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X Minus One - "The Man in the Moon" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One presents “The Man in the Moon,” episode 6, originally broadcast on May 29, 1955. This NBC science-fiction drama was written by George Lefferts and directed by Fred Weihe, and remade an earlier Dimension X story of the same title.
At the Federal Bureau of Missing Persons, a routine bulletin is interrupted by an SOS apparently coming from the Moon. Records custodian Henry Timpkin, played by Luis Van Rooten, recognizes a name in the transmission—and as reports of vanished scientific specialists mount, he and his skeptical chief, Mr. Wade, follow a deeply unsettling trail. Santos…
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