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Kid Catastrophes: The Recycled Space Toys of the 1970s and 1980s

Kid Catastrophes: The Recycled Space Toys of the 1970s and 1980s

There is nothing worse for a kid than getting a new toy only to find ...
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Mano a Mano: Six Times Cult-TV went to the Arena

Mano a Mano: Six Times Cult-TV went to the Arena

Fredric Brown’s short story "Arena" was first published in Astounding Science Fiction Magazine in 1944.  It concerned a ...
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Survival of the Fittest: Ten Times Cult-TV Played the Most Dangerous Game   

Survival of the Fittest: Ten Times Cult-TV Played the Most Dangerous Game  

  In 1924, author Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game” (also known as ...
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Good Vibrations: Remembering Dynamite Magazine and its Sci-Fi Covers of the 1970s

Good Vibrations: Remembering Dynamite Magazine and its Sci-Fi Covers of the 1970s

Dynamite Magazine (1974 – 1992) from Scholastic is another great reminder of childhood in the ...
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Snow Bound: A Survey of Ice Planets at the Movies and on TV

Snow Bound: A Survey of Ice Planets at the Movies and on TV

  Much of North America, particularly in the northeast, is currently digging out from one ...
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Culture of Fear: Six Times that Fear was a Deadly Weapon on Sci-Fi TV

Culture of Fear: Six Times that Fear was a Deadly Weapon on Sci-Fi TV

According to an online article in Wired Magazine published on August 24, 2012, Darpa -- ...
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They Stick Like Magic! A Gallery of Colorform Adventure Sets (1966 – 1980)

They Stick Like Magic! A Gallery of Colorform Adventure Sets (1966 – 1980)

Last week here on Flashbak, I remembered “Fotonovels” or “Photostories,” and tagged those publications as ...
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The Six Most Deadly Super Computers in Cult-TV History (and the Four Most Helpful too)

The Six Most Deadly Super Computers in Cult-TV History (and the Four Most Helpful too)

Computers are our friends, right? Well…not necessarily, at least if you go by cult-television history, ...
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There Are Those Who Believe: The Ancient Astronaut Craze of the 1970s and 1980s

There Are Those Who Believe: The Ancient Astronaut Craze of the 1970s and 1980s

In 1968, Swiss author Erich Von Daniken published a literary work called Chariots of the ...
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The More You Know: 5 Science Fiction-Related PSAs (Public Service Announcements) of the 1970s   

The More You Know: 5 Science Fiction-Related PSAs (Public Service Announcements) of the 1970s  

If you grew up during the 1970s and 1980s you likely remember PSAs or public ...
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The 5 Best Resident Alien Characters of 1970s Cult Television

The 5 Best Resident Alien Characters of 1970s Cult Television

  A “resident” alien is a being who, despite his or her nature as an ...
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5 Things that Space:1999 (1975 – 1977) got right about the near-future

5 Things that Space:1999 (1975 – 1977) got right about the near-future

  The Gerry and Sylvia Anderson TV series Space:1999 (1975 – 1977) will be forty ...
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