Not common on Australian TV but not entirely absent - I think in part because the BBC occasionally did it, so it had the stamp of approval.
* The first arguably sci fi appears to be the futuristic comedy Tomorrow's Child (1957)
* Don Houghton wrote The Astronauts (1960) about an Australian in space! I would love to see this.
*The first out and out sci fi, gloomy and everything, was the post apocalyptic The End Begins (1961).
*There was also The Road (1964) from the great Nigel Kneale (who also wrote the adaptation of Wuthering Heights that was filmed in the late 1950s).
* And of course there was also the TV series The Stranger.
That's not a lot but it is better than nothing.
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