I2R: Your diligent efforts to archive & disseminate this fine CBSRMT material represent a significant public service & are much-appreciated. Fans have access to several great channels featuring OTR, audiobooks, short fiction and related material but none do it w/the expert enthusiasm & bonus info I2R be droppin' like science.
OMG - Fred Weigh - my parents knew him. (there was a very well to do area near Shenorock, NY, northern Westchester County) we went to his house. i remember that visit very well. i don’t know in particular why. he had one of the very first stereo record players. he played a record of a steam engine traveling from the right speaker across the room to the left speaker. and, for PETE’S sake, i just found who he was. he directed this radio show, which was very popular, so he must have been quite big in the business. my dad was a Broadway actor, so we knew a lot of people. (not that anyone knows who i’m talking about, but as little girl i had a big crush on Bud Whitney and later found out, he was a big deal person, too. i also liked Rufus Smith a lot and he did have red hair. He sang They Call the Wind Mariah in Paint Your Wagon. i loved that show. (Do Not think it was Anything like the movie!! They couldn’t have ruined more than if baboon had produced it !!! 😡 and a baboon would have cared more!!)
I had known about this story for years, but it was only recently I read it for the first time. It was amazing - if you substituted laptops and servers for logics and tanks, you'd think it had been written in the early days of home computers !
Fun ! (& the 1950s were an odd era of many wives even w/0 children sitting home all day while Mod(ern) Con(venience)s of home appliances + canned food (!!) had reduced the housekeeping workload... )
videojeff! I've had the privilege of assisting (where I can) when the available scripts are - well - suspect at best. I look forward to exploring more of these scripts and radio shows.
Excellent again, I2R. This was one of the 1st Dimension X rebroadcasts I listened to, in spellbound awe, on late-night AM radio as a child in the 70's. As always, the description, historical glossary & preamble elevate your channel to apex-level OTR. Thanks.
just now seeing this. I, likewise, recall radio rebroadcasts of many shows in the 70s. In the Los Angeles area, 93 KHJ - and yes - after midnight. Dimension X - x - x - x rings a bell, but not until I reheard these, would I have remembered. My siblings and I would borrow records from the library of old radio programs, but most of those were comedies, as I recall.
Epic Heinlein Dimension X epi w/an edifying preamble. Excellent again, I2R & much-appreciated. It is this listener's hope that you'll add additional episodes of DX, X-1, CBSRMT etc at your leisure (& by "at your leisure" I mean make that sh-t for now lol). Also: The inclusion of scripts is a nice touch, especially useful for total DX geeks and those who prefer to read along including the hearing-impaired.
I don't listen to Dimension X often, but when I do I tune in to Insights 2 Reality's YT channel, the discriminating radio-play enthusiast's choice for thoughtfully-selected episodes and edifying, in-depth monographs overflowing with salient information. Thanks, I2R! In the interest of full-disclosure: I do listen to radio-plays frequently including Dimension-X, the follow-up to NBC's epoch-making X-1 (and a plethora of other shows like CBS Radio MT, Quiet, Please and so on), and while there are several extremely good YT resources for OTR, contemporary radio-plays and audiobooks, I2R's addition of interesting background material on each epi and the friendly, relaxed, inviting and natural flow of the preamble to each episode places it in a category all its own. In short, insights 2 Reality is 100% dope so if you're on the fence about subscribing to yet another radio-play channel: this is the droid you're looking for.
Hilarious - these old futuristic space exploration stories all relied on the Space Program having recruited a bunch of unstable personalities who were pursuing their own personal agendas 😅
Brilliant. I was introduced to Heinlein during a Greyhound Bus trip across the U.S. Methuselahs Children (If I got the title right). Also brilliant is the advance warning about the 'noise' from the recordings. Simple truth: I was able to follow along to the end and am glad for it. Great job and thanks for being brave to submit this!
Cool. I was introduced to Heinlein at an early age via my father's extensive library which included a myriad sci-fi authors' material including PK Dick, Bradbury, Heinlein, Asimov , Sturgeon et al and while at age seven I didn't fully "grok" every nuance and salient plot point, each story and novel made an impression on me including Stranger in a Strange Land, Venus on the Half Shell (which made me wish I was the protagonist!), "The Veldt" (and other stuff from The Illustrated Man), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, A Scanner Darkly, and so on. As I matured, I revisited every one of these authors' works and realized through the lens of age, education and experience just how prescient, relevant, often amusing and amazing in general these works are. So yeah, what you said: Brilliant!
@@michaelkottler Friday got me! It was then I recognized those writers were holding back. I've been to Comic-Cons since the late 70s - and the last 20 years solid (for various reasons). My point (boast) is that I was able to meet with Bradbury during an LA Museum "lecture" he gave in the early 90s. Give or take. What charmed me about him was that he was charmed by me. Oh. My. My ultimate take away was him saying to me - "Please, my friend, please just don't stop writing - you'll figure it out." Me: Yessir! :0) Thanks for the thoughts.
Some fun stuff! Bill Conrad aka William Conrad was the main actor for the television show Cannon when I grew up. It's terrific to see these name appear in these radio shows year earlier! In the 21st century, we've been currently inundated with court dramas. Think Depp & Herd; Trump & et.al.; and of course Simpson, if you go that far back! My point being: It was easy for me to follow this drama as a result of our current (over 70 years later) social attention on the court system. Prosecutors and Defendants, and so forth. Another social echo is to what lengths a public servant will/would go to, to retain their place of power.
Wow Ray is such a talent writer, I enjoy all of his stories. I really love how he predicted the smart house, roomba, and possible nuclear or climate change apocalypse 70 years ago. Incredible. Neither of the stories wanted me to turn them off - they were very engaging. Loved them. Especially the poem. Thanks for sharing
Nice ending surprise! I didn't expect that, but it makes sense no one could "find" the treasure since no matter what the papers inside the envelope say, the real treasure was not where anyone would even look. Very cool. Thanks for sharing the story and the historical idioms. ❤
When Paul said Ann was "in no condition to see anyone" and near "breakdown" I thought he had her committed and heavily sedated brcause she knew the truth and he will not let anything stand in his way of his "senate seat". Not an unheard of thing to do with a family member who could ruin a reputation. Look at JFK's sister. I suspected from this conversation, Paul was responsible. ⚖️ Nice story. Thanks for sharing.
It sounds like Sheldon Leonard is playing Frank. I loved him in "It's A Wonderful Life". I added the comment before Vincent gave the cast. It's fun hearing voices you know on these shows. I looked up "newspaper morgue", I guess we call that archives now. This was a lot of fun to listen to. Thanks for putting this together. Nicely done. ❤
I thought the same thing about Frank and I looked it up - yes, it is Sheldon Leonard! (he was also mentioned by Vincent Price at the end) what a sonic pleasure this piece is.
Oh, my! I know the trope, of course, but for some reason not this particular story. A couple of thrills: I caught the Nettie connection pretty early - woo hoo!; I'm fond of the fantasy moment that $10,000 was taken out of the bank for a $9,000 product . . . what would you do with $1,000 in 1951?: and I had wondered at B-2 . . . was the Braeling actor good enough to voice both roles? I was shocked/pleasantly surprised/enamoured when I saw that Ross Martin played the voice of B-2. I've always enjoyed Martin's acting, introduced to me as the side kick (can't remember the name) to James West in The Wild Wild West. I know next to nothing of Martin's history of acting, but in the Wild West shows, he was always mimicking character roles in the series: sea-salt captains, drunkin' fools, old ladies and such. So the light went on for me - here he is mimicking the voice and style of the hen-pecked Braeling. Brilliant.
These stories are great. (and I'ma Bradbury fan, too) One thing I love is that these 'future' Dimension X stories published in 1950-51, so far, often reference the far-far future in 1974 or 1984 or *gasp* later! (but never by much). Love it. Thanks for offering these up.
Very interesting. It shows how far we've come; from a good imagination about space to real satellite pictures. It makes me wonder what it will be like 70 years from now.
