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futurama
Must See: Futurama
Must-see TV shows are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. Must see by Sherilyn Connelly.Title: Futurama
Date: 1999-2003
Vitals: A dimwitted pizza delivery boy is accidentally frozen in 1999 and reawakens in 2999, where he finds work as an intergalactic delivery boy. More »
hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
Must See: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Must-see TV shows are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. Must see by Sherilyn Connelly.Title: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Date: 1981
Vitals: Moments before the Earth is destroyed, a hapless Englishmen is whisked off the planet by a friend who turns out to be an alien doing research for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Then things get nutty. More »
the twilight zone
Must See: The Twilight Zone
Must-see TV shows are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. Must see by James Rocchi.Twilight Zone
Date: 1959-1964
Vitals: Rod Serling's anthology series was shoddy, cheap, uneven — and the biggest blast of sci-fi to hit the American mainstream in the history of television to that point. Stories by Ray Bradbury, Ambrose Bierce, Richard Matheson and a host of others (plus a fistful of scripts from producer-host-hack Serling) all wormed their way into our hearts and minds, by way of ... The Twilight Zo ... Oh, I just can't. More »
the prisoner
Must See: The Prisoner
Must-see TV shows are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. Must see by James Rocchi.Title: The Prisoner
Date: 1967-68
Vitals: Patrick McGoohan, chafing after years of playing a secret agent on Danger Man, re-invented the spy series as a mix of surreal paranoia and Kafka-esque estrangement. McGoohan plays an unnamed spy who wants to quit; he's gassed, kidnapped and awakens to a bizarre community where everyone smiles, he's addressed only as 'Number Six' and all the people in charge want to know is everything he knows. It only ran for 17 episodes, but it's a cult classic nonetheless. More »
lost
Must See: Lost
Must-see TV shows are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. Must-see by James Rocchi.Title: Lost
Date: 2004-2007
Vitals: An airliner crashes on a remote Pacific island ... and things just get weirder and weirder for the survivors. Are they cast out from reality? Part of an experiment? God's playthings? Mixing Survivor, Thomas Pynchon, conspiracy theory and comic-book geekiness, it's still to be determined if Lost is going to be thrilling TV, or if it jumped the shark from the first episode. More »
v
Must See: V
Must-see movies are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale.Title: V
Date: 1983
Vitals: Human-looking aliens appear in big honkin' spaceships asking for mutual cooperation. They subtly begin to take over the planet, and a resistance forms, mirroring historical struggles against fascism. Look, mom! Subtext! Oh, and they're actually lizards masquerading as humans, as though establishing totalitarian rule isn't enough. More »
star trek voyager
Must See: Star Trek Voyager
Must-see TV shows are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. By Sherilyn Connelly.Title: Star Trek Voyager
Date: 1995-2001
Vitals: In the fourth Star Trek series, a starship is tossed to the far side of the galaxy and has to find a way home. (This happily disregards the highly stupid Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, which established the center of the galaxy as being about two hours away, or an hour and half if you don't hit traffic.) It's notable for being the first Trek series with a female captain, and also the most reviled of the shows from the first episode onwards. While there's probably a connection there, it doesn't help that the first few seasons were horribly written. More »
battlestar galactica
Must See: Battlestar Galactica
Must-see TV shows are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. Must-see by Jason Shankel.Title: Battlestar Galactica (1970s)
Date: 1978-1979
Vitals: Human refugees of the Cylon war wagon train themselves across space with only the diaphanous clothes on their backs and the polyurethane fixatives in their hair to sustain them. More »
red dwarf
Must See: Red Dwarf
Must-see TV shows are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. Must-see by Jason Shankel.Title: Red Dwarf
Date: 1988-1999
Vitals: Science fiction situation comedy set in deep space. Grab a lager and a vindaloo and join the last human in the galaxy (Dave Lister), his holographic BFF/nemesis (Rimmer), his hyper-evolved cat (Cat) and their android butler (Kryten) for madcap far future hijinx! More »
babylon 5
Must See: Babylon 5
Must-see TV shows are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. Must-see by Jason Shankel.Title: Babylon 5
Date: 1994-1998
Vitals: Crew of a diplomatic space station finds love among the polygons in the crossfire of galactic war. From the brilliant mind of some guy who really likes Harlan Ellison. More »
they live
Must See: They Live
Must-see movies are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. Written by Sherilyn Connelly.Title: John Carpenter's They Live
Date: 1988
Vitals: A hunky drifter discovers that via special sunglasses he can see both the aliens who run the world and the hidden propaganda they use to control humanity. Any parallels to consumer culture and/or the Reagan Administration purely intentional. More »
the last starfighter
Must See: The Last Starfighter
Must-see movies are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. Written by Sherilyn Connelly.Title: The Last Starfighter
Date: 1984
Vitals: A bored teenager in a trailer gets the high score on a video game and is recruited into an actual space battle. (The original premise, in which he gets laid because of the high score, was rejected as too far-fetched.) More »
the black hole
Must See: The Black Hole
Must-see movies are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. Written by Sherilyn Connelly.Title: The Black Hole
Date: 1979
Vitals: Disney's only attempt at a big-budget, relatively serious sci-fi action movie. It was in the works since the mid-seventies, but not considered a major project until Star Wars changed everything, and it probably wasn't originally so focused on "cute" robots. It was also Disney's first in-house PG-rated movie, which made a lot of people very unhappy.
Famous names: One of the last films featuring the effects work of Peter Ellenshaw, whose credits include Mary Poppins and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. More »
sleeper
Must See: Sleeper
Must-see movies are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. Written by Sherilyn Connelly.Title: Sleeper
Date: 1973
Vitals: A Woody Allen-esque guy (played by Woody Allen) is frozen during an operation and awakened two hundred years in the future. Wackiness ensues. More »
tron
Must See: Tron
Must-see movies are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. Written by Sherilyn Connelly.Title: Tron
Date: 1982
Vitals: A roguishly handsome computer genius (it's a fantasy, for sure), looking for evidence that his video game designs were kifed, gets zapped into a computer by an evil mainframe and has to play video games to survive. Irony! Programs physically resemble their programmers, and he shares a kiss with a program written by a woman he used to sleep with. Is that like kissing your ex-girlfriend's clone? Or daughter? Or... More »
galaxy quest
Must See: Galaxy Quest
Must-see movies are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. Written by Sherilyn Connelly.Title: Galaxy Quest
Date: 1999
Vitals: The washed-up cast of the long-cancelled cult sci-fi teevee series Galaxy Quest are recruited into a space battle by aliens who think the show was the real thing. More »
pi
Must See: Pi
Must-see movies are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. Written by Sherilyn Connelly.Title: Pi
Date: 1998
Vitals: A mathematician is obsessed with finding a pattern of numbers which (according to his oft-restated assumptions) will unlock patterns in nature, the stock market, and other things which need numbers to unlock them. He also suffers from really gnarly headaches, which probably has as much to do with staring at the sun as a kid (hello!) as with the numbers in his brain. Through it all, he's being pursued by Kabbalists and Wall Street types, and is going batshit crazy in general More »
