candidate: " End of the Beginning " ( novel ) , a 2005 Days of Infamy novel by Harry Turtledove " The End of the Beginning " ( play ) , one - act play by Sean O'Casey , an episode of " Hercules : The Legendary Journeys " " The End of the Beginning " , a short story by Ray Bradbury , included in his 1959 collection " A Medicine for Melancholy "