1992 Prisoners of Gravity Freedom & Censorship

April 2, 1992, Commander Rick examines the censoring of and censorship in comics and speculative fiction, with his guests: science fiction author Connie Willis discussing her short story "Ado"; fantasy author Jane Yolen; SF writer George Alec Effinger (What Entropy Means to Me); Pamela Sargent, editor of SF anthology Afterlives; Canadian film director David Cronenberg (Naked Lunch); Paul Stockton of the Comic Legends Legal Defense Fund; DC Comics editor Karen Berger; and disabled cartoonist John Callahan, whose refusal to make his controversial cartoons "politically correct" won him a Freedom of Expression award from the American Civil Liberties Union. Prisoners of Gravity was a Canadian television news magazine program. Produced by TVOntario, the show was created by Mark Askwith and Daniel Richler, and was hosted by Rick Green. The series aired 139 episodes over five seasons from 1989 to 1994. The series explored speculative fiction—science fiction, fantasy, horror, comic books—and its relation to various thematic and social issues.