Loved Sci-Fi channel as a kid. The bumpers they had where they interviewed directors/actors/artists were always really cool. One of my fondest memories was watching the first anime marathon they presented in 1994 with Ralph Bakshi as host. My dad was a weeb and sitting down on the couch watching crazy ass cartoons that my 8 year old brain couldn't quite comprehend will always stick with me.
holy shit, dude. I was exactly thinking of this movie when i saw this thread. man, was there any anime they showed that wasn't kino?
Besides the saturday anime block I really enjoyed MST3K and outer limits. I think there was some sci-fi original movie about a sasquatch that bites off a guy's face that was pretty good for what it was.
Farscape and Stargate SG1 were great, Stargate Atlantis was solid. I also really liked Face Off the special effects makeup competition they had a few years back, wish they'd bring that show back.
Fantastic creature features like Frankenfish, weird and obscure late night kino like Shock Treatment, interesting original TV shows Battlestar Galactica, Eureka, Warehouse 13, etc. Even their reality shows were top notch like the one where the locked a geek from different subcultures in a house together. How did they get it so right?
Speaking of their creature features Frankenfish, Sabertooth, and Chupacabra Dark Seas were all kino.
Can't find the soft sequel to Sabertooth anywhere or any streaming service or torrent. >Attack of the Sabertooth >Jp ripoff where they do a tropical island with sabertooth tigers >guy from revenge of the nerds is the evil rich nerd cloning them >end boss is a giant paraplegic sabertooth that drags it's back legs
I remember being home sick from school or during the summer, and they'd show blocks of shows from the 70s, like the original BattleStar, The Incredible Hulk, etc. Loved it. MST3K remains a favorite, Mike Nelson was my fav host. But stand outs:
Sliders (loved this and knew no one else who watched it)
Battlestar Galactica
Lexx (Just for all the sex references and hot girls, literally all I remember)
Farscape
All the Stargate stuff
Quantum Leap (original run)
I'm sure there's tons of stuff I'm missing. But Sci Fi used to be great. Last time I had cable and checked it out, it was mainly Ghost Hunting and UFO reality shows. Given enough time, all things start to suck.
If it were not for the Sci-fi channel airing the director's cut of Dune back in '93, I would have missed the single most formative novel of muh life. I still remember watching that kino at twelve years of age... I was blown away. A few years later, I read the Dune when I was eighteen. I thank the Sci-fi channel for not only showing kino beyond kid stuff, but for exposing my mind to literature. Good times, man.
The Harkonnens looked cool as frick to me when I watched when it aired in high school. Its dated looking now but so is classic sci-fi from the 50s and 60s and it’s still kino.
Frick off c**t. The fans of the original were waiting for a continuation and that israelite piece of shit just ripped off anime battle scenes left and right whit that unfinished video game spaceship look CGI and lame anti American post 911 angst flimsy storytelling techniques. Hell most the battles were ripped off from the original Space Battleship Yamato. Frick off! FRICK OFF!
The whole ramming the ship with the marines was taken from Space Battleship Yamato 2 1978.
Pic related. I hate the fricking fake RDMoroe his next generation shit writing was garbage, his bsg was garbage, he's a freemason writer sent in to destroy projects as is Kennedy and JJAbrams, so many.
Frick off that was a consolation gift to Glen A Larson because the israelites knew they fricked up. just they fricked up at Universal when they passed on Star Wars. Im telling you this whole thing is smelling of the israelite untalented b***h Sid Sheinberg.
Bonnie Hammer (born 1950) is an American network and studio executive. As of 2020 , her title is vice-chairman, NBCUniversal. Born to a israeli family in 1950
Makes sense. >around that time formerly scifi now syfy had been bought and sold a couple times now >less and less new scifi/action adventure/horror shows being made to eventually end up on syfy >the various companies are now wanting more and more to lease out the rights to their shows to channels not owned by themselves >current owners of syfy at the channel didn't like paying to make original scripted shows but instead wanted to focus on reality tv and wrestling.
From the mid 2000s onwards it becomes a real trend where they would rape and dispose of the corpse of all their shows in the 5th season no matter how well they were doing for the channel. >Eureka >absolutely got assfricked in the final season with less than half the normal budget and shorted on number of episodes, exec's wanted a focus on Felicia Days character over the other characters >Warehouse 13 >quarter of the budget of a normal season and not even half a full season ordered for a last season >cast and crew had to call in every favor possible just to get an extra 3 episodes >Being human >Cast and crew saw how Syfy kept buttfricking everyone in the 5th season so decided to end it at 4 seasons >Syfy offered to give them funding for a 5th and 6th season to not do it >then threatened the cast and crew that they'd never work on another syfy channel show again if they did this >did it anyways >Defiance >Syfy and trion fought tooth and nail over not having to fund the show >show creators managed to strike a deal with Dodge to help fund the show through season 2 and 3 (dodge durangos and chargers everywhere in the Arkfall post apocalypse) >even then the budget for season 3 was so thin the cast worked for almost nothing and called in friends and family to finish the season
Yup I remember all of this but totally forgot about 'Ghost Hunters' holly balls that was a terrible show, I guess i must have blocked it out of my mind.
It weird >1960 Twilight Zone = pure kino >1980s, 2002, 2020 Twilight Zone = garbage
but >1960s Outer Limits = average at best >1990s Outer Limits = pure kino
This is correct, esp the 90's Outer limits. That was the 1st series i caught now and again where, several years later, i watched an ep and it was a continuation of one from the 1st season. Blew my mind. Come to find out the entire series has episodes like that, some spaning the entire duration, peppered here and there in different seasons, seeming randomly. Purest kino. Also, some of the episodes were dark as shit too. Well worth watching.
>Also, some of the episodes were dark as shit too.
The opposite was also true. Here's one that I remember off the top of my head >guy goes nuts and kills his boss >weird alien meets him at a bar and talks to him >killer guy is actually sad about it and was justified in doing it >alien (who looks human) switches bodies with the killer >alien now as killer goes to jail >killer is now free
Yes, there was also one >Strange brodcast is being picked up by raido's all over the world for some time >Kids seem to love it even though adults can't understand it, sounds like static to them >Kids keep listining, becoming obsessed >Kids start to develop weird skin 'lesions' that look sort of chromatic >Parents start to freak out >Kids keep listening, keep developing larger and larger lesions until it covers their whole body in a rainbow colored 'metallic' sheen >Parents are insane with grief at this point >Aliens show up and explain "Your sun will go nova in their lifetime as they grow into adults, you the adults now, will be dead, this is our gift to you/them, protection from the radiation that comes to follow.
This is correct, esp the 90's Outer limits. That was the 1st series i caught now and again where, several years later, i watched an ep and it was a continuation of one from the 1st season. Blew my mind. Come to find out the entire series has episodes like that, some spaning the entire duration, peppered here and there in different seasons, seeming randomly. Purest kino. Also, some of the episodes were dark as shit too. Well worth watching.
Now rate Monsters, Tales from the Darkside, and Are You Afraid of the Dark?
TftDS is very kino, I still have nightmares about picrel at times
Monsters, i didnt catch many of these eps but the ones I saw were ok
I don't think i saw any AyAotD
TftDS is very kino, I still have nightmares about picrel at times
Monsters, i didnt catch many of these eps but the ones I saw were ok
I don't think i saw any AyAotD
Creepy that the bridge from TftDS is still there in the middle of nowhere
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QHH0KQaaFWw
Oh, yeah... They still haunt me. Well over three decades later... I got into ufology because of this shit. When I learned about the abduction phenomenon back in the late 80s, I was petrified with fear.
I still hunt for the intro which had the bg sounds with the audio clips but did not play the audio clips in it.
Only heard it like once or twice but it scarred the shit out of my little brother real bad.
I still hunt for the intro which had the bg sounds with the audio clips but did not play the audio clips in it.
Only heard it like once or twice but it scarred the shit out of my little brother real bad.
Do we ever wonder about the guys who made Sightings? Were they excited? Was it their dream job? Did they attempt to out spooky Robert Stack? Do they keep in touch today? Was it a big office or a broom closet? Did glowBlack folk drop by in the parking lot? Any office cuties?
I remember watching The Thing and Tales from the Crypt and Sightings on there. They eventually shifted to like 24/7 Battlestar Galactica/Stargate and absolutely shitty CGI Horror movies and I got turned off. It's been even further downhill since then.
So this channel will be dedicated to classic sci-fi like you might find in a college film club so typical niche stuff from the 50's-80's, it's not going to have Professional Wrestling or informercials or turn into the cheaply made horror movie channel, just sci-fi, it's in the name, it doesn't matter if you think sci-fi doesn't make enough money or something and needs to be replaced with something more relatable, no, this is your job, all sci-fi, all the time. Good luck.
The sci-fi channel used to air reruns of the Bill Bixby Hulk series. The episodes would begin just as I got home from school. Would grab myself a can of coke, hit the couch and watch Lou Ferrigno in green make up wreck shit.
i enjoyed it. they got a lot better after a lot of really shitty years. in the 2000s they would show mystery science theater, twilight zone reruns, blade runner in widescreen...it was probably the best channel looking back on it.
>twilight zone reruns
This is probably what I was watching on the channel back then. Loved those anthology horror shows as a kid. Twilight Zone, Tales from the Crypt, Tales from the Darkside, and Freddy's Nightmares.
I loved sci-fi channel. they'd do the godzilla marathons, MST3K every saturday morning, and usually follow through with a low budget monster movie marathon on weekends too. Once they started doing sci-fi originals that shit sunk real quick
Besides some super low budget episodes and obvious rehashes of classics, it’s worth the time. You can kind of tell when an episode is skippable. Like watching x files.
this is the channel i'd switch to when i didn't want my parents to catch me watching Real Sex on HBO or soft porn on Cinemax. they thought i was a sci-fi nerd, when in reality i was a massive perv and future rapist.
I still remember watching Vampire Hunter D on a Saturday morning. It was great when Sci-Fi channel would air dark adult anime like that so all the kids could watch.
The SciFi "if" tv bumps always got me so hyped for whatever I was watching even though they were completely unrelated. I just fell in love with the genre. SyFy's "imagine greater" promos were cool but never reached the same heights.
Since we're talking classic Sci Fi Channel, there's been something bugging me since I was a kid. There was a commercial for a show that all I remember was some sort of parasitic organism and people were in barns with them. It wasn't Stargate, that's all I know. The commercial for it had the line "Eater Heaven".
Any ideas on what it might have been?
They also started to do more overarching season plots and less case of the week type episodes. And to be honest they weren't that good especially the last one with the killer clones.
Sci-Fi was great when it was still called that and showed old eps of everything from ST to lost in space to MST3K. When they changed their name to a venereal disease and started showing nothing but wrasslin, yeah not so good.
>MST3k goes to SciFi channel >channel exists they use more science fiction movies in their riffing >MST3k people don't like it, but oblige and do it >this decision led to some of the best episodes like Time Chasers, Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, Space Mutiny, and Future War.
Comet was a great throwback to classic Sci Fi Channel until fairly recently. It was stuff like X Files, Stargate, Buffy, Sliders, etc. all the time. But it's like the Grimm channel now.
I'm still confused how I never encountered Farscape on the channel. I had been wanting to watch it for a while before I managed to find a very early tube-type site that had the episodes online (in very low quality). I don't remember what year this was
but late night showed schlocky mostly foreign horror movies like Dagon that were kino
don't know exactly what triggered all networks to become shit and go against their core market in the late 00's
Loved Sci-Fi channel as a kid. The bumpers they had where they interviewed directors/actors/artists were always really cool. One of my fondest memories was watching the first anime marathon they presented in 1994 with Ralph Bakshi as host. My dad was a weeb and sitting down on the couch watching crazy ass cartoons that my 8 year old brain couldn't quite comprehend will always stick with me.
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and of course we watched MST3K every Saturday (or maybe it was Sunday) morning.
This is one of my last positive memories of my mom. She would drink cold coffee and smoke kools and watch mst.
Your mom sounds like more of a bbc watcher.
holy shit, dude. I was exactly thinking of this movie when i saw this thread. man, was there any anime they showed that wasn't kino?
Besides the saturday anime block I really enjoyed MST3K and outer limits. I think there was some sci-fi original movie about a sasquatch that bites off a guy's face that was pretty good for what it was.
Farscape, mystery science theater, wonder woman and godzilla marathons and early morning transformers g1 reruns
I use to watch re-runs of Star Trek TOS in the afternoon. Was probably 99/2000 or 2003?. First time I saw TOS.
Farscape and Stargate SG1 were great, Stargate Atlantis was solid. I also really liked Face Off the special effects makeup competition they had a few years back, wish they'd bring that show back.
The Expanse was also great when it was on Scifi. The quality declined after it went to Amazon.
The SCI-FI channel officially jumped the shark when they changed the name to SYFY.
I remember when they changed the name. Used to watch the channel sometimes as a kid back in the 2000s before the name change.
Fantastic creature features like Frankenfish, weird and obscure late night kino like Shock Treatment, interesting original TV shows Battlestar Galactica, Eureka, Warehouse 13, etc. Even their reality shows were top notch like the one where the locked a geek from different subcultures in a house together. How did they get it so right?
Speaking of their creature features Frankenfish, Sabertooth, and Chupacabra Dark Seas were all kino.
Can't find the soft sequel to Sabertooth anywhere or any streaming service or torrent.
>Attack of the Sabertooth
>Jp ripoff where they do a tropical island with sabertooth tigers
>guy from revenge of the nerds is the evil rich nerd cloning them
>end boss is a giant paraplegic sabertooth that drags it's back legs
Sci Fi Buzz was great for getting caught up on industry news and it always had a section with Harlan Ellison ranting about stuff that pissed him off.
Forgot to post the link. An entire playlist of "Harlan Ellison is Watching" from Sci-Fi Buzz:
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I haven't watched this yet but I vividly remember him sperging the frick out over the pronunciation of Neanderthal on there once.
This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIfu-FsxG00
Well, follow that up with the sound of steel drums and girls showing their breasts for Girls Gone Wild, and you've just mainlined nostalgia.
It just occurred to me that you couldnt show a commercial like this on tv or even cable now.
I remember being home sick from school or during the summer, and they'd show blocks of shows from the 70s, like the original BattleStar, The Incredible Hulk, etc. Loved it. MST3K remains a favorite, Mike Nelson was my fav host. But stand outs:
Sliders (loved this and knew no one else who watched it)
Battlestar Galactica
Lexx (Just for all the sex references and hot girls, literally all I remember)
Farscape
All the Stargate stuff
Quantum Leap (original run)
I'm sure there's tons of stuff I'm missing. But Sci Fi used to be great. Last time I had cable and checked it out, it was mainly Ghost Hunting and UFO reality shows. Given enough time, all things start to suck.
If it were not for the Sci-fi channel airing the director's cut of Dune back in '93, I would have missed the single most formative novel of muh life. I still remember watching that kino at twelve years of age... I was blown away. A few years later, I read the Dune when I was eighteen. I thank the Sci-fi channel for not only showing kino beyond kid stuff, but for exposing my mind to literature. Good times, man.
based. what did you think of the mini-series they did?
I really enjoyed it. But both Dune and Children of Dune had two glaring flaws.
>Costume design
>Low budget
>he doesn't like the costume design
FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG
The Harkonnens looked cool as frick to me when I watched when it aired in high school. Its dated looking now but so is classic sci-fi from the 50s and 60s and it’s still kino.
I thought costume design was pretty good considering the budget
casting was even largely excellent though I never liked the Paul or Leto choices
>Dune
>Director's Cut
say what?
Frick this channel and Bonnie Hammer who Okay'd RDMoore into destroying Battlestar Galactica, Both of them can suck monkey dick.
Battlestar was great, idiot. Except for the ending. You didn't even have to pay attention to the plot too much because Six was hot as hell.
Frick off c**t. The fans of the original were waiting for a continuation and that israelite piece of shit just ripped off anime battle scenes left and right whit that unfinished video game spaceship look CGI and lame anti American post 911 angst flimsy storytelling techniques. Hell most the battles were ripped off from the original Space Battleship Yamato. Frick off! FRICK OFF!
>Hell most the battles were ripped off from the original Space Battleship Yamato.
Funny if true
The whole ramming the ship with the marines was taken from Space Battleship Yamato 2 1978.
Pic related. I hate the fricking fake RDMoroe his next generation shit writing was garbage, his bsg was garbage, he's a freemason writer sent in to destroy projects as is Kennedy and JJAbrams, so many.
>The fans of the original were waiting for a continuation
You got one. Battlestar 1980. It sucked.
Frick off that was a consolation gift to Glen A Larson because the israelites knew they fricked up. just they fricked up at Universal when they passed on Star Wars. Im telling you this whole thing is smelling of the israelite untalented b***h Sid Sheinberg.
I hated the new Battle star as well. Was also major drama for them "divirsifying" Starbuck into a woman at the time. And still, to me.
Funny thing is I worked with Bonny Hammer when she was a producer at Warner Bros Studio in NY before she want to Sci FI.
I worked on Bugs Bunny Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers and she was head of the studio.
So why is she such a deranged b***h with delusions of grandeur who can't leave well enough alone?
Start a Bonny thread anon. You were part of showbiz history.
>Bonnie Hammer
Bonnie Hammer - Wikipedia
Bonnie Hammer (born 1950) is an American network and studio executive. As of 2020 , her title is vice-chairman, NBCUniversal. Born to a israeli family in 1950
I stopped watching the channel and tv in general when Ghost Hunters aired.
Makes sense.
>around that time formerly scifi now syfy had been bought and sold a couple times now
>less and less new scifi/action adventure/horror shows being made to eventually end up on syfy
>the various companies are now wanting more and more to lease out the rights to their shows to channels not owned by themselves
>current owners of syfy at the channel didn't like paying to make original scripted shows but instead wanted to focus on reality tv and wrestling.
From the mid 2000s onwards it becomes a real trend where they would rape and dispose of the corpse of all their shows in the 5th season no matter how well they were doing for the channel.
>Eureka
>absolutely got assfricked in the final season with less than half the normal budget and shorted on number of episodes, exec's wanted a focus on Felicia Days character over the other characters
>Warehouse 13
>quarter of the budget of a normal season and not even half a full season ordered for a last season
>cast and crew had to call in every favor possible just to get an extra 3 episodes
>Being human
>Cast and crew saw how Syfy kept buttfricking everyone in the 5th season so decided to end it at 4 seasons
>Syfy offered to give them funding for a 5th and 6th season to not do it
>then threatened the cast and crew that they'd never work on another syfy channel show again if they did this
>did it anyways
>Defiance
>Syfy and trion fought tooth and nail over not having to fund the show
>show creators managed to strike a deal with Dodge to help fund the show through season 2 and 3 (dodge durangos and chargers everywhere in the Arkfall post apocalypse)
>even then the budget for season 3 was so thin the cast worked for almost nothing and called in friends and family to finish the season
Yup I remember all of this but totally forgot about 'Ghost Hunters' holly balls that was a terrible show, I guess i must have blocked it out of my mind.
The 90s Outer Limits
It’s on tubi or some free streaming app. Some real bangers. I just go in blind and pick an episode. Some is garbage but it’s surprisingly good.
So its not bad? I watched the 2002 twilight zone and enjoyed a few of the episodes
Haven't seen outer limits
It weird
>1960 Twilight Zone = pure kino
>1980s, 2002, 2020 Twilight Zone = garbage
but
>1960s Outer Limits = average at best
>1990s Outer Limits = pure kino
This is correct, esp the 90's Outer limits. That was the 1st series i caught now and again where, several years later, i watched an ep and it was a continuation of one from the 1st season. Blew my mind. Come to find out the entire series has episodes like that, some spaning the entire duration, peppered here and there in different seasons, seeming randomly. Purest kino. Also, some of the episodes were dark as shit too. Well worth watching.
>Also, some of the episodes were dark as shit too.
The opposite was also true. Here's one that I remember off the top of my head
>guy goes nuts and kills his boss
>weird alien meets him at a bar and talks to him
>killer guy is actually sad about it and was justified in doing it
>alien (who looks human) switches bodies with the killer
>alien now as killer goes to jail
>killer is now free
Yes, there was also one
>Strange brodcast is being picked up by raido's all over the world for some time
>Kids seem to love it even though adults can't understand it, sounds like static to them
>Kids keep listining, becoming obsessed
>Kids start to develop weird skin 'lesions' that look sort of chromatic
>Parents start to freak out
>Kids keep listening, keep developing larger and larger lesions until it covers their whole body in a rainbow colored 'metallic' sheen
>Parents are insane with grief at this point
>Aliens show up and explain "Your sun will go nova in their lifetime as they grow into adults, you the adults now, will be dead, this is our gift to you/them, protection from the radiation that comes to follow.
Or something like that. Very kino.
Now rate Monsters, Tales from the Darkside, and Are You Afraid of the Dark?
TftDS is very kino, I still have nightmares about picrel at times
Monsters, i didnt catch many of these eps but the ones I saw were ok
I don't think i saw any AyAotD
Creepy that the bridge from TftDS is still there in the middle of nowhere
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QHH0KQaaFWw
Thats really cool, nice find!
This show scared this shit out of me as a wee lad.
Me too.
anya a cute
Oh, yeah... They still haunt me. Well over three decades later... I got into ufology because of this shit. When I learned about the abduction phenomenon back in the late 80s, I was petrified with fear.
I still hunt for the intro which had the bg sounds with the audio clips but did not play the audio clips in it.
Only heard it like once or twice but it scarred the shit out of my little brother real bad.
Do we ever wonder about the guys who made Sightings? Were they excited? Was it their dream job? Did they attempt to out spooky Robert Stack? Do they keep in touch today? Was it a big office or a broom closet? Did glowBlack folk drop by in the parking lot? Any office cuties?
I remember watching The Thing and Tales from the Crypt and Sightings on there. They eventually shifted to like 24/7 Battlestar Galactica/Stargate and absolutely shitty CGI Horror movies and I got turned off. It's been even further downhill since then.
So this channel will be dedicated to classic sci-fi like you might find in a college film club so typical niche stuff from the 50's-80's, it's not going to have Professional Wrestling or informercials or turn into the cheaply made horror movie channel, just sci-fi, it's in the name, it doesn't matter if you think sci-fi doesn't make enough money or something and needs to be replaced with something more relatable, no, this is your job, all sci-fi, all the time. Good luck.
feels
Invasion America and Starship Troopers: Roughnecks were cool
Yes
Did they find him?
Kino album, boys
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VqH6qRp1Jlw&pp
I used to love Scare Tactics in high school
The sci-fi channel used to air reruns of the Bill Bixby Hulk series. The episodes would begin just as I got home from school. Would grab myself a can of coke, hit the couch and watch Lou Ferrigno in green make up wreck shit.
i enjoyed it. they got a lot better after a lot of really shitty years. in the 2000s they would show mystery science theater, twilight zone reruns, blade runner in widescreen...it was probably the best channel looking back on it.
>twilight zone reruns
This is probably what I was watching on the channel back then. Loved those anthology horror shows as a kid. Twilight Zone, Tales from the Crypt, Tales from the Darkside, and Freddy's Nightmares.
Same. Every July 4th and new years was twilight zone marathon. Used to watch it with my uncle before he passed. Good memories.
I'm watching 00s galactica currently
Didn't watch it back when it was new
Only seen a couple episodes and the mini series but thus far it has been good.
Be prepared for a STEEP decline in quality due to the Writer's Strike of 07. Television in general never recovered.
I loved sci-fi channel. they'd do the godzilla marathons, MST3K every saturday morning, and usually follow through with a low budget monster movie marathon on weekends too. Once they started doing sci-fi originals that shit sunk real quick
Besides some super low budget episodes and obvious rehashes of classics, it’s worth the time. You can kind of tell when an episode is skippable. Like watching x files.
It has a darker overtone generally.
this is the channel i'd switch to when i didn't want my parents to catch me watching Real Sex on HBO or soft porn on Cinemax. they thought i was a sci-fi nerd, when in reality i was a massive perv and future rapist.
Oh yeah
A safety channel
Mine was WQED.
Go from softcore to Star Hustler with Jack Horkheimer in quick time.
Real Sex grossed me out, but Taxi Cab Confessions made me hump my babysitter. I only watched 15 mins of Autopsy and noped
I still remember watching Vampire Hunter D on a Saturday morning. It was great when Sci-Fi channel would air dark adult anime like that so all the kids could watch.
The SciFi "if" tv bumps always got me so hyped for whatever I was watching even though they were completely unrelated. I just fell in love with the genre. SyFy's "imagine greater" promos were cool but never reached the same heights.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8zo7y
loved these little bumpers
Since we're talking classic Sci Fi Channel, there's been something bugging me since I was a kid. There was a commercial for a show that all I remember was some sort of parasitic organism and people were in barns with them. It wasn't Stargate, that's all I know. The commercial for it had the line "Eater Heaven".
Any ideas on what it might have been?
Defiance was interesting, but degenerate as hell. Eureka was fun for a few seasons until they got rid of the Tony Stark CEO guy.
They also started to do more overarching season plots and less case of the week type episodes. And to be honest they weren't that good especially the last one with the killer clones.
Do any of you bros remember Chiller?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiller_%28TV_network%29
Chiller was so comfy. I applied for a job there, shortly before it was put on ice.
For me? Anime Week with Apollo Smile, the live action anime girl.
Kino
Sci-Fi was great when it was still called that and showed old eps of everything from ST to lost in space to MST3K. When they changed their name to a venereal disease and started showing nothing but wrasslin, yeah not so good.
I used to watch the Twilight Zone marathon at New Years every year
>MST3k goes to SciFi channel
>channel exists they use more science fiction movies in their riffing
>MST3k people don't like it, but oblige and do it
>this decision led to some of the best episodes like Time Chasers, Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, Space Mutiny, and Future War.
this channel has anime/show blocks of the sci fi channel from the late 90's ranging from 3 hours to 10 hours if that interests you.
https://www.youtube.com/@rinse-repeat/videos
ah frick riverdance commercial right at the start, memory unlocked
Weird I don't remember ever seeing Gunsmith Cats on Scifi. I wish he had the original broadcast of Iria from 96 or 97. That's what got me into anime.
Comet was a great throwback to classic Sci Fi Channel until fairly recently. It was stuff like X Files, Stargate, Buffy, Sliders, etc. all the time. But it's like the Grimm channel now.
I remember checking out their Ani-Mondays but not liking the shows. Aside from that, it was great for Doctor Who, Eureka, Dead Like Me, and John Doe.
Ani-Mondays were awful. "We have Toonami at home", and that's already pathetic considering you could just get more recent anime.
They aired the midest anime.
I think I remember them airing the original vampire hunter D from the '80s at like 3 in the morning
Yes we had C-band satellite as a kid. I miss Sci-Fi buzz
Does SyFy even have anything good anymore?
The Childhood's End miniseries is well regarded
This one was great.
I'm still confused how I never encountered Farscape on the channel. I had been wanting to watch it for a while before I managed to find a very early tube-type site that had the episodes online (in very low quality). I don't remember what year this was
but late night showed schlocky mostly foreign horror movies like Dagon that were kino
don't know exactly what triggered all networks to become shit and go against their core market in the late 00's
MST3K. Nothing else.