2022-03-23

T5#38 We Are All Alone

 

Episode number: 38
Network broadcast date:
Wednesday, September 23, 1964
We Are All Alone
Genre: Science fiction drama
Author: Shane Stevens
Production number:
39
Production date:
Tuesday, August 25, 1964
Director:
Harry Nelson

Plotline: Broadcasting from an observatory, a reporter gets the scoop of a lifetime when scientists receive noise patterns from billions of miles away. Are these messages from another planet? Proof of intelligent life in our galaxy? A supreme being of some kind? The answer may reveal more about us than any alien intelligence.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+640923+038+We+Are+All+Alone+(ABC+feed+with+timing+announcements).flac

Cast: Nat Polen, Teri Keane, Ralph Camargo, Guy Sorel, Frank Thomas

Notes:

Shane Stevens was a young writer whose first novel was published in 1966. This is a sci-fi drama and is unlike the crime novels that Stevens would become famous for. He was recognized by famous novelist Stephen King in a 1989 novel, bringing Stevens's work to the attention of a wider audience; he wrote two novels under the name JW Rider

The surviving recording is from the ABC feed with Fred Foy announcing the timing of breaks