User Reviews

Boy did those fifties guys have trouble keeping secrets. A soldier/scientist has been rescued at sea. His wife thought he was dead, but now he is back in the fold. Strangely he has no recollection of what happened to him during the two weeks he was missing. As soon as he returns, significant secrets begin to be lost and it all points to him and his research team. All the usual stuff is done to stop the leak, including a fine-tooth-comb job on the laboratory. Gee, you don't suppose the two missing weeks have anything to do with this. On the one hand, the authorities are so intense; one the other, they are willing to let up on everything.

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.