The show/movie that got you into Sci Fi?

[Candlelight]

I just found mine is out on DVD!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Fleet-Complete-DVD/dp/B00171EE9E

I loved this show when it first came out. I was hooked, week after week following the crew of the X-Bomber in what was an early (1982) story arc-driven series.

That and Doctor Who, but this show came first for me.

What got you hooked?

 

[CaptainCanada]

Reruns of all the Star Trek shows on SPACE.

 

[Admiral2]

George Pal's War Of The Worlds! and Forbidden Planet.

Also, The Twilight Zone.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

STAR WARS.

Ruined my life.

Gotta blame something.

 

[Bingo]

Re-runs of Star Trek in the mid-1980s. LOTR at the same time. Burned into me forever.
Then again, it could have been Star Wars (although that's not really science fiction)

 

[acs12798]

It was actually the Asimov Foundation Books that got me into Scifi. However, I do have a distinct memory of being sick in school and watching the lost in space marathons on cable and really liking them. Thats probably the earliest Scifi TV I really remember watching.

 

[HighteeHeller]

It was reading Monica Hughes books that started my love of sci-fi. I must have been in my early teens when i read them, followed by the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and a few Bradbury around the same time. I read the Dune series when i was in my later teens that finally sealed the deal.

Although i do remember watching Star Trek and Dr. Who with my dad when i was little. I loved watching them with him.

 

[nx1701g]

Believe it or not: Star Trek: Voyager.

 

[Candlelight]

Sorry, I should've put books in the title.

 

[archeryguy1701]

For me it was Star Trek. My parents always joke/ whine about how they let me watch Star Trek (I think TNG) as a baby, and it's always stuck with me since then. However, it took me a while to branch out and get into other things that weren't Star Trek. I think I liked a few Sci-Fi movies, and then Stargate SG1 season 6 in syndication was my first non-Trek TV experience.

 

[Davros]

Star Trek
Planet Of The Apes
Logan's Run

 

[Temis the Vorta]

TOS, as a kid. But really it was DS9 that made me a Trekkist, Niner variety.

I really got into sci fi via novels rather than TV. When I was ten or so, I was a big fan of Andre Norton's stuff - Forerunner Foray for instance. When I was about 13 or 14, I started borrowing my oldest brother's collection of Edgar Rice Burroughs sci fi. Then I discovered Ursula LeGuin and Philip K. Dick.

 

[miraclefan]

From what I've been told, being a sci-fi nerd is in my familys gene's I would say STAR TREK & STAR WARS are what did me in though!

 

[God Magnus]

It's super cliche, but it was Star Wars and Star Trek. I can't quite remember which I was exposed to first by my mother, but they were very omnipresent during my youth.

 

[Lindley]

My earliest scifi memory is reading the book The Forgotten Door in 3rd grade.

Really, Star Wars books are what did it. I'm pretty sure I'd seen ANH and the second half of ROTJ before reading Heir To The Empire, but I wasn't *really* familiar with Star Wars....just enough to recognize the name when I saw the book at my school's book fair.

I remember thinking that the whole Jabba referenced there must have been in the second movie because I didn't remember it. I was surprised to find it was in Jedi, just the part of it I hadn't seen yet.

Got into Trek in much the same way. Saw a couple of random episodes at a friend's house---including, fortuitiously, "The Way of the Warrior Part 2"----and then picked up one of the novels (TOS: The Rings of Tautee) when there was a lull in the Star Wars release schedule.

Soon after started buying up the novels en masse from my local used bookstore after that. Eventually decided I'd better see the shows too, so I began getting the VHS tapes from Columbia House.

 

[Starbreaker]

Oddly enough, it was Animorphs, and then Orion by Ben Bova. As far as TV shows go, The Tomorrow People.

 

[commodore64]

TOS in syndication. I loved it. Afterward, I watched Logan's Run (the television series), oldBSG, Star Wars .... A fan was born.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I don't remember the first exactly, it might have well been the Six Million Dollar Man. Of things that could have predated Star Wars which came out when I was six, there is the Six Million Dollar Man, Bionic Woman, Wonder Woman and Land of the Lost but I don't remember the order in which any of those were watched. I was kind of a lost cause from the beginning...

 

[trevanian]

The CBS evening news, covering the Apollo program.

That led to THE RELUCTANT ASTRONAUT and IT'S ABOUT TIME, IT'S ABOUT SPACE, and of course 2001: a space odyssey and then books like THE RUNAWAY ROBOT and TUNNEL THROUGH TIME.

Eventually wound up seeing Trek in syndication in early 70s, but 2001 was the big decider for me (I'd already seen it 6 times by then.)

 

[TGTheodore]

When I was VERY small, it was Fireball XL-5 and The Adventures of Superman.

But what solidified it for me were TOS, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, and the original The Andromeda Strain.

--Ted