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First aired on 17 June 1951 and [[AudioAdaptation adapted]] from Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/PebbleInTheSky''. This episode was adapted for radio by Creator/ErnestKinoy and directed by Creator/EdwardKing. Creator/NormanRose is the {{Narrator}}, describing the premise of the story. The rest of the cast includes Creator/SantosOrtega, Creator/SusanDouglas, Creator/EdwinJerome, and Creator/LeonJanney.
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First aired on 17 June 1951 and [[AudioAdaptation adapted]] from Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/PebbleInTheSky''. This episode was adapted for radio by Creator/ErnestKinoy and directed by Creator/EdwardKing. Creator/NormanRose is the {{Narrator}}, [[CharacterNarrator Narrator]], describing the premise of the story. The rest of the cast includes Creator/SantosOrtega, Creator/SusanDouglas, Creator/EdwinJerome, and Creator/LeonJanney.
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->The civilization of the galaxy spread across two hundred million worlds and the black void of space swarmed with the ships of the empire. But far off the trade routes, almost forgotten, lay the dying planet earth. A backwater in galactic culture, a place of exile, a pebble in the sky.
-->--Opening Narration
First aired on 17 June 1951 and [[AudioAdaptation adapted]] from Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/PebbleInTheSky''. This episode was adapted for radio by Creator/ErnestKinoy and directed by Creator/EdwardKing. Creator/NormanRose is the {{Narrator}}, describing the premise of the story. The rest of the cast includes Creator/SantosOrtega, Creator/SusanDouglas, Creator/EdwinJerome, and Creator/LeonJanney.
Bel Arvardan (voiced by Ortega) is the [[PrivateEyeMonologue main character, who narrates events for the audience]] as he speaks to the Procurator and the people of Earth. He meets Pola (voiced by Douglas) while she searches for her father in a mall. Dr Arvardan helps her get free and they go to see her father. This unexpectedly draws him into an ongoing web of intrigue, as Earth-born terrorists prepare a biological weapon against the [[GalacticSuperpower Galactic Empire]] and he falls in love with the woman he met only a few days ago.
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!!"Pebble in the Sky" contains examples of:
* AdaptationDistillation: In order to fit an entire {{Novel}} of ''Literature/PebbleInTheSky'' into one ~25 minute episode, much of it had to be cut. Schwarz is [[AdaptedOut entirely removed]] and Bel Arvardan [[CharacterNarrator narrates]] the events like a [[PrivateEyeMonologue private eye]].
* AdaptedOut:
** Joseph Schwarz is removed from this adaptation of ''Literature/PebbleInTheSky''. His role in causing Dr Arvardan and Pola Shekt to meet in the mall is given to her father, Dr Shekt. His role in forcing Balkis to be imprisoned by the Outsiders is accomplished by Arvardan's attack against a soldier. His role in stopping the virus from being spread to the Empire? [[DownerEnding Gone]].
** The ([[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep unnamed]]) High Minister is removed from office in this adaptation of ''Literature/PebbleInTheSky''. In his place is Balkis, given the title along with the [[PuppetKing power he already had]].
** The Synapsifier, Dr Shekt's device, is removed from the story. Dr Shekt is now one of the scientists who worked directly on the virus, all PsychicPowers are removed from the story.
** Natter, the agent who observes Dr Arvardan on his flight to Chica and helps Schwartz escape the Radiation Fever soldiers, no longer appears in the story, to help [[AdaptationDistillation cut down]] on the subplots.
* AgeLift: In the [[Literature/PebbleInTheSky original novel]], Dr Shekt is 58, but in this [[AdaptationDistillation much shorter adaptation]], he is 62 instead. This difference is significant because it means he is in violation of [[DystopianEdict The Sixty]]; [[WeWillHaveEuthanasiaInTheFuture mandatory euthanasia]].
* ApocalypseHow: In addition to Earth's highly radioactive crust, the virus is assumed to be successful, which would wipe out the GalacticEmpire and humanity would only survive on Earth.
* BookEnds: Creator/RobertBrowning's poem isn't quoted in this adaptation of ''Literature/PebbleInTheSky'', but the [[TitleDrop title is]]. First the narrator uses the title to describe how Earth is [[EarthThatWas an ignored backwater planet]], then at the end of the episode, Dr Arvardan uses the title to describe how [[ApocalypseHow Earth will be the only planet left with human beings]].
* AudioAdaptation: An adaptation of Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/PebbleInTheSky'', transcription by Creator/ErnestKinoy.
* CharacterNarrator: In this [[AudioAdaptation adaptation]], the third-person omniscient is replaced by making the archeologist, Bel Arvardan, the narrator of all events.
* DownerEnding: Because Joseph Schwarz and the Synapsifier are [[AdaptedOut removed]] from this adaptation of ''Literature/PebbleInTheSky'', the happy ending of the original cannot occur and Dr Arvardan predicts that all humanity will die, except for those native to Earth, and the science needed for interstellar travel will be lost.
* EarthThatUsedToBeBetter: Dr Arvardan, an archaeologist, believes that because Earth is unique, the only inhabited planet with non-habitable radiation, this means that Earth may have been the origin of humanity. Meanwhile, Earth's leadership [[DystopianEdict mandates]] [[WeWillHaveEuthanasiaInTheFuture euthanasia at sixty]], large areas of the planet are completely uninhabitable, and [[spoiler:rebel elements are plotting a mass viral genocide of other worlds]].
* FakeOutMakeOut: When Bel Arvardan meets with Pola a second time, footsteps are heard to approach them, and Pola immediately suggests they kiss to avoid suspicion.
* FantasticRacism: Bel Arvardan's unconscious/systemic racism is completely removed in this adaptation due to [[AdaptationDistillation the need to keep it under thirty minutes]], but everyone else's mutual hatred of Earthman vs Outsiders is kept intact.
* FictionalDocument: Dr Avardan has been published in the ''Galactic Archeological Journal'', but Procurator Ennis only heard of him from a newspaper article.
* FillingTheSilence: There's an almost constant background of music and sound effects in this adaptation, and it grows especially loud during scenes changes.
* OnTheNext: The end of the episode gives a quick introduction to "[[Recap/DimensionX38ChildsPlay Child's Play]]", next week's episode.
* PragmaticAdaptation: In order to fit an entire {{Novel}} into one ~25 minute episode, much of ''Literature/PebbleInTheSky'' had to be cut, such as the rotating POV followed in the original book. Bel Arvardan instead [[CharacterNarrator narrates]] the events like a [[PrivateEyeMonologue private eye]] and only the events from his point of view are shown.
* PrivateEyeMonologue: When Bel Arvaden speaks in an aside to the audience to narrate his opinions and the setting changes, he changes his tone and cadence to fit the classic pattern of a radio detective.
* SyntheticPlague: In a [[AdaptationDistillation change from the original]], Dr Shekt is one of the biologists who created the virus that will kill the Outsiders (humans that aren't Earth-natives). He's motivated to do so because [[AgeLift he is older]] and in violation of [[DystopianEdict The Sixty]]; [[WeWillHaveEuthanasiaInTheFuture mandatory euthanasia]].
* TitleDrop: This episode uses the title early in the story, describing Earth as [[EarthThatWas an ignored backwater planet]], inconsequential to the GalacticSuperpower of humanity. It [[BookEnds then ends]] with [[FinaleTitleDrop the title]], as Bel Arvardan predicts that Earth will be the only planet left with human beings, describing it as alone and lonely.
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-->--Opening Narration
First aired on 17 June 1951 and [[AudioAdaptation adapted]] from Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/PebbleInTheSky''. This episode was adapted for radio by Creator/ErnestKinoy and directed by Creator/EdwardKing. Creator/NormanRose is the {{Narrator}}, describing the premise of the story. The rest of the cast includes Creator/SantosOrtega, Creator/SusanDouglas, Creator/EdwinJerome, and Creator/LeonJanney.
Bel Arvardan (voiced by Ortega) is the [[PrivateEyeMonologue main character, who narrates events for the audience]] as he speaks to the Procurator and the people of Earth. He meets Pola (voiced by Douglas) while she searches for her father in a mall. Dr Arvardan helps her get free and they go to see her father. This unexpectedly draws him into an ongoing web of intrigue, as Earth-born terrorists prepare a biological weapon against the [[GalacticSuperpower Galactic Empire]] and he falls in love with the woman he met only a few days ago.
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!!"Pebble in the Sky" contains examples of:
* AdaptationDistillation: In order to fit an entire {{Novel}} of ''Literature/PebbleInTheSky'' into one ~25 minute episode, much of it had to be cut. Schwarz is [[AdaptedOut entirely removed]] and Bel Arvardan [[CharacterNarrator narrates]] the events like a [[PrivateEyeMonologue private eye]].
* AdaptedOut:
** Joseph Schwarz is removed from this adaptation of ''Literature/PebbleInTheSky''. His role in causing Dr Arvardan and Pola Shekt to meet in the mall is given to her father, Dr Shekt. His role in forcing Balkis to be imprisoned by the Outsiders is accomplished by Arvardan's attack against a soldier. His role in stopping the virus from being spread to the Empire? [[DownerEnding Gone]].
** The ([[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep unnamed]]) High Minister is removed from office in this adaptation of ''Literature/PebbleInTheSky''. In his place is Balkis, given the title along with the [[PuppetKing power he already had]].
** The Synapsifier, Dr Shekt's device, is removed from the story. Dr Shekt is now one of the scientists who worked directly on the virus, all PsychicPowers are removed from the story.
** Natter, the agent who observes Dr Arvardan on his flight to Chica and helps Schwartz escape the Radiation Fever soldiers, no longer appears in the story, to help [[AdaptationDistillation cut down]] on the subplots.
* AgeLift: In the [[Literature/PebbleInTheSky original novel]], Dr Shekt is 58, but in this [[AdaptationDistillation much shorter adaptation]], he is 62 instead. This difference is significant because it means he is in violation of [[DystopianEdict The Sixty]]; [[WeWillHaveEuthanasiaInTheFuture mandatory euthanasia]].
* ApocalypseHow: In addition to Earth's highly radioactive crust, the virus is assumed to be successful, which would wipe out the GalacticEmpire and humanity would only survive on Earth.
* BookEnds: Creator/RobertBrowning's poem isn't quoted in this adaptation of ''Literature/PebbleInTheSky'', but the [[TitleDrop title is]]. First the narrator uses the title to describe how Earth is [[EarthThatWas an ignored backwater planet]], then at the end of the episode, Dr Arvardan uses the title to describe how [[ApocalypseHow Earth will be the only planet left with human beings]].
* AudioAdaptation: An adaptation of Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/PebbleInTheSky'', transcription by Creator/ErnestKinoy.
* CharacterNarrator: In this [[AudioAdaptation adaptation]], the third-person omniscient is replaced by making the archeologist, Bel Arvardan, the narrator of all events.
* DownerEnding: Because Joseph Schwarz and the Synapsifier are [[AdaptedOut removed]] from this adaptation of ''Literature/PebbleInTheSky'', the happy ending of the original cannot occur and Dr Arvardan predicts that all humanity will die, except for those native to Earth, and the science needed for interstellar travel will be lost.
* EarthThatUsedToBeBetter: Dr Arvardan, an archaeologist, believes that because Earth is unique, the only inhabited planet with non-habitable radiation, this means that Earth may have been the origin of humanity. Meanwhile, Earth's leadership [[DystopianEdict mandates]] [[WeWillHaveEuthanasiaInTheFuture euthanasia at sixty]], large areas of the planet are completely uninhabitable, and [[spoiler:rebel elements are plotting a mass viral genocide of other worlds]].
* FakeOutMakeOut: When Bel Arvardan meets with Pola a second time, footsteps are heard to approach them, and Pola immediately suggests they kiss to avoid suspicion.
* FantasticRacism: Bel Arvardan's unconscious/systemic racism is completely removed in this adaptation due to [[AdaptationDistillation the need to keep it under thirty minutes]], but everyone else's mutual hatred of Earthman vs Outsiders is kept intact.
* FictionalDocument: Dr Avardan has been published in the ''Galactic Archeological Journal'', but Procurator Ennis only heard of him from a newspaper article.
* FillingTheSilence: There's an almost constant background of music and sound effects in this adaptation, and it grows especially loud during scenes changes.
* OnTheNext: The end of the episode gives a quick introduction to "[[Recap/DimensionX38ChildsPlay Child's Play]]", next week's episode.
* PragmaticAdaptation: In order to fit an entire {{Novel}} into one ~25 minute episode, much of ''Literature/PebbleInTheSky'' had to be cut, such as the rotating POV followed in the original book. Bel Arvardan instead [[CharacterNarrator narrates]] the events like a [[PrivateEyeMonologue private eye]] and only the events from his point of view are shown.
* PrivateEyeMonologue: When Bel Arvaden speaks in an aside to the audience to narrate his opinions and the setting changes, he changes his tone and cadence to fit the classic pattern of a radio detective.
* SyntheticPlague: In a [[AdaptationDistillation change from the original]], Dr Shekt is one of the biologists who created the virus that will kill the Outsiders (humans that aren't Earth-natives). He's motivated to do so because [[AgeLift he is older]] and in violation of [[DystopianEdict The Sixty]]; [[WeWillHaveEuthanasiaInTheFuture mandatory euthanasia]].
* TitleDrop: This episode uses the title early in the story, describing Earth as [[EarthThatWas an ignored backwater planet]], inconsequential to the GalacticSuperpower of humanity. It [[BookEnds then ends]] with [[FinaleTitleDrop the title]], as Bel Arvardan predicts that Earth will be the only planet left with human beings, describing it as alone and lonely.
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