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- ↑ Terrace, Vincent (2014-01-10). Encyclopedia of Television Pilots, 1937-2012. ISBN 9781476602493.
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- ↑ Terrace, Vincent (2013). Encyclopedia of Television Pilots, 1937–2012. McFarland. p. 164. ISBN 9781476602493 . Retrieved 1 September 2017.