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Blakes 7!

Lexx. Oh god I hate that show.

Fireball XL-5, or whatever it was... but it gets points for shear camp =) (THink old thunderbirds in black and white in space with worse effects)

Battlestar Galactica??? Screw you, that show rocks!

Blakes 7!

Philistine. The worst, ever, was "The Tomorrow People"

Any of the star trek series.

Anyone who votes Star Trek will be attacked by my nation. ;)

Battlestar Galactica??? Screw you, that show rocks!

I saw it once. Never again. Though I don't watch sci-fi, so shows where you need to know anything at all about earlier episodes seem crap to me.

Star Trek.

Honestly, I love science fiction, but loath Star Trek

Galactica is great. So you didn't get to watch the first epidodes? Too bad. Anyway, there have been many way worse than Galactica. Firefly comes to mind immediatly.

I saw it once. Never again. Though I don't watch sci-fi, so shows where you need to know anything at all about earlier episodes seem crap to me.
Yeah, I know it was crap, but it was soo crap it did a complete 180 and edged in at the far righthand spectrum of cool! OK so not really, but I liked that show!

Battlestar Galactica??? Screw you, that show rocks!
You mean the original or the remake?

Any of the star trek series.
But especially star trek 5.

well what is itWhy'd you put the only good ones in the poll?

I am currently arming my torpedos and aiming them at the drunk commies...

Galactica is great. So you didn't get to watch the first epidodes? Too bad. Anyway, there have been many way worse than Galactica. Firefly comes to mind immediatly.

I ain't a big sci-fi fan. @ all. But firefly was probably one of the better series I've seen. Ever.

You mean the original or the remake?
The movie was great when it came out in 77. Too bad that was the same year of Star Wars. Fortunately, I saw it in the theater a few months before Star Wars and I thought it rocked!

I wasn't much of a fan of the original series, it was more of an action show with a scifi setting. The new one is much more mature, grittier and captures the feeling of the movie very well, I think.

Plus cylon androids kick ass. I would put them against the Star Wars Federation droids or against the Borg any day.

But especially star trek 5.
Oooh, that was sooo bad. I don't think even Shatner liked it.

Thank god Red Dwarf isn't on there....

As for Battlestar Galactica, I haven't seen the orignal series but have heard it was kinda cheesy. The new TV movie was perhaps the greates Sci-Fi TV flick ever though. Just wish I could see the new series.

I think this poll needs a heavy re-work. A lot of these aren't even TV shows, have multiple versions, and it leaves out a TON of actual television shows.

Firefly
Sliders
Andromeda
Stargate SG-1
Babylon 5
Land of the Giants
Buck Rogers
The Hulk
The Flash
Mantis? (black guy with a metal mask or something as I recall)
Robocop
Another one I remember, aliens come to Earth and the show is about one that becomes a cop, really can't remember the name of it
Quantum Leap
The list goes on...

Galactica is great. So you didn't get to watch the first epidodes? Too bad. Anyway, there have been many way worse than Galactica. Firefly comes to mind immediatly.
Are you high? Firefly was a great show. It was just in a lousy time slot. Joss Whedon made firefly, and he makes nothing but good TV.

Quantum Leap and Stargate SG1 are probably the two worst Sci-Fi shows, and Star Trek Voyager alongside that.

Star Trek: The Next Generation is great though.

Are you high? Firefly was a great show. It was just in a lousy time slot. Joss Whedon made firefly, and he makes nothing but good TV.
I didn't like it. And I didn't like Buffy or Angel. I thought they were stupid.

The new Enterprise should be on the list too. Personally I think it is worse than some of those movies...

Thank god Red Dwarf isn't on there....

As for Battlestar Galactica, I haven't seen the orignal series but have heard it was kinda cheesy. The new TV movie was perhaps the greates Sci-Fi TV flick ever though. Just wish I could see the new series.

Red Dwarf. That is one of the funniest programs ever.

Quantum Leap and Stargate SG1 are probably the two worst Sci-Fi shows, and Star Trek Voyager alongside that.

Star Trek: The Next Generation is great though.

Stargate is alright.

Galactica is great. So you didn't get to watch the first epidodes? Too bad. Anyway, there have been many way worse than Galactica. Firefly comes to mind immediatly.

I thought Firefly was great, it reminded me of a lot of the Traveller RPG games I used to play in.

I didn't like it. And I didn't like Buffy or Angel. I thought they were stupid.
I wish there was a god because what you just wrote is most certainly a sin punishable by hell.

Blakes 7!

Heretic. You will recant.

I think this poll needs a heavy re-work. A lot of these aren't even TV shows, have multiple versions, and it leaves out a TON of actual television shows.

Firefly
Sliders
Andromeda
Stargate SG-1
Babylon 5
Land of the Giants
Buck Rogers
The Hulk
The Flash
Mantis? (black guy with a metal mask or something as I recall)
Robocop
Another one I remember, aliens come to Earth and the show is about one that becomes a cop, really can't remember the name of it
Quantum Leap
The list goes on...

Mantis was pretty horrible, although for all time dissappointments has to be "V", the miniseries. It started great and then just got amazingly silly.

Lexx. Oh god I hate that show.
If this show was on the poll, I'd make dozens of puppets and use them to vote for it as the worst...

The original Battlestar Galactica was an atrocious attempt to ride the success of Star Wars. The remake is vastly superior and highly enjoyable.

Red Dwarf rocks! I've seen all the episodes AND the two smeg-ups tapes. I also hear they are making a movie of it.

But, I'm surprised no one's mentioned "Land Of The Lost" as a bad show.

....Another one I remember, aliens come to Earth and the show is about one that becomes a cop, really can't remember the name of it......

I think you mean "Alien Nation".

I loved Firefly, and was a bit peeved when they took it off.

But none of these shows is as bad as one my brither used to watch. It was called Venus 2525 or something like that. You can't possible get any cheesier.

This thread inspired me to create this thread:

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=396846

Wors ever was Lexx.....est ever was Mantis, but it only ran one series, but i also like Red Dwarf, that show pwned. Esp the cat.

I really liked sliders too :-D

I thought Firefly was great, it reminded me of a lot of the Traveller RPG games I used to play in.

Ha Ha! I thought the exact same thing...

It even started out the way all of our Traveller adventures did: "You are sitting in a bar on some backwater planet..."

Though I got tired of the show pretty quick... Too much forced "old west" theme...

Ha! None of you can stop me and my Bakes 7 heresy! It sucks ass! Yeah. Poor does not begin to describe the visual, verbal and set-based atrocities committed by this programme. Even lexx is better, even if it's because the cleavage:everything else ratio is a high integer :eek:

I wish there was a god because what you just wrote is most certainly a sin punishable by hell.
As long as hell doesn't mean having to endure those series again I wouldn't mind.

As long as hell doesn't mean having to endure those series again I wouldn't mind.Hell, for you, will consist of nothing but reality television.

Is this the old Battlestar Galactica, or the new one?

Which Star Trek? The original show, the next generation, Voyager, Deep Space Nine, Enterprise, the original movies, the next generation movies, the animated show... the whole thing?

Which Star Wars, for that matter? Was Star Wars ever a show?

The new War Of The Worlds, or the old one? Or the book?

This poll is flawed. :confused:

Cleopatra 2525, i had a friend into that show. The only reason it was created was to watch breasticles.

I loved Firefly, and was a bit peeved when they took it off.

But none of these shows is as bad as one my brither used to watch. It was called Venus 2525 or something like that. You can't possible get any cheesier.

I believe you are thinking of Cleopatra 2525.

As for worst, just about any of the cheesy early 80s shows would qualify (Buck Rodgers, the original Battlestar Gallactica, etc.).

And I will gladly defend Firefly.

Keep flyin'!

Worst sci-fi show = Star Trek: Enterprise
Firefly comes to mind immediatly.
What?! Firefly kicks ass. In my book it was second only to Babylon 5.

Worst sci-fi show = Star Trek: Enterprise

What?! Firefly kicks ass. In my book it was second only to Babylon 5.
Firefly was boooring. And pointless. Babylon 5 was ok, though.

....Which Star Wars, for that matter? Was Star Wars ever a show?....

Unless you count that made for tv movie about the Ewoks. Early 80s or thereabouts. AND, I hate to say it, but I liked it. I feel SOOOO ashamed. I'm going to go and punish myself now :headbang:

Earth: Final Conflict was pretty iffy. Had a nice start-song, though. And I still watched it. Then again, I watch everything... my show/movie standards are soooo loooooow...

I believe you are thinking of Cleopatra 2525.

As for worst, just about any of the cheesy early 80s shows would qualify (Buck Rodgers, the original Battlestar Gallactica, etc.).

And I will gladly defend Firefly.

Keep flyin'!

That's the one. Cleopatra 2525. It made me want to puke.

I think this poll needs a heavy re-work. A lot of these aren't even TV shows, have multiple versions, and it leaves out a TON of actual television shows.

Firefly
Sliders
Andromeda
Stargate SG-1
Babylon 5
Land of the Giants
Buck Rogers
The Hulk
The Flash
Mantis? (black guy with a metal mask or something as I recall)
Robocop
Another one I remember, aliens come to Earth and the show is about one that becomes a cop, really can't remember the name of it
Quantum Leap
The list goes on...
Alien Nation, based on the movie, is what you're thinking of.

And then things from the eighties, like Wish Man, AutoMan, Manimal, vehicle shows like Knight Rider, Air Wolf, Street Hawk, Blue Thunder, Viper...

V. Max Headroom 30 Seconds Into the Future.

Misfits of Science

Really, this poll doesn't know from bad.

OH...and here's another one that people might not remember. "My Secret Identity" starring Mr. Slider himself, Jerry O'Connell(sp?). Some teenager has a neighbor who is a scientists and was running this radiation experiment to make plants grow bigger and stronger. And, of course, Mr. O'Connell's character somehow manages to get zapped by said radiation and ends up getting super powers. Yeah, I know, pretty cheesy but as I was a just-entering-puberty teenage boy who was into comic books and superheros at the time, I have found memories of the show. God, I AM pathetic aren't I? lol...ok...off for more punishment... :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:

Cleopatra 2525, i had a friend into that show. The only reason it was created was to watch breasticles.
Sweet crap I scared over that show. And in another post you can see the stuff I remember, so....

Firefly was a good frikkin show.

Mantis, Land of the Lost, Andromeda, Lexx, Cleopatra 2025, Mutant X, and about 90% of the new Twilight Zone and Outer Limits, on the other hand, lick sweaty buttcrack.

Firefly kicked arse. Pure and simple.

Worst Sci Fi show I've ever seen - probably the War of the Worlds film. It was going okay until the stupid ending where the Martians all suddenly died - possibly the most dissapointing endings to a film I've ever seen.

OH...and here's another one that people might not remember. "My Secret Identity" starring Mr. Slider himself, Jerry O'Connell(sp?). Some teenager has a neighbor who is a scientists and was running this radiation experiment to make plants grow bigger and stronger. And, of course, Mr. O'Connell's character somehow manages to get zapped by said radiation and ends up getting super powers. Yeah, I know, pretty cheesy but as I was a just-entering-puberty teenage boy who was into comic books and superheros at the time, I have found memories of the show. God, I AM pathetic aren't I? lol...ok...off for more punishment... :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:
Wow. I have to scede any notion that I might be any sort of royalty in remembering bad tv.

I do remember that now that you mention it-man that was bad.

Grouped in that Greatest American Hero and Merlin (where the kid with the van becomes Merlin's new apprentice...)

...Grouped in that Greatest American Hero and Merlin (where the kid with the van becomes Merlin's new apprentice...)

OMG!!!!1!!!!1!1 I didn't really watch it but I can't believe that I forgot about Greatest American Hero. Merlin however....never heard of it. I don't feel so pathetic now, thanx. :p

**edit**Damn you!!! NOw I have the Greatest American Hero theme song running thru my head and I can't get it out.

Another one I remember, aliens come to Earth and the show is about one that becomes a cop, really can't remember the name of it


Probably Alien Nation. They wanted to Name the character George Jetson, but Hannah Barbera refused, so for some reason they decided to call him San Fransisco.

Let's vote on Firefly. I'm starting a thread with a poll.

whoever put sliders as an option: how dare you. what an excellent show. actually, i don't even remember much of it because the last time i really watched, i was kid. but i remember thinking it was the coolest thing.

This thread is bringing back such nostalgic memories. :D ...another one I can think of(although I can't remember the title) was a show about a family who somehow gets whisked away to an alternate reality or earth-like planet and have to follow the Illuminati "eye in the pyramid" symbol to find their way home.

OH...and here's another one. The series based on the movie, "Logan's Run". The movie was good considering it was a B-movie but making a series out of it...please. I still watched it though. Guess I enjoy shutting my brain off sometimes when I want to be entertained. Can't be picky all the time. lol

Well, Battestar Galactica and Lost in Space aren't neccessarily the best sci-fi shows, but they're not that bad. Whoever accuses Star Trek of being bad will be hounded by millions ot Trekkies. :D

Well, Battestar Galactica and Lost in Space aren't neccessarily the best sci-fi shows, but they're not that bad. Whoever accuses Star Trek of being bad will be hounded by millions ot Trekkies. :D
Trekkies aren't scary. Just annoying.

On second thought, that is a pretty frightening proposition.

MMMMM....Seven of Nine is such a hotty Borg. Robot love, anyone? :fluffle: lol

Whoever said Quantum Leap was bad should be bounced around time into other people's lives for awhile, see how they like it! Seriously though, Sam and Al were the best.

Worst sci-fi show/one of the best: MST3K. (for those who don't know, and shame on you for not knowing; Mystery Science Theater 3000). The movies shown on the show were AWFUL, but that and the wisecracking human and his even more hilarious robot friends was the whole appeal of the show.

For just plain bad sci-fi I gotta agree that there was plenty of crap during the 80's.

Whoever said Quantum Leap was bad should be bounced around time into other people's lives for awhile, see how they like it! Seriously though, Sam and Al were the best.
Yes, Quantam Leap was an "intellectual" scifi show that showcased recent historical events. If you watched it expecting some action, you were watching it for the wrong reasons.
Worst sci-fi show/one of the best: MST3K. (for those who don't know, and shame on you for not knowing; Mystery Science Theater 3000). The movies shown on the show were AWFUL, but that and the wisecracking human and his even more hilarious robot friends was the whole appeal of the show.Yes...what they said. But all things aside, they shouldn't have made a full length movie of it. About the only thing that was "improved" over the series was that the movie had swearing in it. Otherwise it was just another episode made in movie form.

**edit**BTW, did you prefer Joel or Mike as the main character? I preferred Joel; Mike was too...bland...compared to Joel. No wonder the series ended soon after Mike was casted as Joel's replacement.

Firefly kicked arse. Pure and simple.

Worst Sci Fi show I've ever seen - probably the War of the Worlds film. It was going okay until the stupid ending where the Martians all suddenly died - possibly the most dissapointing endings to a film I've ever seen.

ummm, you are aware that is how the book ends right?

Or the fact that H.G. Wells wrote that as an ironic ending to the Martians.

Martians-Look at us! We have superior technology so we are superior in all things which gives us the perfect right to invade and destroy humans cuz they are such barbarians. You humans are but ants to be crushed under our Martian bootheels."

And then their invasion is thwarted by something as simple as disease. For the most part "War Of The Worlds" was a social commentary which was put forth using a science fiction motif. Not unlike Orwell's "1984" or Huxley's "Brave New World".

**edit**What I'm saying is that it was written to argue against things like Britain's invasion of Africa(Boer War and all that..at least I think its the Boer War...I haven't studied British history for some time; need to go and refresh my memory). Or, how the US government was/had been treating Native Americans. Etc., etc....

**edit-edit**Poop. Now I've gone and gotten all serious-like. Sorry folks. :D

What's the one with the puppets? Farscape? That show sucked BEYOND majorly.

what about sliders? it was crap..except for kari wuhrer (sp?) ;)

what about sliders? it was crap..except for kari wuhrer (sp?) ;)
Quantum Leap was worse. But entertaining nonetheless.

Actually I'm surpirsed Battle Queen 2010 or whatever it is called isn't on here. Just a bunch of pornstars (the good part) running around in the 2nd ice age (the bad part).

This might be taking this thread to a strech but the movie The Crater Lake monster is pretty bad. They end up killing it by bashing the thing on the head with a bulldozer

Tremors(all of them)?

OMG!!!!1!!!!1!1 I didn't really watch it but I can't believe that I forgot about Greatest American Hero. Merlin however....never heard of it. I don't feel so pathetic now, thanx. :p

**edit**Damn you!!! NOw I have the Greatest American Hero theme song running thru my head and I can't get it out.
Loo-k at what's happened to me-e
I can't believe it myself
Suddenly, I'm on top of the world
Should have been somebody else

dundundun dun dun

Believe it or not, I'm walkin' on air
I never thought I could be so fre-ee
Flyin' away on a wing and a prayer
Who-oo could it be? Believe it or not, it's just me!

Oh yeah. From memory.

Worst ever was Firefly...

Anyone who votes Star Trek will be attacked by my nation. ;)

Good man.

Loo-k at what's happened to me-e
I can't believe it myself
Suddenly, I'm on top of the world
Should have been somebody else

dundundun dun dun

Believe it or not, I'm walkin' on air
I never thought I could be so fre-ee
Flyin' away on a wing and a prayer
Who-oo could it be? Believe it or not, it's just me!

Oh yeah. From memory.

Damn you again! It had finally worked itself out of my brain and then you started singing it. Well...at least its not a Barney song. :rolleyes:

babylon 5

Farscape...

Dont be dissing Farscape....! :P

Does anyone remember a show about 20 yrs back that lasted all about a handfull of episodes called 'Quark'? It had the Doublemint twins on it.

I never liked Buck Rodgers, was a fan of the original Battlestar, I'm really liking the new Battlestar, all star treks were ok- well, some sucked, both Stargates are ok, Andromeda- aint sure yet...

Remember another short-lived show called 'Spider-man'?

....Does anyone remember a show about 20 yrs back that lasted all about a handfull of episodes called 'Quark'? It had the Doublemint twins on it.
Not by name, no. What exactly was it about? BTW, can anyone tell that I'm bored?

While I'm on the subject of short-lived mid-80s scifi shows....I'm still wondering what the name of that show was where a family gets whisked away to an alternate(but similar) reality on an earth-like planet so they had to travel from place to place finding clues on how to get back home. And that said clues had something to do with the Illuminati "Eye-In-The-Pyramid" symbol. (meh...be funny if this series and the one Caffienatopia is talking about are one and the same lol...that twin thing sounded AWFULLY familiar)

Death to anyone who includes B5 in a "worst" list. Apart from series 5 and "Crusade" that is... :sniper:

nvm about that show's name. Its "Otherworld". I should go to IMDB more often.

Space: Above and Beyond didn't make the list yet? Come on, how many shows with that kind of special effects budget don't even make a full season?

Still makes me laugh. We're going to spend millions to train you to fly space fighters, then routinely send you on missions that could be handled by a private with a rifle instead of using you properly. No wonder earth was losing the war...

Tremors(all of them)?

They made a show of that. :D It was one of THE most hilariously corny things I have ever watched.

Or the fact that H.G. Wells wrote that as an ironic ending to the Martians.

Martians-Look at us! We have superior technology so we are superior in all things which gives us the perfect right to invade and destroy humans cuz they are such barbarians. You humans are but ants to be crushed under our Martian bootheels."

And then their invasion is thwarted by something as simple as disease. For the most part "War Of The Worlds" was a social commentary which was put forth using a science fiction motif. Not unlike Orwell's "1984" or Huxley's "Brave New World".

**edit**What I'm saying is that it was written to argue against things like Britain's invasion of Africa(Boer War and all that..at least I think its the Boer War...I haven't studied British history for some time; need to go and refresh my memory). Or, how the US government was/had been treating Native Americans. Etc., etc....

**edit-edit**Poop. Now I've gone and gotten all serious-like. Sorry folks. :D

I'll just point out as a counter serious thread that the clue is in the very title of the novel: The War of the Worlds. Its not The War of the Saggy Marsmen against the Spindly Earth People. The war is between the two separate ecologies of the two planets: thus the fact that the invasion is defeated by something like the common cold is anything but a cop-out, instead it is the whole point of the book.*




* other than as a commentry on the darker side of Victorian humanity and a meditation on socialism, but that's beside the point here.

And what's even more stupid, instead of making it pretty much right after the first movie(thus capitalizing on whatever popularity and originality it might have had and thus having a fanbase that might watch the show), they decide to make it after the last one when no one cared anymore. That show should have died whilst still in the womb.

... the fact that the invasion is defeated by something like the common cold is anything but a cop-out.....
Uhmmm...I'm not really taking any offense by what you wrote but I never said that the "disease stops the martians" thing was a cop-out. I liked that Wells wrote it that way..........or is it that I am just misunderstanding what you wrote?

Ha! None of you can stop me and my Bakes 7 heresy! It sucks ass! Yeah. Poor does not begin to describe the visual, verbal and set-based atrocities committed by this programme. Even lexx is better, even if it's because the cleavage:everything else ratio is a high integer :eek:

Ah, but you are ignoring the narrative richness of the whole, and letting yourself be distracted by fripperies. Somewhat like going to see a production of a Brecht play and coming out saying 'That tree wasn't very realistic, was it? Spoiled the whole thing for me.'

The triumph of Blakes 7 occurs in the very last scene of the very last episode. Name me one other television series which would have had the guts to do that, would you?

Uhmmm...I'm not really taking any offense by what you wrote but I never said that the "disease stops the martians" thing was a cop-out. I liked that Wells wrote it that way..........or is it that I am just misunderstanding what you wrote?

No, I was directing that comment at Moral America who wrote:

Worst Sci Fi show I've ever seen - probably the War of the Worlds film. It was going okay until the stupid ending where the Martians all suddenly died - possibly the most dissapointing endings to a film I've ever seen.

Apologies that I didn't make this clear. That whoosh noise was the whole point of the story going over MA's head.

Ah...sorry about that then. :p

Remember another short-lived show called 'Spider-man'?
I had the pilot on tape. Spidey gettin' chained in the face by a common thug! Spidersense meaning you can just see somewhere else for some reason. Peter Parker drivin' a Nova....

I think the worst sci-fi show EVER can't be anything else than Farscape. Simply #######.

Trekkies aren't scary. Just annoying.

On second thought, that is a pretty frightening proposition.

*Checks own nation's homepage*

I guess that makes me a trekkie. :P

I think the worst sci-fi show EVER can't be anything else than Farscape. Simply #######.

Farscape? Well, you have to at least give it credit for being the only Australian-produced Sci-fi show.

Space 1999 anyone??

Galactica is great. So you didn't get to watch the first epidodes? Too bad. Anyway, there have been many way worse than Galactica. Firefly comes to mind immediatly.
Hey! Firefly wasn't that bad! One of my favorite episodes was when the Reapers were aboard the abandoned cargo ship. I'd have to say the cheesy old Sci-Fi shows. I like the new Battlestar Galactica and the Star Trek series that do NOT include the first one, which I saw 2 episodes of and was pretty corny. I have never seen the original Battlestar Gallactica so I can't have an opinion about that series.

*Checks own nation's homepage*

I guess that makes me a trekkie. :P

I can't believe I'm saying this, but the correct term for a TNG fan is Trekker.

forgot LEXX...