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2000 Plus - "The Rocket and the Skull" (1951)
2000 Plus presents “The Rocket and the Skull,” originally broadcast on October 10, 1951. Cataloged as episode 77, this Mutual Broadcasting System science-fiction drama imagines the challenges of spaceflight in the then-distant year 2006.
Colonel Bradbury, a key figure in the Western drive to reach the Moon, is injured when his experimental X-93 rocket-jet suffers a catastrophic failure. As doctors attempt a daring medical procedure, pressure builds from a rival Eastern Alliance—and strange communications connected with Mars complicate an already urgent mission. The cast includes Nat Polen as…
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