Science Fiction Trivia

[ffutures]

Well, if someone doesn't give it their best shot we're going to be stuck here, there really isn't much I can add to this one, and I really don't feel up to coming up with another question at present!

[spud42]

ok, i will let you off the hook.

its Brains from Thunderbirds. i guess his firs appearence was in the early 60's... last one would be the movie in the 2000's??

[Cholmondely]

And was there not an anime version?

[ffutures]

ok, i will let you off the hook.

its Brains from Thunderbirds. i guess his firs appearence was in the early 60's... last one would be the movie in the 2000's??

Spud gets the prize, but I don't think MBPs - this character has got around a bit...

Brains first appeared in the first episode of Thunderbirds (30 September 1965), and was in the final episode of that series (25 December 1966) which is the first possibility for his last appearance...
However (deep breath) he also appeared in
Film - Thunderbirds Are Go - 12th December 1966
Film - Thunderbird 6 - 29 July 1968 - last appearance of the puppet version....
except for three more puppet films (1981-3), which I'm excluding because each was a mashup of two episodes of the original series so I don't think that they count, I don't think there was any new material. Then there was
Live action film Thunderbirds - 20 July 2004
Brains does appear in this one, but seems to be more or less retired if I'm remembering it correctly. Then there was
Thunderbirds - The Anniversary Episodes - 17 August 2016
Three short films made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the series - it looks like Brains would probably be in at least the first of these, since it's basically a tour of Tracy island, but I don't have a list of characters so I can't tell.
Finally (SO FAR) there's the CGI series Thunderbirds Are Go, which ran from 4 April 2015 to 22 February 2020 - Brains was in the first and last episode, and most of the rest that I saw.

And was there not an anime version?

Nice try but no - There was an anime series, Thunderbirds 2086, which ran 17 April 1982 – 11 September 1982, but Brains doesn't appear to have been a character in it - I think it was more "inspired by" than anything else.

[ffutures]

Forgot to check out the Thunderbirds wiki which has more info:

https://thunderbirds.fandom.com/wiki/Brains - Thunderbirds
https://thunderbirds.fandom.com/wiki/Th ... _Go_(film) - Thunderbirds are Go film
https://thunderbirds.fandom.com/wiki/Thunderbird_6 - Thunderbird 6 film
https://thunderbirds.fandom.com/wiki/Br ... 004_Movie) - 2004 film
https://thunderbirds.fandom.com/wiki/Thunderbirds_1965 - the anniversary episodes from 2016, looks like Brains was in all three
https://thunderbirds.fandom.com/wiki/Brains_(TB2015) - Thunderbirds are Go TV series
and
https://thunderbirds.fandom.com/wiki/Thunderbirds_2086 - the anime thing, which looks dreadful

[spud42]

we all know that Dr Who is a Time Lord. The show is a mixture of adventure and time travel.

give me 5 example of other Time travel Tv shows.

i can think of at least 3 and maybe 4 ... MBP's for picking those shows....

[Nite Owl]

The most obvious answer in terms of title is THE TIME TUNNEL.

There are a few others swimming around my brain but our fellow Trivinistas should have a chance to answer before those get posted.

[ffutures]

Timecop, TV series of the film

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timecop_(TV_series)

[spud42]

ok we have two , Nite Owl has the first MBP. and the low hanging fruit...lol

ffutures, thats one we didnt get in Aust so a couple of MBP's for this. Doesnt look like it was any good as it was canned before the original 13 shows were filmed... but it is a similar premise to a TV show i was thinking of.

[Disembodied]

There's the TV series Primeval:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primeval_(TV_series)

[JD]

In the early 1970s in the UK we had the children's series called Timeslip. In each series, a different portal opened up into the past or future, where the protagonists would typically meet their future selves (not always happily) or encounter the past history of members of their family.

According to WP there were four series altogether. Don't know if they made it to Oz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeslip

[ffutures]

OK, have another - Crime Traveller, a short-lived British series about time travelling cops. The McGuffin is a time machine that lets you travel a little way into the past, but you can't change anything, or even give someone information about the future - one of the sub-plots was a lottery ticket scam that the hero tried that didn't work. I recall it as not being very good...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_Traveller

[spud42]

Disembodied has no 3 with Primeval was a favorite show of mine so 5 MBP's there,
JD that certainly qualifies , there was no requirement it had to be on AUS TV..lol
and ffutures regains the lead with no 5.

two i was thinking of that didnt come up wer Time Trax https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106154/, and Continium https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1954347/ and there was another one no one picked Travellers in this case time travel was achieved by sending the consiousness back in time. they took over people at their time of death...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5651844/

there seems to be a heavy bias to police being sent back in time here...lol

and the last one i had in mind was terranova https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1641349/ this one had potential but didnt get a second season...

ok ffutures your up next.

[ffutures]

OK... let's try another five. I think this time the five will be Animal Protagonists In Spaaaaaaaace!

Obvious one here (which is why I'm using it now) is the Muppet's Pigs In Spaaaaaaaace! segments, but what I'm looking for here is stories where the animal protagonist is a major part of the story. So an occasional appearance of someone's pet doesn't count, what I want is stories (films, TV, books, comics, whatever) which would not work without the animal as a character.

No two from the same universe or creator unless the creator worked for a lot of different companies - e.g. no more muppets, but Jim Henson has done animatronics for a lot of other films and TV so I'm not ruling them out completely.

As usual, please only give one answer at a time, and leave a few hours for other people to respond.

MBPs for anything that surprises me or makes me laugh...

[Disembodied]

It's not in space (or even spaaaaace!), and I doubt if it would make you laugh, but there's the superintelligent dog Sirius from Olaf Stapledon's novel of the same name.