Vol. 2.2 | 2 Hrs - X MINUS ONE - Old Time Radio Dramas - Volume 2: Part 2 of 2

X Minus One - Old Time Radio Dramas - Volume 2: Part 2 of 2
16. (0:00:14) “Cold Equations” - Tom Godwin (author), George Lefferts (writer) - Starring: Mason Adams, Jack Arthur, Court Benson, Milo Boulton, Bob Hastings, Walter Kinsella, Kenneth MacGregor (director), Jay Meredith, Bill Rippe (announcer) - August 25, 1955.
In this episode, a young girl is a stowaway on a space ship and her extra weight necessitates that the pilot must make a life or death decision.
17. (0:24:20) “Shanghaied” - Written by Ernest Kinoy - Starring: James Dukas, Ivor Francis, Jack Hartley, Ross Martin, Sid Raymond, Luis Van Rooten, Lyle Sudrow, Daniel Sutter (director) - September 1, 1955.
In this episode, a man is drugged by someone at bar on the eve of his wedding. He wakes up to find out that he has been kidnapped and is now forced to be a crew member aboard a space vessel that is about to embark on a 15-year mission.
18. (0:47:21) “The Martian Death March” - Written by Ernest Kinoy - Starring: Matt Crowley, Stan Early, Edwin Jerome, Bill Rippe (announcer), Norman Rose, Daniel Sutter (director), John Thomas - September 8, 1955.
In this episode, a story about mankind’s inhumanity to Martians during the “Death March of 1997” serves as an allegory to “The Trail of Tears” and the displacement and sufferings of native Americans.
19. (1:10:51) “The Castaways” - Written by Ernest Kinoy - Starring: Staats Cotsworth, Stan Early, Bob Hastings, Joseph Julian, Luis Van Rooten, Daniel Sutter (director), Reese Taylor, Karl Weber - September 15, 1955.
In this episode, native inhabitants of a Pacific atoll cast a mysterious curse on the soldiers who are about to destroy their island home with a nuclear weapon.
20. (1:33:01) “First Contact” - Written by Murray Leinster (adapted by Howard Rodman) - Starring: Wendell Holmes, Bob Hastings, Clarke Gordon - October 6, 1955.
In this episode, humans on a deep space mission make first contact with an alien species. An impasse quickly develops due to mutual distrust as both captains fear for the safety of their home world.
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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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