3/6/57 ***1/2
War is now illegal (like it ever take lawyers to say it's okay to shoot someone). Instead there is organized murder where people register to hunt and kill other people -- and to be hunted themselves. Another clever story by Robert Sheckley.
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3/13/57 ***
Sitting around the ol' laboratory, scientists see strange lights appearing over Precipike Peak. When they get there, they find that the lights aren't caused by any geographical anomaly or a construction by some being. No, it's laid back aliens checking out Earth. There are a few other surprises along the way, too. Good acting and a good story by Stephen Tall.
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3/20/57 ***
A Dirg, a disembodied voice from another planet, can predict the future and protects a student named Bob from danger. Bob never knew, or cared, that such dangers existed at every turn. Imagine your mom telling you to sure to button your jacket. Only it's much, much worse. A good story by Robert Sheckley.
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3/27/57 **
Parker Locke (Frank Maxwell) is one of the best horse handicappers in the world. When aliens come down to document the Earth before it becomes extinct, they have Parker document horse racing. They hold his wife hostage until he can write his report.
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4/3/57 ***
Sam is a Martian who is signed as a pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He's unbeatable and he raises the Dodgers from a last place team to the World Series. Of course now he'd have a Nike contract and be making enough money to fly a space ship back to Mars. Another good story by X Minus One transcriber Ernest Kinoy.
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4/10/57 ****
This is a unique twist on the "genie in a bottle" story. A machine, called a utilizer, has one red button. When the button is pressed, it will provide anything the user wishes. But of course there's a twist at the end, but it was a total surprise to me. Yet another good story by Robert Sheckley (as are they all).
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4/17/57 ****
This is one of my favorite X Minus One stories. Morniel Mathaway is a conceited no-talent painter. But a time traveler has come back in time to meet who he considers to be the greatest artist of all time -- an undiscovered Morniel Mathaway. But the time traveler does not see any of the talent that he reveres a few centuries in the future. We find out why in the end.
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4/24/57 ***1/2
Wouldn't you know that a story with "man" in the title was written by one of only two woman who wrote an X Minus One story, Evelyn Smith (Katherine MacLean is the other). Mr. Sergei Schnay (my guess at the spelling) is told that he will be the new ruler, but first has to kill the old ruler, Lord Kip. Sounds like a reasonable request. He was told this by a man with a "prognosticator". All people know the prognosticator is not wrong, so hail their new leader. Leadership is best determined by not qualifications, but by destiny. Destiny must run its course. But of course, to be a good story, there has to be a surprise ending.
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6/20/57 ***1/2
Science fiction is good when it takes existing scenarios and puts them in an unreal setting. At the galactic news service on Mars, George Gordon will do anything for an inside story. A disease called Nully Fever is contagious and incureable. It makes people's bodies deteriorate and have the mental states of animals. so everyone with it is put on the planet Druro. What's it like on the planet of Druro? Strong live off the weak, in a methaphor of concentrated forced living. This is good radio because you feel the frightening description of this planet. Richard Wilson's only X Minus One story.
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6/27/57 **1/2
Robots have taken over the world (again). All jobs have been replaced by computers and the only way that you can get a job is to fit in a category. A bassoon player is replaced by a robot, so takes the ultimate job, a category inventor.
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7/4/57
Repeat of the episode from Feb. 15 the previous season.
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7/11/57 ***
Robert Sheckley produces another amusing story of an explorer on an alien planet wearing a new protective force field. But like any new item, there are a few problems with it.
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7/18/57 **1/2
Kind of a Catch-22 in space. A marketing team is having a difficult time employing personnel to join the Venus Project and leave the overcrowding of Earth to live on Venus. You need to be creative and resourceful to adapt to life on Venus. But no one creative or resourceful would want to leave the Earth.
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7/25/57 ***
An old scientist invents a machine to transfer his life force to a newer younger body. Guess what? Things don't work the way he expects. But that would be giving away a plot that you've seen happen a million times. That doesn't mean you can't enjoy a good story by Frederic Pohl.
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8/1/57 ***
The H-bomb is going to land and the world will soon be over. Some people panic, some pray, some chase girls, some ignore it, and some go about their every day lives. The story revolves around two 15-year-olds who count the minutes until the estimated time when the bomb will land. But there's a tone that leads you to believe there will be a happy ending.
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