This series was an eyeopener for a 19-year-old in 1978. That's
when I first saw it. I was living in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, at
the time and I was in high school. Channel 6, the local NBC
affiliate in Portland, Maine, used to air old science fiction movies
from the '50s and '60s. Back during the dark days of the Cold War. It started running them back in 1975, when I was in the eighth
grade. Back then, there weren't any cable or sattelite companies screaming for your attentiion. The Sci-Fi Channel? It wasn't even thought of. The stories were based on the latest, (meaning '50s), scientific data. Since this was before the space race, the majority of stories were on the exploration space. There was one episode in which an Air Force test pilot was in a Bell X-2, I think it was, I
don't know. Anyway, he reported another aircraft alongside him
and it was keeping up with him. He's reporting all this to the
ground controllers at Vandenberg Air Force Base, and they're
telling him they don't see a thing. It's not on their radar. Then at the end, as he slows down and prepares to land, the other aircraft disappears. It then dawns on both him and the controllers, that
must have been a UFO. In another episode, Mars colonists are put
in isolation to see which one of them will crack first. The catch was that since they'd be away from Earth for what would be the better
part of a year, they all had to be unmarried and not have families. They also had to be all-male because in the '50s, they didn't have women on space colonies. So what happened? One of the would-be colonists freaked out. Demanding his electric razor. That would be me. I'd probably do the same. Then one of the other would-be colonists turns up dead. It appears to the audience it
was the guy who freaked out and demanded his electric razor is the killer. But is he? I don't know. It's been 26 years since I've seen
it. But anyway, it was a good show and aired right after the old
black-and-white science fiction movies.
when I first saw it. I was living in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, at
the time and I was in high school. Channel 6, the local NBC
affiliate in Portland, Maine, used to air old science fiction movies
from the '50s and '60s. Back during the dark days of the Cold War. It started running them back in 1975, when I was in the eighth
grade. Back then, there weren't any cable or sattelite companies screaming for your attentiion. The Sci-Fi Channel? It wasn't even thought of. The stories were based on the latest, (meaning '50s), scientific data. Since this was before the space race, the majority of stories were on the exploration space. There was one episode in which an Air Force test pilot was in a Bell X-2, I think it was, I
don't know. Anyway, he reported another aircraft alongside him
and it was keeping up with him. He's reporting all this to the
ground controllers at Vandenberg Air Force Base, and they're
telling him they don't see a thing. It's not on their radar. Then at the end, as he slows down and prepares to land, the other aircraft disappears. It then dawns on both him and the controllers, that
must have been a UFO. In another episode, Mars colonists are put
in isolation to see which one of them will crack first. The catch was that since they'd be away from Earth for what would be the better
part of a year, they all had to be unmarried and not have families. They also had to be all-male because in the '50s, they didn't have women on space colonies. So what happened? One of the would-be colonists freaked out. Demanding his electric razor. That would be me. I'd probably do the same. Then one of the other would-be colonists turns up dead. It appears to the audience it
was the guy who freaked out and demanded his electric razor is the killer. But is he? I don't know. It's been 26 years since I've seen
it. But anyway, it was a good show and aired right after the old
black-and-white science fiction movies.