52 Episodes
- Introduction
- A Trip to the Moon - France - Origins of SciFi, effects, Verne, Melies, the first films
- A Message From Mars - UK - Silent film, British SciFi, fun!
- The Master Mystery - US - Houdini, Serials, ROBOT!!!!
- Dr. Jykll and Mr. Hyde - US - Adaptation, Continuity and re-makes, Stephenson
- Metropolis - Germany - Set design, lasting influence, political SF, Lang
- Frankenstein - US - Universal Monsters, the continuity of Frankenstein Frankenstein NOT EQUAL The Monster.
- The Phantom Empire - US - Will Rogers (or Roy Rodgers?), SciFi and music, Serials, silliness
- Buck Rogers - US - Influence of Rogers, comic strips, early effects
- The Mechanical Monsters - US - SUPERMAN!!! Comics and Shorts, cartoons, robots
- Aerograd – Russia - War and SciFi, Sovietism, cinematography
- Rocketship X-M - US - Bad, bad, bad. 1950s SciFi
- The Thing from Another World - US - Howard Hawks, Communist scare, re-makes that are better than the original
- Mars and Beyond - US - Documentary, Man and Space, Disney, Von Braun
- Robot Monster - US - Terribly B-Flicks, robots, weak storytelling, dumb costumes
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - US - Steampunk, great singing, the one guy with the chin.
- Duck Dodgers - US - Warner Bros. cartoons, scifi comedy, cartoons, silliness
- Forbidden Planet - US - Great SF of the 1950s, Star Trek inspiration, Leslie Nielsen
- The Day the Sky Exploded - Italian - Italian SF, Armegeddon
- Plan 9 from Outer Space - US - Ed Wood, Tor Johnson, bad movies with great impact, Creature Features
- Mothra - Japan - Tiny Singing Twins!
- La Jetee - short film, still images, time-travel, influence
- Dr. Who and the Daleks - Dr. Who, British SF, Peter Cushing
- 2001: A Space Odyssey - Weird ending, art house SciFi, unintelligible endings
- Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB - Short films, student films, computers
- Colossus: The Forbin Project - Computers, war, hubris, Cold War
- Westworld - early computer graphics, neat stories, Brolin, are they re-making this?
- Space is the Place - Sun Ra, artsy SciFi, Oakland, AfroFuturism
- A Clockwork Orange - Rough SF
- Star Wars - The explosion of the last 40 years, Jedis, fandom
- Space Battleship Yamoto - Anime, StarBalzers
- Hardware Wars - Fan Films, short films, comedy
- Time after Time - Time Travel, HG Wells, ACTING!
- Airplane II: The Sequel - Comedy, ZAZ (but also not), Space Shuttle
- Dune - BEST DAMN MOVIE EVER! Art Direction, David Lynch
- They Live - A fight scene
- Morning Patrol - Greek, post-apocolyptic, avant garde, festival SF
- The Rocketeer - Dieselpunk, Jennifer COnnely, movie poster, Jennifer Connely
- Six String Samurai - Slamdance, rock 'n Roll, Soviet invasion
- The Matrix - Bullettime, graphics, Plato's Cave
- The Incredibles - Pixar, comics
- Robot Stories - Festival scifi, Greg Pak, anthology film as magazine analog
- The Substitute - Danish film, Paprika Steen, dark and funny, Alien
- V for Vendetta - anti-authoritarianism, Alan Moore, films as good as the source in a different way
- Avatar - most money ever, stolen from LeGuin
- Iron Sky - Finland, satire, Chaplin scene, low budget
- Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog - internet as distribution platform, Whedonesque whedonism, NPH, superhero stories, shorts
- Guardians of the Galaxy - Marvel, SciFi comics
- Sorry About Tomorrow - Short, 48 hour films, well-directed, time travel
- Hyperfutura - avant garde, forms of interaction with narrative, weirdness
- Mad Max – Fury Road - empowerment, action, Mad Max universe