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"Out There" (1951)

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• CBS began "Out There" as a "sustainer", that is a series without a regular sponsor. This was common practice in the radio business, but was pretty unusual for a television series in the early 1950s.
  
  
• Despite the fact that "Out There" didn't have a sponsor, CBS still budgeted the episodes at $10,000 each.
  
  
• CBS had a story budget of $650 per episode which compares well with such "prestigious" series' budgets such as "Climax!" (1954) and "Armstrong Circle Theatre" (1950) whose budget was $750 per episode.
  
  

• Story editor 'Arthur Heinemann ' instructed his writers, "In general this program deals with the more human aspects of science fiction, centering around people as they are affected by phenomena of the world of the future, interplanetary communication and beings from other worlds."
  
  
• In an interview with Newsweek, producer 'John Haggott ' said, "Although we whang through space, we're more interested in mechanization's probable effects on human beings."
  
  

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