Sci-Fi 5

His acting career started later than most of his contemporaries, but Ernest Borgnine played an astonishing number of roles over the years, including more sci-fi parts than you may remember. Born on this day in 1917, Borgnine is the focus of today's Sci-Fi 5.

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Written by Earl Green

Hosted by Roberto Lewis

Music by Devin Curry

The Marvel universe is known for a tightly integrated slate of characters and stories, then DC came along and said, "hold my cape." DC's "Legends of Tomorrow" turned that convention upside down in a show called "the Justice League meets Doctor Who." 

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Written and hosted by Ryan Myers

Music by Devin Curry

In the days before billionaires launching themselves into space, the thought of inventive, resourceful people doing home-grown spaceflight was pure science fiction.  Sci-Fi 5 revisits the Andy Griffith vehicle Salvage One, which premiered on this day in 1979.

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Written by Brian Clayton

Hosted by Earl Green

Music by Devin Curry

They came from below, and found themselves up against a cast straight out of sitcoms, Nashville, and, yes, every degree of Kevin Bacon as Tremors kicked off an entire genre franchise on this day in 1990.

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Written by Ryan Myers

Hosted by Jessica Lynn Verdi

Music by Devin Curry

He was a sci-fi writer steeped in '60s counterculture. Then he decided to turn the counterculture on its head by weaving outlandish conspiracy tales with pointed social critique along the way. Robert Anton Wilson's story, today on Sci-Fi 5.

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Written by Shane Vaughn

Hosted by Roberto Lewis

Music by Devin Curry

Ray Brandbury retooled one of his Twilight Zone scripts for a 1982 TV movie that entertained and seriously creeped-out kids in the audience. Hear the story from Whitman to Serling to "The Electric Grandmother" which premiered on this day in 1982.

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Written by Ashley Thomas

Hosted by Ryan Myers

Music by Devin Curry

It was the show that wasn't supposed to happen, but audiences fell in love with Jamie Sommers on "The Six Million Dollar Man" and demanded more. On this day in 1976, "The Bionic Woman" came back from the dead.

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Written and hosted by John S. Drew

Music by Devin Curry

The Sarah Connor Chronicles premiered on January 13, 2008 and never quite got the recognition it deserved, leading to an early cancellation. Today we look back at what made the show a worthy entry into the Terminator saga.

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Written by Ashley Thomas

Hosted by Jessica Lynn Verdi

An on-the-nose anti-war statement in a sixties episode of Star Trek may have inadvertently spawned a long-running enemy who would take cues from Trelaine in harassing future Starfleet crews.  The origins of The Squire Of Gothos, on today's Sci-Fi 5!

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Written by Holly Amos

Hosted by Earl Green

Music by Devin Curry

With TV sci-fi's sophistication steadily growing, the BBC commissioned a new genre workplace comedy to fill the gap left by an audience favorite.  Find out how an evolving cast kicked into Hyperdrive on today's Sci-Fi 5!

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Written by Earl Green

Hosted by Jessica Lynn Verdi

Music by Devin Curry