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This is a presentation I held at Finncon 2010 in Jyväskylä. The presentation obviously lacks the clips I showed, and the extra details I gave while speaking, but at least it covers the series I talked about.
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British TV Sci-Fi
Shoestring Fantasy
Rossum’s Universal Robots
Karel Čapek’s famous play about robots
Broadcast by the BBC in 1938
Stranger From Space
1951
First TV sci-fi serial in Britain
Targeted at children
A Martian boy lands in his ‘Space Boat’
The Quatermass Experiment
1953
Written by Nigel Kneale
Broadcast live
Budget: £4000
1st 2 eps amongst earliest British TV to have survived
The Quatermass Experiment
Professor Bernard Quatermass, British Experimental Rocket Group
Later made into a Hammer Film
Quatermass II & Quatermass and the Pit followed
The Avengers
The Avengers
1961
Created by Sydney Newman
John Steed & Co working for ‘The Ministry’
“Spy-fi”
Doctor Who
Doctor Who
1963
Created by Sydney Newman
Travelling through time and space in ... a box
Longest running sci-fi series in the world
The TARDIS
Thunderbirds
Thunderbirds
1965
Created by Gerry Anderson
Space: 1999
UFO
The Prisoner
1967
Created by Patrick McGoohan
The Village
Geeks
Yes, Definitely Geeks
The Year of the Sex Olympics
1968
Written by Nigel Kneale
The Live Life Show
Shot in colour, but tapes wiped
Blakes 7
Blakes 7
1978
Created by Terry Nation
Follows band of criminals
Story arc
Sapphire & Steel
Sapphire and Steel
1979
Created by Peter J Hammond
“Mending Time”
THHGTTG
THHGTTG
1981 (on TV)
Created by Douglas Adams
The Tripods
The Tripods
1984
John Cristopher’s novel, produced by Richard Bates
Red Dwarf
1988
Created by Grant Naylor, Rob Grant & Doug Naylor
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