These
are just some of the revelations included...
- Why did the U.S. Defense Department feel a Men into Space
story threatened national security? Answer
- What
was the incredible secret of a Detroit auto worker who guest
starred on The Immortal? Answer
- What
movie star made an unbilled cameo in the pilot of Time Tunnel? Answer
- Find
out why Ray Bradbury enjoyed - but refused to write for
- The Twilight Zone. Answer
 What
award-winning writer was horrified by the PTA's charges
that his TV series was causing severe psychological damage
to the minds of youth? Answer- What
movie stars were the original choices for the roles of the
Captain and Stewardess on Land of the Giants? Answer
- How
a dying actor used his impending demise to create a startling
performance for Night Gallery. Answer
- Why
a Lost in Space episode was banned in Los Angeles for two
decades. Answer
- How
did star Richard Basehart literally save the lives of his
co-stars on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea? Answer
- What
science fiction series was Harrison Ford rejected for because
the studio felt he couldn't handle action? Answer
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Answers
- It dealt with a space satellite that could take photographs of countries below - a "SF" concept that was secretly being worked on for real spy purposes by the government. Next question
- He had extremely rare blood, which he sold to a pharmaceutical house for 12,000 dollars a year. Next question
- Dennis Hopper, who originally had a speaking role as a Titanic passenger, but was cut down to background player due to time. Next question
- An important, crucial scene was not included in his one TZ teleplay, "I Sing the Body Electric". Next question
- Rod Serling, when he was writing for Night Gallery. Next question
- Sam Elliot and Barbara Hershey. Next question
- Actor Lawrence Harvey, who went off prescribed painkillers so that he could feel his character's pain. Next question
- The depiction of a Mexican Bandito in "Castles in Space" was deemed offensive. Next question
- He demanded that he and his cast mates not stand near an explosive charge, which destroyed a portion of the submarine set, where they would have been standing. Next question
- The lead as The Six Million Dollar Man.
 Book 1 Press Kit
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Some
of the 250 individuals whose exclusive comments appear in
the book:
ACTORS
- Peter Barton
- Melinda Fee
- Stacy Haiduk
- Nicholas Hammond
- Richard Hatch
- Robert Hays
- David Hedison
- Michael Ironside
- Martin Landau
- Kent McCord
- Lee Meriwether
- Suzanne Pleshette
- Parker Stevenson
- Roy Thinnes
- James Whitmore, Jr.
WRITERS
- Sylvia Anderson
- Donald P. Bellisario
- Harve Bennett
- Ben Bova
- Ray Bradbury
- Martin Caidin
- Philip DeGuere
- Steven de Souza
- Dorothy Fontana
- Glen A. Larson
- Stanley Ralph Ross
- Jill Sherman-Donner
- Joseph Stefano
- Leslie Stevens
DIRECTORS
- Ray Austin
- John Badham
- Rob Bowman
- Robert Butler
- Nicholas Corea
- Wes Craven
- Peter Hyams
- Kenneth Johnson
- Paul Lynch
- Stuart Margolin
- Ronald Satlof
- Jeannot Szwarc
- James Whitmore, Jr.
- Thomas Wright
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