Blast Off Into Prime Time

Don't Touch That Dial for November 6, 2026: Blast Off Into Prime Time. 12 pieces (vintage commercials and promos, songs and theme tunes): Alien, The Ventures - Theme From Star Trek, Burger Chef - Star Wars Posters and more, with Ricky Voltage. In this episode: 0:00 Stupid Potato 0:12 Don't Touch That Dial opens: Ricky Voltage welcomes you 1:27 Alien (radio spot, 1979) — Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott, with a screenplay by Dan O'Bannon from a story he wrote with Ronald Shusett. The plot follows a commercial starship crew who look into a drifting abandoned spacecraft and then come under attack from a lethal alien creature. The film was made by Brandywine Productions and distributed by 20th Century-Fox, with H. R. Giger designing the creatures and environments. 2:24 The Ventures - Theme From Star Trek 5:43 Burger Chef - Star Wars Posters (commercial, 1977) 6:14 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV theme, 1964) — Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is a 1961 American science fiction disaster film produced and directed by Irwin Allen, starring Walter Pidgeon and Robert Sterling, with supporting roles by Peter Lorre, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden, Michael Ansara, and Frankie Avalon. The screenplay was written by Irwin Allen and Charles Bennett, with Avalon performing the opening title theme song. 20th Century Fox distributed the film. 7:06 Don't Touch That Dial on Stupid Potato 7:16 Star Trek IV (commercial, 1987) — Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is a 1986 American science fiction film and the fourth in the Star Trek franchise, directed by Leonard Nimoy for the second time. It completes the story arc that began in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and continued in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984). In the film, the Enterprise crew returns to Earth to face the consequences of their earlier actions, only to find the planet threatened by an alien probe seeking to communicate with humpback whales, a species that has since died out, so they travel back in time to locate whales that can answer it. 7:32 Lost in Space (TV theme, 1965) — Lost in Space is an American science fiction series created and produced by Irwin Allen that aired on CBS from September 15, 1965, to March 6, 1968. The show, inspired by the 1812 novel The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss, follows the Robinson family as they struggle to survive as space colonists. The series ran for 84 episodes across three seasons, with the first season consisting of 29 one-hour episodes in black and white except for the final minutes of the 29th episode, while seasons 2 and 3 were filmed entirely in color. 8:37 Battlestar Galactica Cylon (commercial, 1979) 9:08 Leonard Nimoy - Star Trek Theme 11:11 Don't Touch That Dial on Stupid Potato 11:21 The Twilight Zone (TV promo, 1960s) 11:45 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV theme) 12:57 Star Wars - Look-In (commercial) 13:32 Nichelle Nichols - Star Trek Theme 16:59 Ricky Voltage signs off 17:57 More free classic radio at stupidpotato.com Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 62 free 24/7 channels and 191 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.