Spacemens Luck

 

Where Tom Corbett, Captain Video, CMDR Corry and Other Spacemen Still Live

Based on a Ray Bradbury story “The Meteor”. Amateur astronomer John Putnam, a romantic dreamer misunderstood by the local townsfolk, and schoolteacher and fiance Ellen Fields see a fiery ball fall from the sky and crash into the desert near the small town of Sand Rock, Arizona. John drags his friend, Pete, out of bed to take him and Ellen over to the crash site near the old Excelsior Mine in his helicopter. Once there, John climbs down into the crater. Unfortunately, he does so alone, as Pete and Ellen wait for him on the rim of the crash crater. John is the only one who sees the spaceship before a landslide covers it. And John is the only one who catches a glimpse of the hideous thing inside.

John Putnam’s story is ridiculed by the townspeople, Sheriff Warren, and the local media. Even Ellen is unsure of what to believe at first, but soon agrees to assist John in further investigation. In the following days, several local people disappear. A few return, only to begin to act in bizarre ways, such as speaking and behaving in a zombie-like manner and staring directly at the sun for long periods of time. In the meantime, the local telephone repairmen, Frank Daylon and his assistant George, are kidnapped by the creatures who convert to the looks of the repairmen and begin to act strangely. John is convinced that their likenesses were taken over by the space visitors. As it turns out, they are actually aliens from the buried spaceship, and the real humans have been abducted by them including his fiance Ellen.

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One morning a young boy (Jimmy Hunt), David McLean, wakes up early to view an astral event through his telescope but what David actually sees is a huge flying saucer crash into the sand dunes just beyond the fence of his house. He awakens his father who thinks it was just a bad dream but goes and looks anyway. When he doesn’t return, David’s Mother calls the Police. Officers Jackson and Blaine arrive and head out back to see if they can find George.

Meanwhile David’s Dad finally returns the next morning with a lame excuse and a strange mark on his neck. But George is no longer a loving father, Where once he was cheerful and affectionate, he’s now sullen and snarlingly rude. David is convinced that aliens have done something to his dad so decides to keep an eye on the field when he sees a young girl named Kathy Wilson sucked under a stretch of sand that he becomes convinced of it.

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A mysterious planet has entered our solar system and is approaching Earth at breakneck speed. It appears it will miss and pass near the earth. A small Scottish village name Burray on a remotes island is where the planet is expected to pass nearest to the Earth. A group of characters are gathering on the island to investigate this Planet X. Professor Elliot, his attractive daughter Enid Elliot, dashing reporter John Lawrence, a newspaper reporter called to the Scottish moor by his friend, Professor Elliot, to cover what will be the story of his lifetime. The Professor’s assistant who is a bad (but not mad) scientist Dr. Mears. The Professor and his team are working out of a makeshift observatory in an old Scottish tower next to the local moor.

Elliot’s daughter Enid and John discover as they are walking the moors a “magnetically powered range finder” used to determine the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere whose metal has unearthly properties and is quite a find for science.

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In the future year of 1955 a mysterious visitor, named Graffious, to the Broderick Detective Agency, in downtown New York, hires Detective Broderick and his assistant “Iron Man” Doolan to find the Martian Embassy. Both Broderick and Doolan think Graffious is crazy and start to throw him out of their office. But Graffious flashes a $500.00 bank note and suddenly they are all ears.

Grafiius explains that he is an eccentric that believes that if the Martians were on Earth they would be here only as a prelude to an invasion. That if they are indeed on Earth they would have their “Embassy” in New York the center of economic and political activity. Their Embassy would act as a listening post to gather intelligence for their planned invasion.

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This is the first episode in the then new (1950) science fiction anthology series Dimension X. The show begins in the distant future in the year 1965 (April 15, 1965) and were standing beside the giant concrete runway of a desert testing ground somewhere in the American Southwest. Test pilot Steve Weston is getting last minute instructions from his boss Hanson and well wishes before he is to lift off in an experimental Strato Rocket the RJX-1 and fly higher than any man had gone before—to the outer reaches of earth’s atmosphere.

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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