LIVE POLL: Favorite Biographical "Father of ...." Episodic Series?

Thanks, that's a great resource and a big help considering the TV side needed some help to round out the answer pool. I will likely add them all with each episode getting a slot and a pair of co-fathers.

Which biographical episode, season or series about a game-changing person who is commonly regraded as the "father of ...." for a notable discovery, pioneering effort or inspiring a nation is your favorite?

@dan_dassow​ Thanks, I like anything with a historical slant.

@mariojacobs

A timely "father of" nominee, good suggestion.

Like a lot of these fathers of, he hasn't had a major biopic made about him. The most substantial treatment I could find was this locally produced and hardly seen movie. It is a 40 minute 1973 B movie made in the UK by the short-lived Golden Unicorn Film Unit, called Edward Jenner.

http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/gernsback_hugo

... Gernsback deserves more recognition as a pioneering and influential sf critic (see Definitions of SF). After first using the terms "scientific fiction" and Scientifiction, Gernsback (knowing nothing of William Wilson) coined "science fiction" in 1929 (though the term appeared once in a 1927 letter response), which has survived as the genre's identifying term despite various challenges (Speculative Fiction, Science Fantasy, etc.). In his numerous editorials and other incidental writings, Gernsback was the first person to discuss sf extensively, and readers and writers responded to his ideas. His 1926 definition of the genre – "a charming romance interwoven with scientific fact and prophetic vision" – identified three basic features of sf: narrative, scientific information, and Prediction. Sf had three natural audiences – general readers, young people, and scientists – and sf stories could achieve three goals: to entertain readers, to provide a scientific education, and to offer stimulating ideas to scientists and inventors. Gernsback also presented the first basic picture of the History of SF: the eighteenth century and earlier as times of little significant activity, Edgar Allan Poe as the first sf writer, Jules Verne and H G Wells as the other major figures, and the twentieth century as its period of true emergence as a genre. The stories and editorials in Gernsback's magazines inspired many published letters from readers, leading to contacts between interested parties that established the community of sf Fandom – and to promote the genre, Gernsback also launched the first major fan organization, the Science Fiction League, in 1934. The Hugo Awards were named in his honor, and Gernsback himself received a special Hugo in 1960 as "The Father of Magazine Science Fiction". ...

@Peter_pbn​ Thanks

@urbanemovies​ and @Peter,

Urb, thanks for making the correction.

Peter, I can't believe that both Urb and I did not see Alfred Freud.

@Pencho15​ Thanks.

@Tsarstepan​ Oops, I've done it again.