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X Minus One - "Mars Is Heaven" (1955)
X Minus One, “Mars Is Heaven,” originally broadcast May 8, 1955, is episode 3 of NBC’s science-fiction anthology series. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Ray Bradbury’s “Mars Is Heaven!”—later revised as “The Third Expedition” in The Martian Chronicles—the drama stars Wendell Holmes as Captain John Black, with Peter Capell as Dr. Horst.
Earth’s first manned rocket expedition lands on Mars in 1987, where Captain Black and his crew emerge from the mist to find an impossible sight: a quiet American small town that seems to have stepped out of the 1920s. Familiar sounds and sights challenge the…
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