October 23, 2025 • 29 mins
Suspense was one of the most popular and successful radio series during it's run of over 900 episodes, spanning 1940-1962. Guest stars included Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Agnes Moorehead, Marlene Dietrich and Humphrey Bogart. The plots were mostly engaging crime dramas, science fiction and some horror - usually with a surprise ending.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Auto LIGHTE and it's ninety eight thousand dealers bring you,
mister William Holden. In Tonight's presentation of.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Suspense, Tonight auto Light dramatizes an astounding experience a man
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Speaker 2 (01:52):
LIGHTE Presents transcribed The Outer Limit, starring mister William Holden,
hoping once again to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Deer All minus twenty five, deer All minus twenty five.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
All right, man, settle down, All right, let's settle down.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
A YouTube. Bill, that book you're reading, put it away.
Anything you say, colonel, well, all of you'll probably want
to know why we took you out of whatever warm
beds you were in. Now we've got a reason. The
RJX one, Yep, that's right, the r JX one, the
top top secret experimental rocket jet aircraft. Now this morning,
(02:48):
Bill is going to take her up and beat her
to death. I can't impress upon you, man, how extraordinary
this flight is. An eight rocket ship. That's what I said. Hey,
eight rockets. Eight rockets designed to take men 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. Chuck Jega has already flown twice the
(03:11):
speed of sound today. We hope. Well, Joe es CM,
you leave the F eighty sixes. You or the other
three jet boys will be Bill's chase planes. We want
observation at thirty five thousand feet. Yes, zero hour is
oh nine hundred, Joe, you and your jets will take
off at zero minus fifteen, got that? Yes, sir. Your
(03:34):
F eighty sixes will make conventional climbs to thirty thousand feet,
rendezvous and call in to me at control at thirty
five thousand feet. By Joe, Okay, you and your boys
go and wrap your F eighty sixes and have a
nice time. Oh Bill, I stick around. I want to talk.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
You feeling Bill? Real good? How are you feeling? What
about Molly? The kids you worried? Hankd On Well, I
just want to know just how are they? That's well.
An hour ago, Molly wiped her hands on her apron
and kissed me and the twins want to be fireman.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Zero minus twenty, zero minus twenty.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
What do you got to worry about? Okay, okay, Hank. Look,
I've been flying for a long time. I know, I know,
I know, but never for this speed, never for this altitude.
I have an eavesdropping Bill. The engineer is a whispering
that you could break out of the stratosphere in this plane. Look, Hank,
I've studied the engineering drawings. I know him like a prayer.
(04:32):
My brain is crammed with the tailed specifications and estimated performances,
and I know all the safety devices to keep me alive.
Now you're happy, Come on, let's go. Let's get out
of here.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Sure, zero minus seventy.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Come on our side, zero minus seventy. Let's get to
the hangar. Uh Bill, Yeah, you've got ten minutes of
rocket fuel. Get rid of those jets before you fire
the rockets. Fire only one rocket at a time. He
(05:05):
thank Look, I'm gonna fly that baby higher and faster
than anybody ever did before, just like you said. I'm
gonna take it up and bring it back. Then you'll
come home to dinner with me. Huh, Yes, she is, Bill,
pretty huh, real, pretty, look kiddy, it's okay for dinner tonight, great, Hank.
I'll be listening in on the public addressing control. I
(05:26):
won't bother until your airborne. It'll be between you and
the tower until then.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Dere all minus fifty zero minus fifty.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Okay, see you in the plane now, Frank, you'll take
you both. I'll to the run.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Suppose you kind of big kid. I'll see you later.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Good luck.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Zero minus three zero minus three.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Warning Colonel, Oh mister, you'll be here control with me, Yes, sir.
Major west Fall's been assigned a special radio channel frequency
of three nine seven Drove. 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 Now it's your turn. What have you got
(06:36):
on your mind? Everything's in proper order, Colonel, the recording equipment,
the television cameras and the cockpit, everything, every known scientific device.
We're talking about a man, Hargrove. That's all I really
want to get back out of this. What about the man?
It may be one difficulty. Tell me about it. I'd
like to know the takeoff with all that load, the jets,
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the rockets all at maximum fuel capacity. It's never been
tested that way before. Go on, mister Huntre. It's just
that Major Westfall has only six thousand feet to get
his ship airborne. If he accelerates from zero to one
hundred and sixty miles per hour and six thousand feet,
he should be airborne in seven seconds. Seven seconds. That
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makes a zero plus G. Yes, ken beyond zero plus
G well, beyond that, we don't know. We we just
don't know. Thanks, thanks for everything, mister hugg I'll try
to switch now.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
Okay to tower, any change in weather tower to RJX
one barometer reading twenty nine point seven set you're al
timoter accordingly, RJX one to tower, Roger Tower to RJX
one win fifteen miles from south take off runway to
seven runway to seven.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
RJX to tower.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Got it zero minus one thirty zero minus run thirty.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
RJX to control over control to RJX one.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Go ahead, that's it, just for you, Hank Captain pressure okay,
Oxygen pressure okay. Hydraulic pressure for landing gear okay, I
feel pressure safety er minus one zero minus one rj
extra crew chief over crew chief marchi X one, go ahead,
I'm ready to fire.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Hold it, okay, I'll shut the fire.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
There where starting right, jet.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Starting left jet.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Zero minus thirty second tower to arg.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
X one over rj extra tower, Go ahead. Western Airlines
convey reported over Ventura, got it.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Zero minus fifty board thirteen Why.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Out eleven, rj tower ready for take off.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Tower to r j X one clear partake of look
bill fie.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Four three two one zero.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
He's holy.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Siyad. He made it for the talk.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Yeah, rj X to control, RJX to control.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Come in control to RJX one, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Everything's great, Hank. It's a dollar baby.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I'll fast you climbing kid seventeen hundred a minute, air
speed five point fifty, call me twenty thousand, Heading is
eighty seven. Everything real good, Come in Hank. How do
you feel I like it?
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Here?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Pressure? Okay, pressure, okay.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
Have eighty six leaders to control and Betty's six to control.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Come in control that eighty six leader. Go ahead at Betty.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
Six observing RJX one. He's really tearing.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Colonel over ploint X thirty five pounds on schedule, Joe
on schedule.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
RJX to control, RJX.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
To control, Come in control RJX one, go ahead, forty
thousand feet Hank still a doll baby still is ready
to pressureize.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Okay? Coming in fine.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Pressure eyed, ready to prime rocket system in five seconds prime,
dropping right yet dropping left yet all clear?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Good luck?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Bell?
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Firing number one rocket fired? Oh my, incing back?
Speaker 7 (11:18):
Firing number two rocket.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Fired?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Okay, what is it? Bell? Bell? Are you receiving me?
Control to r j X one. Come in, come in
r j X one. Hello, Bill, come in control to
f eighty six letter control to f hety six Lda,
come inty six liter to control. Go ahead, what about it?
(11:46):
Joe Fatty six observing r.
Speaker 8 (11:48):
J X one j X one at approximately sixty thousand feet,
maintaining you're heading up north northwest.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Can barely make him, Colonel Tike hawling.
Speaker 8 (11:56):
Okay, Fatty six lead j j X one. Come in,
come in r j X one. Come in Betty's six
to r j X one. Betty's six to JX one.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
God yes, Colonel Share, come in, sit here and run
your fingers for your hair and wait one and think
about it.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
One.
Speaker 8 (12:15):
Come in Faty's six to r j X one, Come in,
r j X one, F faty six to r j
X one fatty six leader to control.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Come in, go ahead, F eighty six leader.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
We've lost them. Colonel.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Stay up there, Joe, for as long as you can.
What do we do now, Colonel? I just told you,
mister hoggo We wait. R j X one to Hank
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and all your people anywhere. Hope you can hear me.
This is Bill Westfall, approaching two hundred and ten thousand feet.
That's forty miles straight up in the air, and that's
where I am. You never saw anything like it. Clouds
and a color no one's ever named before. Otherwise, nothing,
nothing except oh nothing at all. Oh wait a minute, yeah, yeah,
(13:11):
there is something all right at two o'clock high, Really something, brother,
maybe a flying disc. This one's huge. It's spinning around
like a top and it's coming toward me. Can you
hear me? Can you hear me?
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Listen?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Listen. Something just happened, something a missile or shot maybe
through the canopy. My pressure's going down. Something's happening to me.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
That's this thing.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
I'm being pulled toward it. I've lost control of my ship.
I've got no control, going to decompression on the verge
of unconsciousness, blacking out black?
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Can you hear it?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
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Speaker 2 (15:24):
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a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
May I make a suggestion, colonel, give it up? No
use waiting anymore, Make your report to Washington. What about you,
Hugo to be frank with your colonel. In another sixteen
months will be another plane, the RJX two, and the
Army will give us another man of flying. Not until
we're certain about this man. And we're not certain, what
are you proposed to do? Things that are in the manual.
(16:14):
We'll organized search parties with spot of planes up in
the air. Maybe Bill came down on the ocean, we'll
call him the Navy, Colonel. If the RJX one came
down in the ocean, it had sink in five seconds,
it had no life preserver equipment on it, the ad
call him the Navy mister Hogrove. All right, whatever you say, colonel,
But my gut, what's your guest, mister Hogrove. My guess
(16:34):
is that sometime somewhere on some beach or in some field,
someone will pick up a piece of torn metal that
someone will be holding what's left of the RJX one.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
Second one, you're about the space patrol ships two J three?
Am I in communication with you? Can you unders then?
Are we in contact? Can you understand now what I
am saying to you?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yes, yes, I I understand you. I understand earth Man.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Your brain isn't turmoil, is it not? It has great
difficulty in accepting.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
What you see. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right, accepted.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
What you see here exists.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
All this this exists.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
It exists, earth Man. The spaceship you are on exists.
Those jet dynamos you see before you exist, jet dynamos
driven by the harness power of a thousand suns. Listen
to earth Man, listen to them. Do you know what happened?
(17:53):
As you listen to earth Man? We have flung ourselves
ten thousand miles into space. What do you say say
to that? Earth Man?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I don't know what to say.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
You are a board space patrolsia as two J three,
and I am a guardian of the galaxy, the guardian
of the universes. What puzzles you earth Man, I can't.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I can't see you, right, I can feel that you're
You're here, but I can't see you.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
There is no necessity for you to see us. It
is sufficient that we communicate with each other.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
But talking to you is like, well, it's not like talking.
It's as if it was all happening inside my brain.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
It is. That is how I am reaching you by telepathy.
Do you remember what happened to you before you blacked out?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Yeah? I think so. There was a sharp sound, like well,
like a bullet hitting the canopy.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
It was not a bullet, it was a ray. It
was necessary to stop your flight. We have so much
to tell you.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
First, First tell me about my ship. Is it lost? No?
Speaker 6 (19:05):
It is such a crude little ship, easy for us
to repair. It will be returned to you, and you
will return to Earth because you are the Earth's only
hope of survival.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Hope of survival? What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (19:20):
I will show you.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
My gosh, what you.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
See before you is a panorama of your own universe,
far greater in scope than an earth Man has ever
seen before. Observe, observe where the line is pointing Planet
three Star five Galaxy, Sea Sector K.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Is is that the Earth? That?
Speaker 6 (19:41):
That that speck you see revolving in the vastness is
your son, a star who surfaces twelve thousand times that
of your Earth. Your Earth is not even visible here.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
How did you know we even existed?
Speaker 6 (19:55):
We first became aware of your planet when we found
atomic dust in the upper at sphere. We traced it
to your Earth. We determine that you are setting off
atomic bombs. That is why the Galactic Council has quarantined
you quarantine.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I don't understand how how are we quarantined.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
We have sealed off your planet from the rest of space.
We have surrounded it with a false screen. When that
screen has accumulated enough particles of atomic dust, your Earth
will explode, your civilization, You, all life will disappear forever.
(20:38):
Listen to the Earth man. Listen. We have had of it,
almost destroyed our civilization, but we have finally outlawed war
throughout space, including Earth. Now listen carefully, Earthmen. If you
continue to make atomic bombs, each many times more powerful
(20:59):
than the last, and if you start making war with them,
exploding them, it would upset the balance of the entire universe,
throw all space into chaos. This, of course, we cannot allow,
and the four screen with which we have surrounded the
Earth will prevent it by exploding the Earth itself. Remember, then,
(21:19):
earth Man, if you start an atomic war, the Earth
will at once be completely destroyed.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yes, yes, I understand a man.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Earth Man, you will rise from your seat and open
that door. Descend those stairs. Earth Man. You will now
enter the chamber to your left, there is your ship.
(21:57):
Get into it. Earth Are you ready, earth.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Man, Yes, I'm ready.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
While we were communicating, the patrol ship has returned to
where we picked you up, and now you will be
propelled to add Earth. Close your academy mm hmm open
upper duor.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Warn then earth Man, worn them f.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
I Jacks won the tower. I Jacks won the tower.
Come in RJX one to tower. Come in tower.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Tower to funny Man.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
You loaded, kid?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
How did you get in.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
On this frequency?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Listen? This is RJX one. RJX one coming in for landing.
Give me landing instructions.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Over tower to funny Man.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Impossible at your RJX one. Get away from the area.
Area cleared for air Force practice approaches.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Bill Westfall and RJX one. Come on, kid, give me
landing instructions. I have no fuel. I'm gliding.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Hey, yeah, I see it. Wait a minute, I'll restrict
the area.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Okay, Bill, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
RJX one approximate six miles north of field. Clear area
for ten miles being cleared. Roger coming down. H Hi, Hank,
(24:09):
Phil Now litl what Joe? Have this ship checked thoroughly
with a guy or counter for radioactivity, then seal it
and on a twenty four hour guard, and then report
to me. All right, Bill, what happened? Hank? Hank? And
I listen. You won't believe it. You've got to. I
know you won't believe it, and it's gonna knock you over.
Not just take it easy, build it. We we better
(24:31):
have Major Donaldson look you over. No, no, no, no, no,
now listen, I'm all right. Listen to me, Hank, Hank.
They said the earth would explode. They said it was
the end for us. They said, come on, let's go
over to Major Donaldson's. You don't believe it? Do you
read it like an order? Bill, Major Donaldson's. That's that's
(24:55):
the story, Major Donaldson. Bill, these men from Mars, I
didn't s they were from Mars. Do you hear me
say anything about men from Mars. Oh 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 atomic bombs. They've got us quarantined quarantines, yeah, quarantine.
(25:15):
They've sealed us off from the rest of space. I
told you our atomic bombs are a danger to the universe,
so they've seen to it that we'll be destroyed, blown up.
How do you like it? All right? Bill, roll up
your sleeves. Yeah, I forget it. Major, I'm going over
the club in Taiwan. I'm sorry, Bill, not tonight. Let
(25:36):
the Major give you a hype. Look, Hank, I've got
a drink coming, lots of drink later, right now, Sleep
go ahead, Major, Come on, Bill the Slave. Yeah, okay, Yeah,
you'll be okay in the morning. I'm okay now, Yeah, sure,
(25:58):
we'll leave you here. Bill. It's sorry to Bill's leaves
here to night. Isn't sure. I see you in the morning, Ago,
Uh huh. Maybe you'll believe me. Then you'd better come on. Major.
He'd be okay by himself.
Speaker 10 (26:17):
Major, Well, he's been under his strain, but he'll sleep.
I'll talk to him tomorrow. Tough, But don't worry, colonel.
He's a strong boy. Best nerves i've seen. I'd say
things will be all right. Illusions like Bill's lads down delusions, Well, certainly.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Major when you make your charts for Bill and diagnose
him and treat him and do all the things you
have to. When you do that, Major, consider this, Yes,
how did he keep that plane in the air for
ten hours? For ten hours? Major? When he had fuel
to last him only ten minutes?
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(27:36):
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(28:18):
a snake. When he awoke, he found he had murdered
his wife. It's called murder by Jury. Our star mister
Herbert Marshall. That's next Week on Suspense.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Suspense is transcribed and directed by Elliot Lewis, with music
composed by Lucian Morwick and conducted by lud Gluskin. The
Outer Limit was written by Graham Dore and adapted for
suspense by Morton Fine and David Pretin. Featured in the
cast were Edgar Barrier, William Johnstone, Jack Rushen high Everbach,
Joseph Kerns, Jerry Hausner, and Charles Calvert.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
William Holden can currently be seen co starring with Ginger
Rogers in Paramounts, Forever Female and Remember Next Week Mister
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
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Speaker 2 (01:52):
LIGHTE Presents transcribed The Outer Limit, starring mister William Holden,
hoping once again to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Deer All minus twenty five, deer All minus twenty five.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
All right, man, settle down, All right, let's settle down.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
A YouTube. Bill, that book you're reading, put it away.
Anything you say, colonel, well, all of you'll probably want
to know why we took you out of whatever warm
beds you were in. Now we've got a reason. The
RJX one, Yep, that's right, the r JX one, the
top top secret experimental rocket jet aircraft. Now this morning,
(02:48):
Bill is going to take her up and beat her
to death. I can't impress upon you, man, how extraordinary
this flight is. An eight rocket ship. That's what I said. Hey,
eight rockets. Eight rockets designed to take men 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. Chuck Jega has already flown twice the
(03:11):
speed of sound today. We hope. Well, Joe es CM,
you leave the F eighty sixes. You or the other
three jet boys will be Bill's chase planes. We want
observation at thirty five thousand feet. Yes, zero hour is
oh nine hundred, Joe, you and your jets will take
off at zero minus fifteen, got that? Yes, sir. Your
(03:34):
F eighty sixes will make conventional climbs to thirty thousand feet,
rendezvous and call in to me at control at thirty
five thousand feet. By Joe, Okay, you and your boys
go and wrap your F eighty sixes and have a
nice time. Oh Bill, I stick around. I want to talk.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
You feeling Bill? Real good? How are you feeling? What
about Molly? The kids you worried? Hankd On Well, I
just want to know just how are they? That's well.
An hour ago, Molly wiped her hands on her apron
and kissed me and the twins want to be fireman.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Zero minus twenty, zero minus twenty.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
What do you got to worry about? Okay, okay, Hank. Look,
I've been flying for a long time. I know, I know,
I know, but never for this speed, never for this altitude.
I have an eavesdropping Bill. The engineer is a whispering
that you could break out of the stratosphere in this plane. Look, Hank,
I've studied the engineering drawings. I know him like a prayer.
(04:32):
My brain is crammed with the tailed specifications and estimated performances,
and I know all the safety devices to keep me alive.
Now you're happy, Come on, let's go. Let's get out
of here.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Sure, zero minus seventy.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Come on our side, zero minus seventy. Let's get to
the hangar. Uh Bill, Yeah, you've got ten minutes of
rocket fuel. Get rid of those jets before you fire
the rockets. Fire only one rocket at a time. He
(05:05):
thank Look, I'm gonna fly that baby higher and faster
than anybody ever did before, just like you said. I'm
gonna take it up and bring it back. Then you'll
come home to dinner with me. Huh, Yes, she is, Bill,
pretty huh, real, pretty, look kiddy, it's okay for dinner tonight, great, Hank.
I'll be listening in on the public addressing control. I
(05:26):
won't bother until your airborne. It'll be between you and
the tower until then.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Dere all minus fifty zero minus fifty.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Okay, see you in the plane now, Frank, you'll take
you both. I'll to the run.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Suppose you kind of big kid. I'll see you later.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Good luck.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Zero minus three zero minus three.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Warning Colonel, Oh mister, you'll be here control with me, Yes, sir.
Major west Fall's been assigned a special radio channel frequency
of three nine seven Drove. 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 Now it's your turn. What have you got
(06:36):
on your mind? Everything's in proper order, Colonel, the recording equipment,
the television cameras and the cockpit, everything, every known scientific device.
We're talking about a man, Hargrove. That's all I really
want to get back out of this. What about the man?
It may be one difficulty. Tell me about it. I'd
like to know the takeoff with all that load, the jets,
(06:56):
the rockets all at maximum fuel capacity. It's never been
tested that way before. Go on, mister Huntre. It's just
that Major Westfall has only six thousand feet to get
his ship airborne. If he accelerates from zero to one
hundred and sixty miles per hour and six thousand feet,
he should be airborne in seven seconds. Seven seconds. That
(07:16):
makes a zero plus G. Yes, ken beyond zero plus
G well, beyond that, we don't know. We we just
don't know. Thanks, thanks for everything, mister hugg I'll try
to switch now.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
Okay to tower, any change in weather tower to RJX
one barometer reading twenty nine point seven set you're al
timoter accordingly, RJX one to tower, Roger Tower to RJX
one win fifteen miles from south take off runway to
seven runway to seven.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
RJX to tower.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Got it zero minus one thirty zero minus run thirty.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
RJX to control over control to RJX one.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Go ahead, that's it, just for you, Hank Captain pressure okay,
Oxygen pressure okay. Hydraulic pressure for landing gear okay, I
feel pressure safety er minus one zero minus one rj
extra crew chief over crew chief marchi X one, go ahead,
I'm ready to fire.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Hold it, okay, I'll shut the fire.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
There where starting right, jet.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Starting left jet.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Zero minus thirty second tower to arg.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
X one over rj extra tower, Go ahead. Western Airlines
convey reported over Ventura, got it.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Zero minus fifty board thirteen Why.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Out eleven, rj tower ready for take off.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Tower to r j X one clear partake of look
bill fie.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Four three two one zero.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
He's holy.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Siyad. He made it for the talk.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Yeah, rj X to control, RJX to control.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Come in control to RJX one, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Everything's great, Hank. It's a dollar baby.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I'll fast you climbing kid seventeen hundred a minute, air
speed five point fifty, call me twenty thousand, Heading is
eighty seven. Everything real good, Come in Hank. How do
you feel I like it?
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Here?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Pressure? Okay, pressure, okay.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
Have eighty six leaders to control and Betty's six to control.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Come in control that eighty six leader. Go ahead at Betty.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
Six observing RJX one. He's really tearing.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Colonel over ploint X thirty five pounds on schedule, Joe
on schedule.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
RJX to control, RJX.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
To control, Come in control RJX one, go ahead, forty
thousand feet Hank still a doll baby still is ready
to pressureize.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Okay? Coming in fine.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Pressure eyed, ready to prime rocket system in five seconds prime,
dropping right yet dropping left yet all clear?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Good luck?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Bell?
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Firing number one rocket fired? Oh my, incing back?
Speaker 7 (11:18):
Firing number two rocket.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Fired?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Okay, what is it? Bell? Bell? Are you receiving me?
Control to r j X one. Come in, come in
r j X one. Hello, Bill, come in control to
f eighty six letter control to f hety six Lda,
come inty six liter to control. Go ahead, what about it?
(11:46):
Joe Fatty six observing r.
Speaker 8 (11:48):
J X one j X one at approximately sixty thousand feet,
maintaining you're heading up north northwest.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Can barely make him, Colonel Tike hawling.
Speaker 8 (11:56):
Okay, Fatty six lead j j X one. Come in,
come in r j X one. Come in Betty's six
to r j X one. Betty's six to JX one.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
God yes, Colonel Share, come in, sit here and run
your fingers for your hair and wait one and think
about it.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
One.
Speaker 8 (12:15):
Come in Faty's six to r j X one, Come in,
r j X one, F faty six to r j
X one fatty six leader to control.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Come in, go ahead, F eighty six leader.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
We've lost them. Colonel.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Stay up there, Joe, for as long as you can.
What do we do now, Colonel? I just told you,
mister hoggo We wait. R j X one to Hank
(12:48):
and all your people anywhere. Hope you can hear me.
This is Bill Westfall, approaching two hundred and ten thousand feet.
That's forty miles straight up in the air, and that's
where I am. You never saw anything like it. Clouds
and a color no one's ever named before. Otherwise, nothing,
nothing except oh nothing at all. Oh wait a minute, yeah, yeah,
(13:11):
there is something all right at two o'clock high, Really something, brother,
maybe a flying disc. This one's huge. It's spinning around
like a top and it's coming toward me. Can you
hear me? Can you hear me?
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Listen?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Listen. Something just happened, something a missile or shot maybe
through the canopy. My pressure's going down. Something's happening to me.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
That's this thing.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
I'm being pulled toward it. I've lost control of my ship.
I've got no control, going to decompression on the verge
of unconsciousness, blacking out black?
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Can you hear it?
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Speaker 1 (15:51):
May I make a suggestion, colonel, give it up? No
use waiting anymore, Make your report to Washington. What about you,
Hugo to be frank with your colonel. In another sixteen
months will be another plane, the RJX two, and the
Army will give us another man of flying. Not until
we're certain about this man. And we're not certain, what
are you proposed to do? Things that are in the manual.
(16:14):
We'll organized search parties with spot of planes up in
the air. Maybe Bill came down on the ocean, we'll
call him the Navy, Colonel. If the RJX one came
down in the ocean, it had sink in five seconds,
it had no life preserver equipment on it, the ad
call him the Navy mister Hogrove. All right, whatever you say, colonel,
But my gut, what's your guest, mister Hogrove. My guess
(16:34):
is that sometime somewhere on some beach or in some field,
someone will pick up a piece of torn metal that
someone will be holding what's left of the RJX one.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
Second one, you're about the space patrol ships two J three?
Am I in communication with you? Can you unders then?
Are we in contact? Can you understand now what I
am saying to you?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yes, yes, I I understand you. I understand earth Man.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Your brain isn't turmoil, is it not? It has great
difficulty in accepting.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
What you see. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right, accepted.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
What you see here exists.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
All this this exists.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
It exists, earth Man. The spaceship you are on exists.
Those jet dynamos you see before you exist, jet dynamos
driven by the harness power of a thousand suns. Listen
to earth Man, listen to them. Do you know what happened?
(17:53):
As you listen to earth Man? We have flung ourselves
ten thousand miles into space. What do you say say
to that? Earth Man?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I don't know what to say.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
You are a board space patrolsia as two J three,
and I am a guardian of the galaxy, the guardian
of the universes. What puzzles you earth Man, I can't.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I can't see you, right, I can feel that you're
You're here, but I can't see you.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
There is no necessity for you to see us. It
is sufficient that we communicate with each other.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
But talking to you is like, well, it's not like talking.
It's as if it was all happening inside my brain.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
It is. That is how I am reaching you by telepathy.
Do you remember what happened to you before you blacked out?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Yeah? I think so. There was a sharp sound, like well,
like a bullet hitting the canopy.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
It was not a bullet, it was a ray. It
was necessary to stop your flight. We have so much
to tell you.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
First, First tell me about my ship. Is it lost? No?
Speaker 6 (19:05):
It is such a crude little ship, easy for us
to repair. It will be returned to you, and you
will return to Earth because you are the Earth's only
hope of survival.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Hope of survival? What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (19:20):
I will show you.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
My gosh, what you.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
See before you is a panorama of your own universe,
far greater in scope than an earth Man has ever
seen before. Observe, observe where the line is pointing Planet
three Star five Galaxy, Sea Sector K.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Is is that the Earth? That?
Speaker 6 (19:41):
That that speck you see revolving in the vastness is
your son, a star who surfaces twelve thousand times that
of your Earth. Your Earth is not even visible here.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
How did you know we even existed?
Speaker 6 (19:55):
We first became aware of your planet when we found
atomic dust in the upper at sphere. We traced it
to your Earth. We determine that you are setting off
atomic bombs. That is why the Galactic Council has quarantined
you quarantine.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I don't understand how how are we quarantined.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
We have sealed off your planet from the rest of space.
We have surrounded it with a false screen. When that
screen has accumulated enough particles of atomic dust, your Earth
will explode, your civilization, You, all life will disappear forever.
(20:38):
Listen to the Earth man. Listen. We have had of it,
almost destroyed our civilization, but we have finally outlawed war
throughout space, including Earth. Now listen carefully, Earthmen. If you
continue to make atomic bombs, each many times more powerful
(20:59):
than the last, and if you start making war with them,
exploding them, it would upset the balance of the entire universe,
throw all space into chaos. This, of course, we cannot allow,
and the four screen with which we have surrounded the
Earth will prevent it by exploding the Earth itself. Remember, then,
(21:19):
earth Man, if you start an atomic war, the Earth
will at once be completely destroyed.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yes, yes, I understand a man.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Earth Man, you will rise from your seat and open
that door. Descend those stairs. Earth Man. You will now
enter the chamber to your left, there is your ship.
(21:57):
Get into it. Earth Are you ready, earth.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Man, Yes, I'm ready.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
While we were communicating, the patrol ship has returned to
where we picked you up, and now you will be
propelled to add Earth. Close your academy mm hmm open
upper duor.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Warn then earth Man, worn them f.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
I Jacks won the tower. I Jacks won the tower.
Come in RJX one to tower. Come in tower.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Tower to funny Man.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
You loaded, kid?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
How did you get in.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
On this frequency?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Listen? This is RJX one. RJX one coming in for landing.
Give me landing instructions.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Over tower to funny Man.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Impossible at your RJX one. Get away from the area.
Area cleared for air Force practice approaches.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Bill Westfall and RJX one. Come on, kid, give me
landing instructions. I have no fuel. I'm gliding.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Hey, yeah, I see it. Wait a minute, I'll restrict
the area.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Okay, Bill, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
RJX one approximate six miles north of field. Clear area
for ten miles being cleared. Roger coming down. H Hi, Hank,
(24:09):
Phil Now litl what Joe? Have this ship checked thoroughly
with a guy or counter for radioactivity, then seal it
and on a twenty four hour guard, and then report
to me. All right, Bill, what happened? Hank? Hank? And
I listen. You won't believe it. You've got to. I
know you won't believe it, and it's gonna knock you over.
Not just take it easy, build it. We we better
(24:31):
have Major Donaldson look you over. No, no, no, no, no,
now listen, I'm all right. Listen to me, Hank, Hank.
They said the earth would explode. They said it was
the end for us. They said, come on, let's go
over to Major Donaldson's. You don't believe it? Do you
read it like an order? Bill, Major Donaldson's. That's that's
(24:55):
the story, Major Donaldson. Bill, these men from Mars, I
didn't s they were from Mars. Do you hear me
say anything about men from Mars. Oh 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 atomic bombs. They've got us quarantined quarantines, yeah, quarantine.
(25:15):
They've sealed us off from the rest of space. I
told you our atomic bombs are a danger to the universe,
so they've seen to it that we'll be destroyed, blown up.
How do you like it? All right? Bill, roll up
your sleeves. Yeah, I forget it. Major, I'm going over
the club in Taiwan. I'm sorry, Bill, not tonight. Let
(25:36):
the Major give you a hype. Look, Hank, I've got
a drink coming, lots of drink later, right now, Sleep
go ahead, Major, Come on, Bill the Slave. Yeah, okay, Yeah,
you'll be okay in the morning. I'm okay now, Yeah, sure,
(25:58):
we'll leave you here. Bill. It's sorry to Bill's leaves
here to night. Isn't sure. I see you in the morning, Ago,
Uh huh. Maybe you'll believe me. Then you'd better come on. Major.
He'd be okay by himself.
Speaker 10 (26:17):
Major, Well, he's been under his strain, but he'll sleep.
I'll talk to him tomorrow. Tough, But don't worry, colonel.
He's a strong boy. Best nerves i've seen. I'd say
things will be all right. Illusions like Bill's lads down delusions, Well, certainly.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Major when you make your charts for Bill and diagnose
him and treat him and do all the things you
have to. When you do that, Major, consider this, Yes,
how did he keep that plane in the air for
ten hours? For ten hours? Major? When he had fuel
to last him only ten minutes?
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who had a dream and in the dream he killed
(28:18):
a snake. When he awoke, he found he had murdered
his wife. It's called murder by Jury. Our star mister
Herbert Marshall. That's next Week on Suspense.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Suspense is transcribed and directed by Elliot Lewis, with music
composed by Lucian Morwick and conducted by lud Gluskin. The
Outer Limit was written by Graham Dore and adapted for
suspense by Morton Fine and David Pretin. Featured in the
cast were Edgar Barrier, William Johnstone, Jack Rushen high Everbach,
Joseph Kerns, Jerry Hausner, and Charles Calvert.
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