Your earliest sci-fi memory...

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by Harpo

TV: Doctor Who, I had a toy dalek that I was scared of. The earliest episode I remeber actually watching (rather than seeing as a repeat later on) was a Patrick Troughton one involving life sized toy soldiers, but I forget the title.

The title of that one was The Mind Robber, Harpo. It's available on DVD now, should you want to give it another viewing.

[Dave]

Originally Posted by pyanfaruk

It's a very good way of finding someone's approximate age, by the way: just ask them the name of the earliest Gerry Anderson series they remember.

STINGRAY

But Thunderbirds was the best. I even saw the films at the cinema!

[carrie221]

Well I am not sure what the earliest would be but I remember in 1997 when the 20 year anniversary of Star Wars came to the theaters.

I can remember watching the opening scene for "A New Hope" and just being in awe of the movie

[chrispenycate]

Kemlo and the space cadets; a group of children who could breath vacuum because their mothers had birthed them therein.
I must have been about seven, so we hadn't yet aquired a T.V., and I was already a fast reader, so the local library children's section saw a lot of me.

[mosaix]

Dan Dare in the Eagle. I was six.

Edit: That would be 1952.

[jackokent]

Battlestar galactica - I remember the film coming out in the cinema and thinking it was brilliant. It was around 1978.

[steve12553]

Originally Posted by Nesacat

It's more fantasy than sci-fi really. It's Ray Bradbury's Fog Horn. I read it when very little in the Reader's Digest. The story stuck in my head although I'd forgotten both the title and the name of the author. I'd tried to find it off and on over the years with no success until just a couple of years ago. I was in Pay Less Books and picked up a book with an illustration of a lighthouse and this beast. It was the right tale. It was the most amazing feeling.

Loner is right. Sometimes a tale just creeps under your skin and stays there even if you first read it years and years ago.

Some time in the fifties, Ray Harryhausen did the special effects for a movie based on the Fog Horn ( Which I think I referred to as the Lighthouse mistakenly in another thread. And you were there and Toto and.....) called The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. If you've never seen it and appreceated the original King Kong, It's well worth the effort.

[Loner]

Originally Posted by Parson

My earliest Sci-fi memory would be a book by Andre Norton, which I do not even remember the title of. It was a story a young herder from the planet Norden, who was a herder. He had been transplanted into another star system where immigrants were only allowed to the main planet (?) if they had a job. He got a job at a pet store but soon pets who had been inhanced to the point that they were no longer pets are sent there. He finds he can speak with them telepathically. And so on. If anyone recognized this and can tell me the name of the book I would appreciate it a lot.

Wait, was he a herder? Could be Andre Norton's Beastmaster...it has a character called Storm who becomes a rancher on frontier planet and has telepathic rapport with a team of animals.

Could be the one. Maybe. She wrote so many books and I definitely haven't read them all.

*after Googling Andre Norton and planet Norden I think it's Catseye you read!*

[Cloud]

I guess the earliest one I can identify (there might have random books or stories before) is watching Star Trek--yes, the original season of the original show, 40 years ago now--on my little black and white tv in my room. Captain Kirk was my first crush!

[Loner]

Originally Posted by Cloud

Captain Kirk was my first crush!

Aw! But I wouldn't tell too many people ....

[nixie]

It would have to be Doctor Who

[Harpo]

Nixie, what's your earliest memory of Doctor Who?

[Nesacat]

Originally Posted by steve12553

Some time in the fifties, Ray Harryhausen did the special effects for a movie based on the Fog Horn ( Which I think I referred to as the Lighthouse mistakenly in another thread. And you were there and Toto and.....) called The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. If you've never seen it and appreceated the original King Kong, It's well worth the effort.

I have seen the original King Kong and for some reason like it the best of all although I will admit Jackson did a visually stunning job. It just didn't 'feel' the same as the original somehow. Shall keep as eye out for The Beast. Thank you steve.

[Rosemary]

Dr Who and then Star Trek...

[Thadlerian]

Mine... I don't know if anyone recognizes this, it would have been sort of cool to know what it was...

I think it was a film or a TV series, I hardly remember anything, but there was a spaceship landing on a planet with red sky and some bushy vegetation. And there were some scenes inside the ship, and then it exploded, which felt kinda sad... That's all.