Master of Science Fiction

A Clean Escape (1x1)

Air date: Aug 04, 2007

A Clean Escape is a 1985 short story by John Kessel, later adapted into a play by Kessel in 1986. It features a psychiatrist attempting to cure the President of the United States of his amnesia so that he can be held accountable for precipitating a nuclear holocaust. The story was adapted by Sam Egan as the script for the first episode of Masters of Science Fiction, which first aired August 4, 2007.