As Americans grappled with the real problems of the atomic age in the 1950s, the science fiction television series provided escapist fare. At first essentially

The fourteen essays featured here focus on series such as Space Patrol, Tom Corbett, and Captain Z-Ro, exploring their roles in the day-to-day lives of their fa

In the early 1950s, television was in its infancy. In the U.S., outer space adventuress series such as Captain Video and Hi Video Rangers, Space Patrol and Tom

American Science Fiction Film and Television presents a critical history of late 20th Century SF together with an analysis of the cultural and thematic concerns

Once confined solely to literature and film, science fiction has emerged to become a firmly established, and wildly popular, television genre over the last half