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The Sci-Fi Channel Encyclopedia of TV Science Fiction
This guide features virtually every science fiction series in the past five decades, from Captain Video to Babylon 5, from One Step Beyond to The X-Files, My Favorite Martian, and 3rd Rock from the Sun. With every hit from Dr. Who to Star Trek: Voyager; every cult show from The Prisoner and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to Blake's 7; and every short-lived effort from The Fantastic Journey to Earth II, this is the definitive volume on televised science fiction entertainment.
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Published December 1, 1998
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June 20, 2021
Yet again, nobody has done a written review of this book before. Yes, I'm sure this is all online now but I would still much rather have it all in a lovely book I can flick through as and when I feel like it.
I got the first edition of this at a time in the early 1990s when it was becoming very difficult to find, and then a couple of years later they did a second edition (with Mr Spock on the front) and I bought it again. I remember the third edition coming out (that's the one pictured here) but I didn't bother getting it because it had only come out in order to accommodate a load of dreadful TV shows I didn't want to either watch or read about. I know some people liked Babylon 5 but it didn't impress me, and neither did Stargate: Atlantis, Highlander, Farscape or any of the other dodgy shows of that era. For me, only the Star Trek series were worth bothering with at that time, and I had those covered with the "Captain's Log" books.
Anyway, the point is, this book is the bible of the SF & Fantasy TV enthusiast. You can't do better. If it's out of date now I can't help that. If I want to look up episodes of Captain Scarlet, Blake's Seven, The Outer Limits, Sapphire and Steel, The Invaders, Timeslip, or even Man From Atlantis, find out who was in them, who wrote and directed them, what date they were first aired and so on, I can do that, and I can do it in style.
On a final note, this is one of the few books I've never been able to find any errors in. There is not so much as a single comma out of place, so Bravo, Roger Fulton! The world needs more books like this.
I got the first edition of this at a time in the early 1990s when it was becoming very difficult to find, and then a couple of years later they did a second edition (with Mr Spock on the front) and I bought it again. I remember the third edition coming out (that's the one pictured here) but I didn't bother getting it because it had only come out in order to accommodate a load of dreadful TV shows I didn't want to either watch or read about. I know some people liked Babylon 5 but it didn't impress me, and neither did Stargate: Atlantis, Highlander, Farscape or any of the other dodgy shows of that era. For me, only the Star Trek series were worth bothering with at that time, and I had those covered with the "Captain's Log" books.
Anyway, the point is, this book is the bible of the SF & Fantasy TV enthusiast. You can't do better. If it's out of date now I can't help that. If I want to look up episodes of Captain Scarlet, Blake's Seven, The Outer Limits, Sapphire and Steel, The Invaders, Timeslip, or even Man From Atlantis, find out who was in them, who wrote and directed them, what date they were first aired and so on, I can do that, and I can do it in style.
On a final note, this is one of the few books I've never been able to find any errors in. There is not so much as a single comma out of place, so Bravo, Roger Fulton! The world needs more books like this.
August 19, 2014
A little dated and somewhat bias to the UK
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