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Looking for a similar to the TV Show Warehouse 13. for adults, anything similar would be great.
Thanks

I enjoyed Warehouse 13, also Fringe, Dr Who (although not the older versions), Sanctuary, Red Dwarf, Firefly and Torchwood for a few. There is another that I watched for quite a while called "Flash Forward".

I'm not even a TV owner but I don't live under a rock either.

I came across a one season show that I thought was terrific. The Lost Room. I think that it resembles Warehouse 13 but I've not seen Warehouse 13.

Anyway, The Lost Room was so good I bought it just to have it in my ome :-)

Warehouse 13 has a fun/whimsical side to it. I think Eureka is similar and they've crossed characters over to each other's shows a few times. The Dresden files was fun too. But if you like it in space, I would recommend Firefly and Farscape

Deana wrote: "Warehouse 13 has a fun/whimsical side to it. I think Eureka is similar and they've crossed characters over to each other's shows a few times. The Dresden files was fun too. But if you like it in sp..."

Firefly is THE BEST. Every time I watch the episodes again, or the swan song movie, it amazes me how really great it is with characterization, humor, and pathos. A great blend of classic Western, with futuristic Eastern. What a ride - so sad when it ended prematurely after the first season. Of course when Fox execs decided to show the episodes out of order (#3 first) it really spoiled things. Their thought was the series should open in the middle of things, with stuff blowing up and such. Even I, who was looking forward to its premier, was confused, thinking I'd missed the first episode (and in truth had). After that, it was difficult to convince anyone else to watch it until it was too late and the show had already been canceled. What a shame.

I also love Firefly and we're on our second viewing. I juat started Farscape which I am liking so far.

Farscape is the best. I just finished the full box set.

Jed wrote: "I'm not even a TV owner but I don't live under a rock either.

I came across a one season show that I thought was terrific. The Lost Room. I think that it resembles Warehouse 13 but I've not seen W..."

The Lost Room is a great show, I discovered it when I found a DVD set at a supermarket of all things. Another show you might like is Haven, about a small town where strange things happen, and the FBI agent who decides to stay.
My own preferences are for shows like Dead Like Me, Pushing Daisies, Tru Calling, and Wonderfalls. Not much like the previous lists but I highly recommend them.

It's a bit of a stretch but have you checked out "Lost Girl". It's just starting it's second season and has that eliment of the fantastic with a good underpining of human conflict and emotion.

Deana wrote: "Warehouse 13 has a fun/whimsical side to it. I think Eureka is similar and they've crossed characters over to each other's shows a few times. The Dresden files was fun too. But if you like it in sp..."

I have heard of Farscape before, I will have to check it out.

Dov wrote: "Looking for a similar to the TV Show Warehouse 13. for adults, anything similar would be great.
Thanks"

You should check out Haven and like a few others said Eureka, Fringe and they premiered one last season called Alphas. Worth a look see!

If you want to go old school you can try Friday the 13th The Series. It ran from 1987-1990. Cursed objects and freaky situations. I used to love how big her hair could get.

Oh yeah! I enjoyed Friday the 13th Series! That's quite similar to Warehouse 13. It was up there with Brimstone for me.

Deana wrote: "Oh yeah! I enjoyed Friday the 13th Series! That's quite similar to Warehouse 13. It was up there with Brimstone for me."

Loved Brimstone. And Prey, before it got ruined by whoever it was that took it over. So many good series killed too soon. Have you seen or heard of Strange Luck? When they killed that was when I stopped watching TV.

Brimstone was great, the actors were perfect for that dark series. Strange Luck - wasn't that with D.B. Sweeney some time back? It was a very engaging series. Never got to watch Prey, I think it came on when something else I watched was on...

Sadly, they all went by the wayside. Moonlight was pretty good too (vampire) but it only lasted one season I think. Guess reality TV is easier to produce, but I just can't watch it. No interest.

I just thought of a great paranormal searies. Forever Knight (might have been night) Nick Knight is 800 year old vampire that longs to atone for his sins and become mortal again so he becomea a city of Toronto Homicide detective. The first seasons were brillant than a US company got involved and it tanked. The final episode sucked. Still well worth checking out.

Does anybody remember a PTEN series, (ran in a package that included Babylon 5,) called "Time Traxx"? I remember this as being a rather clever little show that was very reminiscent of a old DC comic feature called "Star Hawkins", about a futuristic detective that had a robot assistant that had a crush on him. This detective was ALSO from the future, but traveled through time searching for time-surfing criminals with a holographic assistant that seemed fond of him.

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I think I remember Time Trax. He actually couldn't travel in time in his own dimention but was in a parellel one that was at a eariler point in the time line. Is that the one? If it is I agree it was a fun show.

Stephen wrote: "I think I remember Time Trax. He actually couldn't travel in time in his own dimention but was in a parellel one that was at a eariler point in the time line. Is that the one? If it is I agree it w..."

Yes, a lot of what was being inspired by ST:TNG back then was good. Remember "Space: Above and Beyond"? THAT had the possibility of being a decent franchise from what I remember of it. It was like the crew from "Aliens" had all been brought back to life and sent out on various assignments similar to their mission to the brood planet. If I'm not mistaken, "Babylon 5", which, in my opinion, walked all over EVERYTHING Trek with gravity boots, played on all three major UHF stations in my city, it was sought after so vehemently. I wonder why Strasczinsky never sued Paramount over their OBVIOUS plagiarism of it with "DS9", (which of course stood for "_D_uplicate _S_trasczinsky _9_ weeks later"!) :-D

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Marc wrote: Loved Brimstone. And Prey, before it got ruined by whoever it..."

Oh yeah! Prey! How could I have forgotten that one! That was the advanced, or next humans coming up. I remember that they kill their first two children and allow the third one to live. I don't remember how that all ended though.

I don't quite remember Strange Luck...just that he survived a plane crash as a kid and ever since then he has some kind of bad luck that ends well...that's about it.

My favorite was Earth 2...at leas the beginning of it. I think it started ending badly as well. Don't quite remember.

B5 was brillant. By far my favorite spaced based SF ever. Straczynsky is fantastic. Another one I liked though it only did half a season was Space Rangers it was cancled because it was suposidly too violent. Read realistic for violent about life as a law enforcer on a frontear. Andromida started well then they canned Wolf and it tanked.

Stephen wrote: "B5 was brillant. By far my favorite spaced based SF ever. Straczynsky is fantastic. Another one I liked though it only did half a season was Space Rangers it was cancled because it was suposidly to..."

Space Rangers was WEIRD!! I noted at least three major influences from other franchises in it: The Trek TOS movies, specifically the blond neo-Vulcan that looked JUST like Robin Curtis' Lt. Saavik; "Dune", what with Linda Hunt's presence in the cast, (that woman turns up EVERYWHERE, doesn't she??) and there was a free-booting quality to it as well, a la "Star Wars". I think perhaps it didn't succeed because it couldn't really find a focus for the storylines....that, and the fact that CBS wasn't exactly sci-fi central....

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Personally I liked the verity that happened in Space Rangers. Frontiers attract misfits and pose widely ranging challenges. One of the thing I feel is played out with treck is the whole ship of the line theme. Real exploration is performed by some guy looking for wealth with broken down equipment and a shoestring budget. It’s only after the real heavy lifting has been done that the ship of the line types show up to take the wealth and impose their version of order.

Stephen wrote: "Personally I liked the verity that happened in Space Rangers. Frontiers attract misfits and pose widely ranging challenges. One of the thing I feel is played out with treck is the whole ship of the..."

What killed Trek is that it got too classically decadent! It essentially became "Let's see how wimpy Picard can make Federation politics this week"....What much lighter-complected woman Geordi can put the moves on, what alien female Riker can get THIS CLOSE to....Star Trek:TNG's Starfleet was an interstellar organization that was somehow spayed between Kirk and Janeway.

And who wrote that theme for "Enterprise"?? That had to be THE WORST THEME SONG <> for a hour-long drama, sci-fi or otherwise! The nadir of a dying franchise!

No wonder B5 kicked it's a**!!

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Funny, one of the few things I liked about Enterprise was the theam song but to each their own. The down fall of Enterprise IMOP was insted of focusing on mans first excersuions into space they tryed to do the heroic humans in space yet again. And they brock the logic of their own cannon. Humans didn't encounter the frengie or borg until Picards time. They should have stuck with making first contacts with the species that were in the original searies and cracked a book on basic science. Of course they under untilised the woman that played Yoishie. So much potencial waisted.

Stephen wrote: "Funny, one of the few things I liked about Enterprise was the theam song but to each their own. The down fall of Enterprise IMOP was insted of focusing on mans first excersuions into space they try..."

To me, one of the few things all the other Treks had going for them were excellent (wordless) theme music and great opening graphics. "Enterprise" changed all that, with what [[I]] thought was a saccharine, pretentious jingle that would have made a die-hard folkie wince! I remember being put in mind of that sequel to "Space Oddity" by Camper Van Beethoven....YUCK!

By the time "Enterprise" premiered, Trek had been turned into a tired out rote product that Paramount was squeezing every penny it could from it. They put no effort into their plots, their story concepts, they never followed up on old races they had created long ago in TOS, like the Medusans, or the hostile symbiont in the first year episode "Conspiracy" of TNG that killed Cmndr. Remmick. Why did just about every subsequent alien race introduced on TNG have to look like some variation on Bajorans? With NO imagination whatsoever applied to their cultures or ecologies.....??

Considering how much money it had to make for Paramount and the talent that it had to attract, there was no excuse for Trek to be so moribund a property as it became....

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I agree Stephen. Also the PC view of everything next generation on added to its demise. The original treck took chances and had somthing to say. Agree or disagree it made statments for its time. TNGR was so antiseptic it hurt. But Oh well no use dwelling on the negitive. What do you think of Sancuary?

Well all, I love all the Trek series, all the movies, the comics and the 700+ books (21 released in 2010). The ST universe is alive and well for me.

I personally think the current SFF TV line up is quite sterile. The only ones I really like are the UK Being Human, Supernatural and I think Sanctuary. I watch series as they come out on DVD, all at once which gives a different experience than waiting a week or more for an episode interrupted with commercials. Of these I have enjoyed Supernatural the most. Some I have not seen yet like Fringe, Primeval, Outcasts, Merlin, Caprica, the new V...

Star Gate has not been mentioned yet. I have really enjoyed all of the incarnations.

Warehouse 13 is watchable, but I don't like it enough to buy it. I don't like the characters—same with Haven.

Stephen wrote: "I agree Stephen. Also the PC view of everything next generation on added to its demise. The original treck took chances and had somthing to say. Agree or disagree it made statments for its time. TN..."

You know, I've never seen it. If it isn't on free TV, I don't see it! (g)

There's very little on cable to make me add it to the list of expenses I'm ALREADY stretched to afford! The best sci-fi seems to show up on regular TV anyway, when it DOES show up....

And boy, are you ever right about PC killing Trek!! If anything could be written on Trek's tombstone, "Murdered By Its Own Blandness" would be a perfect epitaph!

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I agree Stephen. By the by Kernos, I respect your love of Treck it's all different strokes for different folks. I'm sure there are shows I love you would hate. Stephen and Stephen (funny that eay,)and no we are not the same person just to be clear, are just kicking the can about an area of mutual agreement. Steping away from Treck for a moment Does anyone remember the short lived searies the Dresden Files inspired by the works of Jim Butcher. Now there was a show with potencial that was sadly killed by studio politics. Still in all the books are there for all to enjoy.

Oh Yes, I mention Dresden Files. It WAS very sadly killed off. I completely forgot, yet again, another SciFi Show I liked mentioned above---Andromeda!! I loved that show! But it was getting weak at the end as well.

Oh yeah... Enterprise. I think they started the Trek's Waaaayyyy too soon. They should have waited. I thought I didn't like Enterprise but my Hubby began watching them again, six years later, and they actually were pretty darn good. It just that at the time, we were all Trekked-Out!

I watched a few seasons of Primeval--they really like refreshing their characters don't they? But Torchwood was the best.

I couldn't get into BattleStar--took dark, but I was really enjoying Caprica and they cancelled it. I'm glad they gave it a decent ending tho.

I've heard of Outcasts and Merlin and Haven...just haven't looked into those yet. I'm currently waiting for Once Upon A Time.

I just stumbled across the end of an episode of a searies that seems to be based on the River World books. I have no idea of how good it is but it looks like it has potencial.

Kernos wrote: "Well all, I love all the Trek series, all the movies, the comics and the 700+ books (21 released in 2010). The ST universe is alive and well for me.

I personally think the current SFF TV line up ..."

You've listed most of the shows that are clogging up my DVR. Supernatural is my favorite. The tie-in novels for the show are pretty good and usually run concurrent with season that is showing. I tried watching Outcasts but blew it off after a few eps. the rest you listed are pretty good.

Stephen wrote: "I just stumbled across the end of an episode of a searies that seems to be based on the River World books. I have no idea of how good it is but it looks like it has potencial."

I think that was just a mini-series from SyFy.

I've seen the movie before but this had different actors.

The SyFy Riverworld 2010 miniseries was pretty awful:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1419950/

SyFy did an earlier version, 2003, of Riverworld with that haunter of SF C-movies which I don't remember seeing.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310952/

Both are available on DVD (amazon) if you're really interested. The book is better, though not a favorite of mine.

Thanks Kernos, that clears up my confusion. I've seen the 2003 version and must have cought the end of a episode from the 2010 version. The book is on the too read someday list when I get through the boxes in my living room waiting their turn and the reading for work, and often enjoying don't get me wrong, ones staring at me from the shelf. Anybody got a cloning facility handy?

The 2003 Riverworld just kind of ...ended, with no Ending. I think they were going to make the next one, but stopped. So, I was glad that the 2010 actually had some kind of ending. It was okay, but still left a lot of unanswered questions. I've never read the books, but I think that's where my questions would be answered :)

Once Upon A Time starts today. We'll see how that goes...