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   TV Series One scientist vs 52 climate change scepticsSeptember 2010
Recorded just a few weeks before his death, the late Stephen Schneider faces a room full of climate change sceptics in tonight's special episode of Insight on SBS One.  FlashForwardJanuary 2010
Without warning, almost the entire population of Earth blacks out for two minutes. Helicopters fall from the sky, patients in surgery bleed to death and people who were swimming drown.  Royal Space Force: The Wings of HonneamiseNovember 2008
The Wings of Honneamise is the story of the struggle to put the first man into space, set on an alternative Earth with similar but different history and technology. This classic anime was originally released in Japan in 1987 by Gainax, the Japanese studio now famous for the series Neon Genesis Evangelion.  Torchwood (Series 1, Part 2)November 2008
The BBC's celebrated capacity to pull entertaining rabbits out of unprepossessing hats has led the British broadcaster on some peculiar enterprises over the decades, but I'll wager there have been few quite so curious as Torchwood, the Doctor Who spin-off series screened last year on Channel 10.  Cosmos: A Personal VoyageJuly 2008
The groundbreaking TV series from 1980 documents what we have learned about the universe in which we live. Astronomer Carl Sagan fronts the show and pushes the underlying message that knowledge uncovered by science has bestowed upon us a great responsibility.  Doctor Who, The BeginningApril 2007
Whether you're a committed fan or, like this reviewer, an occasional but curious dipper-in, you can't help admiring the BBC's unflinching devotion to committing the whole of the good doctor's adventures to DVD.  Red Dwarf, Series 8September 2006
Series 8 of Red Dwarf, recorded in 1998, is the final series of the iconic British science fiction comedy.  Space Odyssey: Voyage to the PlanetsFebruary 2006
For anyone who missed the BBC's dramatised three-hour tour of our solar system when it was screened by the ABC earlier this year, the price of this DVD is a modest levy indeed for a small slice of television history. The two-part presentation travels with the crew of the Pegasus to Venus and Mars, through the Sun's outer atmosphere and the asteroid belt to the gas giants and beyond.  Blake's 7, Series 3November 2005
Blake's 7 was being made as Ridley Scott was frightening the pants off filmgoers with Alien. Scott's Nostromo, flown with weary disregard by Dallas, Ripley and the others, looked plausibly futuristic, battered but solid - as you'd expect an interstellar ore-refining vessel to look. Blake's Liberator, flown by Avon, Cally, Tarrant, Dayna and Vila is bright, clean and loaded with high-tech widgets you'd expect from a ship that's the envy of the cosmos. It's also an early '80s example of BBC set construction and isn't at all convincing. 
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