Perhaps it isn’t a true “Take Out the Trash” story, but Zap2It.com is reporting that ABC Television has finally, actually decided to air the anthology series Masters of Science Fiction. The plan is a for a four-week run starting Saturday 4 August at 10PM.
The series was first discussed nearly a year ago, after ABC ordered six episodes of what is assumed to be a very literate, live-action, science fiction anthology series, and then shelved it. It was produced by the same producers of Showtime’s Masters of Horror, and was initially considered for a midseason replacement.
Mark Dawidziak of The Cleveland Plain Dealer decried ABC’s original decision to not air the show in this review.
ABC hasn’t said which episodes will air. The produced episodes, according to IMDb, appear to be:
“A Clean Escape” (based on a story by John Kessel) featuring Sam Waterston
“Jerry Was a Man” (based on a story by Robert A. Heinlein) with Anne Heche and Malcolm McDowell
“Awakening” (based on a story by Michael Cassutt, which according to IMDb may actually have aired last October)
“Watchbird” (based on a story by Robert Sheckley) featuring James Cromwell and Sean Astin
“The Discarded” (based on a story by Harlan Ellison) directed by Jonathan Frakes and featuring Brian Dennehy and John Hurt
“Little Brother” (based on a story by Walter Mosley)
“The General Zapped an Angel” (based on a story by Michael Petroni)