It’s a cheap listicle but a good excuse to kick off a general discussion.
The list is:
- Black Mirror
- Dr Who
- The Prisoner
- Red Dwarf
- Life on Mars
- Ashes to Ashes
- Survivors
- Ultraviolet
- UFO
- Blake’s Seven
So any favourites there? Did just sorting by votes miss anything off you think is worthy of a mention?
Personally, I am happy to see Ultraviolet get a mention, as it definitely dropped off the general radar but it’s one I think about quite a bit and I recently bought the DVD to try and force other people to watch it.
That was very good. Not appreciated enough IMO.
Probably because no spaceships or teleporting guff.
And mixing vampires with a more realistic take on things (with a high-tech spin) was still a bit unusual then.
Well if Life On Mars and Ashes To Ashes both qualify then I’m mighty disappointed that Sapphire And Steel didn’t make the list.
At 7.9/10 it falls just below Blake’s Seven at 8.0/10.
However, I redid the search they must have used here (TV series and TV mini-series as that’s the only way to get Ultraviolet on the list) and they aren’t right.
- Black Mirror
- nuWho
- The Prisoner
- Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace
- Old Who
- Red Dwarf
- Utopia
- Life on Mars
- The Avengers (1961)
- Years and Years
- Misfits
- Ashes to Ashes
- Blake’s Seven
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Survivors
- Jekyll
- Quatermass and the Pit
- Man in the High Castle (perhaps discounted as it was on streaming)
- Humans
- UFO
- Thunderbirds
- Sapphire and Steele
- Ultraviolet
- Captain Scarlet
- The Sandman (streaming)
- Extraordinary (streaming)
- Devs
- Torchwood
I included the top 28 in case you didn’t count streaming, which gives you the top 25.
It feels like a much more better list, especially as it restores Darkplace and Utopia to the top ten and we get Misfits in there.
I like this list, but it’s weird having Devs in it. It’s set in California and while the lead is British, she uses an American accent.
Yeah, as you go down the list, you hit quite a few more modern co-productionsn and the shows aren’t very British.
Yeah I had no idea that Man In The High Castle was British I thought it was American you know because of the setting being in America.
By the same token I wouldn’t consider Miracle Day to be British either, not that it’s on the list.
Miracle Day is just folded into Torchwood on IMDb as series 4. That I would consider as British despite the American setting.
Oh, yeah, Misfits (the first few seasons anyway) was great!
Glad to see Blakes 7 on this list. Also thrilled to see Survivors in the top twenty. A f frequently forgotten gem.
