Inspiration?

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

There were lots of SciFi tv shows that came later. Erwin Allen gave us "Voyage to the bottom of the sea", "Land of the Giants", "Time Tunnel", and "Lost in Space". "My Favorite Martian" was a scifi comedy. "The Twilight Zone", and "Outer Limits" were a mix of scifi and fantasy-horror. "The Wild,Wild,West" had elements of scifi in it.

[DrFrag]

I think American sci-fi had plenty of inspiration to draw from that pre-dated Astroboy. Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, as well as writers Asimov, Heinlein, and Clarke all began before 1940. While post-WW2 kids in Japan were reading Astroboy, British kids were growing up reading Dan Dare. American kids had ... I'm not actually sure. Jeffbert would probably know the most about early American sci-fi.

[jeffbert]

Actually, I have just a bit of knowledge on early American TV scifi. The Outer Limits, TTZone are about the only ones I know well. B. Karloff hosted a series, though I forgot its name; it seems mostly horror. I have been reading classic scifi, though not lately.