Premiere episode. Astronauts landing on Mars, smoking cigarettes and sounding like truckers stopping for a burger and coffee, destroy artifacts of a dead Martian race. The telling of this story is really dated now. This is a rebroadcast of a Dimension X episode from 9/29/50.
By Ray Bradbury.
April 22, 1955
Rating: ***
Somebody emailed in this great comment about this episode....
Just a comment about episode 000 "And the moon be still as bright". I listened to both the Dimension X and the X-1 versions, and have to say the Dimension X version is far better. In particular, listen to the conversation between Spender and the Captain. In Dimension X, it\'s a heart-touching conversation between 2 men who personally have no animosity but feel duty bound to go separate ways. Spender even promises not to kill the Captain. In contrast, in X-1, Spender just comes off as a crazed man willing to kill even the Captain, and the Captain seems indifferent or only shallowly concerned about Spender.
Anyway, the story is still good radio drama, just Dimension X in this case is better-executed. It's much more subtle and deep.
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The weekly shows started. This one was written by George Lefferts. Far in the future (1982, no kidding) spacemen discover the great space boundary. Trips to mars and moon are common, so they look to travel to the planet Volta, which is beyond the boundary. But this isn't your typical Love Boat cruise. Five ships have left, but none return. So a little more in the future (1987), the space ship Star Cloud prepares to crack the barrier. Good adventure story. Good surprise ending.
April 24, 1955
Rating: *** 1/2
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Martians hire an agency to advertise their invasion of Earth. Tim Burton must have seen this before making his movie Mars Attacks. This is good science fiction. The ad agency is surprised that there are more Martians in the parade than he had hired. Many more, in fact. Maybe these Martian dudes with the ray guns are for real.
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The first expedition to Mars is surprised to find life on the planet. What is more surprising is that these people think they are on Earth in the 1920s. Is this place really Heaven? Or someplace else? Good science fiction from a story by Ray Bradbury.
May 08, 1955
Rating: ***
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This is a big space ship. Big. I mean so big that there a floors on which some people have never been. And they've been out in space so long that some people don't believe in who put them on the ship and why they're there. From a story by Robert Heinlein.
May 15, 1955
Rating: ***
NOTE: For some reason, this audio file is only part of the whole episode... I will try and fix that and will take this note away once it's fixed.
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Entertaining telling of the last-man-on-Earth genre. This time it's a race of beings who have eliminated all animals on the Earth, except for two of the species they felt were interesting. A knock on the door tells all of this to the last man on Earth. What's surprising to the aliens is that Earth animals aren't immortal as they are. From a story by Frederick Brown.
May 22, 1955
Rating: ***
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George Lefferts wrote this as he wrote four of the first seven X Minus One stories. In this one, John Smegley is missing, so of course this involves the Federal Bureau of Missing Persons. The bureau is having trouble because interference from, of all places, the moon is interrupting a message. Then we find out a list of missing persons is assembled before the person are missing. Good story with a few twists.
May 29, 1955
Rating: ***
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Excellent story. A doll maker in Washington makes talking dolls. They seem cute, but then the family dog is killed, the father's important government documents are stolen, and all evidence points to the little 6-inch doll. Some good twists. From a story by George Lefferts.
June 05, 1955
Rating: *** 1/2
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Well partners, this har is a story of Reisling, the old singer of the space ways. Y'all see, this old prospector Reisling would like to go home to the "the green hills of earth", but he's out thar in space. This is a true space western with guitar playing cowboys at the saloon. Sounds more like Gunsmoke than science fiction. The only difference is this is on Mars instead of the "lone prairie".
July 07, 1955
Rating: **
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A note in a fountain pen is the account of a detective telling how he came to investigate a phony burial. Good science fiction by Fletcher Pratt. This is a rebroadcast of a Dimension X episode from 9/22/50.
July 14, 1955
Rating: ***
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Computers are making mistakes and are taking over the world.
July 21, 1955
Rating: **
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Mr. Graphius requests a detective agency to find the Martian embassy in New York City in 1955. They think he's crazy, but for the $5000 finder's fee they can handle crazy. Then when mysterious events start to happen, they begin to wonder how crazy he really is.
July 25, 1955
Rating: ***
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Classic story by Ray Bradbury about a nursery where the children can change the walls in their nursery to any location or theme they want, including wild lions in Africa.
July 25, 1955
Rating: ***
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A newly-made android is capable of learning anything. He wants to learn about love but its training is taken over by a criminal who teaches him the wrong things. Very thoughtful, intelligent story by Robert Bloch.
August 11, 1955
Rating: ****
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This is the diary of the tragic seconnd expedition to Landor, a well-built, but deserted planet. Only 2 of 180 men are left. A plague will strike the men on this planet because the serum they brought is outdated. They hope the natives of the planet have a cure, but the natives stay hidden in caves in the planet. They hope that the natives will extend some courtesy. Although the story is well-told, the reason for the plague is high-handed and unscientific.
August 18, 1955
Rating: ** 1/2
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