There is a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea movie directed by Irwin Allen.

Flash Gordon was also a movie. Queen did the music.

Pretty good list in that it didn't do anything too absurd. I agree with John that the new Battlestar Galactica getting #2 is a huge happy shock. Hopefully it'll get a bigger audience now that it's out on DVD.

If I remember right, a Babylon 5 movie almost got off the ground 1 or 2 years ago but fell apart at the last minute. And it *is* the best show ever made.

What happened to the Flightplan/Corpse Bride/Roll bounce reviews?

There have been three Doctor Who movies - Two in the sixties with Peter Cushing as the doctor and one in the nineties with Paul McGann

IGN Film Force interviewed Billy West:

"IGNFF: And what about the rumors of new Futurama adventures on the horizon?

WEST: Well, they're more than rumors. I was talked to. The first bulletin that I got is that they were in talks with Fox because Fox was very, very happy with the way the DVDs were selling. (Executive Producer) David Cohen told me they were in talks with Fox and that things were looking great, and that their idea was to make a Futurama movie to DVD, and then maybe release a second one. Then I heard that it was decided to do that."

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/652/652770p1.html

I too was shocked (in a happy way) to see the new Battlestar Galactica on the list.

I was shocked (in an unhappy way) to see some of the flukes on the list, e.g. Voyager appear so high and DS9 not show up. While I absolutely agree with Babylon 5's high placement (actually it's better than Star Trek: The Next Generation in my opinion), I'm in the minority that loved both DS9 and Babylon 5.

No list can be perfect, but it does seem odd labeling a few of these as sci-fi (e.g. Batman). One particularly notable absence is Farscape (which I like, though to be honest I've probably enjoyed Firefly more).

As for making movies out of these... Thinking on it, I just can't remember that many TV-shows-to-movies that actually turned out that well.

Some TV shows just don't work as movies, no matter how good they were as shows (e.g. The Twilight Zone), others feel too much like two and half hour episodes (e.g. The X-Files), and others just miss the point entirely and are terrible (e.g. Lost in Space).

Yes, there are some notable exceptions. The original series Star Trek movies were (with the exception of Star Trek V) all solid to excellent. I'm hoping (and pretty sure) that Serenity will be another shining example. But it seems like a movie being made into a TV show is a more natural progression.

I think it has to do with TV shows being designed to fit a long-running multiple episode format. Most shows are either fairly episodic and self-contained, in which case the movie tends to feel too much like just another episode and not epic enough, or very arc-driven and connected, in which case a movie feels to short and either too disconnected from the series that spawned it (because of accessibility concerns) or too dependant on the series that spawned it (and therefore inaccessible for uninitiated viewers).

Okay to summarize, I guess what I'm saying is that it's much easier to hope for a good TV-to-film movie than to actually pull one off. Serenity will hopefully act as a good example (I so hope it will do well enough to have a sequel or two) for future filmmakers to follow.

By the way, are any of this season's new network sci-fi shows any good?

queen did the soundtrack for a flash gordon movie?

was it any good?

as far as i am concerned, freddy mercury and brian mays were gods, i am suprised I did not know about this.

and i wanted to say, this is the best audio edition in recent memory.

First of all I don't think your wrong about about Halo.. I just don't think you right!!

and all that BattleStar and DS shit is all crappy!!

Good list tho :)

No big surprises on that list - except for the exclusion of DS9. Funny how TOS is trashed alot these days in favour of TNG - especially since the TNG movies were HORRID! - except for First Contact.

BTW if you ever dug The Prisoner you should like Nowhere Man. Great show and Bruce ruled in it! It is coming out on DVD later this year -unless you happen to already have a disenfranchised version of it.

Oh one more - A Time Tunnel movie would rule!

Also, regarding the Batman thing, there was a feature film made in 1966 based on the Batman tv series. I do agree with Doug though that there definitely should be a new version made.

Where was Hitchhiker's Guide on that list? Only 6 episodes long, but since they pretty much just used the scripts for the radio series they were all pure genius.

Of course it's academic because it's already been made into a movie but surely it deserves to be in the top 50.

"Space 1999" would be a welcome addition to the movie horizon. Great premise, great actors (Martin Landau, Barbara Bain) and a lot more possibilities than most things on the list.

"Babylon 5"!? Hmm, if we include this in the mix we might as well do "Space: Above and Beyond" as well.

And lastly, The "A-Team" is a possibility if they went the way of uber serious military/tactical team...