Top 10 British "genre" mini-series

Looking for something other than Football, Golf or Tennis to watch? Nothing over 6 eps and all from our fair isle.

10. Gulliver's Travels - stretching it a bit as it's a joint UK/US effort but it does feature all four voyages.
9. Jekyll RLS's novel as reworked by Stephen Moffat was surprisingly good.

8. Count Dracula from 1977 is one of the more faithful adaptations of Stoker's novel.

7. The Nightmare Man a great story shines through despite it's piddling budget.

6. The Last Train an interesting PA tale from ITV with enough moxie to have a grim ending

5. I Am Not An Animal animated comedy bout some experimental animals escaping to live "normal" lives in the burbs



4. Dead Set Charlie Brooker's zomcom can be watched on youtube here.

3. The Day of The Triffids the original version of Wyndham's novel had more tension than the recent remake and can be watched here.

2. Edge of Darkness the Gibson remake sheds the originals strange mystical & scifi elements.



1. Hitchhiker's Guide.. of course

Non-English language Sci-Fi

I've been rooting around for some foreign language sci-fi lately after becoming tired of the usual Hollywood guff and thought I'd publish a little list of the films worth a look. Not necessarily the best, just the ones that spring to mind.

1) Stalker/Solaris - two classics adaptations from Tarkovsky, you've probably already seen them.


2)Timecrimes - great Spanish time travel film, modest budget but a cracking story.


3)Dante 01 - French Sci-fi from Caro - gets terrible reviews but I enjoyed it.


4)Delicatessen/City of Lost Children - two by Caro & Jeunet, I think COLC is the best of the 2


5)The Host - great Korean monster movie


6)Save The Green Planet - demented Korean scifi, unusual I'd say


7)Fantastic Planet - strange haunting animation from France, better than Time Masters.


8)Sex Mission - Funny Polish scifi about two dudes cryogenically frozen


9)Wings of Honneamise - could have filled the list with anime but chose this classic of hard scifi


10)The Dark Hour - Spanish film, poor reviews but I thought it was great, oh well.