11/16/55, episode 25
This episode provided by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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Way in the future (1965), Steve Weston is the guinea pig, about to be sent into space where he has just enough fuel to complete his experimental mission, then return to Earth. He can't stay out too long, as that is the "outer limit" of what he can do. A lot of little turns and added surprise developments, like his wife delivering their first child just as he leaves. (And I got in trouble by asking my wife if her labor pains were really bad or if could we wait until the movie was over.) Really fun when you consider this was first broadcast before the first U.S. rocket into space. Good sound effects that help me picture (in black & white) an experimental flight into space. What is up there in "the outer limit?" By Graham Dore. (from "The Critical X Minus One" by Jim Fanisher)
Credits (Goldin): Fredericka Chandler, James Dukas, William Welch (producer), Daniel Sutter (director), Graham Doar (author), Fred Collins (announcer), Joseph Julian, Wendell Holmes, Joe DeSantis, Bob Hastings, Ernest Kinoy (adaptor)