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Marc Douglas

FW: [Channel_D] Fwd: [x-enterprise] The Top Cult SFTV Series

Thought this was interesting. UFO ranks pretty damn high.

Marc D.

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In a Biography Channel episode regarding the TV showBatman last night,
there can be seen a brief glimpse of a news article during Batmam's frist
season about its top ratings. The Man From UNCLE can be seen in the
paragraph listing top shows of 1965. How neat to see that UNCLE rates ahead
of Batman in this poll listed below.

Eric

feathers <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
>The Top Cult SFTV Series
>[Voted on by the readers of 'Cult TV Magazine]
>
>The top 100 in full, with previous positions in brackets:
>
>1 (2) Doctor Who
>
>2 (1) Star Trek
>
>3 (3) Buffy/Angel
>
>4 (18) Stargate SG-1 / Atlantis
>
>5 (4) Blake's Seven
>
>6 (10) Thunderbirds
>
>7 (6) The Avengers
>
>8 (8) The Prisoner
>
>9 (7) Babylon 5
>
>10 (9) The X Files
>
>11 (16) Battlestar Galactica
>
>12 (17) Captain Scarlet
>
>13 (14) Red Dwarf
>
>14 (05) UFO
>
>15 (12) Farscape
>
>16 ( - ) Firefly
>
>17 (11) Xena/Hercules
>
>18 (13) Space 1999
>
>19 (15) Quantum Leap
>
>20 (19) The A Team
>
>21 (20) The Persuaders!
>
>22 ( - ) 24
>
>23 (21) Department S / Jason King
>
>24 (29) Sapphire & Steel
>
>25 ( - ) CSI/Miami/New York
>
>26 (40) The Saint
>
>27 (44) Hitch-hiker's Guide To The Galaxy
>
>28 (43) Fawlty Towers
>
>29 (28) Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
>
>30 (22) Man/Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
>
>31 (37) Robin of Sherwood
>
>32 (24) The Tomorrow People
>
>33 (26) Batman
>
>34 (47) Six Million Dollar Man / Bionic Woman
>
>35 (27) Monty Python's Flying Circus
>
>36 (38) The Professionals
>
>37 (30) Survivors
>
>38 ( - ) The Monkees
>
>39 (39) The Simpsons
>
>40 ( - ) Alias
>
>41 (42) The West Wing
>
>42 (31) The Champions
>
>43 ( - ) Spooks
>
>44 (68) Quatermass
>
>45 (45) Highlander
>
>46 (23) Stingray
>
>47 (48) Starsky & Hutch
>
>48 (65) Mission Impossible
>
>49 (46) Lost In Space
>
>50 (49) The Twilight Zone
>
>51 (50) Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea
>
>52 ( - ) Hustle
>
>53 (36) Danger Man
>
>54 (51) Dad's Army
>
>55 ( - ) Dead Like Me
>
>56 (34) Callan
>
>57 (55) Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
>
>58 (59) Charmed
>
>59 (54) Blackadder
>
>60 (41) Due South
>
>61 ( - ) Strange Report
>
>62 ( - ) Seven Days
>
>63 (52) Alien Nation
>
>64 ( - ) The Outer Limits
>
>65 (63) MASH
>
>66 (61) The Goodies
>
>67 (72) The Sweeney
>
>68 ( - ) Desperate Housewives
>
>69 (83) The League of Gentlemen
>
>70 ( - ) Charlie's Angels
>
>71 (25) Only Fools and Horses
>
>72 ( - ) Nip/Tuck
>
>73 (75) Man in a Suitcase
>
>74 ( - ) On The Buses
>
>75 ( - ) Smallville
>
>76 (76) Timeslip
>
>77 (82) Jonathan Creek
>
>78 (70) The Muppet Show
>
>79 (53) Bagpuss
>
>80 (56) Dawson's Creek
>
>81 (58) Earth Final Conflict
>
>82 (60) Space: Above & Beyond
>
>83 (86) Grange Hill
>
>84 (84) Roswell
>
>85 ( - ) Hex
>
>86 (32) Adam Adamant Lives!
>
>87 ( - ) Carnivale
>
>88 ( - ) Dream Team
>
>89 ( - ) Tru Calling
>
>90 (78) V
>
>91 ( - ) Yes, Minister
>
>92 ( - ) Futurama
>
>93 ( - ) Andromeda
>
>94 (88) Airwolf
>
>95 (71) The Clangers
>
>96 ( - ) Knight Rider
>
>97 (73) The Time Tunnel
>
>98 ( - ) Lost
>
>99 (69) Spaced
>
>100 ( - ) The Sentinel
>
>

Mario M. Butter

Re: FW: [Channel_D] Fwd: [x-enterprise] The Top Cult SFTV

Due South? Nip and Tuck? The Muppet Show? Those are SciFi? There's a
bunch of others in there that shouldn't be on a SciFi list, either...

Marc Douglas wrote:

>Thought this was interesting. UFO ranks pretty damn high.
>
>
[snip]

Bruce Sherman

Re: FW: [Channel_D] Fwd: [x-enterprise] The Top Cult SFTV Series

never saw Pigs in Space on The Muppet Show? :)

Bruce
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From: "Mario M. Butter" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: [SHADO] FW: [Channel_D] Fwd: [x-enterprise] The Top Cult SFTV
Series

> Due South? Nip and Tuck? The Muppet Show? Those are SciFi? There's a
> bunch of others in there that shouldn't be on a SciFi list, either...
>
> Marc Douglas wrote:
>
> >Thought this was interesting. UFO ranks pretty damn high.
> >
> >
> [snip]
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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dragon haven

Re: FW: [Channel_D] Fwd: [x-enterprise] The Top Cult SFTV Series

In reply to this post by Mario M. Butter

I suspect the operative word here was "cult" rather than "sftv" ...
Due South is freaky, in it's defense. If a lip reading deaf wolf dog
and Benton Fraser's ability to taste things and talk to his dad (no
longer with us) don't count as sorta paranormal and wierd ..........
oh heavens. wonder if there's anyone out there who knows both shows
well enough to do an xover ..... straker and benton .... omg ...!

dragon of the easily distractable mental processes

-- In [hidden email], "Mario M. Butter" <mbutter@s...> wrote:
> Due South? Nip and Tuck? The Muppet Show? Those are SciFi? There's a
> bunch of others in there that shouldn't be on a SciFi list, either...
>
> Marc Douglas wrote:
>
> >Thought this was interesting. UFO ranks pretty damn high.
> >
> >
> [snip]

James Gibbon

Re: FW: [Channel_D] Fwd: [x-enterprise] The Top Cult SFTV Series

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 20:23:13 -0000
"dragonhavn" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I suspect the operative word here was "cult" rather than "sftv" ...
> Due South is freaky, in it's defense.

True, but a few others aren't either 'cult' or 'sftv' .. Fawlty
Towers for example.

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dragon haven

Re: FW: [Channel_D] Fwd: [x-enterprise] The Top Cult SFTV Series

> True, but a few others aren't either 'cult' or
> 'sftv' .. Fawlty
> Towers for example.

possibly not in England, but it is kinda cult figured
in the US .... so if there were a number of US fans
voting, Fawlty Towers fits like Monty Python does ...
kinda looks like the fans voted for shows they
regarded as cult rather than the people gave them a
list and asked them to pick their favorites.

after all, cult status depends on the fans, not on
some outside agency determining what is and isn't a
cult... i may not agree (muppet show???? *snicker*
then again, there was the FK fan who came up with a
parody of the opening of that show to fit the Count
from the Muppets ...... hmmmmmmm .... just exactly
what would happen if the muppets saw an alien .......
*shakes head to get the marbles back in the right
slots* ... sorry)

personally, i found the list entertaining and
enlightening. <g>

laters

dragon

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Pam McCaughey-2

Re: Due South - UFO cross over

In reply to this post by dragon haven

Hi Dragon - I did a Due South/UFO cross over and it is available for perusal
at the SHADO Library - being a Canuck myself I felt I had to do this!
Pamela McCaughey

Pam McCaughey-2

Re: Pigs in Spaaaaaaaace.....

In reply to this post by Mario M. Butter

I LOVED Pigs in Space on The Muppets and I also noticed the Muppets used a
piece of equipment from MoonBase in one of their eps featuring Karen
Carpenter singing Calling Interplanetary Craft - both shows were done on ITV
premises at times weren't they? Pam the Canuck

mark turner

Re: Pigs in Spaaaaaaaace.....

...and Miss Piggy in a purple Moonbase wig woulda been the icing on the cake!

Pamela McCaughey <[hidden email]> wrote:I LOVED Pigs in Space on The Muppets and I also noticed the Muppets used a
piece of equipment from MoonBase in one of their eps featuring Karen
Carpenter singing Calling Interplanetary Craft - both shows were done on ITV
premises at times weren't they? Pam the Canuck

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dragon haven

Re: Due South - UFO cross over

In reply to this post by Pam McCaughey-2

*hmmm* i missed that one? *dives into the stacks*

thanks

d

--- Pamela McCaughey <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Dragon - I did a Due South/UFO cross over and it
> is available for perusal
> at the SHADO Library - being a Canuck myself I felt
> I had to do this!
> Pamela McCaughey
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dustin_d_lense

Re: Pigs in Spaaaaaaaace.....

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--- In [hidden email], Pamela McCaughey <mccaug@n...> wrote:
> I LOVED Pigs in Space on The Muppets and I also noticed the Muppets
used a
> piece of equipment from MoonBase in one of their eps featuring Karen
> Carpenter singing Calling Interplanetary Craft - both shows were
done on ITV
> premises at times weren't they?

The Muppet show was shot in studio D at the then ATV studios (what
started life as the Neptune Film Studios) at Elstree/Borehamwood. now
incidentally owned by The BBC and home to Eastenders, Holby City and
former home to Grange Hill before it went scouse.

Ive always found it strange that while UFO was shot for ATV/ITC, The
only clips that appear to have been shot at ATV were the use of the
front of the Neptune house studio offices as the harlington straker
studio offices and possibly some of the backlot studio scenes.
UFO seems to try and squeeze its production into free sound stage time
where ever it could get it. The sound stages UFO used were at the MGM
studios for about 2/3rds of the episodes and after they ran out of
studio time on the sound stages there, filming stopped for 6 months
and then moved to the Rank Studios at Pinewood.

I think it fairly safe to assume that as the ATV studios would have
been the administrative base that storage for props and sets would
have been at ATV which explains how some props were dusted off for use
in Pigs in space.

bryan legg

Re: Pigs in Spaaaaaaaace.....

I'm just glad Miss Piggy didn't show up with a purple wig. LOL. Cookie monster eating her hair was funny enough. LOL.

dustin_d_lense <[hidden email]> wrote:--- In [hidden email], Pamela McCaughey wrote:
> I LOVED Pigs in Space on The Muppets and I also noticed the Muppets
used a
> piece of equipment from MoonBase in one of their eps featuring Karen
> Carpenter singing Calling Interplanetary Craft - both shows were
done on ITV
> premises at times weren't they?

The Muppet show was shot in studio D at the then ATV studios (what
started life as the Neptune Film Studios) at Elstree/Borehamwood. now
incidentally owned by The BBC and home to Eastenders, Holby City and
former home to Grange Hill before it went scouse.

Ive always found it strange that while UFO was shot for ATV/ITC, The
only clips that appear to have been shot at ATV were the use of the
front of the Neptune house studio offices as the harlington straker
studio offices and possibly some of the backlot studio scenes.
UFO seems to try and squeeze its production into free sound stage time
where ever it could get it. The sound stages UFO used were at the MGM
studios for about 2/3rds of the episodes and after they ran out of
studio time on the sound stages there, filming stopped for 6 months
and then moved to the Rank Studios at Pinewood.

I think it fairly safe to assume that as the ATV studios would have
been the administrative base that storage for props and sets would
have been at ATV which explains how some props were dusted off for use
in Pigs in space.

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Reg Hill

In reply to this post by Pam McCaughey-2

Considering he is given credit for UFO, no one hardly mentions his name
here.

Can anyone give information about him?

Bruce

Marc Martin

New UFO Guests at Fanderson Con

Administrator

Hi all,

I see that Fanderson has announced 3 new UFO guests for their convention
this September -- Alan Perry, Dolores Mantez, and Jane Merrow.

http://www.fanderson.org.uk/news2.html#Countdown

I thought I heard somewhere that Jane Merrow didn't even recall appearing
in UFO, although perhaps that was one of those false rumors...

Marc

Marc Martin

Re: Reg Hill

Administrator

In reply to this post by Bruce Sherman

Bruce Sherman wrote:
> Considering he is given credit for UFO, no one hardly mentions his name
> here.
> Can anyone give information about him?

There hasn't been much coverage anywhere (that I can recall) about
Reg Hill's contribution to UFO.

I know that in the DVD commentary, Sylvia implies that she ended up
doing the job that Reg was supposed to be doing, but who knows how
accurate that is...

Marc