X Minus One - The Sense of Wonder (#48)

04/24/56, episode 48
This episode provided by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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Your basic 1984-type story based on a spaceship that has been sailing for 10,000 years on a journey with no end. All elements in the ship are strictly monitored. Emotional ties are considered "deviations" and are not allowed. "Praise the ship." But the leader of the spaceship finds out that he is doomed because he finds out who his parents were. This episode carries a strong flavor of a cheap Star Trek episode, including the character acting. (from "The Critical X Minus One" by Jim Fanisher)
Credits (Goldin): William Quinn, Edwin Jerome, James Monks, Joe DeSantis, Milton Lesser (author), Raymond Edward Johnson, Richard Hamilton, Vera Allen, George Lefferts (adaptor), William Welch (producer), Daniel Sutter (director), Fred Collins (announcer)

[@bodiddley2998]

Praise the ship! The ship is all!

[@thewordbtrue2461]

This sounds a lot like the British tale, "The Machine Stops" E.M. Forster "Praise the Machine"

[@pauldolan1493]

The ship is all!

[@Dan5482]

Don't look up! Praise the ship!

[@harveytherobot]

So similar to Universe.

[@mdiond70]

Which one did you like better? I prefer the Mason Adams version(s) on Dimension X.

[@Lethgar_Smith]

Praise the Ship!

[@thatoneguy-rb2bj]

PRAISE THE SHIP😑

[@realSethMeyers]

PRAISE THE SHIP

[@roelienpostma2367]

Hardly any free spirits nowadays

[@quicksilvertongue3248]

So, what's with the start of this episode? Why does part of the story play before the intro? Did it originally broadcast and get recorded that way, or is this an error with the upload?

[@OTRR]

I am fairly certain that is how it was originally broadcast. That is how the original file plays. We've also recently acquired high-quality, low-generation copies of this episode, and they all start the same way.

[@brothermine2292]

Defend the Geocentric Universe! The Earth is All!

[@salmansadeq1167]

A rare cold open

[@adamarcher7847]