X Minus One - The Outer Limit (#25)

11/16/55, episode 25
This episode provided by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group
www.otrr.org
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)

[@jeffsutton950]

Imagination of your mind lays out the story. Wendell Holmes had a great voice for X MINUS ONE

[@paulsarnik8506]

What about Elroy's voice? 🤓😎✌🏻🚀

[@dstrong5897]

A good story is timeless.

[@davidarundel6187]

This would have helped persuade folks back then about the emerging space programs , by the then " super powers" . I can recall as a kid , on a warm evening , laying out in the potatoes patch , watching the hevans and seeing Sputnik , flying overhead from southeast to northwest . Very productive imaginations in the days before the internet and flat panels , despite the convenience . Namaste 🙏🤔🙂

[@stephend5520]

I love that jingle for NBC Radio at the end of the episode

[@terryhaines8351]

Love what they thought in 1955: the rocket is blasting to outer space in 1965 (close), and "it's slide-rule stuff."

[@nardpuncher]

Take a shot every time he says Steve

[@roelienpostma2367]

Wow, endless imagination, hard to find these days

[@paulsarnik8506]

Another Elroy!😮 🤓😎✌🏻🚀

[@quicksilvertongue3248]

Every time they mention "airspeed" all I can think of is "an unladen swallow".

[@PebblesOTB]

So what happened? Fell apart at the end

[@roelienpostma2367]

The bomb did go off, so the end of mankind

[@quicksilvertongue3248]

The changes from Dimension X to this version do not seem to have been an improvement for the most part.