TV Tales: Man From Atlantis
When the Star Wars wave hit in the late 1970s, science fiction rode that crest back to the major media in a …
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TV Tales: WKRP in Cincinnati
If you weren’t an avid viewer of WKRP in Cincinnati during its original four-year run, you should have caught it in reruns. …
TV Tales: Wonder Woman
Based on Charles Moulton’s 1940’s comic superhero, Wonder Woman first hit the live-action airwaves in a 1974 made-for-TV movie, starring …
TV Tales: Voyagers!
Most folks, if they got their hands on a time-travel device, would probably end up using it to bet on …
TV Tales: Cop Rock
When people who aren’t television fans are asked why they don’t watch, they usually answer with something like, “It’s just …
TV Tales: Planet of the Apes
The summer of ’73 was a dark time for Planet of the Apes fans. Yes, 20th Century Fox had just treated us …
TV Tales: Kung Fu
“Snatch the pebble from my hand, grasshopper.” Kung Fu was an ‘Eastern western,’ an unlikely but effective blend of the Western …
TV Tales: Amazing Stories
In the tradition of The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Amazing Stories was a weekly anthology series that poked at the strange and fantastical …
TV Tales: Tales of the Gold Monkey
Like any true success, Raiders of the Lost Ark was frequently imitated. Tales of the Gold Monkey was frequently lumped in with the ‘Raiders’ …
TV Tales: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
“The year is 1987 and NASA launches the last of America’s deep space probes. In a freak mishap, Ranger 3 …