The science fiction miniseries boom of the 1980s had been a financial workaround for the prohibitive per-episode visual effects budgets the genre demanded. By 1990, the conditions for TV productions were changing. Cable television, which had reached fewer than 20 percent of American homes in 1980, had penetrated more than half the country by the … Continue reading 5 Greatest Sci-Fi Miniseries From the 1990s, Ranked