D,” actor DeForest Kelley, later famous for playing Bones on the original Star Trek, appeared in one episode of a sci-fi ...

This series is more than perfect, it's wonderful, I said perfect!' Another wrote: 'Literally one of the best shows I've ever seen! You would think with sci fi with this many seasons it would get ...

(Only one episode of that series still survives.) In short, though Captain Video wasn’t among the most original, daring, or even well-written of early sci-fi TV, it was still technically first.

When you want to escape to another time, world or dimension through your screens, sci-fi is the genre to take you there. Over the decades shows like Star Trek, Doctor Who and Battlestar Galactica ...

but the selections it does have are all over the map—classic sci-fi from the 1970s and ’80s, recent blockbusters, indie gems—and representative of such a dearth of quality, buttressed by ...