What happens
Chuck Hudson, a Master Donian citizen, presses the State Department for recognition of Master Donia, a nation that turns out to be the United States of fifty thousand years ago. Wesley Adams, Coop, Chuck and Les Bowers have travelled back in time with a time unit and a helicopter to a prehistoric landscape of mastodons and sabretooth tigers. Their helicopter is wrecked when the mastodon Buster falls across it, and the time unit fails to return them. The story follows the men's long wait and the efforts of the government to trace Adams and his project. The recording of this episode ends before the full outcome of the story.
Washington, D.C. and a prehistoric North American landscape of mastodons and sabretooth tigers around fifty thousand years ago, with a later mid-century American setting.
Characters: Chuck Hudson, Wesley Adams, Coop, Les Bowers, Herb, Mr. Kingston, Mr. Jenkins, Dr. Harrison
Listen for: The State Department scene with Chuck Hudson's claims about Master Donia, and the time unit failing to work.
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.