EDITOR’S NOTE: The Bamboo Saucer was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, October 24, 1970 at 11:30 p.m. It also aired on November 25, 1972 and March 16, 1974.

Directed and written by Frank Telford, this starts when test pilot Fred Norwood (John Ericson) is chased by a UAP. The pilot following him says whatever he’s told to say by the air force. No one wants to admit that an alien craft could be following our armed forces.

He decides to use an old Mustang to track the UFO along with his friend Joe Vetry (William Mims). Vetry is soon abducted or disintegrated by some alien vehicle, which only makes Norwood more invested in finding out the truth.

He’s contacted by a deep cover government type named Hank Peters (Dan Duryea) who tells him that something that looks just like what he saw has crashed in China. The bodies of the aliens have been burned, but the UAP still exists. When he parachutes down to find it, he comes across a group of Russians with the same plan. They decide to work together and end up in a battle against the Chinese Army that they escape by flying the craft past Saturn.

Producer Jerry Fairbanks sent the script to the U.S. Department of Defense and made sure that the CIA was never mentioned and that the Air Force was never near China.