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Pioneers of Television: Science Fiction

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Catalogue Number:  041347
Producer:  PBS Video
Subject:  Media Literacy
Language:  English
Grade Level:  9 - 12, Post Secondary
Country Of Origin:  United States
Copyright Year:  2011
Running Time:  60


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This episode explores how storytellers Gene Roddenberry and Rod Serling (of The Twilight Zone) used the future as a stage for modern morality plays, and William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols and other science-fiction stars describe how they prepared to interact on-camera with a malevolent alien force ... or, perhaps, a giant radish.

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