Following the success of '60s series like Doctor Who and Star Trek, the 1970s introduced ... two sci-fi TV shows that had strong heroic leads and absorbing conflicts set in space.

If you wanted to assemble a time capsule of late 1970s pop culture ... Larson's big-budget TV space opera tie it to a very specific time in history. The show's wholesome family values, robot ...

and broadcast internationally throughout the 1970s. The series followed the adventures of the crew of the galactic patrol ship Phoenix Five, "the most sophisticated craft in the Earth Space ...