Stay Tuned, We'll Be Right Back
starring Lawrence Pressman, Joanna Miles
directed by Paul Lynch
Charlie Miller (Lawrence Pressman) buys Kenny, his son, a crystal radio kit for his birthday. He discovers, after they assemble it and turn it on, that it is picking up signals from 1942.
Among the signals the radio receives is one from a German submarine that mentions in its message that it is targeting the very ship that Charlie's father was on when he was killed in the North Atlantic. Charlie was two years old at the time.
Charlie sends a message back to the Germans providing bad information to the Germans. Charlie wakes up the next day to discover that his father is still alive but his wife and son are gone, and the Germans won World War II.
Director Paul Lynch also directed five episodes each of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. I have seen two of the episodes he directed of TNG and one of DS9.
I remember watching this story when it first aired back in 1981. I think it might have been at a friend's home. The story stuck with me all these years (especially the ending) although I didn't remember all the details.
I'm pretty sure that most military communications were transmitted encrypted during World War II but there is no mention of encryption, other than plain Morse code, in this story.
It was fun to see this story again but it didn't hit me quite as hard as it did when I saw it the first time around.
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