In some cases where we had established formats for regular pieces like 
Tales from the Days of Sail (salty stories about two sea dogs and an 
albatross), The Cave Men (an excellent section devised by Hank that 
necessitated nonverbal, preverbal, communication and kept you on your 
toes).  In our longest running serial, Captain Bonnard and Captain 
Lafarge and Carolyne in Space, we often did better without scripts, just 
rough outlines. BL&C inSpace had the added characteristic that it 
required each of us taking turns doing each of the three voices as the 
next voice came up.

BL&C in Space was based  on a cassette tape letter and an old TV show. 
The cassette tape letter had come to me from a distant relative of my 
mother .  On it was a copy of a tape received from the Polaris 
Foundation (or Institute) in Phoenix, Arizona (that I have since tried to 
get in touch with, unsuccessfully) on which was the voice of a 
spaceman advising earth about things in a slow nasal monotone:
  
      Greetings my fellow earth brothers.
      I am Llallah. 

 (TWO BEAT PAUSE)

    I am speaking to you
    from five of your earth miles
    above the surface of your planet

(TWO BEAT PAUSE)

    Today I have been asked to talk to you about 
    what your earth scientists know little about
    but call, radio.

(BEAT)

    For many years now 
    the  magnetic fields of your planet 
    have been being
    monitored from our space ship...	

Thus would Llallah introduce the show, with a variety of lessons from 
space, going on for quite a while but ending nowhere. 24



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