“What evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!” The Shadow aired “Night Without End” on October 16, 1938, an episode that falls squarely into the realm of SF. A scientist has invented a machine that creates a shield of utter darkness, a man-made scientific fog of impenetrable blackness, his hope being to …

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X Minus One aired Frank Quattrocchi’s story “Sea Legs” on May 1, 1956 as its 49th episode. First published in the November 1951 issue of Galaxy (an otherwise unremarkable issue save for the 3rd and final part of Robert A. Heinlein’s serialized novel The Puppet Masters), “Sea Legs” is the story of a spacer, long …

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