Premiere episode. Astronauts landing on Mars, smoking cigarettes and sounding like truckers stopping for a burger and coffee, destroy artifacts of a dead Martian race. The telling of this story is really dated now. This is a rebroadcast of a Dimension X episode from 9/29/50.By Ray Bradbury.
April 22, 1955
Rating: ***
Somebody emailed in this great comment about this episode....
Just a comment about episode 000 "And the moon be still as bright". I listened to both the Dimension X and the X-1 versions, and have to say the Dimension X version is far better. In particular, listen to the conversation between Spender and the Captain. In Dimension X, it\'s a heart-touching conversation between 2 men who personally have no animosity but feel duty bound to go separate ways. Spender even promises not to kill the Captain. In contrast, in X-1, Spender just comes off as a crazed man willing to kill even the Captain, and the Captain seems indifferent or only shallowly concerned about Spender.
Anyway, the story is still good radio drama, just Dimension X in this case is better-executed. It's much more subtle and deep.