The Voice of Free Earth: Episode One opens with a sweeping panorama of this place called Free Earth; then on to "It's Beginning to look a lot like Christmas" as Doc Beale, the central character, prepares a ritual end to his life. Without resolution, the listener is transported back in time with "Of Rockets and Rocket Scientists" and introduced to Christopher's world as his life unfolds in the 1950's and early 1960’s as this epic serial begins.