Thanks to Chris Meservey for researching this week’s significant sitcom happenings. May 23rd, 1997: NewsRadio Goes Where No Sitcom Has Gone Before The official season three finale of NewsRadio, “Space,” was the first of a series of fantasy episodes where the show explored a “what if” premise, like “What if WNYX was actually the Titanic?” and other crazy things like that. In this episode, instead of a radio station, WNYX is a space station in the distant future. The station is run by voice commands that rarely work, Matthew (Andy Dick) has an android girlfriend, Dave (David Foley) and Mr. James (Stephen Root) go over the books using virtual reality, and there are plenty of cheeky references to sci-fi movies and TV shows, like