Amazon.co.uk Review
The first series of
Farscape was a revitalising tonic for TV SF. An ambitious coproduction of Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Australia's Channel 9 and Hallmark Entertainment,
Farscape launched itself with a refreshing mix of CGI, prosthetics and state-of-the-art puppetry to take a visual leap beyond other genre shows. The witty scripts, too, peppered with double-entendres and pop-culture references, are light years away from the staid style of
Star Trek. Admittedly, the first season's basic premise is simply
Buck Rogers updated (American astronaut John Crichton, played by
Ben Browder, is catapulted to a far-flung galaxy populated by strange aliens), while the crew initially have something of
Blake's 7 about them (a motley bunch of escaped convicts pursued by a relentless foe), and ideas like the living ship are borrowed from
Babylon 5, but the
Farscape concept has a freshness that makes it all look and feel completely original. --
Mark Walker
DVD Description
Season 1 Episodes: Episode 1: Premiere
Episode 2: Throne For A Loss
Episode 3: Back And Back And Back To The Future
Episode 4: I, E.T
Episode 5: Exodus from Genesis
Episode 6: Thank God it Again
Episode 7: PK Tech Girl
Episode 8: That Old Black Magic
Episode 9: DNA Mad Scientist
Episode 10: They Episode 11: Till the Blood Run Episode 19: Nerve
Episode 20: The Hidden Memory
Episode 21: Bone to be Wild
Episode 22: Family Ties Clear
Episode 12: The Flax
Episode 13: Rhapsody in Blue
Episode 14: Jeremiah Crichton
Episode 15: Durka Returns
Episode 16: A Human Reaction
Episode 17: Through the Looking Glass
Episode 18: A Bug
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