Name of a British SF series set on a space station?

[firehawk12]

Maybe this is a fever dream, but I seem to recall a science fiction series that was set on a space station... the only thing I seem to recall about it was that it was a near future/"realistic" series but I can't remember anything else about it.
Oh, it probably was also produced in the last decade or so? But I can't be sure.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[CaptainWacky]

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

 

[firehawk12]

Yeah, I think that's it... although that description doesn't make it look like I should try to find it.

You know, Moonbase 3, Star Cops and Jupiter Moon sound somewhat interesting as well... although those are probably more likely lost to the annals of time than Space Island One.

 

[Christopher]

^I've actually seen Moonbase 3. It was on cable, probably SciFi, back in the late '90s, I think. There is a DVD release, though probably only Region 2, I'd guess.

 

[The Laughing Vulcan]

Jupiter Moon, now there's a name from the depths of Hades.

It's one of the few reviews I've ever written that has royally pissed someone off to the point where they have riposted in aggrievance.

http://www.myreviewer.com/default.asp?a=60999

 

[firehawk12]

You've just got it wrong! Well, at least they were coherent.

I don't suppose anyone has seen Space Island One? Maybe it's Virtuality, but I'm sort of interested in getting into a show that's just about dudes in space.

 

[Marc]

You've just got it wrong! Well, at least they were coherent.

I don't suppose anyone has seen Space Island One? Maybe it's Virtuality, but I'm sort of interested in getting into a show that's just about dudes in space.

Space Island One got at late night run in Australia a few years and I gues it's what you'd call hard science fiction where they went went for a large degree of realism.

I can't remeber many of the story lines though.

Haven't seen Jupiter Moon or Moonbase 3. Star Cops I did see (thought it took me a couple of goes to get into). It was cut short by one of the frequent strikes that the BBC seem to have in years gone by. It was created (and written iirc) by Chris Boucher who did a lot of work on Blakes 7. Though one should never ask Chris what he though of the theme song peformed by Justin Haywood

 

[RAMA]

I was thinking Starcops

 

[Starbreaker]

Turgid. Must not be a masterpiece!

 

[zakkrusz]

Space 1999 is also technically about a space station....

 

[Admiral_Young]

Firehawk12...I do remember watching Space Island One...it had a female commander and an older balding guy as her chief engineer. It was one of Space's first shows...think it ran for a couple of series or something like that but I enjoyed it. It wasn't great or anything but decent and watchable...kind of like Starhunter.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

You've just got it wrong! Well, at least they were coherent.

I don't suppose anyone has seen Space Island One? Maybe it's Virtuality, but I'm sort of interested in getting into a show that's just about dudes in space.

There's always Defying Gravity which is supposed to be part of BBC 2's summer season. So it should be starting any month now.

 

[diankra]

^I've actually seen Moonbase 3. It was on cable, probably SciFi, back in the late '90s, I think. There is a DVD release, though probably only Region 2, I'd guess.

Probably so, but Moonbase 3 was actually a co-production between the BBC and MGM, which is why it still exists - the BBc didn't keep it, so it was resumed lost until, as you say, it suddenly appeared on US cable courtesy of the MGM vaults. Then the BBC asked for copies and rush released it on VHS to cash in onthe Doctor Who connection (its co-creator Trrance dicks, on being told it had turned up intact, said 'Oh no,it hasn't, has it?')
Suspect the Region 2 release has also been deleted by now, as it came out at least five years ago.

 

[diankra]

Firehawk12...I do remember watching Space Island One...it had a female commander.

Judy Loe - widow of Richard Beckinsale, and mother of Kate Beckinsale.

 

[Christopher]

Space 1999 is also technically about a space station....

No, it's about a moon station. A space station is a station that isn't supported by a planetary or lunar surface. We may think of the Moon's surface as being "in space" relative to us, but the Earth's surface is "in space" relative to someone on Mars, say. So if Moonbase Alpha is a space station, so is the Pentagon or Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

 

[firehawk12]

Well, I guess the difference in the context here is that Space 1999 was much "softer" than the other shows mentioned in the thread.

Maybe I'll just stick to Planetes... I need to finish that anyway. And as some dude on TVTropes said, it has "INVISIBLE LASERS", so it must be hard SF.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Space Precinct.

The answer to "Name of a british SF series..." is always Space Precinct.

 

[Hober Mallow]

I was thinking Starcops

Me too.