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British television science fiction refers to programmes in the genre that have been produced by both the BBC and Britain's largest commercial channel, ITV.^[1]

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A for Andromeda

A for Andromeda is a British television science fiction drama serial first made and broadcast by the BBC in seven parts in 1961.

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ABC Weekend TV was the popular name of the British broadcaster ABC Television Limited, which provided the weekend service in the Midlands and Northern England regions of the Independent Television (ITV) network from 1956 to 1968.

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Alexandra Palace

Alexandra Palace is an entertainment and sports venue in North London, situated between Wood Green and Muswell Hill in the London Borough of Haringey.

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Andrew Norriss

Andrew Norriss (born 1947) is a British children's author and a writer for television.

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Aquila (TV series)

Aquila is a British children's television show which aired on the BBC from 1997 to 1998.

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Associated Television

Associated Television was the original name of the British broadcaster ATV, part of the Independent Television (ITV) network.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC Four

BBC Four is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC One

BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the BBC.

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BBC Two

BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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Bernard Quatermass

Professor Bernard Quatermass is a fictional scientist originally created by writer Nigel Kneale for BBC Television.

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Blake's 7

Blake's 7 was a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC.

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Bugs (TV series)

Bugs is a British television drama series that ran for four seasons from 1 April 1995 to 28 August 1999.

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C. E. Webber

Cecil Edwin Webber (sometimes known by the nickname "Bunny"; 9 April 1909June 1969) was a British television writer and playwright.

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often shortened to Captain Scarlet, is a British science fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company Century 21 Productions for distributor ITC Entertainment.

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Century Falls

Century Falls is a British cross-genre series broadcast in six twenty-five-minute episodes on BBC1 in early 1993.

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Chris Boucher (writer)

Christopher Franklin Boucher (15 February 1943 – 11 December 2022) was an English television screenwriter, script editor and novelist.

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Coronation of Elizabeth II

The coronation of Elizabeth II as queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms took place on 2 June 1953 at Westminster Abbey in London.

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Dalek

The Daleks are a fictional extraterrestrial race of extremely xenophobic mutants principally portrayed in the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who.

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Dark Season

Dark Season is a British science-fiction television serial for adolescents, screened on BBC1 in late 1991.

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David McCallum

David Keith McCallum (19 September 1933 – 25 September 2023) was a Scottish actor and musician, based in the United States.

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Dirk Gently

Dirk Gently (born Svlad Cjelli, also known as Dirk Cjelli) is a fictional character created by English writer Douglas Adams and featured in the books Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul and The Salmon of Doubt.

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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a humorous detective novel by English writer Douglas Adams, published in 1987.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963.

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Donald Wilson (writer and producer)

Donald Boyd Wilson (11 September 1910 – 6 March 2002) was a Scottish television writer and producer who worked for the BBC.

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Doomwatch

Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC1 between 1970 and 1972.

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Doug Naylor

Douglas Rodger Naylor (born 31 December 1955) is an English comedy writer, science fiction writer, director and television producer.

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Douglas Adams

Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter, best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG).

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Ed Bishop

George Victor Bishop (June 11, 1932 – June 8, 2005), known professionally as Ed Bishop or Edward Bishop, was an American actor, predominantly based in the UK.

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Edge of Darkness

Edge of Darkness is a British television drama serial produced by BBC Television in association with Lionheart Television International and originally broadcast in six 50 to 55-minute episodes in late 1985.

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Eleventh Hour (British TV series)

Eleventh Hour (originally titled Dark Matter) is a four-part British television series developed by Granada Television for ITV, created by writer Stephen Gallagher.

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Emerald Soup

Emerald Soup was a 1963 British children's science fiction television series directed by Bill Bain and produced by ABC Weekend TV for the ITV network.

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Eric Maschwitz

Albert Eric Maschwitz OBE (10 June 1901 – 27 October 1969), sometimes credited as Holt Marvell, was an English entertainer, writer, editor, broadcaster and broadcasting executive.

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Fireball XL5

Fireball XL5 is a 1960s British children's science-fiction puppet television series about the missions of Fireball XL5, a vessel of the World Space Patrol that polices the cosmos in the year 2062.

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Future of Earth

The biological and geological future of Earth can be extrapolated based on the estimated effects of several long-term influences.

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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell, a name inspired by his favourite place River Orwell.

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Gerry Anderson

Gerald Alexander Anderson (14 April 1929 – 26 December 2012) was an English television and film producer, director, writer and occasional voice artist, who is known for his futuristic television programmes, especially his 1960s productions filmed with "Supermarionation" (marionette puppets containing electric moving parts).

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Gerry Davis (screenwriter)

Gerald Davis (23 February 1930 – 31 August 1991) was a British television writer, best known for his contributions to the science-fiction genre.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Hammer Film Productions

Hammer Film Productions Ltd. is a British film production company based in London.

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Invasion: Earth (TV series)

Invasion: Earth is a BBC science fiction TV series.

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ITC Entertainment

The Incorporated Television Company (ITC), or ITC Entertainment as it was referred to in the United States, was a British company involved in production and distribution of television programmes.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network.

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Jacqueline Pearce

Jacqueline Pearce (20 December 1943 – 3 September 2018) was a British film and television actress.

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Jeopardy (BBC TV series)

Jeopardy is a children's science fiction drama programme that ran for three series, from 26 April 2002 to 11 May 2005, on BBC One.

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Joanna Lumley

Dame Joanna Lamond Lumley (born 1 May 1946) is a British actress, presenter, former model, author, television producer, and activist.

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Joe 90

Joe 90 is a British science fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company, Century 21, for ITC Entertainment.

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Jon Pertwee

John Devon Roland Pertwee (7 July 1919 – 20 May 1996), known professionally as Jon Pertwee, was an English actor.

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Julie Christie

Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1940) is a British actress.

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Karel Čapek

Karel Čapek (9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938) was a Czech writer, playwright, critic and journalist.

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Kate Winslet

Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress.

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Kinescope

Kinescope, shortened to kine, also known as telerecording in Britain, is a recording of a television program on motion picture film, directly through a lens focused on the screen of a video monitor.

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Kit Pedler

Christopher Magnus Howard Pedler (11 June 1927 – 27 May 1981) was an English medical scientist, parapsychologist, and science fiction screenwriter and author.

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Life on Mars (British TV series)

Life on Mars is a British television series broadcast on BBC One between 9 January 2006 and 10 April 2007.

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Live television

Live television is a television production broadcast in real-time, as events happen, in the present.

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Mars in fiction

Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, has appeared as a setting in works of fiction since at least the mid-1600s.

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Michael Barry (television producer)

Michael Barry OBE (15 May 1910 – 27 June 1988) was a British television producer, director and executive, who was an important early influence on BBC television drama.

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Michael Grade

Michael Ian Grade, Baron Grade of Yarmouth, (born 8 March 1943) is an English television executive and businessman.

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Nigel Kneale

Thomas Nigel Kneale (18 April 1922 – 29 October 2006) was a Manx screenwriter who wrote professionally for more than 50 years, was a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and was twice nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four (British TV programme)

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a British television adaptation of the 1949 novel of the same name by George Orwell, originally broadcast on BBC Television in December 1954.

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Out of the Unknown

Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction and horror anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between 1965 and 1971.

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Out of This World (British TV series)

Out of This World is a British science fiction anthology television series made by the ITV franchise ABC Weekend TV for ITV. It was broadcast on ITV in 1962.

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Primeval (TV series)

Primeval is a British science fiction television series produced for ITV by Impossible Pictures.

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Quatermass and the Pit

Quatermass and the Pit is a British television science-fiction serial transmitted live by BBC Television in December 1958 and January 1959.

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Quatermass II

Quatermass II is a British science fiction serial, originally broadcast by BBC Television in the autumn of 1955.

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R.U.R.

R.U.R. is a 1920 science fiction play by the Czech writer Karel Čapek.

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Red Dwarf

Red Dwarf is a British science fiction comedy series created by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, consisting of a sitcom that aired on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999, and on Dave since 2009, gaining a cult following.

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Red Dwarf X

Red Dwarf X is the tenth series of the British science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf.

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Red Dwarf: Back to Earth

Red Dwarf: Back to Earth (also referred to as Red Dwarf IX) is a three-part miniseries continuation of the British science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf, broadcast on UK television channel Dave between 10 and 12 April 2009 and subsequently released on DVD on 15 June 2009 and on Blu-ray on 31 August 2009.

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Rob Grant

Robert Grant is an English comedy writer, television producer and co-creator of the Red Dwarf comedy franchise.

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Robert Powell

Robert Powell (born 1 June 1944) is an English actor who is known for the title roles in Mahler (1974) and Jesus of Nazareth (1977), and for his portrayal of secret agent Richard Hannay in The Thirty Nine Steps (1978) and its subsequent spinoff television series.

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Robot

A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically.

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Rudolph Cartier

Rudolph Cartier (born Rudolph Kacser, renamed himself in Germany to Rudolph Katscher; 17 April 1904 – 7 June 1994) was an Austrian television director, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer who worked predominantly in British television, exclusively for the BBC.

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Russell T Davies

Stephen Russell Davies (born 27 April 1963), better known as Russell T Davies, is a Welsh screenwriter and television producer.

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Sapphire & Steel

Sapphire & Steel is a British television supernatural sci-fi/fantasy series starring Joanna Lumley as Sapphire and David McCallum as Steel.

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Science fiction on television

Science fiction first appeared in television programming in the late 1930s, during what is called the Golden Age of Science Fiction. British television science fiction and Science fiction on television are science fiction television.

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Space: 1999

Space: 1999 is a British science-fiction television programme that ran for two series from 1975 to 1977.

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Star Cops

Star Cops is a British science fiction television drama series first broadcast on BBC2 in 1987.

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Star Wars

Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon.

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Stingray (1964 TV series)

Stingray is a British children's science fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and produced by AP Films (APF) for ITC Entertainment.

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Supercar (TV series)

Supercar is a British children's science fiction television series produced by Gerry Anderson and Arthur Provis' AP Films (APF) for Associated Television and ITC Entertainment.

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Supermarionation

Supermarionation (a portmanteau of the words "super", "marionette" and "animation")La Rivière 2009, p. 67.

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Survivors (1975 TV series)

Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction drama television series created by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC, that broadcast from 1975 to 1977.

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Sydney Newman

Sydney Cecil Newman (April 1, 1917 – October 30, 1997) was a Canadian film and television producer, who played a pioneering role in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s.

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Syfy

Syfy (a paraphrased neology of former name Sci-Fi Channel, later shortened to Sci Fi; stylized as SYFY) is an American basic cable television channel, which is owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division and business segment of Comcast's NBCUniversal.

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Target Luna

Target Luna was a British television serial broadcast by ABC Weekend TV in April 1960.

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Terry Nation

Terence Joseph Nation (8 August 19309 March 1997) was a Welsh screenwriter and novelist.

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The Andromeda Breakthrough

The Andromeda Breakthrough was a 1962 sequel to the popular BBC TV science fiction serial A for Andromeda, again written by Fred Hoyle and John Elliot.

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The Day of the Triffids (1981 TV series)

The Day of the Triffids is a British science fiction drama serial which was first aired by BBC Television in 1981.

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The Dirty Dozen

The Dirty Dozen is a 1967 American war film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Lee Marvin, with an ensemble supporting cast including Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy, Ralph Meeker, Robert Ryan, Trini Lopez, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Clint Walker and Robert Webber.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_television_science_fiction

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British science fiction

Science fiction television

Television in the United Kingdom

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