Which Sci Fi Should Be Revived: The Results
Last week we asked you which Science Fiction series you would most like to see revived and now we can reveal the results.
Last week we asked you which Science Fiction series you would most like to see revived and now we can reveal the results. When we first came up with the idea for the poll we thought it would be a close run thing between Buffy, Star Trek and 
The X-Files but boy were we wrong! In the first day or so it looked like the competition would be between Blakes 7 and Star Trek but suddenly out from nowhere The X-Files took off and constantly stayed margins ahead of all the other candidates. So folks with 63% and 873 votes we can reveal that The X-Files is the Sci Fi series you’d most like to see revived. The franchise recently had a big cinema outing for the film ‘I Want To Believe’ in which Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny reprised their roles of Scully and Mulder once more. However, the film wasn’t a huge success leading some fans to worry that there won’t be another sequel – a sequel which would return to the alien mythology of the show.
In second place with a respectable 14% and 203 votes was Blakes 7 which remained in second place, after dropping too it on Monday when The X Files suddenly took off, throughout the week. It seems the news, all be it a few years ago now, that Sky were developing a revival of the series has wetted your appetite for a Battlestar Galactica style revival. We just wonder though who else apart from Jacqueline Pearce would possibly play Servelan. Post your suggestions at the bottom of the page folks!
Gerry Anderson’s Space 1999 was in 3rd place with 7% and 102 votes while another Anderson series, UFO, was in fourth place with 6% and 87 votes. If it wasn’t for UFO there wouldn’t have been a Space 
1999 as Anderson’s plans for the aborted second season of UFO were adapted into what became Space 1999. A big screen movie of UFO is currently in development which we’re told will remain faithful to the 1970s TV series – but will there be purple wigs in the film? In fifth place was Star Trek which, to be honest, we expected to do better. The recent big-screen film had seemingly rebooted the franchise which had been stuck since the demise of Enterprise several years ago. But it might be because you feel its future lies on the big-screen and not the small screen that only 1.8%, that’s 25 votes, wanted to see it revived for television. Slightly behind it was Babylon 5 with 1.6 % of the vote – again we thought it would do slightly better than that.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer had 1.6% as well, 1.2% of you wanted to see a show back that wasn’t on our list while 1% voted for the Michael French/Chloe Annett BBC drama Crime Traveller back. Right at the very bottom, which was a huge surprise to us, was poor Vampire with a soul Angel who had just 5 votes! We thought the hunk Vampire might have done better than that.
Now for some of those “other” suggestions people posted. The brilliant ATV series Sapphire & Steel, starring Joanna Lumley and David McCallum, was one suggestion while Counterstrike was another. Also suggested was Lost In Space but sadly we think that awful film a few years ago has tainted people’s memory of the series. UFO Hunters was another suggestion as was Joss Whedon’s Firefly, Odyssey 5 and the original Stargate, SG-1.
