Not every television SF/fantasy series becomes a household name, but they can still be something special, as Paul F Cockburn discovers.
For every Doctor Who and Star Trek, every Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Battlestar Galactica, there are numerous TV fantasy and SF shows that didn’t quite reach the big time. Some may have managed one full series; others were cancelled after the broadcast of just a few episodes, having failed to attract what was felt to be a sufficiently large audience. At SFX, we don’t believe that such shows automatically deserve to sink without trace, or had no influence on some of the hit shows that came along later. So here’s our Top 10 Unsung SF Gems. What are yours?….
Originally published in SFX (May 2014), #246.
