Outcasts is a Science Fiction serial that ran on BBC1 beginning in February 2011. Because we don’t have cable, and it seem not many liked the show, I had no idea of it’s existence until Netflix recommended it to me. I’ve been watching episodes of it off and on for the past few weeks. It has...

The Bionic Woman is a sci-fi series that aired for eight episodes in 2007 on NBC. It is a re-imaging of the original series from the 1970’s starring Lindsey Wagner. That series was itself a spin-off of the Six Million Dollar Man, which spun out of the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin. The character of the...

Flash Gordon is a science fiction television series that aired on the Sci-Fi Channel from August 10, 2007 through February 8, 2008. The series follows the adventures of Steve “Flash” Gordon who lives in Maryland with his mother and whose scientist father was lost in a mysterious accident when Flash was...

Automan was a science fiction show that ran for 12 (of 13) episodes on ABC from 1983 to 1984. It starred Desi Arnez Jr., Chuck Wagner and Heather McNair. It was produced by prolific television produced Glen A. Larson, who also produced the original Battlestar Galactica, The Fall Guy, Magnum P.I., and Knight...

Voyagers! is a science fiction and time-travel based show that ran on NBC for 20 episodes from October 1982 to July 1983. It starred Jon Erik Hexum as time agent Phineas Bogg and Meeno Peluce as Jeffery Jones. Bong is every bit the macho, swashbuckling hero who remembers time periods by the women more than...

The Flash TV series ran for one season on CBS from September 20, 1990 to May 18, 1991 for 22 episodes. The character of the Flash (Silver Age) first appeared in Showcase #4 in October of 1956. John Wesley Shipp portrayed the duo role of forensic scientist Barry Allen and the super powered Flash. Amanda Pays...

Galactica 1980. No pairing of words and numbers brings such an immediate groan to the lips of the collective Geek Culture. I would not dream of wasting time trying to defend this total misstep. But if you look at the pieces, you might find something potentially brilliant. For the uninformed, Galactica 1980...

The Dresden Files were based (the author would say inspired) by the books of Jim Butcher. The series premiered in January of 2007 on the Sci Fi Channel (now SyFy) and ran for 12 episodes before its cancelation in August 2007. The series follows the exploits of Harry Dresden, a professional wizard /private...

Based in overall concept if not content to the popular comic, The Birds of Prey the series follows the exploits of Barbara Gordon, the former Batgirl and now Oracle, Helena Kyle (nee Wayne), the Huntress, and Dinah Redmond (nee Dinah Lance) as Black Canary. The series ran for 13 episodes from late 2002...

It is always amazing how some shows thrive and others wither on the vine, especially genre shows. Shows with much more complicated and exhausting histories like X-Files and Fringe seem to thrive but a fairly straight forward story of a dead cop hired by the Devil to return escaped killers to hell doesn’t...