LOTNA's Greatest SF/Fantasy Episodes 50-100

51. Doctor Who - Rose (14 points / 2 votes)
"Nice to meet you, Rose. Run for your life." Doctor Who returns with a fast-paced story introducing Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper, and showcasing the Autons.

52. Neverwhere (13 points / 4 votes)
Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry tell the adventures of Richard Mayhew and Door in the realm of London Below.

53. Blake's 7 - The Way Back (13 points / 3 votes)
Terry Nation's series hits the ground running, as Roj Blake regains his wiped memories of being a freedom fighter, and recruits Jenna and Vila.

=54. Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Becoming (13 points / 2 votes)
Buffy and Angelus meet for their final battle as the demon Acathla awakes. Who can forget the moment when Buffy, seeing Angel's sould returned, kills him and sends him to hell to save the world?

=54. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - In the Pale Moonlight (13 points / 2 votes)
Deep Space Nine was never darker, as Sisko crossed many lines to bring the Romulan Empire into the Dominion War.

=56. Supernatural - The French Mistake (12 points / 3 votes)
Dean and Sam cross into a world where they are actors named Jared and Jensen on a TV show.

=56. The Flash - Pilot (12 points / 3 votes)
Scientist Barry Allen wakes from a coma to find that he is the fastest man alive. Great effects and character work combine to make the strongest superhero pilot episode seen to date.

=56. The IT Crowd - Calamity Jen (12 points / 3 votes)
A stress-measuring machine and some 'perfectly-fitting' shoes give Jen a bad day at the office.

59. Firefly - Objects in Space (12 points / 2 votes)
Bounty hunter Jubal Early comes to Serenity, incapacitating the crew in his hunt for River.

=60. Agents of SHIELD - Turn Turn Turn (11 points / 3 votes)
Events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier impact on the series, giving it a purpose and setting the characters on a new path.

=60. Ashes to Ashes - Season 3, Episode 8 (11 points / 3 votes)
Alex Drake discovers the truth behind her and Sam Tyler's time-travelling, and the true nature of Gene Hunt.

=60. Farscape - Revenging Angel (11 points / 3 votes)
AKA The One With Crichton And D'Argo As Looney Tunes Cartoons.

=63. Battlestar Galactica - Razor (11 points / 2 votes)
The history of the Battlestar Pegasus under Commander Cain is revealed whilst Lee Adama struggles to command Crain's crew following her death.

=63. Doctor Who - The Web of Fear (11 points / 2 votes)
A rediscovered classic, featuring the return of the Great Intelligence, Yeti in the underground, and the first appearance of Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart.

=63. Star Trek: The Next Generation - All Good Things (11 points / 2 votes)
Q returns to pass judgement on humanity, sending Picard backwards and forwards in time for the final episode of The Next Generation. The sky's the limit...

=63. Star Trek: Voyager - Scorpion (11 points / 2 votes)
Forced into an alliance with the Borg to battle Species 8472, Voyager ends up with a new crew member - ex-Borg drone Seven of Nine.

=63. The Flipside of Dominick Hide (11 points / 2 votes)
A time-traveller investigates his own lineage, only to discover that he is his own great-great-grandfather.

=63. Twin Peaks - Episode 14 (11 points / 2 votes)
Answers are given as the human host of Bob, the murderer of Laura Palmer, is revealed.

69. Red Dwarf: Back to Reality (10 points / 5 votes)
The crew realise that their entire lives have been lived in a computer game, and adjust to a harsh reality.

=70. Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Doppelgangland (10 points / 3 votes)
The alternate-universe vampire Willow crosses over to cause chaos, leading the Scoobies to believe that Willow has been turned. And is kind of gay.

=70. Community - Remedial Chaos Theory (10 points / 3 votes)
7 alternate timelines in 22 minutes, as the decision of who answers the door has far-reaching consequences.

=70. Orphan Black - Natural Selection (10 points / 3 votes)
A con-artist witnesses the suicide of her doppelganger and assumes her life, only to be drawn into a conspiracy regarding the motives of her double's suicide.

=70. Red Dwarf - Terrorform (10 points / 3 votes)
The crew of the Dwarf find themselves in a nightmarish land created from the depths of Rimmer's psyche.

=74. Babylon 5 - Intersections in Real Time (10 points / 2 votes)
Captured by the Earth Alliance, Sheridan is tortured in an attempt to break his will.

=74. Children of the Stones (10 points / 2 votes)
The scariest programme ever made for children, a mysterious stone circle with powers over time itself is the focus of this much-loved series.

=74. Community - A Fistful of Paintballs / For a Few Paintballs More (10 points / 2 votes)
Spaghetti Westerns, Star Wars and paintball are all mashed up together for Community's epic second season finale.

=74. Farscape - Out of Their Minds (10 points / 2 votes)
Body swap stories have rarely been this much fun, as the crew wake up to discover that their minds have been switched.

=74. Farscape - We're So Screwed (10 points / 2 votes)
Farscape hurtles to a close as Crichton and the crew attempt to rescue Aeryn from the Scarrans.

=79. Blake's 7 - Sand (10 points / 1 vote)
Servalan and the crew of the Scorpio find themselves fighting for survival when investigating the disappearance of a research team on a planet covered in green sand.

=79. Doctor Who - Remembrance of the Daleks (10 points / 1 vote)
Ben Aaronovitch drags Doctor Who into the era of modern television, with a dense, intriguing storyline, Ace beating up a Dalek with a baseball bat, and the Special Weapons Dalek.

=79. Doctor Who - The Mind Robber (10 points / 1 vote)
The TARDIS explodes, trapping the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe in a Land of Fiction, where any creation from fiction can come to life.

=79. Stargate SG-1 - Shades of Grey (10 points / 1 vote)
Jack O'Neil resigns from SG-1 and goes undercover in a rogue NIS team of Stargate operatives.

=79. Supernatural - Fresh Blood (10 points / 1 vote)
Hunter Gordon returns, seeking to kill Sam to prevent a demonic war, and is turned into a vampire.

=79. Xena: Warrior Princess - When Fates Collide (10 points / 1 vote)
Caesar changes history, making Xena his bride as they rule Rome together.

85. The Day of the Triffids (9 points / 4 votes)
A meteor shower blinds the population of the Earth, and carniverous plants start to take over. The classic 1981 BBC adaptation of John Wyndham's novel.

=86. Firefly - Our Mrs Reynolds (9 points / 3 votes)
Saffron arrives on board Serenity, married to Malcolm Reynolds, and definitely not faking everything to lead the ship into a lethal trap.

=86. Futurama - Roswell That Ends Well (9 points / 3 votes)
The Planet Express time-travels to 1947, becoming the ship involved in the Roswell incident. Fry ends up becoming his own grandfather.

=88. Chuck - Chuck vs the Beard (9 points / 2 votes)
When the Intersect fails to flash, Chuck finds himself benched. The rest of the team are then captured, and Chuck is forced to reveal his secret to Morgan to rescue them.

=88. Doctor Who - Ghost Light (9 points / 2 votes)
The Seventh Doctor takes Ace into her personal history to unravel her issues with a mysterious house, and meets an angel who could change the course of human evolution.

=90. Babylon 5 - Soul Hunter (9 points / 1 vote)
A Soul Hunter comes to Babylon 5 to claim Delenn's soul.

=90. Beast Wars - The Low Road (9 points / 1 vote)
Who would have thought that a case of the hiccups could prove deadly? When Rhinox starts expelling Energon with each hiccup, the search is on for a cure.

=90. Community - Introduction to Finality (9 points / 1 vote)
The study group threatens to tear itself apart as Evil Abed crosses over from the darkest timeline.

=90. Earth 2 - Better Living Through Morganite (9 points / 1 vote)
The discovery of a strange glowing mineral potentially holds a fantastic new power source. But when a couple of greedy colonists decide to claim the discovery, they risk provoking all out war with the native tribal species who hold the stones as sacred.

=90. Farscape - Infinite Possibilities (9 points / 1 vote)
Stolen wormhole technology goes up for auction, causing the Ancients to intervene and for one of the duplicate Crichton's to receive a fatal burst of radiation.

=90. Sapphire and Steel - Serial 4 (9 points / 1 vote)
An abandoned apartment building, ghostly children, and something emerging from photographs come together to truly threaten Sapphire and Steel.

=90. Supernatural (1977) - Dorabella (9 points / 1 vote)
At the Club of the Damned, a tale is told of a journey made long-ago, and of a obsession with a mystical woman named Dorabella.

=90. UFO - Identified (9 points / 1 vote)
The opening episode of Gerry Anderson's first live-action show sees SHADO defeat its first UFO, discovering that the alien has transplanted human organs inside it.

=90. Xena: Warrior Princess - Eternal Bonds (9 points / 1 vote)
When Xena gives birth, the Gods decide to kill the baby to prevent their destruction. Joxer finds himself poisoned and Gabrielle races to save him.

=99. Red Dwarf - Dimension Jump (8 points / 3 votes)
Commander Ace Rimmer (What a guy!) jumps from his universe to meet his cowardly, spineless counterpart. Smoke him a kipper, he'll be back for breakfast.

=99. The X-Files - Tooms (8 points / 3 votes)
Liver-eating, body-stretching mutant Eugene Tooms returns, as Mulder tries to prevent him from killing again.

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