Network broadcast date: Friday,
November 13, 1964
Deedle
Deedle Dumply, My Son X1
Genre: Science fiction
Author: George Bamber
Production number: 73
Production date: Friday,
October 16, 1964
Director: Ted Bell
Producer:
Plotline: Paul is convinced his son John has been replaced by a complex machine, created by aliens plotting to infiltrate the human race. The more his wife tries to convince him he’s wrong, the more certain Paul becomes — with tragic consequences.
Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+641113+075+Deedle+Deedle+Dumpling+My+Son+X1.flac
Cast: Bryna Raeburn, William Mason, William Griffis, Peter Fernandez
Notes:
The title is a tribute to the NBC science fiction series X Minus One and the story is very similar to "Zero Hour" from that series; one of the last episodes that opens with a spoken plot description rather than an opening scene, and does not have Foy announcing over opening music; error in story refers to "light years" as a measure of time and not as a measure of distance, but it was a common expression at the time