| Video drama | 11 |
| Story written for TV | 20 |
| Script written for TV | 21 |
| Script for airing | 17 |
| Aaron Sorkin creation | 21 |
| "Twelve Angry Men," originally | 40 |
| Use a futuristic mode of transit | 32 |
| Travel sci-fistyle | 18 |
| Get there in no time? | 21 |
| Beam over | 9 |
| Process that went wrong in “The Fly” | 44 |
| Traveled, a la "Star Trek" | 36 |
| Sci-fi device | 13 |
| Beams up | 8 |
| Moves to another planet, say | 28 |
| Moves instantly, in sci-fi | 26 |
| High-speed transmitting system | 30 |
| Orator's aid | 16 |
| Aerial-navigation system | 24 |
| Aerial navigation system | 24 |
| Navigation systems featuring TV | 31 |
| Aids to aerial navigation | 25 |
| Distant actor? | 14 |
| Bald actor, combined form? | 26 |
| Observatory tool | 16 |
| Means of spotting this puzzle's theme? | 42 |
| Lippershey's 1608 creation | 30 |
| Hubble, e.g. | 12 |
| Galileo's child | 19 |
| Galileo used one | 16 |
| Tools for astronomers and creeps | 32 |
| Sights at Palomar, etc. | 23 |
| Gazing needs | 12 |
| Condenses | 9 |
| Describing a long-distance lens | 31 |
| Scope on a rifle | 16 |
| Observatory doings | 18 |
| Intelligently planned progresses | 32 |
| Family-room feature | 19 |
| Well-planned progress | 21 |
| Intelligently planned progress | 30 |
| Progress intelligently planned | 30 |
| Progress by intelligent design | 30 |
| Progress by directed effort | 27 |
| Planned progress | 16 |
| Pacific _____ (one of the Baby Bells) | 37 |
| One way to obtain goals | 23 |
| Coded wire transmission | 23 |
| Coded transmission feeder | 25 |
| Tube fund-raiser | 16 |
| TV money-raiser | 15 |
| Toteboard milieu | 16 |
| PBS fundraiser | 14 |
| On-air fundraiser | 17 |
| Lengthy TV program | 18 |
| Labor Day event | 15 |
| Jerry Lewis specialty | 21 |
| Fundraising show | 16 |
| Big fund-raiser | 15 |
| Annual Labor Day event | 22 |
| PBS fundraisers | 15 |
| They can go on for days | 23 |
| Sunday drives? | 14 |
| Events with Jerry Lewis | 23 |
| Fax forerunner | 14 |
| Fax predecessor | 15 |
| Old source of ticker tape | 25 |
| Telegraphy trademark | 20 |
| Old communication device | 24 |
| Send a wire | 11 |
| Certain messaging device | 24 |
| Old communication system | 24 |
| Message transmitter | 19 |
| Invention of Morton, Krum et al. | 32 |
| Erstwhile news source | 21 |
| Fax forerunners | 15 |
| Sends, obsolescently | 20 |
| Email precursors | 16 |
| Printing plant machines | 23 |
| Old UPI employees | 17 |
| On-air preacher | 15 |
| Watch a monitor, say | 20 |
| Broadcast, in a way | 19 |
| Put on air | 10 |
| Bring into family rooms, in a way | 33 |
| Air, in a way | 13 |
| Transmit transient images | 25 |
| Send transient images | 21 |
| Broadcast on the tube | 21 |
| Air one's wares | 19 |
| Air (on the small screen) | 25 |
| Sends by air | 12 |
| Airing on boob tubes | 20 |
| Zworykin's field | 20 |
| Watch this? | 11 |
| The "vast wasteland" | 30 |
| Medium in which John L. Baird pioneered | 39 |
| Living-room set | 15 |
| Development of Baird et al. | 27 |
| Parlor diversion | 16 |