• Entertainment,  Television

    Favourite TV SF of the 80s

    by So I was still watching Star Trek TOS in the 80s (I’m still watching it now sometimes), but I was watching a lot of other TV SF, too. Things that stand out in my memory, in alphabetical order so there’s no calling favourites: Alien Nation. One whole season and then five TV movies stretching deep into the 90s, proving that it was cancelled too soon. It also wouldn’t be believable if made today. I mean, the US accepting actual aliens as immigrants? Alf was more a sitcom than SF, and probably ran a season longer than it should have. Or two. The concept was fun but the jokes were…