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Alien Worlds was a syndicated radio show created by radio personality Lee Hansen. It aired 26 half-hour episodes between 1979 and 1980, becoming well known for its realistic sound effects, high production values and documentary style of dialog. J. Michael Straczynski was one of the writers.
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00:00And now, Peter Paul Mounds, Almond Joy, and Cadbury Chocolate Bars presents Alien Worlds.
00:12Slowly rotating at the edge of deep space, 1,000 kilometers beyond the atmosphere of 21st century Earth,
00:20is the Arthur C. Clarke Astronomical Observatory, Star Lab.
00:25Here, Star Lab Research Director Maura Cassidy and scientists and technicians of the International Space Authority
00:32watch over the countless stars and planets that fill the silent distances beyond the giant space station.
00:42This week, an ancient intruder from another galaxy exposes Star Lab to the genetic mysteries of the seeds of time
00:51on Alien Worlds.
01:1250 kilometers beyond Star Lab, the SET interceptor Solaris reduces speed and moves into a preliminary docking orbit
01:21with a huge space station.
01:24Aboard the Solaris, Captains John Graydon and Buddy Griff.
01:32Solaris to Star Lab Control.
01:34This is Star Lab. Go ahead, Solaris.
01:37We're holding at the outer boundary, Jerry.
01:39How soon can you get us aboard?
01:41Traffic's pretty heavy right now, John.
01:43I've got a Soviet freighter and two Canadian tanks who's coming in now.
01:47And three lunar shuttles in a docking orbit two kilometers out.
01:51Hold your possession. I'll get back there in about ten minutes.
01:55Roger, Star Lab.
01:56Solaris out.
01:57Star Lab clear.
01:59Well, since ten minutes usually means half an hour,
02:02why don't we put the ship on autopilot and go down to the cargo bay for a little zero-gravity
02:06racket ball.
02:06Do you know where the rackets are?
02:08Well, they're floating around down there somewhere.
02:10Hmm.
02:11All right. Let's go.
02:14Uh, what?
02:16We'd better stay, Skip.
02:17The high-density scanners are picking up something.
02:20How far away?
02:22Three, four, four-point-six kilometers.
02:25And it's holding at zero-eight-one degrees starboard.
02:28Get a full magnification visual and bring it up on screen six.
02:32Right.
02:36What is it?
02:38I don't know.
02:40I've never seen anything like it.
02:43In the center of the screen,
02:45against the background of jet-black space and scattered stars,
02:50the mysterious object begins to slowly rotate,
02:54reflected sunlight blazing from each of its ten smooth surfaces.
03:03Solaris to Star Lab.
03:05This is Star Lab.
03:06Go ahead, Solaris.
03:07Jerry, we're visually monitoring a UFO.
03:10Are you picking it up on your scanners?
03:13No, I don't think so.
03:16Oh, wait a minute.
03:19Yeah, there is something at here,
03:21about four kilometers from your present position.
03:24Right.
03:25Okay, tell Mara what the situation is,
03:27and you'd better notify Professor Ballin, too.
03:30We're going in for a closer look.
03:32I'll keep an eye on you from here, John.
03:34Be careful.
03:36Star Lab out.
03:38What do you think, buddy?
03:40Well, let's play it safe and sort of sneak up on it.
03:43I'll do a tomography profile at three kilometers.
03:46If the thing's not dangerous, we can get in close and do a phase one scanner series.
03:50And what if it explodes and blows us to kingdom come?
03:55Well, you know, maybe we should stick to racquetball.
04:10Whoa, talk about sensory overload.
04:13I wonder how she keeps her balance.
04:16Maybe it's trick photography.
04:19Couldn't be.
04:20No photographer is that tricky.
04:22Can you catch nobody find us down at control?
04:25Oh, this is Star Lab.
04:26Go ahead, Maggie.
04:27We've got a problem, Jerry.
04:29We're still working on this new orbital power satellite at Vector 706,
04:33and we've just lost our mass bundle of solar panels.
04:37What happened?
04:38An anchoring cable on the surface structure let go,
04:42and the panels have drifted off into deep space.
04:45Can you help us out?
04:46This thing's supposed to be operational by tonight.
04:50How many panels do you need?
04:52Ten.
04:53What type?
04:54Amplified on ST-16.
04:57Oh, hold on.
04:58I'll check the computer and see what we've got.
05:02This is your lucky day, Maggie.
05:03We've got two dozen SB-16s in storage.
05:07Will this be a pickup or a delivery?
05:09I won't be able to spare any of our tugs for another hour or so.
05:13What's available on your hand?
05:15Well, we've got a Soviet freighter heading your way in about 15 minutes.
05:20I'll have the captain contact you, okay?
05:23Stand by for his coach.
05:24Thanks, Jerry.
05:25Catching over to the side now.
05:27Star Lab control, clear.
05:30Docking bay 12.
05:31This is the bridge.
05:32Bay 12.
05:33Go ahead, Jerry.
05:34Yeah, Ernie.
05:35Call storage bay 19 and tell them to deliver 10 Amplatron SP-16 solar panels to the Odessa,
05:41and then have Captain Vashenko contact construction orbiter 5.
05:45It's kind of an emergency.
05:46Will do, Jerry.
05:47Now, where was I?
05:51Right.
05:53Sensory overload.
05:54Oh, yeah.
05:57Wow, look.
05:58Oops.
05:59Hi, Jerry.
06:00Hi, Mara.
06:01You heard from John and Buddy?
06:03Yeah, about 20 minutes ago.
06:04They've maneuvered the Solaris into a side-by-side position with the UFO,
06:08and Buddy said he'd contact us as soon as he did the preliminary scan series.
06:12Okay.
06:14What's that magazine you're holding behind you?
06:16Magazine?
06:17Come on, Jerry.
06:19Hand it over.
06:20Oh, Mara.
06:22The astounding adventures of Galactic Gladys, the girl wonder?
06:27Well, you know.
06:29Which one of these bimbos is Galactic Gladys?
06:33I believe that's her there, locked in mortal combat with the evil swamp gas creature.
06:38Well, she's certainly a wonder, all right.
06:41I'll bet she hasn't seen her feet in years.
06:45Jerry, where did you get this publication?
06:48I found it in the technician's lounge.
06:50Uh-huh.
06:51I wondered why they were all running around down there with their tongues hanging out.
06:56Oh, Jerry.
06:59Hi, Professor Ballin.
07:00How you doing, Jerry?
07:02David, you're just in time for a little X-rated science fiction.
07:05Look at this.
07:08What happened to her clothes?
07:10The evil swamp gas creature ate them.
07:12Well, yum, yum.
07:14I don't know about you, David.
07:16Three days on Starlab and you're already starting to sound like Buddy Griff.
07:20It must be the altitude.
07:22Solaris to Starlab Control.
07:24This is Starlab.
07:25Go ahead, John.
07:26We finished their preliminary scans on the UFO.
07:29Is Marther...
07:30I'm right here, John, and so is our new alienologist.
07:33Okay, here's Buddy.
07:35The object is three meters square and shaped like a decodron.
07:39It's made of some kind of copper-colored metal that's about 75% hydrogen.
07:44As far as we can tell, there's no inboard or outboard propulsion system.
07:48How fast is it moving, Buddy?
07:50How fast do you want it to move?
07:53What does he mean, John?
07:55Well, it was stationary when I brought the ship alongside,
07:58but for the past ten minutes it's been matching our speed, no matter how fast we go.
08:04What kind of a readout did you get on the tomography scan, Buddy?
08:07The interior of the thing is filled with some kind of ionized gelatin
08:11that converts to nitrogen plasma
08:13and then reconverts to gelatin in 12-second intervals.
08:17Buddy, is it giving off any kind of sound?
08:21Yes, it is.
08:23When the gelatin converts to plasma,
08:25the object gives off what sounds like accelerated heartbeats.
08:29And when the plasma reconverts to gelatin,
08:32we hear the heartbeats in reverse.
08:37Alien Worlds will continue.
08:51Alien Worlds will continue.
08:55Returning from a routine patrol aboard the Solaris,
08:59SET Captains John Grademan and Buddy Griff
09:01encounter an unidentified flying object 50 kilometers beyond Star Lab.
09:07The object is three meters square and shaped like a decohedron.
09:11It's made of some kind of copper-colored metal that's about 75% hydrogen.
09:16As John maneuvers the Solaris into a side-by-side position with the UFO,
09:22Buddy continues to analyze the object with the ship's tomography scanners.
09:26The interior of the thing is filled with some kind of ionized gelatin
09:30that converts to nitrogen plasma
09:31and then reconverts to gelatin at 12-second intervals.
09:36What do you think, David?
09:37I think we'd better see about getting that thing
09:38into one of the isolated laboratory pods.
09:41Buddy, shoot a magnetic grappler over and see if you can bring it in.
09:44We already tried that for her.
09:46The grappler pad won't stick.
09:48The object is anti-magnetic.
09:50How about if you go EVA and try to push it into the Solaris' cargo bay?
09:53Hold on just a moment, please.
09:56I don't think that'll be necessary.
09:57From the way it's been matching our speed, I think it'll follow us in.
10:01All right, give it a try.
10:02If it works, get the object as close as you can to the outboard airlock of Isolab 9.
10:07I'll have a crew standing by to take it inside.
10:09Okay, Mark. Solaris out.
10:11Starlab clear.
10:12Come on, David. Let's get down there.
10:22Fifteen minutes later, the Solaris maneuvers the object into a position
10:27two meters away from Isolab 9's outboard airlock.
10:30Then, as John guides the Solaris into a nearby docking bay,
10:36the lab's airlock opens and a crew of technicians in yellow pressure suits and tinted glass helmets
10:42take the alien Decahedron inside.
10:46Ten minutes later, the object rests on a slowly rotating observation pad
10:51in the center of the lab's brightly lit quarantine chamber.
10:59It's remarkably beautiful, isn't it?
11:02It frightens me.
11:04Why?
11:05The way it looks.
11:07The color and size, texture.
11:10All those desperately perfect angles constantly repeating themselves.
11:15Its physical aspects are so familiar, we can call them by name in a language we all understand.
11:21And yet, we don't know what it calls itself or what it might be calling us.
11:26You feel whatever is inside is alive?
11:29Don't you?
11:31Yes.
11:33Well, at least our scientific cells are still in sync.
11:38Mara, please, not now.
11:41Hey, who's here?
11:42Hi, fellas.
11:43Well, I'm glad to see it hasn't blown up yet.
11:45Come on, Skip. Let's go inside for a close-up.
11:47Yeah, okay.
11:48I think you'd better stay on this side of the glass for a while.
11:50The object's still being scanned.
11:52If you go in there now, your body impulses will be included in the scanner data.
11:55Hmm.
11:56Maybe we should go in anyway, just to blow their minds up in data processing.
12:00I can hear Professor Clark now.
12:03I say, Ramsey, have you seen this printout?
12:06Graydon and Griff are trapped inside that alien gizmo.
12:09Really?
12:09How do you know it's them?
12:11Elementary, my dear Ramsey.
12:13The tall one's thumbing his nose.
12:15And the short one thinks it's funny.
12:21Oh, Mara, David, not even a smile.
12:24What's with you two?
12:25We've got a lot on our minds, John.
12:27I, yeah, I see.
12:29Well, oh, okay.
12:31Come on, Skip.
12:32Let's go have dinner.
12:32Yeah, right.
12:33We'll see you guys.
12:34See you later.
12:37It's time we had a talk, David.
12:39Let's go up to my quarters.
12:48Coming to Starlab wasn't my idea, Mara.
12:51We go where the ISA wants us to go, you know that.
12:54If I had known you were married, I would have asked Commissioner White to send someone else.
12:58Why?
12:59When I was told you were going to spend three months on Starlab, I thought we were getting a second
13:03chance.
13:05Second chance for what, Mara?
13:07To pick it up where it fell apart three years ago?
13:09Well, why not?
13:11Because your work has always been more important to you than anything else.
13:15And I don't think that'll ever change.
13:18Even when things were good, we were never together more than three months out of the year.
13:23Your whole life was spaceports and laboratories and conferences and trips off the planet.
13:29You make it sound like I didn't care at all.
13:32I don't mean to, Mara.
13:34I know you cared.
13:36And I know you love me.
13:39But you love the rockets more.
13:42I'm sorry, David.
13:44So am I.
13:48I'll, uh...
13:49I'll see you in the morning, Mara.
14:09Okay, Lunar Shuttle 10, I have you on the screen.
14:11Uh, you're docking orbit insertion coordinates are 5-0-9-er at subvector 7-0-alpha.
14:18Uh, 5-0-9-er at 7-0-alpha.
14:23Uh, roger.
14:23Starlab.
14:24Lunar Shuttle 10, out.
14:26Starlab control, clear.
14:30Uh, morning, Mara.
14:31Jerry, have you seen David?
14:33Not since yesterday afternoon.
14:38Good morning, everyone.
14:39Good morning.
14:40Have I the review seen David?
14:42Yeah.
14:42Uh, we saw him after dinner last night when we went down to have another look at the UFO.
14:46He was in the isolab with it.
14:48Maybe he's still there.
14:49I checked the isolab 20 minutes ago.
14:51Well, maybe you missed him.
14:53Let's get on and take another look.
15:03There he is, Mara.
15:04Hit the intercom button, Skip.
15:07David, can you come out for a minute?
15:10There's no need to be frightened, Mara.
15:13Professor Ballin has not been harmed.
15:17David?
15:19What's the matter with you?
15:20You sound so...
15:21Mara, his hands are transparent.
15:25David, what happened to your hands?
15:27It's not David.
15:29I am not Professor Ballin, Mara.
15:33I am of him.
15:35David is safe inside my vehicle.
15:38Well, then open it.
15:39Let him out.
15:40As you wish, Mara.
15:45David!
15:46Good God.
15:49Isolab control to sickbay.
15:52Sickbay?
15:52Don't trust it.
15:53Diana, this is Buddy.
15:55Get down to Isolab 9 as fast as you can.
15:57And bring a portable vital sign indicator.
16:00David Ballin's inside the UFO.
16:02He's encased in some kind of gelatin.
16:03There is no need to be frightened.
16:06Professor Ballin has not been harmed.
16:13Alien Worlds will continue.
16:24Alien Worlds will continue.
16:27Alien Worlds continues.
16:31Entering the control booth of Isolab 9.
16:34Mara, Buddy, and John discover that the substance inside the alien decahedron has transformed itself into a duplicate of Professor
16:43David Ballin.
16:44Leaving the real David Ballin encased in a cocoon of translucent, white gelatin.
16:56Diana, hurry!
17:02Have you tried to get into the chamber?
17:05The hatch is sealed from the inside.
17:08There's no need to be frightened, Dr. Rossiter.
17:11Professor Ballin has not been harmed.
17:14He knows me.
17:16He knows all of us, Diana.
17:19Connect the vital sign indicator to the scanner terminal, John.
17:26Oh.
17:27He's all right.
17:29His vital signs are perfect.
17:31Oh, boy.
17:32Well.
17:33If you will be patient, the seed placenta will soon evaporate.
17:38And David will be released.
17:40Soon?
17:41How long is soon?
17:44Now.
17:49David, are you all right?
17:52I think so, yes.
17:56I suggest you leave the chamber now, David.
17:59The placenta residue will soon convert to a toxic gas that could mutate your senses.
18:06Ah, yes.
18:07All right.
18:11All right.
18:12All right.
18:18Hey, welcome home.
18:20Where have you been?
18:21Oh.
18:24When that thing opened up last night and took me inside, I thought I was a goner.
18:28But as soon as the seed placenta started to cover me, I wasn't afraid anymore.
18:34It was incredible.
18:35I sensed everything that was going on.
18:38And when my duplicate emerged, it was like one of those films where the guy dies and you see a
18:43spirit leave his body.
18:45Film, huh?
18:46Well, I guess art imitates life after all.
18:49Ah, I think it's the other way around, Skip.
18:52Life and art should be the same.
18:56Ah, yes.
18:58They should be.
18:59But they rarely are.
19:02Perhaps we should learn the lesson of the Balinese.
19:05They say they have no art.
19:08They simply do everything as well as they can.
19:12You once said that to me, David.
19:14I know.
19:15It's amazing, isn't it?
19:16How precisely I've been duplicated.
19:18Well, David, number two.
19:21What now?
19:22I want to return to my world, Diana.
19:26And I want to take Mara with me.
19:28Now, hold on a minute, you.
19:30I'm not in the habit of running off to alien worlds with life forms I hardly know.
19:35You know me, Mara.
19:37And I know you.
19:41He's got a point there, Mara.
19:42Well, be that as it may, I just don't think the original me and the duplicate you are ready for...
19:48You, I'm...
19:50Well, why are your hands transparent anyway?
19:53David was wearing protective gloves that prevented the seed placenta from taking a precise imprint of his hands.
20:00And, Mara, a duplicate of you is all I want.
20:05Why?
20:07I still love you, Mara.
20:10Oh, David.
20:12Why didn't you...
20:14Wait a minute.
20:15What am I saying?
20:16Oh, this is weird.
20:18David!
20:19Yes?
20:19Yes.
20:20Oh, I'm sorry, David.
20:22I mean the duplicate, David.
20:25Yes, Diana.
20:26I think all of us would like to know a little more about your origins.
20:31Centuries ago, explorers from another galaxy visited my planet.
20:37Their bodies contained bacteria.
20:39Harmless to them, but lethal to us.
20:43There was a plague, and before the end came, our scientists created the placenta substance and filled it with the
20:50genetic seeds that were the essence of our race.
20:54Then they placed these seeds of time in hundreds of vehicles like this one and set us adrift in the
21:03universe.
21:03Was your race humanoid?
21:05Yes, buddy, it was.
21:08But some of the cells were randomly coated, so we could become whatever organic life form we contacted.
21:15I could have been a bird or an insect, or even a flower.
21:20Any living thing in which the seeds could take root.
21:24What would have happened if you had become a flower?
21:27I would have simply pollinated other flowers of the same species,
21:31and my race would have been reborn as a genus of conscience.
21:35Intelligent orchids or roses.
21:38Would you eventually have re-evolved your original humanoid form?
21:42Eventually, yes.
21:44But I'm not a flower, am I?
21:47I'm an ion-negative duplicate of a human male.
21:51And my race can be reborn only if I interact with an ion-positive duplicate of a human female.
22:00All right, I'll do it.
22:01Thank you, Maura.
22:02Thank you, Maura.
22:05It's okay.
22:06Just remember, I don't fool around on the first date.
22:10What do you want me to do?
22:12Saturate yourself with pure oxygen for two minutes.
22:16That will protect you from the toxic residue.
22:20Then come into the chamber, and enter the secondary placenta compartment of my vehicle.
22:26Okay.
22:27Get me an E4 oxygen unit, buddy.
22:30I'm about to become a double feature.
22:46How do you feel, Maura?
22:48I'll be all right, Diana.
22:50I'll be all right, Diana.
22:52Listen to that.
22:53I'm in stereo.
22:54Thank you, Maura.
22:57I have a question.
22:59Yes?
23:01When you and David, this David, are, you know, when you...
23:09Will I feel anything?
23:11We don't know, Maura.
23:13It's possible.
23:15You'd better leave the chamber now, Maura.
23:18The placenta residue is starting to become toxic.
23:22All right.
23:24Bye.
23:26Goodbye, Maura.
23:37Did you range for a ship, John?
23:38There's a long-range shuttle waiting for them just outside the airlock.
23:42Maura, you'll be able to fly the shuttle, won't you?
23:45Yes.
23:47I love the rockets as much as you do now.
23:50Goodbye.
23:51Goodbye.
23:52Well, how so long, you two.
23:54I'm your Maura.
23:54Good luck.
23:59It looks like we're getting that second chance after all, Maura.
24:03You're right, David.
24:04You're absolutely right.
24:23The Seeds of the Moon
24:24The Seeds of the Moon
24:36The Seeds of the Moon
24:36Time was written by Ron Thompson and starred Linda Gary, Chuck Olson, Bruce Philip Miller, and Corey Burton.
24:43With special guest stars, Pete Renaudet and Francis Bay, associate producer Ron Thompson, music director Tom Rounds, engineer Stu Jacobs,
24:56technical consultant Peter Skye, assistant to the producer Jim Cook.
25:01Alien Worlds was created, produced, and directed by Lee Hansen, and is distributed by Watermark Incorporated.
25:09And so, until next week, this is Roger Dressler, inviting you to join us for our next adventure, The Madonnas
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