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My earliest SF TV recollections were the Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials (Both with Buster Crabbe, and I could never tell them apart back then!).
In another thread, I mentioned how hard I laughed when they were going to kill Flash with a laser: They trained it on a rock first, and we watched it melt like ice cream. Then they trained this searchlight-sized beam on Flash's chest, and we watch him grimace and writhe in agony for 5-10 seconds before the episode cliffhangers!
At the other end, someone breaks in and switches off the beam, and releases a breathless but otherwise okay Flash from the wall. Great stuff! I love to think about the tech we present today that will look like that to readers/viewers 50 years from now...
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