George Lefferts wrote this as he wrote four of the first seven X Minus One stories. In this one, John Smegley is missing, so of course this involves the Federal Bureau of Missing Persons. The bureau is having trouble because interference from, of all places, the moon is interrupting a message. Then we find out a list of missing persons is assembled before the person are missing. Good story with a few twists.
May 29, 1955
Rating: ***
George Lefferts wrote this as he wrote four of the first seven X Minus One stories. In this one, John Smegley is missing, so of course this involves the Federal Bureau of Missing Persons. The bureau is having trouble because interference from, of all places, the moon is interrupting a message. Then we find out a list of missing persons is assembled before the person are missing. Good story with a few twists.
May 29, 1955
Rating: ***
I love the setup to this story. I kept thinking, "This is a variation on the H.G. Wells 'Man IN the Moon', "but it turns out to be far more its own beast with a fascinating undercurrent of politics.
The one thing that dissapoints me, though, is that after the reveal of the backstory, there's near 10 mminutes of just running around getting to the end you already have figured out.
Really interesting idea, though.
The one thing that dissapoints me, though, is that after the reveal of the backstory, there's near 10 mminutes of just running around getting to the end you already have figured out.
Really interesting idea, though.
Posted by Kelly McCubbin on 07/03 at 05:11 PM
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Episodes
- 000 And The Moon Be Still As Bright
- 001 No Contact
- 002 The Parade
- 003 Mars is Heaven
- 004 Universe
- 005 Knock
- 006 The Man in The Moon
- 007 Perigi’s Wonderful Dolls
- 008 The Green Hills Of Earth
- 009 Dr. Grimshaw’s Sanitorium
- 010 Nightmare
- 011 The Embassy
- 012 The Veldt
- 013 Almost Human
- 014 Courtesy
- 015 The Cold Equation
- 016 Shanghaied
- 017 The Martian Death March
- 018 The Castaways
- 019 And the Moon be still as bright
- 020 First Contact
- 021 Child’s play
- 022 Requiem
- 023 Hello Tomorrow
- 024 Dwellers in silence
- 025 The Outer Limit
- 026 Zero Hour
- 027 Vital Factor
- 028 Nightfall
- 029 To the Future
- 030 Marionettes, Inc.
- 031 A Logic Named Joe
- 032 The Roads Must Roll
- 033 Time And Time Again
- 034 Perigi’s Wonderful Dolls (Rebroadcast)
- 035 The Parade (Rebroadcast)
- 036 Cave Of Night
- 037 C-Chute
- 038 Skulking Permit
- 039 Junkyard
- 040 Hello, Tomorrow
- 041 A Gun For Dinosaur
- 042 Tunnel Under The World
- 043 $1000 A Plate
- 044 A Pail Of Air
- 045 How-To
- 046 Star Bright
- 047 Jaywalker
- 048 The Sense Of Wonder
- 049 Sea Legs
- 051 Hallucination Orbit
- 050 The Seventh Order
- 052 The Defenders
- 053 Lulunganeena
- 054 Project Mastadon
- 055 If You Was A Mocklin
- 056 Project Trojan
- 057 Wherever You May Be
- 058 Mr. Costello, Hero
- 059 Bad Medicine
- 060 The Old Die Rich
- 061 Stars Are The Styx
- 063 The Last Martian
- 062 Student Body
- 064 The Snowball Effect
- 065 Surface Tension
- 066 Tunnel Under The World
- 067 The Lifeboat Mutiny
- 067 The Map Makers
- 069 Protective Mimicry
- 070 Colony
- 071 Soldier Boy
- 072 Pictures Don’t Lie
- 073 Sam, This Is You
- 074 Appointment In Tomorrow
- 075 (Repeat of episode 17)
- 076 Chain Of Command
- 078 There Will Come Soft Rains
- 079 Hostess
- 080 The Reluctant Heroes
- 081 Honeymoon In Hell
- 082 The Moon Is Green
- 083 Saucer Of Loneliness
- 084 The Girls From Earth
- 085 Open Warfare
- 086 Caretaker
- 087 Venus Is A Man’s World
- 088 The Trap
- 089 Field Study
- 090 Real Gone
- 091 The Seventh Victim
- 092 The Lights On Precipice Peak
- 093 Protection
- 094 At The Post
- 095 Martian Sam
- 096 Something For Nothing
- 097 Discovery Of Morniel Mathaway
- 098 Man’s Best Friend
- 099 Inside Story
- 100 The Category Inventor