Favourite Science-Fiction TV/Film tie-ins

George Lucas, Donald Glut, James Kahn, 2015

Star Wars had an impact during my early teens, which life proved rather challenging for me. It lifted my spirits and provided me with a hobby I can enjoy. I used to collect huge volumes of the memorabilia over the years, though it is now whittled down to a few books and other items of personal note. The book is faithful to the film, with more to it, and with excellent description. George Lucas certainly had a winner on his hands when he wrote this.

Glen A. Larson, Robert Thurston, 2002

Battlestar Galactica was an early experience for me, being a 9 year-old when it was first aired on television. I was unable to watch it, due to draconian-styled family members not letting me stay up to watch this illustrious show. I used to read the TV Guides at the time of said programme and used to be quite fixated on the mention of Galactica therein. It gravely upset me at that time, but as I got older, I was finally able to watch the show in complete triumph. I since bought the DVD set of the original 1978 series and watch it when the need is appropriate. It is a riveting story about a group of human beings fleeing from old homesteads and into space to find a new world for them, without persecution from another race of beings called Cylons.

Addison E. Steele, 1978

Buck Rogers was a reimagined TV series, brought to you by the makers of the aforementioned Battlestar Galactica, i.e., Glen A. Larson, et al. Again, this is another childhood phenomena for me, however, again, I was thwarted from watching this show for other intensive purposes by certain family members, as I was growing up. There was a huge longing to see it, but alas, there were other scheduling commitments I had to keep at the time, so the loss was intentionally felt. Again, just like with Galactica, I found it on TV again, in most recent years, and I finally got to see what I had missed so long ago. The longing was there, and although I was aware that it didn’t go down too well at the time, and that its second season had ‘bombed’, I have finally placed it among my favourite shows of the period. A man from the 20th century, Buck Rogers, who was an astronaut, had an accident during one of his deep space missions, and unfortunately, his ship froze in space and he was catapulted (somehow) to the 25th century. A man out of time, he must now make his way through this ‘brave new world’.