From the archives of the long-defunct and sorely missed Omni Magazine, here's Howard Waldrop's wonderful short story, "Mr. Goober's Show."
And the guy, whose name you know is Eldon (maybe he told you, maybe you were born knowing it) starts asking you about some sci-fi show from the early '50s, maybe you didn't get it, maybe it was only on local upstate New York, sort of, it sounds like, a travelog, like the old Seven League Boots, only about space, stars and such, planets . . .
"Well, no," you say, "there was Tom Corbett, Space Cadet; Space Patrol; Captain Video" — which you never got but knew about — "Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers; Captain Midnight (or Jet Jackson, Flying Commando, depending on whether you saw it before or after Ovaltine quit sponsoring it, and in reruns people's lips flapped after saying 'Captain Midnight' but what came out was 'Jet Jackson' . . .); or maybe one of the anthology shows, Twilight Zone or Tales of –' "
(Thanks, Dan!)
