V is a two-part 1983 US alien invasion sci-fi TV mini-series. Flying saucers arrive on Earth. The aliens appear to be friendly. Appearances can be deceptive. The special effects have a very 80s arcade game look. Fairly entertaining.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2024/10/v-tv-miniseries-1983.html

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The university is playing Shostakovich!

The 1967-68 UK TV series Man in a Suitcase takes the basic ITC action-adventure formula and adds a hardboiled flavour, real toughness, grittiness, plus seedy downmarket glamour. And more than a hint of film noir. The best of all the ITC series.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2016/02/man-in-suitcase-1967-68.html

Peter Leslie’s The Cornish Pixie Affair, from 1967, the fifth original novel based on the TV spy series The Girl from UNCLE starts with a murder in a circus (a setting that is used extremely well). Statuettes of pixies play a role. Enjoyable.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-girl-from-uncle-cornish-pixie-affair.html

Lexx is of course the greatest scifi TV series ever made. It takes the established conventions of TV scifi and thoroughly stomps them. Crazy, stylish, sexy, sleazy, goofy, dark, wildly inventive, with no regard for good taste.

My season 2 review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2024/04/lexx-season-2-1998.html

The Sixth Finger, a 1963 episode of The Outer Limits. A scientist tries to speed up human evolution. He creates a super-intelligent man, who sadly has a few issues. A bold and interesting episode.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-outer-limits-sixth-finger-1963.html

Five Red Herrings (1975), last and best of the superb BBC TV adaptations of Dorothy L. Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries starring Ian Carmichael (the definitive screen Lord Peter). Fine writing, great performances by the whole cast. Terrific.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2016/01/lord-peter-wimsey-five-red-herrings-1975.html

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Three 1964 episodes of my favourite US anthology series, The Outer Limits. The Invisible Enemy has sand sharks on Mars. It's OK. Wolf 359 is excellent -scientists create a miniature world. I, Robot is quite good - a robot is tried for murder.

My reviews: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-outer-limits-three-season-2-episodes.html

Rod Serling's The After Hours, still my all-time favourite episode of The Twilight Zone. Has that wonderful subtle sense of slowly increasing unease. Great performance by Anne Francis. I've seen it many times and I like it more each time.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-twilight-zone-after-hours.html

Voyagers! (1982) is a kids' sci-fi time travel series that plays fast and loose with history and is nothing more than a light-hearted adventure series. But it's lively and highly enjoyable.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2020/08/voyagers-1982.html

Stay Tuned is a Tara King episode of The Avengers, and it's a corker. Steed has a Groundhog Day experience (24 years before that film came out). Clever twisted story, with a fine fight scene between Linda Thorson and Kate O’Mara. TV bliss.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-avengers-stay-tuned.html

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The Green Hornet (1966-67) is a TV series which I personally much prefer to its contemporary Batman. Closer in feel to the original 40s serials. Hardboiled crime stories with some gadgets to add spice and just a touch of outrageous adventure.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-green-hornet-1966-67.html

Melissa is a 6-episode 1964 BBC mini-series, part of the Francis Durbridge Presents series. Typical Durbridge which means it's fun. A struggling novelist suspected of murder has to question everything he thought he knew about his life.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2017/11/francis-durbridge-presents-melissa-1964.html

Uncle Silas, based on Sheridan le Fanu's novel, a 1968 episode of the UK Mystery and Imagination anthology TV series. Total gothic overload plus extraordinary delirious excessiveness. One of the most outrageous pieces of TV you will ever see.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2015/09/mystery-and-imagination-uncle-silas-1968.html

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