Blair Leatherwood wrote:
> John W. Kennedy wrote:
>> On Jan 21, 10:03 pm, Blair Leatherwood 
>> wrote:
>>> I'd not heard of Science Fiction Theater until you mentioned it (a bit
>>> before my viewing memory, and never available since as far as I can
>>> tell).  I looked it up on IMdB, and it looks like they were indeed
>>> trying to do something interesting--any ideas on the quality of it?
>>
>> I don't remember it very well -- it wasn't scheduled in a way that was
>> convenient for me to watch, and I was just a kid. But, as far as I
>> know, it was respectable. Fairly comparable to "The Outer
Limits", in
>> fact, but much more justifiably a "Pioneer".
>>
>  From what I've been able to find out, it appears that it was 
> syndication only, which would have limited its reach, and probably 
> disqualifies it from "pioneer" status (beyond any influence it might 
> have had on Serling, et al, since it predates TZ).  I do agree that the 
> concept of the show and its apparent commitment to the genre would 
> qualify it as a pioneer.
> 
> I did find some clips (appearances by DeForest Kelley in several 
> episodes), and they don't look bad from a production standpoint.  I 
> haven't been able to find any writer credits, though, so I don't know if 
> they took the step that Serling and Roddenberry did to bring some 
> authentic genre writers into the production.
> 

Okay, I did find the writers (on IMdB).  No one I recognized, but that 
certainly isn't a definitive answer!
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