X Minus One aired Robert Sheckley’s “Bad Medicine” on July 10, 1956. It originally appeared in the July 1956 issue of Galaxy under the pseudonym of Finn O’Donnevan. It’s an amusing story of a homicidal maniac who purchases the floor model of a “therapy” machine tailored to his particular illness. Only there’s a problem. The …

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Inner Sanctum aired “The Deadly Dummy” on January 24, 1949 as episode 406 of its 500+ episodes. The series was extremely popular, running from 1941-1952. After its first few years the sponsor became Lipton Tea. The male host and female co-host became almost as iconic as the show itself for their lively banter and horrible …

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Exploring Tomorrow was a short-term replacement series that ran from late 1957 through mid-1958. Of its 42 episodes approximately 12 are considered “lost,” while many of the surviving episodes are of inferior quality, with poor sound, scratches, and other defects. Tom Godwin’s (1915-1980) “The Cold Equations” first appeared in the August 1954 issue of John …

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