The Top 100 Science Fiction/Fantasy Shows

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The Top 100 Science Fiction/Fantasy Shows
By Charlie Jane Anders, 6:53 PM on Thu Aug 27 2009
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100. Dead Set
99. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
98. Dark Shadows
97. Thundercats
96. Aeon Flux
95. Warehouse 13 уже
94. Serial Experiments Lain хорошая анимашка
93. He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
92. Primeval
91. Static Shock The Big Bang, an industrial accident in the city of Dakota, turns many of the city's residents into powerful metahumans. Though many "Bang Babies" use their newfound powers for evil, quick-witted teenager Virgil Hawkins uses his electromagnetic powers to fight crime, aided by the gadgets built by his genius best friend, Richie. But it's trickier hiding his identity as Static Shock from his widowed father Robert and strong-willed sister Sharon. Even amidst a glut of superhero cartoons, this is one of the most memorable.
90. Surface
89. Transformers The original Transformers animated series is where we learned where we stood. Did you side with the Decepticons of the Autobots? Transformers was the ultimate imagination generator — anything is possible when you have a robotic alien species that can transform into a truck or plane, or even a boombox. Plus Optimus Prime could very well be one of the best leaders on television. He was noble, caring, big-hearted, driven and had a velvety voice, all without being as treacly as Adam Prince of Eternia.
88. Smallville
87. Airwolf
If you were a child in the mid-80s, nothing was as exciting as the sight of Jan Michael Vincent and Ernest Borgnine flying around in their eponymous indestructible super-helicopter in this "Knight Rider in the air" rip-off. Sure, looking back, it turns out to be an insanely-right wing fantasy about the CIA saving the world, but hey. We were all younger back then.
86. Jake 2.0
85. ALF
84 Heroes
83. Buck Rogers In The 25th Century This show may be the guiltiest pleasure that doesn't actually break any federal laws. Buck Rogers gets frozen for 500 years and finds himself in a post-apocalyptic future, where everything is trashy and disco, and he hangs around with a penis-headed robot who says "beady beady." And the scary-glam Princess Ardala wants him to wrestle with her heavily muscled Pantherman, so she can marry him and an obedience collar on him. All this, plus weird dancing.
82. Dead Zone
81. Pushing Daisies
80. Jericho
79. Eureka
78. Land Of The Lost The most famous, and memorable, of the Sid-and-Marty-Krofft science fiction shows, this family adventure had everything: a family lost in the wilderness, ape people, lizard people, dinosaurs, and weird surreal touches galore.
77. Planet Of The Apes
76. My Favorite Martian Before there were Mork and Mindy or Third Rock From The Sun, there was this sitcom about a Martian with strange powers, who comes to live with a human while he repairs his spaceship. Featuring future genre MVPs Bill Bixby and Ray Walston, this show was one of the most popular science fiction shows of the early 1960s.
75. Jekyll
74. Kyle XY
73. Incredible Hulk The Hulk, traditionally, has been a Godzilla-esque force for destruction and metaphor for nuclear weapons. So how do you do a weekly TV show about his adventures? By turning him into a Fugitive-style drifter who comes to town, sorts out your problems, turns green and destroys a few things, and then leaves. The Hulk has never been so superheroic, and Bill Bixby's wry humor is always fun to watch.
72. Journeyman
71. Star Trek: Voyager
70. Survivors When Terry Nation wasn't busy creating the Daleks and Blake's 7 — and writing for MacGyver — he was constructing this relentlessly bleak tale of what happens after most of the world drops dead due to a plague. Civilization is in tatters, and all the things we take for granted are gone — will humans band together or tear each other apart?
69. Lost In Space Known as the sillier, campier counterpart to Star Trek, this story of the "Space Family Robinson" nevertheless serves up some great space adventures. And the thorny relationship between the alliteration-spouting Dr. Smith and the friendly-but-cranky robot provides a template for spiky human-robot relations that's still followed today.
68. Being Human
67. Get Smart While Sean Connery was making a splash as James Bond, Don Adams made a much more hilarious ker-plop spoofing the sexy world of spies in his own bumbling but endearing manner. Maxwell Smart and his adorable partner 99, took on the evil corporation KAOS every week, and each episode we laughed at Max's adorable hijinks. Who amongst us didn't pretend to take calls on their shoe phone from an angry Chief deep inside the secret CONTROL base? Plus, we got greats like inspector gadget out of this silly spy world, also voiced by Adams.
66. Flash Gordon No, we're not going to try and celebrate the recent campy-but-awful-but-trashy Syfy series. This 1950s show was Flash the way he was meant to be seen — with space rockets, diabolical aliens, and crazy adventures. It was filmed in Postwar Germany, so a lot of the stories seem to take Flash to Germany or else to comment inadvertently on the devastation wrought by the Second World War.
65. Bionic Woman Another show whose recent remake we're going to pretend never existed, the 1970s story of a woman with bionic limbs, fighting evil and making a difference, was a precursor of Buffy and many other shows about female heroes. Jaime Sommers brought a wry sense of humor to saving the world, and that was her real superpower.
64. Earth: The Final Conflict
63. Thunderbirds The Tracy family fly their super-futuristic Thunderbird vehicles to rescue people in danger, as part of the super-secret International Rescue organization, with the occasional help of the classy Lady Penelope. Oh, and they're puppets. Or rather, super-marionettes. The fourth puppet show from Space: 1999 creator Gerry Anderson, this was the best known and the most fun.
62. SeaQuest DSV
61. The Jetsons This Hanna-Barbera cartoon sitcom may look silly and a tad dated, but it shaped people's views of the future world, with its robot maids, flying cars and amazing labor-saving gadgets. Despite the incredible advancements of this 21st century world, the Jetson family still faces exactly the same stresses and pressures as 20th century Americans, including a tyrannical boss.
60. Starblazers A plucky crew of humans takes to space in the sunken battleship Yamato, repurposed as a spacecraft, in this melodramatic, thrilling animated space opera. The crew of the Yamato are never anything less than awesome, and the show really gives a feeling of space travel being slow and dangerous — but the show's real standouts are the villains, especially the sly Desslok and the chilling Comet Empire.
59. 3rd Rock From The Sun
58. Greatest American Hero A high-school teacher gets hold of an alien suit that lets him become an amazing superhero — but he loses the instruction manual. It's a silly premise, and the show uses it for maximum slapstick effect, but it's also one of the first shows to do superheroes justice on television.
57. Adventures Of Brisco County Jr.
56. Ultraviolet
55. Sliders
54. Red Dwarf
53. Space: Above And Beyond
52. Knight Rider
51. True Blood
50. Battlestar Galactica (original)
49. Star Cops
48. Torchwood
47. Mystery Science Theater 3000
46. Invader Zim Nobody seems to notice that the weird new kid in school has green skin, or that his dog is actually a robot, or that he seems bent on conquering the Earth — no one, that is, but Dib, who quickly recognizes his classmate as a poorly disguised alien bent on conquering the Earth. Most episodes deal with Zim's incompetent attempts at world domination or Dib's futile efforts to expose Zim as an alien, and the demented humor and visuals from Johnny the Homicidal Maniac artist Jhonen Vasquez elevates the alien invasion trope to gleefully black comedy.
45. The Six Million Dollar Man "We have the technology. We can rebuild him." Lee Majors is Steve Austin, a spy who gets wrecked in an accident — so the secret OSI gives him a new bionic body, with fancy eyesight and juiced-up limbs. The super-spy narrative suddenly gets a new twist, thanks to cybernetics — and we get one of our first great cyborg heroes.

44. The Outer Limits
43. Adventures Of Superman
42. Stargate Atlantis
41. Space Island One The best science fiction show you've never heard of, Space Island One follows the crew of the space station Unity, funded by a private corporation. The show unflinchingly looks at the implications of for-profit science — culminating in a shocking final episode — and provides the most realistic look ever at life in space, including bone-mass loss. A few episodes are dull, but the show is often surprisingly weird and fun, featuring an astronaut who spends a small fortune calling phone-sex lines back on Earth, and deep-space explorers who resort to cannibalism. It also features some of the most complex, believable characters of any television show.
40. Andromeda
39. Quatermass
38. The 4400
37. Supernatural
36. Alien Nation Long before District 9 subjected aliens to apartheid, Alien Nation used extraterrestrial visitors to explore issues of immigration and race. The Newcomers, former alien slaves who escaped to Earth in hopes of a better life, just want to integrate with human society while holding on to their own cultures and traditions. However, as human cop Matthew Sikes and his Newcomer partner discover, many humans hate, fear, and exploit the Newcomers.
35. Robotech The show that helped introduced space opera to a whole new generation (along with Starblazers), Robotech gave us humans struggling against not one, but three alien invasions, using bootstrapped alien technology. And more importantly — super robot armor.
34. Lexx
33. The Avengers
32. Roswell
31. Quantum Leap
30. Mork And Mindy Probably the greatest science fiction comedy of all, this show introduced us to Robin Williams and gave us a fresh spin on the "lovable alien stranded on Earth" cliche — Mork may have learned an important lesson every week, but he also taught us a little bit about the absurdity of our existence along the way.
29. Batman Beyond
A worthy epilogue to Batman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond was set in 2019, when an elderly Bruce Wayne takes on a new protege, high schooler Terry McGinnis. The new Batman must protect a hi-tech version of Gotham, on where low-level criminals worship the Joker and supervillains use technology that rival Bruce Wayne's.
28. Venture Bros. It takes real love to come up with the on-target cynical parodies that populate Adult Swim's greatest contribution to television, and it's that knowing mix of self-loathing and unending affection that's made this one of the funniest, most intelligent, most self-aware shows on television in years.
27. The Middleman
This short-lived ABC Family series about a superhero's apprentice didn't just serve up wry, self-aware genre silliness — it actually showed us how genre could be a philosophy to live by. The distinction between good guys and bad guys remains always meaningful, as does the show's constant insistence that anything can be turned into art — especially weird science fiction.
26. Angel а вот и мы
25. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
24. The Prisoner
23. Cowboy Bebop
22. Space: 1999
21. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
20. Farscape
19. V
18. Fringe
17. Stargate SG-1
16. Dollhouse
15. The Tick (animated) The Tick broke down superhero conventions and rebuilt them in its own warped image. From the oddball costumed heroes (Wonder Woman and Batman somehow become American Maid and Der Fledermaus) to the villainous plots (Chairface Chippendale gets three letters into writing his name on the moon — a fact that continues throughout the series) to the Tick's superhero banter ("Spoooooooon!"), The Tick is a witty and often surprising parody.
14. Futurama
13. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
12. The Twilight Zone One of the most iconic television shows of the twentieth century, Twilight Zone started in the late 1950s and launched the careers of dozens of actors (including William Shatner) and writers. An anthology series, each weird episode was introduced by Rod Serling, who usually explained its moral too. Tales of aliens, monsters, and the unknown were interwoven with noir-ish stories of people in bizarrely bleak situations. A mix of scifi an existentialism, it defined an entire generation of smart, dark SF.
11. Blake's 7 Imagine a show that takes place entirely in Star Trek's mirror universe, and you've sort of got Blake's 7. The Federation is evil and oppressive, and only a gang of criminals led by a political dissident stand for freedom. At its absolute best, this show was an unflinching examination of a totalitarian society in denial. (The war-crimes trial episode is absolutely priceless) as well as an exploration into how far our freedom-fighters can go and still remain "the good guys." And it has possibly the best ending in science-fiction history.
10. Lost
9. Battlestar Galactica (remake)
8. Babylon 5
7. The X-Files
6. Buffy The Vampire Slayer
5. Max Headroom A fictional US drama starring the equally fictional host of a real-life UK variety show? This short-lived 1987 spin-off from 20 Minutes In The Future did more than just vault over the fourth wall with glee; it also brought cyberpunk into mainstream living rooms, and created our lifelong crush on Amanda Pays.
4. Star Trek: The Next Generation
3. Firefly
2. Doctor Who
1. Star Trek

@темы: Сериальное британское, StarTrek, Lost, Сериальное, StarGate, Heroes, Buffy&Angel, Dollhouse, True blood, V, The Twilight Zone, The X-Files

Comments

[m.A.Y.a.]

о как!))

[Lexcorp]

порадовали знакомые названия в первой двадцатке
*это я о Блэйке и Спэйсе*
но сам список слегка смутил, с одной стороны классика сай-фая, и даже много старых хороших вещей, с другой Мультики? вомперы?

а вот Макса меня ровно сутки везде соблазняют посмотреть
аж страшно

[Crisl]

Lexcorp судьба

[Ambercat]

Mork And Mindy вот только сегодня докачала.
Это действительно самая уморительная и отлично сделанная фантастика, которую я видела. Жду, когда получится посмотреть весь сезон

[Lexcorp]

Crisl
и не говори

Yatanis
я смотрела не отрываясь в детстве, они были прекрасны

[Ambercat]

Lexcorp надо же их и у нас показывали?

[Lexcorp]

я точно помню, что смотрела
точно на русском

[lind]

Лол, дом 16. Без обид((((((

[gibz]

классная сотка. уже 100-е место проверил лично: высоко рекомендую