Puppets

Professional­duced between 1956 and 1964 by AT&T, the Bell Tele­cellphone Sci­ence Hour TV spe­cials antic­i­pate the lit­er­ary zani­ness of The Mup­pet Present and the sci­en­tif­ic enthu­si­asm of Cos­mos. The “ship of the imag­i­na­tion” in Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Cos­mos reboot could in reality owe some­factor to the episode above, certainly one of 9, direct­ed by none oth­er than It’s A…