7/17/56 ****Very good mystery by H.L. Gold.
A series of old people that are very rich are found starved to death.
It also involves a hamburger as the turning point...
(I just had to mention that.)
7/17/56 ****Very good mystery by H.L. Gold.
A series of old people that are very rich are found starved to death.
It also involves a hamburger as the turning point...
(I just had to mention that.)
7/24/56 **1/2Story by sci-fi master Theodore Sturgeon, who takes his spin here at a space soap opera. People want to be certified for space, so they come to Curbstone. Misfits are sent to outside planets, but they must have a partner of the opposite sex. It's a way of colonizing other planets.
These ships only fit 2 people. 46% never make it.
Add a love triangle and there you have it.
8/7/56 ***1/2A man tells a newspaper reporter that he's the last living Martian, Yang-An-Dow. So the two sit down, have a beer, and the Martian tells how he saw everyone on his planet die, including everyone in the planet's largest city of Xandar. He has taken over the human form Howard Wilcox to disguise his 3-feet high, tentacled Martian form. How he got the form and how he got to Earth from Mars and are there any other Martians in New York City...
well... you just have to listen to believe.
7/31/56 ***Good visual descriptions and good sound effects in this story about a life form discovered on a another planet.
8/14/56 **As a snowball rolls, it grows and grows but eventually it becomes so large it starts to fall apart. A mathematician shows a formula that can stop a group of women from bothering men with all of their little social groups, like sewing clubs, that get in the way of watching football games. Kind of humorous but with no real plot. It gets some minor points for being the first of its kind...a mathematics story.
8/28/56 ****Excellent philosophic story by James Blish about scientists developing a microscopic race of humans as the Earth prepares to be destroyed by an expanding star.
3/14/56I may have had bad mornings, but not like this.
Guy Berkhart wakes up screaming on June 15. He dreams of an explosion and something hitting his head. The same thing happens again the next day, and the next day, and the next. IEEEEEE. Only two people aren't affected by this "deja vu all over again." (Quoting Yogi Berra, not the writer of this story, Frederik Pohl.) A combination of Halloween III, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, and Groundhog Day. You're led to think one thing, then another, then, finally, another twist.
9/11/56 ****Thought this would be about one thing... turned out to be about something else.
Quite fun.
Two geologists buy a used lifeboat spaceship and travel to Trident to do some research for a developer. The lifeboat spaceship has a computer that is still programmed for its previous owners, "slow-minded" lizard-like drones that live at -20 degrees, water is poisonous, and are at war against inhabitants of another planet. The computer, like HAL in 2001, tries to protect its passengers to their dismay.
Aan excellent, funny story by Robert Sheckley.
9/26/56 **1/2A meteor has hit a spaceship and has knocked a space ship out of hyperspace. Their computer has been destroeyd and their map expert died in the collision. All in all, things ain't lookin' too good. Because of that, they can't do another space jump.
Sound effects make it seem like they're in a submarine.
An okay space/war story by Fredrick Pohl.
10/3/56 ***Algys Budrys was a successful sci-fi writer but this was his only X Minus One story. Balmholtzer is an investigator for the galaxy. (A fairly big territory if I say so myself...) A cute brunette describes a machine that makes uncounterfeitable, indestructable currency. But they find some counterfeits and he is investigating.
Balmholtzer is lead to a jungle-like planet with 7-foot natives and an interesting item that can reproduce anything.
This is what science fiction radio can do - tell a good imaginative story that keeps you interested.
10/10/56 ***1/2Here's a story that is a cross between "Terminator II" and John Carpenter's version of "The Thing". A planet is found to be habitable, but this proves to be too good to be true. Inanimate objects on the space ship begin to come to life. Like the movies I just mentioned, this would be interesting on the big screen (especially the scene where everyone takes off their clothes to be sure what they're wearing isn't an alien).
10/17/56 **Capt. Dylan and Lt. Bosio are typical soldiers in the far future, and I think they're supposed to represent the soliders of past, present & future. They get a message in a bar, which is where they spend a lot of time, to report to mission headquarters. They are to go to Loopus 5. a colony where everyone was killed. They are sent to investiage because they are "soldier boys". In the century of this story, soldiers drink a lot and aren't very interesting.
10/24/56 **A newspaperman follows the story of scientists deciphering radio signals from outer space....
10/31/56 ***Telephone repairman Sam finds himself talking to his own voice ten days into the future. I wish I could do that. I would have bought those stocks...
11/7/56 **1/2Setting: after WW III and the endless war at the end of the 20th Century. (I guess we made it...but remember, this story was written some 60 years ago.)
This is your basic futuristic doo-dads with robo-showers and somnu-sleep. The Thinkers Institute had created a computer that could answer all questions, Everyone trusts the computer, but wait until you find out where the computer gets its answers. Seems a bit dated now but we can still have fun can't we?
X minus One
NOTE: All the episodes are now here... enjoy!
X Minus One was a science fiction radio series on NBC from April 1955 through January 1958. The show feature stories written by some of the big names in 1950s science fiction, like Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, and Issac Asimov.
The X Minus One series followed in the footsteps of another great sci-fi series called Dimension X which appeared on the airwaves in 1950-51. Some of the X-1 shows were later rebroadcast on X Minus One. X Minus One truly was one of the forefathers of the science fiction television/radio age.
Each X Minus One starts with this intro, to the sound effects of a rocket lifting off:
Countdown for blast-off. X Minus 5, 4, 3, 2, X Minus 1, Fire. From the far horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories of the future. Adventures in which you will live in a million could-be years on a thousand maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Corporation in cooperation with (Galaxy Magazine, then Astounding Science Fiction) presents . . . . X Minus One
Comment:
It's amazing how relevant many of the 1950s science fiction stories still are... take away the chrome rocket fins and aliens, and suddenly you've got the evening news.
Pete Comely
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Episodes
- 000 And The Moon Be Still As Bright
- 001 No Contact
- 002 The Parade
- 003 Mars is Heaven
- 004 Universe
- 005 Knock
- 006 The Man in The Moon
- 007 Perigi’s Wonderful Dolls
- 008 The Green Hills Of Earth
- 009 Dr. Grimshaw’s Sanitorium
- 010 Nightmare
- 011 The Embassy
- 012 The Veldt
- 013 Almost Human
- 014 Courtesy
- 015 The Cold Equation
- 016 Shanghaied
- 017 The Martian Death March
- 018 The Castaways
- 019 And the Moon be still as bright
- 020 First Contact
- 021 Child’s play
- 022 Requiem
- 023 Hello Tomorrow
- 024 Dwellers in silence
- 025 The Outer Limit
- 026 Zero Hour
- 027 Vital Factor
- 028 Nightfall
- 029 To the Future
- 030 Marionettes, Inc.
- 031 A Logic Named Joe
- 032 The Roads Must Roll
- 033 Time And Time Again
- 034 Perigi’s Wonderful Dolls (Rebroadcast)
- 035 The Parade (Rebroadcast)
- 036 Cave Of Night
- 037 C-Chute
- 038 Skulking Permit
- 039 Junkyard
- 040 Hello, Tomorrow
- 041 A Gun For Dinosaur
- 042 Tunnel Under The World
- 043 $1000 A Plate
- 044 A Pail Of Air
- 045 How-To
- 046 Star Bright
- 047 Jaywalker
- 048 The Sense Of Wonder
- 049 Sea Legs
- 051 Hallucination Orbit
- 050 The Seventh Order
- 052 The Defenders
- 053 Lulunganeena
- 054 Project Mastadon
- 055 If You Was A Mocklin
- 056 Project Trojan
- 057 Wherever You May Be
- 058 Mr. Costello, Hero
- 059 Bad Medicine
- 060 The Old Die Rich
- 061 Stars Are The Styx
- 063 The Last Martian
- 062 Student Body
- 064 The Snowball Effect
- 065 Surface Tension
- 066 Tunnel Under The World
- 067 The Lifeboat Mutiny
- 067 The Map Makers
- 069 Protective Mimicry
- 070 Colony
- 071 Soldier Boy
- 072 Pictures Don’t Lie
- 073 Sam, This Is You
- 074 Appointment In Tomorrow
- 075 (Repeat of episode 17)
- 076 Chain Of Command
- 078 There Will Come Soft Rains
- 079 Hostess
- 080 The Reluctant Heroes
- 081 Honeymoon In Hell
- 082 The Moon Is Green
- 083 Saucer Of Loneliness
- 084 The Girls From Earth
- 085 Open Warfare
- 086 Caretaker
- 087 Venus Is A Man’s World
- 088 The Trap
- 089 Field Study
- 090 Real Gone
- 091 The Seventh Victim
- 092 The Lights On Precipice Peak
- 093 Protection
- 094 At The Post
- 095 Martian Sam
- 096 Something For Nothing
- 097 Discovery Of Morniel Mathaway
- 098 Man’s Best Friend
- 099 Inside Story
- 100 The Category Inventor
- 101 Skulking Permit
- 102 Early Model
- 103 The Merchants Of Venus
- 104 The Haunted Corpse
- 105 End As A World
- 106 The Scapegoat
- 107 At The Post
- 108_Drop Dead
- 109 Volpla
- 110 Saucer Of Loneliness
- 111 The Old Die Rich
- 112 Tsylana
- 113 The Native Problem
- 114 The Wind Is Rising
- 115 Death Wish
- 116 Point Of Departure
- 117 The Light
- 118 Lulu
- 119 The Coffin Cure
- 120 Shocktroop
- 121 The Haunted Corpse
- 122 Double Dare
- 123 Target One
- 124 Prime Difference
- 125 Gray Flannel Armor
- 126 The Iron Chancellor
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