X Minus One | Old Time Radio
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https://www.OldTimeRetroRadio.com Journey to the edge of time and imagination with X Minus One — the definitive science-fiction anthology of the atomic age. Each broadcast explores the possibilities of space, technology, and the human spirit. 🎧 Fully restored and professionally remastered with enhanced audio. Source: [OTRR.org] – Certified Public Domain Collection. Restoration and curation by Old Time Retro Radio.
Episodes
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X Minus One - "The Parade" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One, “The Parade,” originally broadcast January 25, 1956 (episode 35). This NBC science-fiction drama was written by George Lefferts and directed by Daniel Sutter. New York publicity agent Sid Ryan accepts an unusual client: Luchar, who claims to be a Martian and wants a major campaign...
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X Minus One - "The Girls from Earth" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One presents “The Girls from Earth,” episode 84, originally broadcast on January 16, 1957. This NBC science-fiction comedy was adapted by George Lefferts from Frank M. Robinson’s Galaxy Science Fiction novelette. On a Mars uranium-mining colony populated largely by lonely men, two...
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X Minus One - "Requiem" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One presents “Requiem,” episode 22, originally broadcast on NBC on October 27, 1955. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Robert A. Heinlein’s short story, this production was directed by Daniel Sutter and features John McGovern, Joe DeSantis, and Jim Boles. In a future where private travel to…
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X Minus One - "Tunnel Under the World" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Tunnel Under the World,” episode 42, originally broadcast on March 14, 1956. Adapted by George Lefferts from Frederik Pohl’s Galaxy Science Fiction story, this NBC Radio Network drama stars Les Damon as accountant Guy Burckhardt. After waking from a terrifying dream of an...
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X Minus One - "To the Future" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One, “To the Future,” originally broadcast on NBC on December 14, 1955. This is episode 29 of the classic science-fiction series, adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Ray Bradbury’s story, later known as “The Fox and the Forest.” In 1955 Mexico, tourists William and Susan Travis appear to be...
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X Minus One - "Protection" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One, “Protection,” originally broadcast March 20, 1957, is episode 93 of the NBC Radio Network science-fiction series. This surviving 22-minute production adapts Robert Sheckley’s short story, first published in Galaxy Science Fiction. Columbia student Bob comes under the protection of a...
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X Minus One - "Apail of Air" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “A Pail of Air,” episode 44, originally broadcast on NBC Radio Network on March 28, 1956. Adapted by George Lefferts from Fritz Leiber’s Galaxy Science Fiction story, the drama was directed by Daniel Sutter. On a dark, frozen, nearly airless Earth, young Bud and his family...
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X Minus One - "Hello, Tomorrow" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Hello, Tomorrow,” episode 40, originally broadcast on February 29, 1956. This NBC sustaining drama was written by George Lefferts and features John Larkin and Jan Miner. In the year 4195, humanity endures beneath Earth’s radioactive surface in a tightly controlled…
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X Minus One - "Target One" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One presents “Target One,” episode 123, originally broadcast on NBC on December 26, 1957. This Cold War-era science-fiction drama was adapted by George Lefferts from Frederik Pohl’s 1955 Galaxy Science Fiction story. In a future devastated by atomic war, a desperate time-travel mission...
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X Minus One - "At the Post" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One presents “At the Post,” episode 107, originally broadcast on NBC Radio Network on August 15, 1957. This science-fiction drama was adapted by Ernest Kinoy from H. L. Gold’s 1953 Galaxy Science Fiction novelette. New York race handicapper Clocker Locke applies his gift for spotting...
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X Minus One - "Jaywalker" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Jaywalker,” episode 47, originally broadcast on NBC on April 17, 1956. Adapted by George Lefferts from Ross Rocklynne’s 1950 Galaxy Science Fiction story, the drama features Bob Hastings, Raymond Edward Johnson, and Terri Keane. A rocket pilot and his estranged wife face the...
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X Minus One - "Skulking Permit" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One, “Skulking Permit” — episode 101, originally broadcast July 4, 1957. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from a Robert Sheckley story, this NBC science-fiction satire stars Bob Hastings, Santos Ortega, and Dean Olmquist. On the isolated colony world of New Delaware, Earth makes its first contact…
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X Minus One - "Childs Play" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One, “Childs Play,” originally broadcast October 20, 1955, is episode 21 of NBC’s classic science-fiction series. Adapted by George Lefferts from William Tenn’s 1947 short story, this sharply comic tale stars John Gibson as struggling lawyer Sam Weber, with Peggy Lubin and Bob Hastings....
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X Minus One - "Chain of Command" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One, “Chain of Command,” originally broadcast November 21, 1956, is episode 76. Adapted for radio by George Lefferts from Stephen Arr’s Galaxy Science Fiction story, this NBC Radio Network drama stars Alan Bunce as night watchman Charlie Boyle. At an atomic laboratory, Charlie is…
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X Minus One - "The Castaways" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
Old Time Retro Radio presents X Minus One, “The Castaways,” originally broadcast on NBC on September 15, 1955. This is episode 18, written by Ernest Kinoy and directed by Daniel Sutter. On the remote Tahani Atoll in the South Pacific, General Frank Gadosh’s military command prepares for an...
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X Minus One - "The Green Hills of Earth" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One presents “The Green Hills of Earth,” episode 8, originally broadcast on July 7, 1955. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Robert A. Heinlein’s 1947 short story, this NBC Radio Network drama features Ken Williams as Rhysling, with original songs written and sung by Tom Glazer. On Mars, a...
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X Minus One - "Something for Nothing" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One, “Something for Nothing,” originally broadcast April 10, 1957, is episode 96. This NBC Radio Network science-fiction drama adapts Robert Sheckley’s Galaxy Science Fiction story, with radio adaptation by Ernest Kinoy and direction by Daniel Sutter. Down-on-his-luck Joe awakens in a...
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X Minus One - "Dwellers in Silence" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One, “Dwellers in Silence,” originally broadcast on NBC on November 10, 1955, is episode 24. Adapted for radio by George Lefferts from Ray Bradbury’s story—later collected as “The Long Years” in The Martian Chronicles—the episode features Anne Seymour, Karl Weber, and Richard Hamilton....
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X Minus One - "Stars Are the Styx" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Stars Are the Styx,” episode 61, originally broadcast on NBC on July 24, 1956. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Theodore Sturgeon’s Galaxy Science Fiction novelet, the drama features Craig McDonnell, Patsy O’Shea, Richard Hamilton, Charlotte Manson, Bob Hastings, and Wendell...
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X Minus One - "The Outer Limit" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One presents “The Outer Limit,” originally broadcast on NBC on November 16, 1955. This is episode 25, adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Graham Doar’s short story, with direction by Daniel Sutter. Set in the then-near future of 1965, the drama follows an experimental high-altitude rocket plane...
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X Minus One - "Tsylana" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One presents “Tsylana,” originally broadcast on September 19, 1957. This is episode 112 of NBC Radio Network’s acclaimed science-fiction anthology series. In a future Earth ruled by statistical planning and strict conformity, a statistician is troubled by evidence of a petty theft—an…
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X Minus One - "Junkyard" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Junkyard,” episode 39, originally broadcast on NBC on February 22, 1956. Adapted by George Lefferts from a short story by Clifford D. Simak, the episode features John Larkin, Bob Hastings, Mercer McLeod, Stan Early, and Jack Orrison. A galactic survey ship makes an…
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X Minus One - "How - 2" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “How - 2,” episode 45, originally broadcast on NBC Radio Network on April 3, 1956. Adapted by William Welch from Clifford D. Simak’s Galaxy Science Fiction novelette, the production was directed by Daniel Sutter and features Alan Bunce, Anne Seymour, Les Damon, and Santos...
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X Minus One - "Star Bright" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Star Bright,” originally broadcast on NBC on April 10, 1956. This is episode 46, adapted for radio by George Lefferts from Mark Clifton’s short story “Star, Bright.” In a modest family home, Pete Holmes struggles to understand his young daughter Star, whose remarkable...
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X Minus One - "Inside Story" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One presents “Inside Story,” episode 99, originally broadcast on NBC on June 20, 1957. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Richard Wilson’s Galaxy Science Fiction novelette, this Martian mystery features Bob Hastings as reporter George Gordon. During a slow news season on Mars, Gordon pursues a...
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X Minus One - "Surface Tension" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Surface Tension,” originally broadcast on NBC on August 28, 1956. Listed as episode 65, this adaptation of James Blish’s celebrated 1952 Galaxy Science Fiction story was written for radio by George Lefferts and directed by Scott Buckley. As Earth faces an impending...
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X Minus One - "Colony" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Colony,” episode 70, originally broadcast on NBC on October 10, 1956. This science-fiction drama was adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Philip K. Dick’s 1953 novelette “Colony.” A Colonial Administration survey team reaches Planet Blue, a promising world for human settlement. Its...
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X Minus One - "The Parade" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One presents “The Parade,” episode 2, originally broadcast on NBC on May 1, 1955. This satirical science-fiction drama was written by George Lefferts and adapted from his earlier Dimension X production of the same name. Publicity agent Sid Ryan is offered an unusual new account by the...
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X Minus One - "Universe" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One presents “Universe,” episode 4, originally broadcast on May 15, 1955. This NBC Radio Network drama adapts Robert A. Heinlein’s celebrated short story, with radio adaptation by George Lefferts and direction by Fred Weihe. Cadet Hugh Hoyland lives aboard the vast, multilevel Ship, where...
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X Minus One - "Man's Best Friend" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One presents “Man’s Best Friend,” originally broadcast on April 24, 1957. Episode 98 adapts a story by Evelyn E. Smith, with radio adaptation by Ernest Kinoy and direction by Daniel Sutter for NBC Radio Network. Eight hundred years in the future, reclusive skeptic Gervase Schnee receives…
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X Minus One - "The Haunted Corpse" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One presents “The Haunted Corpse,” episode 121, originally broadcast on NBC Radio Network on December 12, 1957. Adapted by William Welch from Frederik Pohl’s Galaxy Science Fiction story, this production was directed by George Voutsas. Dr. Horn has devised a startling process capable of...
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X Minus One - "Protective Mimicry" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Protective Mimicry,” originally broadcast on NBC Radio Network on October 3, 1956. This is episode 69, adapted for radio by Ernest Kinoy from Algis Budrys’ Galaxy Science Fiction story. When apparently uncounterfeitable Galactic Federation credit notes begin appearing as…
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X Minus One - "Dr Grimshaw's Sanitarium" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One, “Dr. Grimshaw’s Sanitarium,” originally broadcast on NBC on July 14, 1955, is episode 9 of the series. Adapted from Fletcher Pratt’s short story, this early installment was directed by Fred Weihe. Private detective John Dougherty investigates a baffling cemetery accident involving a...
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X Minus One - "Double Dare" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One presents “Double Dare,” originally broadcast December 19, 1957, as episode 122. This NBC science-fiction drama adapts Robert Silverberg’s Galaxy Science Fiction story of the same name. After an alien visitor belittles Earth’s technology, engineers Kemridge and Marner accept a...
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X Minus One - "Perigi's Wonderful Dolls" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One presents “Perigi’s Wonderful Dolls,” episode 7, originally broadcast on NBC on June 5, 1955. Written by George Lefferts and directed by Daniel Sutter, this story revisits Lefferts’s earlier Dimension X radio play. Joe De Santis appears as the enigmatic dollmaker, Santor Perigi. In...
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X Minus One - "Open Warfare" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One, “Open Warfare,” originally broadcast January 23, 1957, is episode 85. This NBC Radio Network science-fiction drama was adapted by Ernest Kinoy from James E. Gunn’s Galaxy Science Fiction novelette. Set during the 1965 U.S. Open, the story follows golf professional Jim Pearson as he...
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X Minus One - "Time and Time Again" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Time and Time Again,” originally broadcast on January 11, 1956, as episode 33. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from H. Beam Piper’s short story, this NBC Radio Network science-fiction drama features Jack Grimes, Peter Fernandez, and Joe De Santis. In a war-ravaged 1975, a badly...
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X Minus One - "The Scapegoat" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One presents “The Scapegoat,” episode 106, originally broadcast on August 8, 1957. In this tense NBC science-fiction drama, Ed steps in to help a frail old man attacked on a city street—only to find that offering shelter raises troubling questions about identity, responsibility, and a...
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X Minus One - "Marionettes, Inc" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One presents “Marionettes, Inc.,” originally broadcast on December 21, 1955, as episode 30. This NBC science-fiction drama adapts Ray Bradbury’s unsettling short story, with radio adaptation by George Lefferts. Set in the imagined year 1990, the story follows Henry Smith after he…
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X Minus One - "A Logic Named Joe" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One presents “A Logic Named Joe,” episode 31, originally broadcast on NBC on December 28, 1955. The drama adapts Murray Leinster’s influential short story, with a radio adaptation by Claris A. Ross and direction by Daniel Sutter. In the imagined year of 1974, household “Logic” machines...
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X Minus One - "The Defenders" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “The Defenders,” episode 52, originally broadcast on May 22, 1956. Adapted by George Lefferts from Philip K. Dick’s Galaxy Science Fiction story, this NBC Radio Network drama was directed by Daniel Sutter. After a long war drives Western society underground, college student...
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X Minus One - "Real Gone" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One, “Real Gone,” originally broadcast on February 27, 1957. Episode 90 of NBC Radio’s science-fiction anthology features real-life New York disc jockey Al “Jazzbo” Collins as himself. Collins introduces the story of his friend Ralph Therian, a struggling sculptor whose extraordinarily...
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X Minus One - "Pictures Don't Lie" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Pictures Don’t Lie,” episode 72, originally broadcast on NBC on October 24, 1956. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Katherine MacLean’s 1951 Galaxy Science Fiction story, the drama features Joe DeSantis, John Gibson, Sam Grey, and Dick Hamilton. A newspaper journalist follows the...
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X Minus One - "Skulking Permit" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One, “Skulking Permit,” originally broadcast February 15, 1956, is episode 38. This NBC Radio Network science-fiction drama was adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Robert Sheckley’s Galaxy Science Fiction story. On the long-isolated Earth colony of New Delaware, an official inspection from Earth...
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X Minus One - "Soldier Boy" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Soldier Boy,” originally broadcast on October 17, 1956. Episode 71, this NBC science-fiction drama adapts a story by Michael Shaara, with radio adaptation by Ernest Kinoy. After centuries of peace have left humanity unprepared for conflict, Captain Dylan is sent to a remote,...
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X Minus One - "Sea Legs" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Sea Legs,” episode 49, originally broadcast on NBC on May 1, 1956. Adapted for radio by George Lefferts from Frank Quattrocchi’s 1951 Galaxy Science Fiction novelet, the drama features William Redfield, Ralph Bell, and Charles Penman. Flight Officer Robert Craig returns to...
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X Minus One - "Courtesy" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One presents “Courtesy,” episode 14, originally broadcast on NBC on August 18, 1955. Adapted by George Lefferts from Clifford D. Simak’s 1951 Astounding Science Fiction story, this drama was also a remake of a script previously heard on Dimension X. On the distant planet Landro, a second...
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X Minus One - "There Will Come Soft Rains - Zero Hour" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One, “There Will Come Soft Rains - Zero Hour,” originally broadcast on NBC on December 5, 1956. Episode 78 adapts two Ray Bradbury stories for radio, with George Lefferts handling the adaptation; William Welch produced and Edward King directed. In “There Will Come Soft Rains,” an…
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X Minus One - "Bad Medicine" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
Old Time Retro Radio presents X Minus One, “Bad Medicine,” originally broadcast on July 10, 1956. Episode 59 takes listeners to New York City in 2103 for a darkly comic vision of automated therapy. Troubled jetbus operator Elwood Caswell turns to a home mechanical therapist for help, only to find...
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X Minus One - "Hello, Tomorrow" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One, “Hello, Tomorrow” — episode 23, originally broadcast November 3, 1955. In this NBC science-fiction drama, set in A.D. 4195, humanity lives beneath Earth’s radioactive surface in a strictly controlled underground civilization. Geneticist Professor Lois Burton is assigned to examine...
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https://www.OldTimeRetroRadio.com Journey to the edge of time and imagination with X Minus One — the definitive science-fiction anthology of the atomic age. Each broadcast explores the possibilities of space, technology, and the human spirit.
🎧 Fully restored and professionally remastered with enhanced audio. Source: [OTRR.org] – Certified Public Domain Collection. Restoration and curation by Old Time Retro Radio.
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