LOTNA's Greatest SF/Fantasy Episodes 100-200

=101. Doctor Who - The Hand of Fear (8 points / 2 votes)
Sarah-Jane's swan song in the TARDIS features a disembodied hand, the return of a long-dead dictator, and the most casual nuclear power plant explosion ever seen.

=101. Doctor Who - Turn Left (8 points / 2 votes)
Donna Noble finds herself in a world where she never met the Doctor.

=101. Quantum Leap - The Leap Home (8 points / 2 votes)
Sam jumps into his own history, hoping to prevent an abusive marriage for his sister, his father's heart attack, and his brother's death in Vietnam.

=101. The Prisoner - Many Happy Returns (8 points / 2 votes)
When The Village appears to be deserted, Number Six manages to make a successful escape attempt, returning London where his former colleagues refuse to believe his story.

=105. Babylon 5 - Babylon Squared (8 points / 1 vote)
Babylon 4 reappears. Sinclair and Garibaldi investigate, but greater forces are at play with people from the past and the future converging on the station.

=105. Babylon 5 - Comes the Inquisitor (8 points / 1 vote)
The Vorlons decide to test Sheridan's dedication by sending the Inquisitor, who may or may not be Jack The Ripper, to put him through his paces.

=105. Babylon 5 - Deconstruction of Falling Stars (8 points / 1 vote)
Season 4 comes to close with a series of vignettes showing the effects of Sheridan's actions resonating far into the future.

=105. Beasts - The Dummy (8 points / 1 vote)
Nigel Kneale's satirical take on the Hammer series of horror films, featuring Bernard Horsfall as a monster actor undergoing a mental breakdown.

=105. FlashForward - Black Swan (8 points / 1 vote)
A patient's flash foward may contain they key to a tricky diagnosis, and a terrorist suspect hints that the flash forward may happen again.

=105. My Little Pony Friendship is Magic: The Return of Harmony (8 points / 1 vote)
Discord escapes captivity, and the Elements of Harmony are stolen. Twilight Sparkle must located the Elements and contend with her brainwashed friends to save Equestria.

=105. Quatermass and the Pit (8 points / 1 vote)
An excavation in London leads to a terrifying truth about the origins of mankind in the third Quatermass series.

=105. Star Trek - All Our Yesterdays (8 points / 1 vote)
Kirk and Spock fall through a time portal and find themselves in different points in history, Kirk in 17th century England and Spock in a frozen wasteland.

=105. Star Trek - Assignment: Earth (8 points / 1 vote)
The Enterprise time travels to 1968 and encounters an agent from their future, Gary Seven, attempting to alter history.

=105. Xena: Warrior Princess - The Bitter Suite (8 points / 1 vote)
Xena: The Musical, as song and dance heals the rift between Xena and Gabrielle.

=115. Space: 1999 - Dragon's Domain (7 points / 3 votes)
The tale of St George and the Dragon is rewritten as a SF tragedy, as Koenig's friend's memories of a long-forgotten disastrous mission resurface.

=115. Spaced - Gone (7 points / 3 votes)
Time and Daisy have a night out in Camden whilst a stew cooks.

=115. The Prisoner - Arrival (7 points / 3 votes)
Number Six is kidnapped and awakes in The Village for the first time.

=118. Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Grave (7 points / 2 votes)
Dark Willow is ready to destroy the world, and only Xander can save the day, armed with the memory of a yellow crayon.

=118. Doctor Who - School Reunion (7 points / 2 votes)
A touch exploration of what happens to a companion after they leave the Doctor, returning both Sarah Jane and K9 to our screens.

=118. Farscape - Scratch & Sniff (7 points / 2 votes)
Pilot banishes Crichton and D'argo from Moya for ten days, tired of their bickering. When they return early, they try to explain exactly what happened whilst they were away.

=118. The Big Bang Theory - The Convention Conundrum (7 points / 2 votes)
When he misses out on comic-con tickets, Sheldon decides to hold his own convention, meeting James Earl Jones and having a night out with him.

=118. The Tenth Kingdom (7 points / 2 votes)
A magical mirror transports fairy tale characters to New York, where a waitress is fated to save the Nine Kingdoms.

=123. Battlestar Galactica - Crossroads (7 points / 1 vote)
As Baltar's trial takes place, a haunting melody resonates amongst some members of the crew. As four of the five Cylon models reveal themselves, Starbuch returns with news of Earth.

=123. Doctor Who - Human Nature/The Family of Blood (7 points / 1 vote)
Paul Cornell adapts his novel, telling a tale of the Doctor becoming human to hide from his foes. All goes well, until he does the one thing he didn't prepare Martha for - fall in love.

=123. Mutant X - No Man Left Behind (7 points / 1 vote)
The Mutant X team fly to Kovakhstan to rescue a captured US Captain and to prevent dangerous technology falling into rebel hands.

=123. My Little Pony Friendship is Magic - Dragonshy (7 points / 1 vote)
Fluttershy's affinity with animals is needed to help deal with a dragon, but the ponies haven't planned for one problem - her crippling fear of dragons.

=123. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Far Beyond the Stars (7 points / 1 vote)
Sisko has visions of a different life as a SF writer in the 1950s, trying to get his vision of a multi-racial future society published. Powerful and hard-hitting.

=123. The Twilight Zone - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (7 points / 1 vote)
William Shatner's greatest non-Trek role as a neurotic airplane passenger convinced that a gremlin on the wings of an aeroplane is comitting sabotage.

129. Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Wish (6 points / 2 votes)
Anya creates an alternate universe where Buffy's absence led to Sunnydale being run by the Master and his vampires.

=130. American Gothic - Damned If You Don't (6 points / 1 vote)
The Sherriff plays a game with the life of a local junkyard owner.

=130. Angel - A Hole in the World (6 points / 1 vote)
Angel and his crew frantically search for both a cure for Fred's illness and a way to stop Illyria's arrival.

=130. Captain Scarlet - Shadow of Fear (6 points / 1 vote)
The Mysterons try to foil the landing of a probe on Phobos by SPECTRUM.

=130. Firefly - The Train Job (6 points / 1 vote)
A simple job from Niska: Rob some Alliance cargo from a train. Just one problem: Malcolm Reynolds doesn't steal medicine from the sick.

=130. Futurama - The Why of Fry (6 points / 1 vote)
The truth behind Fry's 'accidental' freezing is revealed when a giant brain arrives to drain the Earth of knowledge.

=130. My Little Pony Friendship is Magic - The Last Roundup (6 points / 1 vote)
Applejack goes missing after competing in a rodeo.

=130. Person of Interest - Deus Ex Machine (6 points / 1 vote)
The team takes desperate actions in its race to prevent the malevolent AI program Samaritan from coming online and making them its first targets.

=130. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Children of Time (6 points / 1 vote)
The crew of the Defiant discover a colony made from their own descendants, following an accident in their own near-future. Saving themselves would be mean killing their future children and grandchildren.

=130. Star Trek - The Galileo Seven (6 points / 1 vote)
A shuttle crash forces Spock to confront and adapt his alien nature to save his crew and avoid mutiny.

=130. The Nightmare Man (6 points / 1 vote)
A series of savage murders hits a remote Scottish town when a mysterious craft is discovered, and the killer may not be human.

=130. Thunderbirds - Terror in New York City (6 points / 1 vote)
The US Navy attacks Thunderbird 2, putting it out of commission and leaving Thunderbird 4 stranded when it's needed to rescue two reporters from an underground river in New York City.

=141. Blake's 7 - Orbit (5 points / 2 votes)
Avon is offered a deal that might be too good to be true - a weapon that can destroy anything in the universe in exchange for Orac.

=141. Doctor Who - Midnight (5 points / 2 votes)
A day trip on a planet made of diamonds goes horribly wrong when something decides to take over a felow tourist and the Doctor loses control of the situation.

=141. Spaced - Battles (5 points / 2 votes)
Daisy gets a dog whilst Tim and Mike go paintballing, and encounter the man who stole Tim's girlfriend - Duane Benzie.

=141. The Walking Dead - Too Far Gone (5 points / 2 votes)
The Governor's brutal attack against the prison brings a close this era of The Walking Dead.

=141. Torchwood - Countrycide (5 points / 2 votes)
The team investigate a spate of missing persons in the Brecon Beacons, discovering a dark secret.

=141. American Gothic - The Strong Arm of the Law (5 points / 1 vote)
When a new gang in town refuses the Sherriff's offer, he sets about getting his revenge on them.

=141. Beast Wars - Nemesis (5 points / 1 vote)
Megatron is forced to take drastic action when the Maximals are poised to claim victory in the Beast Wars.

=141. Blake's 7 - Seek Locate Destroy (5 points / 1 vote)
Servalan and Travis make their first appearances, using Cally as bait in a trap for Blake.

=141. Farscape - Die Me Dichotomy (5 points / 1 vote)
Scorpius' neural chip finally takes over Crichton, leading to Aeryn's death. When the chip is removed, Crichton is left unable to move or speak when Scorpius arrives to take the chip and the knowledge within.

=141. Game of Thrones - The Watchers on the Wall (5 points / 1 vote)
The wildlings and White Walkers lay siege to Castle Black.

=141. Misfits - Series 3, Episode 8 (5 points / 1 vote)
Time for Simon to become the Super Hoodie after Alisha is fatally stabbed, going back in time knowing it will lead to his eventual death.

=141. Quantum Leap - The Colour of Truth (5 points / 1 vote)
Sam leaps into the body of a black chauffeur in segregated Southern USA.

=141. Star Trek: The Next Generation - Data's Day (5 points / 1 vote)
Data relates the events of a single day aboard the Enterprise-D, including the wedding of Chief O'Brien, a dancing lesson, and Romulan intrigue.

=141. Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Revenge (5 points / 1 vote)
Darth Maul returns to take his revenge on Obi-Wan Kenobi.

=141. Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Rookies (5 points / 1 vote)
Two clone officers must inspire a platoon of rookie clones to fend off a ferocious droid commando invasion.

=141. The IT Crowd - The Haunting of Bill Crouse (5 points / 1 vote)
Jen asks Moss to lie to a disastrous date. He tells him that she has died, which sends the entire office into mourning, all without Jen being aware of this.

=141. The Lost Room (5 points / 1 vote)
A detective stumbles upon a Motel Room set in its own dimension. Any item taken from the room has strange powers and anything left in the room that does not belong disappears.

=141. UFO - A Question of Priorities (5 points / 1 vote)
Commander Straker faces a terrible decision: attend to an alien defector or deliver life-saving medicine to his critically injured son.

159. Quantum Leap - Memphis Melody (4 points / 3 votes)
Sam leaps into the body of Elvis Presley.

=160. Doctor Who - The Curse of Fenric (4 points / 2 votes)
An ancient evil stirs beneath a church, entrapping the Doctor, Ace, British and Russian soldiers, and the Haemovores - vampires from the far future.

=160. Space 1999 - Breakaway (4 points / 2 votes)
A nuclear explosion hurtles the moon out of orbit, heading away from Earth, with the crew of Moonbase Alpha caught on the moon.

=162. Doctor Who - Mummy on the Orient Express (4 points / 1 vote)
The Doctor and Clara take one final trip, visiting the Orient Express in space, where an invisible, intangible mummy is slowly killing off the passengers and crew.

=162. Edge of Darkness (4 points / 1 vote)
Ronald Craven's investigation into his daughter's death uncovers corporate conspiracies, nuclear espionage, and the fate of the Earth itself.

=162. Game of Thrones - The Pointy End (4 points / 1 vote)
Following Ned Stark's arrest, the Lannisters move against his family. The Dothraki mount a raid, with Drogo receiving a mortal wound. Jon Snow discovers evidence of the White Walkers.

=162. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Profit and Lace (4 points / 1 vote)
Quark gets a sex-change operation to argue for the rights of Ferengi women.

=162. Supernatural - Yellow Fever (4 points / 1 vote)
Supernatural does Crank, as Dean is infected with a demonic illness that causes escalating anxiety and fear.

=162. Torchwood - Exit Wounds (4 points / 1 vote)
Captain John's attack hits personally for Jack, involving his brother Gray, and saying goodbye to Owen and Tosh.

=162. Transformers Prime - Scrapheap (4 points / 1 vote)
A swarm of metal-eating Scraplets are unleashed upon the Autobot base.

=162. Urban Gothic - Be Movie (4 points / 1 vote)
A group of rowdy students, including an isolated American teenager obsessed with horror films, find themselves trapped in a real-life slasher film.

=162. Wizards vs Aliens - The 13th Floor (4 points / 1 vote)
Wizard Tom discovers the Nekross aliens are interested in a mysterious thirteenth floor in Wyvern House which causes people to go missing.

171. Lost - Pilot (3 points / 3 votes)
Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 goes off-course and crashes on a mysterious island. Lethal black smoke, polar bears and a decades-old SOS are just some of the mysteries opened up.

=172. Fringe - Peter (3 points / 2 votes)
Walter reveals the truth about Peter's origins.

=172. Game of Thrones - Blackwater (3 points / 2 votes)
Stannis Baratheon mounts a naval attack on King's Landing, as Tyrion Lannister does everything he can to defend the city.

=172. Star Trek - Amok Time (3 points / 2 votes)
Spock is striken with pon farr and must return to Vulcan or die. The only episode on this list to be responsible for naming a 1980s band.

=172. Star Trek - Space Seed (3 points / 2 votes)
Eugenics takes a front seat as a sleepr ship full of genetically-engineered humans is discovered, including their leader - Khan Noonien Singh.

=172. Supernatural - Changing Channels (3 points / 2 votes)
Sam and Dean are trapped in a world of TV shows, including their own sitcom, by The Trickster, who is guarding his own secrets.

=177. Babylon 5 - Into the Fire (3 points / 1 vote)
The epic conclusion to the Shadow War. Now, get the hell out of our galaxy!

=177. Blake's 7 - City at the Edge of the World (3 points / 1 vote)
Colin Baker guest-stars as a ruthless outlaw convinced that an alien city holds a wealth of treasure, and determined to use the Liberator crew to get at it.

=177. Doctor Who - City of Death (3 points / 1 vote)
Douglas Adams' shining moment of awesome, combining location shooting in Paris, Julian Glover, John Cleese and the sparkliest relationship between The Doctor and Romana II. Oh, and a great monster!

=177. Doctor Who - The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances (3 points / 1 vote)
Stephen Moffat's first contribution to NuWho, with gas masks growing from faces, the introduction to Captain Jack, 'Are you my mummy', and the 9th Doctor's greatest victory.

=177. Farscape - Into the Lions Den (3 points / 1 vote)
Scorpius capture the crews of Moya and Talyn to further his wormhole research. Only the sacrifice of Talyn and Crais is able to destroy the Peacekeeper wormhole project.

=177. Millennium - Jose Chung's Doomsday Defence (3 points / 1 vote)
Jose Chung returns when a short story of his causes him to become the target of a religous cult that definintely is not Scientology.

=177. Star Trek: The Next Generation - Elementary Dear Data (3 points / 1 vote)
Data's Sherlock Holmes holodeck program moves to a new level when the hologram Moriarty develops sentience and awareness of the world outside of the holodeck.

=177. Star Trek - Devil in the Dark (3 points / 1 vote)
A mining colony comes under attack from the monstrous Horta, but the true motivations of the monster are revealed to be far from evil.

=177. Star Trek - The Squire of Gothos (3 points / 1 vote)
The Enterprise crew encounter a powerful, playful being known as Trelane.

=177. Supernatural - What is Now and What Should Never Be (3 points / 1 vote)
A Djinn traps Dean in a world where his mother and Sam's girlfriend never died, but where the many people he saved now died.

=177. The IT Crowd - The Final Countdown (3 points / 1 vote)
Moss becomes a Countdown champion, entering an elite club and the dangeours underworld of Street Countdown. Look out for one of our former members in this episode!

=177. The X-Files - Jose Chung's From Outer Space (3 points / 1 vote)
The X-Files' comic triumph, as Muldur and Scully try to investigate an alien abduction where no-one can get the details right.

=177. Transformers Prime - One Shall Rise (3 points / 1 vote)
Unicron awakes from his imprisonment in the Earth's core, forcing Autobots and Decepticons to work together.

=177. Urban Gothic - The Boys Club (3 points / 1 vote)
A young, hot shot gangster is forced to do horrific things to buy his way into the mysterious 'Boy's Club', an exclusive club for London's most powerful gangsters.

=191. Captain Scarlet - Lunarville 7 (2 points / 2 votes)
When the lunar colonies declare neutrality in the war, Captain Scarlet investigates, discovering not a Mysteron city under construction on the dark side of the moon.

=191. Community - Modern Warfare (2 points / 2 votes)
When a priority registration form is offered as a prize for a paintball contest, Greendale descends into anarchy as paintball gets out of hand.

=191. Futurama - Parasites Lost (2 points / 2 votes)
Parasitic worms take up residence in Fry's body, enhancing his intellect and emotional maturity, and enabling him to finally get somewhere with Leela.

=191. Mystery Science Theatre 3000 - Space Mutiny (2 points / 2 votes)
Mike and the Bots comment on Space Mutiny, featuring numerous railing deaths and the macho names 'Slab Bulkhead', 'Fridge Largemeat', and 'Punt Speedchunk'.

=191. Smallville - Rosetta (2 points / 2 votes)
Christopher Reeve makes his first appearance on the show, revealing Clark's origins.

=191. The Big Bang Theory - The Barbarian Sublimation (2 points / 2 votes)
Penny starts playing Age Of Conan, and finds herself addicted to online video games.

=197. Doctor Who - The Ark in Space (2 points / 1 vote)
Doctor Who turns nasty as the alien Wyrrn, who mutate their human hosts into more of their race, take over a satellite containing the entire human race in storage.

=197. Doctor Who - The Aztecs (2 points / 1 vote)
Barbara discovers that you can't rewrite history, not one line.

=197. Doctor Who - The Christmas Invasion (2 points / 1 vote)
Robotic Father Christmases, killer Christmas Trees, and the Lion King. David Tennant's first outing as the Doctor, defeating the Sycorax on Christmas Day.

=197. Red Dwarf - Better Than Life (2 points / 1 vote)
To cheer Rimmer up after the death of his father, Lister and the Cat treat him to Better Than Life, a total immersion video game.

=197. Star Trek: The Next Generation - Chain of Command (2 points / 1 vote)
Picard is captured by the Cardassians whilst on an undercover mission and is brutally tortured. There are four lights.

=197. Supernatural - Point of No Return (2 points / 1 vote)
The choice of becoming a vessel takes centre stage, as the angels try to use Sam and Dean's half brother to force the decision.

=197. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Queen's Gambit (2 points / 1 vote)
Goode's computer, the Turk II, enters in a major chess competition highlighting its AI capabilities. Is it the mother of SkyNet?

=197. The Big Bang Theory - The Nerdvana Annihilation (2 points / 1 vote)
The boundaries of 'geek' and 'not-geek' are challenged when Penny loses a work shift helping Sheldon and Leonard move a large movie prop into their apartment without damaging it.

=197. The Outer Limits - Demon With a Glass Hand (2 points / 1 vote)
One of Harlan Ellison's greatest TV scripts, a lone figure in a post-apocalyptic wasteland must solve the riddle of his personal time-travel and his artificial hand.

=197. Thunderbirds - Sun Probe (2 points / 1 vote)
Alan Tracy and Thunderbird 3 rescues a manned probe when it looks set to crash into the sun, only to require their own rescue when a similar fate threatens the ship.

=197. Transformers Prime - Nemesis Prime (2 points / 1 vote)
An evil clone of Optimus Prime is unleashed upon the Earth, causing destruction.

=197. UFO - Survival (2 points / 1 vote)
Col. Foster finds himself stranded on the moon with one of the aliens, forced to build bridges with it in order to survive.

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