I don't have cable or sattelite...

Allen · June 09, 2009, 06:33:28 PM

I don't have cable or satellite, you can ask me why, but I won't bore you here...

So, I've never seen Battlestar Galactica, only seen a couple of episodes of Babylon 5, never seen Farscape....

What would be worth spending the money on to rent/buy and get caught up on? Why? What older TV series' might be worth pulling up on Netflix?

Would love to hear everyone's suggestions.

Rico · June 09, 2009, 06:37:10 PM

They are all just great, in my opinion. Not sure where I would start if you haven't seen much of any of them. Might be tempted to start with Galactica, since it's the most recent.

Allen · June 09, 2009, 06:54:22 PM

Netflix just now delivered disk 1 of season 1 of BG, so I guess we are starting there!

I'm interested in older series I may have missed too. Any that have been on the "big three" networks, i have seen. Like Quantum Leap. Anything on the Sci-Fi channel, I've never seen....

alanp · June 09, 2009, 09:47:50 PM

Since you are interested in 80s and 90s stuff, be sure to check out tales from the darkside, Friday the 13 the series, amazing stories, twilight zone 80s and 2000s, beyond belleif fact or fiction, tales from the crypt, the lone gunmen, and the ghosts and UFO stories from unsolved mysteries.

Most of that is what Scifi played in reruns back when the were good.

Allen · June 10, 2009, 08:57:10 AM

Friday the 13th the series.... is that the one where these two people inherit a pawn shop, only to find out everything they sell out of it is cursed, and they go try to get it all back? Or is that another one? I saw a few episodes of that. There was one with a doll... really good scary stuff!

Geekyfanboy · June 10, 2009, 09:05:47 AM

Quote from: dadandersen on June 10, 2009, 08:57:10 AM
Friday the 13th the series.... is that the one where these two people inherit a pawn shop, only to find out everything they sell out of it is cursed, and they go try to get it all back? Or is that another one? I saw a few episodes of that. There was one with a doll... really good scary stuff!

Yeah that was that series.. it was a lot of fun.. just like all TV series there were good and bad episodes.

Another good one if you haven't seen it.. X-Files.

Allen · June 10, 2009, 09:15:06 AM

Where we lived, way back in the boonies of Iowa, we got a broadcast Fox (was it Fox that x-files was on?) station right about the end of season 4. I liked it, but it was hard to get into at that point... saw the first movie and felt like I was watching an inside joke that I wasn't... inside of.

Saw a few episodes later when the primary actors weren't there anymore and didn't like those at all.

Is it worth going back to season 1 and following from there? Or if I didn't get the movie am I not going to get the show?

Rico · June 10, 2009, 09:19:42 AM

I'd start at season one for "The X Files." Some of the early seasons are some of the best.

SPOCKFAN · June 10, 2009, 10:15:47 AM

I have started checking out older series that I was curious about. Two that I have started watching that are fantastic that you should check out on netflix are-Doctor Who-2005
The Prisoner-1967
Really fantastic shows

Allen · June 10, 2009, 10:29:12 AM

"way back when" they used to show Dr. Who on PBS, at least in the midwest, US. That was.... 80s? 90s? I caught a couple and found it confusing. But that may have had more to do with the fact that I used to drink a lot in those days... ;D

There was also a TV version of "Hitch hikers guide..." that they would show at the same time, I'd get the shows confused...