What happens
Commander Stella Morrison leads a colonial research team exploring Planet Blue, a newly found green world orbiting a sun in the Aldebaran sector. The planet seems ideal for settlement, but Major Lawrence Hall of the biology section withholds his clearance and grows uneasy about his work. Strange incidents begin to unfold among the crew as ordinary objects around them behave unexpectedly. This episode of X Minus One, aired on October 10, 1956, is adapted from Philip K. Dick's story Colony, with Frederica Chandler and John Locken among the cast.
Planet Blue, a green world in the Aldebaran sector, and the colonial research ship in orbit and on the surface
Characters: Stella Morrison, Lawrence Hall, Dodd, Captain Taylor, Captain Daniel Davis, Wood, Charlie
Listen for: Listen for the moment Major Hall's microscope attacks him, and for the growing realization that ordinary objects are turning deadly.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.