the New Planet

plot
While Dart and his crew are returning to Earth in deep freeze, robot control on Galasphere 347 malfunctions and it is thrown off course.  The freezer unit is also faulty, and cannot be deactivated by zirgon rays.  Professor Zeffer discovers a comet which is heading straight for the Galasphere.  The comet, however, is on an erratic course and causes the Galasphere little damage.  The crew awakens to discover a new planet beyond Pluto.  Dart and his crew land on the Planet to investigate and find that it is populated by a race of giants.  One of the giants captures the Galasphere and takes it and its crew to his home to keep as pets.  Husky burns away the lid of the wooden box in which they are being held and the Galasphere escapes back to Earth.

notes
Galasphere 347 is not the first UGO ship to land on the new planet; a Galasphere landed there twenty years before and its crew taught the giants how to speak English.
Raeburn tells Marla that all they can do is keep their fingers crossed and hope that the comet does not collide with Galasphere 347.  She replies that Venusians cross their wrists instead; it means the same thing.

credits
a National Interest Picture production
produced by Roberta Leigh and Arthur Provis
directed by Frank Goulding
created & written by Roberta Leigh
voices by Libby Morris, Dick Vosburgh, Ronnie Stevens, Murray Cash
puppetry by Martin & Heather Granger, Joan Garrick
electronics by F.C. Judd
space consultant: Colin Ronan
recordist: Cyril Brown
dubbing editor: John Beaton
RCA sound recording
script assistant: Denise Kaye
cameraman: Arthur Provis
editor: Roy Hyde
art director: Roland Whiteside
models: Derek Freeborn
special effects & animation: Bill Palmer, Brian Stevens, Bert Walker
2nd unit cameraman: Jimmy Hopewell