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The Search For The Flying Saucer (1951)

1951 · Television · 27 min

Synopsis

A reporter investigates a town that claims to have seen a flying saucer; Tales of Tomorrow, season 1 episode 11, first aired 9 November 1951.

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Running time
27 minutes

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★★★ · Who Needs Wiki Leaks? · KLGM · 2018-02-18

A wonderfully spooky and entertaining way to warn the public that their government was hushing up the biggest story in history. Everything about this episode was excellent: The acting was over-the-top, the set and music were moody and atmospheric, and the content, quite simply out of this world!

★★★★ · A story ripped from the day's headlines · 2muchtv · 2009-02-04

Flying saucers and infiltrators from another planet, a sinister conspiracy of silence and a woman torn between her mission and her man. A genuine sci-fi plot line, as well as a dark allegory for red panic, as American is swept by fears of communist infiltrators, communist conspiracies and the sinister silence of the 'comrades' plotting to do us in. Two things surprised me about Jack Carter in this eppy. First, he doesn't look that young, unlike many of the other future well-knowns we see in ToT. Second, his acting apparently always stunk on ice. The voice is a bit less gravelly than his…

★★★★ · Vaughn Taylor · I_h8_screen_names · 2013-11-21

Mr. Taylor plays "Crazy John". He is one of that wonderful genre "Character Actor" that you would never recognize by name, but his face is very familiar. The episode has gottten very bad reviews on IMDB, but it is not bad. I agree with the other reviewer about Ms. Deering's hair. It is really pretty in this episode.