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• Early Predecessors to The Twilight Zone: The Birth of Science Fiction Television-- From Doctor Who to Star Trek: Science Fiction Television Comes of Age-- Lean Years to Star Trek: The Next Generatiorr: Science Fiction Television Is Rebom-- The Golden Nineties: Science Fiction Television in an Age of Plenty-- Back to the Future: Science Fiction in the New Millennium.
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Science fiction series have remained a staple of American television from its inception: classic programs such as The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, and Star Trek, along with recent and current series including Babylon 5 and Stargate SG-1, have been some of the most enduring and influential of all television shows. In this chronological survey, author M. Keith Booker examines this phenomenon and provides in-depth studies of the most important of these series. Science Fiction Television traces the development of the genre as a distinct cultural phenomenon within the context of broader developments in American culture as a whole. In the process, it offers a unique and informative guide for television fans and science fiction fans alike, one whose coverage is unprecedented in its scope and breadth. Science Fiction Television is a perceptive and entertaining history of one of television's most lasting forms of entertainment.
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From "The Next Generation" and "The X-Files", to "Farscape" and "Enterprise", sci-fi television series in the US have multiplied since the 1980s. Jan Johnson-Smith shows how, in line with national political upheavals, this vibrant and perplexing genre set about expanding the myth of the Western frontier into deep space. She looks at the "sense of wonder" or sublime that infuses much Frontier art and science fiction, and traces a possible historical precedent to the genre in the fabulous and heroic journeys of the Classical epic. She discusses narrative styles and their influences, from the overarching narrative of "Babylon 5" to the episodic formula of "The Outer Limits", considers how experimental series such as "Twin Peaks" challenge conventional structures, and how and why sci-fi television has adopted new technologies. She also explores the juxtaposition of arcane language and technological jargon in modern American sci-fi television, revealing the extraordinarily alien, yet curiously familiar arena it creates.
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• Chapter 1: Introduction: Troubled Boundaries and Transformative Cyborgs
• Chapter 2: Exterminate, Upgrade: Doctor Who
• Chapter 3: Resistance, Assimilation and the Collective: Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager
• Chapter 4: Toasters and Replicas: Battlestar Galactica
• Chapter 5: Cyborg Embodiment and Virtuality, 'Between Life and Death': Caprica
• Chapter 6: The Cyborg As Action Hero: Bionic Woman
• Chapter 7: Us and Them: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
• Chapter 8: Hacking the System: Dollhouse
• Chapter 9: Complete Control: Fringe Conclusion: Cyborg Futures.
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The contradictions and complexities of the cyborg therefore hold particular appeal to programme makers of dramatic TV narratives. Bronwen Calvert examines the uses and representations of the cyborg in this ground-breaking text, by looking at its frequent appearance in a wide variety of popular and cult shows: from the iconic Daleks of Doctor Who and bionic female empowerment in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, to the duality of humanoid and distinctly robotic cyborgs in Battlestar Galactica. In doing so, she reveals how television's defining traits shape our experience of cyborgs and help us as viewers to question contemporary issues such as surveillance and terrorism, as well as the function of simulation and ultimately what it means to be human.
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The cyborg - an organic body augmented with technology - is an enduring figure that can be found across science fiction stories, novels, films, and, more recently, television. What can its marked presence in cult TV shows tell us about the rapidly changing world we live in, and indeed about the human condition? This book explores how the image of the cyborg attracts our fears and fascinations. These bionic creations encourage us, as viewers, to think about our interactions with technology in an age of immediacy and surveillance, reassess our own corporeal experiences, and re-imagine gender binaries and racial differences. Chapters draw together cyborg theory and criticism from science fiction and television studies to analyse a variety of popular series: from Doctor Who to Star Trek: Voyager, and Battle Star Galactica to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the cyborg appears as action hero, villain, or as a reflection of ourselves. Whether manifested in the Daleks, the Cylons, or the Borg, these figures are ideal sites to explore concepts such as replication, uniformity, performance, embodiment and virtuality, and the serial narratives of cult TV the ideal format to analyse changing cyborg representations over time. This book uses the televisual medium as a tool to understand a range of cybernetic characters, forming a notable event.
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• Introduction: Why SFTV?
• 1. A Brief History of American SFTV Key Series: Captain Video and the Development of a SFTV Audience
• 2. SFTV: Industrial and Narrative Models Key Series: The Twilight Zone and the Plastic Anthology Mode
• 3. Cultural Issues and SFTV Key Series: Battlestar Galactica: A New Wagon Train and Its Baggage
• 4. SFTV Audiences Key Series: Farscape: Character and Audience
• 5. Boundary Crossings: SFTV in a Hybrid Mode Key Series: Fringe: Narrative at the Borders Conclusion: New Directions for SFTV.
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The first in the Routledge Television Guidebooks series, Science Fiction TV offers an introduction to the versatile and evolving genre of science fiction television, combining historical overview with textual readings to analyze its development and ever-increasing popularity. J. P. Telotte discusses science fiction's cultural progressiveness and the breadth of its technological and narrative possibilities, exploring SFTV from its roots in the pulp magazines and radio serials of the 1930s all the way up to the present. From formative series like Captain Video to contemporary, cutting-edge shows like Firefly and long-lived popular revivals such as Doctor Who and Star Trek, Telotte insightfully tracks the history and growth of this crucial genre, along with its dedicated fandom and special venues, such as the Syfy Channel. In addition, each chapter features an in-depth exploration of a range of key historical and contemporary series, including: -Captain Video and His Video Rangers -The Twilight Zone -Battlestar Galactica -Farscape -Fringe Incorporating a comprehensive videography, discussion questions, and a detailed bibliography for additional reading, J. P. Telotte has created a concise yet thought-provoking guide to SFTV, a book that will appeal not only to dedicated science fiction fans but to students of popular culture and media as well.
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This is a detailed examination, from creation to cancellation, of 58 science fiction television series produced between 1990 and 2004, from the popular "The X-Files" to the many worlds of "Star Trek" (from "The Next Generation" onward), as well as Andromeda, Babylon 5, Firefly, Quantum Leap, Stargate Atlantis and SGI, among others. A chapter on each series includes essential production information; a history of the series; critical commentary; and interviews with the creators, actors, writers and directors that reveal amusing, often provocative stories about the show's production. The book also offers updates on each series' regular cast members, along with several photographs and a complete bibliography. There are over 150 interviews in the book.
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• Introduction: The trajectory of science fiction television / J.P. Telotte
• Lost in space : television as science fiction icon / J.P. Telotte
• Shadows on the cathode ray tube : adapting print science fiction for television / Lisa Yaszek
• From big screen to small box : adapting science fiction film for television / Gerald Duchovnay
• Tomorrowland TV : the space opera and early science fiction television / Wheeler Winston Dixon
• Anthology drama : mapping The twilight zone's cultural and mythological terrain / Rodney Hill
• Animation, anime, and the cultural logic of Asianization / Dennis Redmond
• "Dreams teach" : (im)possible worlds in science fiction television / Christine Mains
• Fraking machines : desire, gender, and the (post)human condtion in Battlestar Galactica / Susan A. George
• Space vehicles and traveling companions : rockets and living shiprs / Samantha Holloway
• The politics of Star trek / M. Keith Booker
• Science fiction television in the United Kingdom / Mark Bould
• Mainstreaming marginality : genre, hybridity, and postmodernism in The x-files / Lacy Hodges
• Babylon 5 : our first, best hope for mature science fiction television / Sherryl Vint
• Stargate SG-1 and the quest for the perfect science fiction premise / Stan Beeler
• The island's greatest mystery : is Lost science fiction? / David Lavery
• TV time lords : fan cultures, narrative complexity, and the future of science fiction television / Charles Tryon.

Exploring early hits such as ""The Twilight Zone"" and ""Star Trek"", as well as more recent successes such as ""Battlestar Galactica and Lost"", ""The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader"" illuminates the history, narrative approaches, and themes of the genre. The book discusses science fiction television from its early years when shows attempted to recreate the allure of science fiction cinema, to its current status as a sophisticated genre with a popularity all its own.J. P. Telotte has assembled a wide-ranging volume rich in theoretical scholarship yet fully accessible to science fiction fans. The book supplies readers with valuable historical context, analyses of essential science fiction series, and an understanding of the key issues in science fiction television.
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• 'Futures past': an introduction to and brief survey of British science fiction television / John R. Cook and Peter Wright
• Quatermass and the origins of British television sf / James Chapman
• Tardis at the OK corral: Doctor Who and the USA / Nicholas J. Cull
• Countering the counterculture: the prisoner and the 1960s / Sue Short
• The age of Aquarius: utopia and anti-utopia in late 1960s' and early 1970s' British science fiction television / John R. Cook
• The man who made Thunderbirds: an interview with Gerry Anderson / Nicholas J. Cull
• Everyday life in the post-catastrophe future: Terry Nation's Survivors / Andy Sawyer
• TV docudrama and the nuclear subject: The war game, The day after and Threads / David Seed
• Resist the host: Blake's 7 - a very British future / Una McCormack
• Echoes of discontent: conservative politics and Sapphire and steel / Peter Wright
• Counterpointing the surrealism of the underlying metaphor in The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy / M.J. Simpson
• 'OK, homeboys, let's posse!' masculine anxiety, gender, race and class in Red Dwarf / Elyce Rae Helford
• British apocalypses now--or then? The uninvited, Invasion: earth and The last train / Catriona Miller.

From "Doctor Who" to "Red Dwarf", "Thunderbirds" to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", British science fiction shows have delighted audiences worldwide with their distinctive visions of the future. This pioneering book, written by leading writers in the field, gives for the first time a detailed national survey of this well-loved British TV genre. It provides in-depth analyses of these shows, as well as others including "Blake's 7", "The Prisoner and Threads", showing too their value in illuminating wider aspects of our recent social and cultural history. It also features a contribution by the biographer of the late Douglas Adams, author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", as well as an exclusive published interview with "Thunderbirds" creator Gerry Anderson. Designed to appeal to students and fans alike, "British Science Fiction Television" offers a thought-provoking and accessible read for those interested in science fiction, television history and their respective relationships to wider media, culture and society.
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• Introduction / Jane Espenson
• The mind doesn't matter, it's the body we want : identity and the body in Dollhouse / Kate Rennebohm
• Rossum's universal robots / Kristin Noone
• Goliath is people! how Dollhouse took distrust to a whole new level / Zalina Avi
• Joss Whedon's Dollhouse : 21st century neo-gothic / Peter Tupper
• All dolled up : twisted princes and fairytale heroines / Valerie Frankel
• The redemption of Topher Brink / Andrew Zimmerman Jones
• Like a boss / Johnathan Mason
• Let the tide come in : how Claire is the true representation of Dollhouse's premise / Rebecca Levinger
• I like my scars : Claire Saunders and the narrative of flesh / Ian G. Klein
• Negative space in the house : how Caroline is the vase / Susan Quilty
• How cancellation told the story of the Dollhouse / Luciana Hiromi Yamada da Silveira
• Whose story is this, anyway? / Tami Anderson
• Dollhouse's future history machines / Kirsten Strayer
• We're not men / Lillian DeRitter
• Boyd Langdon and the fantasy of trust / Christopher Souza
• What Echo's journey to self-awareness tells us about the human soul / Oluwafemi Morohunfola
• What it means to mourn : Dollhouse and Aporia / Martin Shuster
• More than the sum of our imprints / by Julie Hawk.

Though Joss Whedon's television show Dollhouse ended in January 2010 after its second season, its small but devoted cult following is still reeling from not only from its mind-blowing plot twists but also its challenging, dystopic look at the ethics of new technology. Inside Joss' Dollhouse is a fitting tribute to this complex, engaging show. The anthology's 18 sometimes funny, always insightful pieces cover Dollhouse from anticipated start to explosive finish. Drawn from an international contest judged by fan favorite Whedon screenwriter Jane Espenson, its essays get right to heart of what Dollhouse viewers loved most about the show. Espenson also acts as the book's editor, offering context and extra insight on its topics and the show-a role she played in previous anthologies Finding Serenity and Serenity Found, also on Joss Whedon creations. From programmer Topher's amorality to the accuracy of the show's neurobiology, Inside Joss' Dollhouse brings Dollhouse back to life with a depth sure to satisfy its many still-mourning fans.
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