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8/10
Fun Punchline Ending
rarpsl8 February 2014
Warning: Spoilers
The story is about an someone who is scanning the encyclopedia and sending the images to an object in synchronous orbit. At the end, he aims the scanner at himself and transmits himself to that object (which is probably his space ship).

The fun part of this ending is that this episode was written/aired in 1957, 9 years before Star Trek aired and made the Transporter (which allowed people to be sent and retrieved from a Planet's Surface) a TV troupe.

The actual story's plot, which involves detecting the signals put out by a TV to see which channel it is tuned to, is based on Pre-Tempest technology but seems to be similar to what Tempest is intended combat. I think that in the UK, they had (have?) similar vans that are used to detect the existence of TV Sets to make sure that the owner is paying their TV tax.
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5/10
They're Watching What You're Watching
Hitchcoc26 July 2013
A couple guys are cruising around with their invasive television device. It tells them what people are watching in the privacy of their own homes. Suddenly, they become aware that some old guy is watching Channel 84, which did not exist at this time. They, of course, bring in the heavy hitters from the government. What else would a pack of John Birchers do if they found out we weren't watching normal television. Not only is he weird, he is sending messages from an encyclopedia article on zebras. Well, there you go. They even break into his little apartment and try to dismantle his TV. I am finished with this series and will be glad to get away from the raging McCarthyism and nuclear fear that infested it. In other words, there was complete faith in the government and everything it did to its citizens. The episode is unremarkable.
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