Sci-Fi Debate: The Best Science Fiction Series: Star Wars, Doctor Who or Star Trek?

Well, it is hard to compare these series. Doctor Who remains on TV, Star Wars is largely in Cinemas and Star Trek is on both. Although I have my own preferences, I will try and be unbiased in my overall decision.

What Has Lasted Longer?

DW: 1960
ST: 1966
SW: 1977

Here Doctor Who scores the first point because it has lasted the longest, meaning there is more time for cancellation.

Years been producing new material

Doctor Who may be the oldest but it was cancelled for a large amount of time. This is how many years they have been in the making. In terms of films, the particular film series counts as continuous.

DW: 37 years
ST: 38 years
SW: 23 years

Of course this is biased towards TV. Also all three have existed outside of the screens in comics and books which in this category have not been counted. Star Trek has also existed in various TV shows, as has Star Wars.

Screentime

The Screentime for everything within that universe of each show roughly (rounded to the nearest hour)

DW: 509 hours
ST: 560 hours
SW: 102 hours

Star Trek and Doctor Who are incredibly close but Trek just edges it. Star Wars is largely film based so it has a disadvantage in this category.

Money from films

Doctor Who has a disadvantage with no films.

DW: $0
ST: $1,930,671,933
SW: $6,394,819,524

Star Wars wins hands down on this one.

Money from Merchandise per year

DW: $732,000,000
ST: $400,000,000
SW: $975,000,000

Again Star Wars wins by quite a long way again.

TV Audience average - in their home country

Star Wars has a disadvantage as its TV isn't mainstream - but thats their fault. In brackets is the percentage of the country.

DW: 7,830,000 (13.9%)
ST: 11,960,000 (4.7%)
SW: 1,640,000 (0.5%)

Star Trek may beat Doctor Who by actual figure, but as the USA is bigger in terms of size and population it is unfair to compare that way. Doctor Who wins by a big margin with nearly 14% of the population averagely watching Doctor Who.

Global audience average of all manner

How successful are these shows outside of their home. Here is a list of the number of countries each show is shown in.

DW: 94 countries
ST: 103 countries
SW: 53 countries

Most Popular

How many fans are there for each series? Approximately

DW: 110,000,000
ST: 40,000,000
SW: 160,000,000

Star Wars has the most fans worldwide.

Awards

Which of the series has had the most amount of awards?

DW: 148 awards
ST: 72 awards
SW: 176 awards

Star Wars wins it with Star Trek the furthest behind

Expended Universe

The Expended Universe is largely a fan based production. These are the number of books, comics and audios of the three franchises.

DW: 869 books, 726 comics, 1152 audios
ST: 799 books, 669 comics, 105 audios
SW: 514 books, 1445 comics, 151 audios

Doctor Who has the most books and audios but it is Star Wars that has the most comics by some way as well.

Aliens

Aliens are a huge part of each of the series. But which has the most aliens.

DW: 357 aliens
ST: 57 aliens
SW: 251 aliens

Doctor Who has the most amount of aliens by quite a long way.

Results

3 points for a win, 1 for second

Doctor Who: 18 points

Star Trek: 10 points

Star Wars: 14 points

There you have it. Doctor Who is the best Sci Fi Series