Worst Episodes From Your Favorite Science Fiction And Fantasy Tv Series

B

BAYLOR

There Are Always new Things to Learn.
Joined
Jun 29, 2014
Messages
25,344
And why do you think they belong in the terrible turkey episodes category.? :D
 
Deconstruction of Falling Stars.

This was a filler episode for the series 4 finale of Babylon 5. It’s a little out of sorts with the rest of the series, but It is totally understandable as the 5th series was approved late and the finale had to be pushed back to it’s natural ending.

A lot of people criticise this one, but I always felt that it reflected J.M.S’s faith that mankind, for all it’s flaws, would make it. A weak episode, to be sure but I wouldn’t call it a turkey though.
 
Last edited:
Rodders said:
Deconstruction of Falling Stars.

This was a filler episode for the series 4 finale of Babylon 5. It’s a little out of sorts with the rest of the series, but It is totally understandable as the 5th series was approved and the finale had to be pushed back to it’s natural ending.

A lot of people criticise this one, but I always felt that it reflected J.M.S’s faith that mankind, for all it’s flaws, would make it.
Click to expand...

They did a wonderful homage to Walter Miller Jr's novel A Canticle Leibowitz in one segment of that episode.
 
Spock's Brain One the most infamously bad episodes from season three of the original Star Trek. This has so much wrong with it .
 
Maybe the episode, but Leonard Nimoy's acting was excellent.
Lost In Space abounded with badness, but I remember exactly when, as a kid, it stopped being science fiction and became just a sitcom like Gilligan's Island for me. It was the one with the Norse Gods. Odin hollers COME HERE! and Dr. Smith comes running, his legs spinning like a flintstepping cartoon character.
 
TomMazanec said:
Maybe the episode, but Leonard Nimoy's acting was excellent.
Lost In Space abounded with badness, but I remember exactly when, as a kid, it stopped being science fiction and became just a sitcom like Gilligan's Island for me. It was the one with the Norse Gods. Odin hollers COME HERE! and Dr. Smith comes running, his legs spinning like a flintstepping cartoon character.
Click to expand...


The First season of Lost in Space is the best, It's gritty, dark and stays somewhat in the bounds of science fiction and plausibility. Season 2 is not as good and, at that point, the series was starting to slide into realm of fantasy and the campiness which culminated in Season 3.
 
Last edited:
Irwin Allen once said that he had enough ideas for twenty years of episodes of Lost In Space. The trajectory the series followed in just three years I figured seventeen more years would collapse Western Civilization into a new Dark Age.
 
And the Children Shall Lead A third season trek episode which had some interesting story elements . But overall , this episodes is a silly pointless mess of an episode.
 
"The Mighty Casey" and "Come Wander With Me" from the original Twilight Zone. The Black Mirror episode with Miley Cyrus.
 
For the World is Hollow And I Have Touched the Sky Star Trek season 3. For McCoy finds he has a fatal disease , the Enterprise encounter and giant asteroid which on a collision course with a Federation colony , , the inhabitants are defendants of the extinct Cabrini Civilization call they world Unoda and have no idea they're living on a ship and it heresy to believe otherwise is punishable by death at the hand of the Oracle computer. A very haphazardly written ended and acted episodes .which had the potential l to be a really good episode .
 
Last edited:
All of those episodes of Star Trek TOS certainly qualify. There are others like The Corbomite Maneuver, A Piece of the Action, Patterns of Force, and most of Season 3.
 
KiraAnn said:
All of those episodes of Star Trek TOS certainly qualify. There are others like The Corbomite Maneuver, A Piece of the Action, Patterns of Force, and most of Season 3.
Click to expand...
Specter of the Gun and Let This Be Your Last Battlefield
 
The one with Frank Gorshin is pretty corny. I rewatched The Savage Curtain recently--it has some weak aspects.



The Youth Killer-- Kolchak the Night Stalker.
I think the idea is really poor just in concept--Helen of Troy as the monster?
I think they should have made it a Gorgon or Fury or something better.

There's a couple of other weak ones. Never cared for the one about the musical conductor being haunted by a ghost but the idea was better than TYK.
Some consider The Sentry the worst. I haven't watched it in many years but I didn't dislike it.
 
"Objects In Space", the last-shown episode of Firefly. For one thing it's got a very high "River is so mysterious and cool" count, which was always the weakest element of the series. For another it's got a really weird philosophical element (it seems to be about whether a thing becomes another thing if you give it a different name) which is absent from the rest of the show. It's not much worse than the rest of the show, but it's very strange and out of place.

I'd also nominate several episodes from the third season of The Mandalorian, especially the ones with the other Mandalorians. It feels as if once the show moved beyond its Wild West/Lone Wolf and Cub feel, the quality dropped off.
 
Ghost Light 3 part series Muddled and confusing. Part of the problem is they too many story elelmest and not enough episodes for this one .
 
Toby Frost said:
"Objects In Space", the last-shown episode of Firefly. For one thing it's got a very high "River is so mysterious and cool" count, which was always the weakest element of the series. For another it's got a really weird philosophical element (it seems to be about whether a thing becomes another thing if you give it a different name) which is absent from the rest of the show. It's not much worse than the rest of the show, but it's very strange and out of place.

I'd also nominate several episodes from the third season of The Mandalorian, especially the ones with the other Mandalorians. It feels as if once the show moved beyond its Wild West/Lone Wolf and Cub feel, the quality dropped off.
Click to expand...
And It's now going the Cinema feature route.
 
KGeo777 said:
The one with Frank Gorshin is pretty corny. I rewatched The Savage Curtain recently--it has some weak aspects.



The Youth Killer-- Kolchak the Night Stalker.
I think the idea is really poor just in concept--Helen of Troy as the monster?
I think they should have made it a Gorgon or Fury or something better.

There's a couple of other weak ones. Never cared for the one about the musical conductor being haunted by a ghost but the idea was better than TYK.
Some consider The Sentry the worst. I haven't watched it in many years but I didn't dislike it.
Click to expand...
On the subject of Kolchak, the episode Demon in Lace . Very weak and muddled episode.

The Original Out Limits episode Behold Eck. A two dimensional alien trapped in our world trying to find his way home . He can only bee seen by people wearing a specific prescription of glasses .. Eck even by the low standards of 1960's special effects looked pretty pathetic.
 
Last edited:
The creepy woman laughing is what I remember best about that Kolchak.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Thread starter Similar threads Forum Replies Date
B Who are Fiction's Worst and Most Despicable Heroes? SFF Lounge 43
B The Movie Blockbuster is the Best or Worst Thing Ever To Happen To Movies ? General Film Discussion 8
Astro Pen Post the worst AI and text reader voice overs Technology 0
T Best and Worst Star Trek Episodes, The Next Generation The Next Generation (TNG) 18
McMurphy Best and Worst Star Trek Episodes, Original Series The Original Series (TOS) 79

Similar threads


Back
Top