 Suspense and the producer of radio is outstanding theater of thrills a master of mystery and adventure William and Robeson man proposes That God Disposes Always always the question yet to be solved the horizon yet to be reached Beyond whichever and ever there are further horizons and never the answer to the question Was the wealth of the distant indies lying beyond the curve of the earth? The answer to the Spain of Ferdinand and Isabella Was Sutter's goal lying beyond the high and forbidding western mountains the answer to the america 100 years ago Is the shiny electronic basketball the soon to be launched satellite the answer to mid-century man who proposes Without consulting him who disposes We do not know Or do we presume to guess But we do make so bold as to give you pause for thought Listen then listen as frank lovejoy stars in the outer limit a tale well calculated to keep you in Suspense zero minus 25 zero minus 25 All right, man settle down now. Let's settle down You too bill that book you're reading put it away anything you say, Colonel No doubt you're wondering why we got you out of whatever warm beds you were in Well, we've got a reason a very good reason This morning we take the wraps off the rx3 Now most of you have heard scuttle, but that she's been modified while she has she's powered by eight rockets now That's what I said 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 has yet been subjected Now bill west falls going to take her up this morning as far and as fast as she can go Joe You'll lead the 102s you and your wingmen will be bill's chase planes. We want observation at 40 000 feet Okay, here's how it plays pull the curtains on the map sergeant Now you see it circled here your rendezvous point. We designated as point x Zero hour is all 900 Joe you and your red tails will take off at zero minus 15. Have you got that? Yes, sir You'll make conventional climbs to 35 000 feet rendezvous at point x calling to me at control at 40 000 feet, right joe Well, not quite now. Let's take a look at the weather feet Yes Uh, the weather is very pretty out boys all clear ceiling unlimited Winds aloft at 10,080 miles per hour at 165 degrees At 25,000 100 feet major west fall. Yes, come on. This is primarily for you. I don't fret hank I'm getting it. I just wanted to make sure bill go ahead, pete a ground temperature is 60 Estimated at 45 below at 40 000 feet. We expect no change for three hours. That's it, sir Okay, joe you and your boys go unwrap your 102s and have a nice time Oh bill stick around. I want to talk How you feeling bill? I feel real good. How are you feeling? What about molly and the kids are you worried hank? Don't worry. Well, I just want to know just how they are. That's all an hour ago Molly wiped her hands on her apron kissed me goodbye and the twins want to be firemen this morning Zero minus 20 zero minus 20. Okay. Look hank. I've flown it a dozen times before I know but never for this speed and never for this altitude and never with eight rockets The engineers are hitting you could break out of the stratosphere in this plane I'll get it out of your head. This is just routine. Look hank. I've studied the blueprints I know I'm like a prayer my brain is crammed with detailed specifications estimated performances And I know all the safety devices to keep me alive. You're happy All right. Come on. Let's go. Let's get out of here I've got to say it bill. You know it better than I do, but I've got to say it anyhow All right, you be a commanding officer hank, you know, you go ahead and tell me Keep your throttles uniform or you'll wind up against the mountains Retract landing gear as soon as you're airborne Maneuver for maximum rate of climb and a heading of eight seven degrees Which should bring you to 40 000 in less than two minutes using jato approximately one mile north of rondeval point From there on you'll be on rockets Zero minus 17. We're going to minus 17 Come on outside. Let's go to the hangar Bill yeah, you've got 10 minutes of rocket fuel Now get rid of those jato bottles before you fire the rockets fire only one rocket at a time I think you did just fine I'm going to fly that baby higher and faster than anybody ever did before just like you said I'm going to take it up and bring it back And then you come home and have dinner with me, huh? Yeah, sure. I'd like to There she is bill. Yeah, she's real pretty isn't she I'll be listening in a control. I won't bother you until you're airborne. It'll be between you and the tower until then. See you later Good luck zero minus three zero minus three Good morning colonel. Oh, mr. Hargrove. You'll be here at control with me. It's all right with you colonel Well, I wouldn't have it any other way You check the communications equipment sergeant. Yes, major westfall has been assigned a special radio frequency of three nine seven Good good good. You'll take good care of it sergeant. We don't want it to poop out or anything like that. Do we sergeant? Well, yes. Yeah, well no sir, sir Hargrove I've uh, I've got a thing on my mind That boy in the plane you genius is designed. He's my best boy. It's our best plane colonel. It better be Well, now it's your turn. What have you got on your mind? Everything's in proper order colonel the electronic brain the recording equipment the television cameras and the cockpit everything Every known scientific device even some unknown they've been we're talking about a man That's all I really want to get back out of this. What about the man? There may be one difficulty. Well, tell me about it I'd like to know the takeoff with all that load the jets the rockets all at maximum fuel capacity It's never been tested that way before Go on mr. Hargrove. It's just that major westfall has only 10,000 feet to get his ship airborne If he accelerates from zero to 300 knots in 10,000 feet He should be airborne in less than seven seconds seven seconds That makes it zero plus g yes colonel beyond zero plus g Beyond that we don't know we just don't know. Oh, thank you. Thank you for everything, mr. Hargrove Sergeant flip your switch on major westfall. I hear he's got a swell program flip them all sergeant. Yes From rx-3 any change in weather rx-3 from tower barometer reading 29.7 set your altimeter accordingly roger Wind 15 miles from south zero minus 130 zero minus 130 seven got it Control from rx-3 over control to rx-3 go ahead Control to rx-3. This is just for your hand Cabin pressure. Okay oxygen pressure. Okay hydraulic flight control. Okay fuel pressure safety lock all right. All right. All right. All right get off the dime kid Take a mil zero minus one zero minus one chief from our x3 over Go ahead rx-3. I am ready to fire hold it Okay, all set to fire clear clear starting starboard jet Starting port jet zero minus 30 seconds rx-3 from tower come in tower Western Airlines flight 303 reported over san jose southbound Navy interceptor on home leg in san diego United Airlines eastbound 410 of 18,000 over salt lake city Northern aircraft aloft in the area zero minus 11 Tower from rx-3 nine ready for takeoff eight rx-3 from tower seven clear to take off on runway two seven five four three two one zero Just a hard road. Hey Control from rx-3 control from rx-3 This is control go ahead bill everything's great hank She's a doll baby You were kidding with that takeoff weren't you took that long to get it off that makes it a takeoff hank How fast are you climbing? Airspeed 690 approaching mark one. She's buffeting sun bad. I'm still flying her Hank hey Yes, bill I just went through mark one speed of sound straight up. She's shake bad Not a shutter Wasp waste is a big help She's a doll baby hank a living doll, baby. How do you feel? I like it here Go ahead red tail Unscheduled y'all x3 control from rx-3. Go ahead bill 55,000 hank Still a doll, baby. Still is hank. Can you hear me? Okay? You're coming in clear bill Locket system primed Dropping right jet Dropping left jet all clear. Good luck bill firing number one rocket Fire Taking back firing number two rocket fire Hey hank yes bill. What is it? bill Billy you're receiving me Rx-3 from control come in come in rx-3. Hello bill come in Red tail leader from control red tail leader from control come in red tail Go ahead. What about it joe? Try calling Yes colonel 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 red tail Stay up there joe 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 joe. I can hear you Hello Hello joe I will try another frequency Red tail from rx-3. Can you make me? Red tail from rx-3. Can you make me? I still can't get you joe. I will keep sending Firing number seven rocket Fired firing number eight rock Fired This is rx-3 broadcasting to whom it may concern to all you people This is bill west ball approaching 210,000 feet at Four times the speed of sound 210,000 feet. That's 40 miles straight up in the air to all you people And that's where I am You never saw anything like it No clouds And the color no one ever named before otherwise. There's nothing this There's no sound except my instruments nothing nothing Nothing at all wait a minute There is some something at two o'clock high really something brother in it It's not a flying saucer either. This one's egg shaped. It's huge. It's spinning like a top and it's coming toward me Can you hear me? Can can you hear me? Listen Listen, something has just happened something a missile something a shot Maybe through through my canopy pressure is going down something is happening to me that egg shaped thing. I'm being Pulled toward it. I have lost Oh I have no In a moment we continue with Every sunday right tramps over wrong dramatically in indictment The unusual dramatic series that is based on stories of the criminal law With authentic procedures as they are followed by the office of an assistant district attorney For the kind of excitement that is generated when justice goes into action Here indictment just a few minutes from now and every sunday over most of these same stations and now We continue with the outer limit starring mr. Frank love joy A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense We've waited a long time colonel Well, we'll wait some more but there's no point to it May I make a suggestion colonel what give it up make your report to washington What about you harbore to be frank with your colonel in another 16 months? There'll be another plane the rx4 and the air force will give us another man to fly it Until we're certain about this man, and we're not certain What are you proposed to do the things that are in the manual? We'll organize search parties. We'll put spotter planes up in the air. Maybe bill came down in the ocean. We'll call the navy colonel If the rx3 came down on the ocean it would sink in five minutes It had no life-preserver equipment on it. The added we'll call the navy in mr. Hargrove Whatever you say colonel, but my guess is what's your guess harbore guess is that sometimes somewhere on some beach Or in some field someone will pick up a ball of cooled metal That someone will be holding what's left of the rx3 In communication with you can you hear us you understand now? What I am saying to you Yes Yes, I hear you. I I understand Proceed say colonel We have established communication with him commander on frequency x to nine Good procedures ordered. Yes commander Earth man Your brain is in turmoil. Is it not it has great difficulty in accepting what you see Yeah, that's right except it What you see here exists this this exists It exists earthling The spaceship your arm exists those jet dynamos you see before you exist Jet dynamos driven by the harness power of a thousand suns Listen earth man listen to them Know what happened as you listened earth man. We have flung ourselves 10,000 miles into space What do you say to that earth man? I don't know what to say it is beyond the conception of your earth brain then conceive this Try to move earth man. You're not bound in any way try to move That's strange. It's impossible for you to move. There is a screen of force aimed at you Now you may move about earthling Proceed zeglon. Yes commander Earth man, I perceive that your intellect now accepts the fact You are aboard space patrol ship s2 j3 I am captain zeglon of the galactic god Like galactic god the guardian of the galaxy The guardian of the universes the instruments the brotherhood of world has set up in defense against such a world as yours What puzzles you earth man I I can't see you. I I can feel that you're here, but I I can't see you There is no necessity for you to see us It is efficient that we communicate with each other but talking to you is like well, it's not like talking it's It's as if it is all happening inside my brain it is That is how I'm reaching you not through your ears, but inside your brain Do you remember what happened to you before you blacked out? I think so that 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 well first tell me about my ship. Is it lost? No It is being repaired. It will be returned to you and you will return to earth Because you are the earth only hope of survival Survival what do you what do you mean? I will show you What you see before you is a panorama of your own universe Far greater in scope than any earth man has ever seen before observed Observe where the line is pointing Star five galaxy c sector k Is that the earth that dot that speck you see revolving in the vastness is your son A star who surfaces 12,000 times that of your earth Your earth is not even visible here How how did you know we even exist? That was our problem We first became aware of your planet when we found atomic dust containing strontium 90 in the upper atmosphere We traced it to your earth. It was that important to you quite We determined that you are setting off thermonuclear Explosions, 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 We have surrounded it with a force screen When that screen has accumulated enough particles of atomic dust Your earth will explode Listen to me earth man. Listen. We have had our own wars wars that almost destroyed our civilization Now we have outlawed war throughout space And we have outlawed your world If there is another thermonuclear explosion, you will destroy yourselves take this back to your planet warn them earth man Release him zaglon. Yes commander earth man You will open that door There is your ship get into it earthling. Are you ready earthling? Yes, i'm ready You will be propelled into space Close your canopy Open aperture Power to funny man. You loaded kid. How did you get in on this frequency? Listen this is rx3 rx3 coming in for landing give me landing instructions Power to funny man impossible to draw rx3. I get away from the area the area cleared for interceptor practice approaches Tower this is major west wall in rx3 now come on give me landing instructions. I am fresh out of rocket juice Yeah, okay major in just a minute A tower to all aircraft in the base area tower to all aircraft in the base area We have an emergency all aircraft hold present altitude and proceed on a course of 180 degrees until advised Radio silence will be maintained until the emergency is over Okay, rx3 go ahead. I approximate my position 26 minutes to land Rx3 from tower. You are cleared to land Runway nine wind east southeast 15 Give me a hand. Just help me out this plane. Will you? Yeah Tell what? Hank now listen. You won't believe it, but you've got to before I tell you anything You've got a promise to believe me. You just you've got to look what did you run before anything? Hank now promise me We better have you looked over kid. No, no, I'll be all right now. Just listen to me, Hank Hank they said the earth would explode they said it was the end for us They said that No, come on. Let's get over to my office. You don't believe it rate it like an order bill my office What uh, they What uh, they are you talking to Hank? I chased me a spaceship and I caught it or rather it caught me I was cruising nicely about 200 000 feet. That's where I spotted it Hank Oh kid, you don't know. No, no, I've got to tell you they said I had to tell you Don't you understand Hank? I saw this thing. I saw it coming at me. I thought it was going to be the biggest smash and It wasn't I I came to inside their ship, Hank Hank But that can wait too. I I want major donelson to look at you psychiatrist. Well, what for to test my jerks. Yes, uh, he has something like that I Let's the story major donelson. Hank Hank you believe it, don't you just keep flying down there though Major, what do you think? Oh, I'm not sure now bill these men from mars I didn't say they were men from mars Now did you hear me say that they were men from mars? No, no, no, you didn't all I'm trying to tell you is this Whoever those people were they know all about us everything about our wars about our big bombs. They've got us They have got us quarantine quarantine. Yes quarantine. They've sealed us off from the rest of space We have wars We're sick And we're gonna die they've seen to it that we will die We'll go ahead Well, there's nothing more to go ahead with another h bomb and that's all One more bomb and we're gonna have the juiciest galactic fourth of july of all time explode Like that How do you like all right bill roll up your sleeve. I just forget it major. All I need is a couple of drinks Sorry bill not right now. Let the major give you a hypo. Hank. I've got a drink coming. I a lot of drinks And I want to see my wife. Yeah later. I'll call Molly right now. You've got to get a little sleep. Go ahead I come on bill the sleeve All right, all right if it's in order go ahead Now there You'll be okay in a few hours. I am okay now. Sure. Sure. We'll leave you here bill It's all right if bill sleeps in here isn't crown sure sure But when you wake up, I'll have molly here and we'll have that drink together. Yeah Or maybe she'll believe you Maybe you'll believe me then hang You're better Come on major He'll be okay by himself major. Now. He's been under a strain But he'll sleep for quite a spell I see Well, we better get some sleep too. All right. Don't worry colonel. He's a strong boy best nerves. I've seen in a long time I'd say things will be all right. I had illusions like bill slashed on do well delusions like this major Yes, colonel Major when you make your charts out for bill and diagnose him and treat him and do all the things that you have to When you do that major Consider this yeah 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 Suspense In which mr. Frank love joy starred in william and robeson's production of the outer limit by grain door listen Listen again next week when we return with another tale. Well calculated to keep you in Suspense The outer limit was adapted for radio by david friedkin and mort fine Supporting mr. Lovejoy were stacey harris barney phillips jack crucian larry thor sam pierce jane novello hans konried and joe kerns The musical score was written by lucian morrowack and conducted by wilbur hatch sound patterns by tom hanley and bill james Like to laugh then you're like listening to eve arden as our miss brooks on cbs radio later today With cuban taking pot shots at her from one side and mr. Conklin the school principal badgering her and the other Our lovelorn school marm has a tough time tracking down her favorite mayo mr. 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