All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 After the End

    • February 23, 2001

    What "things to come" will there be after man destroys himself and the world? Examine the end of the world through this passel of post-apocalyptic pictures.

  • S01E02 Alien Life Forms

    • February 23, 2001

    We are not alone. Not by a long shot. We're surrounded by sci-fi flicks filled with strange visitors from other planets with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men.

  • S01E03 Amazing Inventions

    • February 23, 2001

    Time machines, disintegrator machines, shrinking rays - they're all here, along with many more of sci-fi's greatest inventions.

  • S01E04 Artificial Intelligence

    • February 23, 2001

    Take a look back at A.I. history in film and decide whether computers are our friends or they're all H.A.L. from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

  • S01E05 Dinosaurs

    • February 23, 2001

    Long before Jurassic Park, dinosaurs roamed through a variety of horror films, dating all the way back to The Lost World in 1925.

  • S01E06 End of the World

    • February 23, 2001

    From Biblical floods to natural disasters and plagues of giant insects, it's not always man who manages to destroy the world, as vividly illustrated in these sci-fi favorites.

  • S01E07 Final Frontier

    • February 23, 2001

    "Science fiction" has become almost synonymous with "outer space" - and with good reason. Take a delightful trip among the stars - at warp speed.

  • S01E08 Future Worlds

    • February 23, 2001

    What will the world be like a hundred years from now? A thousand years from now? A million years from now? Sci-fi filmmakers have been venturing guesses for decades.

  • S01E09 H.G. Wells

    • February 23, 2001

    A salute to the brilliant Victorian mind that gave us The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, and War of the Worlds.

  • S01E10 Lost Worlds

    • February 23, 2001

    From saber-toothed tigers to dinosaurs hidden somewhere on isolated islands or towering mountain tops, lost worlds have been found again and again by science fiction films.

  • S01E11 Mad Scientists

    • February 23, 2001

    Take a look at the many legendary performers who have taken their turn experimenting with the formula of one of sci-fi's greatest tropes: the sinister mad scientist.

  • S01E12 Mutations

    • February 23, 2001

    From exposure to intense cosmic radiation to a grand experiment experiment gone horribly wrong, mutations have grown and developed into a key component of science fiction DNA.

  • S01E13 Power of the Mind

    • February 23, 2001

    This fascinating chapter takes a look at such mental manifestations as ESP, mind control, and telekinesis.

  • S01E14 Queens of Sci-Fi

    • February 23, 2001

    Witness Zsa-Zsa Gabor as The Queen of Outer Space, among many many other royal sci-fi sisters.

  • S01E15 Robots

    • February 23, 2001

    From the sexy Art Deco robot in Metropolis to the low-budget gorilla-with-a-space-helmet robot in Robot Monster and on to R2D2 and C3PO, audiences have been fascinated by mechanical men and women for ages.

  • S01E16 Spawn of the Atom

    • February 23, 2001

    From the conclusion of World War II thru the 1950s and beyond, people have been fascinated by -- and frightened of -- the atom bomb and its horrible power. So naturally, it has become a regular subject for sci-fi films.

  • S01E17 U.F.O.s

    • February 23, 2001

    Swamp gas? Airplanes? Secret government weapons? Or are they really from "out there"? Here's a look at all the sci-fi flicks that have concerned themselves with flying saucers.

  • S01E18 Sci-Fi Stars

    • February 23, 2001

    In the science fiction universe, there are the stars that astronauts travel to and then there are stars like John Agar, Ken Tobey, Richard Carlson, Charlton Heston, and so many others. Take a look back at the work of the latter.

  • S01E19 Sci-Fi Heroes

    • February 23, 2001

    From Flash Gordon to Luke Skywalker, science fiction films have always had heroes dedicated to the pursuit of justice in every galaxy near and far.

  • S01E20 Jules Verne

    • February 23, 2001

  • S01E21 The Serials

    • February 23, 2001

  • S01E22 Sexy Sci-Fi

    • February 23, 2001

  • S01E23 Strange Invaders

    • February 23, 2001

  • S01E24 Time Travelers

    • February 23, 2001

  • S01E25 Ray Harryhausen

    • February 23, 2001

  • S01E26 Weird Worlds

    • February 23, 2001

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