List of Sci Fi Channel (United States) programs
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The list represents television programs that have aired on the Sci Fi Channel in the U.S.:
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[edit] Fall 2006 Schedule
Times given are for Eastern Time. For other time zones make corrections listed below. Programs produced specifically for Sci Fi are in italic bold print.
| 7:00 PM | 7:30 PM | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday | Sci Fi Original Movie | Movie (second run) | ||||||
| Monday | Heroes (repeat of NBC show) | Threshold (second run) | Threshold (second run) | Threshold (second run) | ||||
| Tuesday | Dead Like Me (second run) | Dead Like Me (second run) | Eureka | Extreme Championship Wrestling | ||||
| Wednesday | Ghost Hunters | Ghost Hunters | Ghost Hunters | Sci Fi Investigates | ||||
| Thursday | Movie (second run) | Movie (second run) | ||||||
| Friday | Heroes (repeat of NBC show) | Doctor Who (repeat of BBC One show) | Battlestar Galactica | Battlestar Galactica | ||||
| Saturday | Movie (second run) | SCInema Saturday | ||||||
[edit] Sci Fi first-run programming
The following episodic programs first aired in their entirety or had specific seasons that first aired in the United States on Sci Fi.
| Series | Debut | End | Studio | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andromeda | 2004 | 2005 | Tribune Entertainment | Space opera | First four years was syndication-only. |
| Battlestar Galactica | December 2003 | Present | NBC Universal | Space opera | Started as a 2003 miniseries. |
| Black Scorpion | January 2001 | June 2001 | CHUM Limited | Super hero | Bought rights after series was filmed for syndication. |
| The Chronicle | July 14, 2001 | March 22, 2002 | Universal Television | Comedy | Former pilot for NBC. |
| Doctor Who | 2006 | Present | BBC Wales | Science Fiction/Comedy | |
| The Dresden Files | 2007 | Dark fantasy | |||
| Eureka | 2006 | Present | Comedy | ||
| Exposure | 2000 | 2002 | Various | Short film | Anthology series |
| Extreme Championship Wrestling | June 13, 2006 | Present | WWE | Professional wrestling | Non-science fiction related programming. |
| Farscape | March 19, 1999 | March 21, 2003 | Jim Henson Productions | Space opera | Canceled and brought back as a miniseries to resolve cliffhanger. |
| First Wave | 1999 | 2002 | CHUM Limited | Alien invasion | Picked up from Canada's Space |
| FTL News | 1993 | 1996 | Sci Fi Channel | Interstitials | 30-second fictionalized "news" clips from the future. |
| Ghost Hunters | October 6, 2004 | Present | Pilgrim Films | Reality television | |
| Good vs. Evil | |||||
| The Invisible Man | |||||
| Mad Mad House | 2004 | 2004 | |||
| Mission Genesis | aka Deepwater Black in other countries | ||||
| Mystery Science Theater 3000 | 2003 | Seasons 8-10 | |||
| The Outer Limits | 2001 | 2002 | |||
| Proof Positive | |||||
| Scare Tactics | 2003 | 2006 | |||
| The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne | |||||
| Sightings | A paranormal news show from the early 1990's. | ||||
| Sliders | June 6, 1998 | Feb. 4, 2000 | A FOX original series for the first three seasons, but the fourth and fifth seasons were produced for The Sci Fi channel | ||
| Stargate SG-1 | June 7, 2002 (Sci Fi) | Present | Showtime original series for first five seasons. | ||
| Stargate Atlantis | July 1, 2004 | Present | Spinoff series of Stargate SG-1 | ||
| STR8 BOLT | Time travel adventure. | ||||
| Tremors | 2003 | 2003 | Based on three previous movies. | ||
| Tripping the Rift | March 4, 2004 | October 19, 2005 | |||
| Welcome to Paradox | |||||
| Who Wants to be a Superhero? | July 27, 2006 |
[edit] Sci Fi second-run programming
The Sci Fi Channel has a long history of buying the rights to air second-run, or repeat, programming of series no longer in production. Some of these have included:
Still aired:
- All Souls (airing late 2006) [1]
- Amazing Stories
- Battlestar Galactica
- Beastmaster
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
- Cable in the Classroom
- Code Name: Eternity
- Dark Angel
- Dead Like Me (beginning July 18th, 2006 [2])
- Firefly
- Galactica 1980
- Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (beginning July 27th, 2006)
- Haunted (airing late 2006) [3]
- In Search of...
- The Incredible Hulk
- Jake 2.0 (airing late 2006) [4]
- John Doe
- Kindred: The Embraced (airing late 2006) [5]
- Knight Rider
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker
- Level 9 (airing late 2006) [6]
- Master Blasters
- Night Stalker
- The Outer Limits (1995-2002)
- Quantum Leap
- Ripley's Believe It or Not!
- Roar
- Roswell
- SciFi Declassified
- Special Unit 2 (airing late 2006) [7]
- Star Trek: Enterprise (airing January 8, 2007) [8])
- Tales from the Darkside (airing late 2006) [9]
- Threshold (airing late 2006) [10]
- Timecop
- The Twilight Zone
- Wolf Lake (airing late 2006) [11]
- The X-Files
No longer aired:
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents
- Alien Nation
- The Anti-Gravity Room
- Automan
- Babylon 5
- Back to the Future: The Animated Series
- Batman
- Beauty and the Beast
- Beyond Reality
- Bionic Six
- The Bionic Woman
- Brimstone
- Captain Scarlet
- Cleopatra 2525
- The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
- Crusade
- Dark Shadows
- Dark Skies
- Darkroom
- Defenders of the Earth
- Earth 2
- Earth: Final Conflict
- Extreme Ghostbusters
- Fantastic Voyage
- Fantasy Island
- Friday the 13th: The Series
- Future Cop
- Galaxy High
- GamePro TV
- Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
- Here Comes The Grump
- Highlander
- Highlander: The Raven
- The Hitchhiker
- The Immortal
- Inside Space
- The Invaders
- The Invisible Man
- Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Land of the Giants
- Land of the Lost
- Lazer Patrol
- LEXX
- Lost in Space
- The Magician
- Manimal
- Misfits of Science
- Monsters
- My Secret Identity
- Mysteries from Beyond the Other Dominion
- The New Adventures of Flash Gordon
- The New Adventures of Gigantor
- The New Dark Shadows
- Night Gallery
- Night Visions
- Now and Again
- The Odyssey
- Otherworld
- The Outer Limits
- Planet of the Apes
- Poltergeist: The Legacy
- The Powers of Matthew Star
- Prey
- The Prisoner
- Probe
- The Ray Bradbury Theater
- Return to the Planet of the Apes
- Ripley's Believe It or Not!
- RoboCop: The Series
- Robotech
- The Science Show
- SeaQuest DSV
- The Sentinel
- She-Wolf of London
- Something is Out There
- Space 1999
- Space: Above and Beyond
- The Six Million Dollar Man
- Starman
- Star Trek
- Star Trek: The Animated Series
- Star Wars: Droids
- Star Wars: Ewoks
- Stingray
- Strange World
- Swamp Thing
- Tales from the Crypt
- Tales from the Darkside
- TekWar
- Terrahawks
- The Time Tunnel
- Tracker
- Transformers
- UFO
- V
- The Visitor
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
- War of the Worlds
- Wonder Woman
Many of these used to be aired frequently on S.C.I.F.I. World, a daytime programming schedule started in July 17, 2000, that divided its marathons betwixt five days that concentrated on five particular themes:
- Superheroland
- Creatureland
- Intergalacticland
- Fantasticland
- Inhumanland
This format of airing marathons has continued in some form to this day.
[edit] Other second-run programming
- Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (no longer run)
- Doctor Who (2005 revival)
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (4 episodes aired for one night, all were related to serial killers)
- Heroes (TV series) (repurposed airing, Fridays at 7PM Eastern, of the NBC series; started airing Friday, September 29th, 2006)
- Surface
- Passions
[edit] Sci Fi Miniseries
- 5ive Days to Midnight
- Battlestar Galactica
- Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King
- Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars
- Firestarter: Rekindled
- Frank Herbert's Dune
- Frank Herbert's Children of Dune
- Legend of Earthsea
- Steven Spielberg Presents: Taken
- Steven Spielberg Presents: Nine Lives
- The Triangle
- The Lost Room - began airing Monday, December 11th, 2006 [12]
[edit] Sci Fi Pictures original films
[edit] Anime shown on Sci Fi
For most of the 1990s, Sci Fi showed anime movies, although they had to be edited in order to be shown on basic cable. The channel's longest running animation block, referred to as Saturday Anime, aired at the start of the channel's broadcast day each Saturday morning. Some of the anime the channel featured included:
- 8 Man After
- Adieu, Galaxy Express 999
- Akira (Streamline Pictures dub)
- Armitage III: Poly-Matrix
- Cashaan: Robot Hunter
- Demon City Shinjuku
- Dominion Tank Police
- E.Y.E.S. of Mars
- Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture
- Galaxy Express 999
- Gall Force
- Green Legend Ran
- Iria: Zeiram the Animation
- Lily C.A.T.
- Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight
- Project A-ko
- Record of Lodoss War (1990 OAV series, first three episodes only.)
- Robot Carnival
- Roujin Z
- Tenchi Muyo! in Love
- Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer
- Vampire Hunter D
[edit] See also
[edit] Sources
- Shows Still Aired on Sci Fi
- SciFi Pictures' Original Movies
- Sci Fi's Schedulebot
- The Inner Mind's Sci-Fi Channel schedule lists — dates as far back as 1994 and then some
