Scifi show chat, engage! (watercooler topic)

Do you “hock the Trek”? :grin:

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Get off… Our Land

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I am going to show my age with this post. When I was a kid, I loved watching Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea (late 1960s). I found many full episodes on YouTube. I am about half way through re-watching them. Even if you are young and don’t remember the show, check out one episode and see if it appeals to you. Keep in mind it is a Sci-Fi TV show that was on the air 60 years ago.

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This is an old, overlooked program that came out in the 1970s and was supposed to show us what the future looked like in the 1980s. Very short foresight, but it is funny to look back and see what they got wrong. The stories are antiquated, but sometimes interesting for British SciFi. I remember watching these shows on TV. It’s in living color.

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Wow, is that Richard Dawson? Interesting find!

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No. Probably the only one you may recognize is Ed Bishop. He had a part in James Bond in Diamonds are Forever.

This is who I was wondering about:

That is George Sewell.

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My bad, lol

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No problem. Both actors have died long ago.

After UFO, the same producer came out later with Space 1999.

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Another good, old sci-fi is Soylent Green.
The movie might make you hungry afterwards.

Space 1999 was my favourite show growing up :slight_smile:

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Is that what this is all about?

:grimacing::scream::nauseated_face:

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I always remember the lack of food and seeing that thin slice of meat hanging in the vault.

It was an interesting concept for its time.

Not to mention special effects, I think they were better than Star Trek’s. or am I imagining :thinking:

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Tomorrow is Guy Fawke’s Day which happens to occur on National Election Day in the USA. (See V for Vendetta.)

Tomorrow might be a good day to catch up on Sci-fi that you might have missed, to get away from the election chaos.

Have you ever seen Red Dwarf? It is a British Sci-fi Comedy. Those three words scare some people. British Sci-fi Comedy is not for everyone.

It is about the last human in the universe waking up and living 3 million years into the future with his evolved cat and his holographic supervisor.

There is another movie that might have flew under your radar…

Colossus: The Forbin Project

Colossus is about giving too much power to a computer with surveillance cameras.

The Questor Tapes

An android movie before the appearance of Data in Star Trek. A lost android tries to find his maker.

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Great movie, seen it twice.

Hasn’t that taught you enough to not play with AI :rofl:

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:+1:

It’s been a while since I’ve taken the time to watch that one. On a hard drive somewhere I might still have sound files that I recorded from that movie years ago so I could use them for Windows events.

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Red Dwarf is a wonderfully wacky low-budget comedy that has been on and off for over a quarter century. Still not cancelled, as far as I know, although the last season was pre-COVID, 7 years ago. I started watching it on an American PBS station, and have since collected all the downloadable individual episodes. :smile:

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