British television science fiction fiction was "Star Cops" (1987), which ran for only nine episodes to poor viewing figures on the corporation's second channel, BBC2. It was written by Chris Boucher, who had contributed scripts to "Doctor Who" and "Blake's 7", and was script editor for the later series entire run. The 1980s also saw the arrival on the BBC of two science fiction comedy series both of which had their origins on radio. The first was "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (1981) by Douglas Adams which amalgamated aspects of the original radio series with that of the subsequent novel. The second was
British television science fiction 1990s in that companies began to see the possibility of lucrative overseas sales and tie-in products that other genres could not match. In the mid-1990s the BBC screened four seasons of the glossy sci-fi action adventure series "Bugs" (1995–98) made by independent company Carnival. They co-produced the six-part serial "Invasion: Earth" (1998) with the US Sci Fi Channel, and ITV began attempting to market British sci-fi again with serials such as "The Uninvited" (1997) and "The Last Train" (1999). The BBC also produced several children's science fiction shows in the late 1990s to mid-2000s. The most known examples of which