Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Television > Science Fiction: 251 Films to Rent
- Andromeda Anthology, The (TV Series) (A for Andromeda, Andromeda Breakthrough) (1961-1962)
- Dir. Michael Hayes, John Elliot, John Knight
Feat. Julie Christie, Susan Hampshire
- Cold War parable within a British sci–fi skin, this chronicles the fight against an alien super–computer whose designers transmit…
- Supercar (TV Series) (1961-1962)
- The first fully developed Supermarionation series from Gerry Anderson, establishing his winning formula of futuristic vehicles, high adventure, and…
- One Step Beyond (TV Series) (1959)
- Feat. John Newland
- Classic television series billed as 'your guide to the supernatural' serves half–hour docudramas of unexplained, paranormal 'true events'.…
- Invisible Man, The (TV Series) (H. G. Well's Invisible Man) (1958-1960)
- Feat. Tim Turner
- H.G Wells’ classic sci–fi premise is preserved in this superior television adaptation of science gone awry. Tim Turner plays the eponymous…
- Quatermass and the Pit (TV Series) (1958)
- Dir. Nigel Kneale
Feat. Andre Morell, Cec Linder, Anthony Bushell
- The third in the landmark trilogy of serials involves Professor Quatermass in the excavation of an ancient alien–insect capsule in London, and…
- Quatermass II (TV Series) (1955)
- Dir. Rudolph Cartier
Feat. John Robinson
- Professor Quatermass returns (this time palyed by John Robinson) in Nigel Kneale's popular sci–fi serial of the 1950s.
The six–part…
- Commando Cody: Sky Marshall of the Universe (1953)
- Feat. Aline Towne, Gregory Gaye, Judd Holdren
- Black–and–white TV series following the adventures of masked super–scientist Commando Cody, who is recruited by the U.S. government…
- Quatermass Experiment, The (TV Series) (1953)
- Dir. Rudolph Cartier
Feat. Reginald Tate, Isabel Dean
- The seminal serial (in six parts) by award–winning writer Nigel Kneale that laid the foundations of British Sci–Fi TV..
This first…
- Flash Gordon Serial (Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe) (1940)
- Dir. Ford Beebe
Feat. Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Charles Middleton
- One of the early Flash Gordon serials, which enthralled audiences in the 1940s. Here Flash must battle Ming the Merciless who has unleashed the…
- Buck Rogers- Original Complete Series (1939)
- Feat. Henry Brandon, Jackie Moran, Jack Mulhall…
- Beloved classic series about a heroic pilot and his young passenger who crash–land on a mountaintop where a mysterious gas puts them into a…