Science Fiction: European TV
A list of science fiction European TV productions from John Clute's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
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- DirectorVittorio CottafaviStarsAldo GiuffrèOttorino GuerriniMichele MalaspinaIn a dystopian future, two superpowers have shared the Earth, and both try to conquer the Solar System. The penal colony of Venus becomes the missile base of one of the two superpowers, but the deportees oppose the project.
- DirectorMarek NowickiJerzy StawickiStarsPiotr KurowskiJózef PierackiEliasz KuziemskiProfessor Tichy, to his surprise, discovers that the powerful electron brain he works with is starting to falsify the research results. Will the professor detect the conspiracy carried out by the hands of a naive mechanic suffering from loneliness in time?
- StarsDietmar SchönherrEva PflugWolfgang VölzCommander McLane and the crew of the fast space cruiser Orion patrol Earth's outposts and colonies in space and defend humanity from the alien 'Frogs'.
- StarsPeter FernandezEarl HammondCorinne OrrAn English language version of Ultraman: A Special Effects Fantasy Series (1966) following a man named Hayata who transforms into a giant superhero named Ultraman to fight alien invaders and giant monsters that threatened earth.
- DirectorVittorio CottafaviStarsIolanda MeneguzzerLaura ZanniniAlvinio MiscianoThe operetta, which was introduced from the headlines and a preamble, is initiated by a particular ballet, which then gives way to the development of the plot, in the form of operetta-musical.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsBogumil KobielaRyszard FilipskiAnna PrucnalThe story of a racing car driver who undergoes so many transplants that it can no longer be determined which people have contributed to his make-up.
- StarsClaude PiépluAnimated birds, characterized by stupidity and ruthlessness, search for a new home on a changing planet.
- DirectorRainer ErlerStarsWalter KohutHenning GisselHans HäckermannJournalist Will Roczinsky is dead. He was investigating UFO sightings. A TV broadcast summarizes the events up to his death.
- DirectorAndrzej KondratiukStarsRoman KlosowskiZdzislaw MaklakiewiczWieslaw MichnikowskiWarsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only be solved by a Polish superhero whose name is As.
- StarsMayumi AsanoKiyoshi Kinoshitaa high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.
- StarsJôji YanamiHiroya IshimaruIsamu TanonakaTeenager Koji Kabuto pilots the amazing super-robot Mazinger Z to avenge its inventor (his grandfather) against the Mycene Empire, led by the evil mad scientist Doctor Hell.
- StarsKlaus LöwitschBarbara ValentinMascha RabbenSomewhere in the future there is a computer project called Simulacron one of which is able to simulate a full featured reality, when suddenly project leader Henry Vollmer dies. His successor Dr. Fred Stiller experiences odd phenomena. A good friend, Guenther Lause, disappears in the middle of a conversation and a week later nobody has ever heard of him. And those fits of dizzyness - Stiller cannot believe himself to be fool. There has to be an explanation for all this. Could Simulacron have something to do with it?
- StarsSilvano TranquilliDieter LaserPeter FrickeThe blue palace.
- DirectorRainer ErlerStarsHorst FrankDieter LaserJürgen ProchnowYears ago, three spacecraft were launched to Jupiter. Only one, Ganymede II, survived the expedition, but lost two members of its crew. There has been no contact with Earth for 900 days. When the spaceship makes an emergency landing on the Mexican coast 1585 days after its launch, the adventure of marching through the desert under a blazing sun only begins for the five men. Only the weakest of the space travelers reaches an inhabited village.
- StarsGastone MoschinSanto VersaceMario BrusaBased on 1925 Bulgakov's The Fatal Eggs, a zoologist finds a way to accelerate embryo growth in chicken eggs to help feed the population after the war. An unfortunate logistical accident makes the country swarmed with dangerous reptiles.
- StarsHenny MoanMarit ØstbyeTrini LundThe spaceship Marco Polo is returning from a mission at the newly discovered planet Rossum. While the five members of the crew are in deep sleep a mysterious shape is captured on one of the surveillance monitors. Awakened the crew soon discover that one of their number has been killed, and something is living among them in the shape of a crewmate. But who is it??
- CreatorYoshiyuki TominoHajime YatateStarsHirotaka SuzuokiTôru FuruyaToshio FurukawaIn the war between the Earth Federation and Zeon, a young and inexperienced crew find themselves on a new spaceship. Their best hope of making it through the conflict is the Gundam, a giant humanoid robot, and its gifted teenage pilot.
- StarsKai RemlovAnne Marie OttersenLena BergqvistScientist Roland Marco believes that sun symbols might change human behavior and he wears an old ring with such a symbol. Is this why terrible things start happening all around him?
- CreatorShôji KawamoriKen'ichi MatsuzakiStarsArihiro HaseMari IijimaVic MignognaAn alien spaceship crash lands on Earth and her secrets lead to a desperate war against an alien enemy sent to retrieve the ship.
- StarsShow HayamiRun SasakiKumiko TakizawaA young dimension-hopping fighter pilot lands in a warring amalgamate world, the fate of which is in his hands.
- CreatorOta HofmanJindrich PolákStarsJosef BláhaJosef DvorákDagmar PatrasováIt's the year 2484 and the Earth is threatened by a rogue comet which could fatally change its orbit. The solution is surprising - Adam Bernau, the greatest genius of 20th century developed 500 years ago an ingenious formula for easy transporting of continents and even worlds. Unfortunately, he made this discovery at the age of 11 and the exercise book containing it was destroyed in the fire. But this is not a challenge to Academic Filip who decides to send an expedition back in time to retrieve the precious exercise book from the fire. But everything is not so simple as it seems...
- DirectorRichard HobertStarsHans MosessonBergljót ArnadóttirVictoria Möllerström-HjelmTwo construction workers are offered an unusual contract. Great pay, but they don't know where they're going or what they are supposed to build. They are brought to a place with 12 months of summer.
- DirectorRainer ErlerStarsRosemary BarrRick HearderGeorge HowellA married couple of genetic engineering researchers work on GM bacteria. When they get into a crisis in their marriage, they carry out their conflict in their work. Their research becomes increasingly competitive and even irresponsible, resulting in a very bizarre bacterium being set free: It is an organism that converts cellulose into sugar (hence the title), marking the beginning of a cultural (tongue-in-cheek) apocalypse.
- CreatorKazunori ItôYutaka IzubuchiMamoru OshiiStarsMîna TominagaToshio FurukawaMichihiro IkemizuThe misadventures of a police robot pilot squad and its support crew in a futuristic Tokyo.
- StarsSven-Bertil TaubeHarriet AnderssonLars HumbleA physician and researcher in geriatric gets a call from a former colleague who runs his own health clinic. He asks for professional help. It turns out that he has started developing a method to slow the aging process, but suffered problems.
- DirectorOlli SoinioStarsMasaaki HashimotoEeva-Maija HaukinenHenna HolmaThere has been a catastrophe in Finland. Military dictatorship and resource shortages. A family flees to secluded countryside to start a new life in the natural economy. A strange neighbor helps acquire important commodities. Society worsens. The escape continues.