X Minus One - Sea Legs (#49)

05/01/56, episode 49
This episode provided by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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Robert Craig is returning to the planet where his parents were born: Earth. But first, he has to get used to living in gravity, and many people try to talk him out of this in this heavy-handed political story. (from "The Critical X Minus One" by Jim Fanisher)
Credits (Goldin): William Redfield, James Stevens, Stan Early, Charles Penman, James Dukas, Richard Hamilton, Jack Orrison, Jack Grimes, Craig McDonnell, Ralph Bell, Kermit Murdock, Fredericka Chandler, Frank Quattrochi (author), George Lefferts (adaptor), Daniel Sutter (director), Fred Collins (announcer), William Welch (producer)

[@quicksilvertongue3248]

"Just put the bags down, I'll unpack myself". That's a weird kind of hotel service that you don't hear about today.

[@MaxfieldCustoms]

Just listened to this on during the Big Broadcast program on WAMU radio FM; 7-11pm on Sundays.

[@crochetedlace2838]

Excellent!

[@quicksilvertongue3248]

A dystopia is one thing, but a dystopia which won't even explain the rules you'll be punished for breaking? How did such a regime even arise? There's a huge untold story to this universe.

[@kollerbrian]

God love um, X Minus 1 Spaceman. See legs are the future and eyes love them.. Good Things, Brian~Koller

[@cm9439]

William Redfield is one of my favorite actors, ever

[@artmoss6889]

He was an excellent actor. He had a natural ability to play ironic, embittered characters, a quality he put to good use in "One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest."

[@tomrodgers6629]

I am without a doubt a Freedomite. A good episode to follow this with is " Mr Costello hero.

[@bewarethegreyghost]

This is depressing. How are these writers so prescient? This is what half the US, Australia and Canada is like right now.

[@antwan1357]

Rationing , status jobs , everything is beauracracy , and red tape. Sounds like the modern day.

[@danielt.8573]

Sounds like the Soviet Union, China or North Korea. Sounds like the EU in a decade or two. The left-wing at its finest.

[@JamesWarrenJones]

Need a card to prove you have credentials (or government approved shots) Wearing masks, stay in your family pod, or sneak off to sectors where a bar might be open and get turned in to the authorities sounds like California or Minnesota or New York now.

[@ronjones4069]

He came to earth during the Trump era.

[@michaelfitzgerald3467]

SMDH- The character in the show even expressly says that communism is abhorrent to the Freedomites. Communism=Leftism=Democrat Party. We've been living through the Biden era now and it is crystal clear who the authoritarians are, who the wannabe dictator thug is/was, and which party represents the interests of Americans, and it's not the party that just ousted their president/presidential candidate and substituted the vice president as if that wasn't an unprecedented abridgment of the democratic process. Of course, their Party voters are without scruples or ethical restraint themselves, so they don't care. They were sad Trump wasn't murdered.