097- The Outer Limit

Tired of the everyday routine, ever, dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you escape! Escape, designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure.

Tonight we escape with the pilot of an experimental jet rocket aircraft, About to be hurled forty miles out from the Earth's surface into the limitless boundaries of space where he receives the most terrible warning in the history of man from which there is no escape.

As Graham Doar tells it in his thrilling and widely discussed story the outer limit, starring Frank Lovejoy. OK, Colonel. Yes, sir. All of you will want to know why we took you one out of whatever warm bed you were in.

We've got a reason. The RJX-1. Yeah, yeah, that's right. The RJX-1. The top-top secret experimental rocket jet aircraft. We've been babying it, nursing it, staying up nights with it for 16 months now. This morning Major Westfall is going to wean it.

Bill is going to take her out and beat her up to death. I can't impress upon you men how extraordinary this flight is. It's an eight rocket ship. That's what I said, eight rockets. Eight rockets designed to take man into areas of space that have never been explored before.

And at a rate of speed to which no pilot has yet been subjected. Some of you men have already flown many times the speed of sound, so... I don't have to tell you very much.

Yo. Yes, Colonel? You'll lead the F-86s. You and the other three jet boys will be Bill's chase planes. We want observation at 35,000 feet. Yes, sir. OK, here's how it plays. Bullock hurtin' on the map, will you, Sergeant?