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Revision as of 05:00, 16 November 2016

Specimen: Unknown
Season 1, Episode 22
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Air date February 24, 1964
Written by Stephen Lord
Directed by Gerd Oswald
Episode guide
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Introduction

Opening narration

"For centuries, Man has looked to the skies and sought to uncover the mystery of the universe. The telescope brought into focus the craters on the Moon and the canals on Mars, but it was limited, and Man's insistent hunger for knowledge and experience would not be satisfied until he broke the massive chains of gravity and set foot himself on a planet other than his own. Project Mercury was his first venture into space — a testament to his technical ingenuity and courage, a green light to a hundred other projects which would take him still further. This is Project Adonnis, a laboratory orbiting a thousand miles above the Earth, a tiny, far-flung world connected only by radio and memory, and inhabited by a handful of men dedicated to removing the unknown for future space travelers. At ten minutes after six on January 8th, Lieutenant Rupert Howard stumbled upon something clinging to the wall of the space-lock that appeared alive. He called them "space barnacles" for temporary identification. They were not."

Plot

Closing narration

"There are many things up there, evil and hungry, awesome and splendid. And gentle things, too. Merciful things...like rain."

Cast

  • Stephen McNally – as Colonel J.T. MacWilliams
  • Richard Jaeckel – as Captain Mike Doweling
  • Gail Kobe – as Janet Doweling
  • Russell Johnson – as Major Clark Benedict
  • Arthur Batanides – as Lt. Ken Galvin
  • Peter Baldwin – as Lt. Gordon Halper
  • John Kellogg – as Major Nathan Jennings
  • Dabney Coleman – as Lt. Rupert Lawrence Howard (uncredited)
  • Walt Davis – as Sergeant (uncredited)
  • Robert Johnson – as Project Adonis Intercom voice (uncredited)

Crew

Cinematographer - Conrad Hall