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@gareth I loved them all. Unfortunately, none of them were able to sustain very long runs in mass market 1960s television.

By January 1967, both Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Thunderbirds were gone, Time Tunnel and Star Trek were the cool new shows.

Syndicated reruns weren’t yet a thing, nor were VCRs. So, when these Sci-Fi shows we loved disappeared, all we could do was look for the next new thing and hope that, unlike most, it lasted more than a season.

It’s easy for those of us, who now have access to the entire catalogue of sci-fi television, to forget that the original episodes of these shows were originally only shown twice in a season and then gone entirely.

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