Future Fantastic

*Future Fantastic*
Future Fantastic
Genre	Science fiction documentary
Directed by	Penny Southgate
Presented by	Gillian Anderson
Theme music composer	HAL / real VIVID
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	9
Production
Executive producer	Edward Briffa
Producers	David McNab, Jasper James
Editors	Allan Fowlie, David Sleight
Running time	24 minutes
Original release
Network	BBC1
Release	21 June –; 30 August 1996

Future Fantastic was a British documentary television series which premiered in 1996. This show looked at the how science and science fiction complement each other, and how ideas and technologies from the past are helping to shape our future. The series was narrated by Gillian Anderson and co-produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation, The Learning Channel and Pro Sieben.

Episodes

"Alien"

Alien: Discusses the possibility of encountering intelligent life on other planets.

Interviewed Story Musgrave (astronaught), Seth Shostak (astronomer), Frank Drake (astronomer), Jill Tarter (astronomer), Arthur C. Clarke (author), Richard F. Haines (scientist), Robert Sheaffer (UFO investigator), Jack Cohen (biologist), John Clute (author), David Bischoff (author), Glenn Campbell (Area 51 Investigator), Bob Lazar (engineer)

This episode was first broadcast on 21 June 1996.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). who later collaborated with Gillian Anderson on the track "Extremis" which was released by Virgin Records in 1997.^[1]

References

^ "Hal press conference". Virgin. 13 May 1997. Archived from the original on 27 October 2002. Retrieved 1 September 2008.

External links

Future Fantastic at IMDb

[1] "Hal press conference". Virgin. 13 May 1997. Archived from the original on 27 October 2002. Retrieved 1 September 2008.

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