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SFTV 101: 1952 to 1980

For anyone interested in the history of science fiction, fantasy and horror on television, here is a list of episodes recommended as an introduction to the most significant series of the 50s, 60s and 70s. Feel free to use it to plan a video stream at an sf convention, a class on science fiction, or just a marathon to satisfy your own curiosity.

Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century

The Twilight Zone: ‘The Monsters are Due on Maple Street’, ‘Nightmare at 20,000 Feet’, ‘To Serve Man’.

Doctor Who: ‘The Pilot’ *

The Outer Limits: ‘The Zanti Misfits’

Jonny Quest: ‘The Robot Spy’

The Addams Family: ‘The Addams Family meets a Beatnik’

Lost in Space: ‘Island in the Sky’

Star Trek: ‘Balance of Terror’, ‘Errand of Mercy’

The Avengers: ‘Return of the Cybernauts’

The Prisoner: ‘The Chimes of Big Ben’, ‘Hammer Into Anvil’

Doomwatch: ‘The Plastic Eater’

The Night Gallery: Pilot episode

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons: ‘The Heart of New York’

Star Trek: The Animated Series: ‘Yesteryear’

UFO: ‘A Question of Priorities’

Kolchak, The Night Stalker: ‘Horror in the Heights’

Land of the Lost: ‘The Stranger’

The Six Million Dollar Man: ‘The Last Kamikaze’

The Survivors: ‘Law and Order’

Wonder Woman: ‘Spaced Out’

The Tomorrow People: ‘Hitler’s Last Secret’

Planet of the Apes: ‘The Trap’

Sapphire and Steel: ‘Assignment 1’, episode 1

The Incredible Hulk: ‘Married’

Battlestar Galactica: ‘Saga of a Star World’

The Omega Factor: ‘Visitations’

Salvage (pilot)

Blake’s 7: ‘Orac’

Partly to let me know whether anyone still reads my dw or lj accounts, but mostly just for fun, a collection of movie quotes. Guess the titles: the first letter of each will spell out another movie title.

1 “Oh, let me have just a little bit of peril.”

2 “Your work is puerile and under-dramatized. You lack any sense of structure, character and the Aristotelian unities.” 

3 “It’s a good job I’m in the Navy and you’re in the Army.”

4 “But I didn't. I only knew that you'd know that I knew. Did you know THAT?” 

5 “I thought maybe we could hang out, you know, do some stuff back home like... like regular stuff, get to know each other a little bit better, and *then* I'd see you pee.” 

6 “Well, at least we can all agree the third one’s always the worst.”

7 “You’re darn right I am. And you should have caught me before my operation!”

8 “I heard that one myself, Bob. Hell, I even thought I was dead 'til I found out it was just that I was in Nebraska.” 

9 “As it turns out, he really was being given daily doses of LSD for 11 years.” 

10 “Abby someone. Abby who?”

11 “Dick, I’m very disappointed.”

12 “Sir, I accept your general rule, that every poet is a fool, but you yourself may serve to show it, that every fool is not a poet.” 

13 “Do you suppose Stanley Kubrick ever gets depressed?”

14 “Sal, Wyoming's not a country.” 

Wayne LaPierre will blame the audience at the concert in Vegas for not carrying high-powered sniper rifles. A congressman voting to allow everyone to buy silencers will say that if Paddock had used a silencer, people would have been able to listen to at least one more song before evacuating. And the President will meet with the families of the victims, then fire one of his staff because the crowd was too small.