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Nov. 21st, 2003 11:06 amIn a private entry, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
espresso_addict wondered whether there was much British television SF. Well, once upon a time, there was. During the 1980s it fell out of favour, and we still haven't connected back to the tradition (the closest I think we've come in recent years is with The League of Gentlemen).
Anyway, here is my list of ten classic British television SF programmes. It is partial and rapidly assembled, and I am sure there are gaps. But I hope it gives a glimpse of that wonderful era in Britain cultural life, between the early 1950s and the late 1970s, when the power of speculative drama was understood, and was not considered solely the province of children's or minority audiences.
( British Television Science Fiction )
espresso_addict wondered whether there was much British television SF. Well, once upon a time, there was. During the 1980s it fell out of favour, and we still haven't connected back to the tradition (the closest I think we've come in recent years is with The League of Gentlemen). Anyway, here is my list of ten classic British television SF programmes. It is partial and rapidly assembled, and I am sure there are gaps. But I hope it gives a glimpse of that wonderful era in Britain cultural life, between the early 1950s and the late 1970s, when the power of speculative drama was understood, and was not considered solely the province of children's or minority audiences.
( British Television Science Fiction )
