This story is a fictional re-telling of a series of UFO abductions. The original air-date was November 25, 1974, well before the proliferation in the media of abduction accounts. The set of plot points closely matches many of the elements of the typical UFO abduction account (including mind control, telepathy and implants) and I find this fascinating.
I had a missing time event in the fall of 1974, (I don't know the exact date) and this story was first aired shortly after that experience, potentially only a few weeks later.
Episode title: The Sighting
Plot: A husband and wife witness the landing of a UFO. The husband wants to pretend it didn't happen, but the wife begins getting extraterresial visits from these mysterious aliens. The wife is played by Kim Hunter, the sympathetic ape from the original PLANET OF THE APES.
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7 comments:
Good Grief! That opening bit of audio, with the creaking door and the moody music - Yikes - I'm having a hyper-vivid flashback to my old bedroom of my youth!
Oh how I loved this show!
MORE TO LISTEN TO! LOVE IT. THANKS, MIKE.
Man, that alien scout was something of a mixed bag. Sure, he implanted a mind-controlling device on that poor lady, but he was always polite enough to ring on the door bell before entering :P
I wonder if this is the first reference to alien implants in pop culture. Probably not, since I don't think these radio show writers would have had much time for innovation.
Reply to RPJ:
The 1953 film INVADERS FROM MARS has alien implants as a very creepy plot element.
I remember listening to CBSRMT from about the age of ten, under the covers with a transistor radio and a curly wired ear bud. Though they were often times boring as hell, the creaking door intro and voice of EG Marshall was compelling enough to make listening a ritual.
I loved this show, and also listened under my covers on a tiny radio. Seems to be a commonality here :-)
I had an unusual, potentially missing time experience around the same time as yours (1974) though it may be off by a few years. It was terrifying—I woke up at the bottom of the stairs in the basement. The basement always scared the hell out of me, so waking up there was deeply disturbing.
P.S. I noticed that the two characters in this episode share my last name (Hughes).
MIKE - HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THIS?
http://maximkammerer.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-ufo-hypothesis-artificial.html
It mentions mac tonnie.
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