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About Channel 37

When we were growing up, UHF stations were the repository of all the great low-budget TV shows and movies that the “lower 13″ channels disdained: the leftover movie serials, monster movies, gumshoe detective thrillers, radioactive mutant alien invasion horror films, and — way past your bedtime — the movies that your parents said were only for mommies and daddies who loved each other very, very much.

Partly as a writing exercise, partly as an homage, Paul Lagasse created Channel 37 as a place to re-create the ideal UHF channel of his youth: a place where, by simply turning the dial, readers can once again find the clunky tinfoil robots, rubber-suit monster menaces, spaceships dangling on strings, and quippy jut-jawed heroes battling it out in front of smoke-filled cardboard sets accompanied by really bad Theremin music.

And maybe, if readers stay up late enough, one or two of those mommy-and-daddy movies too.

About the Authors

By day, Paul Lagasse is a freelance writer and editor. Since 2001, his business, Active Voice Writing & Editorial Services, has specialized in providing high quality writing, copyediting, and substantive editing services to clients in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. His YA historical novel, Seeing Through Clouds, was published in 2006. He also blogs opinion and miscellany at Sotto Voce.

Way past his bedtime, Paul is an aspiring SF writer who had the great good fortune of growing up with two great UHF stations nearby. “Although I appreciate and enjoy most forms of SF,” he writes, “thanks to those channels the warmest cockles of my SF-lovin’ heart are devoted to the glorious movie and TV products of the 1950s through the early 1970s.” He is currently seeking an agent to represent his SF short stories and novellas for publication. But hey, who isn’t?

Gary Lester is author of Ursula the Yellow, Book One of The Greyrock Chronicles. Someday he’ll get around to writing his “About the Authors” entry.

Why “Channel 37?”

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