Other '60s SF besides TOS?

[Captain Robert April]

For example I think the style changes in TOS season 3 were influnced by 'what was popular' (ie Batman); and it's one reason they didn't have an issue with the more campy aspects of a lot od Sreason 3; as it was scene as 'popular' by the TV industry of the time.

They took that approach with the third season of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.", i.e., going for more campy stuff, and it damned near killed the show. They switched back to more serious stuff for the fourth season, but by then the damage had been done and they got canceled.

 

[Andrew_Kearley]

The Year Of The Sex Olympics??? I've certainly never heard of that one.

Well worth checking out. Nigel Kneale's seminal play about the media of the future.

 

[RandyS]

Okay, maybe I spoke a bit loosely. I should've said that science fiction is about any speculative scientific or technological advance or any non-magical alternate world/society. The point is that it's an astonishingly narrow definition to say that something like Batman can't be science fiction unless it has spaceships or aliens in it.

Well, now to be fair, I never said "Batman wasn't science fiction". I said, "I don't see how it could be considered science fiction". And I still feel that way. But, I would agree that it had elements of fantasy to it.

 

[mb22]

Also the 1967 BATMAN comedy clones MR. TERRIFIC (CBS) and CAPTAIN NICE (NBC).

 

[Potemkin_Prod]

Like Jonny Quest, and so on.

Exactly. You can add in Space Ghost, Frankenstein Jr, The Impossibles, Dino-Boy, to name a few more.

What's distinctive about The Jetsons and The Flintstones is that, in their first run, they both aired in prime time, and were considered family shows.

I believe the same holds true for Jonny Quest.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I believe the same holds true for Jonny Quest.

You are correct! I did not know that. What a shocker!

 

[Noname Given]

Like Jonny Quest, and so on.

Exactly. You can add in Space Ghost, Frankenstein Jr, The Impossibles, Dino-Boy, to name a few more.

What's distinctive about The Jetsons and The Flintstones is that, in their first run, they both aired in prime time, and were considered family shows.

I believe the same holds true for Jonny Quest.

You left out my favorite show when I was 5 - The Herculoids