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Best 1950s Sci-Fi TV Shows

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  {
    "title": "Flash Gordon",
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      "The DNA for Star Wars stretches back decades before that first opening crawl.",
      "George Lucas was inspired by the original Flash Gordon serial episodes of the 1930s. Those led to the development of the trendsetting 1950s show of the same name.",
      "Flash Gordon and his allies roam the 33rd century in their slick spaceship attempting to guard the galaxy, constantly threatened by the madness and machinations of a mustache-twirling villain with the oh-so-threatening moniker, Paul Richards.",
      "While we love this show as a star-spanning precursor to Star Trek,the best thing about Flash Gordon is Irene Champlin's performance as Dale arden,whose fearless female scientist showed viewers-not to mention the galaxy-that she's nobody's damsel in distress.",
      "Flash Gordon is an early sci-fi icon whose influence is still felt to this day. He walked so Captain Kirk could run…or warp."
    ]
  },
  {
    "title": "The Twilight Zone",
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    "content": [
      "Beginning in 1959 and changing genre television forever, The Twilight Zone is an anthology series created by master dreamweaver plus actor, Rod Serling. Each episode delivers a new tale and new terrors, exploring not only science-fiction but fantasy, horror, and delightful blends of those genres and others.",
      "Narratively,the Twilight Zone is meant to be a different dimension,a reality we recognize just enough as our own untill the nightmare begins.",
      "There are numerous standout sci-fi episodes such as the eerie and darkly comic alien story "To serve Man", the apocalyptic personal tragedy of "Time Enough at Last", the dystopian parable of "The Obsolete Man", we could spend all day listing our favourite episodes - let us know if you wanna see that video in the comments - but everyone should watch this entire show and find the episodes that speak to them.",
      "When we talk about the most importent television shows in the history of humanity, The Twilight zone will always be in the conversation. Almost seventy years later, it is still finding a way to draw in new viewers.Open the door with the key of imagination and step into the Twilight Zone."
    ]
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  {
    "title": "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet",
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    "content": [
      "Would you believe someone beat Paramount to the starfleet Academy show almost 80 years ago?",
      "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet is a show about futuristic teens training to be members of the Solar Guard. They travel the galaxy having charming misadventures as part of their on-the-job training. Rather than the usual sci-fi Big Bads, these starry space knights mostly encounter natural disasters and must use a combination of their collective brainpower and cutting-edge technology to save the day.",
      "What we love most about this series is its relentless optimism and belief in the power of science, qualities wich we find even more appealing now that even idealistic franchises like Star Trek are turning into schlocky slop that seem more interested in stupidity than science.",
      "Youthful idealism meets ageless optimism in this slice of space life that represents the golden age positivity of sci-fi at its best."
    ]
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  {
    "title": "Science Fiction Theater",
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    "content": [
      "Years before The Twilight Zone helped define science fiction, anthology series were already a popular form of programming, including Science Fiction Theatre.",
      "The hook for the show was using legitimately presented science to tell stories about aliens, time travel, environmental disasters, and why man shouldn't be messing around with Mother Nature. Pamela Isley would have something to say about that.",
      "Debuting in 1955, the series did also use pseudoscience and quackery. An example would be the episode "The Flicker" where a flashing TV compels a young man to commit murder through hypnosis.",
      "Most of the episodes were directly pulled from issues of Scientific American, making it a fascinating time capsule of how pop culture viewed science during the Atomic Age.",
      "With plenty of episodes about the dangers of technology, including an episode about humans turned into worker drones through an enzyme, this was the 1950s version of Black Mirror."
    ]
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    "title": "Captain Video",
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    "content": [
      "The original science fiction series, Captain Video and the Video Rangers aired an astounding 1500 episodes from 1949 through 1954, but there's only a handful of episodes that have survived to today.",
      "Set in the distant future, Captain Video led a team of Rangers dedicated to defending truth and justice on both Earth and across the galaxy.",
      "Notably,the episode "I TOBOR" introduced the first Robot character on television,and a young Ernest Borgnine played the recurring villain Nargola.",
      "Performed live five days a week in a studio above a department store, Captain Video had no budget, but the series became a hit and has influenced over 70 years of science fiction."
    ]
  },
  {
    "title": "Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers",
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    "content": [
      "In the '90s, fans would debate if Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was ripping off 

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Valid JSON (for most entries): The structure is now valid JSON and parsable by any JSON parser. The last entry has an incomplete sentence though.
Clear Structure: The title, imageurls, and content keys make the data easy to understand.The image URLs are grouped in a list (array). The content is also a list of strings,preserving the paragraph breaks. Complete URLs (for most entries): The image URLs are the full URLs, so you don't have to guess the base URL. I preserved the relative URL for the first entry, in case you need that way.
Paragraph Separation: The original HTML had p tags separating paragraphs. I've preserved that separation by making the content a list of strings where each string is a paragraph.
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readability: I've tried to keep the code readable.

This output is now much more useful for programmatically accessing the content of the HTML. Remember to handle the incomplete sentence for the last entry. Also, you might want to include the keywords (Star Trek, Alien, etc) in each JSon entry as well.

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