Orbiter X

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Orbiter X: The Price of Survival

BD Chapman - Orbiter X

The Price of Survival

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Orbiter X, The Price of Survival

Unity progress their plans to commandeer the still unassembled Orbiter X.

Unity progress their plans to commandeer the still unassembled Orbiter X for their own evil purposes. Stars Gerik Schjelderup.

Unity are plotting to commandeer the yet to be assembled Orbiter X space station for their own evil purposes.

BD Chapman's futuristic sci-fi adventure from 1959.

Captain Bob Britton …. John Carson
Captain Douglas McClelland …. Andrew Crawford
Flight Engineer Hicks …. Barrie Gosney
Max Kramer …. Gerik Schjelderup
Gelbin …. Arthur Lawrence
Neasen …. Ian Sadler
Colonel Kent …. Donald Bisset
Sir Charles Day …. Leslie Perrins

Producer: Charles Maxwell 

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November 1959.

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1959 sci-fi adventure from the birth of space exploration by BD Chapman.

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