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It's midnight on dates Alan Smith here on for extra where in half an hour Sue Macgregor and her guests will have some ideas for a good read that's a help us 12 that it's the next part of Paul Temple and the Jonathan mystery so prepare for lots of thrills as your radio turns into a wireless and the sound goes into black and white as we join Paul and Steve 1 o'clock. Now though it's time to catch up with Captain jet Morgan and the Discovery crew for the next part of journey into space world in peril the so if I class it from 1956 which was set in the then future of 1972 that you had around that now today the Discovery crew out to ambush the lunar controller there's a spaced out announcer of the day to introduce a. Journey into our space. The b.b.c. Resent yet more broadly in the world in Paris. The on. The in. The air. Jet Mong and Doc mention them here in the main room of the toll lookout normally occupied by the former Luna controller who the earth men of not discovered has been in league with the Martians all the time the controller will Jack ever he was known to lead had a Flynn is it present in another part of the asteroid and as far as the man can tell is on the web the Jetson doc of joined Lenny and Mitch in the time jet sent men made to Evan's room there's a sheet from the bed I'm tatted and just tripped when he laid his plans for escaping from the asteroid in the large scale that he and Doc and examined in the crater known as by 5. Inch of the brain I wanted to take a sphere to get from here to mom right. Question What is the estimated time it would take for a ferry from dive 5 to reach Mars. That is. Where we knew that already on the large scale that's the one I meant what they call them but I haven't a clue in the context any questions about it but I'm sure it would reach then it's well stocked with food and obviously is built for long distance lines and what are you worrying about I want to know how long we can expect to be traveling that's all a lot may depend on it an asteroid like this could easily overtake one of the spheres and I just want to know if we have a chance what if we got away immediately would be nearly 48 hours ahead of any other ship to try to pursue it sounds a long time but a 1000000 miles is a long way assuming well as you would by a faster ship or even an asteroid like this 48 hours start help us much and I wish I could answer them for you know our jet it was pretty tough material but we managed it would know what Mitch and let me will sit here in front of the door with a controller can see them as he comes in you and I will stand at the side of the wall and with the door as he writes them RINGBACK. This sounds like you know about time I know of beginning to think it was never coming back not quite let me and try to look as though we've never left this place he's he's got frank with me and you go Rogers Mitch and let me so this is where you are this is where you are and this is where you stay until the big asteroid get you and then you'll be taken back to Mom all of you where they are that as we know we were looking for myself when we wandered into this place well it makes no difference oh i'm them sooner or later sooner than you thought my right now grabbing Danny Boy time not going. On a chance all right we're going to have a mix and not. That. Get up now. Well Mr Evans How does it feel to be a prisoner yourself you can't get away with this and we have a good try time immediately after the ball that we went through to tell you what what do you hope to gain by this anyway come out of this asteroid and you have a chance 786 will be here in less than 45 all we need to know is how to get hold of some suits and get out of that fear you wouldn't get very far you'll be overtaken long before you reach take that chance now how do we get to that store or find out for yourself this is your last opportunity to tell us I have no intention of telling you. Well Doc but that's based on where we going I think perhaps the controller would like to walk outside on the surface give him time to think things over but we have no soup for him we won't bother with a suit what was that. And that's of course you care to change our mind you wouldn't do it your blood thing so you wouldn't murder him and deliberately murder him what's the life of one man on the freedom of the whole world at the stake All right Dr just sit on. We already do we put the helmet on now you know we went into it in the airlock we may not hear the controller tells us he's willing to cooperate after all still think you're bluffing they come up documents go you know think of them at all I mean yes Mike. Thank you Frank Yes follows down the door on the vision phone and keep in touch Come on Doc. Tony Jet doesn't mean to take him outside he certainly spoke as though he did it with no suit on and atmospheric pressure odds are down to 0 He can't mean it must be a bluff to get over the vision phone Frank see if we can pick him up. Here comes the picture now and I'm the one we want to try it again then they are allowed Jed you know me I met Yes we can does he still think you're bluffing pretty soon learn differently then shot back I at the margin. That warning Mr Evans of course I had it you know what it means to go outside to suit on I most certainly do you still wouldn't call it talk of me take you out there go ahead you can't scare me very well. On a warning coming up. Right. Well this is. This is your last chance cooperate with us or we take you through the airlock Garman get it go very well. 'd show you don't want to change your mind you think I'm a full Captain Morgan You wouldn't hurt anybody you want me to talk this way take him inside doc and put him on the floor because that all. And I talk with a helmet on so you can hear you ask me how much how much can you hear me yeah can you hear me no I can't of course you come and those suits are some proof you can talk to him only through the suits radio that I can do as soon as I put my own meat on then he will be able to talk to me. Through that vision of him and then have to say you can say to him when he relayed to me that I have nothing to say in just a few moments we'll be exhausting the air from this place you know what that means so far as you're concerned you expect me to suffocate you don't have to all you have to do is give me the information out of Quark I didn't do it why not the Martians would punish me send me to work in the underground factories down in the red planet for the rest of my days and on mobs that can be a long long time at least twice the normal life spend on Earth you don't have to stay behind you can come with us back to Earth that. You'll never get back to earth none of you will we'd rather try than stay on this asteroid I'd rather stay here them try then you can for good. Doc which to me. Is up to you and homage to Connor can hear you but he can't get us to go away you're right. Now listen I'm listening so you agree to cooperate and be sent to the underground factories that's what you intended to do without Submit your answers No he says no jet well. Could Talk exhaust the air from some. Contact. While there it goes in 5 minutes at a low begun bluffing it wouldn't exhaust all we had out of here what may your say what interests the icon help you it's more than my life is worth right now your life ain't worth very much now what tipped up a turn of the exhaust all no one excited now but turn it off have to Morgan turn it off now good yellin at him might he County you have about as much air now as you'll find on the top of a mill and it's getting thinner all the time. It's doing it might. Stop Ok All right I'll do anything you say or I can but it he's willing to take along there they're going to turn Charlie Swift in light within a took its power to do anything anything you say and that's more like it I can't talk back ups to. Contact a match yeah you can switch off soon a few moments good Anya Frank said it was well thank goodness it came around I was beginning to think you wouldn't. Want there was hardly any air let out anyway what but the way the controller look he seemed hardly able to breathe that was all imagination yet was bluffing but the controller was convinced the lock was exhausting so he reacted as though it were let's thank our lucky stars he did. Put him in the channel Ok. Aren't you going to untie me now for the moment later perhaps when you prove that you really mean to help us well how do we open that door it's operated by a control on the main panel the red room for from the left do all read controls operate don't hear it and certain doors can only be operated from here which which one the main door that leads into the room where the brain is housed the one that has your shocked yet how do we make it harmless green button above the red Contro just press that good. How do we find our way to that store room it's very complicated how do we find our way. If you called one of the fig crew to meet you at a given place he will guide you to it and bring us back here. And see how much of what you've told us so far is true try opening the door leading down to the Martians room 1st. Working good or image take Doc with your good understand that electrified door and wait and then about the time you reach or there should be a condition Dr waiting to escort you out of the storeroom collect 3 morsels from there and then come back right after Come on up Ok get out of your phone Frank keep your eye on them and if things go wrong let me know once nothing should go wrong that I'd better not. When I get a condition time to meet Mitch and Doc The control is on the left hand panel press and speak. You. Can you hear me Jared going and we've got the suit I can see I have is there anything else before we come back yes in that same room I remember seeing some metal bars Oh yeah they're still here they're what they're for goodness only know I have a good use for them bring half a dozen with you right and I'm back here as quickly as you can sure thing when you get to the main doll even to this place tell the condition time to return to his quarters Roger See you later then. Mr Evans and a few more things I'd like to know well that asteroid was on his way here how does it find us. Homes on those on the radio beam that we're transmitting where the transmitter that's it there. When this asteroid is flying through space how is its course sent do you do it no it's done by remote control radio signals are received which are fed into the brain downstairs and then translated into orders which are given to me verbally and then you pass the orders on to the crew personnel down below That's right so if that brain ceased to function this asteroid would just be adrift in space yes and if the homing be more cut off 786 still find its way here not until it got fairly close and it's still a great whale it must be it's not due to reach here for 44 hours at least just one thing more the big fear in Bay 5 that reach Mars yes it can along with you take why don't you ask the brain one of those big spears called long distance crew ships that one is number 7. Question How long will it take long distance crew ship number 7 to reach Mars from this position. How long do I wait for an answer a few moments. To come if you apply 9. Days and if we leave to be nearly 2 days before anyone is likely to push us why do you wish to go back to Mars anyway I have my reasons and I'd rather not tell you what they are somebody will be after you before you've been gone half an hour. And little bank about the Raiders over there is constantly sending signals to h.q. Down on Mars and to the flag ships of the invasion fleet they know everything that goes on those fears supposed to leave an asteroid without permission this is one time it will. Not Commit a come back. Yet the suits and the metal bars where you want these 4 are they tough possible to bend on the one side for a moment and other suits and everybody put one on What about their own suits and we carry those don't leave them behind their you you told me a mix you had our all mixed up in. There in the next room in the locker go in there let me get them right well if our own suits are complete Why do we need these Martian ones for in case I don't have been damaged to give Frank a hand when you don't he's having trouble sure Hold on Frank that's not the way the the bottom half must go on 1st the on which were there every one of them but on the floor now have to get in this Martian outfit to wear that if you're coming with us you know why I don't like that it's not my style but it on. Everybody dress we're going to put you on no not yet each of you to pick up one of those bonds what for and they may that section in the corner smash it up Oh that lovely quick money that lovely woman will have a whole fleet of asteroids on our tail on this we'd render it useless now wreck it oh right here we go I'm going to work on that vision punched up the rest of us and we're going this little love. With woken him up. That you've never had an emergency like this one right that'll go. Anybody can get they get to work now they're welcome to try and. Say chat up. That's fixed and. Yeah when you're dead you should lie down when Mr Evans that I think about fixes and I hope you had a making contact with that sign you mean you know taking me with you know but you must if I stay here I'll be sent to work in the underground factories and that's what you're going to do with us was not but you can't do this to me home where you just want just might but please time before you leave and if you try to prevent our taking off but nobody knows I'm here I can stop it my gentleman will go out on the surface from the door downstairs and walk across the bay 5 foot on your helmets and test the radio testing Ok it's calling you at me Ok let me back Roger is testing Ok Frank. I want you. To speak. Well. Come back come get me here are you sure you might call it we're just yet oh it's. Just going to listen to what I have to say well if you take me I could be a great help to you and where is the get empty that you want to contact the Martians and tell them exactly where we are and what we're doing I won't I promise you you can lock me up in the spheres rest room. There's no way I can conduct anybody from there the radio is done on the main dick in the flight control room and when we get to Mars if we're caught it'll be as bad for me as it will for you we're all in the same. That I will tell you put on your suit and walk in front of me head for the doll that leads outside. Yes of course. We made our way down the stairs and along the high corridor to the airlock which led out to the asteroid surface one through the airlock we crossed the rugged pitted ground towards the crater known as base 5. As we did so the brilliant sun suddenly appeared above the horizon and lit up the entire landscape in a magnificent or inspiring contrast of white illuminated rocks and long black shadows. We reached day 5 and slowly and carefully climbed down the precipitous wall to the crater floor we made our way across the floor to the Marge sphere pressed the door control and went inside. To offices let me just whatever it was I'm dressed collect suits together take up the topic. For you get them through the door on that central pillar inside right on the top deck you find a lot of it's still suits in there your let some boys and I'll get madder you way. All right I had to go to the restroom is a good one you got to go from there unless I give you permission to show you don't need help this craft quite sharp Frank can tell us all we need to know about that very well I went up stairs until I hear from you how soon before you attempt to take off just some of the boys a couple Martian suits off you still don't trust because I should get up stairs and stay there but. If you need any help don't hesitate to ask my helmet and let you have the rest of the damn thing all. Right it's harder to get out of these suits of armor than it is to get into a prank that according to Penny you were trained as a crew member one of the ships Is that true I don't remember being trend Were you a condition of the time with this cabin is familiar to me as my own room down on earth you know what the controls of war you can handle on both panels of one's course nobody would handle either equally well or yes did I think the 1st thing you do is explain the rest of us how to operate the controls and simplicity itself fine just as soon as the others are ready what's not. For this ship in which have all but it happens to be whether it's round the samo any other object in the center of the system that's clear enough as it creative rails and what think celebration right and I take a look at it in this Kevin was quite slow match but goes on for a long time the highest possible speeds can be achieved with very little discomfort to any of the men you must take out to slow down and why does when I think we know enough to risk a take off Frank you take the main panel back mid shoot take the other the one that sets on cause a 2 minute head of you let me right now let me know soon as you get a picture it's coming now it shows part of the crowd at the summit saw it more rotate it seemed everything is clear out there rotating taking off now as documented take it's only a 1st straight up before we make any attempt to say. Tell if you're rotate it full circle no sign of anybody then let's get off take out Frank and slowly here we go. Nothing happening yet we haven't but when a minute is we have we're moving We'll take you know it's like motion keep it that way Frank slow is fast enough for the moment ride height 6 feet and she's steady as a rock changed to lower a camera let me be able to show coming out well 3 right if wrong Mary because increase the climbing right Frank but take it easy driving right increasing 24 feet very the 35 the morning the the. $95.00 the 2000 to be older than that time. Oh blimey Take It Easy Frank what do you do it I'm sorry let me I slowed down a little too far also you did and he went sure enough to the ceiling so far so good that I said cause you ready Mitch Yeah Dad let me go get me the next 3 picture and I can see now the asteroid surface down below you hear that let me. Yeah I think I'm going to now. Just. I can see the sky and there's my center Atlantis live in the middle the screen doing it. Right. There you're quite sure this thing led to the red planet just piling up on the screen according to Frank us one it just seems too good to be true that. It now turned on the juice and let's see what happens away you go Frank maximum comfortable acceleration let me keep your screen tuned to that asteroid what else would I'll be doing object. It Things don't Ok speed still constant How long before we're close enough to go into orbit around the planet for just a few hours oh things up stairs Frank and me to sleep in the control room someone who's ever lying on his bunk and looking that he wanted things the moment we set foot on mas a whole army of condition times re waiting there to me to be sitting doesn't look forw