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The Greatest American Hero

1981–1983ABCSci-Fi

A schoolteacher handed a flying suit by aliens who lost the instruction manual in the first episode and never found it.

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The opening titles

Season 1

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Still from the opening titles of Star Trek: The Next Generation3 sequences

Star Trek: The Next Generation

1987–1994SyndicationSci-Fi

The Enterprise-D passing the camera at warp while Patrick Stewart reads the mission statement. Stately, slow and completely confident — it takes almost a minute and a half before anything happens, and it never once feels the need to hurry.

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Still from the opening titles of Quantum Leap2 sequences

Quantum Leap

1989–1993NBCSci-Fi

Narration explaining a premise too complicated to infer, over a theme by Mike Post — the anthology format's problem solved in sixty seconds every week.

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Still from the opening titles of War of the Worlds1 sequence

War of the Worlds

1988–1990SyndicationSci-Fi

A sequel to the 1953 film in which the aliens were never defeated, only dormant.

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Still from the opening titles of The Twilight Zone (1985)1 sequence

The Twilight Zone (1985)

1985–1989CBSSci-Fi

The first revival, with the Grateful Dead re-recording Marius Constant's motif — the middle of three attempts at the same idea, all of which are now in this catalogue.

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Still from the opening titles of Alien Nation1 sequence

Alien Nation

1989–1990FoxSci-Fi

The film continued as a series, with a buddy-cop format used to work through immigration and prejudice week by week.

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Still from the opening titles of Amazing Stories1 sequence

Amazing Stories

1985–1987NBCSci-Fi

John Williams scoring an animated history of storytelling — cave paintings to campfires to television — for Spielberg's anthology.

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