Adventures in time and space transcribed in future tense. The Mansion Can you predict what will come in 100 years, or in 10, or in the next minute? Some people think they can. Nuclear scientists, mathematicians, astronomers, biologists. They'll predict the shape of the future because they make the future. Because they see beyond the known dimensions of time and space into the unknown dimension X. We go ahead now in time to 1965. We're on a vast concrete runway set in the desert of the southwest. A giant metal ship stands before us, frow pointed for the stars. And in five minutes the signal will flash and it will tear up through the atmosphere to the outer left. Attention! Attention! Clear field for takeoff. Clear field for takeoff. Five minutes, Steve. All right. We're up, Charlie! We're over! Takeoff! I want to go over for Steve here again, Steve. Don't worry, I got it straight. We'll just make sure. Okay. I take her up on jets to 50,000 and then I cut in the rocket. No lower or your tail blast will burn out three counties. I climb four minutes on rockets then start my Nova test. Remember that. No more than four minutes. Right. This ship isn't like those Strator rockets you've been testing. She's the first one built for outer space. If she works, she can go clear to the moon. If I'd known that I'd have brought my toothbrush. Not this trip. Now get this, Steve. You've got power there to clear the Earth's gravitational field. But remember, after you cut in the rockets, you've only got 10 minutes fuel. If you go beyond the outer limit and don't save fuel for the return... I know. I won't get down again. That's right, Steve. You'll drift off into space. Get that now. 10 minutes fuel. Gotcha. As far as I'm concerned, this project is a lot more important than that cosmic ray bomb they're testing out in the Pacific tonight. Well, Security Commissioner Brass doesn't think so. I don't see any undersecretaries under anything. Don't worry. In the long run, our ship will make the C.R. bomb backpaid stuff. But in the meantime, it's just as dangerous. Remember, half the principles of this ship are pure theory, Steve. Slide rule stuff. If anything goes wrong, we may have to scrape you off the landscape with a soup spoon. You have a charming sense of humor. And here's what I'm getting at. We're risking your neck in this test. If anything blows, we don't want to have the next man pull the same boner. I know, Hank. So keep your mic open and keep talking. If anything goes wrong, we want to know exactly why. And we won't be able to ask you. Let us know before you pull every switch. Before you do anything. You got that? Yeah. Even if you only have to blow your nose. All right, get those fuel lines away. Okay, Mr. Groves. Well, I guess that's about all, Steve. It reminds me, look, if Mary calls, I'm just up on a milk run. I didn't tell her today, was it? How is she? She's okay, but she's due about now and I don't want her to be nervous. Hey, I didn't know the baby was that close. Yeah. Steve, I really ought to be sending a single man on this job. You're cutting me out of a soft paycheck. Forget it, Hank. You know, you can't get anybody else who can take 15 G's acceleration when those rockets cut in. Yeah, I know. It's time, Steve. Yeah. Well, see you later. Don't worry, Hank, I'll sweat for both of us. Button her up, Charlie. So long, Hank. So long. We'll give you the light from control. Extra guard and control, extra guard and control. Are you there, young man? Okay, Steve, got you on the speaker. I'm ready to go. Mr. Hanson. Ready on radar, Sergeant? Check. Mr. Hanson, you better see this. What is it, Hogan? Message center for Steve. Mrs. Weston just left for the hospital. What? Stand by a minute. Shall we hold the takeoff, Mr. Hanson? What? Oh, yes. No, wait just a minute. It's too late now. Is he going to tell him? Maybe he's got enough to worry about. Hey, what's all the good stuff, Hank? Something in your mind? No, no, it's nothing, Steve. I just wanted to say good luck. Clear for takeoff, Charlie? All right. Okay, give him the light. Okay, give him the light. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right, Steve, I'm reading you clear. 40,000. Airspeed 600. She's running fine. Sound-proofing works. There's a third-degree waiver of the AGIlogo. Got that, Charlie? Check. Dead center on radar, Mr. Hanson. Fifty thousand now. Cutting out the port jet. Now theよし Porque... From off jet. Airspeed dropping. Got that Charlie? Check. Dead center on radar Mr. Hans. 50,000 now. Cutting out the port jet. Now the starboard. Off jet. Airspeed dropping. Opening the rocket foot. Switch makes a little charlie. Oxi out to all pressure at 350. Alright now I'm advancing the ignition key. Here goes rocket one. Steve, Steve you alright? Yeah. I don't think nobody's smoking with it too much ever. Airspeed 9 on 1200. Here goes number two. Hello Steve. Elapsed rocket time is now four minutes. What's your altitude? Over to you. Speed 4400. Still climbing. Altitude 297 miles. Alright you're at the outer limit. Level off for maneuver test. You've got exactly six minutes fuel left. Okay. Starting a three degree left bank. It's a little sluggish. That's alright now. There's a low vibration someplace. Maybe the cockpit hatch. Now I'm straightening out. Five minutes fuel left. Now I'm starting a three degree ru... Hey! What's the matter? What's wrong? There's something up here. Something shining. What are you talking about? There's something above me Hank. I'm gonna chase it. Steve, Steve you're at the outer limit now. I can see a plane now. Steve don't go any higher. You've only got four minutes left. You've only got... A little static. I can't hear you Hank. It's better head now. Better make a pass at it. Get a good look. Hey it's starting to meet me. It's better head now. It's better head. Hello. Hello. Hello Steve. Steve come in. Nine minutes fuel gone. Still no sign on radar. Hello. Hello Steve. Steve what's happened? Charlie get out the cry squad. Tell the army squadron to alert their search planes. Nine and a half minutes gone. Hello. Hello Steve. What's happened? Who the devil is he? Hello. Come in Steve. Come in. Hello. Hello Steve. Hello Steve. Ten minutes Mr. Hanson. At the end of this duel. How long has it been now? Ten hours Mr. Hanson. Nothing more on radar Sergeant. Screens blank. Colonel Corelli called in. Search planes are back. He didn't find anything. Should be some trace. He couldn't have bailed out could he? He don't hit the silk at 4400 miles an hour. Either went past the outer limit ran out of fuel. Something blew and we'll find the pieces scattered from here to the coast. Why does it have to be the best man? Always the best man. I can't get it. Charlie. Charlie we've. You know we've got to figure out what was wrong. Alright I'll tell him. Something. Something must have blown. There's a message from Northside Hospital for. For Steve. What is it? Mrs. Weston's fine. It's a boy. Thank you Elsie. It's a boy Charlie. Oh. Fine. Fine. It's a boy. He didn't even know she went to the hospital. How am I going to tell Mary that? Wasn't your fault Mr. Hanson. Ship had to be tested. Yeah yeah we'll build another one and some other flying fool will shoot past the outer limit into space. Oh I'm getting old Charlie. You can remember when I used to take him up myself. Now I've got to send other men. It's a job Mr. Hanson. Now I'm afraid. Every time I hear a jet go off I jump. Every time I have to send someone up in a new model I start to sweat. Mr. Hanson. Yeah. I think there's something on the radar. No flights scheduled in are there Elsie? We have the whole day cleared. It's coming in behind us. Here it comes over the building. What crazy jock is buzzing the field like that. Is that an army plane Charlie? I can't see. It's turning. Charlie alert the field. I know that engine. It's Steve. That's impossible. Look. That's his ship. It can't be. There's no other model like that. It's Steve all right. It's coming in. Thank God. All right sit down Steve. The quicker we get this done the quicker you get over to see Marion the baby. Hank. Elsie give the order to check and refuel the rockets. I don't want anybody in here until I get Steve's reports. Bury any calls. All right let's have it. Let the devil happen to you. Hank does that cosmic ray bomb still go off tonight? What are you talking about? Straighten out Steve. Where have you been for the last 10 hours? Listen Hank. There's something more important. Come on. Come on. I've got to get a report on the screen to Washington so let's have it. I've got to know how you stretch 10 minutes fuel to keep you in the air for 10 hours. One thing before I talk. Look Steve. Have the Geiger men run over the ship before they refuel. What did you run into? So help me Hank. I don't know. We better check and make sure it isn't radioactive. Elsie add a Geiger report on the standard check. Steve maybe we better have the doc look you over. Look you over too. No no I'll be all right. They said I'd be all right. They? Look son I know you've had a tough time but we've had this field on the alert for 10 hours. One of the army boys cracked up looking for you and he's hurt bad. So let's have the story. Let's have it straight. I don't know how to tell you. Hank. I saw something up there. A 300 mile. I chased something up there Hank. And I caught it. Now don't hand me that. Listen. I was cruising along. Just starting the right bank when I spotted something. It must have been going about half my speed. It was egg shaped and smooth. I made a pass at it and I was coming back for another and then there was a humming sound. Humming? A sort of vibration. And I blacked out. I was headed straight for it at 4400 miles an hour. I thought it was going to be the biggest smash since Hiroshima and... I guess they were drinking that bottle. Never mind that Steve. What happened? I came to. Inside their ship. Uh huh. Steve this whole thing has been a devil of a strain on you. I'm going to call Major Donaldson from the army base. Ask him to sit in. The psychiatrist? Yeah. Yeah that's a good idea. Let him run his tests. He'll tell you. I'm not kidding. Because Hank. Unless I miss my guess. I've just been tipped off to the way the world ends. Alright Mr. Weston. Suppose you continue your story. Yes let's have it Steve. You woke up inside the ship. Yes and uh... The place was jammed with machinery. Dials, blinkers. I couldn't recognize anything. And you were surrounded by these men from Mars. I didn't say anything about men from Mars. I didn't even say they were men. I couldn't see them clearly. They were just there. Where did they come from then? Another galaxy. Millions of miles outside of our solar system. That's all I know. You figure out where they came from. And they came all that distance to find the Earth? Yes. Did they tell you that? Yes. You mean they spoke English to you? No no they didn't. It's funny. I hadn't thought. They didn't really speak to me at all. They just... Just planted the thoughts in my mind. You mean thought transference, telepathy? Yes that's right. Well Steve what brought them here? We did Hank. We rang their bell. We brought them in. How? With our atomic explosions. Hank that's why you've got to stop that bomb test tonight. I'll give up. Look you've got to believe me Hank. Oh how can I make you understand? Maybe I can help Mr. West. Would you submit to narco psychometry? What's that? Under proper drugs I can put you back in this ship by suggestion. Then we can get a playback record of your memory pattern on the audio circuit. How long will that take? Half an hour. We'll have to go over to the lab. Will you believe me if it checks? It will give us an accurate memory picture of what your mind reports. Alright let's go. Hank you've got to believe me we haven't got much time. You should be getting drowsy now. Count backwards from ten. Ten. Nine. Eight. Nine. Six. Six. He's under. Now we attach the head plate electrodes. The cortical pickup. Look out for that wire Mr. Hanson. Three old settings. Thirty one point three. Now throw that switch Mr. Hanson. I have to start him off by suggestion. Alright Steve. You're in your ship now. You're in the rocket. What? You're in the rocket. You're in the rocket. And you've just sighted something strange. Now I'm starting at three degree right. What's that? Hey. There's something up here. Something shining. It's memory pattern. We're picking it up electronically. Something above me Hank. I'm going to chase it. It's piped through the audio circuits. I'm getting static I can't hear you Hank. This is where we lost contact with him. I'm going to make a pass at it and. Hey it's warping to meet me. It's not ahead now. It's not ahead. Now what? This is where he blacked out. There's no telling how long minutes or hours. What's that noise? I don't know. Quiet. Where? How did I get in here? What? Who are you? Is he seeing things? Intergalactic patrol. What's that? What are they saying Steve? What are they saying? It's about nuclear fission. They know about it. They know the danger of it. Long ago they had wars that almost destroyed them. But finally they learned. Now they've outlawed war. Go on Steve. They patrol space. When their detector picks up an atomic explosion. They send a patrol. What are they going to do? They've quarantined us. Quarantined? They've isolated the earth. Because we don't know how to control ourselves yet. Until we learn we'll be a menace to the whole universe. What is this nonsense? How are they going to do it Steve? They've spread a layer out here of. I don't know how to call it. All around the earth. It's miles deep. When there's an atomic explosion on earth. The radioactive particles will drift up to this layer. And set off a chain reaction. It'll go around the world in microseconds. And that's the end. The end? Wait wait. Yes. Yes. I understand. I've got to bring back the warning. You're going to put me back in my ship. To bring the warning. Now what? Blackout again. I guess that's all. What does all that mean? It's what he remembers. I don't think that really happened. No no. Narcosocometry circuits produce what he remembers. It just means that Steve believes this happened. I don't like to see this. I've seen too many top pilots snap. Steve is the best I've known. How bad do you think he is? Frankly outside of the presence of this well organized hallucination. There's no sign of unbalance. May not be too serious. If he had a more plausible story I'd be inclined to believe him. Why? Why? Hank. It's alright boy. Did you hear it Hank? You understand? Sure sure. We've been quarantined. Let me give you something to make you sleep Steve. Don't you understand? They fixed it so that if we set off one more nuclear explosion. That'll be it. Of course. Don't roll your sleeve down. You don't believe me? Take it easy Steve. They're testing tonight. They're setting off to see our bomb. Hank what time is it? Eleven twenty. Well it's scheduled for midnight. Hank we've got to stop that bomb. Steve let Donaldson give you the hypo. Hank you've got to believe me. I saw them. I got the warning. If we touch off that bomb tonight. It'll be the biggest galactic fourth of July of all time. The whole earth will go up like a Roman candle. April 10th 1965 the end. Now look Steve you better calm down. Don't you want to see Mary and the baby? You've got a new son remember? Yeah that's just it Hank. I want to see my son. I want him to live. If that bomb goes off. Hank we've got to stop them. Mr. Hanson I think we better get over to the base hospital. Hank you've got to believe me. Yeah sure sure Steve. Maybe there is something to it. Look it's out of your hands. I'll put it in a report and shove it into Washington in the morning. In the morning? There isn't going to be any morning Hank. Don't you understand? You've got to call Washington now. Get the head of the security commission and postpone that test. No you know I can't do that Steve. My neck will be out of mile. Besides this is 1965 not 45. 20 countries have atomic bombs now. What's the use of stopping just this one? The rest will keep right on popping them up. Well we'll have to call an international conference. Can't you understand Hank? The first one that goes off finishes us at the end. They've given us the quarantine warning. Steve I think you'd better go with us to the base hospital. Look Steve. We can call up for a detail if we have to. Alright alright. I'll go with you. You don't need a straight jacket. That's the way Steve. You'll probably feel better by morning. Let's go. Well Steve tomorrow I'll drive you over to the hospital to see Mary and the kid. Sure. Look at the ship under the floodlights. Pretty huh? You'll be flying her again soon don't you worry. Yeah yeah I guess so. What are you doing out in the line? The fuel? Yeah we've got Klausowitz coming in tomorrow from Denver for another test. I figure we'd give you a day off. That's good. That's fine. Steve come back. Come on Donald. Steve wait. He's heading for the rocket. Look there he goes up. That crazy fool. We can't get at him now. That covers armor glass. He's waving towards control. There's the radio. He needs the radio. Come on. I should have gotten help. Another radio still hooked up here. Hello. Hello Steve. Listen to me Hank. You've got to call Washington now. Come out of that rocket Steve. I'll call my men. Don't try anything Hank. They refuel the rocket for tomorrow. Take it easy Steve. Listen you know what will happen when I fire the rocket tubes down here? Steve don't. It will burn out every building for five miles. All of us in one big blast. Steve what do you want? You've got to stop that bomb. You've got to call Washington right now. They won't believe me. You make that call or I cut in the rocket. I mean it Hank. I'll hook my screen to yours in parallel. I want to see exactly what you're doing. Alright alright. Just don't fire those rockets. Get going Hank. You've got 12 minutes to make that call and stop that bomb. Alright I'm making the parallel hook up right now. Donaldson you think he'll really blast? I don't know up to now. I don't want to say he was normal. But now he's liable to do anything Hank. Steve. Steve there you're getting it on your screen? Yeah. Now put that call through. Alright. Operator. Visiscreen to Washington. The visiscreen circuits are busy sir. If you'll try again in half an hour. This is security commission priority. Break in and get me a line. Yes sir. Just a moment please. Ten minutes Hank. Listen Steve I'm trying. We're ready to take your call sir. Washington security commission three. This is urgent. I want under secretary Herbert Ames. Washington three. One moment please. Hurry will you? One moment please. What time is it Donaldson? 11 51. Do you think he'll fire those rockets? He might. Washington. Visiscreen three. Mr. Herbert Ames please. That is a coded exchange. I cannot accept your call without clearance. Get it through Hank. Listen Washington put it through. This is Mr. Hanson at San Marco air base. This is a priority call. I'm coded. One moment please. I will check your code number. Get that through Hank and it bonkers off at 12. Will you be reasonable Steve? Your call has cleared San Marco. Washington visiscreen three. Herbert Ames please. Security commission Ames. Listen to Ames. Hello Hank. Ames you've got to get me to the chief. Are you kidding? He's at the test control room. Yes I know but get him for me. What's up? You look lousy. Is it a bad circuit? I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. It's about the CR bomb. I can't take that responsibility. Get that through Hank. Right blank. What's going on there? Ames my project has a high enough rating. This is a priority A call. What? Okay it's your neck. I'll try to get him for you. He's in the control room so you'll have to switch off your screen and speaker and go on earphones. Too much going on in there. Security ruling. You hear that Steve? I've got to cut the incoming screen. All right but don't try anything. Eight minutes Hank. Hello? Hello? What? You got him Hank? Yes. This is Hanson in San Marco. No sir priority A request to cancel the bomb test. No no I'm serious this is deadly serious. We sent the X2JTR up today to the outer limit. We uncovered evidence. Yes on the automatic instruments. What's that? No possible chain reaction. No I can't tell you the whole story there isn't time here. Yes yes I'll bring the readings into Washington in the morning. You've got to postpone the test until you see them. Look I've worked on contracts with the commission for ten years. Yes yes I have complete confidence in my information. You can record that. All right I'll call you back immediately. Bye. Hank? Hank? He's agreed to cancel Steve. The bomb won't go off. All right boy. You can come down out of that ship. He's opening up. Here he comes. All right Steve come on down. Sure Hank just a second. Hank I was scared. I was plain scared. Easy now it's all over. The bomb won't go off. Thank God. Look I want to see Mary and the baby. Can you get me transportation now? Wait a minute it's almost 12 they won't let you in the hospital now. I want to see the baby. Sure you do but you've been under a strain. I've got a shot for you here Steve. Give you a good night's sleep. All right. Roll up your sleeve. Here. There that'll make you sleep. Sergeant will find you a bed. Yes sir come on Mr. Weston. Okay good night Hank. I'm kind of late. I'm going to have a tough night. It sure has. I thought for a minute he was going to blast those rockets and send us all to Kingdom Come. Yeah. Quite a stunt getting the ray bomb test called off. It isn't called off. But the chief said... Ames couldn't get the chief. I was talking to a dead circuit. Bomb goes off in a couple of minutes. Oh poor Steve. He was one of the best. He was the best. One in ten million. Some story of this poor guy. For a while he almost had me believing that quarantine. That's a very common illusion. End of the world. Yeah. I suppose so. Ah it's a nice night. Never saw the stars so bright. We better be getting in that wind is cold. The bomb goes off in thirty seconds. Poor Steve. You know Hanson there's just one thing. Yeah? It's outside my field but I'm curious. How did he keep that ship in the air for ten hours? With only ten minutes fuel. You have just heard another adventure in time, space, and the unknown world of the future. The world of... Dimension X. Next week a star of the future appearing on the program of the future, Dimension X. Next week Miss Nancy Olsen, the talented young actress whose performance in Sunset Boulevard, marks her as one of Hollywood's most promising young actresses, becomes the first of a group of rising young artists of stage and screen who have been invited to make an appearance in this series. So listen then for Hello Tomorrow starring Nancy Olsen on Dimension X. Tonight Dimension X has transcribed The Outer Limits, written by Graham Doerr and adapted for radio by Ernest Kanoy. Featured in the cast were Wendell Holmes as Hanson, Joseph Julian as Steve, and Joe DeSantis as Donaldson. Your host was Norman Rose. Music by Albert Berman, engineer Bill Chambers. Dimension X is produced by Van Woodward and directed by Edward King. © BF-WATCH TV 2021
