 Transcribed earlier for release to our West Coast audience at this more convenient listening time Central operational headquarters commander Dijstra speaking this morning at 400 hours our electronic scanners picked up on oscillator frequency and Unidentified spacecraft in sector K beyond the gravitational field of the planet Mars our calculations indicate that this craft will arrive in space sector G within the next 24 hours emergency directions to all defense units Coordinate high-voltage destroyers to cover area G all units on alert for assault action To learn what happened when the strange craft from outer space came into sector G Listen in a moment to 2000 plus Adventures in the world of tomorrow dramatic stories of science fiction from the years beyond 2000 AD Today the strange adventure of men who dared the unknown through interplanetary space worlds apart and one thing more Johnson your new Ali moored space suit has been tested and it's everything you claim It to be light playable fireproof a splendid product. We'll want 50 of them in time for the next space flight three weeks from now Can you make it? Excellent good luck Johnson Yes, your son is here. Mr. Granger. He wants to see you Jim here. Well tell him I can all right send him in Yes, sir and the same so Robert. You can start punching tape for the mechanical pilot on flight 17. Yes, Mr. Granger Hello there. How are you Jim? Dad I've come to ask a favor A big thing. Well talk fast son. I'm very busy. What is it you want? I want to be assigned to flight 17 What flight 17 to Neptune? Are you crazy? No dad, I've been thinking about this for months Well, you can stop thinking about it right now. There's no opening for you, sir I happen to know there is dead. Golding's down with a bad case of acceleration bend They'll need a new rocket engineer, but you're too young to agree. I've done 42 experimentals and three moonhounds I'm ready ready. Well, this is an uncharted trip Jim a trailblazer You know what happened to the first flight to the moon, don't you? Yes crashed on the lip of a giant critic. Yes, and the first ship that tried to reach Mars went haywire and shot off into deep space And still you want to make this first flight to Neptune? Yes You have courage son. I'll say that But you're not going. Why not? Jim it's not up to me Captain Roberts chooses his own rocket engineer You know all I do is okay the man he selects and I guess I'll be making the flight You see I persuaded Captain Roberts to select me Captain Roberts on spaceship Phoenix on flight to Neptune calling Marshall Granger control station to Roberts calling Granger Are we still in contact? Roberts calling Granger We read you Roberts we're still in contact go ahead Robert ready to report sir proceed At the end of 120 hours of flight conditions are entirely normal Chrome passengers have passed safely through five accelerations We are cruising now to speed of 12 galactic miles per second excellent Roberts continue Aspiration reading take it Sandy Astrogator Lawson reporting our position in space time units 17 hours 4 minutes to the Mars Jupiter axis sector G 23 degrees off the plane to be ecliptic exactly on course lawson well done rocket control Take it Jim rocket engineer Granger reporting average rocket discharge rate 12.7 attention level 19% Available supply 300 hours would be to safety factor. Good work son Congratulations all of you keep it up. Thank you, sir Sonny off Ah Everything okay back in the lounge Jim. Oh quiet a few minutes ago and I passed through how about that chess game those two physicists still at it There are no hurry 50,000 miles to a move. Well from us and The music lovers wearing a groove in Beethoven's fist, you know, I don't see how anybody yes Watch it controls pal. We've been swinging off course off course. Well, you're nuts lad I haven't taken my eye off the chart for a second. We've been right on the line I'm telling you we're off course dick six points better bring it back. You sure Sandy. Am I sure? Oh, sorry, Sandy stupid question Stand by of the directional correction standing by lateral deviation 6.2 speed 12 Magnetic index gamma 5 what's an auxiliary rockets 5 7 13 15 Ready to discharge This charge. Oh, that's that I still don't understand a dick Something wrong, huh wrong. What do you mean? We're off again. What are you talking about? We swung in the line for a second then we pull right out again. Oh, but that's impossible Sandy There's any wind drift a current out here in space anything in motion moves in the straight line until it comes within the Magnetic field of some body that's what I'm afraid of dick I think we're cutting the toe of some tremendous mass what mass Sandy the Sun Mars Jupiter everything's where it belongs Isn't it there aren't any unknown bodies floating about maybe there are maybe this Like what Sandy a comet a comet. Yeah, come it That's what it must be a wild uncharted comet from out of space look dick The atmosphere gauge it's way up We're not flying through a vacuum. There's something else out there now some sort of atmosphere guess What gas is forming the tail of the comet you're right Sandy listen I'd like to tell it to some kind of stone The fragments meteorite all trailing behind the comet were cut dick cut right in the middle of it Will be dragged clean out of the solar system perhaps out of the galaxy not Sandy there's one chance that we can blast also please All right, all right all personnel to emergency acceleration charges Prepare to discharge all four-side rockets. You know what you're doing a hundred and twenty seven rocket going off at one Wave or you'll blow it up. There's our only chance Jim. It goes five seconds discharge Ranger control tower calling spaceship Phoenix Ranger calling Phoenix Ranger to space patrol special alert spaceship Phoenix bound for Neptune missing 12 hours may be lost or out of control all units stand by to intercept signals if any Frequent day 40,000 relay any information to Marshall Granger control tower to that is all Where are you son? Where are you this handy get up? I'll give correct against the control panel three passengers are dead But we're out of it dick something through as clear of the comet some centrifugal force help me up Jim quick Control panel take it easy deck. All right. Here we go Jim has power pride half the rocket engines are out and the boosters seem to be okay good We've got enough to operate on maybe what do you mean the nuclear overdrive is shot shot smack by a meteorite? Jim we got to find out where we are. We can't afford to waste a unit of power You know anything about astigation not a thing beyond the moon. I'm lost Oh, that's great a crippled ship lost somewhere in space the dead Astrogator to show us the way I'll have to make a well-stabbed a position What's your guest dick? Well, how can I guess we may be in a Neptune away out near some far-off galaxy? Let's take a crack at that radio relay and maybe I've been trying all along can't raise a thing. I'll keep trying It's our only chance I'll take a look for the port see if I can make out anything spaceship Phoenix calling their station Mars Jupiter Earth spaceship Phoenix Are we coming through? Can't recognize a star a planet and astro body Jim spaceship Phoenix. Can you hear it? Can you hear it? How long is it since we blanked out? Can't say check all our instruments. What haywire? spaceship Phoenix flight 17 for Neptune in distress. Are we coming through and for it? We may have They've been hurt. Oh, no, it can't be give me that mic. Hello. Hello. This is space flight 17 We're off our course and badly damaged our position unknown. We have located your position space ship Phoenix Stand by please. Jim. That's earth. We're blown us up the world right back toward earth. Hello Phoenix Are we still coming through like music sir? Very well We're going to bring you in on a beat. Got you. Got you perfectly Gravitators and disengage all engines We're in free flight sir Struct all personnel to get into acceleration compensators We'll land it off base port in approximately on landing jets for a nap discharge Which I'm landing like that beach for bad land contact We've landed Jim. We made it. Don't I know it? Come on. How'd you go? Oh, it's like your time We're in no rush now. You may not be but I am in a race to get down a good old tarot firmer. Oh Boy does this air smell good What a spaceport Jim. I didn't know we had anything anywhere that Look like this. I don't care what it looks like. All I know is that I come someone Hello, I'm Captain Roberts of the Phoenix. Are we glad to see you and we were hey, what's the idea? Well, you don't understand. I said I'm don't move Captain Roberts You and your crew and your passengers are all under arrest Elton Smith take over the ship and seal off the exits. No one has to leave Captain Roberts, you and your companion come this way, please I want authority are we being held prisoners? I want to know I have the right to demand to know Captain Roberts You're hardly in a position to demand anything Well What is my position, sir? The title is commander Commander doctor commander Commandery you know that you will be held responsible for any harm to my passengers or ship No course for alarm captain or threat Simply holding you here at Green Valley for a short while Till we check your credentials You've inspected our ship. You know we carry no contraband Since when does an American have to have his credentials checked in his own country? I've already explained to you that this entire area all five hundred square miles of this is government property devoted exclusively to secret research projects. Oh Is it perfectly obvious why we can't allow you and your passengers to walk about freely? Maybe but It is not obvious why we're not allowed to use the vizephone Why we can't call our base report our safe landing. That's not Captain Roberts, but then Government regulations often are obscure come at a faster. We were met with guns and suspicions Now you say that was because secret research is going on yet when you contacted us above the earth's atmosphere You offered to bring us in here Why did you make that offer if you didn't want us here? Would you rather be back in space? Floundering about in your crippled craft that can be arranged You haven't answered my question We brought you in for two reasons First to save your lives if you turned out to be harmless Second Because it is our policy to apprehend all craft entering our space sector. We have enemies Of a high-handed method you use I can see why not high-handed Captain Roberts During your detainment here you and your company will be accorded full cut we Appreciate your courtesy, but we demand the right to contact Chicago here now and on that visit. Oh, I'm sorry. That is impossible Don't know yes, Commander Dyson arrange for suitable accommodations for Captain Roberts and his crew The interview is closed. Come at it. I say hi. That is all captain And now to special bulletin to the science Institute to all chiefs of the following departments Astrogation navigation anthropology astronomy is there anywhere in this solar system or in adjoining constellations a body known as planet earth or America is there any community area or experimental station known as Chicago Don't do it dick. I won't take this lying down now. What are you going to do about it? I think it's something I'm certainly not going to sit around twiddling my thumbs while the great dice for a cheques are credential I don't like the looks of this place any better than you do Secret project he says for all we know it may be the headquarters of some gangster out there There are a lot of things about this green valley setup that bother me Nothing definite. I just get a feeling that everything's a little lopsided If I were looking at it through a Coney Island mirror. Oh, he's got you. He'll be going bats of you. Thank you. I've got it Got what that visit home if we can get into Deistra's office some way we can phone home Oh, no, no your way off Jim. There's no chance in a million. Why not this room's not locked. They finished work for the day We saw everybody leave All right All right, we'll try it but Jim what you step away? I feel sort of responsible for you Here's the office so far so good try the door inside fast Right dog in here. Now. Where was that for the phone? Oh, it's right here with the call in but don't light these scanning cone I'll use this pocket flash You listen for anyone approaching. Here goes your call, please get me Marshall Granger in Chicago Chicago, where is that? Chicago, Illinois USA. Come on operator. You a What place is that near? Didn't you hear me? I said USA. I will check it sir. If you coming Jim drop it quick We'd better get out has two ladies in the car to stand back here in the corner Hello, I want to hear please come forward. I know you are here. I can hear your heart beats There are two of you there in the back, please come forward This is very childish That is better how we can put on the lights. Good evening, Commander Deistra. Captain Roberts Congratulations, sir a very impressive trick hearing a heartbeat across the 40-foot room trick Not at all, sir It seems strange to you your hearing must be impaired You know why we're here. I suppose it's obvious We're trying to use the telephone against orders. You gentlemen have abused your privileges as guests Now on you will be held prisoners under lock and key Brought you your food gentlemen. It's about time. Well, this is a fancy touch a woman jailer My name is Donna captain Roberts. I'm commander Deistra's assistant And we just remembered you hadn't had any food tonight. That's very touch. Thank you very much. I'll take it easy Jim She's just carrying out orders Don't know it's like kind of you to bring us this food, but There's something we need even more. What is it? We need some information We're going mad. Well, if there's anything I can tell you anything you could start talking now and continue all night First Where is this place? Where are we? You're in Green Valley captain Green Valley Green Valley? Where is Green Valley? What continent is it on? What is it bounded by? I? I'm sorry. I can't answer that. You're wasting your breath dick. She won't talk and then tell me this How long have you been here? Oh my life. I was born here 57 years ago You look like 20 How old is Deistra? 92 And he can hear a heartbeat at 40 paces. Aha my hearing is even better. Listen Do you hear the dogs barking in the distance? Nuts is these people are a terrific hope so we've watered into some weird out of this world madhouse Good night, Donna. Good night gentlemen. I wouldn't try anything foolish Shangri-La Yes, that's where we must be the place someone wrote about back in the 20th century if you ask me It's probably the place Granger Roberts the window for someone below. Hello there. Who is it? It's me Reynolds Reynolds the chest playing physicist Reynolds How'd you get out? What are you doing down there? I escaped while the others distracted the guard I'm making a dash for it dash for what Reynolds the small plane at the far end of the field I spotted it this afternoon. Will you come with me? It's pitch black out there. You'll never find it I'll find it if I have to feel my way. You're mad Reynolds. You've got to get away Roberts Don't you understand this place? It's unnatural. I've seen things that have made my hair stand on a Reynolds listen to me Don't go now. Perhaps tomorrow everything will be all not tomorrow now. Are you coming Roberts Ranger? Very well when I come back with help. I hope you're still alive. I wait Reynolds come back He's gone. I hope he knows it That's Deistre there isn't a light on anywhere. How do they know where Reynolds is I? Think you're foolish to refuse the food. We've been sending you you haven't eaten all day Please put it down down and go away Commander Deistre Wishes me to express his regret the injury to dr. Reynolds was most unfortunate. Tell commander Deistre He'll pay for this tell him I said the electronic beam merely paralyzes temporarily It leaves no permanent mark dr. Reynolds will recover. How do they manage to hit him me in the dark? Why I don't understand. We see very well in the dark Well, good night gentlemen, please eat your food commander Deistre will be offended if you don't Mustn't offend Deistre must. Well, here goes this tray out of him way. It's foolish really I'm only get weak. We don't eat too weak to help ourselves of an opportunity comes along Yeah, I guess you're right Feel a little light-headed already Any that jug of milk. Oh, yeah, poor one to meet so there Three days we've been here and he could have checked our credentials a dozen times Yeah, happy landing. I'm not himself. I jump look out What is it dick? Why'd you knock the glass out of my hand? Did you see the color of that milk? green green Green milk poison. That's all I can think of of course Please eat your food. She kept saying come on. Let's open that window and get rid of this tray What what is it going to land I didn't hear a sound Did you see it as it went down? That heavy metal tray that big jug the glasses they they didn't forge and they they sort of float it down Is it as if somebody had messed around to the force of gravity? They reduced the pull of the earth here at Green Valley dick. Maybe that's one of their secret projects An anti-gravitational force dick Dick I'm going to find out. What are you climbing up in that window so far and if it works for a tray full of dishes? Why would it work for me? I'm going to jump out dick There's only one way to find out take a big jump just walking around doesn't give the answer It's three stories. You'll land smack on those rocks below Well, if I make it you follow and if I don't I don't do it. Yeah, wait. Don't jump Jim Jim you there here. I am dick We made it all right. I can't believe it You heard just a brood. It was like it was like a Joel at the end of a parachute jump I think I'm going out of my mind Jim all those those Fantastic things that have happened since we landed here the visit phone operator who never heard of Chicago or the USA And dice to hear a heartbeat across the room and see in the dark dawn a 57 years old looking like a chorus girl green milk And a reduced gravitational pull I don't like it. I want to get out and there's our ship out in the middle of the spaceport Prepared and ready to go. Yeah, maybe we could dick I Just notice something. Yeah last night when rattled Last night. It was pitch dark, but now now there's a full moon What's so strange about that? Take another look at that sky There over the rim of a rise another moon a second moon What falls wave then don't you see what this means? We're not on the earth at all. We've landed on some alien planet We must get the dice try at once Yes, that is it that explains the things that puzzled us your reference to Chicago to the earth the small strange differences between us It's not the differences that bother me now Deistre It's the uncanny Incredible similarity between your planet and ours. Is it so incredible Captain Robert? We've shown you our astronomical chart Our planet Vesta is exactly opposite the earth on the other side of the sun. Yeah, that's why we never discovered each other We are 90 million miles distant from the Sun you are 93 million miles But no doubt both planets split off from the Sun at the same time if that's there is a little smaller than the earth and and that fact Plus it's near a distance to the Sun gives us less gravity But otherwise our development has paralleled yours completely even an appearance and culture Language you reach precisely the same stage of development We have would simply proves Granger that similar conditions may produce the same results one thing still bothers me Yes How do you stay so young so vigorous that it is simple We live in peace and harmony our only concern is interplanetary threats That's why you were so so rough on us precisely well Now that we understand each other May I use your visit on you want to call Chicago? No, no, no I Want to call our crew and passengers and tell them to get ready for the journey home Next week an incredible adventure from the world of tomorrow when a scientist crosses the border of what is known Into the strange mysteries of the unknown Be sure to listen