Some science fiction series that only lasted one season
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- StarsRobert WebberCasey AllenArthur BatanidesInnovative anthology series was one of the first adult-oriented science fiction series of the early-fifties and probably suffered for it. Teleplays were adapted from the best science fiction stories available from such masters as Ray Bradbury and Robert Heinlein. The series, which did not have a sponsor, was canceled after only twelve episodes
- StarsJudd HoldrenAline TowneGregory GayeDangerous climate changes are ravaging Earth and the U.S. government requests an investigation by masked super-scientist Commando Cody. He discovers that the disasters are being caused by space-alien forces from unknown planetary origins.
- StarsHarrison SheppardRobert CourtleighBob HastingsThe Atom Squad is a top-secret planetary defense organization faced with challenges from evildoers and malfunctioning machines alike.
- StarsSteve HollandIrene ChamplinJoseph NashSpace hero Flash Gordon and his crew of the Galaxy Bureau of Investigation patrol space, battling space monsters, power-mad alien dictators and other threats to the stability of the universe.
- StarsMarshall ThompsonArthur FranzMarcia HendersonMarshal Thompson plays a secret agent who is approximately 6 inches tall. He's carried around from one mission to another in a briefcase with a small chair inside.
- StarsWilliam LundiganJoyce TaylorCharles HerbertThe adventures of Colonel Ed McCauley, head of the American space program. He battles saboteurs, budget cuts, defective equipment and other problems in outer space.
- StarsMaurice KaufmannMaxine AudleyPhilip BondHard-driven scientist David Whittaker finds himself battling for the survival of the world against a disease spreading from a tropical island caused by a legendary spider-goddess.
- StarsLon Chaney Jr.Charles NolteLorri Scott"13 Demon Street" was a horror anthology series, set at decaying 13 Demon Street where the host, an unnerving Lon Chaney Jr., opened and closed each episode.
- StarsRoald DahlPaul TremaineRichard Morse"'Way Out" was a drama in the macabre genre was broadcast each week hosted by Roald Dahl.
- StarsBoris KarloffPiers KeelanRaymond Adamson"Out of This World" was a hosted science fiction anthology television series with Boris Karloff as host, screening on ITV - Independent Television (UK).
- CreatorGerry AndersonSylvia AndersonStarsDavid GrahamSylvia AndersonPaul MaxwellThe interplanetary adventures of the crew of the World Space Patrol (W.S.P.) spacecraft Fireball XL5, patrolling Sector 25 of the galaxy in the year 2062.
- CreatorOsamu TezukaStarsBillie Lou WattMari ShimizuEsperanzita MartínezAs long as trouble's brewing across the universe, the small but powerful robot, Astro Boy, will have adventures, assisted by his mentor, Dr. Elefun.
- CreatorOsamu TezukaStarsMari ShimizuAyao WadaMasako Nozawa
- CreatorKazumasa HiraiJirô KuwataStarsSakae TakayamaMiyuki UedaTakayuki HaraA killed detective's mind is transferred by a scientific genius into the body of a shape-shifting robot superhero who fights crime.
- CreatorDoug WildeyStarsMike RoadTim MathesonDon MessickThe Quest family and their bodyguard investigate strange phenomena and battle villains around the world.
- CreatorBill KelsayAl MartinStarsJulie NewmarRobert CummingsJack MullaneyA psychiatrist is given care of Rhoda Miller "real name 'AF 709'", a lifelike sophisticated but naïve android that eventually learns how human society works and begins showing "or at least emulating" rudimentary emotions.
- CreatorGerry AndersonSylvia AndersonStarsRay BarrettDavid GrahamRobert EastonFollows the adventures of the World Aquanaut Security Patrol, particularly the crew of its most advanced combat submarine called Stingray.
- CreatorMitsuteru YokoyamaStarsBillie Lou WattRay OwensPeter FernandezWhen terrorist groups, criminals and aliens become too strong for Earth's overstretched armed forces, the virtually indestructible robot named Gigantor is built to combat them.
- StarsBob McFaddenJeff GillenCarl BanasPrince Planet was sent from his home planet Radion to study the people of Earth and help them in their fight against evil. His power comes from a pendant he wears, which can only be recharged by energy transmitted from Radion.
- StarsBobbie ByersNeil PatrickPaul BrownThree extraterrestrials sent to Earth to protect it from it's warlike ways take the form of Earth animals, and team up with a young boy and his older brother, who works as a secret agent.
- CreatorLady RobinsonA series about the adventures of DoDo, a humanoid alien from the planet Hena Hydro who settled on Earth. He was described in the narration as pixie-like. He was "short and slender, with long, pointy ears.". His companion was Professor Fingers, a mystery-investigating scientist who could pull an unlimited number of items from his inter-dimensional pockets. DoDo was accompanied by a sentient computer in the form of a bird, called Compy.
- CreatorAllan BurnsChris HaywardStarsJerry Van DykeMaggie PierceAnn SothernThe story of the relationship between a man and his mother, the latter having been reincarnated as a 1928 Porter automobile.
- CreatorKazumasa HiraiJirô KuwataStarsSandy WarshawJack MetgerJerry BerkeAfter Special Agent Peter Brady of the Metropolitan Crime Prevention Bureau is fatally shot by criminals, Professor Genius transfers Brady's mind into his 8th robot creation, naming him 8th Man. One of the first anime TV series ever made.
- StarsRanfan OuUlf ÔtsukiHarold ConwayGoldar and his family of robots are sent to earth to stop Rodak the conqueror, in his plans of destroy the earth aided by his giant kaijus and shapeshifting minions: the lugo-men.
- CreatorEiji TsuburayaStarsSusumu KurobeSandayû DokumamushiMasaya NiheiA human member of a defense force is given the life and ability to change into a giant super-hero to battle the monsters that wreaks havoc on Earth.
- CreatorJack KirbyJoe SimonStarsBernard CowanDon MasonJack CreleyThe patriotic sole recipient of a revolutionary body enhancement project battles evil as the star spangled defender of America.
- CreatorAlex TothStarsDon MessickGinny TylerGary OwensThe adventures of a space superhero who can become invisible and his sidekicks.
- CreatorLarry LieberStarsBernard CowanDon MasonClaude RaeThe contemporary adventures of the Norse god of thunder and lightning.
- CreatorBill EverettStarsBernard CowanDon MasonJack CreleyThe prince of the sunken city of Atlantis protects his home from all enemies both above and below the surface of the sea.
- CreatorLarry LieberStarsBernard CowanDon MasonJack CreleyAn inventive munitions industrialist fights the forces of evil using a revolutionary suit of power armor.
- CreatorGeorge W. TrendleStarsBruce LeeVan WilliamsWende WagnerA newspaper publisher and his Asian valet/martial arts expert battle crime as the feared Green Hornet and Kato.
- CreatorIrwin AllenStarsJames DarrenRobert ColbertWhit BissellTwo scientists with a secret time travel project find themselves trapped in the time stream and appearing in notable periods of history.
- CreatorSherwood SchwartzStarsFrank AletterJack MullaneyImogene CocaTwo astronauts traveling faster than light go back in time to prehistoric Earth. Unable to return, they make friends with the "natives".
- StarsPat CarrollArte JohnsonJune ForayRent-a-superhero.
- StarsChris AllenLucille BlissDon MessickAn evil space pirate schemes to steal a treasure map from a group of little kids in outer space.
- CreatorJack KirbyStan LeeStarsBernard CowanDon MasonJack CreleyThe adventures of a nuclear scientist cursed with the tendency to turning into a huge green brute under stress.
- CreatorPatrick McGoohanStarsPatrick McGoohanAngelo MuscatPeter SwanwickAfter he resigns, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is actually a bizarre prison. He refuses to give his warders information while attempting to escape.
- CreatorTatsuo YoshidaStarsKatsuji MoriPeter FernandezCorinne OrrTeenager Gô Mifune aspires to be the world's best race-car champion with the help of his friends, family and his father's high-tech race-car, the Mach 5.
- CreatorAlex TothStarsVirginia GreggTed EcclesDon MessickKing Zandor and a group of bizarre creatures protect their futuristic kingdom from creatures from other galaxies.
- CreatorJack KirbyStan LeeStarsPaul FreesGerald MohrJack DeLeonFour costumed superheroes battle the world's most terrifying villains.
- StarsTed CassidyShepard MenkenJune ForayThe President of the United States is secretly a masked superhero fighting supervillains.
- StarsPaul FreesVic PerrinRay OwensThe animated adventures of several DC Comics superheroes.
- CreatorGerry AndersonSylvia AndersonStarsEd BishopDonald GrayFrancis MatthewsIn 2068, the indestructible Captain Scarlet leads the agents of Spectrum in a war of nerves against the Mysterons from Mars.
- StarsMitsunobu KanekoToshiyuki TsuchiyamaKôichi ChibaA young boy aids in the fight against a terrorist organization as the sole controller of a prototype giant robot.
- CreatorMonty BermanDennis SpoonerStarsStuart DamonAlexandra BastedoWilliam GauntAfter a plane carrying three UN Agents crashes in the Himalayas, they are rescued by an advanced civilisation secretly living in Tibet who grant them enhanced versions of the ordinary five senses, and intellectual and physical abilities.
- StarsCorinne OrrPeter FernandezJack CurtisCartoon series chronicles the adventures of marine boy, who can breathe for extended periods underwater with the use of oxygum. He also has jet boots that propel him underwater, and a friendly dolphin who always seems to show up just when marine boy needs him most.
- StarsBud CollyerBob HastingsJackson BeckThe animated debut of Batman & Robin brings the Dynamic Duo to animated life in Filmation's cult classic take on The Dark Knight and The Boy Wonder, defending Gotham City from The Caped Crusader's Rogues Gallery, one crook at a time.
- StarsMarvin MillerTed KnightJane WebbThe government employs a team of experts who are shrunken to microscopic size to infiltrate and combat otherwise impenetrable threats.
- StarsStefanie PowersVera MilesJulie Harris"Journey to the Unknown" was a British anthology series about everyday people finding themselves put into unusual circumstances...many of them supernatural in nature.
- CreatorGerry AndersonSylvia AndersonStarsKeith AlexanderSylvia AndersonRupert DaviesThe adventures of nine-year-old Joe McClaine, who can have the expert skills, knowledge, and experiences of top experts downloaded into his brain by his scientist father, enabling him to become a secret agent code-named "Joe 90".
- StarsJon FinchSarah BrackettKatie FitzroySimon King, an alien agent from the Inter Galactic Council, is sent to Earth on a mission to stop unscrupulous refugees from a dying planet from wiping out Mankind and taking over the planet Earth.
- CreatorGerry AndersonSylvia AndersonStarsStanley UnwinGary FilesJeremy WilkinThe adventures of an elderly vicar and his gardener, secret agents for B.I.S.H.O.P, who combat criminals and terrorists from overseas in the year 1969.
- CreatorRobert SpechtStarsChristopher GeorgeDon KnightBarry SullivanAn immortal man whose blood can have miraculous health benefits is a fugitive from those who would exploit both him and his brother he seeks.
- CreatorGerry AndersonSylvia AndersonStarsEd BishopDolores MantezMichael BillingtonThe missions of the Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organization (SHADO), which defends Earth from extra-terrestrial threats.
- StarsRoss MartinJohn StephensonJosh AlbeeCartoon adventure series that focused on a group of Oceanauts in their experimental complex on the ocean floor.
- CreatorLeslie StevensStarsHugh O'BrianDoug McClureAnthony Franciosa"World Securities", an international high-tech private investigation company, employs field operatives who are aided by implanted audio receivers and who carry tiny cameras and telemetry units which can be attached to tie tacks or rings. Each episode featured one of three (O'Brian, Franciosa, McClure) agents on a particular investigation, which usually had political elements. Meredith played the "director" of the investigations, as leader of the expert team who remained at headquarters monitoring and providing the agent with intelligence. Other experts included a computer hacker (such as they were portrayed in the early 70's), someone fluent as a translator in several languages, and a doctor.
- StarsJackie JosephCasey KasemJanet WaldoThe Pussycats and a pet-sized fluffy alien called Bleep, encounter strange new worlds, where they are often kidnapped by various alien races before escaping and attempting to return home.
- StarsAnthony QuayleDarren McGavinJack Thompson"The Evil Touch" was an anthology horror, science fiction and mystery series hosted by Anthony Quayle between 1973-74..
- CreatorHarlan EllisonStarsKeir DulleaGay RowanRobin WardA group of humans must explore a vast starship in order to find the controls to save it from destruction.
- CreatorGardner FoxStarsDanny DarkCasey KasemOlan SouleThe greatest of the DC Comics superheroes work together to uphold the good with the help of some young proteges.
- CreatorAnthony WilsonStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonTwo astronauts and a sympathetic chimp friend are fugitives in a future Earth dominated by a civilization of humanoid apes.
- CreatorJeffrey Grant RiceStarsDarren McGavinSimon OaklandJack GrinnageCarl Kolchak is a reporter for a Chicago newspaper. Through more accident than design he ends up investigating homicides, many of which involve supernatural forces. Ultimately, rather than reporting on the crimes, he solves them.
- CreatorLeiji MatsumotoYoshinobu NishizakiEiichi YamamotoStarsKei TomiyamaGorô NayaShûsei NakamuraIn the year 2199, the space battleship Yamato embarks on a voyage to the planet Iscandar, to retrieve a device that will rejuvenate a war-ravaged Earth.
- CreatorHarve BennettSteven BochcoStarsDavid McCallumMelinda O. FeeCraig StevensThe weekly adventures of Dr. Daniel Westin, an invisible scientist working as an agent for a private thinktank.
- CreatorEarle DoudMarty KrofftSid KrofftStarsBob DenverChuck McCannPatty MaloneyThe misadventures of two maintenance workers who are accidentally launched into space.
- CreatorDavid H. DePatieFriz FrelengStarsAustin StokerPhilippa HarrisHenry CordenWhile on a mission, three astronauts in their spaceship get caught in a time vortex. They return to Earth in the year 3979 A.D. and discover that intelligent apes are now the highest form of life.
- CreatorMarty KrofftSid KrofftSi RoseStarsJim NaborsRuth BuzziAlice PlaytenA young boy, his babysitter, and two alien androids find themselves lost in time and space aboard a mysterious spaceship.
- StarsBen MurphyKatherine CrawfordWilliam SylvesterA man has a watch that makes him invisible when pressed. However he can only remain invisible for 15 minutes or else he will stay invisible forever.
- CreatorJoe RubyKen SpearsStarsDeidre HallJudy StrangisNorman AldenThe adventures of two female superheroes.
- CreatorMartin RothStarsTerry LesterJean Marie HonJosé FloresThree young scientists travel around the country in the 25th century after the world has been ravaged by pollution. In their hi-tech RV (called Ark II), they study the land and help out those in need.
- CreatorMarty KrofftSid KrofftSi RoseStarsJay RobinsonBilly BartyTed EcclesThree teens are shrunk to six inches in height by a mad scientist.
- StarsGregory HarrisonHeather Menzies-UrichDonald MoffatIn a futuristic society where reaching the age of 30 is a death sentence, a rebellious law enforcement agent goes on the run in search of Sanctuary.
- StarsJared MartinCarl FranklinIke EisenmannTravelers are stranded in the Bermuda Triangle. On an island, they meet Varian, a man from the future, and Liana, an Atlantean. Together, they journey through different worlds, in hopes of returning home.
- CreatorMayo SimonHerbert F. SolowStarsPatrick DuffyAlan FudgeBelinda MontgomeryThe adventures of an amphibious man, the last survivor of the legendary sunken city.
- CreatorAllen DucovnyStarsJonathan HarrisPamelyn FerdinRic CarrottThe adventures of the students of an outer space military school.
- CreatorAllen DucovnyStarsJonathan HarrisPamelyn FerdinRic CarrottThe adventures of the students of an outer space military school.
- StarsGeorge DiCenzoEvan C. KimDee TimberlakeA trio of teenage superheroes, representing three different racial groups, use their powers to fight against evil forces.
- CreatorBuck HenryStarsRichard BenjaminTim ThomersonPatricia BarnstableThe misadventures of an outer space garbage collector and his crew.
- CreatorGlen A. LarsonStarsLorne GreeneRichard HatchDirk BenedictAfter the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet on a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth.
- CreatorMerwin GerardStarsJohn NewlandHenry BrandonCraig Littler"The Next Step Beyond" was a hosted science fiction series hosted by John Newland, airing from the late 1950s until the early 1960s.
- StarsNoriko OharaSabrina PitreErin MathewsLong after a devastating war almost destroyed the entire world, a boy with superhuman strength fights to save his friends from those who seek to conquer what is left of civilization.
- CreatorStan LeeStarsMike RoadGinny TylerTed CassidyThe super-elastic Mr. Fantastic, the force field-wielding Invisible Girl, the orange rock-covered Thing and the data-crammed robot H.E.R.B.I.E. make up a team of superheroes dedicated to thwarting would-be world-dominating villains.
- CreatorStan LeeMarie SeverinStarsJoan Van ArkBryan ScottLarry CarrollThe adventures of a female superhero with spider-like abilities.
- CreatorYoshiyuki TominoHajime YatateStarsHirotaka SuzuokiTôru FuruyaToshio FurukawaIn the war between the Earth Federation and Zeon, a young and inexperienced crew find themselves on a new spaceship. Their best hope of making it through the conflict is the Gundam, a giant humanoid robot, and its gifted teenage pilot.
- StarsJohn StephensonArt MetranoJohn ErwinA show featuring two different cartoon segments,The New Fred and Barney Show (a revival of The Flintstones) and The Thing (based on the Marvel Comics superhero).
- CreatorGlen A. LarsonStarsKent McCordBarry Van DykeRobyn DouglassWhen the Battlestar Galactica finally arrives at Earth, they find they must subtly raise its tech level while protecting it from the Cylons.
- CreatorMichael CrichtonLou ShawStarsJim McMullanJames WainwrightWilliam JordanThe security chief of an android manufacturing company must stop a mad scientist, who's sending the failed theme park's androids to infiltrate society for his own ends.
- CreatorAnthony LawrenceNancy LawrenceStarsJudson ScottRichard LynchE.G. MarshallAn ancient and powerful human-like alien is pursued on modern Earth while he searches for his long lost partner.
- StarsFrank WelkerRichard ErdmanVirginia GreggThe show was made up of four different cartoon segments, these being: Space Ghost, The Herculoids, Teen Force, and Astro and the Space Mutts.
- CreatorJames D. ParriottStarsJon-Erik HexumMeeno PeluceDavid CadienteA member of a league of time travelers and a boy travel through time repairing errors in world history.
- CreatorJohn HawkesworthStarsSam WaterstonA.C. WearyGeorge InnesIn 1912, Quentin E. Deverill, an eccentric expatriate American professor, uses his unique skills to solve mysteries in London.
- CreatorSteven E. de SouzaAllan BalterHarve BennettStarsPeter BartonLouis Gossett Jr.Amy SteelThe adventures of high-school student Matthew Star, who is actually a superpowered alien Prince from another world.
- CreatorGlen A. LarsonStarsDesi Arnaz Jr.Chuck WagnerHeather McNairA computer-generated superhero and his human creator fight crime in the city.
- CreatorJoe CampLen JansonChuck MenvilleStarsChris BurtonRic SpiegelKen MillerFar distant from Earth on a red planet of Antars, a tyrant Zanu has killed their king and imprisoned the queen. The crown prince, their son, named Yubi (Christopher Burton) has escaped to Earth in a company of the droid Zax (voiced by Ric Spiegel), where they have become friends with a stray dog named Benji.
- CreatorDonald R. BoyleGlen A. LarsonStarsSimon MacCorkindaleMelody AndersonReni SantoniA suave and elegant university professor, who can shape-shift into any animal, fights crime along with a female New York detective and his right-hand man.
- CreatorPhilip DeGuere Jr.StarsMatthew LabyorteauxTodd PorterJeffrey JacquetThe adventures of a group of young kids who are amateur computer experts and detectives.
- CreatorKenneth JohnsonStarsMarc SingerFaye GrantMichael IronsideA year after Liberation Day, courtesy of the red-dust bacteria, the humanoid, lizard-like aliens develop a resistance to the micro-organism and try to regain control of the Earth--only now, some humans are knowingly working with them.
- StarsAnthony DanielsGraeme CampbellDan HennesseyThe adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO years before serving the Rebel Alliance. The series features several story arcs and one hour-long special.
- StarsDarrin BakerLen CarlsonDan HennesseyA young man leads a small band in search of his father while fighting the forces of Sawboss using the various vehicles they carry with them.