My choice in television is
a little more limited than in film, as I've never spent as much time
watching television as the majority of people. My choices usually
revolve around science fiction, quality situation comedies, documentaries
and current affairs, although quality dramas do make an occasional
appearance. I never watch soap operas, but I like a variety of music
channels. If you see anything listed
here that you haven't already seen, ask me and I'll arrange a special
viewing for you if I have it!
| Star Trek Enterprise (2001-2004) |
This fifth installment to the Star Trek franchise takes place before the time of Captain Kirk
and Picard. Set approximately 100 years after "First Contact", and about 100 years before Kirk,
it explores the events that will eventually lead up to the birth of the United Federation of Planets. |
| Star Trek Voyager (1995-2001) |
The Federation starship USS Voyager, chasing a band of Maquis rebels, enters the dangerous space nebula known as the
Badlands. Both ships are transported by a distant space probe to the Delta Quadrant, 75,000 light-years from Federation
space. Voyager's crew and the Maquis form an uneasy truce to rescue crewmen of both ships, kidnapped by the probe's
builder, the powerful, dying Caretaker. The Maquis ship is destroyed in a battle with the warlike Kazons. To prevent a
Kazon aggression against a helpless world, Voyager destroys the space probe. Without the probe, it will take 75 years for
Voyager to travel back to Federation space. With the differences between them rendered meaningless by time and distance,
the Federation and Maquis crews unite aboard Voyager. Together, they embark on their new mission: to boldly go - home. |
| Star Trek Deep Space Nine (1993-1999) |
The stable wormhole discovered by the Deep Space Nine crew is known to the Bajoran people as the Celestial Temple of their
Prophets. Sisko, as discoverer of the wormhole and its inhabitants, is therefore the Emissary of Bajoran prophesy. The
wormhole's other end is in the Gamma Quadrant, halfway around the galaxy from Bajor. That section of space is dominated by
the malevolent Dominion. The Dominion is led by the Changelings, the race of shapeshifters to which Odo belongs. As of the
beginning of the sixth season, Cardassia has joined the Dominion, and together they are waging war on the Federation and their
Klingon allies. The war is quickly becoming the most costly war ever for the Federation, and the Deep Space Nine crew must fight
to protect their way of life. |
| Babylon 5 (1994-1998) |
In the year 2258, it is ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. Commander Sinclair takes command of a giant five-mile-long
cylindrical space station, orbiting a planet in neutral space. At a crossroads of interstellar commerce and diplomacy,
Cmdr Sinclair (2d season Captain Sheridan) must try to establish peace and prosperity between various interstellar empires,
all the while fighting forces from within the Earth Alliance. It is a precarious command, particularly given that sabotage led
to the destruction of Babylon stations 1, 2, and 3 and 4 vanished without trace. |
| Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1004) |
Set in the 24th century and 78 years after the adventures of the original crew of the starship Enterprise this new
series is the long awaited successor to the original Star Trek series from the 1960's. Under the command of Captain Jean-Luc
Picard the all new Enterprise NCC 1701-D travels out to distant planets to seek out new life and to boldly go where no
one has gone before. |
| Doctor Who (1963-present) |
The Doctor is a renegade Time Lord: an eccentric, highly-intelligent scientist from a distant planet. He travels through
time and space in the TARDIS, a curious device, larger on the inside than on the outside, which was designed to change its
appearance to suit its surroundings. Unfortunately, the Doctor's TARDIS seems to be broken, and always appears as a blue
British police box. The Doctor has a soft spot for the planet Earth, and often visits there, either to save it from various
alien threats or to whisk a choice few inhabitants away to the distant parts of the galaxy to help him fight evil there. The
Doctor has many foes, including Daleks (led by Davros), and The Master, another renegade Time Lord. Time Lord biology enables
them to regenerate their bodies, and so both the Doctor and the Master appear evolve over the years... |
| Star Trek (1966-1969) |
The adventures of the U.S.S. Enterprise, representing the United Federation of Planets on a five-year mission in outer space
to explore new worlds, seek new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man has gone before. The Enterprise is
commanded by handsome and brash Captain James T. Kirk. His First Officer and best friend is Mr. Spock from the planet Vulcan,
and Kirk's Medical Officer is Dr. McCoy. With its crew of approximately 430, the Enterprise battles aliens, megalomanical
computers, time paradoxes, psychotic murderers, and even Genghis Khan! |
| Fawlty Towers (1975-1979) |
Inept and manic English hotel owner and manager, Basil Fawlty, isn't cut out for his job. He's intolerant, rude and paranoid.
All hell frequently breaks loose as Basil tries to run the hotel, constantly under verbal (and sometime physical) attack from
his unhelpful wife Sybil, and hindered by the incompetent, but easy target, Manuel; their Spanish waiter. |
| The Black Adder (1983) |
King Richard IV is the insane monarch ruling England during the really dark part of the Dark Ages. He has two sons: one, Harry,
his elder son and the Prince of Wales. Although highly respected by the court and overly favored by his father, Harry is rather
looney, as well... and two, Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh, who is loathed by his family and detested by the court. Despite this,
the slimy, cocky, foolish and sarcastic Edmund, donning a costume and the alias of "The Black Adder", is out to inherit the throne,
assisted by two sidekicks: Percy, the only nobleman stupid enough to respect him, and Baldrick, a street-wise peasant
with inspired "cunning plans". |
| Blackadder II (1986) |
Sixty years after the demise of Prince Edmund Plantagenet, Queen Elizabeth I, who's as insane as her ancestors, is England's
current leader. Seductive, easy-to-impress, spoiled, and always seeking a husband, "Queenie" has a leading courtier: Lord
Edmund Blackaddder, great-grandson of the original. Now, however, he is dryly cynical and intelligent, but still trying to
become king; this time by marrying the queen. However, her right-hand-man, Lord Melchett, will always serve as fair competition
for her hand. Blackadder is again assisted by the clueless but fashionable Lord Percy Percy and dung-eating, "cunning" peasant
Baldrick. |
| Blackadder the Third (1987) |
During the Regency period, the insane King George III's stark raving mad son, George, is the Prince Regent of Wales. Vulgar
and staggeringly slow-and-dim-witted, George exhausts the country's money and would surely be dead by know were it not for his
dry, angry, bitter, arrogant and cynical butler, Edmund Blackadder, Esq. Blackadder is an ex-aristocrat who has lost his family
fortune and been reduced to servant-hood, and full of loathing knowing he should have a better position then serving a lunatic.
Sod-Off Baldrick is his dirty, smelly peasant servant, and Mrs. Miggins is an annoying cheerful coffee-shoppe owner who is too
stupid to understand most of Mr. Blackadder's insults. |
| Blackadder Goes Forth (1989) |
In this series, Captain Edmond Blackadder is an intelligent, self-centered officer in the trenches of World War I, whose aim
is to survive til the war is over. He is assisted by the eager but stupid Lt. George Colthurst and the moronic, grungy Private
Baldrick. Blackadder's commander is the insane General Melchert, who is assisted by Blackadder's rival Captain Darling. |
| The Thin Blue Line (1995-1996) |
Various mishaps at a police station in an English hamlet. The main character is the cynical, incompetent Inspector Fowler. |
| 2 Point 4 Children (1991-1999) |
On the surface, the Porters are a normal family - indeed, even the series' title 2Point4 Children, the fabled average family size,
alludes to their normality (as well as the fact that the husband/father is still a bit of a child himself). Yet, though the
individual members - central-heating engineer Ben; his wife, catering worker Bill; and their teenage children David and
Jenny - are unexceptional, the situations in which the family find themselves are anything but. Bad luck, strange occurrences
and poor judgement all conspire to turn the Porters' world topsy-turvy. |
| Are you Being Served (1972-1985) |
At London's Grace Brothers Department Store, Mr. Grainger of Gents' Ready-Made and his sales staff learn that they must share
their sales floor with Mrs. Slocombe and Miss Brahms of Ladies' Intimate Apparel. No one is happy with the arrangement
at first, but they learn to make the most of it. |
| Yes Minister (1980-1982) |
James Hacker is the British Minister for Administrative Affairs. He tries to do something and cut government waste,
but he is continually held back by the smart and wily Permanent Secretary of the Department, Sir Humphrey Appleby.
Private secretary Bernard Woolley is caught in the middle, between his political master, and his civil service boss. |
| Little Britain (2003-2006) |
Matt Lucas and David Walliams, the creators of this character-comedy sketch show, delight in all that is mad, bad,
quirky and generally bonkers about the people and places of Britain. |