 Tired of the everyday routine? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you escape. Escape designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure. Tonight we escape with the pilot of an experimental jet rocket aircraft about to be hurled 40 miles out from the Earth's surface into the limitless boundaries of space where he receives the most terrible warning in the history of man from which there is no escape as Graham door tells it in his thrilling and widely discussed story The Outer Limit starring Frank Lovejoy. I settle down man. All of you will want to know why we took you one out of whatever warm bed you were in. Got a reason. The RJX-1. Yeah yeah that's right the RJX-1. The top top secret experimental rocket jet aircraft. We've been babying it, nursing it, staying up nights with it for 16 months now. This morning Major Westfall is gonna wean it. Bill is gonna take her out and beat her up to death. I can't impress upon you men how extraordinary this flight is. It's an eight rocket ship. That's what I said eight rockets. Eight rockets designed to take man into areas of space that have never been explored before and at a rate of speed to which no pilot has yet been subjected. Some of you men have already flown many times the speed of sound so I don't have to tell you very much. Joe? Yes Colonel? You'll lead the F-86's. You and the other three jet boys will be Bill's chase planes. We want observation at 35,000 feet. Yes sir. Okay here's how it plays. Pull the curtains on the map will you sergeant? Yes sir. You see it circled here your rendezvous point. We designated point X it's roughly over Boulder Dam. Zero hour is 0900. Joe you and your jets will take off at zero minus 15 you got that? Yes sir. You F-86's will make conventional climbs to 30,000 feet. Rendezvous point X and call in to meet control at 35,000 feet right Joe? That cuts it Colonel. Oh no wait a minute not quite. Now we hear about the weather Pete. Yes Colonel. Well the weather is very pretty out boys all clear ceiling unlimited. Winds are off to 10,000 80 MPH 25,000 140 MPH 40,000 150 MPH. Estimated temperature 45 below at 40,000 feet. There's some scattered clouds northwest of point X at 15,000 feet. Stratus at 30,000 feet 30 miles east of point X east. We expect no change for three hours. That's it sir. Okay Pete. Joe you and your boys go unwrap your F-86's have a nice time. Yes sir. Major Westfall. Major Westfall, stick around I want to talk to you. Okay Hank. How you feeling Bill? No way. You worried Hank? Don't worry. Look Bill you've got only 10 minutes of rocket fuel. Get rid of those jets before you fire the rockets. Fire only one rocket at a time. Yeah that's right. Now look I'll be listening in on the public address of control. I won't bother you until you're airborne. It'll be between you and the tower until then. All right don't worry Hank. I'm gonna fly that baby higher and faster than anybody ever did before just like you said. I'm gonna take it up and I'm gonna bring it back and then you and I'll have dinner together. Zero minus three. Zero minus. Good morning Colonel. Mr. Hargrove. You'll be here at the control with me. It's all right with you Colonel. I wouldn't have it any other way. You've checked the communications equipment sergeant. Yes sir. Major Westfall has been assigned a special radio frequency of 3970. Good. You'll take care of it sergeant. We don't want it to poop out or anything like that do we? Yes sir. No sir sir. Hargrove I got a thing on my mind. That boy on the plane you genius is designed. He's my best boy. It's our best plane Colonel. It better be. Now it's your turn. What do you got on your mind? Everything's in proper order Colonel. Recording equipment, the television cameras and the cockpit everything. Every known scientific device even some unknown. They've been very talking about a man Hargrove. That's all I really want to get back out of this. What about the man? There may be one difficulty. Tell me about it I'd like to know. The takeoff with all that load. The jets the rockets all at maximum fuel capacity. Never been tested that way before. Go on Mr. Hargrove. Well it's just that Major Westfall has only 6,000 feet to get his ship airborne. If he accelerates from zero to 160 miles per hour in 6,000 feet he should be airborne in seven seconds. Seven seconds that makes zero plus G. Yes Colonel. Beyond zero plus G. Well beyond that we we don't know. We just don't know. Thanks. Thanks for everything Mr. Hargrove. Sergeant. Yes sir. Flip your switch on Major Westfall. I hear he's got a swell program. Flip them all will you Sergeant? Yes sir. RJX-1 to Tower. Any change in weather? Tower to RJX-1. Set your altimeter accordingly. Roger. Wind 15 miles from south. Take off runway 27. Runway 27. Got it. Zero minus 130. RJX-1 to control. Over. Control RJX-1. Go ahead. This is just for you Hank. Cabin pressure okay. Oxygen pressure okay. All right, all right. Get off the dime kid. I take a pill Hank. You'll need it to settle your stomach. Zero minus one. RJX-1 to crew chief. Over. Crew chief to RJX-1. Go ahead. I'm ready to fire. RJX-1 to tower. Go ahead. Western Airlines and Over Salt Lake. Roger. Western Airlines DC-4 on base lake at 1000 over Burbank. The rest of the air is yours. Thank you so much. Zero minus 10. RJX-1 to tower. Ready for takeoff. Tower to RJX-1. Clear for takeoff. Five. Good luck Bill. Four. Three. He's rolling. He's rolling. Lift it. Lift it. Lift it. Later Mr. Hargrove. Control to RJX-1. Go ahead. Everything's great, Hank. It's a doll baby. Hey, you must have been kidding with that takeoff, weren't you? It took that long to get off. That makes it a takeoff. How fast are you climbing kid? 1,700 a minute. Retract your landing gear. It'll help. Oops sorry. Call me at 20,000. 87. Everything is real good. Come in Hank. How do you feel? I like it here. Pressure okay? Okay. Control to F-86 leader. Go ahead. On schedule Joe. Control to RJX-1. Go ahead Bill. 40,000 feet Hank. Still a doll baby? Still is. Ready to pressurize. Can you hear me okay Hank? Coming in fine. Pressurized. Ready to prime rocket system in five seconds. Hoping left jet. All clear. Good luck Bill. Firing number one rocket. Okay Bill what is it? Bill are you receiving me? Control to RJX-1. Come in. Come in RJX-1. Hello Bill. Come in. Control to F-86 leader. Control to F-86 leader. Come in. What about it Joe? Try calling. Mr. Hargrove. F-86 to RJX-1. Share it with me Mr. Hargrove. Sit here and run your fingers through your hair and wait and think about it and share it with me. Go ahead F-86 leader. Stay up there Joe for as long as you can. What do we do now Colonel? I just told you Mr. Hargrove. We wait. You and me we wait. You haven't lost me. I can hear you Joe. Stay up there Joe for as long as you can. Hello. Hello. Hello. I'll try another frequency Joe. RJX-1 to F-86. Can you make me? RJX-1 to F-86. Come in. Come in. No good huh? I'll switch back to channel Charlie. I still can't get you Joe. I'll keep sending. Firing number eight rocket. Fired. Oh brother. Oh brother. RJX-1 to all you ships at sea. To all you people anywhere. This is Bill Westfall approaching 210,000 feet. That's 40 miles straight up in the air all you people and that's where I am. You never saw anything like it. No clouds. A color no one ever named before. Silence. Eight rockets roaring at my tail and I can't hear them. Their sound will never reach me at 1800 miles an hour. Silence so complete that the ticking of the clock on my instrument panel is a hammer in my brain. Silence. Otherwise nothing. Nothing except. No nothing at all. Wait a minute. Yes there is something all right at two o'clock high. Oh that's really something brother. Maybe a flying disc and this is a big one. Spinning like a top and it's coming toward me. Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Listen. Something has just happened. Something a missile shot maybe through the canopy. My pressure is going down. Something is happening to me. This disc thing it's like a magnet. I'm being filled toward it. I've lost control of my ship. I've no control. I'm going to decompress you. I'm on the verge of unconsciousness. I'm blocking out some flak. Do you hear? You are listening to the outer limit starring Frank Lovejoy in another thrilling adventure on Escape. He had only 10 minutes fuel. These three hours overdue. Well that's that Colonel. But wait some more Mr. Hargrove. There's no point to it. May I make a suggestion Colonel? What? Give it up. Make your report to Washington. What about you Mr. Hargrove? To be frank with you Colonel in another 16 months there'll be another plane. The RJX-2 and the army will give us another man to fly it. Not till we're certain about this man and we're not certain. What do you propose to do? The things that are in the manual. We'll organize search parties and put spotter planes up in the air. Maybe Bill came down on the ocean. We'll call an avian. Colonel if the RJX-1 came down on the ocean it would sink in three minutes. You know it had no life-preserver equipment on it. The added weight of the ocean. We'll call an avian. Whatever you say Colonel. My guess is- What's your guess Mr. Hargrove? My guess is that sometime somewhere on some beach or in some field someone will pick up a piece of torn metal. That someone will be holding what's left of the RJX-1. Yes sir. I am Zeglund. You're aboard the space patrol ship S2J3. Am I in communication with you? Can you understand me? Are we in contact? Can you understand now what I am saying to you? Yes yes. Yes I can understand you. Earthman your brain is in turmoil is it not? It has great difficulty in accepting what you see. Yeah. Yes that's right. Accepted. What you see here exists. All this? This exists? It exists Earthman. The spaceship you're on exists. Those jet dynamos you see before you exist. Jet dynamos driven by the harness power of a thousand suns. Listen Earthman. Listen to them. Do you know what happened as you listened Earthman? We have flung ourselves 10,000 miles into space. What do you say to that Earthman? Why I don't know what to say. It's beyond the conception of your Earth brain then conceive this. Try to move Earthman. You're not bound in any way. Try to move. Don't strain. It's impossible for you to move. There's a screen of force aimed at you. Now it's turned off. You may move about Earthman. Proceed Zeglon. Yes commander. Earthman I perceive that your intellect now accepts the fact. You are aboard space patrol ship S2J3. I am captain Zeglon of the Galactic Guard. Galactic. Galactic Guard. The guardian of the galaxy. The guardian of the universes. The instrument, the brotherhood of worlds is set up in defense against such a civilization as yours. What puzzle for you Earthman? Well I can't see you. I can feel that you're here but I can't see you. There is no necessity for you to see us. It is sufficient that we communicate with each other. Yes but talking to you is what it's not like talking. It's as if it were all happening inside my brain. It is. That is how I'm reaching you by telepathy. Do you remember what happened to you before you blacked out? Yes I think so. There was a sharp sound like a bullet hitting the canopy. It was not a bullet. It was a ray. It was necessary to stop your flight. We have so much to tell you. But first tell me about my ship. Is it lost? No it is such a crude little ship. Cruel? Easy for us to repair. It will be returned to you and you will return to Earth because you are the Earth's only hope of survival. Hope of survival? What do you mean? I will show you. What you see on this screen before you is a panorama of your own universe, far greater in scope than an Earthman has ever seen before. Observe. Observe what the line is pointing. Planet 3 star 5 galaxy c sector k. Is that the Earth? No. That dot that spec you see revolving in the vastness is your sun. A star who surfaces 12,000 times better be your Earth. Your Earth is not even visible here. How did you know we even existed? That was our problem. We first became aware of your planet when we found atomic dust in the upper atmosphere. We traced it to your Earth. It was that important to you? Quite. We determined that you were setting off atomic bombs. That's why the galactic council has quarantined you. Quarantine? I don't understand. How? How are we quarantined? We have sealed off your planet from the rest of space. But we have surrounded it with a force screen. When that screen has accumulated enough particles of atomic dust, your Earth will explode. Your civilization, you, or life will disappear forever. Listen to me, Earthman. Listen. We've had our own wars, wars that almost destroyed our civilization. But we have finally outlawed war throughout space, including Earth. Now listen carefully, Earthman. 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. Release him, Zegdan. Yes, Commander. Earthman, you will rise from your seat and open that door. Descend those stairs, Earthman. You will now enter the chamber to your left. There's your ship. Get into it, Earthman. Are you ready? Yes, I'm ready. While we were communicating, the patrol ship has returned to where we picked you up, and now you will be propelled toward Earth. Close your canopy. Open aperture. Open aperture. Warn them, Earthman. Warn them. Fire. RJX-1 to tower. RJX-1 to tower. Come in. RJX-1 to tower. Come in, tower. Listen, this is RJX-1. RJX-1 coming in for landing. Give me landing instructions. Tower to funny, man. Impossible that you're RJX-1. He's 10 hours overdue. Get away from the area. This is Major Westfall and RJX-1. Come on, kid. Give me landing instructions. I have no fuel. I'm gliding. What? Approximately six miles north of Field. Clear area for 10 miles. 10,000. Estimate six minutes to land. Roger, coming down. Hank, you won't believe it, but you've got to. I know you won't believe it. It'll knock you over. Oh, just take it easy, Bill. Sergeant, have this ship gone over by Geiger counters for radioactivity and seal it. What? Oh, yes, Hank. You bet him out a 24-hour guard on it. Look, what did you run into? Plenty. Listen to me, Hank. They said the Earth would explode. They said it was the end for us. They said that? Come on, let's go over to my office. You've got to believe me. Read it like an order, Bill. My office. I want Major Donaldson to look at you. Is this a chiatrist? Hank, you've got to listen to me. You're not over to the office. That's the story, Major Donaldson. I see. Well, Hank, you'll believe it, don't you? Well, Major, what do you think? I'm not sure. Bill, these men from Mars... I didn't say they were from Mars. Do you hear me say anything about men from Mars? No, you didn't. All I'm trying to tell you is this. Whoever those people were, they know all about us, everything. And they warned me. Our atomic bombs were a danger to the universe. One more and we're going to be the juiciest galactic forth of July of all time. Explode, finish, gone. Like that. How do you like it? All right, Bill, roll up your sleeve. Oh, now forget it, Major. All I need is a couple of drinks. Sorry, Boyle. Sorry. Not right now. Let the Major give you a hypo. Now look, I got a drink coming. A lot of drinks. Later. Come on, Bill, the sleeve. You heard him, Bill. All right, yes. All right. If it's an order, go ahead. There. You'll be okay in a few hours. I'm okay now. Sure. We'll leave you here, Bill. It's all right if Bill sleeps in here, isn't it, Colonel? Sure. Yeah. Well, maybe he'll believe me tomorrow. You'd better. Come on, Major. He'll be okay by himself, Major. He's been under a strain, but he'll sleep a long time. You better explain it to his wife somehow. I'll talk to him tomorrow. Tough. I've heard he's one of the best. He's the best. The combination of nerve and loyally and lightening reflects this that comes once in 10 million times. What about it, Major? How does Bill look to you? I can't tell you yet. Maybe a week, six months, six years. I'll need a whole lot of time with him before I can tell. I see. Well, he'd better get some sleep, too. All right. And don't worry, Colonel. He's a strong boy. He's a strong boy. Best nerves I've seen. I'd say things will be all right. Delusions like Bill's latched onto. Well, delusions like this. Major. Yes, Colonel? Major, when you make your charts for Bill, diagnose him and treat him and do all the things you have to. When you do that, Major, consider this. Yes. How did he keep that plane in the air for 10 hours? For 10 hours, Major, when he had fuel to last him only 10 minutes. Escape is produced and directed by William N. Robeson, and tonight starred Frank Lovejoy in The Outer Limit by Graham Doar, adapted for radio by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. Featured in the cast were Charles McGraw as the Colonel, Jeff Corey as Major Donaldson, Stan Waxman as Zeglawn, and Ian Wolfe as Zill. Special music was arranged and conducted by Del Castillo. Actual flight details were authenticated by rocket test pilot Jean May, Sergeant Hartley Caldwell of the Air Force Section of the Armed Forces Public Information Office, and by the Douglas Aircraft Corporation. Next week. You were on the Baltic Sea within sight of the Soviet coast, where your Russian wife is secretly waiting to escape with you to England, and on the cold, dark waters behind you, an armed patrol boat is about to discover your small sailing craft. If it does, you will never escape. Next week we escape with Roger Bax's thrilling and timely tale of a man and woman who dared to defy an entire government in order to be together. Two if by sea. Goodbye then until this same time next week, when once again we offer you escape. Two all-star bouts are promised on CBS this Wednesday night. Bing Crosby faces Fred Allen across the CBS mic to battle it out on whose funnier singers or comedians. 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