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Plot Summary:
Quark is an American science fiction situation comedy starring Richard Benjamin broadcast on NBC. The pilot first aired on May 7, 1977, and the series followed as a mid-season replacement in February 1978. The series was cancelled in April 1978. Quark was created by Buck Henry, co-creator of the spy spoof Get Smart. The show was set on a United Galaxy Sanitation Patrol Cruiser, an interstellar garbage scow operating out of United Galaxies Space Station Perma One in the year 2226. Adam Quark, the main character, works to clean up trash in space by collecting "space baggies" with his trusted and highly unusual crew. In its short run, Quark satirized such science fiction as Star Wars, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Flash Gordon. Three of the episodes were direct satires of Star Trek episodes. The series won one Emmy Award nomination, for costume designer Grady Hunt's work in the episode "All the Emperor's Quasi-Norms, Part 2". The complete series was released on DVD on October 14, 2008.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 745
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: spoof, sitcom, parody
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Man in Outer Space (1962)
Plot Summary:
In this routine, allegorical sci-fi drama by Czech director Oldrich Lipsky, a disgruntled worker accidentally finds himself aboard a spaceship (long story), and five hundred years later he comes back with a super-advanced being to a whole new world. He discovers that in his long absence, the world has literally cleaned up well, solved its problems, and is rife with a multitude of technical toys to make life easier. All of these conveniences, however, have not had much effect on the basic foibles that have plagued humanity since cave-dwelling days. Of significance are the names of two of the main characters -- Adam and Eve.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slapstick comedy, campy
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Turkish Star Trek (1973)
Plot Summary:
The Enterprise picks up a Turkish hobo.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Turkey
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, spoof, parody
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Kosmo (2016)
Plot Summary:
Satirical comedy that with merciless exaggeration tells the story of a fictitious Czech flight to the Moon. While the situation of our heroes in space looks pretty hopeless, back on Earth they already know something isn't entirely as it should be with the fulfillment of the sponsorship agreement.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: dark comedy
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JonTron's StarCade (2015)
Plot Summary:
JonTron reviews zany Star Wars games while aboard the stolen Millennium Falcon.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 859
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: parody
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Get Smart (1995)
Plot Summary:
Get Smart is a short-lived American comedy television series that aired in 1995 on FOX. The series was a sequel to the original Get Smart television series that ran from 1965 to 1970. The series premiered on January 8, 1995 and ended its original run on February 19, 1995.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, spoof, parody
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In Space with Markiplier (2022)
Plot Summary:
When the star-ship Invincible II seemingly becomes trapped in an inescapable time loop, it is up to you, its captain, to save the entire crew and the multiverse.
IMDB Rating: 9.1
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 255 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, interactive
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The Comic Strip Presents (1982)
Plot Summary:
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip Presents... which was labelled as an example of alternative comedy. The core members are Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders and Alexei Sayle with frequent appearances by Keith Allen, Robbie Coltrane and others.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: anthology, parody, political, sitcom, surreal, slapstick comedy, game show, alternative comedy
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Lexx (1996)
Plot Summary:
The tyrants who rule the Light Universe pass their essence onto their successor upon their demise, while their still-conscious brains are kept in a vault; their chief resource is Lexx, the most-powerful mobile weapon in the universe, which can only be commanded only by the keeper of the hand-key. The previous incumbent wiped out the Brunen-G race, except for Kai, whom he kept in a state of amnesiac suspended animation, to be revived by proto-blood for short periods and used as an assassin. Into this background comes anti-hero Stanley Tweedle, an ignored non-entity clerk, who misses an appointment and is branded a criminal. In the dungeons, overweight Zev has been convicted of not fulfilling wifely duties, and is being transformed into a gorgeous, svelt love-slave. Meanwhile, captured terrorist Thodin, due for public execution, escapes with his gang's help, and causes chaos, setting into motion Tweedle's accidental theft of Lexx and new ownership of the hand-key, Zev's escape with her.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: futuristic, absurd, apocalyptic, dark, black comedy, gothic, spoof, computer animated, dark fantasy, parody
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Silversun (2004)
Plot Summary:
It is 2052. The space ship Star Runner is two years into a 90-year journey to a planet in the Silver Sun solar system. With a crew of 13 - seven teenage space cadets, four adults and two kids - the ship's mission is to safely deliver a cargo of cyronically suspended New Settlers to populate the New World, paving the way for future generations of mankind.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags:
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Space Academy (1977)
Plot Summary:
Space Academy is a live-action sci-fi children's television program produced by Filmation that originally aired Saturday mornings on the CBS television network, from September 10, 1977, to December 17, 1977. A total of fifteen half-hour episodes were made.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags:
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No Goal (1987)
Plot Summary:
Objectif Nul is a humorous sketch series that mixes, within a vague science fiction scenario, parodies of movies, series and commercials.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: spoof, sketch comedy, parody
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Other Space (2015)
Plot Summary:
Meet the team of the UMP cruiser, a barely-functional starship led by an aggressively cheerful Captain with a with a barely-competent crew, including a clueless navigator, a brain damaged mechanic, a bickering couple,a man with gills raised to be an organ farm for his brother and ART, the billionaire turned robot. When their ship is drawn into a different universe, they must to learn to work together while dealing with space clouds, robot rebellions, and the occasional alien attack.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: exciting, thought provoking, captivating, entertaining, futuristic, contemplative, funny
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988)
Plot Summary:
A stranded spaceship pilot captured by mad scientists survives a blitz of cheesy B movies by riffing on them with his funny robot pals.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark comedy, black and white, skit, parody, futuristic, offbeat, humorous, surreal, witty
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Avenue 5 (2020)
Plot Summary:
40 years in the future, space captain Ryan Clark and the crew of the luxury space cruise ship Avenue 5 navigate disgruntled passengers and unexpected events after experiencing technical difficulties onboard.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, futuristic, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, apocalyptic, black comedy, dark comedy
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Max Headroom (1987)
Plot Summary:
Max Headroom is a British-produced American satirical science fiction television series by Chrysalis Visual Programming and Lakeside Productions for Lorimar-Telepictures that aired in the United States on ABC from March 1987 to May 1988. The series was based on the Channel 4 British TV pilot produced by Chrysalis, Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future. The series is often mistaken as an American-produced show due to the setting and its use of an almost entirely US cast along with being broadcast in the USA on the ABC network. Cinemax aired the UK pilot followed by a six-week run of highlights from The Max Headroom Show, a music video show where Headroom appears between music videos. ABC took an interest in the pilot and asked Chrysalis/Lakeside to produce the series for US audiences. The show went into production in late 1986 and ran for six episodes in the first season with eight being produced in season two.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: cyber, exciting, offbeat, humorous, futuristic, semi serious, computer animated, vintage
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Mork & Mindy (1978)
Plot Summary:
Mork & Mindy is an American science fiction sitcom broadcast from 1978 until 1982 on ABC. The series starred Robin Williams as Mork, an alien who comes to Earth from the planet Ork in a small, one-man egg-shaped spaceship. Pam Dawber co-starred as Mindy McConnell, his human friend and roommate. In 1997, the episode "Mork's Mixed Emotions" was ranked #94 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time list.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, slapstick, game show, hilarious, offbeat, surreal, not serious, parody, spoof
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My Favorite Martian (1963)
Plot Summary:
My Favorite Martian is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1963, to May 1, 1966, for 107 episodes. The show starred Ray Walston as Uncle Martin and Bill Bixby as Tim O'Hara. John L. Greene created the central characters and developed the core format of this series, which was produced by Jack Chertok.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, retro, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, detective, vintage
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Red Dwarf (1988)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, stylized, witty, feel good, not serious, apocalyptic, cliffhanger, funny, sexy, psychedelic
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The Munsters Today (1987)
Plot Summary:
The Munsters Today is an American sitcom that aired in syndication from 1988 to 1991. The series served as a sequel to the 1960s sitcom The Munsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 653
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: spooky, sitcom, offbeat, humorous, not serious
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ALF (1986)
Plot Summary:
A furry alien wiseguy comes to live with a terran family after crashing into their garage.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, sitcom, cliffhanger, game show, hilarious, feel good, not serious, light, funny, offbeat
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Dark Star (1974)
Plot Summary:
A low-budget, sci-fi satire that focuses on a group of scientists whose mission is to destroy unstable planets. 20 years into their mission, they have battle their alien mascot, that resembles a beach ball, as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: futuristic, parody, grindhouse, philosophical, surreal, spoof, minimal cast, humorous, deep, space horror
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Galaxina (1980)
Plot Summary:
Galaxina is a lifelike, voluptuous android who is assigned to oversee the operations of an intergalactic Space Police cruiser captained by incompetent Cornelius Butt. When a mission requires the ship's crew to be placed in suspended animation for decades, Galaxina finds herself alone for many years, developing emotions and falling in love with the ship's pilot, Thor.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, stylized, not serious, futuristic, psychotronic, spoof, erotic, grindhouse, anamorphic
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A Ticket to Space (2006)
Plot Summary:
Face à l'incompréhension de la population française quant au montant des crédits alloués à la recherche spatiale, le gouvernement lance une vaste opération de communication. En partenariat avec le Centre spatial français, un grand jeu est organisé. "Le ticket pour l'espace", un jeu à gratter, va permettre à deux civils de séjourner dans la station orbitale européenne.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, parody, offbeat, spoof
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The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (1981)
Plot Summary:
An Earth Man and his alien friend escape an exploding Earth, and set forth on an odd adventure across the universe with a known fugitive. Based on the book by Douglas Adams, the dialog follows the book closely. This was originally a 6-part series from the BBC.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: humorous, offbeat, light, futuristic, talky, stylized, not serious, witty, sitcom, melancholic
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The Lost Saucer (1975)
Plot Summary:
The Lost Saucer is an ABC network television series produced by Sid and Marty Krofft. It first aired September 6, 1975.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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Lost in Space (1965)
Plot Summary:
Lost in Space is a science fiction TV series created and produced by Irwin Allen, filmed by 20th Century Fox Television, and broadcast on CBS. The show ran for three seasons, with 83 episodes airing between September 15, 1965, and March 6, 1968. The first TV season was filmed in black and white, but the remainder were filmed in color. In 1998, a Lost in Space movie, based on the TV series, was released. Though the original TV series concept centered on the Robinson family, many later story lines focused primarily on Dr. Zachary Smith, played by Jonathan Harris. Originally written as an utterly evil but extremely competent would-be saboteur, Smith gradually becomes the troublesome, self-centered, incompetent foil who provides the comic relief for the show and causes most of the episodic conflict and misadventures. Smith was not in the un-aired pilot and neither was the robot. A meteor storm in the un-aired pilot put them off course. In the first aired episode, Smith's sabotage and unintended presence caused them to go off course so that they encountered the meteors. In the un-aired version, they were going at such a relatively slow speed that they wondered if they were on Mars, while in the first aired episode, just seconds of hyper-drive and they were lost, unknown light years from Earth.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: retro, uplifting, epic, saga, sitcom, cult classic, serious, futuristic, vintage, campy
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The Tick (2001)
Plot Summary:
The Tick is an American sitcom based on the character Tick from the comic book of the same name. It aired on Fox in late 2001 and was produced by Columbia TriStar Television. With a pilot airing on November 8, the series ran nine episodes on broadcast television. It was released to DVD in 2003.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: humorous, sitcom, parody, not serious, suspenseful, spoof, anime, offbeat, slapstick comedy, weird
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The Middleman (2008)
Plot Summary:
The Middleman is an American television series. The series, which was developed for television by Javier Grillo-Marxuach for ABC Family, is based on the Viper Comics series, The Middleman, created by Grillo-Marxuach and Les McClaine. The series ran for one season in 2008. Originally confirmed for an initial 13 episodes, the order was reduced to a 12-episode season due to low ratings. In February 2009, a comic book based on the unproduced 13th episode was announced, confirming the series' cancellation. Billed as a "series finale", The Middleman – The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse was released in July 2009. The complete series DVD set was released by Shout! Factory on July 28, 2009.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, semi serious, parody, offbeat, spoof
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The Orville (2017)
Plot Summary:
Follow the crew of the not-so-functional exploratory ship in the Earth's interstellar fleet, 300 years in the future.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 97000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: futuristic, feel good, exciting, humorous, funny, parody, uplifting, sitcom, hilarious, interesting
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Lost in Space (2018)
Plot Summary:
After crash-landing on an alien planet, the Robinson family fights against all odds to survive and escape. But they're surrounded by hidden dangers.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 104000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, sincere, futuristic, sitcom, children's program