This is a presentation I held at Finncon 2010 in Jyväskylä. The presentation obviously lacks the clips I showed, and the extra details I gave while speaking, but at least it covers the series I talked about.

1. British TV Sci-Fi
Shoestring Fantasy

2. Rossum’s Universal Robots
Karel Čapek’s famous play about robots
Broadcast by the BBC in 1938

3. Stranger From Space
1951
First TV sci-fi serial in Britain
Targeted at children
A Martian boy lands in his ‘Space Boat’

4. The Quatermass Experiment
1953
Written by Nigel Kneale
Broadcast live
Budget: £4000
1st 2 eps amongst earliest British TV to have
survived

5. The Quatermass Experiment
Professor Bernard Quatermass, British
Experimental Rocket Group
Later made into a Hammer Film
Quatermass II & Quatermass and the Pit
followed

7. The Avengers

8. The Avengers
1961
Created by Sydney Newman
John Steed & Co working for ‘The Ministry’
“Spy-fi”

9. Doctor Who

10. Doctor Who
1963
Created by Sydney Newman
Travelling through time and space in ... a box
Longest running sci-fi series in the world

11. The TARDIS

12. Thunderbirds

13. Thunderbirds
1965
Created by Gerry Anderson

14. Space: 1999

15. UFO

17. The Prisoner
1967
Created by Patrick McGoohan

18. The Village

19. Geeks

20. Yes, Definitely Geeks

23. The Year of the Sex Olympics
1968
Written by Nigel Kneale
The Live Life Show
Shot in colour, but tapes wiped

24. Blakes 7

25. Blakes 7
1978
Created by Terry Nation
Follows band of criminals
Story arc

26. Sapphire & Steel

27. Sapphire and Steel
1979
Created by Peter J Hammond
“Mending Time”

28. THHGTTG

29. THHGTTG
1981 (on TV)
Created by Douglas Adams

30. The Tripods

31. The Tripods
1984
John Cristopher’s novel, produced by Richard
Bates

33. Red Dwarf
1988
Created by Grant Naylor, Rob Grant & Doug
Naylor

34. Get In Touch
Kristoffer Lawson: setok@scred.com
@Setok on Twitter