By Joshua Tyler
| Published 56 seconds ago

The age of streaming has, in theory, been a boon for older content, which is suddenly available for everyone to watch in a way it never has been before. That’s how it looks on paper, but the reality is that streaming platforms only stream content they think they can make money off of, and sometimes, the rest isn’t worth their time.

That wouldn’t be a problem if physical media were still a viable format, but fewer than 50% of households still have access to a Blu-ray player, and as a result, Hollywood has stopped supporting it. Odds are, if you’re looking for something old, it’s out of print, and you’ll be forced to dig through boxes at garage sales hoping to find a diamond in the rough.

For certain content, this won’t be a problem. Obviously, a version of an iconic movie like Back to the Future will always be available to watch. Other sci-fi, though, hasn’t been as lucky, and some of it is on the verge of being erased from existence altogether.

These are the eight sci-fi movies and television shows most in danger of being deleted from reality, ranked in order by which I believe is the most in danger of vanishing forever.

8. Buck Rogers

Released in 1979 first as a movie and then as a series, Buck Rogers was based on characters created in 1928 by science fiction writer Philip Francis Nowlan. For two seasons, it followed its title character half a millennium after he was accidentally frozen.

Revived 504 years later, Buck Rogers tries comically to adjust to the social changes of the future, all while helping the Earth Defense Directorate fend off warring factions from the planet Draconian. Along the way, he befriends a robot and the hottest babe in the future, one Wilma Deering, played by the iconic Erin Grey.

Buck Rogers is the kind of show that should be getting endless rewatching by old and new fans alike, but no one can do that. For a brief time, it was available to stream on Peacock, but the show was yanked without explanation and hasn’t come back. The cause could be a lengthy legal battle over the rights, but that has since been settled, which makes the situation strange.

Whatever the reason, you can’t watch it on streaming services, and while older physical media copies can be found online, they’re often only available at very high prices. Buck Rogers is a major media property, and Hollywood always seems on the verge of resurrecting it, but if things continue the way they are, it’ll be forgotten long before they get around to it.

7. Cocoon

Cocoon asks: What would you do to be young again? At first, Cocoon is a laid-back movie about the residents of a retirement home. One day, they show up for a swim and see large rocks at the bottom of the pool. 

The misery of old age begins to vanish.  They regain their health. They start dancing. 

In parallel, there’s 1980s icon Steve Gutenberg taking a group of nice people out on his character boat. Out at sea and lusting after the female member of their group, Guttenberg accidentally stumbles into the truth: they’re aliens, and those rocks they’ve been bringing up from the ocean floor are alien pods. 

Despite being one of the biggest and most acclaimed movies of the 1980s, Cocoon is not available to stream anywhere, and it’s out of print on DVD. Why? The movie’s director, Ron Howard, has been asked, but refuses to answer. 

Basically, blame the estate of the film’s composer, James Horner. The way Horner’s contract was negotiated may have been odd compared to the other movies he worked on. That likely turned into an even bigger problem when, sadly, James Horner died in 2015 at the age of 61, and now there’s confusion over who owns his work in Cocoon.

Unfortunately, there seems to be no movement at all to rescue this movie and bring it back to the public. It was last released on DVD more than 20 years ago and has been out of print on all physical media for a long time. Copies of Cocoon have become so rare that eBay sellers are now charging significant money for them.

6. Space Above and Beyond

Space: Above and Beyond tried to do something different from all the rest: it was first and foremost a military series. Centered on a group of fighter pilots, the prime directive of the series was to find bugs, kill bugs, and make it home in one piece. Space: Above and Beyond aired on Fox, which means that you, the discerning sci-fi fan, know exactly what happened to ensure that the series never received a second season

Today, you can’t find Space: Above and Beyond on any streaming network, not even through Video on Demand. There are bootleg copies available on YouTube, but those will likely only last until the IP’s current owners do their next copyright sweep.

You can find it on DVD, but it’s out of print, so you’ll pay a premium and maybe have to look for used copies. Worst of all, after their buyout, Disney owns it, and they’re unlikely to care at all about a one-season show that was canceled decades before they owned the company. 

5. The Lone Gunmen

The Lone Gunmen was an X-Files spinoff from the mind of Breaking Bad and Pluribus creator Vince Gilligan. The show revolves around the titular trio, the show is named for, as they get in over their heads in various conspiracies.

Unfortunately, it proved to be too good at predicting the future. The pilot episode of The Lone Gunmen involved a plot where rogue government agents try to pilot a major airliner into the World Trade Center and make it look like a terrorist attack. Further, the episode’s revelation that secret government forces merely wanted to use terrorists as scapegoats echoes many real-world conspiracy theories about the role that George W. Bush or other powerful government forces may have had in the attack on the Twin Towers.

That was enough to get it canceled, despite good reviews and decent ratings. It’s also enough to make sure that no one will ever be able to watch it again. It’s not available on legitimate streaming services, and DVD copies are long out of print. 

4. Time Trax

Time Trax aired on television from 1993 to 1994 as part of the iconic, syndicated television “action pack.” In it, criminals from the year 2193 use a time machine called a Trax to go back to the past of a parallel universe. Police Captain Darien Lambert, played by Dale Midkiff, goes off in pursuit, aided by SELMA (Specified Encapsulated Limitless Memory Archive), his version of Al, and he can’t return until all of them have been apprehended.

What Time Trax did differently was to make the future humans superior, ranging from higher IQs and rapid memorization to the ability to move faster and, in what were frequently the best shots of the series, the ability to perceive time faster, giving the appearance of slowing down time around them. Time Trax was delightfully charming in the same way as other 90s syndicated hits like Hercules and Xena. And now it’s being erased from existence.

You can’t find it on streaming anywhere, and physical media copies, while available, are all basically used since it hasn’t been in print since 2012, when it was released on DVD. That means the cost to get a copy is rising rapidly. 

The mess the show is in is caused by the tangled web of who owns the actual rights to it. Gary Nardino Productions developed Time Trax, while Lorimar helped get it to air. The problem is that Lorimar was bought by Warner Bros., while Paramount purchased Gary Nardino. 

The rights to the series were split between two studios, and nothing has been done with Time Trax since. Given the short run of the series and its limited fanbase, it’s safe to assume that nothing ever will be done to preserve it, unless people start making noise about it.

3. Ernest Goes To Camp

Alright, I’m cheating a little on this one, because this is definitely not a sci-fi movie, though you could argue that the Ernest movie Jim Varney followed it up with, Ernest Goes To Jail, is. But Ernest Goes To Camp is a movie for the kinds of people who watch sci-fi, the geeks, the outcasts, the oddballs, and it’s being erased from existence.

The movie is a standard 80s summer camp film, following a group of outcast kids, the Second Chancers, as they attend Kamp Kikakee, a struggling summer camp run by Chief St. Cloud, a Plains Indian. It’s the usual outcasts vs. evil industrialist plot, as Sherman Krader wants to shut down the camp and mine its resources. It’s elevated to instant classic levels thanks to Varney’s portrayal of Ernest as the camp’s maintenance man.

Unfortunately, Ernest Goes to Camp has become a victim of cancel culture. Worst of all, neither Jim Varney nor the Ernest character did anything wrong. 

The problem is an actor named Iron Eyes Cody, who plays a minor role as a Native American in the movie. His real name was Espera Oscar de Coti, and he was actually Italian. No one knew that Cody was a fraud when Ernest Goes to Camp was made. He fooled everyone, including his close friend Walt Disney. 

Embarrassed by their founder’s faux pau Disney now classifies it as a racist movie, alongside other past productions like Song of the South. They’re determined to make sure it’s erased from existence. You won’t find it on streaming, and physical media copies are long since out of print. Disney has no intention of ever making it available again. 

2. Harrison Bergeron

In 1995, Showtime adapted a Kurt Vonnegut short story into a TV movie called Harrison Bergeron. Harrison (played by Samwise Gamgee himself, Sean Astin) is still an abnormally bright kid, but when he is taken away by the government in the movie, it’s under the pretext of being given a lobotomy. In reality, Harrison’s been selected to join the secret organization that actually runs the world.

Harrison decides to work in the government’s television division and eventually plans a variation on the short story. He takes over the broadcast room and begins playing classic movies and music for the public that have been hidden away for generations. 

It’s no secret masterpiece, but Harrison Bergeron is the kind of challenging sci-fi movie we shouldn’t leave in the dustbin. That’s looking like the case. As I write this, the movie is not available on any streaming or video-on-demand service, and it’s out of print on physical media

Worst of all, because it was a TV movie, and even though it was a really good one and a popular one, there’s no real urgency from Hollywood to preserve it or put money into it. They’re happy to let it rot. Without some sort of outcry, they probably will. 

1. Misfits of Science

The sci-fi most in danger of being permanently deleted from existence? Misfits of Science. Misfits of Science was pure 80s with a sci-fi twist. A team of super-powered oddballs work for a think tank called the Humanidyne Institute, studying “human anomalies.”

Misfits of Science was lighthearted, funny, and packed with heart, perfect for kids dreaming of superpowers. It’s Ghostbusters meets The A-Team, with madcap energy and zero budget for subtlety. 

Misfits of Science lingered in pop culture for years after its disappearance, but now it’s gone. You can’t watch Misfits of Science legally anywhere in the US. It’s not available anywhere on streaming, and definitely not legally.  And because it was a failed TV show, good luck finding it on physical media. 

You’d think NBC would throw it on Peacock, because, why not? But no, the show isn’t there. Some episodes pop up on YouTube, bootleg-style, but that’s not a dependable way to watch it.

Why? The theme song may be a cause. The show’s theme song is one of the all-time best opening credits numbers, and it seems to be mired in extreme levels of copyright policing. Try playing a few seconds from it on YouTube, and you’ll see what I mean.

That song, “Feels Like Science”, was performed by Karen Lawrence and composed by the great Basil Poledouris, the genius behind the score of movies like Robocop and Conan the Barbarian. Work like his often ends up locked in studio copyright vaults, and that may be part of the problem with Misfits. It just isn’t worth the trouble to sort all that out. 

Protecting the rights of musicians and creators is important, and I support it. But it’s not so important that it’s worth erasing a vital piece of cultural history in the name of it. Far too many of the shows and movies on this list are being forgotten, simply because someone who owns the music rights has an inflated sense of their own importance.

Cultural Preservation Trumps Copyright

Does refusing to let NBC stream Misfits of Science unless they pay big fees help the estate of Basil Pouleoris? No, it only helps people forget about his music and everything he was ever involved in.

You know what would help? Letting people hear his music.

That’s the answer for most of these. There’s no real money left to be made here, but there is a history worth preserving. Let people preserve it by lifting copyright restrictions and allowing fans to upload copies on YouTube.

Meghan Markle, undoubtedly, has the sweetest valentines around.

“These two + Archie = my forever Valentines,” Meghan, 45, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, February 14, sharing a rare photo of her husband, Prince Harry, holding their  daughter Princess Lilibet, 4.

In the snapshot, Harry, 41, held Lili in the backyard of the couple’s Montecito, California, mansion. Lili, for her part, wore a ballet uniform that complemented her bright red hair and held onto a bouquet of red balloons. (Harry and Meghan also share son Prince Archie, 6.)

Harry and Meghan moved to California in 2020 after stepping down from their duties as senior working royals.

“We were looking in this area, and this house kept popping up online in searches,” Meghan recalled to New York Magazine’s The Cut in a 2022 interview. “We didn’t have jobs, so we just were not going to come and see this house. It wasn’t possible. It’s like when I was younger and you’re window shopping. It’s like, ‘I don’t want to go and look at all the things that I can’t afford. That doesn’t feel good.’”

Regardless of any hesitations, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex toured the property.

“One of the first things my husband saw when we walked around the house was those two palm trees,” Meghan added to the outlet. “They’re connected at the bottom. He goes, ‘My love, it’s us.’  And now every day when Archie goes by us, he says, ‘Hi, Momma. Hi, Papa.’”

She continued, “You walk in  [to the house] and go … joy. And exhale. And calm. It’s healing. You feel free.”

While Meghan grew up in California, Harry famously lived his entire adolescence in England.

“I enjoy living [in the U.S.] and bringing my kids up here,” Harry said during The New York Times’ DealBook Summit in December 2024. “It’s a part of my life that I never thought I was going to live and it feels as though it’s the life that my mom [Princess Diana] wanted for me.”

According to Harry, his “main goal” is to be “the best dad and best husband” he can be.

“The reason why these things have happened is because of my 10 years in the military and the values and principles I live by,” Harry said, referring to his ongoing fight for security in England. “It is becoming increasingly hard for people that have values and principles as the world starts to change. But the thing I want to be known for is that, ‘He stuck to his values and always stayed true to that principle.’”

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Harry has long had a soft spot for his only daughter ever since her 2021 arrival.

“Harry adores Lili and loves reading her bedtime stories and rocking her to sleep,” a source previously told Us Weekly months after Meghan gave birth in June 2021. “He has a real magic touch. Every day just gets happier. There’s just so much love and gratitude and they couldn’t ask for more.”

Weeks later, Harry admitted to Ed Sheeran in an interview that it was “definitely a juggle” raising two kids.

“She’s very chilled and seems happy to just sit there,” he quipped. “Archie is running around like crazy. [We’ve] been very lucky so far.”

Roomies, Papoose wasn’t upstairs on Valentine’s Day — he stepped all the way out to show Claressa Shields just how deep his love runs. He made sure she got an oceanfront view that was covered in rose petals. While he laughed, Claressa stood there shook and speechless! It’s safe to say, Love Day made both of their hearts full!

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Papoose Sets The Bar HIGH With Sweet V-Day Surprise For Claressa Shields

Listen, one thing for sure and two things for certain — Papoose did his BIG one for Claressa Shields on Valentine’s Day. The rapper came through with vacation vibes and turned the romance all the way up. He took her out to the beach and set up a beautiful, fully decked-out spot with cozy pillows, massive pink and red bouquets, and rose petals everywhere. And to seal the vibe? The perfect view of tropical blue waters. Claressa showed off Pap’s set up in an Instagram video and made sure to point out that he even lined up some healthy meals for them to snack on.

Pap didn’t stop there! Claressa even flexed the sweet gift he got her too: a black-and-gold Van Cleef bracelet. As if that wasn’t enough, he took their day to a whole new level. In the middle of their romantic getaway, he shocked her with a plane flying overhead carrying a message that read, “Claressa, Papoose Loves You. Happy Valentine’s Day.” He really put a ribbon in the sky for his Queen. If that’s not setting the bar, we don’t know what is! Claresas stood there in complete shock, but immediately grabbed her phone to capture the moment. In her caption, she said this was the best Valentine’s Day she’s ever had and honestly, we see exactly why!

“Thank you @papoose for being so thoughtful! I love you so much Papi ! I am at lost for words 😍🥰🤞🏾💪🏾 #papoosegf #claressashields #gwoat #valentines,” Shields wrote.

The TL Explodes After Papoose Flexes His Love For His Queen

After TSR dropped the clip of Pap and Claressa’s V-Day festivities, the comment section lit UP with love. Roomies flooded the post with heart-eyes and sweet reactions — peep a few of them below.

Instagram user @kidochild wrote, “I’m sorry I love Clarissa 💚” 

Instagram user @wlrd0fivy wrote, “Now y’all can’t say pap upstairs😩🫶🏼he came downstairs and ate.” 

While Instagram user @king_leiyaah wrote, “She pulled that phone out so fast like ‘I told y’all he loved me’ 😂😂😂😂😂😂” 

Then Instagram user @fahdy_87 wrote, “So y’all can stop saying Papoose don’t love this lady now he put a ribbon in the sky lol❤️😍” 

Another Instagram user @trappthageneral wrote, “Black love is always good to see 💙” 

Instagram user @callme_quady wrote, “Love seeing people happy. ❤️”

Then another Instagram user @_.ravyn__ wrote, “Finally pap not upstairs 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭”

Finally, Instagram user @its__marii wrote, “A beach date w roses and champagne 😍😍😍 love this.” 

Mirror Selfies & Heartfelt Shoutouts — Pap Shows MAJOR PDA

Pap isn’t shy about professing his love for his Queen! He stays showing Claressa off, even with a little PDA on social media. Back in January, he posted the cutest mirror selfie of them and gave her a heartfelt shoutout. He told his followers his lady might look tough on the outside, but she has a heart of gold and an aura that’s unmatched!

“Claressa has a big heart. Always wearing a big smile! Most think she’s so rugged because she’s a fighter. But The way she takes care of her body is on another level. Zoom in… she has small hands, small feet, & some unbelievably smooth ass skin.  Very beautiful black woman. When the way you LOVE can Inspire others. That says a lot!!!”

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In the last decade, we went from multiple raunch comedies hitting theaters every year to nearly zero. One of the last of the mainstream raunch comedy releases, 2014’s Sex Tape starring Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel, was a small hit, but its premise could only have supported a film in 2014 when the general public didn’t know what “the cloud” was or how it worked. A few years later, Apple’s iCloud became a common, everyday feature for users, who now understood that the entire plot of the film made no sense. 

Sex Tape Has No Idea How Technology Works

In Sex Tape, Diaz and Segel play a married couple, Anne and Jay Hargrove, trying to rediscover the spark that they once had when the kids are away for a night. With nothing else working, they let their intrusive thoughts win and decide to film a sex tape. The problem is that instead of deleting the next day, Segal’s hapless Jay realizes it’s been uploaded to the cloud and shared with the iPads he gave away for Christmas. And yes, they are not only called iPads, but they are constantly shown on screen in the oddest product placement you can imagine.

Jay and Annie head out to recover all of the iPads and delete the video before anyone can see the sex tape. This involves committing breaking and entering, battling a German shepherd, accidentally doing a rail of cocaine, and getting busted by their best friends, played by Ellie Kemper and Rob Corddry, a pairing that, in a just world, would have headlined their own rom-com by now. The thing is, in reality, videos aren’t sent to iPads through the Cloud unless you specifically set up a shared file, then download them on each and every iPad. The entire plot could be resolved with one five-second act of deleting a file. 

Sex Tape relies entirely on the comedic chemistry of Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel, who reunite after knocking it out of the park with Bad Teacher. The physical comedy and one-liners are so few and far between that it’s one of those movies where you see everything in the trailer. Everyone involved has been in better, funnier films, but in the 12 years since Sex Tape’s release and the complete collapse of the rom-com industrial complex, it now looks like a masterpiece. 

Sex Tape Hastened The End Of Rom-Coms

Bad Teacher set off the last gasp of rom-com relevance thanks to great reviews and a huge box office haul, while Sex Tape approached rock bottom with a 16 percent critical rating and a 33 percent audience rating. At the box office, it made three times its estimated budget with $120 million, but again, that doesn’t take into account the large marketing budget from attempting to turn the two leads into a Julia Roberts and Richard Gere for a new generation. 

This decade, Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell had a little success with a rom-com, Jeniffer Lauirence crashed and burned in her attempt, while the time-loop rom-com Palm Springs, starring Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti, has been the most creative entry in the genre in decades. By comparison, Sex Tape hinges on a plot that’s both out of date and, given the Cloud’s common knowledge, makes zero sense. You can do better by watching Bad Teacher or Palm Springs again, then spending your time watching Sex Tape.   

It took exactly a year for The Artful Dodger to receive its first renewal — so what are the chances Hulu would pick the show back up for season 3?

During the season 2 finale, which aired on Tuesday, February 10, Belle (Maia Mitchell) learned a shocking revelation about the governor (Damien Garvey) not being her biological father. Her mother, Jane (Susie Porter), shared the truth when she thought she was on her death bed but Belle’s love interest Jack (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) ultimately saved her life.

As a result, Jane finally gave Belle permission to be with Jack. Belle ran to find him but it appeared that Jack got on a boat and left. The final moments of the season confirmed that Jack couldn’t leave Belle — and the fan-favorite couple shared a kiss.

Elsewhere in the finale, Fagin (David Thewlis) had a plan to die so his troubles would disappear. Jack helped executive the plan but Fagin actually survived and woke up … buried underground.

“There’s a lot [more story] to tell,” Mitchell, 32, exclusively told Us Weekly about the future of the show. “It’s such a massive show with so many characters and so many plots happening all at once.”

The actress noted that there is “a lot of opportunity” for “way more character development” in the future, adding, “With Belle and Jack, it is seeing what domestic life could look like. I don’t know how they pull that off. I don’t see them ever being settled but seeing what that looks like and seeing them actualize their relationship.”

Mitchell didn’t stop there when it came to possible story lines.

“But also with the family. Belle learned this revelation about Lady Jane and we see the family in a much more kind of authentic closeness together,” she teased. “But I would love to see what that does for the family — and for Lady Jane. I’d love to see what Lady Jane is up to in season 3 as well.”

She continued: “Fagin is up to no good. And Belle’s sister, Fanny, her story line this season is the most delightful surprise. I really wasn’t across any of those scenes so watching the show back I was like, ‘Oh my God, that’s what they were up to every day that I was at home.’ Seeing where that goes with Fanny, she’s so empowered and so delightful. I would love to do that. I would love to do a third season and I know everyone feels that way.”

Acting as a sequel to Charles Dickens‘ novel Oliver Twist, The Artful Dodger is set in the 1850s and follows Jack Dawkins, who is a former Royal Navy surgeon trying to establish himself as a respected young doctor. In addition to his antics outside of work, Jack quickly develops a romance with the governor’s daughter Belle.

“It was a long painstaking wait to hear [about a season 2], so we are very happy to be back,” Mitchell noted to Us. “In terms of jumping back into character, the break was good. It’s always nerve-wracking going back. But it’s so easy with our sets and in our costumes, you just really do melt right into the world. But the break was good because I would have needed that circuit break to find a different tone in her, to do some different prep. Especially with the dialect coaches, I was vocally dropping her a little lower and there was a slightly different physicality. Hopefully we get a season 3, and hopefully the break isn’t as long.”

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Mitchell was thrilled at the chance to film a project in her native Australia.

“At the end of 2021, I had written a list of things I was manifesting. It was a job that was shot in Australia, a period drama and it was a woman who was playing a feminist and claiming her power. That is literally The Artful Dodger for me. So it is a dream job,” she gushed. “And to be able to work at home is fantastic. It’s less of a flight to visit family and our crew is so amazing. I’ve now shot a couple projects in Australia in the last few years, since I’ve moved home — and also overseas — and I can say for sure that it’s the best and most elevated work that I’ve been able to do.”

She concluded: “It’s because of the crew and everyone behind the camera and the cast. We have such immense talent here and I’m so excited that the world is becoming privy to it because we’ve known it. We’ve always made such fantastic shows but they have this Aussie tone with a gritty drama. Now we’re expanding that and we’ve got these massive period dramas with crazy budgets. It’s really fun to be a part of that kind of new moment in Aussie film and TV. So I couldn’t be more stoked and I would just work in Australia with Aussie crew for the rest of my career if I could. It’s the best.”

The Artful Dodger is currently streaming on Hulu.

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