Exploring Tomorrow aired “Space Baby” on June 18, 1958. Written by Randall Garrett (1927-1987), it first appeared in the October 1954 issue of IF, Worlds of Science Fiction under the title “Spatial Delivery.” Exploring Tomorrow enjoyed a relatively short run of around 40 episodes (1957-58), and a number of them are considered “lost,” while others …

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Quiet Please aired “Northern Lights” on January 30, 1949 as episode 85 of approximately 109. The show ran from June of 1947 through June of 1949 and was the creation of Wyllis Cooper (1899-1955, photo top right), who also created Lights Out (1934-47). After seeing that Lights Out was a success and capitalizing on its …

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Weird Circle aired “The Ghost’s Touch” on September 17, 1944. Very loosely adapted from the Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) story which first appeared in The Irish Fireside from September 30 – October 14, 1885, it tells the story of an inventor working on a drug to make living beings imprevious to pain. Sounds like a good …

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