"Give me a child at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life." So the fanatical teacher of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (1969) liked to say. And so the TV networks have repeatedly proved.
The 1960s were a golden age for great sci-fi TV shows. Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone" entered the decade following a landmark first season, just as television was experiencing a cultural peak in ...