It’s a cheap listicle but a good excuse to kick off a general discussion.

The list is:

  1. Black Mirror
  2. Dr Who
  3. The Prisoner
  4. Red Dwarf
  5. Life on Mars
  6. Ashes to Ashes
  7. Survivors
  8. Ultraviolet
  9. UFO
  10. Blake’s Seven

So any favourites there? Did just sorting by votes miss anything off you think is worthy of a mention?

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝OPMAEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Personally, I am happy to see Ultraviolet get a mention, as it definitely dropped off the general radar but it’s one I think about quite a bit and I recently bought the DVD to try and force other people to watch it.

    • FatLegTed
      1·
      1 year ago

      That was very good. Not appreciated enough IMO.

      Probably because no spaceships or teleporting guff.

      • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝OPMAEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        And mixing vampires with a more realistic take on things (with a high-tech spin) was still a bit unusual then.

  • HossenfefferEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Well if Life On Mars and Ashes To Ashes both qualify then I’m mighty disappointed that Sapphire And Steel didn’t make the list.

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝OPMAEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      At 7.9/10 it falls just below Blake’s Seven at 8.0/10.

      However, I redid the search they must have used here (TV series and TV mini-series as that’s the only way to get Ultraviolet on the list) and they aren’t right.

      1. Black Mirror
      2. nuWho
      3. The Prisoner
      4. Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace
      5. Old Who
      6. Red Dwarf
      7. Utopia
      8. Life on Mars
      9. The Avengers (1961)
      10. Years and Years
      11. Misfits
      12. Ashes to Ashes
      13. Blake’s Seven
      14. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
      15. Survivors
      16. Jekyll
      17. Quatermass and the Pit
      18. Man in the High Castle (perhaps discounted as it was on streaming)
      19. Humans
      20. UFO
      21. Thunderbirds
      22. Sapphire and Steele
      23. Ultraviolet
      24. Captain Scarlet
      25. The Sandman (streaming)
      26. Extraordinary (streaming)
      27. Devs
      28. Torchwood

      I included the top 28 in case you didn’t count streaming, which gives you the top 25.

      It feels like a much more better list, especially as it restores Darkplace and Utopia to the top ten and we get Misfits in there.

      • pewter@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 year ago

        I like this list, but it’s weird having Devs in it. It’s set in California and while the lead is British, she uses an American accent.

        • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝OPMAEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, as you go down the list, you hit quite a few more modern co-productionsn and the shows aren’t very British.

          • Echo Dot
            1·
            1 year ago

            Yeah I had no idea that Man In The High Castle was British I thought it was American you know because of the setting being in America.

            By the same token I wouldn’t consider Miracle Day to be British either, not that it’s on the list.

            • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝OPMAEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Miracle Day is just folded into Torchwood on IMDb as series 4. That I would consider as British despite the American setting.

      • HossenfefferEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Oh, yeah, Misfits (the first few seasons anyway) was great!

  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Glad to see Blakes 7 on this list. Also thrilled to see Survivors in the top twenty. A f frequently forgotten gem.