[ale] OT: who's bought/seen Caprica?

[Jeff Lightner]

I was under the impression $6 million man and Bionic Woman were both
done by the time BG started though I think the latter may have had some
overlap.  I've never been a big fan of SciFi set in contemporary times
(such as BG 1980 and those two shows) but will admit it does actually
classify as such.  I also thought Buck Rogers started after BG was gone
(though maybe was there with BG 1980).  It was all there late 70s early
80s so overlap probably did occur.  

To me SciFi that uses "the present" equates to "cheap" and
"unimaginative" for the most part because the "science" is only
incidental to the "fiction" which for both those series but basically
just spy/detective stuff.  I much preferred things like Rockford Files
and Harry O to those 2.

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Subject: Re: [ale] OT: who's bought/seen Caprica?

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com>
wrote:
> I'm sure - that's why I put the smiley face at the end of my comment.
>
> By the way - talking about good SciFi on TV - I'll mention that at the
> time of the original, BG was the ONLY SciFi on TV. (Assuming you don't
> classify Wonder Woman as SciFi as libraries and bookstores seem to do
> with most superhero comics.)
>

I did not count WW as sci-fi. But I never missed an episode. :-)  $6M
man _was_ sci-fi as was bionic woman. Buck Rogers was sci-fi (and
pretty bad).

I would _almost_ count Mork and Mindy as sci-fi...
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