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There are more new SF and fantasy episodes in April, May, and June than we may ever see again. Some of them may actually
be worth watching. In addition to the ones listed below, there will probably be new episodes of Wonderfalls every
Thursday and new episodes of Century City every Tuesday.
Better watch them now if you want to watch them at all. Century City will probably end after
nine episodes and Wonderfalls, despite excellent reviews, has even lower ratings. Kingdom Hospital
is a lot of fun. Century City has already been canceled, and both Wonderfalls and Kingdom
Hospital have been moved to the 9 PM Thursday valley of death, where they will be slaughtered by ER.
Thursday, April 1 Wonderfalls, "Pink Flamingos"
Thursday, April 6 Century City, "Sweet Child of Mine"
Thurdsay, April 8 Kingdom Hospital, "The Young and the Headless" by Stephen King and Richard Dooling
Wednesday, April 14 Smallville, "Legacy" Guest star Christopher Reeve
Wednesday, April 14 Angel, "Underneath" by Sarah Fain and Elizabeth Craft
Thursday, April 15 Kingdom Hospital, "Black Noise" by Stephen King
Wednesday, April 21 Smallville, "Truth" (Smallville episode titles thanks to kryptonsite.com)
Wednesday, April 21 Enterprise, "Damage" by Phyllis Strong
Wednesday, April 21 Angel, "Origin" by Drew Goddard
Thursday, April 22 Kingdom Hospital, "Heartless" by Stephen King
Wednesday, April 28 Smallville, "Memoria"
Wednesday, April 28 Enterprise, "The Forgotten" by Chris Black and David A. Goodman
Wednesday, April 28 Angel
Thursday, April 29 Kingdom Hospital, "Butterfingers" by Stephen King
Thursday, May 6 Kingdom Hospital
Smallville, Enterprise, and Kingdom Hospital are my picks to watch.
Century City, "To Know Her" (**) by Roger Wolfson
Century City has a lot of holograms, some good acting, and is a fairly slick lawyer show set thirty years in the
future. This episode considers whether experiencing sex via nanoprobes constitutes rape, and if a child star should be allowed
to remain a child. The nanostuff is pretty tame for anyone who has read Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, and the child
star is old hat for anyone who has read John Varley's The Golden Globe. As usual, visual SF is fifty years behind written SF.
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Copyright © 2004 Rick Norwood
Rick Norwood is a mathematician and writer whose small press publishing house, Manuscript Press, has
published books by Hal Clement, R.A. Lafferty, and Hal Foster.
He is also the editor of Comics Revue Monthly, which publishes such classic
comic strips as Flash Gordon, Sky Masters, Modesty Blaise, Tarzan, Odd
Bodkins, Casey Ruggles, The Phantom, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Alley Oop, Little Orphan Annie, Barnaby,
Buz Sawyer, and Steve Canyon.
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