Out There
CBS; October 28, 1951 thru January 13, 1952
12 Episodes

OUT THERE - in Time, Space and the Worlds of Science Fiction

Episode 1: THE OUTER LIMIT                                        October 28, 1951
Based on the Saturday Evening Post story by Graham Doar

Adapted by Elhu Winer directed by Byron Paul & Andrew McCullough
A young space pilot on Earth's initial venture into space is scooped up by Aliens called "The Councilors" who wish to contain Earth-men to their planet.
CAST: Robert Webber as Captain Bill Hurley; Wesley Addy, Augusta Dabney, Harry Hess, Michael de Marais, Robert Allen, Jack Bittner, Richard Snyder, John Straub, Stewart Bradley, Charles Welch, Liam Dunn & Jim Holland.

Episode 2: ORDEAL IN SPACE                                      November 4, 1951
by Edward Waldo (Theodore Sturgeon?); from a story by Robert A. Heinlein
William Coles, communications officer of a cruising spaceship, goes outside his craft to fix a radar antenna and tumbles into the abyss of an interplanetary ether. He is rescued by a miracle and lives to tell a spine tingling tale.
CAST: John Ericson, Robert Paige, Edward Moroney, Joseph Mantell, Howard Wierum, William A. Lee and Rod Steiger.

Episode 3: THE SENSE OF WONDER                          November 11, 1951
adapted by Howard Rodman from a story by Milton Lesser
The story of a spaceship captain that refuses to land his ship after a voyage of hundreds of years because he lacks the courage to bring on change to an established order. During the long trip the passengers have become like robots, but Rikud opts for change when the Captain dies.
starring Paul Anderson as Rikud;  Nancy Franklin,  Joseph Sweeney, Russell Collins, Noel Leslie & Casey Allen.

Episode 4: MISFIT                                                           November 18, 1951
by Joseph Kramm from a story by Robert A. Heinlein
The superhuman task of moving an asteroid to a position between the orbits of Earth and Mars, as a potential rescue landing station for spaceships. The job is accomplished by a futuristic Earth Foreign Legion, assigned to risky enterprises, and it is specifically the work of a young astronaut, a recalcitrant fellow, who by instinct can figure out involved mathematical problems. 
starring Wendell Phillips, Gene Saks, Thomas Cole, Eddie Hyans, Jerry Paris, Arthur Batanides, Ray Danton, John Sylvester

Episode 5: SUSCEPTIBILITY                                        November 25, 1951
written by David Shaw from a story by John D. MacDonald
An expedition is sent to investigate the centuries-long blackout on a planet known as Able XII in the third galaxy, at a time when the universe is run by push buttons controlled from Earth. The pilot of the Milky Way safari falls in love with the female leader of a lost planet's civilization, causing an un-scheduled twist to the expe-ditions mission.
CAST: Leslie Nielsen, Bethel Leslie, Fred Stewart, Susan Steele, Joe Silver, Jack Weston.

Episode 6: THE GREEN HILLS OF EARTH                December 2, 1951
written by Raphael Hayes based on the story by Robert A. Heinlein
Rhysling, one of a fading breed of "jetmen" who had blazed the trails to newly-discovered planets in the age of futuristic spacecraft, sets out on a tragic mission to the Wolf Pack asteroids with a research party, including a blonde biologist..
CAST:  Mary Sinclair,  John Raitt, Logan Field, David McKay, Eddie Hyans, Harry M. Cooke, Herbert Nelson, Jay Barney.

Episode 7: MEWHU’S JET                                             December 9, 1951
written by Edward Waldo based on the story by Theodore Sturgeon
A strange little man emerges from a totally demolished spaceship that crashes on an isolated homestead. 
CAST: Janie Alexander, Richard McMurray, Mort Marshall, Eileen Heckart, John Boroff, Dennis Alexander.

Episode 8: SEVEN TEMPORARY MOONS                 December 16, 1951
written by Murray Leinster
The appearance of a new cluster of star-like bodies in the firmament threatens the survival of the Earth.
CAST: Ann Gillis, G. Albert Smith, Robert Pastene, Robert P. Lieb.

Episode 9: THE MAN                                                      December 23, 1951
written by Howard Rodman based on a story by Ray Bradbury
Advance agents of two rivaling commercial companies set out from Earth to a distant planet on which radio-active materials have been detected, precipitating a keen contest with some slightly non-commercial angles.
CAST: Henry Worth, Philip Bourneuf, Peter Hobbs, Stewart Bradley, John McGovern, Logan Field, Jennifer Bunker, Florence Anglin.

Episode 10: THE BUS TO NOWHERE                        December 30, 1951
written by Reginald Rose
Six people are stranded late at night in the middle of the Mojave desert. And encounter a strange little man named Mr. Kik, who explains that they are about to be picked up by fellow Venusians and taken to their planet to study human behavior patterns.
CAST: Whit Bissell, Kim Stanley, Bruce Hall, Leonard Barry, Arthur Batanides, Eddie Bruce, Nancy Franklin, Julian Noa, Allen Frank, Bruce Druy

Episode 11: GUEST IN THE HOUSE                           January 6, 1952
written by Frank Long (Frank Belknap Long?)
CAST: Butch Cavel, Perry Wilson, Joy Hilton, Robert Webber, Dan Morgan.

Episode 12: THE CASTAWAY                                      January 13, 1952
written by Raphael Hayes
A strange man who has lived for thousands of years and cannot die is taken aboard a passing spaceship after being abandoned on a distant planet.
CAST: Ernest Graves, Robert F. Simon, Herbert Berghoff, Fred Scollay, George Pleasant, Jack Carron, Casey Allen, Grant Gordon.
Additional Information was recently obtained from THE COMPLETE DIRECTORY TO SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY AND HORROR TELEVISION SERIES by Alan Morton

Letter on page 17 of TV Forecast cover dated February 2, 1952 reads: Would you be kind enough to let me know if "Out there" is going to be a regularly scheduled show and if so when and where.  Joliet, Ill.                 MRS JEROME EVANS
(Ed. Note: At present there is no definite schedule for "Out There." Its current Sunday replacement is "United Nations.")

From the Channel One column on page 3 of TV Forecast cover dated April 5, 1952: "New York--The Frank Sinatra demise from TV proved to be a costly try for CBS to knock the splinters from under king pin Milton Berle.  The net lost an estimated million dollars on the crooner's variety opus.  Realizing the Sinatra show was too much like Miltie's, a science fiction program called "Out There" will take the CBS slot opposite Berle. . . . Ed Note: Apparently Out There was under consideration to be revived. 

AUTHORS NOTE:  Large portions of the information on the shows listed  are courtesy of Alain Bourassa of Coteau-du-Lac, Quebec Canada, and were taken from original Press Releases for the show. Alain is looking for information on the show "Men Into Space!"

The following is from a CBS PRESS RELEASE dated October 10, 1951, CBS Television Network, 485 Madison Avenue, New York 22, New York:

MISS CLAIRE BROWN

Interplanetary Daring-Do:

"OUT THERE," NEW SCIENCE FICTION SERIES

WILL ZOOM VIEWERS TO ADVENTURE IN SPACE

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Premiere Oct. 28 Has Warning For Earthmen

Atomic Weapons Upset Balance of Planets

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"Out There," a new science fiction series which will dramatize the adventures of heroic earth men in the mysterious regions of this world's outer spaces, will make its debut on the CBS Television Network Sunday, October 28 (CBS-TV, 6:00-6:30 PM, EST).

Geared for an adult audience with great appeal for children, "Out There" will be a "live" TV program using integrated film. The series will take its audience "Out There" by the use of special effects and trick camera techniques. It is a CBS-TV package created by Donald Davis, produced by John Haggott and directed by Byron Paul and Andrew McCullough.

The subtitle of the new thriller series, "Out there -- in Time, Space and the Worlds of Science Fiction," indicates the imaginative character of the subject matter. Each program will be a complete episode, with a beginning and an end, with different players, all outstanding in the acting profession. The story of each program will be based on the work of a leading writer of the science fiction field.

The premiere program, representative of the background and daring-do of the series, is titled "The Outer Limit," adapted from a Saturday Evening Post story by Graham Doar. It is the tale of a young U.S. Air Forces pilot who test flies a new rocket ship literally out of this world. As he zooms through the interplanetary regions, a patrol ship of the Intergalactic Council scoops him up and takes him prisoner. The Councilors convey to him their unhappiness over the way men of Earth are using atomic weapons. Afraid that these new engines of war will upset the balance of surrounding planets, they send him back to Earth with a warning to his people.