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Episode Guides, Histories, and Cast and Credits
for 62 Prime Time Shows, 1959 through 1989
by Mark Phillips and Frank Garcia
 
These are just some of the revelations included..

» Why did the U.S. Defense Department feel a Men into Space story threatened national security?

» What was the incredible secret of a Detroit auto worker who guest starred on The Immortal?

» What movie star made an unbilled cameo in the pilot of Time Tunnel?

» Find out why Ray Bradbury enjoyed - but refused to write for - The Twilight Zone.

» 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?

» What movie stars were the original choices for the roles of the Captain and Stewardess on Land of the Giants?

» How a dying actor used his impending demise to create a startling performance for Night Gallery.

» Why a Lost in Space episode was banned in Los Angeles for two decades.

» How did star Richard Basehart literally save the lives of his co-stars on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea?

» What science fiction series was Harrison Ford rejected for because the studio felt he couldn't handle action?

» The fire accident that almost cost Matthew Star actor Peter Barton his life!

» What UFO star had only weeks to live during the filming of the series?

» TV's Planet of the Apes: From high hopes to dismal disaster.

 

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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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