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Fave Sci-Fi of the 70's

I'm enjoying this thread immensely. I can't believe I forgot about Alien! :wtf: Anyway, it's making me head over to amazon to stock up on some pre-Christmas viewing.
 
A Boy and his Dog
Alien
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Capricorn One
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Damnation Alley
Dark Star
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Fantastic Planet
Logan's Run
Mad Max
Rollerball
Silent Running
Sleeper
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Wars
THX 1138
The Andromeda Strain
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Stepford Wives
Westworld
Wizards
 
WillsBabe said:
I'm enjoying this thread immensely. I can't believe I forgot about Alien! :wtf: Anyway, it's making me head over to amazon to stock up on some pre-Christmas viewing.
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Yeah, this has been great. Thanks for the suggestions guys.
There are so many movies that i've missed. Its like a brand new movie is opening every week for me with the dvds.

Damnation Alley was a great doomsday movie. I always remembered the imagery of that with the orange skies, etc.
Soylent Green a cooking show.....hehe. Good one.

There was a memorable horror movie that comes to mind with Vincent Price called, 'Theatre of Blood'. This had alot of great a vibe to it. Not Sci-Fi but a classic imo.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070791/
 
Theatrical releases only? If not, "Night of the Lepus" was the shizzat back in the dizzay. :p
 
Also on TV in the 70's there were...

Series:
The Starlost
Fantastic Journey
Quark
Logan's Run (series)
Moonbase 3 (BBC, 1973)
The Tomorrow People, (ITV, Great Britain, 1973)
The Man from Atlantis

And TV movies/pilots
The Questor Tapes
Genesis II
Planet Earth
 
I was absolutely dazzled by the 1971 television movie Earth II - which was the failed pilot for a series entitled The Olympians - when I first saw it as a little kid circa 1978. The titular space station was actually based on a real-world proposal by the great astronautical engineer Krafft Ehricke, who also served as the film's technical advisor.

TGT
 
Did anyone mention the Invasion of the Body Snatchers remake?

The Six Million Dollar Man also started out as a couple of TV movies based on Cyborg.

Then there were all the wonderful Disney offerings like The Cat from Outer Space.
 
DS9Sega said:
Also on TV in the 70's there were...

Series:
The Starlost
Fantastic Journey
Quark
Logan's Run (series)
Moonbase 3 (BBC, 1973)
The Tomorrow People, (ITV, Great Britain, 1973)
The Man from Atlantis

And TV movies/pilots
The Questor Tapes
Genesis II
Planet Earth
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Oh yeah, the shows...
I vaguely remember a Planet of the Apes weekly show.
I would like to see the Logan's Run series. That might be a tough find.
Was it good?
 
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope and The Andromeda Strain are the only 70s sci-fi movies I really like at all. I haven't seen THX 1138, though.
 
Ptrope said:

Dark Star
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been meaning to get hold of a copy of that, was one of the shows that inspired Red Dwarf..


Dr Who - was a big fan when I was a child, Jon Pertwee was the first doctor I remember, then came along good old Tom Baker.....seemed to go downhill after he left... thats until its regeneration, great to see it back on top..

Alien
Star Wars
Planet of the apes
Six Million Dollar man - I always remember that strange musical effect they used to play when he was running :D
 
trekjiro said:
Oh yeah, the shows...
I vaguely remember a Planet of the Apes weekly show.
I would like to see the Logan's Run series. That might be a tough find.
Was it good?
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It shouldn't be that tough a find. It was repeated on the UK's Sci-fi channel recently (or possibly Bravo; I'm not 100% sure). But it wasn't very good. IIRC, it was cancelled before going a full season.
 
Every 70's sci-fi I've seen outside of Star Wars has sucked huge hairy donkey balls, not to be to blunt about it.

Logan's Run, Planet of the Apes, Alien, Close Encounters, can't remember if 2001 was 70s, pretty sure it was...

Hell, even Star Trek TMP sucked. Though I can endure it.

But no, outside of Star Wars? No favorites. Just a lot of trash.
 
Re: Fave Sci-Fi of the 70's/80's

Star Wars
The Planet of the Apes series
Battlestar Galactica
 
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