 Adventures in time and space transcribed in future tense. Dimension. Can you predict what will come in 100 years, or in 10, or in the next minute? Some people think they can. Nuclear science, mathematician, 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, prowl pointed for the stars, and in five minutes the signal will flash, and it will tear up through the atmosphere to the outer... Five minutes, Steve. We'll see if you're again, Steve. Don't worry, I got it straight. We'll just make sure. Okay, I'll take her up on jets to 50,000 and I cut in the rocket. No lore, 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. This ship isn't like those strut of rockets you've been testing. She's the first one built for outer space. If she works, she can go clear to the moon. I don't know 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 ten 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. Ten 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 commission brass doesn't think so. I don't see any undersecretaries under anything. Don't worry. The long run, our ship will make the CR bomb back-paid stuff. But in the meantime, it's just as dangerous. Remember, half the principles in this ship are pure theory, Steve. Slide rule and 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. 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 deal lines away. Okay, bro. Well, I guess that's about all, Steve. That 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. Well, I didn't cut me out of a soft paycheck. Forget it, Hank. You know, you can't get anybody else who can take 15G'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. Buttoner up, Charlie. So long, Hank. So long. We'll give you the light from control. Got you on the speaker. I'm ready to go. Mr. Hansen. Ready on radar, Sergeant? Yeah. Mr. Hansen, you'd better see this. What is it? Message sent for Steve. Mrs. Weston just left for the hospital. What? Hello, Steve. Yeah. Stand by a minute. Shall we hold the takeoff, Mr. Hansen? Oh, yes. No, wait just a minute. It's too late now. You going to tell him? Maybe he's got enough to worry about. It's nothing, Steve. I just wanted to say good luck. Clear for takeoff, Charlie? Right. Okay. Give him the light. 400 still climbing. Altitude, 297 miles. All right. Okay. Spreading a three-degree left bank. It's a little sluggish. That's all right now. There's a low vibration someplace. Maybe the cockpit has. I'm straightening out. I'm starting a three-degree rock. Hey, something up here. Something's shining. What are you talking about? Something above me, Hank. I'm going to chase it. Steve. What happened? At the end of the stool. Nothing more on radar, Sergeant? Screen's blank. Colonel Carelli called in. The search plane's back. I didn't find anything. Should be some trace. He couldn't have bailed out, could he? Don't hit the soak at 4,400 miles an hour. He didn't pass the outer limit. We're out of fuel. Something blue, 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'll get it, sir. Charlie. Charlie, we've got to figure out what was wrong. All right. I'll tell him. Something must have blown. There's a message from Northside Hospital for Steve. Oh, what is it? This is Weskin's fine. 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. Hansen? 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. Hansen. 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. Hansen. Yeah? I think there's something on the radar. No flights scheduled in, are there, Elsie? We have a whole day cleared. It's coming in behind us. What crazy chuck 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. Steve. That's impossible. Steve. There's no other model like that. It's Steve, all right? It's coming in. Thank God. Let this done the quicker you get over to see Mary and the baby. Hank. Elsie, give the order to check and refuel the rockets. I don't want anybody in here till I get Steve's reports. Very any calls. All right, let's have it. Let the devil have it. 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. 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'd 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 dock. 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 a 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 to you. 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. A humming? A sort of vibration, and I blacked out. I was headed straight for it at 4,400 miles an hour. I thought it was going to be the biggest smash since Hiroshima, and Hank, is there a drink in 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. A psychiatrist? Yeah, yeah, that's a good idea. Let him run his test. He'll tell you, I'm not kidding. Because Hank, unless I miss my guests, I've just been tipped off to the way the world ends. Right, Mr. Weston? Suppose you continue your story. Yes, let's have it, Steve. You woke up inside the ship? Yes, and the place was jammed with machinery. Dialed, 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 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. Wow. With our atomic explosions. Hank, that's why you've got to stop that bomb test tonight. I'll give a... 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 narcosychometry? 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. And 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. All right, 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. Nine. Eight. He's under. Now we attach the head plate electrodes. Cortical pickup. Look after that wire, Mr. Henson. Three old setting. Thirty-one point three. Now, throw that switch, Mr. Henson. I have to start him off by suggestion. All right, Steve. You're in your ship now. You're in the rocket. You're in the rocket. You're in the rocket. And you've just sighted something strange. Now I'm starting a three-degree right. What's that? There's something up here. Something shining. His 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. Hey, it's werving to meet me. It's that ahead now. It's that 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, Clam. What did I get in here? What? 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. Quarantine? 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. I don't know how to call it. All around the Earth, 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? What's he... Wait, wait. Yes, bring back the warning. You're going to put me back in my ship to bring the warning. Now what? Blacked out again. I guess that's all. What does all that mean? It's what he remembers. Don't think that really happened. Narcosacometry 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 tough 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? It's all right, 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. Now, take it easy, Steve. I've got pests tonight. They're setting off to see our bomb. Hank, what time is it? 11.20. 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. 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'd 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. We'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. Now, you know I can't do that, Steve. My neck could be out a mile. Besides, this is 1965, not 45. Twenty countries have atomic bombs now. What's the use of stopping just this one? The rest will keep right on popping them out? We won't have to call an international conference. Catch understant, Hank. The first one that goes off finishes us at the end. It's a quarantine morning. 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. All right, all right. 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 kids. Sure. Look at the ship under the headlights. Pretty, huh? You'll be flying her again soon, don't you worry. Yeah, yeah, I guess so. Uh, what you doing out in the line? Are they, uh, with you? Yeah, we've got Closowitz coming in tomorrow from Denver for another test. I figured we'd give you a day off. That's good, that's... Why? Steve, Steve, come back. Come on, Donald, come. Steve, wait! He's heading for the rocket. Look, there he goes up. That crazy fool. You can't get at him now. That covers armor glass. He's waving. Yeah, towards control. There's the radio. He needs the radio. Come on. I should have gotten help. Let's go. Come here. Hello. Hello, Steve. Come out of that rocket, Steve. I'll call my men. Don't try anything, Hank. They brief you of the rocket for tomorrow. Take it easy, Steve. You don't hear? Steve, don't. What do you want? All right, all right. Just don't fire those rockets. All right, I'm making the parallel hookup right now. Donaldson, do you think he'll really blast? I don't know. Up to now, I don't want to say it was normal, but now he's liable to do anything, Hanson. Steve. Steve, there. Are you getting it on your screen? All right. Operator. Business screen to Washington. Steve, an hour. This is security commission priority. Break in, get me a line. Steve, I'm trying. Ready to take your call, sir. Washington, security commission three. This is urgent. I want undersecretary Herbert Ames. What? 11-31. Do you think he'll fire those rockets? He might. Washington? This is screen three. Mr. Herbert Ames, please. That is 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 till you see them. Look, I've worked on contracts for the commission for 10 years. Yes, yes. I have complete confidence in my information. You can record that. All right. I'll call you back immediately. Bye. 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. I was scared. I was plain scared. 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 the strain. I've got a shot for you here, Steve. Give you a good night's sleep. All right. Roll up your sleeve. Right here. Sergeant will find you a bed. Yes, sir. Come on, Mr. Wilson. Okay. Good night, Hank. I'm kind of beat. It's been 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... Hames couldn't get the chief. I was talking to a dead circuit. Bomb goes off in a couple of minutes. Oh, he was the best. One in ten million. Some story of his, poor guy. For a while, he almost had me believing that quarantine. That's a very common illusion. End of the world. Yeah. 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 30 seconds. 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. I've just heard another adventure in time, space, and the unknown world of the future. The world of... Dimension. Next week, a star of the future appearing on the program of the future. Dimension X. Next week, Miss Nancy Olson, 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 Olson on Dimension X. Tonight, Dimension X has transcribed The Outer Limits, written by Graham Dorr and adapted for radio by Ernest Kenoy. Featured in the cast were Wendell Holmes as Hanson, Joseph Julian as Steve, and Jody Santas 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.