Out of the Unknown: ‘The Dead Past’ (BBC2 25 October 1965)
Isaac Asimov This is the first of the series’ six episodes based on the fiction of Isaac Asimov, its most adapted author. The others are ‘Sucker Bait’ (1954; 15 November 1965), ‘Satisfaction...
View ArticleOut of the Unknown: ‘Time in Advance’ (BBC2 1 November 1965)
William Tenn This episode is based on ‘Time in Advance’ (Galaxy 1956) by William Tenn, the pseudonym of Philip Klass, UK-born but US-resident since childhood. He published only one novel, Of Men and...
View ArticleOut of the Unknown: ‘The Fox and the Forest’ BBC2 22 November 1965
Ray Bradbury This is the first episode not to have survived (apart from its credits sequence). It is an adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s 1950 story, originally published in Collier’s as ‘To the Future’ but...
View ArticleOut of the Unknown: ‘Some Lapse of Time’, BBC2 8 December 1965
John Brunner One of the things ‘Some Lapse of Time’ gets right (and would have probably got right even if it had been a 75-minute episode as originally intended) is selecting to adapt a source of...
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