Harper Prism, 1993, $4.99, ISBN 0-06-105436-4, 258 pages, paperback

Here’s a book that encapsulates 50 years of sci-fi TV in a brief 258 pages. It’s a wonderful trip through time about TV shows I adore and abhor, filled with tidbits, anecdotes, and other trivia to delight your memory and fill in some gaps.

The first chapter provides a brief overview. The next 12 concentrate on specific shows: Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Lost in Space, Star Trek, Dark Shadows, The Prisoner, V, Beauty and the Beast, Star Trek: Next Generation, Quantum Leap, Deep Space Nine, and Sci-Fi failures (Space 1999 and Battlestar Galactica).

Each chapter brings in trivia and information from other shows, but mostly follows the highlights of the particular show. Info gleaned from interviews, articles, and other sources are tossed in to point out the good, bad, and ugly of various shows. It’s all a hoot, especially when you consider this was written in 1993, so shows like Babylon 5 and Star Trek: Voyager have yet to appear.

I rather enjoyed the book. It was fun, fast, and required very little brainpower to read. And that’s just what the doctor need to order on occasion. The trip down memory lane is a hoot.

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