv shows from the 8track tape days era
Blake 7 and Quark are the only I have never heard of. 5:05 wait "Six" was in the original series? Who played them 9:34 Space: 1999 was originally suppose to be the second season of U.F.O. that was going to be more centered on the Moon base. Not sure how much was carried over.
Gerry Anderson belonged to a TV era in which viewers had a choice of 1, 2 or at best 3 channels to watch. He tried to make shows that appealed to a broad audience. So Thunderbirds: 5, 4, 3 ,2, 1 for the toddlers, rocketships for the boys, fashion for the girls etc. Thunderbirds was followed by Captain Scarlet - an almost prophetic show with nihilistic aliens creating suicide bombers and crashing planes into things. But, can you have such adult themes in a puppet show? Is it for kids, adults? When do you screen it (the UK pushed it as a kids show)? UFO had the same problem. Adult themes with amazing spaceship models and forward fashions. Total failure as SF with no comprehension of the issues of interstellar travel. No one knew who the show was for; even the UK had trouble deciding when to air it. Space 1999 was nuts. Essentially it was Star Trek with the Enterprise replaced by the Moon! No explanation of interstellar FTL travel needed, of course??!! The best thing about Anderson's shows was the music. The composer, Barry Gray, left generations of Brits with a series of iconic musical memories. The incidental music peaked on Thunderbirds, but so many of the theme tunes are etched on our collective memories; Stingray, Thunderbirds, Joe 90, UFO, and Space 1999.
@@Munenushi Just the underlying craziness of the moon traveling between the stars, presumably at FTL speeds. The episode stories though are thoughtful. There are several famous guest stars.
Space: 1999... I just became aware of about a year ago. As a life-long Star Trek fan, even as far back as The Original Series, I couldn't believe how I somehow missed this series. It's also hard to miss the obvious influence that 'Space: 1999' had on Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979. That is the costumes, set design, and even some of the stories. As I watch through the series, and on into the 2nd season. I'm in the middle of finishing this show and I'm captivated.
As an American SciFi fan I did not learn about Space 1999 until seeing it many years later on PBS. I really fell in love with SciFi with ST-TOS, and few British shows were available. I had to watch Dr Who on Saturday night at 11:30 PM!! They were showing Tom Baker then.
Yea, that threw me for a loop. I thought for sure I would have remembered a human cylon from 1978. Since Tricia Helfer did such a great job in that role in the reboot. I wanted to see who her character was based on in the original series. But my IMDB/wiki search came up empty. Now I know why. Darn.
If I remember correctly the telepaths in the Tomorrow people were unable to kill - they had access to stun guns and some alien telepathy enhancing technology that boosted their inherent abilities - loved this show
Space 1999 = Trippy as hell with very cool concepts and ideas. Blake's 7 = Strong characters that will have you rooting for them by season 2. Battlestar Galactica = strong blend of FX and camp for maximum entertainment. Starlost = Cool concept hamstrung by being forced to shoot on tape instead of film (see Ben Bova's Exiles books). Quark = best sci-fi comedy of the 70s that punched above its weight class (likely inspired Space Quest). UFO = Hottest space girls ever. The Tomorrow People = Almost incomprehensible (with pacing issues). Logan's Run = Not even close to the level of the film and even deviates from in in a number of ways. Regardless, it's still reasonably entertaining.
Actually Logan's Run (movie) deviated from the book. In the book, Sanctuary actually existed. But both deviated from the book, which had Lastday at the age of 21, not 30.
As you described the ‘animated’ Return to the Planet of the Apes, did you actually bother looking at the live action series you were actually describing? And I loved The Tomorrow People as a kid but Nicolas Young was never “famous”!
A) *Everybody* knows aliens speak English, B) I was 100% sure that on Space 1999 Maya actually morphed into the different things she changed into and was very surprised when I saw how it was actually done.
Wrong again. The shape shifting alien was Space:1999 not QUARK. Quark had the Betty Clone, the gender fluid officer and the plant based science officer.
As a 15 yr old, way into science fiction, I watched UFO for one reason only. The costumes those moon and underwater girls wore. The catsuits the under-the-studio girls wore weren't bad either, lol. It certainly wasn't for their hokey, sad attempts at science-fiction, lol. That itch was scratched by Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein, Niven, Farmer, Anderson, Brunner and a dozen other masters.
Talking about the animated Planet of the Apes series while showing footage from the live action series. How about a sci fi show about the near future when the bots that write these videos wouldn't make such obvious errors.
i watched most of these as a kid.. i love you got the tomorrow people in the list and a few other british ones.. blakes 7 was made in my area most of the film locations are close.. and have to love return to the planet of the apes.. i though that Roddy McDowall shined in the series and films. he was one my all time favourite actors.. and loguns run. man that takes me back.. my parents used to do shopping on the same day as it was shown.. and we used to hate to have to go with them as we knew we may not get home in time to watch it.. so many great shows back then.. would also look for Sapphire & Steel came out in 1979 was a mix of twilight zone and strangeness. hard to explain you have to try and dig them out.. though i am remembering them with rose tinted glasses.. they may not be as good as i remembered.. :) but some classics
The original Battlestar Galactic is hardly forgotten, it's still got a very strong fanbase, spawned a reboot that ran for six seasons, as well as rumors of more movies at some point in future and numerous novels and comics. For a one season 1970's show it's had incredible staying power.
It had a direct spinoff "Galactica 1980" which had different actors and took place on current day Earth 🌎
@@joemachine4714 Which was crap
@@joemachine4714 Which was really just awful and an insult to the original show.
4 seasons.
@@joemachine4714To each his own. I enjoyed some of those episodes. Only saw them when they first came out. So, it's a pleasant memory.
Blake's 7 was one of those shows that PBS would show at night with Doctor Who, and so it was one of the few things my mom would let me stay up and watch. Great stuff.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, KQED in San Francisco would show Doctor Who late at night. KTEH in San Jose would show Red Dwarf, Blake's 7, UFO, The Prisoner, The Invaders, Saphire and Steel and many others as well as British comedy. Great memories.
@@Alfetta158 one of my greatest feats was getting my friends to all watch Red Dwarf when our PBS station started showing it in the early 90s. My one friend could do a spot on impression of The Cat. Great times.
I compare other sci-fi shows to Blake's 7. Avon's grinning face; screen goes to black; weapons fire. Need I say more.
@@thendisnye7188 do you really want to make me cry???
Blake's 7 desperately needs a bold modern reboot by someone who would do it justice.
I know _Buck Rogers of the 25th Century_ was probably the height of 70's cheesy disco sci-fi...but it was still a lot of fun.
Buck rogers the 1st season came out about 1980
@@Jeffrey314159 BR came out in '79 and ran into '81. Semantics.
But it was all we had. And we liked it too!
Even so, cheesy worked sometimes, you had a giggle and you WERE entertained rather than offended.
Beedee, beedee, beedee.
Blake 7 massively influenced both Firefly and Farscape, in characters, setting and plot.
Fun fact - Farscape is an actual continuation of Blake’s 7 same universe just set decades later
Firefly ain't got nothin' on B7 or Farscape.
the bumbble bee bum space ship is a symbol of well written low budjet scifi
I tried watching Blake 7 and it was so traumatizing I ended up voting for Joe Biden.
@@trhansen3244 I guess your were hoping to ruled by Servilan. what teen wouldnt
Get your shows straight. Number Six, the humanoid Cylon was in the reboot with Edward James Olmos, not the 70s original with Lorne Greene. You people don't ever get it right.
es. Baltars' shiny Cylon was named Lucifer, right?
@@roberthousedorfii1743 If by shiny you mean sparkly conehead then yes.
It appears this script was AI generated.
ROFL at a humanoid Six in '78.
Yeah, where did "Humanoid Cylon Number 6" suddenly appear from???? Interestingly, Humanoid Cylons were introduced in Galactica 1980, "The Night the Cylons Landed."
Buck Rogers deserves honorary mention even if the final episode was filmed in 1981. I thought it was ahead of its time in the sense that the hero was both a larger than life combination of super hero and astronaut having all kinds of wild swashbuckling adventures but at the end of the day he was a very sad and very lonely man who never fully overcame his trauma. That duality was interesting.
Yeah Buck Rogers should have been included but maybe the criteria had to be only aired in the 70's
@@kpowers Well its pretty iffy because the admittedly awful continuation of Battlestar Galactica called GALACTICA 1980 was filmed in 1980 ergo that show should possibly have been "disqualified".
I can see it both ways, it may have been 1980(81) BUT it definitely had that 70s feel and Star Wars influence so would comfortable fit right in. Like several mentioned I always felt that Buck Rogers could have been so much better if it had not been geared to an audience of 12-year-old boys, same as the original BSG. IF the writers had been willing to be a little more dark and adult with the plot lines.....Buck trying to find a reason to carry on when everything he knew and loved is gone, earth/humanity trying to find its place in the galaxy while still trying to recover from near extinction......yes this series could have been so much better with just a little different direction. IMHO.
@@twilightgamedesigns4887 Battlestar Got a remake about 20 years ago. I wonder if Buck will ever get a remake?
@@twilightgamedesigns4887 Not sure if I agree with you about it being aimed for an audience of 12-year-old boys. Lost in Space was for sure aimed at young kids. My parents both big Star Trek fans love the show. There were some things not really aimed for children such as the sexual innuendos throughout the series. Darker??? Well that Space Vampire episode still scares me till today. The episode "The Dorian Secret" was pretty dark for the times. Yeah sure maybe if they showed more of the mutant humans they showed briefly in the movie/pilot when Buck went exploring in down town Chicago would have been interesting. Overall I think it was presented well for the times. For season 1 It was a Sci-Fi show with having Buck as an agent so at times it had that James Bond/Mission Impossible feel to it. Season 2 was was more of a Sci-Fi show with it's Star Trek exploring the Galaxy vibe to it. Some may not like season 2 but I did.
I lost count of all the mistakes in this video. Almost every show.
So what?
Couldn't even use wiki for these shows. He got the characters wrong so many times. Quark didn't have a shape changing character. Ficus was a humanoid plant, gene/jene was transmute aka both male and female, Plus, Betty 1 and betty 2 didn't know who was the real person and who was the clone.
On the fantastic journey, he called Scott a robot when he was the son of a scientist, and Fred was a doctor. Sorry but poor research on these shows.
Number 6 is in the Battlestar remake Not 1978
@@Fokkerc1"So what"? Are you saying you don't understand why knowing what you're talking about is important?
precisely
'Return to the Planet of the apes' and the astronauts you mentioned were the cartoon series. The clips you use are from the live action series 'Planet of the Apes' with the astronauts Verdon and Burke. Regarding 'The Tomorrow People' this was actually a British ITV children's program that went out about 5:00PM. Another children's ITV program which is actually better than TTP from the early 1970s is 'Timeslip'.
Yeah, Timeslip is great.
The Tomorrow People was my favourite tv show when I was a kid. Absolutely loved it! It's worth including for the opening credits alone. Particularly the fantastic music! :)
@@Codex7777 Dudley Simpson!
Did this script get written by an AI? It keeps making ALMOST right statements about these shows. (Avon was not an assasin, but a hacker, Number Six is not a character in the 1970's version of Battlestar, Return to the Planet of the Apes was not animated, etc).
I think so. The fact that the author isn't replying to anything a well makes me weep for the future of RUclips.
"Return to the Planet of the Apes" was a Saturday morning cartoon.
Probably and it's American so 🤷 🙄 😕
There actually WAS an animated Planet of the Apes show, but I think it was from the 80s
Probably, there are a ton of channels like this, everything from history, military history, firearms, knives, military equipment, etc, that all are almost right in what they say, but if you know a little about the topic at hand, you realize that it is factually incorrect. It could be that they made these videos with early versions of 'AI' (not really AI, but it is marketed as that. It is just machine learning combined with other computer science techniques, like search or chat bots) to see how accurate it could be, or just a test to see if the 'AI' could generate RUclips content. Could be the Tech Sector, could be US Intelligence Agencies, Foreign Intelligence Agencies, could be an Academic exercise, could be Chinese or Estonian hackers running either monetary generation with these videos, or testing how to put out easily consumable 'misinformation' as fact. Think of it as a test PsyOp.
I believe the script for this video was generated and read by AI. There are simply too many errors for a 70's Sci-Fi fan.
love how they mixed in the Prisoner with battlestar galactica there in the script.
I disagree. Even AI cannot be this bad.
Yeah, first noticed it when they were mixing up details between the original BSG series and the reboot (and it's been a long time since I'd seen the series before that)...
That would explain not mentioning the character of Maya in Space 1999.
@@alfredmorency8296 Or Alan Carter.
Land of the Lost should have been on this list. That show totally fascinated me as a child and for a low budget show meant for children filmed in the mid 1970s it was awesome.
It just occurred to me that the "Distant Origin" Star Trek Voyager episode (S3.E23) may have been a nod to the Sleestak.
@@gregoryt1139 Walter Koenig did write an episode of LOTL, so just might be. (yes, Enig was a nod to Roddenberry).
Sleestacks terrified me as a kid.
The crystals and pylons were so cool 😎
@@joemachine4714 As a child I was totally fascinated by the "matrix tables" and the pylons were bigger on the inside than the outside which was also kind of trippy.
The script seems to be ChatGpt generated
Absolutely. It used to be a decent channel with real people narration that seemed to know their stuff. Once the chick left, it went downhill
I was thinking much the same. So many plausible, but utterly wrong, details.
Gravity defying hairstyles...Gravity defying hairstyles...Gravity defying hairstyles...Gravity defying hairstyles... in every scene, ok, almost every scene
The producers didn't feel like delving into scriptwriting
No - it used "phenomenon" wrong at 1:21. Chat GPT would never do that....
Kerr Avon is like Elim Garek. I trust them as far as I can throw a Hutt but I'd sure as hell want them on my side if SHTF
Avon is regularly misrepresented as an opportunistic psychopath. Throughout the series he demonstrated conisderable moral integrity and courage.
Avon could be trusted to make the exact appropriate response.
Avon was my favorite character.
Well, you always know you’re safe when you’re with Avon.
I am amazed that you did not know that Space 1999 was originally made as a sequel to U.F.O, many of the writers, directors and others are shared.
Also the Tomorrow people was remade twice.
Well its dated now since 1999 was 25 years ago and we still cannot get back to the moon but if they ever film a remake how about calling it Space 2099?
Sequel? I don't agree. Where's the moonbase, interceptors, purple wigs? Unless, it was originally intended, but then just rewrote to be its own thing.
@@Alfetta158 Yes, Space 1999 was originally conceived to be season 2 of UFO but UFO got cancelled and they needed a new Sci-Fi show they could sell in the US.
and the remakes were awful... ok the last one had one of the amell brothers (the one in lots of current sci-fy) ... but still couldnt watch the last episode,,,
“Underappreciated and forgotten…”
Many of these shows are iconic, and far from forgotten. Classic BSG in particular was never forgotten. Insanely well remembered for a one season show, in fact! Still gets new novels and comic books to this day.
Would you say it’s remembered for its humanoid cylon number Six? I didn’t remember it for that.
@FriendlyNeighborhoodNitpicker
Unlikely as number 6 was invented for thr remake
@@Fred-gu6pk No, that's 100% an error. I stopped watching at that point, as it sounds like information copied and pasted together by someone who didn't understand the context.
@@FriendlyNeighborhoodNitpicker Yeah, no. Classic BSG had no "skin jobs". Battlestar 1980 actually did, but not the character of "Six".
@@Fred-gu6pk Blonde #6 was not even born in 1978
Blake's 7!!!! My favorite! Correction. Avon was NOT an assassin; he was a computer genius who had stolen millions of credits from the Federation bank. On Quark, Ficus was NOT an android. Fantastic Journey...Android? What android? Are you thinking about the TV series based on Logan's Run? Ummm...You mixed up Planet of the Apes series and the animated series.
There was a lot of confusion between the 1970s Battlestar Galactica and the reboot. The humanoid Cylon #6? Really?
yeah he was describing the cartoon Planet of the Apes and not the live-action TV show
@@michaelmcchesney6645 OK I was wondering who Cylon 6 was. Saw 1 or 2 episodes of the horrible reboot BSG, just couldn't get into it.
@@kpowers Tricia Helfer was #6.
@@michaelmcchesney6645#6: I am not a number, I am a free man. I will not be pushed, shoved, briefed, debriefed, indexed, filed, or numbered!
Good choices, good to see Blake's 7 in there. Saphire and Steel started in '79 and is an incredibly unique series, way beyond anything else in the 70s or 80s. If you haven't seen it I can't recommend it enough.
Very good. I wonder if they could do a reboot of it today?
Sapphire and Steel freaked me out as a kid and gave me nightmares particurly the one where the building was made from living animals. The one about the ghosts in the train station is skin crawingly creepy, I saw it a couple of of years ago and it's still creepy!
Saphire and Steel was on another level.
Story 2 was the apex of the whole series - my favourite.
My favorite was "The Photographer"💎
When you noted that BSG humanoid cylon #6, I think you got the reboot and not the original. At least I don’t recall # 6 in the original…
Six was most definitely NOT in the original.
There were several points in the summary that combined the original and the reboot, such as both the humans and the Cylons contemplating their place in the universe.
In a line of dialog, it was mentioned that Baltar’s assistant, Lucifer, was a 6000 series Cylon. Ron Moore said he incorporated as much as possible from the original into the reboot that he could in one way or another. If you binge watch and pay attention to the original series then the reboot you will notice what he incorporated and surprised at some that he twisted up a bit.
I agree either that or he was mistaken the Cylon protocol Android looking Cylon that was helping the villain traitor to humanity
I watched Blake's 7 in the 90's on PBS here in the US. I was an automatic fan of the show. I have seen it all the way through 2 times and would love to own it.
It is here on YT. Started it when the first Lock Down hit.
That was horrible. You mixed up the live action "Planet of the Apes" series with the separate animated one. Added elements of the 2004 "Battlestar Galactica" to the 1978 series. The "Logan's Run" series barely touched on "ageism" (or any of the other points you mentioned). That was the original movie. The series was basically a random "chase and fix problems" series. It was interchangeable with "The Starlost".
Speaking of "The Starlost", you mentioned it starred 2001's Keir Dullea, but not that it was co-created by 2001's legendary special effects wizard Doug Trumbull, who brought Dullea in with him. As far as saying it tells writers "what not to do", the series bible was written by Harlan Ellison, who won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay for the pilot episode "Phoenix Without Ashes". Another episode was adapted from a story by Ursula K. Le Guin. There were episodes by legends like Norman Klenman, Arthur Heinemann, and Norman Klenman. If anything, it's a lesson in how not to produce a series. As was "Space: 1999".
Avon from Blake's 7 wasn't an assassin, he was a cybercriminal
Vila: "Kerr Avon. When it comes to computers, he's the number two man in all the Federated worlds."
Bystander: "Who's number one?"
Vila: "The guy who caught him."
My pal had a massive crush on the female villain with the cropped hairstyle.
Every teenage boy a a lot of dad's had a crush on servalan@@zulubeatz1
@@zulubeatz1 Servalan, I think her name was.
A trip down memory lane. I watch all these shows as kid on first airing. Blake 7 like so many other British BBC shows the budget was no where near that of its American counterparts so had to rely on many corridor runs, quarry shots and wobbly sets. However at the time there was no CGI, Hi Def animations so we at the time were more engrossed in the story line. Also Avon Kerr was not an assasin rather a Computer "programmer" who embezzled lots of money from the federation.
Yep, back then the BBC had to rely on quality scriptwriting and well-crafted character development. Oh, and when they wanted to present some theme/topic, they understood that they needed to be carefully woven into an engaging story. These days they have shiny, flashy, hyper-realistic effects and their writing sucks (or is so weighted down with "the message" that there's no room for an actual plot).
Yo, 6 wasn’t in the OG BSG. Don’t get baked while researching, you’ve made several mistakes and it’s embarrassing
He made several mistakes on other series as well.
I was going to comment when I saw your post. I just finished research to be sure since it's been over 40 years and confirmed my memory of no humanoid Cylon on galactica.
I'm getting old
AI can make errors.
@@dreamcore 🤣 just ask Google
@@bentonmarcum8924 On Galactica 1980, on the other hand....
Blake’s 7 I had finally seen in syndication during the 90s. After many years of classic Doctor Who, I easily admired how Blake’s 7 could succeed for the stories and characters rather than dependency on visual effects. The Starlost I enjoyed when I was a little kid right alongside Star Trek.
For the Starlost, a I commend a great retrospective by Harlan Ellison, who won a WGA award for the original screenplay, "Phoenix without Ashes." He goes into great detail about how it went sideways and crashed and burned.
he seems to not have liked anything of his on the screen. but then they tended to butcher them to fit "censorship" rules so I'm not surprised.
UFO was excellent. I still can't believe they cancelled it so they could make space 1999!
yes while the story line were pretty good and great weird costumes it did suffer from pacing too many long closeups and long reaction shots with little reaction it was kind of spaced out
Total agreement.
Well, there's no reason we couldn't have hoped for both shows. UFO definitely needed more budget for a greater variety than the canned space battles. In this era of remakes, someone could take up the torch and add to the UFO canon. (and I don't mean Abrams)
@@jaapodac It WAS about 15 years ago, there was GOING to be a trilogy of UFO films, but it never materialised!
@@DMSProduktions Wow! I didn't know. If I live long enough, maybe someone will finally do it!
Narrator apparently didn't watch these shows. Sad really.
Blake 7 .... 1984 with spaceships and talking computers...
another series the bbc kept trying to kill, hated it when they destroyed the liberator (finally though)... zen was a fine computer, and the liberator an iconic ... hated slave and its ship (the scorpio maybe).
UFO had the best opening theme music.
Close run with Joe 90.
@@DavidMoxham957 stingray? anything could happen in the next half hour!
@@stevechurch4728 Not so much the opening but the closing song Aquamarina, sung by the incomparable Gary Miller.
better than original BSG? umm Just RUclipsd it. Sorry man, it sounds like I'm at a 70s disco party. Don't get me wrong I like some disco. But that's not hitting my ears well. 1st season of Space: 1999 had a better Disco themed tune, if you like that style.
@@robertkoernke588the original BSG theme was great
Dude, Ficus in quark was a plant, not a shape-shifting android
aren't all Ficus plant's
@@shanehansen3705 🤣clue is in the name right
Half human, half plant.
Space:1999...I still catch this on YT from time to time. Its awesome.
This was cool, thanks! These shows influenced so much later material!
UFO, Space 1999, Battlestar Galactica, yup watch them often. Now I just ordered The Starlost and Blakes 7. These were truly imaginative shows. I've never seen Quark, so I'll have to get that. It looks campy like Lost in Space, which I watch every Saturday.
Not to get into any sort of argument over it, I think you're going to regret getting The Starlost. It's not so awful that it's good, it's just really awful.
@@fuzzywzhe The acting and directing are awful, but the premise of the story is quite interesting. Reminds me of Space 1999 Mission of the Darianx.
@@jhonwask In the Mission of the Darians, at the end, everybody is going to die because they don't have the basic nutrients for the colony to survive. The problem they had at the start, still exists at the end. They are missing key ingredients for survival. What the Darians should have asked for is if these key ingredients could be obtained by moon base alpha to allow them to survive. Then they wouldn't have to be predators on the mutants.
And you can argue that the StarLost had an interesting premise, but it's entirely wasted. Giant bees? Space precinct? What would have been better is if the first episode a technologically advanced society expelled some of their members immediately run into another group that was from a very primitive society, BUT has had a great deal of experience meeting other societies having themselves been expelled YEARS ago, teaming up, and they set about fixing the ark. Something like that. Same overall premise, but you end up with two teams of experts. People that knew how to fix technology, and people that could take them to resources they had previously run across that could help them find the resources.
They kind of had the opportunity when they ran into a bunch of those stupid kids that were on a training simulation forever. Hey, they know how to run the ship, and hey, these guys have met a bunch of different societies and know how to deal with them. Maybe... That's where the series should have BEGUN.
The Starlost was a Canadian production, and as a Canadian, I wanted to support it ... but I can't. It is one of the worst TV shows ever. The narrator was being VERY generous with it. I remember one scene where the 3 leads are looking at a screen supposedly showing a spaceship docking. This went on for a long time, with the 3 of them looking in 3 different directions. They couldn't even get the 3 actors to look at the same place. If you are in need of sleep, by all means, watch this.
Quark was created by Buck Henry who co-created Get Smart, and you can see the influences.
Basically a satire of other sci-fi shows.
Apart from being factually wrong, the description in the video doesn't do it justice.
5:06 "The humanoid Cylon #6" in 1978? Tricia Helfer was only 4 years old.
Oh god, stop with the constant "bad fashion choices" already.
I like 70s fashions.
I know! How about, "Gravity-defying hairstyles."
Watched most of these show and laughed along, Blake 7 was the most Cult. Cheers
Space,1999
The moon gets knocked out of it's orbit and leisure suits never go away.
I want my silver jumpsuit it's what a lot of people thought we would all be wearing by now.
Well they can't get the new fashions from Earth, you see...
In UFO the mobiles weren't able to fly, they were more like APCs or tanks. I think you were referring to Sky1, the aircraft part of the submarine.
After the third one switched off. Obvious no one had a clue what they were writing about
10)Space 1999 (1975)
9)Blake 7 (1978)
8)Battlestar Galactica (1978)
7)The Starlost (1973)
6)Quark (1977-1978)
5)UFO (1970-1971)
4) The Fantastic Journey (1977)\
3) The Tomorrow People (1973-1979)
2) Return to the Planet of the Apes 1975)
1) Logan's Run (1977-1978)
Adam Quark the main character Richard Benjamin played on Quark would fit perfectly on the Orville.
brings back memories Thankyou :), I would have added a few more shows like Saphire & Steel, Doomwatch, and Survivors to mention but a few well worth a look f you can find them
Space:1999 came out in 1975. So it was set 24 years in the future. We are now 25 years past that.
I love all of these shows, especially Space: 1999 and Battlestar Galactica. But there's a little goof here. Return to the Planet of the Apes was the animated series. The live action series was just called Planet of the Apes. It's really cool though that the footage shown here from that show was from the episode that guest starred William Smith(a frequent sci-fi and horror actor) and Marc Singer(from V and Beastmaster). The 70's was a great decade for sci-fi.
Since you mentioned them in your first sentence Battlestar has a reputation for being the first TV show to use modern special effects but I personally think that designation is deserved by Space 1999.
He did say 'animated' a couple of times while discussing it, which made me wonder why he mentiond it, and not the Planet of the Apes TV show he was using footage from.
@@Zurround BSG had about 20 seconds of effects shots which were repeated many times per show, sometimes mirrored!
@@martinhsl68hw On the topic of "repeated effects" Star Trek Next Gen and the Orville both have a REPEATING PATTERN of light going by as they go at "warp speed" or "quantum speed" (which is for literary purposes basically the same thing). For me it kills the illusion of space travel because the light patterns in the background from going past stars would not be EXACTLY the same and let's be real even at warp or quantum speed they would not be going past a star every few SECONDS when they are LIGHT YEARS apart.
@@Zurround I like the story that they asked Stanley Kubrick to film faked moon landings, but he wanted it to be so realistic he went to the moon to film it.
Gemini man,Future cop,Man from Atlantis. Don't forget 1970,s A.I. brake through 8TRACK TAPES
Also, something nobody seemed to acknowledge about Space:1999. What happened to the Earth after the Moon left orbit and what happened to the other planets when such a large almost planet sized object entered their vicinity? There had to be major devastating effects.
Well as far as the Earths’ fate went I’m pretty sure there was an episode where Earth was now in the future and reached out to Alpha. They had some kind of teleport device I think. The Earth had been ravaged by the consequences of losing the moon and was now an earthquake-ridden desert. The remaining humans lived in futuristic towers elevated above the ground. Memory a bit sketchy but the humans were friendly and offered to use their version of a teleporter to bring over the Alphans. Who were like “nah, we’re good” 🤣 6:56
The second season episode "journey to where" kinda answered the question of earth's fate after the moon left orbit.
@@bri55118weren't they worried about what would happen if the moon entered it's orbit again? So to save Earth, they had to keep the moon moving away.
@timlemmon2332 Not really, in the 1st series episode, "another time, another place," the moon passed through an anomaly that duplicated everything with Alpha, and they ended back in earth's orbit.
That episode showed us an earth completely devastated from the loss of the moon. It also showed a second moon ( believed to be the duplicate moon ) already in orbit as well. They find people that are their future self's with children on earth as the only living beings.
In the second series, " Journey to Where?" The earth suffers badly, but the people survived. After contacting Alpha, they can transfer them back, but the moon will still be lost in space.
This is just one problem with both seasons not matching up with each other. Both have different fates for earth losing its moon.
For the different styles, some fans reject the 2nd series, while others will say it's the duplicate moon that passed through a portal in a new universe.
@@bri55118I have the DVD's but haven't watched them yet. I was relying on memory from four decades ago.
Awesome stuff. It would be cool to do a 70s /80s sci-fi marathon.
Harlan Ellison's stories about developing The Starlost are fascinating.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Loved all those shows.
I would add Buck Rogers to the list.
Buck Rodgers will always be memorable to me.
Buck was and still is the only TV series that I watched from premier to the end.
if i may, on this timeline, Buck Rodgers and Kenny Rodgers both have lost their "d" in their names (Mandela Effect)
I seem to recall Col. Wilma Deering much better than Buck. Bidibidibidi
Brilliant video thanks . BTW Avon from Blakes 7 was a Hacker/bank robber
Spinoff "Galactica 1980" just barely missed the 70s list 😊
Great Video, Lovely nostalgia. I remember about half of them but the most memorable protagonist, bad ass girl boss of them all , who gave many a teenager such as me much fantasy thoughts was not even shown! That being Jaqueline Pierce as Servalan the Supreme Commander in Blake 7. She had the best wardrobe by a mile or too!
This is what happens when you have ChatGPT write a script instead of researching the source material for yourself.
As others have said Six aka Caprica was in the reboot.
Space 1999 season two was Star Trek lite.
At least Galactica 1980 amd Buck Rogers weren't listed.....
Interesting theory about the script. Wouldn't surprise me if you were correct.
@@jackwells8107 I asked chatGPT "describe a Rickenbacker" It described the Rickenbacker bridge instead of a bass or guitar...
That's why it was so bad doing this article.
Buck Rogers featured one of the last regular performances of Mel Blanc as Twikki. He was well known to everyone who enjoyed Warner Brothers cartoons as the voice of Bugs Bunny, Sylvester Cat, Tweety, Yosemite Sam, Daffy Duck and countless others. I think his last movie performance was in the film Strange Brew where he was the voice of the father of the boys.
I was always partial to _The Man From Atlantis_ with a young Patrick Duffy and _The Invisible Man_ with David McCallum. They're not space (not that all ten of these were), but they're still sci-fi (according to imdb).
The Starlost would be a great candidate for a remake, with much better technology and special effects available.
I still keep hoping someone will remember Jack Webb's Project UFO, it only lasted two seasons, but i really enjoyed it and made me think of the later X-Files.
Reminds me of Project Bluebook that the Airforce did.
@@55Quirll I5 was, seems that Webb used the public records as a reference for the episodes and the main characters were USAF.
@@HossBlacksilver Thanks for confirming that.👍
That was a really different series and I watched all I could.
Never heard of Quark but I am definitely looking for that one.
It is on RUclips
The special effects back then were better, not worse! The original battlestar looked like you could reach out and touch its metal hull. The new one looked like a two-dimensional painting.
We used to play being the Tomorrow People, great memories 😄
I remember watching The Fantastic Journey and upset that it was cancelled so quickly. I wonder how much it inspired shows that came after, like Sliders and Fringe. Another show I really liked then was Kolchak: The Night Stalker, the inspiration for X-Files (loved the episode with Darren McGavin).
The 1970's have apparently been some sort of golden age for Sci-Fi TV series. It's just a shame that many of them seem to be quite forgotten. I didn't know nearly all of the ones presented in this video. I have Battle Star Galactica on Blu-ray box.
Perhaps after the moon landing there was a hope that humanity would go to the stars. Didn't quite happen that way. Half a century later we haven't even set food on Mars yet (just sent machines).
The mini skirts and go-go boots were killer hot!
What about Salvage One, Future Cop,Holmes Yo-Yo,Time Express Gemini Man,Far Out Space Nuts,,Lost Saucer,Ark 2,Space Academy,Man From Atlantis,Six Million Dollar Man,Bionic Woman ,Buck Rodgers in the 25th. century
all these above 1970,s tv shows from the 8track tape days era
Thanks for the list. There are a few not so obvious ones I didn't know about so I'll look out for them.
Blake 7 and Quark are the only I have never heard of.
5:05 wait "Six" was in the original series? Who played them
9:34 Space: 1999 was originally suppose to be the second season of U.F.O. that was going to be more centered on the Moon base. Not sure how much was carried over.
I loved Blake's 7 and Battlestar Galactica.
Me too! They should have been higher up in my opinion. But they were not underrated!
@@Richard-qk3xm There's one 70s sci-fi series I've never watched. Star Maidens.
Starlost: May I help you? - loved that show. It was sad how it went down.
Gerry Anderson belonged to a TV era in which viewers had a choice of 1, 2 or at best 3 channels to watch. He tried to make shows that appealed to a broad audience. So Thunderbirds: 5, 4, 3 ,2, 1 for the toddlers, rocketships for the boys, fashion for the girls etc. Thunderbirds was followed by Captain Scarlet - an almost prophetic show with nihilistic aliens creating suicide bombers and crashing planes into things. But, can you have such adult themes in a puppet show? Is it for kids, adults? When do you screen it (the UK pushed it as a kids show)? UFO had the same problem. Adult themes with amazing spaceship models and forward fashions. Total failure as SF with no comprehension of the issues of interstellar travel. No one knew who the show was for; even the UK had trouble deciding when to air it. Space 1999 was nuts. Essentially it was Star Trek with the Enterprise replaced by the Moon! No explanation of interstellar FTL travel needed, of course??!! The best thing about Anderson's shows was the music. The composer, Barry Gray, left generations of Brits with a series of iconic musical memories. The incidental music peaked on Thunderbirds, but so many of the theme tunes are etched on our collective memories; Stingray, Thunderbirds, Joe 90, UFO, and Space 1999.
haha great sum up... can you give some detail on how "1999 was nuts" ? I haven't seen it myself and plan on trying it someday
thank you ahead of time
@@Munenushi Just the underlying craziness of the moon traveling between the stars, presumably at FTL speeds. The episode stories though are thoughtful. There are several famous guest stars.
Martin Landau and Barbara Bain from "Space 1999" got married and had a daughter named Juliet Landau who played Drusilla on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".
FYI - Six was not in the original Battlestar Galactica - she, and the other human-looking Cylons were in the 2004 reboot
Very entertaining despite several mistakes. Many of the series were new to me. Will you do a similar video on the 1980s?
I loved the UFO series, I preferred it to space 1999
Good video, thank you!!! Got a few new shows to check out
Anyhow, where's Buck Rogers In The 25th Century? 🚀
That was the 80s
Only 13 of the 37 episodes were in 1979.
It started in 1979. That still qualifies it as a 70s scifi show!
1st season of Buck Roger's is the better of the two seasons
No buck Roger's was end of 70s
End of the 70s is still the 70s in my book. Buck Roger's had four months of episodes in 79.
Space: 1999... I just became aware of about a year ago. As a life-long Star Trek fan, even as far back as The Original Series, I couldn't believe how I somehow missed this series. It's also hard to miss the obvious influence that 'Space: 1999' had on Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979. That is the costumes, set design, and even some of the stories. As I watch through the series, and on into the 2nd season. I'm in the middle of finishing this show and I'm captivated.
As an American SciFi fan I did not learn about Space 1999 until seeing it many years later on PBS. I really fell in love with SciFi with ST-TOS, and few British shows were available. I had to watch Dr Who on Saturday night at 11:30 PM!! They were showing Tom Baker then.
The Cylon "six" WAS NOT in The classic 1978 Battlestar Galactica!!!! Six was in the new BSG Reboot!
Yea, that threw me for a loop. I thought for sure I would have remembered a human cylon from 1978. Since Tricia Helfer did such a great job in that role in the reboot. I wanted to see who her character was based on in the original series. But my IMDB/wiki search came up empty. Now I know why. Darn.
Thanks for the precious memories 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 space 1999 / I have the 30th anniversary edition on DVD
What no Iwin Allen. Where was Lost in space, time tunnel, Land of the giants
If I remember correctly the telepaths in the Tomorrow people were unable to kill - they had access to stun guns and some alien telepathy enhancing technology that boosted their inherent abilities - loved this show
I’ve seen a couple of these shows now and I’m currently watching Space 1999.
Logan's Run was the BEST!!!
Battlestar galactica is in noway underrated. It was great and shall always be.
Space 1999 = Trippy as hell with very cool concepts and ideas. Blake's 7 = Strong characters that will have you rooting for them by season 2. Battlestar Galactica = strong blend of FX and camp for maximum entertainment. Starlost = Cool concept hamstrung by being forced to shoot on tape instead of film (see Ben Bova's Exiles books). Quark = best sci-fi comedy of the 70s that punched above its weight class (likely inspired Space Quest). UFO = Hottest space girls ever. The Tomorrow People = Almost incomprehensible (with pacing issues). Logan's Run = Not even close to the level of the film and even deviates from in in a number of ways. Regardless, it's still reasonably entertaining.
Actually Logan's Run (movie) deviated from the book. In the book, Sanctuary actually existed. But both deviated from the book, which had Lastday at the age of 21, not 30.
As you described the ‘animated’ Return to the Planet of the Apes, did you actually bother looking at the live action series you were actually describing? And I loved The Tomorrow People as a kid but Nicolas Young was never “famous”!
IIRC Battlestar Gallactica had it's own theme ride at a park somewhere.
A) *Everybody* knows aliens speak English, B) I was 100% sure that on Space 1999 Maya actually morphed into the different things she changed into and was very surprised when I saw how it was actually done.
Number Six was not in the original Battlestar Galactica 1978 (comment at 5:06 in this video)
@5:00
Did he say: a human cylon named number 6
I enjoyed the nostalgia, even though there were several mistakes! You still got a like from me.
I counted many mistakes. But the omission of Buck Rogers is unforgivable.
@@trhansen3244 Buck Rogers was an 80s series.
@@jonstfrancis I think you should check your almanac my friend.
I saw Blake 7 in the UK first run, and thought so cool
Artificial Idiocy may be to blame for this.
Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman!
not underrated, they were dominating ratings
Ben Bova wrote The Starcrossed, based on his and Harlan Ellison's involvement with The Starlost.
Wrong again. The shape shifting alien was Space:1999 not QUARK. Quark had the Betty Clone, the gender fluid officer and the plant based science officer.
Gene/Jean, and Andy the robot, 🤣
The scene where Ficus is "pollinating" with a human is hilarious.
Almost like the Orville, but a comedy.
As a 15 yr old, way into science fiction, I watched UFO for one reason only.
The costumes those moon and underwater girls wore. The catsuits the under-the-studio girls wore weren't bad either, lol.
It certainly wasn't for their hokey, sad attempts at science-fiction, lol. That itch was scratched by Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein, Niven, Farmer, Anderson, Brunner and a dozen other masters.
Talking about the animated Planet of the Apes series while showing footage from the live action series. How about a sci fi show about the near future when the bots that write these videos wouldn't make such obvious errors.
i watched most of these as a kid.. i love you got the tomorrow people in the list and a few other british ones.. blakes 7 was made in my area most of the film locations are close.. and have to love return to the planet of the apes.. i though that Roddy McDowall shined in the series and films. he was one my all time favourite actors.. and loguns run. man that takes me back.. my parents used to do shopping on the same day as it was shown.. and we used to hate to have to go with them as we knew we may not get home in time to watch it.. so many great shows back then.. would also look for Sapphire & Steel came out in 1979 was a mix of twilight zone and strangeness. hard to explain you have to try and dig them out.. though i am remembering them with rose tinted glasses.. they may not be as good as i remembered.. :) but some classics
What happened to Buck Rogers!!!!?
I watched Quark when it was broadcast. I'm an old nerd. 😁
Planet of the apes was based on a book (1963), by Pierre Boule.
The third movie was closer to the book, but the characters were switched.
It is definitely worth reading.
@@timlemmon2332 You just wait. The next crossover Hollywood project will be _Planet of the Snapes_ .