Seriously isn't grumpy overly serious, scifi shows ace! Especially when it's got beards and sinister theme tunes.
Starting with Doomwatch (70s) via Doomwatch, The Tripods, the Last Train (90s ITV), Chimera, First Born.
I love Dr Who, but there's a real charm to these serious minded, bed wetters.
And rats lots of rubber rats!
Way better than the pallid US fare of the time.
Too cold and unwelcoming for me. I'll stick with Quantum Leap.
Not from the eighties (I dont think?) But The Survivors fits this as well; what an awesome show that was! I watched it on UK Gold, Im not an old fogey.
Quote: sootyj @ May 25 2008, 12:38 PM BSTSeriously isn't grumpy overly serious, scifi shows ace!
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Quote: Leevil @ May 25 2008, 12:40 PM BSTI'll stick with Quantum Leap.
Ah, one of the best final episodes ever; along with The Prisoner. Suddenly went weird as shit and ended things really rather grimly! Brilliant.
Loved Quantum Leap, I just wish I could leap. But I've got to get this miserablist comedy writer, a BBC commission. I maybe here some time Al.
And Survivors was ace, how many other shows would hang the sympathetic learning disabled character?
Quote: Matthew Stott @ May 25 2008, 12:44 PM BSTAh, one of the best final episodes ever; along with The Prisoner. Suddenly went weird as shit and ended things really rather grimly! Brilliant.
I never saw the final ep. What happened to him?
Can't remember exactly, but he decides to carry on leaping, for ever n ever.
Quote: Leevil @ May 25 2008, 12:40 PM BSTToo cold and unwelcoming for me. I'll stick with Quantum Leap.
Yes!
Quote: Leevil @ May 25 2008, 12:53 PM BSTCan't remember exactly, but he decides to carry on leaping, for ever n ever.
That's not grim! At least he'd live an exciting life.
Quote: ian_w @ May 25 2008, 12:52 PM BSTI never saw the final ep. What happened to him?
Went to a sort of surreal limbo, full of the people hed met in previous leaps, and a bar man who might be God. He was informed that he could have gone home anytime he wanted to, he just had to really want to; at the end it says he never got home! Grim!
Quote: Matthew Stott @ May 25 2008, 12:57 PM BSTWent to a sort of surreal limbo, full of the people hed met in previous leaps, and a bar man who might be God. He was informed that he could have gone home anytime he wanted to, he just had to really want to; at the end it says he never got home! Grim!
In the sense that he must've had a really shit life in his normal body I suppose. God is a barman? 
Love it! Probably the best barman...
Quote: Matthew Stott @ May 25 2008, 12:44 PM BSTAh, one of the best final episodes ever; along with The Prisoner. Suddenly went weird as shit and ended things really rather grimly! Brilliant.
I haven't seen the last episode since it was on telly back in '94.
I was always a bit confused by the ending. It was sad.
I'd love to watch The Tripods. I read a couple of books based on the series and found them entertaining.
Ooh, and he leaped back and tweaked aomething in Als past, so Al ended up happy and with his one true love; which was a nice ending for him.
I wouldn't mind seeing The Prisoner, ever repeated?