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Science Fiction TV had rather humble beginnings. While the classy (yet now sadly dated) Twilight Zone put on reasonably intelligent short stories, episodic Science Fiction TV started out pretty abysmal.

Who here remembers It's About Time? This half-hour sitcom featured a pair of US astronauts somehow slung back into the Stone Age, where they had to form alliance with the 'cavemen' of the period, who spoke perfect English in sentences of two words. "Oog. Me go. You Stay." When this premise was seen to pall (and it palled pretty quickly, frankly), in a surprise plot twist, the astronauts returned to their own time, but look! they brought their caveman tribe with them! Hi-jinx, sadly, ensued. It was the Time Travelling Beverly Hillbillies In Space.

Star Trek changed all that. A show for adults, with adult situations and a dramatic setting, Star Trek moved science fiction television out of the sitcom basement recroom and into the modern age.

It was quickly followed by other shows, such as The Six Million Dollar Man and the quirky spy-in-a-trap drama, The Prisoner that were meant to appeal to adults, or at least all ages, as opposed to just kids.

Now at least three or four science fiction shows debut every year, although they often quickly bow out. It has become a protective measure not to bond too soon to any particular show, since one-season sci-fi shows are the norm. Still, good sci-fi is thicker on the ground that it once was, and that's all to the good.

This category celebrates science fiction TV shows past and present.

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