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I voted Star Trek, Stargate and Star Wars - but this was a very very limited range of Sci-Fi to sample! (All are currently screening on Foxtel/Austar - 5 of the 6 on the SciFi channel)
I remember reading something Isaac Asimov wrote once about Science Fiction as opposed to Scientific Fiction (in his opinion a better genre description than Science Fiction) and his cmment came to mind reading the options in this poll. As much as I think Firefly is a great show and I enjoy watching it, it's not true Sci-Fi, and definitly not Scientific Fiction, rather it's a western (and a good one!) that happens to be set aboard a spaceship and/or on other planets. The Serenity movie was different, and was much more Sci-Fi in my opinion.
I also would have liked to have seen Doctor Who, Blakes Seven, Red Dwarf, Lost in Space, etc included. You could throw Thunderbirds, Fireball XL5, etc in that mix too.
What about some even lesser known SciFi TV series: does anyone remember the Tomorrow People, or Andra? I'd be interested to hear if anyone remembers any other fairly obscure tru Sci-Fi series.
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