The Information Age has some cool benefits. Like being able to look up childhood entertainments. Once and a while a half remember fragment comes to mind and Google and Wikipedia are a wiz at finding this stuff.
Lately, it was the War of Worlds TV Series. The most striking aspect of this largely forgotten TV series is the aliens stored in steel drums, wearing human bodies like a suit, and using large doses of radiation to keep the nasty microbes at bay.
Before then it was the Tom Swift novels I grew up reading. I really wish I still had these. Turns out these have a very long history, going back to the 1910’s.