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Out of This World
1962 · TV series · 60 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Irene Shubik
Out of This World is a British science fiction anthology television series made by ABC Television and broadcast in 1962. A spin-off from the popular anthology series Armchair Theatre, each episode is introduced by actor Boris Karloff. Many episodes are adaptations of stories by sci-fi writers including Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick and Clifford D. Simak. The series is generally seen as a precursor to the BBC science fiction anthology Out of the Unknown.
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ABC Britain made this probably amazing anthology series in 1962 called Out of This World [1].
I say probably because out of the 14 episodes made the only one left today is episode 3, Little Lost Robot [2], the first adaptation of Isaac Asimov's I, Robot. The reason we don't have the other episodes? Apparently ABC had this practice of wiping the tapes after the episodes aired. What could they have been possibly thinking.
So many treasure troves, art and otherwise, have been lost to carelessness; perhaps with the new found generatively hallucinatory powers of statistical learning we could see some restorative trend, a retro-magination, based on extant leftovers. Perhaps Aristotle did write a treatise on Comedy after all [3].
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163475/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_This_World_(British_TV_series)
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-RX1GT4GT0
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Name_of_the_Rose#:~:text=The%20solution%20to%20the%20central%20murder%20mystery%20hinges%20on%20the%20contents%20of%20Aristotle%27s%20book%20on%20Comedy%2C%20which%20has%20been%20lost.