Forgot all about "Secret lives" series, cheers (again!) Mike.
Lensmen, remember those too, and Skylark, fastest relay brains in space!
Movies, there's all the old scifi classics, Forbidden Planet(Just classic 1950's, Quiffs, real men, women with curves, ray guns, the soundtrack!), Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Quatermass(that gritty Brit impending doom and poor effects), etc.
Tend to like darker, off the wall films of modern times, as said Lebowski (all round great and funny film) (or ThunderBolt and Litefoot II
), Brazil(T Gillingham's 1984 with star cast hamming it up), The Guard(Oirish black comedy that mocks its' own genre).
Speaking of Lebowski, I have liked so many of the Coen bros movies.