Has there ever been a Sci-Fi spy show?

[Auriq]

Actually, it was the Eugenics Wars trilogy you wrote that convinced me that Assignment Earth would work as a great series.

Thanks for those books, by the way. Loved them all.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I'm still fond of Roddenberry's "Questor Tapes" concept.

 

[Mysterion]

I'm still fond of Roddenberry's "Questor Tapes" concept.

It was an interesting pilot. I don't think that there would have been much middle-ground if it had gone to series - it would have either been really, really good, or very, very bad.

 

[Christopher]

It seems that if Questor had gone to series, it would've basically been what Assignment: Earth would've been if Data had been the lead instead of Gary Seven.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Mike Farrell is no Terri Garr.

 

[The Dominion]

It seems that if Questor had gone to series, it would've basically been what Assignment: Earth would've been if Data had been the lead instead of Gary Seven.

Well I would probably watch that.

 

[Yevetha]

Does any sci fi series has specific episodes focusing on spying?

 

[Christopher]

Does any sci fi series has specific episodes focusing on spying?

Star Trek has its share, from "The Enterprise Incident" to anything to do with Section 31. I'm sure most SF adventure shows have episodes about the heroes going undercover to gather intelligence.

 

[Vendikarr]

It seems that if Questor had gone to series, it would've basically been what Assignment: Earth would've been if Data had been the lead instead of Gary Seven.

Plus add on an android discovering his humanity, which played out as Data's story.

 

[Christopher]

It seems that if Questor had gone to series, it would've basically been what Assignment: Earth would've been if Data had been the lead instead of Gary Seven.

Plus add on an android discovering his humanity, which played out as Data's story.

Well, yeah, that's implicit in the analogy I already made.

 

[Harvey]

I'm glad Christopher already mentioned The Prisoner, which is probably the definitive science fiction/spy series, even if most of the spying is in Number Six's past.

 

[xortex]

James Bond did 'Moonraker' to rake in the sci-fi dough. 'Firefly' should have pursued this direction and made them spies exposing distopian government corruption, but alas.. They didn't.

 

[JoeZhang]

Didn't Alias have some pretty big sci-fi elements?

 

[lennier1]

Didn't Alias have some pretty big sci-fi elements?

The magic Rambaldi Toilet Seat (tm) and stuff like that?

 

[Forbin]

Heck, MOST spy shows have been sci fi in some way.

 

[Vendikarr]

Heck, MOST spy shows have been sci fi in some way.

True. Most deal with technology advanced for their time, which puts them in sci-fi territory.

 

[23skidoo]

I'm glad Christopher already mentioned The Prisoner, which is probably the definitive science fiction/spy series, even if most of the spying is in Number Six's past.

For many years Patrick McGoohan tried to get a movie version of The Prisoner made. I remember reading an interview with him (might have been in Starlog) in which he mentioned that his concept at the time was to re-set the Prisoner several centuries into the future. Too bad that never got made.

The 2009 remake (which I liked more than I expected to) was a lot more SF than the original, but it removed the "former secret agent" element so it doesn't count as "spy-fi" the way McGoohan's did.

Alex

 

[stoneroses]

The Prisoner, 1967

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Get Smart deserves mention among the other 60's spy shows already named.

Gerry Anderson shows, such as Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and especially UFO, have major elements of spy shows, in particular the concept of secret agents belonging to hidden government organizations concerned with world security.

 

[Greg Cox]

Didn't Alias have some pretty big sci-fi elements?

Definitely. All the Rambaldi stuff, immortality, genetically-reconfigured evil twins, scary big balls of Red Matter, etc.

Meanwhile, wasn't Barbarella some sort of far-future secret agent?