Which was your first series?
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Fireball XL5 back in 1963!!
That makes two of us! (Hence my screen name here... I do need to get an image of Robert up as an avatar!...).
Although I may have actually been watching a year or two later as episodes were being rebroadcast in the States....
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea cruised in at about the same time.
Best Christmas ever was getting both my Revco Seaview playset AND my Fireball XL5 with the tiny plastic figures....
Star Trek TOS, as a lad in the 70s rerun cycle, mostly on a Sony b/w TV about 6" diagonally.
Almost spot on to my experience. Except my TV was a 13" black and white Zenith.
Oh man, I remember this from a long time ago, but I always confuse it with Land of the Lost. It's actually one of the first I remember along with Lost in Space and The Time Tunnel. TOS is probably up there too.
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Yep, TOS for me, too.
Star Trek TOS, as a lad in the 70s rerun cycle, mostly on a Sony b/w TV about 6" diagonally.
Almost spot on to my experience. Except my TV was a 13" black and white Zenith.
I believe I saw every episode of TOS in b/w before seeing one in color. It looked a little garish to me in color for YEARS lol...
Ah, Battlestar Galactica TOS or when Starbuck was still male. One of my favourites back in the days.
I also watched Buck Rogers, but I didn't like it as much as ST or BSG.
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Either 'Thunderbirds', 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea' or 'Star Trek The Animated Series'. I'm not completely sure which i saw first, given i was quite young. BBC2 in the late eighties/early nineties when i grew up used to run reruns of the above programs on Sunday, so i got indoctrinated into science fiction quite easily.
I also remember being scared to death by 'The War of the Worlds' movie, then finding my parents LP of the musical sticking it on and having nightmares for weeks that i was one of the astronauts featured in it's epilogue.
I also remember being scared to death by 'The War of the Worlds' movie, then finding my parents LP of the musical sticking it on and having nightmares for weeks that i was one of the astronauts featured in it's epilogue.
Space Cases!
Honestly, I can't remember that far back. There was Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Batman, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Wild Wild West . . . I remember watching them all as a kid. No idea which one I saw first.
I remember Land of the Giants and Time Tunnel as well, but those came later. Ditto for The Avengers with John Steed and Emma Peel. (Oddly, I have no absolutely no memories of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.)
I remember Land of the Giants and Time Tunnel as well, but those came later. Ditto for The Avengers with John Steed and Emma Peel. (Oddly, I have no absolutely no memories of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.)
Same. I was six years old. Back then I thought it was stupid. But it was my gateway drug to other series.
The Outer Limits terrified me as a child. Especially the opening credits:
"We have taken control of your television set . . . "
I of course watched a lot of varied things as a kid. But the first show that I took the initiative to watch weekly from the beginning all the way through its run was Deep Space Nine. I was 12 or so when it started, and more or less grew up with it.
BSG-TOS, Superfriends and Ark II spring to mind.
It'd have to be Six Million Dollar Man and Wonder Woman.
Trek definitely wouldn't be the same without color.
Star Trek TOS, as a lad in the 70s rerun cycle, mostly on a Sony b/w TV about 6" diagonally.
Almost spot on to my experience. Except my TV was a 13" black and white Zenith.
Trek definitely wouldn't be the same without color.
Oh, yeah. The scariest thing I ever saw on a TV as a kid was the 'ghost' of "Dundee's Planet" from Wolf 359
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