Sci-Fi 5

The Prisoner is an iconic, surreal series with a deserved cult following. The 2009 remake is... not that. We'll look at the differences in the two on today's Sci-Fi 5. 

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Written by John Champion

Hosted by Earl Green

Music by Devin Curry

One of the most successful translations of Star Wars onto the small screen, Disney's "The Mandalorian" has wowed audiences since its debut on November 12, 2019. Sci-Fi 5 looks behind the scenes at the cutting-edge production.

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Written by Earl Green

Hosted by Ryan Myers

Music by Devin Curry

A sunken ocean-liner is discovered after more than 40 years... with people on board! Their utopian society is interrupted by modern explorers who discover their terrible secrets. "Goliath Awaits" premiered on November 11, 1981.

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Written by John Champion

Hosted by Jessica Lynn Verdi

Music by Devin Curry

Not content to stick merely with Galactic Funk, Meco hopped on the Star Wars marketing train again in time for Christmas of 1980. "Star Wars: Christmas in the Stars" featured stories from C-3PO and the singing debut of one of the most famous of '80s rockers.

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Written by Earl Green

Hosted by Roberto Lewis

The fiendish Dr. Goldfoot was ready to reveal his most diabolical plan yet on November 9, 1966 - a sequel! Find out how how an international co-production stumbled its way to release "Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs" on today's Sci-Fi 5.

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Written by John Champion

Hosted by Earl Green

It's generally thought of as one of the pinnacles of early '70s TV horror and suspense, and the TV comeback for the man who first led us into the Twilight Zone. But it was also a starting point for other major talents as well, and it premiered in the late '60s.

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Written by Earl Green

Hosted by Ryan Myers

It was an invention born of unlikely circumstances, whose inventor claimed would make time travel possible.  Today's show asks: who was Dr. Emmett Brown, and what was his so-called "flux capacitor"?

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Written and Hosted by Ryan Myers

Long a comic book favorite, the Incredible Hulk took many twists and turns on its way to becoming one of network television's biggest superhero success stories of the seventies.

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Written by John Champion

Hosted by Roberto Lewis

Maybe it was the movie that invented the entire kaiju genre, or maybe it was an allegory for recent history. Sci-Fi 5 chronicles the theatrical premiere of Gojira in its native Japan - before its central character became known as Godzilla.

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Written and Hosted by Ryan Myers

Nestled away in the Eagle Nebula was a stellar nursery formation dubbed the Pillars of Creation after the Hubble Space Telescope spotted it in 1995 - an image so iconic that it began reshaping the look of both science and sci-fi on our screens.

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Written by Earl Green

Hosted by Jessica Lynn Verdi