Story titles in this Collection:
Introduction
Complete List of Episodes
The Six-Fingered Hand of God
Timepieces
Odd Man Out
Divided by Void
Infinity's Mistress
The Bifurcation of Schrodinger's Cat
Color Photo Insert
The Eisenby Machine
The Doctor Takes a Wife
A Flavor Tree Tastes of Love
Mr. Milestone's Singular Child
Out with a Big Bang |
The Adventures of Damion Koehkh, MD:
Space Doctor (Original Scripts and Photos from the Series)
Edited and with an Introduction by Pushman Clark
Trade paperback, 8.5 x 11, 158pp with 16-page full-color insert
ISBN 1892619067
$15.00
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Rating: MM (some absurdly technical language, mature-ish humor)
RedJack is very excited to have gained the rights to publish eleven original scripts and over thirty photos from this legendary 1962 science fiction television series. The book was edited and includes an introduction by eminent television historian Pushman Clark, nephew to the series creator Ensign Clark.
From the Introduction:
"...The
public's perception of television had also, in the early 1950's,
been tainted with the stink of totalitarianism, thanks to the
Prussian Soviet of the Stalinist regime. In the chaos and
border-wrangling following World War II, the Soviet's leaders
attempted to maintain control of its half of western Europe by
means of televised propaganda via a state-controlled network of
stations, this mostly in the form of the so-called "Soap-Box
Operas" and the ironically-named "Broadcast News" – both of which
were thinly-veiled attempts to maintain the status quo via
threatening diatribes aimed at the "enemies of the state" – i.e.,
the general populace. This distaste was deepened by the rumors of
a failed experiment of Stalin’s secret police, in which they had
planned to use televisions in homes as "backwards broadcasters,"
to secretly monitor the activities of its citizens, as a means of
social control.
It was not surprising, then, that television's
faint star quickly waned, and by the late 1950's was largely dead.
By that time, the few people who still owned television sets were
mainly oddity collectors. The remaining operational television
stations were owned largely by hobbyists, and those who hoped for
transmissions from intelligent life on other worlds.
Then, in the spring of 1962, an amazing thing happened: The
collectors plugged their dusty oddities into the electric wall
sockets, and turned them on..." |