help needed to find name of a 90's series

[burge124]

i remember watching a sci fi series as a kid, it was on about 11pm on maybe c4 in the uk mid to late 90's.

it was a tv series based on a prison space ship think they only did one series then it got cancelled. think it had a number in the name of the series maybe 65 rings a bell?!? it isnt a film.

a couple of main characters including the captain of the ship a few others mostly all of the character were human, medium sized budget, a serious series with fairly dark in tone

think it was american filmed it definately wasnt babylon 5 it was its one unique series i dont know about the number in the title thats just a guess!

thanks for your help!

 

[WillsBabe]

Was there a prisoner who escaped, and some prison warden, a blonde woman had to chase him?

 

[tharpdevenport]

Only sci-fi TV series with numbers in the title I can think of:

"Space 1999"
"7 Days" (not it)
"Blake's 7"
"Buck Rogers In the 25th Century"

 

[Rincewiend]

i remember watching a sci fi series as a kid, it was on about 11pm on maybe c4 in the uk mid to late 90's.

it was a tv series based on a prison space ship think they only did one series then it got cancelled. think it had a number in the name of the series maybe 65 rings a bell?!? it isnt a film.

a couple of main characters including the captain of the ship a few others mostly all of the character were human, medium sized budget, a serious series with fairly dark in tone

think it was american filmed it definately wasnt babylon 5 it was its one unique series i dont know about the number in the title thats just a guess!

thanks for your help!

Space Precinct?

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkW_k8FZMGY[/yt]

 

[captcalhoun]

that aired on BBC 2...

 

[ThunderAeroI]

i remember watching a sci fi series as a kid, it was on about 11pm on maybe c4 in the uk mid to late 90's.

it was a tv series based on a prison space ship think they only did one series then it got cancelled. think it had a number in the name of the series maybe 65 rings a bell?!? it isnt a film.

a couple of main characters including the captain of the ship a few others mostly all of the character were human, medium sized budget, a serious series with fairly dark in tone

think it was american filmed it definately wasnt babylon 5 it was its one unique series i dont know about the number in the title thats just a guess!

thanks for your help!

I'd pan Red Dwarf here, but I might gt into too much trouble.

 

[EnsignRicky]

Only sci-fi TV series with numbers in the title I can think of:

"Space 1999"
"7 Days" (not it)
"Blake's 7"
"Buck Rogers In the 25th Century"

Babylon 5
Deep Space Nine
The Six Million Dollar Man
Earth 2
3rd Rock From the Sun
Galactica 1980

 

[Mr Light]

Space Above and Beyond?

 

[Trekker4747]

Only sci-fi TV series with numbers in the title I can think of:

"Space 1999"
"7 Days" (not it)
"Blake's 7"
"Buck Rogers In the 25th Century"

Babylon 5
Deep Space Nine
The Six Million Dollar Man
Earth 2
3rd Rock From the Sun
Galactica 1980

24

 

[Christopher]

it was a tv series based on a prison space ship think they only did one series then it got cancelled. think it had a number in the name of the series maybe 65 rings a bell?!? it isnt a film.

a couple of main characters including the captain of the ship a few others mostly all of the character were human, medium sized budget, a serious series with fairly dark in tone

Your description is very unclear, but some of this suggests Blake's 7, a British series from the '80s, created by Terry Nation (creator of the Daleks).

 

[Angel4576]

Doesn't quite fit, and it was three seasons, but Lexx?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexx

 

[Trilliam]

Iwas going to suggest Blake's 7, but that ran in the 80s and had at least 2 seasons.

 

[Christopher]

^Well, memories can be distorted. In fact, Blake's 7 ran for four seasons, but they were 13 episodes each so the total was only 52 episodes, which would've been equivalent to only two US seasons at the time. And while its original run was in the '80s, it was surely rerun in the '90s in some places.

But it was set on a ship whose crew were escaped prisoners or criminals, it did feature a prison ship per se in the first episode, it did have a number in the title, it was set in a mostly-human universe, it did have a modest budget, and it was a rather dark series. If there's anything else that fits more of the parameters of the description, it's nothing I've ever heard of (and nothing that the compilers of the TV Tropes "Prison Ship" page have ever heard of either).

 

[Trilliam]

^Well, memories can be distorted. In fact, Blake's 7 ran for four seasons, but they were 13 episodes each so the total was only 52 episodes, which would've been equivalent to only two US seasons at the time. And while its original run was in the '80s, it was surely rerun in the '90s in some places.

But it was set on a ship whose crew were escaped prisoners or criminals, it did feature a prison ship per se in the first episode, it did have a number in the title, it was set in a mostly-human universe, it did have a modest budget, and it was a rather dark series. If there's anything else that fits more of the parameters of the description, it's nothing I've ever heard of (and nothing that the compilers of the TV Tropes "Prison Ship" page have ever heard of either).

I watched in the early 80s. I don't recall the ABC re-broadcasting it. They mayhave, I didn't watch it if they did. I only watched series 1 again as my kids gave it to me a couple of birthdays ago. I may have only watched the first 2 or 3 series (what we call them here, not seasons ).

 

[Marc]

^Well, memories can be distorted. In fact, Blake's 7 ran for four seasons, but they were 13 episodes each so the total was only 52 episodes, which would've been equivalent to only two US seasons at the time. And while its original run was in the '80s, it was surely rerun in the '90s in some places.

But it was set on a ship whose crew were escaped prisoners or criminals, it did feature a prison ship per se in the first episode, it did have a number in the title, it was set in a mostly-human universe, it did have a modest budget, and it was a rather dark series. If there's anything else that fits more of the parameters of the description, it's nothing I've ever heard of (and nothing that the compilers of the TV Tropes "Prison Ship" page have ever heard of either).

I watched in the early 80s. I don't recall the ABC re-broadcasting it. They mayhave, I didn't watch it if they did. I only watched series 1 again as my kids gave it to me a couple of birthdays ago. I may have only watched the first 2 or 3 series (what we call them here, not seasons ).

No I don't think the ABC ever re-ran B7 after the final episode which I think aired in January 1983 for Australian audiences.

It did get a re-run in the mid-00's on UkTV on Foxtel and I think they might of done one in the 90s.

 

[Small White Car]

When I read the thread title I immediately thought of Parker Lewis Can't Lose.

I've read your post now but I have no clue what the answer is. So I guess I'm just gonna stick with my gut instinct and submit PLCL as my suggestion.

 

[Docbrown777]

Caged Heat 3000!

Ah, how I spent puberty trying to watch it on the scrambled cable channel.

Good times.

 

[burge124]

Space Above and Beyond is close

the whole series was based on the ship, think one episode they got attacked and another a prisoner escaped etc...

thanks

 

[Data Holmes]

Caged Heat 3000!

Ah, how I spent puberty trying to watch it on the scrambled cable channel.

Good times.

You ever do the bar magnet trick?

 

[captcalhoun]

Space: Above and Beyond had aliens in and was about Marines fighting a war. space battles with dogfights.