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THE GALAXY BEING
Allan Maxwell owns and operates a radio station. He sacrifices his station's transmitting power to send signals to outer space. By feeding the signals he receives through a television circuit, he is able to construct a three-dimensional image of the radio waves. One day, without warning, a new image takes shape on his screen -- he is communicating with a creature from deep in another galaxy!
Allan is called away from the transmitter by his wife, Carol, though he promises the creature he will return. In his absence, Eddie, a substitute disk jockey goes on the air and turns the station's power up. The creature is drawn across space and time and materializes on the earth. Anxious to find Maxwell, the being begins to search the town. Although its intent is peaceful, its powerful radiation can burn and destroy anything in its path.
The creature finds Maxwell and they return together to the broadcasting shed. By now, the police and army have been alerted. They surround the shed and threaten to destroy Maxwell, his wife, and his new-found friend. The creature tells Maxwell that by the rules of its own people, it can't go home; but, by turning down the station's power, it can release its own mass and disintegrate. If it stays on earth, the people will come and man's own fear will destroy him. Thus the creature makes the ultimate sacrifice, giving up its life. But the people of earth have learned a new lesson -- there are powers in the universe inscrutable and profound. Everyone must learn to live together if the world is to survive.
Directed by: Leslie Stevens Written by: Leslie Stevens
Starring: CLIFF ROBERTSON (Allan Maxwell), WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (The Being), JACQUELINE SCOTT (Carol), LEE PHILLIPS (Jean Maxwell), BURT METCALFE (Eddie), ALLYSON AMES (Loreen) and JAMES RAWLEY (Mr. Collins)