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ilovemydualg4
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posted June 13, 2002 16:58     Click Here to See the Profile for ilovemydualg4   Click Here to Email ilovemydualg4     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
what is your fav? i really like outerlimits (the new ones) good old' invisible man, and some of the twighlight zones

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SpikeSpiegel
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posted June 13, 2002 17:00     Click Here to See the Profile for SpikeSpiegel   Click Here to Email SpikeSpiegel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
im a Voyager child.. only scifi show that i will watch for one reason: Seven of Nine

and yea i watch some Enterprise for one reason again: the hot vulcan chick


i also watch some original star trek cuz its just plain hilarious..

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posted June 13, 2002 17:03     Click Here to See the Profile for ilovemydualg4   Click Here to Email ilovemydualg4     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by SpikeSpiegel:
im a Voyager child.. only scifi show that i will watch for one reason: Seven of Nine

and yea i watch some Enterprise for one reason again: the hot vulcan chick


i also watch some original star trek cuz its just plain hilarious..


lol, voyager is good, but enterprise really sucks

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posted June 13, 2002 19:11     Click Here to See the Profile for SpikeSpiegel   Click Here to Email SpikeSpiegel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
no voyager had a lot of really stupid episodes... but i have only seen a hand full of enterprise... but the ones i have seen the new chick T'Pol really is carrying the whole series..

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Hikaru
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posted June 14, 2002 01:06     Click Here to See the Profile for Hikaru     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
ooh lets see, in no particular order
SeaQuest before it got weird,
Earth 2
Voyager
Space Rangers of fort Hope
Original Trek
Quantum Leap
V
V2
Twilight Zone
that show from the early 80's that was a Tron ripoff about the dude who was made by some geeks computer
and Battelstr Gallactica
Others I just cannot remeber them at the moment

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Hikaru
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posted June 14, 2002 01:08     Click Here to See the Profile for Hikaru     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
that Disney TV Movie Earth Star Voyager
I quit watching TV a few years ago, I only catch new stuff if Im at a freinds house so pardon my not mentioning any new stuff

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ilovemydualg4
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posted June 14, 2002 02:59     Click Here to See the Profile for ilovemydualg4   Click Here to Email ilovemydualg4     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by SpikeSpiegel:
no voyager had a lot of really stupid episodes... but i have only seen a hand full of enterprise... but the ones i have seen the new chick T'Pol really is carrying the whole series..


lol. yeah, some voyagers were bad, but i think they were in general a lot better than enterprise

if you can understand my sig, then you may be able to understand better my expression towards star trek

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posted June 14, 2002 07:40     Click Here to See the Profile for Lukasha   Click Here to Email Lukasha     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Babylon 5, natch.

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ilovemydualg4
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posted June 14, 2002 11:31     Click Here to See the Profile for ilovemydualg4   Click Here to Email ilovemydualg4     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Lukasha:
Babylon 5, natch.

ack, i hate babolon 5

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posted June 14, 2002 11:46     Click Here to See the Profile for Erbo   Click Here to Email Erbo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by ilovemydualg4:
ack, i hate babolon 5

Blasphemer!

In order to really appreciate Babylon 5, you have to check out the Babylon 5 Web pages first, and you'll probably need to watch at least three episodes before you figure out who's doing what to whom. (Figuring out why will take longer.)

It is most decidedly not like any incarnation of Star Trek; things are not resolved in the last 10 minutes of the episode, resetting all the characters back to where they were at the start. It's a real story that evolves over time. (Deep Space Nine started doing the story arc thing later in its run, which greatly improved the show.) None of the characters stays the same throughout the show's run; they all change and transform in some fashion.

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Hikaru
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posted June 14, 2002 12:16     Click Here to See the Profile for Hikaru     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
my only comment about B5 is
"If it was that great of a show and the storyline was an evolving story, then they would have shown it at a time that the audience could find day to day and in order"

I watched it three times and each time it was the exact same ep, and this was over the course of 3 months
I did like the Vorlon ships tho and those lizard people were neat, but the Menbari were like a conglomerate of a few trek races (Vulcans, Betazoid and maby a few other)

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posted June 14, 2002 12:21     Click Here to See the Profile for magebard   Click Here to Email magebard     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, Enterprise,
Babylon 5, Crusade, ST:TNG, ST S9,
ST:Voy, ST:TOS, Seaquest, Earth 2,
Earth: Final Conflict (til they killed Augur),
I watch too much TV, Quantum Leap,
Twilight Zone, Battlestar Galactica,
Space 1999, 7 Days, Special Unit 2,
and I must be forgetting tons more.

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ilovemydualg4
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posted June 14, 2002 14:25     Click Here to See the Profile for ilovemydualg4   Click Here to Email ilovemydualg4     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Erbo:
Blasphemer!

In order to really appreciate Babylon 5, you have to check out the Babylon 5 Web pages first, and you'll probably need to watch at least three episodes before you figure out who's doing what to whom. (Figuring out why will take longer.)

It is most decidedly not like any incarnation of Star Trek; things are not resolved in the last 10 minutes of the episode, resetting all the characters back to where they were at the start. It's a real story that evolves over time. (Deep Space Nine started doing the story arc thing later in its run, which greatly improved the show.) None of the characters stays the same throughout the show's run; they all change and transform in some fashion.



nah, ive seen the first episodes, and the ones which have been on lately and HATE them

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SpikeSpiegel
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posted June 14, 2002 14:31     Click Here to See the Profile for SpikeSpiegel   Click Here to Email SpikeSpiegel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
andromeda is messed up... babylon 5 wuz good

what about the other 4 babylons where were they?

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LifetimeTrekker
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posted June 14, 2002 15:32     Click Here to See the Profile for LifetimeTrekker   Click Here to Email LifetimeTrekker     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
My favorite of all time was Lost in Space--the original, not the crappy movie.

The first six to ten episodes (in black and white!) were really great sci-fi. Then it slid into schlock and stayed there, but I was hooked and too young to give up hope that it would remember it's root.


Star Trek (TOS) replaced it for a while, but when LIS is available, I'll still watch it.

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posted June 14, 2002 17:54     Click Here to See the Profile for greycat     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by SpikeSpiegel:
babylon 5 wuz good

what about the other 4 babylons where were they?


The first three were destroyed. The fourth was completed, but mysteriously vanished. If you watch the whole series, you'll find out exactly what happened to it. That's all I will say.

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ilovemydualg4
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posted June 14, 2002 18:04     Click Here to See the Profile for ilovemydualg4   Click Here to Email ilovemydualg4     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by LifetimeTrekker:
My favorite of all time was Lost in Space--the original, not the crappy movie.

The first six to ten episodes (in black and white!) were really great sci-fi. Then it slid into schlock and stayed there, but I was hooked and too young to give up hope that it would remember it's root.


Star Trek (TOS) replaced it for a while, but when LIS is available, I'll still watch it.



yeah a few summers ago orig. LIS was on sci fi channel, and they were sooooo funny and good

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posted June 14, 2002 20:55     Click Here to See the Profile for Frost     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Andromeda, defently the best show on now for series with story arcs, Enterprise is ok, Mutant X is fairly good.
From the 90's you have ST:Voyager, Farscape,Stargate SG-1
From the 80s you have Quantum Leap, ST:TNG
From the 70s Six Million Dollar Man, Space 1999

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posted June 15, 2002 07:40     Click Here to See the Profile for rw   Click Here to Email rw     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Does The Prisoner count as SF?
Thanks for reminding me about Lost in Space, LT ... definitely a great show.
No one has yet mentioned Dr. Who.
And don't forget about My Mother the Car! (Ha ha, just joking about that last one )

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posted June 15, 2002 08:53     Click Here to See the Profile for ilovemydualg4   Click Here to Email ilovemydualg4     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
which reminds me of earth: final conflict, in the begining it was good, then it got realllly bad

when i see the re-runs of quantum leap i shudder....

first wave is ok too along with taht new show on sci fi... theone that is like outerlimits

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posted June 15, 2002 13:47     Click Here to See the Profile for FatGnome   Click Here to Email FatGnome     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Ok so I like Andromeda, Deep Space 9, and I am not sure if you would call it a sci-fi but I am kind of partial to Red Dwarf as well. I know I know it is a comedy but it is based against kind of a sci-fi back ground.

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posted June 15, 2002 15:04     Click Here to See the Profile for Steen   Click Here to Email Steen     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I'm not too discriminating when it comes to sci-fi on TV. I enjoy just about all of it, but my current favorite show has to be Farscape. I've developed a love of the color blue....

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posted June 15, 2002 17:31     Click Here to See the Profile for ilovemydualg4   Click Here to Email ilovemydualg4     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
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I'm not too discriminating when it comes to sci-fi on TV. I enjoy just about all of it, but my current favorite show has to be Farscape. I've developed a love of the color blue....

haha....
i get it.....
finally something i get....
farscape is ok

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posted June 15, 2002 19:02     Click Here to See the Profile for SpikeSpiegel   Click Here to Email SpikeSpiegel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by greycat:
The first three were destroyed. The fourth was completed, but mysteriously vanished. If you watch the whole series, you'll find out exactly what happened to it. That's all I will say.

yea i know.. i watched most of it.. im just asking why they didnt make four other babylon shows? i kno what happens to them..

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posted June 17, 2002 09:55     Click Here to See the Profile for MariRumpus   Click Here to Email MariRumpus     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Hikaru:
my only comment about B5 is
"If it was that great of a show and the storyline was an evolving story, then they would have shown it at a time that the audience could find day to day and in order"

I watched it three times and each time it was the exact same ep, and this was over the course of 3 months


Well, for the longest time the SciFi channel was showing every episode of B5 in order at 7:00 p.m. on weeknights, about as mainstream as you can get. I saw it all the way through at least three times that way. I picked it up in the second season of its original run, which was a good idea, since the first season sucked pretty bad, even though you need the info to figure out the rest of the show.

I like it because it's intelligent SF, stuff that takes an actively angaged brain to figure out. Politics that pull no punches. And because it had stuff from _The Demolished Man_ in it, with a nod in the form of the author-character, Al Bester, easily one of the creeepiest villains around, if only because he's so reasonable (and played by ST TOS Ensign Checkov!). _The Domeolished Man_ was the first novel ever to win the Hugo Award, the biggest award in SF. It was written more than half a century ago, and remains one of the greatest Sf books ever written. That JMS (a damn fine writer in his own regard) could successfully incorporate its ideas and ideals into B5 speaks very well of him. SF is the literature of ideas, and JMS proves that it can successfully translate to the small screen.

We all watch the various incarnations of Star Trek, even if it is High Camp. I watch it for the same reason my kitchen resembles an authentic 1950's diner. But it's terrible. It was originally amrketed as a western in space, _Wagon Train_ to the stars, as I believe Roddenberry pitched it. There's no thought to the plots, no overarching storyline. No character ever changes significantly, which is the whole point of character development. And every ST show has to have some chick with "huge tracts of land" in an outfit that wouldn't cover a grape, just to get the target demo to tune in. :::shrugging::: It's never grown beyond the shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later 1960's western mentality.

I'm also a fan of the SF anthology shows, back to the original _The Twilight Zone_ and _Outer Limits_. Some very difficult concepts can be explored in a show like that, with no worry about returning characters.

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ive changed my mind.. i think the best scifi show out there is Roswell... it has some good ideas... or it did.. i didnt watch it this past season.. now if only they would get rid of teenagers it would be a good show or how about this...

The Adventures of Jar Jar *crosses fingers* i hope george thinks of doing that.. it would make a great show

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posted June 17, 2002 16:53     Click Here to See the Profile for ilovemydualg4   Click Here to Email ilovemydualg4     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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ive changed my mind.. i think the best scifi show out there is Roswell... it has some good ideas... or it did.. i didnt watch it this past season.. now if only they would get rid of teenagers it would be a good show or how about this...

The Adventures of Jar Jar *crosses fingers* i hope george thinks of doing that.. it would make a great show


ahhh, but after the pilot, the whole plot would be the hunt of jar jar

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no jon.. the world loves jar jar.. thats why episode 1 made a one billion gross worldwide at least according to lucas it did..

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posted June 18, 2002 03:53     Click Here to See the Profile for ilovemydualg4   Click Here to Email ilovemydualg4     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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no jon.. the world loves jar jar.. thats why episode 1 made a one billion gross worldwide at least according to lucas it did..


ay2k doesnt like jar jar (before ep2 when in the side comic anakin chops off jar jar's head)

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posted June 18, 2002 06:31     Click Here to See the Profile for DigitalBill   Click Here to Email DigitalBill     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I'm glad someone mentioned Farscape... Though I'm surprised it took so long to come up. They're doing the most innovative and character-driven stuff in Genre TV today, picking up the Torch from Babylon 5. B5 was the most ambitious series ever done. a single 5-year story, comprised of 5 1-year stories, where the characters actually changed and grew.

Other favorites, in no particular order:
Andromeda, Buffy & Angel (not quite SF, but Genre), Witchblade, Trek, Quantum Leap (at the time... it doesn't seem to hold up today for some reason), early Seaquest, sometimes Stargate SG-1, and Earth: Final Conflict when I can figure out what's going on

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posted June 18, 2002 11:24     Click Here to See the Profile for ilovemydualg4   Click Here to Email ilovemydualg4     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by DigitalBill:
I'm glad someone mentioned Farscape... Though I'm surprised it took so long to come up. They're doing the most innovative and character-driven stuff in Genre TV today, picking up the Torch from Babylon 5. B5 was the most ambitious series ever done. a single 5-year story, comprised of 5 1-year stories, where the characters actually changed and grew.

Other favorites, in no particular order:
Andromeda, Buffy & Angel (not quite SF, but Genre), Witchblade, Trek, Quantum Leap (at the time... it doesn't seem to hold up today for some reason), early Seaquest, sometimes Stargate SG-1, and Earth: Final Conflict when I can figure out what's going on

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lol yeah, i could follow e:fc for a while, but then when they strap the woman into the plane and send her off, i knda lost it

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I like StarTrek, old and new. I don't, however, really enjoy Voyager... too modern and fake-looking effects, makeup, etc. for me. It's just not really exciting. I miss the Tribbles (even though Ewoks still rock!)

But is Mystery Science Theatre 3000 on the Sci-Fi Channel? And are they still running? Tom Servo was the cutest talking gumball machine I'd ever seen... and Joel was a super geek, was he not?

What about Red Dwarf?? I loved Kryton...

And where the hell did Monty Python go?!? - sorry, just getting more and more into PBS...

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posted June 18, 2002 12:15     Click Here to See the Profile for ilovemydualg4   Click Here to Email ilovemydualg4     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Twinkle Toes:
I like StarTrek, old and new. I don't, however, really enjoy Voyager... too modern and fake-looking effects, makeup, etc. for me. It's just not really exciting. I miss the Tribbles (even though Ewoks still rock!)

But is Mystery Science Theatre 3000 on the Sci-Fi Channel? And are they still running? Tom Servo was the cutest talking gumball machine I'd ever seen... and Joel was a super geek, was he not?

What about Red Dwarf?? I loved Kryton...

And where the hell did Monty Python go?!? - sorry, just getting more and more into PBS...


mystery science theater 3000 still is there... i have tribbles on dvd

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posted June 18, 2002 15:03     Click Here to See the Profile for SpikeSpiegel   Click Here to Email SpikeSpiegel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
monty python wuz the shiznit..


sorry this is coming out of no where... i want kevin smith to make more movies... and not the crappy remakes of old comedic movies like he has promised to do.. but more good stuff like dogma, clerks, chasing amy and mallrats... jsbsb wuz ok.. but the others were great

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posted June 18, 2002 18:16     Click Here to See the Profile for LifetimeTrekker   Click Here to Email LifetimeTrekker     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Twinkle Toes:
I like StarTrek, old and new. I don't, however, really enjoy Voyager... too modern and fake-looking effects, makeup, etc. for me. It's just not really exciting. I miss the Tribbles (even though Ewoks still rock!)

But is Mystery Science Theatre 3000 on the Sci-Fi Channel? And are they still running? Tom Servo was the cutest talking gumball machine I'd ever seen... and Joel was a super geek, was he not?

What about Red Dwarf?? I loved Kryton...

And where the hell did Monty Python go?!? - sorry, just getting more and more into PBS...


I agree about the Treks...There was TREK(TOS), TREK LITE(TNG--all of the outer space, less action), DIET TREK (DS9--didn't move around much, more action, but why did they keep the kid? At least TNG got rid of Pestley!) and TREK FREE (No sugar, no caffeine.)

MST3K is, sadly, out of production. They really killed the series, by blowing up the satellite and sending Mike (Joel's replacement) and the 'bots to live in Milwaukee to joke about bad movies in their living room. Reruns of the last two or three seasons are played weekly on SciFi, I think they're on Saturday mornings.
http://www.mst3kinfo.com/

RED DWARF is currently in production as a feature motion picture. 'Tis a pity, I'd kill for new episodes. I have most of the seasons on video tape and I'm waiting for DVD issues.
http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/
http://www.llew.co.uk/reddwarf/ Kryton's page!

MONTY PYTHON has been out of television production since the 70s...every bit you see is over 20 years old. But, it's first-run until you've seen it. Sadly, one of the members, Graham Chapman, has passed on, so a full cast reunion will not be possible, unless they gather his ashes and display his urn prominently--which wouldn't surprise me if they did!

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posted June 18, 2002 18:18     Click Here to See the Profile for LifetimeTrekker   Click Here to Email LifetimeTrekker     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
BTW, I love the old OUTER LIMITS. I just feel that the photography, while still in black and white, was so superior to what is being done today. Black and white, color, it's all the same to me...I forget it is monochromatic.

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Well most of the shows that i like have been listed, bar one, its old but i think it was great...Blakes 7...you have to love orac

Come to think of it, star fleet (x-bomber outside uk, i think) was pretty kewl too.

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