Family Theater: Nightmare at Noon

Family Theatre presents Edmond O'Brien and Ralph Edwards. From Hollywood, the Mutual Network in cooperation with Family Theatre presents Nightmare at Noon starring Edmond O'Brien. Ralph Edwards will be your host.

Family Theatre's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives. If we're to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families and peace for the world.

The family theater urges you to pray, pray together as a family. The central incident in the story you're about to hear actually took place, the time and the location are authentic, but this is not true of the people involved.

Every one of them is a fictional character. And now to our transcribed drama, Nightmare at Noon, starring Edmund O'Brien as Cliff. The things that made it, that created the Nightmare, shaped slowly that morning and at widely separated points.

At 1045 a reconditioned F89 Scorpion jet interceptor carrying a two-man civilian crew took off from an airstrip near Pondale, California to make a routine check of its radar equipment. Thirty minutes earlier and forty-five miles to the south, a four-engine DC-7B had left the field at the Santa Monica Airport on a similar test hunt.

and they had not been felt necessary with a radio operator of the DC-7 to accompany the other three members of his crew on the flight. But sometime before takeoff, he changed his mind and climbed aboard.

I 1115, both planes, each unaware of the other, were flying at approximately 25,000 feet over the northwest corner of the San Fernando Valley, a section of Los Angeles whose population has almost doubled in the past 10 years.