When I was a kid in the early 80's I remember watching a tv show about a big spaceship flying through space. I think it had few episodes, and the story revolved around the lives inside the ship.   I think I remember someone having a crossbow as a weapon.  It's very vague. Does this ring a bell to someone? I'm sorry for not having further details, but I was 4 or 5 when I saw it.  Edit: The answer is effectively a duplicate but not the question, as I didn't recall so many details as the other user.  Thanks
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I have the vaguest memory of a TV show (maybe a BBC import?) in which the protagonists were moving through the sections of a massive generation ship whose inhabitants had forgotten that they were on a spaceship... I know there was an RPG with the same plot (which, after all, is a pretty great blank slate) but I definitely feel I saw this on a static-filled 13" B&amp;W TV back in the day...
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I'm looking for a sf story that was broadcast on BBC children's TV in the early 1980's, probably as part of the long running Jackanory series. Based on what i recall of other events at the time of watching I think this was 1982. The story is of a group of children who are either orphans or in a boarding school and who build a spaceship from the scrap of other ships and (I think) an asteroid. They launch it into space and have subsequent adventures. One scene that particularly sticks in my mind was the oxygen failing on the ship and the children all falling asleep except for a girl who is bullied by a robot into fixing the problem. I'm reasonably sure that the author of the stories would be British as it was an adaptation for the BBC. I also have a feeling that this was adapted from a series of children's books with each volume being compressed into one episode. It ran Monday to Friday for one week. I vaguely recall a female narrator. The story was interspersed with still drawings and acted scenes with children. I'm looking for the title of the story (stories) in either TV or book form and the author. Note, the description of acted scenes and drawn illustrations makes this sound like Captain Zep: Space Detective, another BBC show. It was not this one although they would have been made at similar times. Hope there is enough detail here for a answer. Thank you!
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Can you identify every character and spacecraft in ? Please mention the episode(s) if you can.  The poster is for the 30th anniversary of . (First aired on September 28, 1987.)    I got many of them (along with episodes), but there are plenty I don't recognize. A few occur more than once. (e.g. - Jean Luc Picard and Tasha Yar)
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A very long time ago, possibly late 70s or early 80s, I remember seeing a one-off science fiction drama on British BBC TV. It was about an expedition to an alien planet to get help for a space station which was running out of oxygen.  The alien planet was, of course, Earth. The crew were about a centimetre high. It was all live action and I suspect the programme was a showcase for miniature photography. They land their shuttle (which looks very much like a courgette) in someone's garden, and there are various adventures. The ones I remember are:   encountering some dropped jelly babies and thinking they're idols made by the natives. flying around on weirdly insectile flying bikes. discovering a discarded battery in a puddle and getting into trouble from the chemicals. I think they get attacked by a rat at some point?   Eventually they discover that there's a light-resistent coating on their courgette-ship, and if it gets stripped off then it will generate its own oxygen. They take off to take the good news home, and the programme ended with them approaching the station, floating in space --- which is a tree.  Does anyone know what this is?
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It seems there may be a bit of a retro-continuity error in one of my personal favorite Star Trek scenes, which I noticed just today.    Click the picture above for a YouTube video.  A transcript of the pertinent bits is below, emphasis added.     SCOTTY: The Enterprise!  Show me the bridge of the Enterprise, you chattering piece of...        COMPUTER: There have been five Federation ships with that name.  Please specify by registry number.        SCOTTY: N, C, C, one, seven, oh, one.  No bloody A, B, C, or D.   The computer is specifically stating that there have been (only) five Federation ships named Enterprise.  Scotty effectively names all of the ones we'd been introduced to by the time of that episode:  NCC-1701, NCC-1701-A, NCC-1701-B, NCC-1701-C, and NCC-1701-D.  However, this of course omits the NX-01.  Out-of-universe, this can easily be attributed to the history of the television series.  However, I'm wondering if there might also be a (possibly un-intended) in-universe explanation that allows the computer's statement to still be accurate?  For example, (and I only ask because I'm not too familiar with the Enterprise series just yet) does the NX-01 Enterprise actually pre-date the existence of the United Federation of Planets?
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Hey guys I've been trying to find the name of this show for years and it's bothering me. It was definitely mid-80s (probably about '85-'87). It was about a family who somehow travelled forward through time. They were "on the run" from some evil guy dressed in all black who drove this black futuristic vehicle.  I'm sure it was an entire family who was sort of "lost" in this future world as this guy in black pursued them. It had several character actors from the 80s (I can see their faces but can't place them), especially the evil guy and the father character who I know I've seen in other things from that era.  I know also that it didn't last long, maybe only a few episodes. Maybe only one episode? But it was when the VCR first came out and I watched this one episode over and over.  Thanks.   Entire family travelled forward in time somehow, get "lost" and end up on the run from some security guard type evil guy in all black Mid 1980s - probably 85-87 Television, USA, English Very short-lived Caucasian family, they were always altogether, it was clear they were a family "lost" in the future I only saw the first episode, unsure if there were any more They somehow travelled into the future, clearly accidentally, they didn't intentionally travel through time (I don't remember how they did it) and the security in the future was after them and they were running around, exploring this future world Main character was just the family, but also they focused on the evil guy in black a lot. The evil guy was a 80s character actor I know I've seen in other things.
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I'm trying to pin down a memory of a short story which I first read sometime in the early-to-mid 1980s (in an anthology I found in a school library, I think). I later found it again in another book, in another library, sometime in the 1990s. I remember the general plot, but not who wrote it. I have the impression that the story was already pretty old before I first ran across it.  Here's the plot outline:   As the story begins, a spaceship containing hundreds (or even more?) of passengers is returning to Earth from some other planet. Something goes terribly wrong, and they lose the main engine. (Which may have been the only engine -- I'm not sure of the technical details.) I don't recall if it was accident, sabotage, a meteor strike, or what, but their main means of propulsion is gone, with no hope of fixing it any time soon.  The timing is terrible. The ship is still on a trajectory that has it approaching Earth at high speed, and it badly needs to decelerate if there's to be any hope of touching down safely instead of slamming into the planet so hard that it will inevitably kill everyone aboard. But now the ship can't decelerate (nor change course to miss Earth entirely, which could have bought them valuable time), and there's only a matter of some hours left before the projected time of impact.  Some political and military leaders meet on Earth for an emergency conference  to discuss their options. What it comes down to is that a) there is no way to save the passengers and crew of the ship, no matter what they do, but b) if they do nothing at all, this will also mean the tragic deaths of millions of other civilians in the region which the ship will crash into. Not so much because of the shock of impact, but because of the sound in the minute or so before that. My memory gets blurred on the physical details of what makes the sound so bad . . . but I think the general idea may have been that such a huge metallic mass, moving so incredibly fast as it comes down toward the Eastern Seaboard of North America (or perhaps some other densely populated bit of the globe?), will be "screaming" in such a way that the vibrations racing through the air will shatter zillions of pieces of glass and/or otherwise cause huge numbers of fatalities down on the ground, even before the ship strikes whatever bit of the Earth's surface it is projected to strike.  The final decision is that the lesser of two evils is to send up a missile (nuclear warhead, I think?) to vaporize the ship before it comes plummeting through the air near an urban area.  I think that the officers aboard the ship either already knew, or very strongly suspected, that everyone aboard was doomed after the main engine had dropped dead. But the Captain and his loyal subordinates do their best to maintain a stiff upper lip in order to prevent mass hysteria from breaking out among the passengers. There's one bit where it is announced that a rescue ship is coming up from Earth to pull alongside the falling ship and then they'll transfer the passengers to safety. I believe the Captain knows darn well that the laws of physics do not make such a maneuver possible at this late date, and thus "a rescue mission" cannot be the intended function of the fast-moving blip on the radar screen that is headed straight for his ship, but he sees nothing to be gained by telling everyone the truth. So most of them die in blissful ignorance.
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Plot Details/Summary I only watched an episode or two of this one, so I can't recall a whole lot about it.  The protagonist is a former astronaut of some sort, who makes it his mission to clean up the crime in his city.  He might have been a police officer in his &quot;new life&quot; or he might have decided to become a sort of quasi-superhero.  In either case, I distinctly recall his space suit being the gimmick that makes him an effective crime fighter in the show.  I seem to recall the protagonist being a young, dark-haired man, and I think he had a friendship or an alliance with a young woman (maybe a fellow cop, or someone from the space program?).  I don't think there were alien beings in the show.   The criminal threats were all quite terrestrial, IIRC. Timeframe and other Publication Details This was a syndicated tv show I saw on American television, probably around the late 90s to early 2000's.  I believe the show was filmed in Canada, though I'm not certain.  I don't think it lasted very long - it was pretty dreadful.  I can say for certain the show is not Space Cop or Gerry Anderson's Space Precinct.
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I don't recall much about the show, and I think I only ever saw one episode, and my Google Fu is not up to snuff today.  The episode, most likely the pilot, came out around the same time as Babylon 5 and then just disappeared.  From what I remember the show was about the (small) crew of a ship. The cockpit of the ship was a upright bed-like contraption, and the cast were investigating a ship that had a radiation leak or something adrift in space.  There was a cast member who could shape-shift, similar to Odo from Deep Space 9, and another member was a barbaric warrior.  There was some sort of mystic stuff, but I may be confusing that with Babylon 5.  Overall the show was very similar, in my memory, to Deep Space 9 and Babylon 5 so I may be confusing things, but I do remember how I saw the similarities in the show to those shows and knew it wasn't the same show.  Any help?
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I am trying to identify an animated TV show for children that I watched as a child (younger than 6) between 1980 and 1986 in the UK.  The opening of each episode set the back story for the central character - a little girl - who accidentally ends up on a rocket ship which is launched to another world.  She possibly might be accompanied by either her dog or a cuddly toy, I am not sure - I vaguely remember it being her dog that escaped and got her trapped in the rocket while she chased after it.  The natives of the planet she lands on are generally friendly, and again vaguely I remember them having circular heads split into two (similar to the South Park baby).  The environment is jungle like.
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I am desperately trying to remember a name of a TV series probably from 90's. I remember these points:   A boy goes to another dimension through a portal near a power lines. This dimension has a sort of medieval world. There are bad guys with an electric suit and they throw lightning balls at the good guys. Before throwing, they always "charge" the suit by touching with forearms which has electrodes. In one episode, the main character creates a gun powder.
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I'm trying to remember the name of a graphic novel from the late 90's or early 00's. I've done a bunch of searching online but can't find anything. I don't have much to go off of. It was beautifully drawn series of comics or compiled into a graphic novel.   EDIT: Okay so after obsessing all night and reading the guide I might have a wee bit more to identify it.    It was mostly if not only B/W and a serial comic that were collected into several books.  Each book was some grand adventure in a new place (maybe) one of which was on a ship, or air ship, or balloon ship. The central character was this young girl who is looking for her parents or her parents died or something. She has tube like hair and giant eyes. She has been thrown into this fantasy world and is exploring/looking running from... haha. I think she has a crew of weird creature friends that are helping her. There's all these strange creatures, big and small and strange and beautiful landscapes. More on the girl: She looked a little like  and she acted young and would get angry a lot. The drawings were ornate and detailed, but who wouldn't be if you were thrown into a fantasy world.   The drawing style was almost like the style of Bone, or the Arrival.    It was so long ago, and I have this vivid memory of reading it, but I've even gone back to search through all the graphic novels at my old library where it was and it's not there... ha. I wonder if it was like a small publishing company or something.   Thanks Fuzzy for the edits!
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Does anyone remember a cartoon with 4-5 humanoid robots on Saturday morning in the mid-80s?  As far as I can remember, they had "powers" to zap things and maybe fly but I don't remember much of the story/plot/enemies/powers.  I don't remember humans in the show.  One scene I remember was the were on some ice world and were being chased by this huge polar kraken type monster.  They got cornered at the edge of this ice sheet and some water.  One of the robots (the leader I guess) asked if someone had any power to do anything.  They all looked at each other and one of the female robots said she did and zapped the ice sheet so they floated away from the kraken.  However, since all of them ran out of power, they couldn't do anything except stand on the ice sheet and float in the water.  I don't remember anything after this scene, probably because my parents shut off the TV, or I'm just that old.  It's also possible I caught the re-runs of it, so it's possible it's late 70s or early 80s.
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I’m looking for a TV show where an alien race comes to Earth and sets up big purple/pink cylindrical or cone shaped spaceships in various cities around the world. The Aliens are not hostile but actually created peace and eliminated hunger on Earth.    I believe the aliens had some human features and were wise and calm the main actor had a phone with a pull out screen I believe the main actor worked for or with the aliens I believe that in the last episode some humans and aliens go into some kind of pods and perhaps leave Earth? one of the space ships was located in a major US city. Maybe Washington DC or another East Coast city   Could someone please tell me what TV series this is? I have been searching everywhere and cannot find it. Thanks!
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I can remember only a few things regarding the show, as it was long ago, and probably late at night.  However, I do remember it had to be a series, because it ended on a cliffhanger, and it was animated, and it was on the T.V. I had an antenna, not cable or satellite at the time, so I'm thinking it was on Fox or ABC or CBS or PBS or something like that, sometime between the late 90's and the early 2000's. I remember the protagonist had something of a metallic/robotic hand, which he used as something of a key to access alien devices and converse with a motorcycle he received during the episode I watched. The motorcycle looked like an antique out of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and would function normally, unless you &quot;knew how to ask&quot;.  I remember in one chase scene, the protagonist could not get away until he held his hand over something that looked like a glass disk embedded in the gas can, and asked, &quot;Please&quot;.  Then the motorcycle transformed into a hoverbike and got the protagonist out of the tight spot. I remember the episode ended when he went to something of a below-ground alien house, ship or bunker, but I don't remember much else.
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So, I watched this in 1996 and thought it was pretty good, and now I want to find its title so I can rewatch it!  There's an experiment with a ship in order to make it completely invisible. Unfortunately, that experiment goes wrong and the ship ends up far in the future where the experiment has been started up again. This future experiment caused the ship from the past to teleport into the future. At random intervals, the ship teleports to a random place in the world and puts everyone in danger of dying because of it.
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I've been trying to track down a live-action children's TV series (or short story perhaps) from the 1980s or 1990s, probably on CBBC or CITV.  A few people I've spoken to IRL have suggested The Boy from Space or Sky, but I'm pretty sure it's neither as a lot of the details don't seem to match.  The story was set on Earth (possibly England or Wales) and was about an "alien" boy who was being pursued by a group of people, though I don't remember who they were.  Somehow he encountered siblings, a girl and a boy, and made friends with them. I think they lived on a farm with their parents, as I remember quite a large barn or other building, and they hid(?) the boy in a car which was inside or next to this building. He also slept in this car with a dog (which might have been a German shepherd).  The "alien" boy had a portable "radio" (all silver, very 1980s) that repelled his pursuers by emitting a high-pitched sound when he turned a dial on it, and he used it when out and about with the other children whenever they encountered a pursuer. I seem to remember lots of hills and valleys, lots of green.  In the end it turned out he wasn’t really an alien, but a human from the far future. He was pretending to be an alien as he was from 20000 years into the future and humans' appearance had changed by then, but he had the ability to make himself look like current-day humans. When he was in his car/bed he reverted to his normal appearance, so he would hide under the blankets until he was able to assume current-day human appearance.  In the finale, it was revealed that he was never in any danger – the pursuers were testing him as part of a kind of coming-of-age thing. I remember a scene on a spaceship or something where his elders/parents where shown telling him that he was safe all along and that he "passed".  I also seem to remember them referring to "ancestors" and making sure they didn't find out, so the either the girl or boy could well have been a direct ancestor.