Message:Squad beat the following classic Sci-Fi Crews on Filo’s Filament w/o loss. Big Brain Waler will return.
Battlestar Galactica (2)
Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict
reboot in 2004, theme park ride
Zylons
83 Rotten Tomatoes
Buck Rodgers (2)
Erin Gray, Mel Blanc
37 episodes, started as comic strip 1929, books, radio, world's fair, pinball machine, toys
Buster Crabbe in movie serial, twice TV series
rights mess, currently held by George Clooney, the Clooney
Gross Box 27 mil
25 Rotten Tomatoes
Tech: Space Opera
Babylon 5 (1)
Bruce Boxleitner
Walter Koenig, Bill Mumy Stunt Casting
Robert Englund, Michael York
110 episodes, Had to replace its base commander, not bad war-politics depiction
Gross Box 27 mil
92 Rotten Tomatoes
Tech: Station only
Doctor Who (2)
John Hurt, Derek Jacobi, Timothy Dalton, Bill Nighy, Maisie Williams
871 episodes, too well-liked by fans, concept of time-lord
Longest running sci-fi sereis
80 Rotten Tomatoes
Tech: Odd
Quark (1)
Richard Benjamin, Ratings in general were abysmal
Buck Henry creator
Hot twins in cast, character plant (not good nor bad), cowardly robot
-- Rotten Tomatoes
Tech: Space Opera
Lost in Space (1)
Guy Williams, June Lockhart, Bill Mumy
Kurt Russell, Werner Klemperer
83 episodes, movie w/ all-star cast, reboot series
Five-and-a-half year journey to an Earth-like planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri.
Gross Box 136 mil
27 Rotten Tomatoes
Tech: Unknown
Dark Matter (2)
Cast No-Name
Hard to Google
39 episodes
-- Rotten Tomatoes
Tech: advanced androids, eugenics, FTL drive, replicant remote consciousness
Space 1999 (1)
Barbara Bain, Martin Landau
Joan Collins, Ian McShane, Peter Cushing, Brian Blessed, Christopher Lee
two seasons, 48 episodes
power to rip a moon from orbit
66 Rotten Tomatoes
Tech: Isaac Asimov criticised the scientific accuracy
Thunderbirds (2)
Puppets
32 episodes, Fireball XL5 another 32, parody team America
100 Rotten Tomatoes
Tech: limited intrasystem
The Jetsons (2)
Voice Actors
three seasons, 75 episodes, few poorly rated animated movies
69 Rotten Tomatoes
Tech: Ill defined
Dune (1)
Linda Hunt, Patrick Stewart, Sting, José Ferrer, Kyle MacLachlan, Max von Sydow
Dean Stockwell, Virginia Madsen
Gross Box 1984 30 mil, 402 mil (reboot)
44 and 83 Rotten Tomatoes
Tech: Stupid on Toast
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Star Wars (4)
Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, Peter Crushing
John Wayne (distorted voiceover)
Movies, books, video games, animation, fan fiction, wins google fight vs Star Trek
Gross Box God-like
51 Rotten Tomatoes Phantom Menace
Tech: Space Opera
Star Trek (4)
Shatner, say no more
79 episodes, plus movies, Khan!, Animated reboot
Gross Box Respectable, Spock best Death
90 Rotten Tomatoes (Wrath of Khan), 94 animated series, 80 classic
Classic has been usurped by crap, starting w/ Picard
Tech: Inspired
Hitchhiker’s Guide (4)
Brits, lots of them
Two versions, radio play
Gross Box 105 mil
67 Rotten Tomatoes
Tech: Improbability Drive, Planet Size Robot Brain, Ultimate Answer to Universe
Farscape (3)
Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Gigi Edgley
four seasons
90 Rotten Tomatoes
Tech: Moya of the Leviathan race, offspring warship
Firefly (3)
Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk, Ron Glass
One season and movie
Gross Box 25 mil Serenity
77 Rotten Tomatoes
Tech: Intrasystem, Predicted Pacification virus
Red Dwarf (3)
Jenny Agutter, Craig Ferguson
Twelve seasons, many hiatus
US Pilot (sux), Ended by rights dispute, may return
81 Rotten Tomatoes
Tech: Ill Defined, Hard Light Hologram
Futurama (4)
Cast of thousand as Guest Stars, Wiki
Eleven seasons
94 Rotten Tomatoes
Tech: Space Opera
Stargate SG-1 (4)
Amanda Tapping, Richard Dean Anderson
Ten seasons, spinoff series
Gross Box 197 mil
88 Rotten Tomatoes
Tech: Star Gate, form of worm hole artifact
Planet of the Apes (3)
Heston, McDowall
Film Franchise, TV series Spin-off, Remakes
Gross Box original five were but always return six to ten times budget, frachise Billions recently
87 Rotten Tomatoes
Tech: Poor
Flash Gordon (4)
Buster Crabbe
iconic Ming the Merciless
inspired movie remake, inspired porn pardody
Gross Box 45 mil bad movie, It had a budget of about $20 million, more than “The Empire Strikes Back”
44 Rotten Tomatoes
Tech: space opera
Logans Run (3)
Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Peter Ustinov, Farrah Fawcett, Roscoe Lee Browne
TV series Spin-off
Gross Box 25 mil
60 Rotten Tomatoes
Tech: post apocalyptic, possible anti-grav
Yours,
IronRed
25-Jun-2023