A German Hero for the Cold War: Wolfgang F. Henschel's Alpha Alpha (1972).
Overlooked by critics of science fiction and historians of West German television, Wolfgang F. Henschel's series Alpha Alpha brought together elements of science fiction and the spy thriller, two genres imported largely from the U.S. that dominated the West German television landscape. Reproducing t...
| Published in: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 81 - 105 |
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