British TV Sci-Fi

Shoestring Fantasy

Rossum’s Universal Robots

Karel Čapek’s famous play about robots

Broadcast by the BBC in 1938

Stranger From Space

1951

First TV sci-fi serial in Britain

Targeted at children

A Martian boy lands in his ‘Space Boat’

The Quatermass Experiment

1953

Written by Nigel Kneale

Broadcast live

Budget: £4000

1st 2 eps amongst earliest British TV to have survived

The Quatermass Experiment

Professor Bernard Quatermass, British Experimental Rocket Group

Later made into a Hammer Film

Quatermass II & Quatermass and the Pit followed

The Avengers

The Avengers

1961

Created by Sydney Newman

John Steed & Co working for ‘The Ministry’

“Spy-fi”

Doctor Who

Doctor Who

1963

Created by Sydney Newman

Travelling through time and space in ... a box

Longest running sci-fi series in the world

The TARDIS

Thunderbirds

Thunderbirds

1965

Created by Gerry Anderson

Space: 1999

UFO

The Prisoner

1967

Created by Patrick McGoohan

The Village

Geeks

Yes, Definitely Geeks

The Year of the Sex Olympics

1968

Written by Nigel Kneale

The Live Life Show

Shot in colour, but tapes wiped

Blakes 7

Blakes 7

1978

Created by Terry Nation

Follows band of criminals

Story arc

Sapphire & Steel

Sapphire and Steel

1979

Created by Peter J Hammond

“Mending Time”

THHGTTG

THHGTTG

1981 (on TV)

Created by Douglas Adams

The Tripods

The Tripods

1984

John Cristopher’s novel, produced by Richard Bates

Red Dwarf

1988

Created by Grant Naylor, Rob Grant & Doug Naylor

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