While other shows sidestepped the use of the word "pregnant", for example, "Science Review" was amazingly forthright in showing the first live birth on television. In a related episode, "Science Review" presented a straightforward program demonstrating to women viewers how to examine themselves for breast cancer, and then went on to talk frankly about mastectomies." From 1950 to 1955, the program was syndicated nationally by the DuMont Television Network, and won Peabody Awards in 1950 (honorable mention) and 1952. Poole produced three successor series through 1960, when Johns Hopkins ended production. Kinescope films survived for many episodes of these series, which is unusual for early live television. Copies have been archived at the Johns Hopkins library. Poole documented the techniques he developed for television programming devoted to science in a 1950 book, "Science via Television". LaFollette notes that, "Production approaches that are now standard practice on "NOVA" and the Discovery Channel derive, in fact, from experimentation by television pioneers like Lynn Poole and Don Herbert and such programs as "Adventure", "Zoo Parade", "Science in Action", and the Bell Telephone System's science specials. These early efforts were also influenced by television's love of the dramatic, refined during its first decade and continuing to shape news and public affairs programming, as well as fiction and fantasy, today." Poole was also a prolific author, mostly of popular and young adult books about science. An early title related to several episodes of the "Science Review" program was "Your Trip into Space" (1953). A second volume that was noted in "The New York Times" was "Science: The Super Sleuth" (1954), which was about forensic science. Many of his books were published after his television work ceased in 1960. Poole and his wife Gray Johnson Poole wrote at least 16 nonfiction books together, beginning in 1960 with "Scientists Who Changed the World", published by Dodd, Mead in its Makers of Our Modern World series. The Pooles also published at least one novel, "The Magnificent Traitor; a Novel of Alcibiades and the Golden Age of Pericles" (1968). "One Passion, Two Loves; the story of Heinrich and Sophia Schliemann, discoverers of Troy" (Crowell, 1966) is their work most widely held in WorldCat libraries. Poole retired from Johns Hopkins in 1965, but continued his writing career.