"During the six months of March through September, 1962, when an unlikely series entitled "The adventures of Damion Koehkh, MD: space doctor," was broadcast in fifteen-minute episodes every Saturday night at nine o'clock from a network of independently-owned television stations around the world, the medium of television had its own bright and shining moment ... It was during this time of artistic Renaissance that, at a small television station outside of San Francisco, California, a young playwright named Ensign Clark was introduced by a mutual friend to another young man by the name of Kim Jameson, a television hobbyist and current owner of the station"--Introduction.

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