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TIL that Land of the Lost TV series had a number of respected sci-fi writers contribute scripts to the series, including Larry Niven, Theodore Sturgeon, Ben Bova, Norman Spinrad, and a number of people involved with Star Trek, such as D.C. Fontana, Walter Koenig, and David Gerrold.

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