This segment of the series veers into an espionage story, but is poorly told. There is suspense, but it resembles a radio play more than TV or cinema, as there's no visual component, only sound.
The Manchurian Candidate format is effective for a set-up, as a downed pilot on an experimental "atomic jet" aircraft reappears six months after being lost at sea and is put back on the top-secret government project. He's later a suspect of crucial classified material leaked to the enemy (presumably China or the Soviet Union, unspecified), whose competing project is discovered to be using our gradual improvements, indicating a security problem.
The hero Arthur Franz is instrumental in the investigation of the leak and ultimately we get the upper hand again for a happy ending. But the script for a Ziv TV series is woefully inadequate in not adapting the story material to a visual medium, as in scenes of writing the dialogue down so no transmitter can pick it up, or typing it out similarly.
As Franz's wife, sweater girl Susan Cummings reminds me of so many '50s bombshells we were treated to on television and in B movies, some becoming cult figures like Allison Hayes and Joi Lansing (though hardly achieving Bettie Page status) but most forgotten like Susan.
The Manchurian Candidate format is effective for a set-up, as a downed pilot on an experimental "atomic jet" aircraft reappears six months after being lost at sea and is put back on the top-secret government project. He's later a suspect of crucial classified material leaked to the enemy (presumably China or the Soviet Union, unspecified), whose competing project is discovered to be using our gradual improvements, indicating a security problem.
The hero Arthur Franz is instrumental in the investigation of the leak and ultimately we get the upper hand again for a happy ending. But the script for a Ziv TV series is woefully inadequate in not adapting the story material to a visual medium, as in scenes of writing the dialogue down so no transmitter can pick it up, or typing it out similarly.
As Franz's wife, sweater girl Susan Cummings reminds me of so many '50s bombshells we were treated to on television and in B movies, some becoming cult figures like Allison Hayes and Joi Lansing (though hardly achieving Bettie Page status) but most forgotten like Susan.