Mark Phillips - Science Fiction Television Series: Episode Guides, Histories, and Casts and Credits for 62 Prime-Time Shows, 1959 Through 1989

S CIENCE FICTION
TELEVISION SERIES

S CIENCE FICTION
TELEVISION SERIES

Episode Guides, Histories, and Casts
and Credits for 62 Prime Time
Shows, 1959 through 1989

by MARK PHILLIPS and
FRANK GARCIA

with a foreword by KENNETH JOHNSON

McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers

Jefferson, North Carolina, and London

Dedicated to my family;
my parents Frank, Sr., and Angelita
and my sisters Rosamar and Beatriz.FG

Dedicated to my Mom and Dad,
Elizabeth Lundell and Gary Phillips,
and to my sister Angie.MP

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1996 Mark Phillips and Frank Garcia. All rights reserved

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A CKNOWLEDGMENTS

The following people graciously agreed to be interviewed for thirty years of television science fiction, or offered us help in other ways. This book would not have been possible without their continued friendship, support and assistance.

Frank Garcia Interviewees: Philip Akin, Ralph Alderman, Desi Arnaz, Jr., Ray Austin, Scott Bakula, Steven Barnes, Peter Barton, Hagan Beggs, Donald Bellisario, Peter Benison, Stan Berkowitz, Paul Bernbaum, Ben Bova, Chuck Bowman, Rob Bowman, Ray Bradbury, Randy Bradshaw, Ellen Bry, Robert Butler, Michael Cavanaugh, Richard Chaves, Maury Chaykin, Arthur C. Clarke, John Colicos, Nick Corea, Joe Cortese, Wes Craven, Brad Creasser, Steven de Souza, Philip DeGuere, Neill Fearnley, Richard Flower, D.C. Fontana, Jonathan Frakes, Jeff Freilich, Matt Frewer, Mick Garris, Gary Goddard, Daniel Goodman, Jonathan Goodwill, Jeff Gourson, Lynda Mason Green, Kenneth Griffin, Stacy Haiduk, Nicholas Hammond, Gregory Harrison, Richard Hatch, Robert Hays, Peter Howell, Peter Hyams, Michael Ironside, Kenneth Johnson, William Jordan, Gerald Kelsey, Bruce Kessler, Winrich Kolbe, Martin Kove, Martin Landau, Glen Larson, Stan Lee, Hal Linden, Harold Livingston, Jack Lowin, Paul Lynch, Peter MacNeil, Stuart Margolin, Jared Martin, Kent McCord, Jim McMullan, Cameron Mitchell, Donald Moffatt, Sheila Moore, John Haymes Newton, Kerry Noonan, David Nutter, Gordon Pinsent, Andreas Poulsson, Deborah Pratt, Stanley Ralph Ross, Sarah Rush, Ronald Satlof, Andrew Schneider, Michael Shannon, Lionel E. Siegel, Robert Silverberg, Parker Stevenson, Dean Stockwell, Greg Strangis, Malcolm Stuart, Jo Swerling, Jr., Attila Szalay, Kristoffer Tabori, David Tomblin, Gus Trikonis, Glynn Turman, Brad Turner, Ilse Von Glatz, Lyle Waggonner, Fred Waugh, James Whitmore, Jr., Thomas Wright, and Peter Wyngarde.

For generously providing permission for the use of material they owned: Steven Ricks for the quotations from David Tomblin, Jack Lowin, Peter Howell and Kenneth Griffin in his documentary The Prisoner Investigated; Elyse Dickenson, at The Blackwood Project, for the Richard Chaves interview and help on the War of the Worlds chapter and episode guide; Ken MacIntyre for the Jared Martin and Matt Frewer quoted material; Sally Smith for Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell, Deborah Pratt and certain Donald P. Bellisario quotations; Sally Smith, Jason Dzembo, Kitty Woldow, Debbie Brown and Anita Kilgour, for the template serving as the Quantum Leap episode guide.

The following clubs have also been helpful. (If you would like to contact a club for information, please include a self addressed stamped envelope.) Vicki Werkley, Todd Andrews, Jill Wells, Lil Sibley, Gayle Highpine and Jean Laidig at Spotlight Starman, 784 Holmdel Rd., Holmdel NJ 07733-1635 (to whom thanks go for help with the Starman chapter, fine-tuning the episode guide and connecting me precisely when I needed it with Michael Cavanaugh); Pete Chambers, Esther Nash and Connie Colvin at the Alien Nation Appreciation Society, 110 Richmond St., Coventry, CV2 4HY England.

Thanks also to all those with unique talents who helped: Eileen Kernaghan for assistance with contract matters; Hardip Randhawa and Canada Wide Magazines, Ltd., for their generous assistance with photos; Valorie Hoye for the amazing editing workshop; the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Library; Roger Brown and Nan Santarpia for transcripts and Galactic advice; William K. Atkinson, Betsy Garcia, Debbie Holberton and Al Betz for access to important videotapes; Bob and Julie Abraham, Dave Dundas, Herbert Fung, Steve Griffiths, Kyle R. Kirkwood, John Larocque, Mike Levenston, Asif Quadri and Lorne Walton (Canada); Mimi Braverman, Michael L. Brown, Phoenix producer Mark Carliner, Scott Clark, Nancy Durgin, Jeff Elbel, George Fergus and Alan Morton, Barbara Fullerton, Raelyn Harris, Loren Heisey, Linda Knights, R. Maximilian Mendoza, Charles Pappas, Sci-Fi Channels Sean Redlitz, Rod Rehn, Kate Shaklee and Jeffrey Zahnen (U.S.A.); Marina Bailey (South Africa); Andrew Burford, Ailsa Jenkins, Art Mulder and D.W. Rowlands (England) for invaluable videotape and assorted researches via the Internet; Mary May and Wiebe DeJong for Quantum and Heroic Research; Bob Furnell at TASC, Jason Katayama, and Stan Woo for valuable research and materials; Andy Mangels for generously opening his research files to me at the last minute; Darren Ryall, Tracy Robin Somerville, Lynne Henderson for data entry assists; and Linda Currie, Tim and Gloria Dalmatov, Michael Dean, Leonard Swifty Wong, Stuart Royan, Lois Balzer, Cathy Mayo, Jim Hay, Vicki Holden, Cynthia and Gerry Baron, Rhea Rose and Jim Rondeau at Quantum Quarterly, Gary Ewing, Michael and Rachel Levenston, Elan Park, Mary Jane Reid, Linda Richards, Garth Spencer, and at White Dwarf Books, Jill Sanagan and Walter Sinclair.

Mark Phillips Interviewees: Frank Aletter, Larry Alexander, William Alland, Corey Allen, Howard Alston, John Anderson, Sylvia Anderson, Margaret Armen, Alan Armer, John Badham, Bob Barbash, Allen Baron, Orson Bean, Terry Becker, Harve Bennett, Alan Bergmann, Ed Bishop, Jerome Bixby, Earl Booth, Arthur Browne, Jr., Martin Caidin, George Chan, Linden Chiles, Thom Christopher, Calvin Clements, Jr., Robert Collins, Booth Colman, Michael Constantine, Elisha Cook, Jr., Randy Crawford, Patrick Culliton, Henry Darrow, Bill Davidson, Bill Derwin, Walter Doniger, Rudi Dorn, Donna Douglas, Robert Douglas, Cindy and Cathy Downes, Hal Dresner, Robert Easton, Don Eitner, Melinda Fee, Terence Feeley, Al Francis, Fred Freiberger, J. Bret Garwood, Harold Gast, Larry Gates, John Gaynor, Prof. James Gunn, Kevin Hagen, Susan Hampshire, Ron Harper, Nancy Hayes, Robert Hecker, David Hedison, Karl Held, Buck Houghton, Allan Hunt, Lou Huston, Jill Jaress, Kenneth Johnson, Russell Johnson, Jay Jones, Robert Justman, Stephen Kandel, DeForest Kelley, Gerald Kelsey, Paul King, George Kirgo, Norman Klenman, Don Knight, Richard Landau, Otto Lang, Charles Larson, Darrell Larson, Anthony and Nancy Lawrence, Ted Lehmann, Seeleg Lester, George Lindsey, Vic Lundin, Jean Marsh, Don Marshall, William Marshall, Leslie Martinson, Don Matheson, Gerald Mayer, Tom McDonough, Nigel McKeand, Allan Melvin, Lee Meriwether, Jan Merlin, Michael Michaelian, Herman Miller, Richard Milton, Robert Mintz, Lawrence Montaigne, Thomas W. Moore, Sean Morgan, David Moses, Bill Neff, Erik Nelson, William OConnell, Tim OConnor, Robert ONeill, James Parriott, Michael Pate, Gregg Peters, Philip Pine, Suzanne Pleshette, Gene Polito, Katharyn Powers, Pat Priest, David Rayfiel, Robert Redford, Ed Richardson, Peter Mark Richman, David W. Rintels, George Robotham, Elizabeth Rogers, Sutton Roley, Gerald Sanford, Ralph Sariego, John Saxon, Howard Schwartz, Ralph Senensky, Richard Shapiro, Jill Sherman-Donner, Mark Slade, Jerry Sohl, Herbert F. Solow, Alvin Sapinsley, Robert Specht, Aaron Spelling, Ellis St. Joseph, Joseph Stefano, Leslie Stevens, Larry Stewart, Herbert L. Strock, Liam Sullivan, Jeannot Szwarc, Joey Tata, Bruce Taylor, Roderick Taylor, Roy Thinnes, Donald Todd, Art Wallace, Robin Ward, Nick Webster, Dawn Wells, Stan Whitmore, John Williams, Shimon Wincelberg, William Windom, Robert Vincent Wright, Peter Wyngarde, Amanda Wyss, Dean Zanetos, and Paul Zastupnevich.