Your Top Science Fiction TV Shows Of All Time (Survey Results)

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my children gather round don't be shy

this is the first of four videos which I

know you've all been looking forward to

it's the results of the media death cult

science fiction survey starting with as

ever as last year and the year before

with your favorite science fiction TV

shows of all time I have the results

here they are uh and number one is

I couldn't possibly do that I will post

the full results on Discord and maybe on

YouTube on the community thing or a link

to them after about a week I want people

to watch this video first of course then

I'm gonna reveal the full list but in

this video I'm gonna go through the top

um how many positions is that I'm gonna

do the top 26 because number 26 and

number 25 are brand new entries and I

just want to give them a little bit of

credit for breaking into the top

uh Christ knows how many there are it's

there's there's there's hundreds so

number 26 and I will stop and butt in

and talk a little bit about this stuff

if I know anything about it because I

don't I don't think I've seen everything

on the list this is the this is the part

of the survey where I'm lacking the most

at joint 26 and 25 but one of them had

more entries putting them higher up but

let's say they're both at the same place

is Severance and Star Wars and or I have

watched Severance it just broke into my

top ten I think it's wonderful it's very

dickian it feels like the Philip K dick

novel brought to life weird about the

bifurcation of of the brain I learned

that word from Nancy Cress bifurcation

and I use it all the time it's good to

learn new words bifurcation

don't know what it means but it sounds

cool and Star Wars and or

everybody's saying this is the best

thing that Star Wars has done since

Return of the Jedi

probably I haven't seen it yet well

that's I've saw that I saw the first

episode I liked it but it wasn't wife

friendly she's not gonna watch anything

to do with Star Wars so I've put it to

one side until we've watched until I

have a bit of a gap number 20 uh oh

Richard Richard done a great job he has

color-coded stuff there's light and dark

so I can see which numbers are which and

there's just figures all over the place

and it tells you where things were last

year lots of info right number 20 number

24 is Cowboy Bebop

that's the anime of course

I say of course

I've I've watched quite a bit of Cowboy

Bebop I love it I want to start from the

beginning and watch the whole thing

again I did watch episode one of the the

Netflix

um live action which they canceled

people said it was all it was all right

but to be honest I'd watch the first

couple no one and then they canceled it

and then why bother watching it if you

can't carry on watching it in the future

so not not good Netflix not good 23 is

Farscape it's about where it was last

year I'm surprised it's that low because

actually I'm not what what tends to

happen with Farscape is if you love

Farscape it's right up there but there

are so many people that haven't seen it

yet you don't hear many bad things about

Farscape it's just that the people that

love it tend to love it a little bit too

much you know what I mean I I've never

seen it number 22

love death and robots

um I I it I think it's great most of

them are great I like the ones that do

something a little bit different rather

than look just like a video game but

they can carry on making love deaf and

robots forever it's like black mirror

right just give me more if they're not

very good I'll move on to the next one

but I've watched it several times number

21 is fringe I'm currently watching

Fringe we watched uh this is me and my

wife why why it's such a big deal

whether my wife watches something or not

is we have TV time we may be able to

squeeze an hour together in the evening

once we've finished work and everything

else and it's quite important that we

both enjoy a TV show so if we find

something that we both like and that at

the moment is fringe I'm about seven

episodes into season one and I'm I'm

loving it it's exactly what people sold

it as it's the X-Files basically with a

slightly bigger no a much bigger

overarching story and I'm liking it and

people say that it gets better and

better as you go on

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number 20.

how are we doing for the the camera is

miles away so excuse me if now and again

oops because I have half an hour timers

on the camera if I have to go all the

way over there my slipper fell off

I'll be fine number 20 is Red Dwarf that

that's about where I where I expect Red

Dwarf because

I think unless unless you're British I

mean you can get hold of it all over the

world but it's not rammed down your

throat like it is over here actually

that's not true it was and it's still on

repeat on a channel called Dave I do

believe and is British so obviously we

love it a bit more than the rest of the

world and that's about where it was last

year the next few there's not much

jiggling around on the list

lost is at number 19 I stand by what I

say about lost which is

probably the most disappointing TV show

because the first four maybe five

seasons are absolute perfection but it

never had an end in sight and I don't

always need that from a TV show but I

needed it from Lost number 18 is

Westworld

I've seen season one which I I think as

a self-contained season of TV with the

twists and what happens I know it leads

you into the next season but I think

season one is glorious

and I started season two and uh can't

remember what happened we dropped off it

and I never went back to it and I

probably never will now number 17.

everything's really tight around here

I'm not going to reveal the points

because I I don't we don't even tell

people how we score it because people

and it's different to what we originally

done because people will be very

strategic because people are weird

number 17 is Futurama well deserved at

the time it was it was a special TV show

I say at the times I think it's been

surpassed by something else which I

haven't looked ahead maybe that will pop

up later in the in the in the video at

the time Futurama was a bit of a

revelation because it was a TV show that

brought together all of the different

strands and sub-genres of Science

Fiction and put it in an animated comedy

setting you know what Futurama is I love

it

number 16 is stranger things

that's jumped up a little bit since last

year so what have we had since last year

the latest season

which was much better than we're on

season four aren't we season three was

uh diabolical I can't believe they'd

done that I didn't like season three

season four was better it could have

been a lot shorter I think they dragged

it out but they got they got there in

the end and we got one more right I

can't wait for season five I've been

there from the beginning

season one is the best season one

deserves to be up there all on its own

number 15.

Drop in Six places from last year is the

Mandalorian it's probably dropped a

little bit because we haven't had new

Mandalorian we had the book of Boba Fett

which I'm not classing as the

Mandalorian proper it's good I like the

book of Boba Fett but it's nowhere near

as good as the Mandalorian which I I

would I was my Saturday morning cartoon

slot I love the Mandalorian number 14 I

think I'm going to take a breath for the

top ten okay

because I tend to just throw information

and Waffle at the camera when I do

things like this number 14 is Stargate

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I have nothing to add because I've never

seen it

I'm sorry it's one of those that I

missed at the time and am I ever gonna

get to it there's too much stuff to

consume I'm sorry I'm probably never

gonna watch it number 13 is the Twilight

Zone in Brackets 1959 which means the

original wasn't there or was that the

outer limits is all the old Twilight

Zone The Black and White

50s and 60s stuff why did I not know

that but it doesn't mean the Jordan peel

knew the rebirth of it of which I've

watched the first episode with Adam

Scott which is okay but I'm certainly

not clawing to get back to it Twilight

Zone classic yes people talk about their

favorite episodes older people tend to

like the Twilight Zone Twilight Zone

don't they I think it's forever gonna be

in the top 20. somewhere there or

thereabouts number 12 another huge one

this may be the highest thing on the

list that I haven't seen we'll see

number 12 is Babylon five

whenever I make a list like this when I

made my own personal list the comments

are just full of where's Babylon five

what I mean watch Barrel on five

I may do one day but I can't see myself

because I want to watch the whole thing

I'm I'm never gonna have the time to to

watch what is it six seasons hours and

hours and hours of TV that my wife is

never gonna watch maybe I'll try the

pilot she's never gonna watch that she

won't watch Star Wars she's never gonna

watch that uh number 11 is Doctor Who

uh it was number 12 last year so it's

gone up a tiny bit Doctor Who

I didn't realize until sometime this

this year when I was talking about it

with someone or doing a bit of research

that there's like a thousand episodes or

something I don't think you'll ever and

I don't think that's the point you're

not supposed to be a completist although

let me know in the comments if you've

seen every single thing I know there are

some missing episodes but you know what

I mean I jumped on it when it was when

it was redone with Paul McCann the film

and then Christopher Eccleston and then

I watched the uh David Tennant tenant

tenant and then I just mayor and now I

maybe watch an episode at Christmas I'm

I'm completely out of the loop but I I

believe you can kind of take

um like stories like self-inclusive

um what am I trying to say five or six

runs like you can with comic books and

read them separately so so one day I may

jump back into Doctor Who but my

favorite is Tom Baker because he's the

best

let me take a breath and I'll come back

with the top ten

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okay the top the top 10 science fiction

TV shows of all time according to the

media death cult audience survey takers

which I believe is the biggest science

fiction survey of its kind in the world

ever I genuinely think that if anyone

knows of a bigger one some magazines

have probably done a similar thing but

do they do that anymore no we are the

best

top 10 just so you know the uh Star Trek

counted you had to name the the only

rules were you couldn't just say Star

Trek you had to say which uh not season

but which whether it was Deep Space Nine

or Voyager

voyager's not in here is it number 10 is

Deep Space Nine and it was number 16

last year how does something like Deep

Space Nine go up that many spaces in a

year

if I'm being honest

I think it's probably my favorite Star

Trek like most science fiction fans you

you jump around I'm I'm a huge fan of of

all of it I say all of it I can still

watch the original I really liked uh

Next Generation I thought that was going

to be hard to beat because that's when I

discovered science fiction around that

age but the storyline for Deep Space

Nine especially when you start getting

into the darker later Seasons about the

Dominion stuff and the the bigger world

view I absolutely loved number nine is

Rick and Morty

it was number 10 last year it's it's

still evolving it's one of my favorites

that obviously I was talking about that

when I was talking about Futurama a

minute ago it has the potential I've

said this on camera a few times I think

Rick and Morty when we get to season 10

11 or however far they're gonna take it

I think it has the potential for being

the best science fiction thing ever even

if it's not really your taste they are

bringing in everything into this one

um Granddad grandson Dynamic and it's

hilarious and I love the way that they

talk about things in episode one and

they don't pop up again until later the

foreshadowing all of it brilliant number

eight is dark that's the the German time

travel thing I I fully agree it should

be in the top ten it's absolutely

fascinating at time of recording the new

we shouldn't spend much time on this but

the new the 1899 the TV show that

Netflix commissioned by the creators of

dark has been canceled after season one

so well done again Netflix but at least

we got dark if you haven't seen it it's

three seasons it's all complete it was

all written from the very beginning it

all works it's very tight your mind will

be blown over and over and over again

number seven is the X-Files again it's

one of those that I think is going to

bounce around

it was it was uh number five last year

it's one of those things that's always

going to bounce around the monster of

the week The Perfect Chemistry Between

the cast it's the X-Files it's kind of

stuck in our brains Now isn't it and I

know Fringe ripped it off who cares it's

a different version of that but I love

the X-Files number six

okay controversial opinion number six is

Firefly

I think

what are the score I mean it barely beat

the X-Files I think look Firefly is good

okay

it's really good but I think it picks up

a lot of votes what do I have no

evidence for this I think it picks up a

hell of a lot of votes because it was

canceled after one season and people

whinged and they want to bring it back I

don't think it's ever coming back there

are rumors that they're going to reboot

it fine do that do something new or just

carry on with the old cast I don't

really care what they do to be honest

but for that to be the sixth best TV

show ever after one season we didn't get

yeah we had some uh Serenity we had some

sort of conclusion but I think that's a

little bit weak sauce is that the right

expression to be that high up sympathy

voting I believe number five is Black

Mirror it was number three last year

Black Mirror

I'm surprised I love it I'm surprised

it's that high because as the seasons go

the the quality is dropping you may get

one maybe two really good episodes per

season now and the seasons are smaller

and they seem to be taking forever to

get out I don't get it everybody loves

it everybody wants more just give it

some money and keep pumping them out

don't know why I'm getting so dragged

into the whole production side of these

things Black Mirror is absolutely superb

there's 10 15 episodes that I can pick

out and watch over and over again

number four

is Star Trek the Original Series is that

one point ahead of Black Mirror it's all

a bit tight at the top except for in a

minute Star Trek the Original Series

again maybe maybe this cult has a

slightly older crowd and are gonna lean

because is it better than the other Star

Treks well according to oh maybe not

it's the second best Star Trek according

to this

um yeah I like it I love I love the

storylines the I think the characters

are the strongest not because of

nostalgia I think Kirk is a fascinating

Captain maybe my second favorite I think

he's great and of course The Supporting

Cast is fabulous number three the bronze

medal quite a distance ahead of of of

Star Trek

it's uh it was number six last year

taking the third spot is the expanse

however I should say too much about this

I don't know what I don't want to upset

people

I tried I didn't like it I tried season

two and I said it's got to be better

than season one and it was the same old

some of the casting I think is pretty

bad I won't name names but I don't like

it I I find the whole expanse thing I'm

reading through the books right now it's

sort of a little bit ordinary vanilla

it's a bit Bland and it takes its time

getting to the point not that the pacing

is slow the TV show it looks good and

there are some great

it's all right but it's not for me it

doesn't hit my top 50. I don't really

like it I abandoned it twice and I'm not

gonna give it a third go trust me but

you love it I know people love it and

they fell in love with the books and I

think the TV series has probably got

more love than the books

the runner-up

I've kind of given it away that it's

going to be here somewhere is Star Trek

the Next Generation the the points the

this was the runner-up last year the

points are massive that they are massive

people love this is Star Trek the Next

Generation the best Star Trek

I mean

I mean you say Deep Space Nine is number

ah I've lost it somewhere number 10. is

Star Trek the Next Generation that much

better according to the people that know

which is cult members yes silver medal

for the start for Star Trek the Next

Generation which means for the third

year is it is it the third year running

and since we've been doing this it's the

third third year how many years have we

been doing this I think this is the

third year running number one and it's

by quite a distance quite a quite a lump

not quite a third more votes than Star

Trek the Next Generation but Battlestar

Galactica is the number one I I don't

think it's ever going to be shifted

what's what's gonna be it obviously

something amazing can come along I guess

the expanse is the close is as close as

we get and it's got double the points

and the expanse is only going to drop

back now because Battlestar Galactica

now moves into Nostalgia Zone it's over

10 years old now 2004 to 2000 oh I

was trying not to swear in this whole

video to see if the algorithm does

something it feels weird I said oh twice

now

um 2004 to 2009 all right that's nearly

20 years old oh man is it really

well yeah I agree it's my number one

sometimes I think oh it's not and then I

think about it and then I'll watch an

episode or two and go yeah they really

nailed it didn't they

there is a reboot coming or a side quest

different thing happening with

Battlestar another TV show and some TV

movies there's the news on that gone

quiet I don't really pay attention but

just give me more battle star however

the con whoever was in charge of it Ron

what's his name make more someone in

charge out there make more battle star

and make it half as good as the 2004 to

2009 that's it I agree with most of that

apart from the expansion

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