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Posted on December 21st, 2009
and last modified on April 20th, 2010
Listen To Dimension X, Episode 01 The Outer Limit
Tagged Under : 1950, Aliens, Dimension X, Old Time Radio, OTR, Outer Space, sci-fi, Spaceship, Strato Rocket, UFO, Visi-Screen
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Once in flight everything is working according to plan when Weston suddenly reports sighting something large and shiny above his plane. Weston gives chase to the mysterious object and then disappears from ground controls radar screen with only ten minutes of fuel left. Search planes are sent out but find no sign of the downed plane.
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Ten hours later, Weston’s plane miraculously returns to base. Weston tells an unbelievable story of having been taken aboard a strange alien craft and told that if earth does not immediately stop its experiments with atomic weapons the planet will be destroyed. He tells Hanson and Major Donaldson what he was told:
“If you continue to make atom bombs and hydrogen bombs, each many times more powerful than the last, and if you start making war with them, exploding them, it would upset the balance of the entire universe, throw all space into chaos. This, of course, we cannot allow. And the force screen with which we have surrounded the earth will prevent it by exploding the earth itself. Remember then, Earthman, if you start an atomic war the earth will at once be completely destroyed. Warn them, Earthman!”
Steve’s rambling account so concerns Hanson that he calls in a psychiatrist, Major Donaldson, who confirms that Weston sincerely believes his amazing story but Weston is simply out of touch with reality.
In frustration Weston escapes to his test plane the RJX-1 and locks himself in the cockpit. He tells Hanson that he will turn his jet engines on to full power and level the base if he doesn’t arrange for a test scheduled for midnight in the south pacific to be stopped.
To pacify Weston, Hanson agrees to request a suspension to the testing. However, Hanson’s assurance that the nuclear test had been postponed is only a ruse. As the drama draws to a close, Hanson and Major Donaldson are left to reflect on Steve’s hallucination and how the test pilot had been able to keep his experimental plane in the air ten hours after he ran out of fuel. It is thirty seconds to midnight.
Then…
You are left to choose whether to believe or disbelieve the test pilot’s story.
This the first show on Dimension X was The Outer Limit by Graham Doar which was adapted from a short story from The Saturday Evening Post (December 24, 1949). “The Outer Limit” was also dramatized several times on radio during the 1950′s in such shows as Escape (February 7, 1950), Suspense (February 15, 1954) and X Minus One (November 16, 1955), Beyond Tomorrow (April 18, 1950), and two versions for Suspense (February 02, 1950 and March 17, 1957). There were even productions of “The Outer Limit” on Television on shows such as Out There (October 28, 1951), Beyond Tomorrow (April 13, 1950) and Suspense (February 15, 1954)
Broadcast Date: 50-04-08
Cast:
Steve Weston – Joseph Julian
Hank Hanson – Wendell Holmes
Major Donaldson – Van Woodward
Other Credits:
Written By: Graham Doar (adapted by Ernest Kinoy)
Produced By: Van Woodward
Directed By: Edward King
Announcer: Norman Rose
Commercial: None
Promotion: None
Space Age Gizmos:
The Outer Limit – A barrier or limit by which no one has been beyond.
Strato Rocket – Rocket Plane designed to go into the stratosphere.
Visi-Screen – Video Telephone communicator.
Space Ships/Ports/Stations This Episode:
Strato Rocket RJX-1
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