1985’s The Quiet Earth delivers a slow-burn of a film with an interesting sci fi story and some good human drama, and it did it on a fraction of the budget of the blockbusters coming out at that time. cult-scifi.com/the-quiet-ea...
2011’s Alphas was an overlooked genre entry that delivered a decent superhero series with plenty of potential but was cut short all too soon cult-scifi.com/alphas-2011-...
Cancelled Before It Began: The pilot for Amazing Screw-On Head, based on the comic of the same name, delivered sheer lunacy and was a ton of fun but was sadly never picked up to series www.cancelledscifi.com/2025/09/27/c...
Charlton’s E-Man delivered a whimsical superhero series with some sci fi elements that was unique for its time and also a ton of fun cult-scifi.com/e-man-1970s-...
The Pelman the Powershaper series by Robert Don Hughes offers a delightfully unique and witty twist on the fantasy genre populated by a colorful cast of characters cult-scifi.com/pelman-the-p...
Schedule Rewind: When Land of the Lost Premiered on Saturday Mornings during the 1974-75 Season, There Was Very Little Sci Fi TV in Prime Time www.cancelledscifi.com/2025/08/23/s...
1974’s The Land That Time Forgot delivered a somewhat faithful adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs book as well as a good lost world tale that has since become rather dated, but still counts as a genre guilty pleasure. cult-scifi.com/the-land-tha...
1972's Silent Running delivered an important sci fi film with a poignant environmental statement, though it has since seemed to fade into obscurity cult-scifi.com/silent-runni...
2015’s Parallels delivered a good sci-fi film that incorporated elements of Sliders and Lost, and it developed a notable following but was never allowed to continue and fully explore its premise cult-scifi.com/parallels-20...
The 1972 TV movie The People offered an interesting sci fi tale that delivered plenty of twists, and it could have turned into a pretty good series if given a chance cult-scifi.com/the-people-1...
1964’s Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea represented many of the excesses of the genre and has since been relegated to the list of worst sci fi TV shows of all time, but it still offers a fun, 60s retro-watch cult-scifi.com/voyage-to-th...
Harry Harrison’s novel The Stainless Steel Rat provides a good parody of the sci fi genre, but it also goes deeper than that by exploring some moral quandaries and the true nature of freedom cult-scifi.com/the-stainles...
