More Words, Deeper Hole

Incident At Switchpath

A young man attempts to convince the bloodthirsty population of a small town that he is not a killer. His wild tale of alien devices predating human history is unfortunately not very convincing; worse for him, he's telling the truth.

It sure is convenient the aliens use recording devices of a sort modern humans could recognize as a recording device.

Mindwebs did an adaptation of this under the title "The Sky is Full of Ships".

And that's it for Beyond Tomorrow.

The Outer Limit

The pilot of an experimental rocket plane is snatched from the edge of space by aliens who want to warn humanity that thanks to alien intervention, the nuclear test by humans could very well be their final nuclear test.

This was an oddly popular story for adaptations: I see adaptations of it for Dimension X, X Minus 1, Escape, Beyond This World AKA Beyond Tomorrow, Suspense, and the TV show Out There. It might well be the most frequently adapted story I have personally listened to.

X Minus One reused Dimension X's script (and possibly the performance). This version uses a completely different scrip with some major differences: a surprisingly amount of the 30 minutes is used introducing and launching the rocket plane and whereas in the DX/XM1 version we never see the aliens and are left to wonder if the pilot went mad, in this one we see the conversation between pilot and aliens. As well, the subplot about the pilot's wife and his new-born son is missing, as is his attempt to prevent the nuclear test that will trigger the alien device.

The aliens are still jerks, though, picking a method of communication seemingly selected to guarantee the death of everyone on Earth.