Films like The Thing From Another World and Invasion of the Body Snatchers played on fears of the time, influenced by the ...

One of the first to copy "Captain Video" was ABC's Saturday morning kids series "Space Patrol," which ran from 1950 to 1955 and ... in future TV shows and movies like "Doctor Who" and "Quantum ...

The movie also wanted to show characters ... Perhaps for that reason, space scenes throughout the 1950s and 1960s frequently relied on the audience's suspension of disbelief.