X Minus One - Old Time Radio Dramas - Volume 2: Part 1 of 2
11. (0:00:14) “Nightmare” - Based on the poem "Revolt of the Machines" by Stephen Vincent Benet - Starring: Erik Bauersfeld (adaptor, producer, performer), Joyce Gordon, Owen Jordan, Joseph Julian, Santos Ortega, Luis Van Rooten, John Seymore - July 21, 1955.
In this episode, men start walking off a work site because a turbine starts up of its' own accord...and swallows a man.
12. (0:24:50) “The Embassy” - Donald A Wollheim (author), George Lefferts (writer) - Starring: Audrey Blum, Theo Goetz, Clarke Gordon, John Larkin, Jack Orrison, Virginia Payne, Reese Taylor, William Zuckert - July 28, 1955.
In this episode, a tale about the search for the Martian embassy in downtown New York City.
13. (0:49:04) “The Veldt” - Based on a story by Ray Bradbury (adapted by Ernest Kinoy) - Starring: John Larkin, Beverly Lunsford, Mary Patton, Charles Penman, William Quinn, Bill Quinn, Charles Russell, David Seffer - August 4, 1955.
In this episode, a story about an totally automatic house, with a totally automatic nursery…which includes a pack of real lions!
14. (1:13:35) “Almost Human” - Written by Robert Block - Starring: Jone Allison, Lynn Cook, Merrill E Joels, Joseph Julian, Santos Ortega - August 11, 1955.
In this episode, a story about the new science called cybernetics concerning mans efforts to develop a perfect thinking machine a robot electronic brain that will not only do mans work…but will even think for him. A robot that is almost human…
15. (1:38:19) “Courtesy” - Written by Clifford Simak - Starring: Edwin Jerome, Bret Morrison, Arnold Robertson - August 18, 1955.
In this episode, the Earth colony on another planet is being wiped out by a mysterious plague. The natives of the planet know the cure, but will the Earth colony take it?
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X Minus One is an American half-hour science fiction radio drama series that was broadcast from April 24, 1955 to January 9, 1958 on NBC. 126 episodes were broadcast. Known for high production values in adapting stories from the leading American authors of the era, X Minus One has been described as one of the finest offerings of American radio drama and one of the best science fiction series in any medium.
Initially a revival of NBC's Dimension X (1950-51), the first 15 episodes of X Minus One were new versions of Dimension X episodes, but the remainder were adaptations by NBC staff writers, including Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts, of newly published science fiction stories by leading writers in the field, including: Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl and Theodore Sturgeon, along with some original scripts by Kinoy and Lefferts. The series ended on January 9, 1958 after 126 broadcasts.
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