 Family Theater presents Bob Hope and Raymond Burr from Hollywood the Mutual Network in Cooperation with Family Theater Presents Journey of the Pegasus starring Raymond Burr, and now here is your host Bob Hope Thank You Tony LaFranco Family Theater's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives If we are to win peace for ourselves peace for our families and peace for the world Family Theater urges you to pray pray together as a family And now to our transcribed drama journey of the Pegasus starring Raymond Burr as Pete Schwartz I want to tell you about something that took place to be exact it took place during the third week of July in the year 1962 the flight of the spaceship Pegasus on its first trip to the moon This is Howard Culver in the take-off area Ladies and gentlemen you've heard from some of the leading astronomers from our military leaders concerning the strategic importance of the moon and The importance of this first trip to our satellite From my vantage point here the Pegasus bears little resemblance to her namesake Winged horse of Greek mythology though this Pegasus 2 seems close to being mythological the size is absolutely fantastic 286 feet from the needle sharp prowl to the trailing edge of its dorsal fins It's highly polished hull picks up and reflects the many hundreds of lights illuminating the take-off area and Oh, ladies and gentlemen the two men who are making this historic journey have just left the briefing room and are coming This way I'll see if I can get them for you gentlemen mr. Schwartz mr. Friend would you step over here for a moment Thank you Well gentlemen, how does it feel to be selected as the first men to view the moon at close range? Well, I think it's going to be a pretty wonderful experience Yeah, like taking a plane to Paris only more so a little farther too Yeah, a little two hundred and forty nine thousand miles to our landing point and How long do you think it'll take for the complete trip exactly five days nine hours and twenty three minutes The navigation was plotted months ago How long will you actually stay on the moon for hours as Pete says just like changing Chicago yeah, only more so I See what you mean now This will be the first time anyone has had a chance to see the other side of the moon is that right? That's right. Yeah, we hope to bring back some specimens, but mostly pictures so that maps can be made for future explorers Uh-huh Now just how did you happen to be selected for this first earth to moon expedition you first mr. Friend well, I've been with a project since the beginning back in 1958 I guess you could say I'm a propulsion fuels expert But actually since the peg will be radar control from earth most of the time I'm almost excess baggage all then you won't really be piloting the Pegasus only when she's on the dark side out of line of sight with Earth that will automatically break radar contact I'll fly it then and of course for the landing Now Pete here will be doing most of the work if you're going to do the photography mr. That's about what my ticket will cost me we'll be using a new type of film which probably wouldn't exist except for Pete here Oh, is that so well the world's been kicking the idea around for more than a hundred years It's a film emotion made from a special kind of dye Uh-huh Well gentlemen, I know you've been asked this before but Is there any chance of you're finding a form of life on the moon? No, it's very unlikely Luna has no atmosphere at all that alone would keep life from existing if there is though I'll try to bring you back on a graph picture Well, I may hold you to that Well gentlemen, we know you have some goodbyes to say abie for you prepare to take off Uh, we'll be following your history making journey on the radar screen and well, perhaps we'll be able to talk to you in flight I hope so Good luck and godspeed to both of you. Thank you. Yeah, thanks And now ladies and gentlemen, uh, one of the men chiefly responsible for the development of the Pegasus is at my side now His name is John Howard de mark Dr. De mark and his staff will keep a constant radar watch while the wife asked me to tell you she'd wait in the briefing room Thanks You know dick, it's a funny thing All these months of preparation and now I don't want to go. You know why why because of caroline I guess I've kind of taken her for granted, but now All of a sudden well, I yeah 249,000 there's a lot of miles You're not going to cry are you I'm only going to be gone five and a half days. Wouldn't you be disappointed if I didn't cry a little Look, I made you a little A little something for the trip Did you it's not very much just a little nut bread and some cold chicken and things I thought you and dick might Oh, come on now take it easy I'm all right Let's see what you put in here. Oh no, don't open it now. It's not very much Well, I'll I'll bring you back some green cheese There's only one thing I want you to bring me pete Oh, don't worry, honey This ship is foolproof De mark has taken us through it a thousand times. Oh, please be careful Because if anything happened to you, I Well, I wouldn't even know how to live anymore. Oh, baby Pete promise me you'll take care promise me. You'll you'll now listen Nothing's going to happen I'll come back And that's a promise How do you feel? How do I feel strap flatten my back in a ship that's going to the moon? I feel scared How else could I feel? How do you feel? Yeah, I'm about the same I'd like to hello. Pegasus. This is control. You have one minute till primary ignition. Are you in position? Yeah, yeah already. Yeah, that's right treat him rough I ought to be working in a little photography shop somewhere baby pictures. That's my In no event or either of you to move during acceleration Understand we understand stand by have I time to say something to them? You better make it fast doc What gives it's to mark boys. Yeah doc can dick here me too right here, doctor I just wanted to say good luck once more. I don't have to tell you how much depends on this We know doc and remember Remember when you switch over from radar control to manual on the dark side of lunar use the checklist Don't leave it to memory. It's too risky. We'll use the list that switch over is going to be the tricky part So I'm sorry, doctor 35 seconds Stand by See your wife. All right, Pete 30 seconds. I saw her Greatest wife a man ever had you know that dick 25 seconds You're a lucky man, Pete. I sure am 20 seconds 249,000 is a lot of miles 15 seconds 998,000 Pete round trip you got to remember it's round trip At 7 30 p.m Mountain standard time the pegasus passed through the troposphere and entered the stratosphere Then at 7 38 the pegasus left the ionopause the outer edge and the final layer of gases making up the atmosphere of earth That's about it. Dr. Demark. They must be in outer space. We've lost her light on television coming through fine on radar, sir Let's have a look. Here's their blip on horizontal and on vertical here, sir Fine slowing down for the last few seconds seem to be leveling off now Leveling they don't have any level where they are No up No down and no reference except earth Now if anyone calls i'm going to stop by the control transmitter for a minute and Then i'll be in the radio room. Yes, sir. And sir. Yes. Give them our best At 7 45 radio contact was established and instrument readings were exchanged along with other information Can you see the earth? Can you describe it from where you are dick? You tell them pete you're the artist I'm only an engineer. Hello pegasus. We heard you We were discussing the appearance of earth shortly before you made contact. Yes, it it looks a little like Like a honeydew melon that's gone bad. Sorry, but that's the way it looks from here Some think it looks like that from here. Hello pegasus We're going to cut you into the pool radio networks in a couple of minutes So that the citizens on this this override melon can hear from you very long Oh, what gives that's it. You mean no more radio so soon so soon 10 years ago radio wouldn't have been able to carry this far The outer layer of atmosphere the ionosphere reflects almost all radio waves. Well, what do we do now? Just settle down to the business at hand, I guess which is what being heroes. Oh nuts. I'm not the hero type I wouldn't make the grade not even if I discovered demarc's secret of the universe in a fist full of ready-made maps Guys named schwarz never get the brakes in the hero business. How so? Can you imagine a hero named schwarz? Of course you can't Buck schwarz in the 20th century space cadets schwarz reporting said or in those old westerns tech schwarz or hop along schwarz Ever know of any great generals named schwarz? Yeah, I see what you mean Hey dick caroline. Give me a box of cold chicken and stuff. You want some sure a good idea break out the goodies From 805 to 845 the first men to address outer space feasted on homemade nut bread and southern fried chicken They washed it down with a well known american soft drink From 845 until 1030 they sat before the starboard port and engaged in speculative conversation about the moon Then they went to bed Pete you awake? Yeah, I'm so tired. I can't keep my eyes open, but I can't turn off the thoughts. Yeah It's about the same with me Christopher columbus schwarz I'm afraid if I go to sleep. I'll miss something in 1962 peach schwarz and dick friend sailed through outer space blue Only it isn't blue. It's black. Yeah, looks like you'll have to think up another one. Hey, what do you mean miss something? You're expecting something to happen. No, no, I guess I'm just too excited to sleep one more piece of chicken Wing I think no, thanks you even I don't want it Hey dick now, let me get this straight except for me taking a few more pictures Nothing's going to happen till we land right right except for the switch over You sure about that almost positive. Oh, all right then See you in 10 or 15 hours I'm gonna have another crack at getting some sleep After 57 hours and 10 minutes the pegasus course changed as she moved toward the gravitational field of lunar And began circling to the dark side Our scheduled time for breaking radar contact with the earth was 57 hours and 13 minutes It was almost time for the switch over Three minutes peak gotcha ready with a checklist all set Let's have it Item one thrust control Thrust control check set stabilizer on automatic to cut in at 1070 mph Stabilizer set 1070 mph check item two Time control time control check start chronometer Two minutes from the switch point. All right. What's next set chronometer to cut in at 57 13 5 Chronometer set at 57 13 5 check item 3 External temperature control check set compensator at zero on ellipse graph Compensator at zero check item four What's that air resistance we're getting close to the lunas field of gravity I'll say we are Hey, there's the one minute signal go ahead item four Item four prime rockets number two four and six two four Six Two four six check 30 seconds fifth and last item prime rockets one three and five one three five Check that's everything 15 seconds to the switch point I'll set fire breaking rockets at 57 10 straight up four seconds from the time the blip goes out You watch the trigger switch. I'll count it for you coming up coming up ready ready one two three fire 59 hours and 30 minutes the descent began Colored flares were fired at 59 35 and pictures were taken of the lunar topography It's definitely not green cheese, huh dick. Hey man. Look at those craters grow. Yeah, they're gonna look a lot bigger before we're down How long about seven minutes disappointed disappointed in what this side looks just like the other side No hidden valleys. No three headed people rushing out to me. Hey that flare is going out. You better fire another one green this time, right? 59 hours and 44 minutes after leaving the geosphere of earth The spaceship pegasus made the first physical contact with the moon This chronicle written as it was as the events took place Contained much information about that first walk on the moon in july of 1962 There were notes on terrain grid coordinates Marking the places where specimens and photographs had been taken Remarks about gravity altogether 273 notes and observations set down in the careful abbreviated hand of richard friend But the most exciting entry concerned an incident that took place during our last half hour on the planet lunar At about 63 hours and 50 minutes after leaving earth We'd taken about all the surface photographs and samples we could and were heading back to the peg Everything was going along fine till we got about a hundred or 150 yards from the ship It was then that I thought I saw something moving around in the main compartment I swear I saw it passed right by the port, but it doesn't stand a reason Probably a reflection reflection of what? Dick dick, can you hear me? Yes? Yes? I just didn't have an answer Well, there can't be anybody here But maybe we'd better have a look. I don't think we'll find anything At the top of the metal ladder leading to the control compartment We heard something moving around Then After a while It was quiet I guess I guess we just open the hatch and march in. Hey wait, maybe we ought to do a little thinking first, huh? Hey Couldn't be a stowaway. Oh, where could he have hidden? Yeah, that's right Well, what are we going to do? Pete the navigation schedule calls for us to take off in 23 minutes It looks like there's only one thing we can do. You mean barge right in? Well, who spaceship is it anyway? Not a weapon between us if we only had a gun Shall I open the hatch? What else? The visitor was a man Little short of middle age and well built He was sitting on the edge of my bunk Smiling when we looked in For a moment we just looked at each other Then he walked over to give us a hand from the deck hatch Hello I was beginning to wonder if you were coming back Pete Did you I didn't say a word. It was him, but He didn't even open his mouth My language is thought You have a spoken tongue. He did it again dick. Did you hear that? I didn't hear a thing, but I know what he said Because the stranger's spoken thought it would be close to impossible to give you a literal account of the conversation But I'll give it to you as well as I can He was named after his profession and he was a worker in Metal foils mostly gold foil. So dick and I called him goldsmith. It Seemed all right with him. Won't you sit down mr. Goldsmith? Thank you While I was waiting for you I happened to notice this box It has a very pleasant aroma Oh, you mean the chicken wing Carolina'll be flattered It's food Would you like to try it? I would like to take it with me to my own planet if you don't mind If it tastes as good as it smells we may synthesize it if I may uh, please do uh Be my guest What uh, what brings you here mr. Goldsmith your flares were responsible for that I was on my way home when I saw them I thought I'd better stop by and see if you needed assistance Very neighborly this being the solar system of the mad planet. I thought you might be in trouble What do you mean mr. Goldsmith? What mad planet you don't know then? It's good. I stopped by There is a planet thought to be in this solar system, which is very dangerous dangerous The inhabitants would kill a visitor without cause As readily as they kill each other The people are really mad. Do you mean insane? It would seem so Almost from the instant human beings appeared on this planet. They've abused themselves and their world Inventing all sorts of ways to rationalize their actions Perhaps I'm taxing your imagination. No, no, please continue Well, it seems that on this planet as on all the other inhabitant ones Human beings were put to a test Of love And what happened the people on the mad planet failed the test they chose to hate Rather than love flight. That's terrible. What is even more terrible? They failed every test since that first one It has always been incomprehensible to me They had the chance to start out all over again Their planet at one time was entirely covered with water But one family one good family was allowed to survive But still even they put hate before love What what do you think will become of the people on the planet? Well through their own doing they themselves have invented a kind of partial punishment In which millions of them gather into sides and wage war on each other some oppress some defend But all suffer According to our revelations concerning this strange planet. Love is not dead there and where there is love There is hope I have these People made any progress at all that I do not know. I would like to think so At any rate I would not risk landing there if I were you What was that the alarm is to let us know we must leave in five minutes Why five minutes we we have to do our navigation in advance if we miss our schedule We may miss our planet to repeat our course would take us weeks and I'm afraid when I'm prepared to stay that long Oh Then you are new to space travel very new Perhaps perhaps you live in this solar system. That's right Then I'm I'm glad I talked to you So am I It occurs to me that we have excellent astronomers on our planet plotting your course back would be a matter of minutes for them If you would care to visit with us for a time. Oh, thanks, but we're expected at home at home Before I go You have given me something of value. Uh chicken wing. Oh forget it. Please. No. No I would like to give you something in exchange It's in this case we carry these in my world to remind us of important facts But I'm told its meaning is universal Please accept it But this is gold only the case. I made it myself. It looks much too valuable. The value is inside There is a lesson inside the people of your world would profit by Will you accept it? Yes, of course. Thank you very much. Yeah, thanks I took a picture of goldsmith as he left the pegasus Three minutes after that we left the moon and headed back toward earth 129 hours and 23 minutes after leaving earth the pegasus returned Most of the human race was excited about the specimens and the hundreds of pictures taken on the moon But the most attention was given to the products of the last 10 minutes on luna To a a photograph of a man who spoke in thought And to a little gold case It contained a reminder of a parable once set before men A single mustard seed For love is like a grain of mustard seed Which a man takes and sows in his field This indeed Is the smallest of all seeds But when it grows up It is larger than any herb And becomes a tree This is bob hope again You know a family theater has been plugging the slogan The family that prays together stays together for even longer than pittsburgh's been in the cellar But when most of us think of families that don't stay together we think of broken marriages And that's not always the main problem Our kids are just as much a part of the family as we are and they need prayer as much as the rest of us Pick up your tabloid. What do you read about kids? Kids coming home from korea Sure, they've packed a lot of living into a few years But a lot of them are still kids and they need all the help they can get Turn to page two More kids some of them pretty far gone Kids who've been duped into dope Kids who push that hot rod out of there is just a notch too far and at the last minute couldn't stop in time And don't get me wrong. I'm not one of those guys who thinks the younger generation is getting worse every year But I do think there's a way we could all help that generation to get a lot better That's right through family prayer the whole family dad mom siss brother all hands Folded just long enough to thank god they're a family And dad good examples a mighty powerful thing None of our old bones can take the punishment they used to but If we pick out a soft spot in the carpet and let ourselves down easy well After all god built our legs to bend at the knees So you must have wanted us to spend some time in that position And it works The family that prays together stays together more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of From hollywood family theater has brought you journey of the pegasus Starring raymond burr bob hope was your host Others in our cast were marvin miller bob bailey vivy janis howard culver and francis urie The script was written by robert huo sullivan with music composed and conducted by harry zimmerman And was directed and transcribed for family theater by lou x landsworth This series of family theater broadcasts is made possible by the thousands of you who feel the need for this type of program By the mutual network which has responded to this need And by the hundreds of stars of stage screen and radio Who give so unselfishly their time and talent to appear on our family theater stage to them and to you our humble thanks This is tony lofrano expressing the wish of family theater That the blessing of god may be upon you and your home and inviting you to be with us next week when family theater will present Turn on the lights starring john hodiac Tyrone power will be your host join us won't you? 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