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Sci-Fi · 1970s

The 1970s account for 16 of the 268 sci-fi shows here, and 17 opening sequences.

ABC and CBS carry four each.

One rebuilt its titles mid-run: Space: 1999, with two sequences.

16 shows17 sequences

Still from the opening titles of The Six Million Dollar Man1 sequence

The Six Million Dollar Man

1973–1978ABCSci-Fi

A crash, a countdown and the promise that they can rebuild him — narration that entered the language more thoroughly than the show did.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Incredible Hulk1 sequence

The Incredible Hulk

1977–1982CBSSci-Fi

A narrated origin, a green transformation, and a piano coda so sad it became the show's real signature — though that plays over the closing credits, not these.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Space: 19992 sequences

Space: 1999

1975–1977ITVSci-Fi

The most confident opening Gerry Anderson ever made: a burst of brass, then a rapid-fire montage of clips from the episode you are about to watch, so no two broadcasts were identical.

  • Season 1
  • Season 2
Still from the opening titles of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century1 sequence

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

1979–1981NBCSci-Fi

A disco-scored space opera that opens with a shuttle, a starfield and absolutely no embarrassment about either.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Land of the Lost1 sequence

Land of the Lost

1974–1976NBCSci-Fi

A raft over a waterfall into a closed pocket universe, written by Dorothy Fontana and David Gerrold for Saturday mornings.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Blake's 71 sequence

Blake's 7

1978–1981BBC OneSci-Fi

BBC electronic music and a rotating logo, rebuilt each series as the crew was killed off — which on this show happened often enough to matter.

  • Seasons 1–4
Still from the opening titles of The Bionic Woman1 sequence

The Bionic Woman

1976–1978ABC / NBCSci-Fi

The Six Million Dollar Man's spinoff, with the same narrated-reconstruction structure and a better theme.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of UFO1 sequence

UFO

1970–1971ITVSci-Fi

Anderson's first live-action series, set in a 1980 that never arrived, with purple wigs and a Barry Gray theme.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Wonder Woman1 sequence

Wonder Woman

1975–1979ABC / CBSSci-Fi

An animated comic-book opening with a disco theme that names the character and tells her what to do, repeatedly.

  • Season 2
Still from the opening titles of Battlestar Galactica (1978)1 sequence

Battlestar Galactica (1978)

1978–1979ABCSci-Fi

Stu Phillips's fanfare over Colonial Vipers and a narrated prologue about a lost tribe of humanity — the version the 2004 series would later strip of every ounce of that grandeur.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Sapphire & Steel1 sequence

Sapphire & Steel

1979–1982ITVSci-Fi

Two operatives who are not people, sent to repair breaks in time, explained to the audience only by a narrated list of elements.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Tomorrow People1 sequence

The Tomorrow People

1973–1979ITVSci-Fi

Children evolving telepathy in a Thames Television series remade twice since.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Doomwatch1 sequence

Doomwatch

1970–1972BBC OneSci-Fi

A government department investigating the science that is about to go wrong, from two Doctor Who writers.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Survivors1 sequence

Survivors

1975–1977BBC OneSci-Fi

Terry Nation's plague series, in which the titles kill the world in forty seconds using nothing but a broken test tube and a series of passport stamps.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Amazing Spider-Man1 sequence

The Amazing Spider-Man

1977–1979CBSSci-Fi

CBS's live-action Spider-Man, dropped in part because the network did not want to be known for comic books.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Logan's Run1 sequence

Logan's Run

1977–1978CBSSci-Fi

The film continued as a series, running fourteen episodes before CBS stopped it.

  • Season 1