SCIFI starter kid?

[Theonethatis]

For me it was four things. My parents were Star trek fans so Trek was always on. The first movie I saw was Star Wars so that was a huge influence. Also every Sunday the family gathered around the TV to watch Battlestar Galactica which for a 6 year old was mind shattering.

However one of the biggest shows of my early childhood was a little cartoon about a Flying ww2 battleship trying to save earth in one year. I watched Space battleship Yamato AKA Star Blazers with my father on the Family Film festival in LA. This was probably around 79 or 80. Needless to say we were both hooked. This began my lifelong love affair with anime.

 

[firehawk12]

It was TNG for me. At the height of syndication, I could watch four episodes a day and it was kind of glorious for a few years.

 

[RAMA]

My oldest sister was 9 yrs older than me, and when I was 7, I remember her going to the movies with her friends while I had to go to bed...she would come home and wake me, exciting me with stories of huge domes, and crystal cities in the Superman movie, and of the spectacle of Star Wars, both of which I did not see till several years later. At home I would barely be able to get the channel reception where the TOS show aired...it wasn't until the early 80s that I became a full ST fan!

RAMA

 

[caisson2delta]

TOS was the first television oriented scifi that I remember watching with my dad, uncles, and grandfather. I remember seeing Planet of the Apes and being scared shitless. For some reason that seemed so realistic to me. I remember being really into Space 1999 and the original Battlestar Galactica, when they were on. The first books I remember reading were the book versions of TAS (called Captain's Log IIRC) and a book called A Wrinkle in Time.

 

[RobertScorpio]

My oldest sister was 9 yrs older than me, and when I was 7, I remember her going to the movies with her friends while I had to go to bed...she would come home and wake me, exciting me with stories of huge domes, and crystal cities in the Superman movie, and of the spectacle of Star Wars, both of which I did not see till several years later. At home I would barely be able to get the channel reception where the TOS show aired...it wasn't until the early 80s that I became a full ST fan!

RAMA

I so identified with your past RAMA. I remember watching star trek reruns in the old days too. I lived in the desert, far from Los Angeles, and could barely recieve Channel 13 (KCOP). But if I put enough tinfoil on my rabit ears I could get it...years later when trek came out on standard DVD I remember seeing episodes I hadn't scene in years and seeing it so clear and being totally amazed..

Rob

 

[ngc7293]

I remember reruns of TOS and Lost in Space, but I think the TV show that did it for me was Space 1999 because I went to the effort to get the red 3-ring binder that had all the episodes and the fold out diagram of the base and other scientific stuff.

I was always into reading. I am not sure when I turned to Sci-fi.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I dont have much time to read as much as i did when I was younger. Going back to see old scifi shows is a fun to do, and Netlfix has a lot of the old ones for free streaming. I actually saw THEM last week, the movie about giant ants from the 1950s, and had a blast. And i remember seeing that movie when I was a kid and totally buying into the whacky scifi elements of that movie...

Rob

 

[Admiral2]

THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL and WAR OF THE WORLDS

These two, along with FORBIDDEN PLANET started me.

 

[Mary Ann]

I watched the original Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers when I was 7 or 8, but I was more into the Bionic Woman and Wonder Woman (and the Donny and Marie Show, but we'll ignore that. I was 8, OK?). My moment of sci-fi discovery was when I was 14 and had to read John Wyndham's <i>The Chrysalids</i> for school. I was blown away by the book but it never clicked that it was science fiction, which is why I couldn't find it in book shops for a few years. By the time I bought my own copy TNG was airing, and cemented my love for sci-fi.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Hey..I loved the DONNY AND MARIE show...I'm a little bit country....(fill in the blank)..

I so wish they would release Six million dollar man/Bionic woman dvds. The remake from a couple years ago was, IMO, lifeless and stupid. I'll take the 70s version please!!!

Rob

 

[WillsBabe]

For me it was a triple whammy of TOS, Space 1999 and Blake's 7. TOS has always been there for me. I can't remember a time when I wasn't watching it. I can consciously remember watching Space 1999, and pretending to me stuck on Alpha in the school playground. One of my most vivid memories was the first episode of Blake's 7 airing. I can remember the room I was in and the chair I was sitting in. I can remember glancing across at the tv, and from there I was hooked. I was 11 at the time, and for some reason, that first episode and my first chemistry lessons at school are intertwined.

I've read a few sf novels, and although I've always been a big reader, I've never really got into sf lit.

 

[LitmusDragon]

Transformers for me. Ba-weep-gra-na-weep-ninny-bong!

In high school I worked in a call center with a guy who was a huge trekkie, he lent me some VHS tapes of TNG and the rest is history.

 

[Tom]

Star Wars in 1977, I was 6

 

[RobertScorpio]

Star Wars in 1977, I was 6

When I read answers like yours, tom, I feel so old! Or when i realize that my now 25+ year old nephew was like 2 years old when TNG started....

But Star Wars was a great movie to cut your teeth on...you were lucky. My first scifi movie i can remember was VAMPIRES ON VENUS

Rob