but I do find something a bit creaky and wooden in British sci-fi..

The finest sci-fi was British; the finest TV - The Prisoner - and the finest film - Quatermass and the Pit, which is given homage by Babylon 5 in the feature length episode Thirdspace. I gave Lexx my best shot, but it was always on too late for me too fully take in. And as for that shower scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSw-9aqgoBQ

In our re-Imagined Village we will always be watching the skies, especially after the rumours of strange lights seen hovering over Poacher's Knoll on the night those Crop Circles appeared...