With the Halloween holiday approaching, people are looking seeking to buy the best costume that they will wear to their next Halloween evening. Some will draw inspiration from new Disney or Dreamworks movies while others will wear a traditional costume such as ghost, vampire or witch. A final category will want to find the most special and unique costume.

If you are looking for an excellent costume idea, you would be interested in considering the sixties and seventies in TV and film themes. There have been a lot of first-class and unforgettable TV shows and films such as Bewitches, Beverly Hillbillies, Happy Days, Lawrence of Arabia, Grease, and much more, that came from those times and it is principally because of the fact that they are so memorable that costumes paying homage to a lot of of these shows are costumes that tend to be very popular.

The sixties and the seventies are two decades that gave birth to the beginning of the science fiction genre in a big way. There were films beforehand in science fiction, but the sixties and seventies laid down science fiction into a family genre and there were two franchises particularly that helped to do it.

Let's start with Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry's brainchild. Obviously, Star Trek has been renowned for things such as the first interracial kiss and the use of physical science in a sense that confused a lot of people, but Star Trek has been also renowned for the specific types of costumes it brought up. For instance, if you are a Star Trek captain from this period of time, you would be wearing a uniform that required a mustard top and black pants. This is something that would be recognized right away by those that were fans of the TV program.

Alternatively, Star Trek was also renowned for "redshirt syndrome", in which a non-main character in a red shirt would beam down to a planet with the team and will be killed. If you bet on the humorous side of the thing, you might decide to make it your costume for the next Halloween holiday and wear the winner costume at the party!

Star Trek did not represent the only science fiction franchise to get its beginning during these two periods of ten years however as Star Wars as well had its creation laid during this time period. Star Wars has been created by George Lucas and was a entirely different beast from Star Trek, involving Jedi Knights, The Force and a lot of the less forgettable fictional characters to ever come out of science fiction.

The best examples of such characters are Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo and Darth Vader, and you could model your next Halloween costume on all of these characters! As an alternative, there are storm troopers, imperial soldiers in grey uniforms and rebel pilots in orange-white uniforms and all of them would be very recognizable as well.

There are many different options in sixties and seventies science fiction for you to choose from, which makes these two decades a great source for Halloween costume ideas.