Point Of Departure
About This Broadcast
A factory manager recounts the scandal and tragedy surrounding a revolutionary attempt to revive an ancient technology.
This X Minus One broadcast aired on October 17, 1957. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Dean Olmquist, Illya Bracha, Ivor Francis, and James Stevens. Other credited names include George Voutsas as director, William Welch as producer, Ernest Kinoy as radio adaptor, Ronald Dawson as radio adaptor, and Fred Collins as announcer.
The surviving recording runs about 19 minutes.
NBC's classic science-fiction anthology adapted stories by major genre writers and presented original scripts about space, aliens, future societies, technology, and the social consequences of scientific change.
Listeners can expect science fiction, anthology in format, and serious and cerebral in tone.
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Dean Olmquist