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Ah the 70's. The age of bell bottom pants, afro hairdos and disco. What else do we remember about the 70's? What about those great classic television shows? How we long to share with the next generation when those great Marvel Comics of our youth first came to life. Some of the most memorable Science fiction shows first aired in the 1970's. Film makers and television writers still struggle to top some of these classics with their modern special effects remakes for the big screen and modern spins on the originals. Radioactive superhero's and terrifying alien creations came to life for the delight and horror of viewers of all ages. The Incredible Hulk, The Amazing Spiderman and Wonder Woman are still some of the favorite characters children love to imitate today. The more high tech shows like Logan's Run, Buck Rodgers and Battlestar Gallactica echoed humanities hopes and dreams of advanced societies as well as their fears and anxieties about the ever changing, technological world.

Based on renown comic book writer Stan Lee's visions, Superhero's like the Incredible Hulk and the Amazing Spiderman pioneered the forefront of today's science fiction television genre. With the cold war between international superpowers still on the forefront of American mainstream society, radiation and its affects on humans was one of the topics which struck fear into the hearts of every patriotic American. These and other superhero's reflected the topic in their unique way. Bruce Bannister becoming irradiated during a science experiment and bringing life to the ultimate super ego, The Incredible Hulk and Peter Parker, a kid who was attacked by governmental research spiders inundated with radio active waste, bringing out his other side in the form of an all American hero who used his new superpowers to seek truth and justice. Stan lee was truly a pioneer of the Science fiction genre.

At a time when real scientists were experimenting with the effects of radiation, chryotechnics, robotics and the existence of extra terrestrial life, science fiction brought to the forefront some of the less popular themes of "what if?". Battlestar Gallactica was one of the shows with which writers sought to bring out the best and the worst of human nature. Viewed by some critics as a take off from the classic movie Star Wars, humans of the future were relegated to a few spaceships in their nomad search for their home planet earth. Battling super futuristic robots and evil humans bent on their destruction,

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