Recap:
Jet Morgan and his crew are on their way to the Moon. Shortly after take off, they lost radio contact with Earth and did not regain it until they were more than 142,000 miles above the Earth's surface.

A few hours later, a small meteor hit the ship and Jet, Mitch and Lemmy went outside to inspect the damage. Then Lemmy heard weird, unearthly sounds coming through his space suit radio - sounds which terrified him.

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Facts

• The fictional date for the lunar landing for October 24th 1965. When you consider that Yuri Gagarrin became the first man in space in 1961 and Apollo 11 landed in 1969, this seems spot on for a combined first flight into space / landing on the moon mission.

• The alien music, heard over the radio, gives the first indication of what this series is really about - hooking the audience through suspense and terror.

• Alan Keith makes an appearance in this episode. Like David Jacobs and Pat Campbell, he later became a disc jockey. He is best known for presenting Your 100 Best Tunes on radio 2. He met Charles Chilton in the 1940s and ended up as one of Charles's rep playing "other voices" in radio serials. For Riders of the Range he appeared in the third series as Billy the Kid.

• The staggering cliff-hanger - Jet's disappearance in the crater - the first of many bewildering cliff-hangers guaranteed that the audience would tune in next week. From now on the show would always end at the most gripping moment of the episode - forcing the listener to wait a whole week just to find out what was going on! People were hooked.

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