Sci Fi Dramas

I've decided that my film is going to be the opening to a new science fiction drama to be aired on TV. The series would be called 'The Last Message from Earth'.

It is important to understand how different countries interpret and produce science fiction within television. British television has produced many science fiction programs over the years, the first being in 1938, as part of BBC's pre-war programming. The show 'R.U.R. was broadcast live from Alexandra Palace, and was the only scince fiction program broadcast before the war.
Britian's most successful science fiction drama is Doctor Who, which was first aired in 1963 on the BBC. The show was off air from 1989, except in 1996 a Doctor Who movies was produced by British and American networks. Doctor Who then fully revived in 2005 and airs currently to this day. Doctor Who is the longest running science fiction drama in the world.


America is most likely responsible for producing the most science fiction television programs. Their most famous being Star Trek. Star Trek first aired in 1966 and has since had many spin off series and movies. In recent years America has gone on to produced many other popular series including The X-Files, Stargate SG-1, Lost, Heroes and Battlestar Galactica.