Dana’s not named anywhere here but thought I should post it considering it includes both Wild Palms and Battlestar Galactica – okay, Dana was just in an episode but still counts the same.

Science fiction has been a regular fixture on television since the early days of the medium itself. In the US, kid-orientated space shows like Captain Video and his Video Rangers (1949-1955) and Space Patrol (1950) swiftly amassed a cult following, while Britain was treated to the altogether more grown-up The Quatermass Experiment in 1953.

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7) Battlestar Galactica (2004-09)

Ron Moore reworked the original lighthearted space opera into a fascinating, serious drama that attracted plenty of viewers who “don’t do sci-fi”. Top-notch effects, a cast of evolving, multi-faceted characters, and storylines that were stuffed with shocks and intriguing moral dilemmas… Put simply, it was frakkin’ great!

97) Wild Palms (1993)
Some interesting names were involved in this six-hour mini-series: Oliver Stone produced and co-scripted; episodes were directed by Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) and Phil Joanou (U2: Rattle and Hum); and the cast included James Belushi, Kim Cattrall and Robert Loggia. The story itself is a complex futuristic mystery about an attorney sucked into a world of VR and politics. Watch out for a cameo by godfather of Cyberpunk William Gibson as himself.

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