X Minus One – Retro Radio Podcast

A bunch of the guys are enjoying a night out. As the party breaks up, Charlie is left to pay the bill, but when he has just one last drink…

The story of the second expedition to a faraway planet. Only 2 are left of the original 180 men, and only minutes are left to live. In flashback, the story…

Cybernetics, the study of robots and artificial intelligence, someday something like this may happen. A professor and his female assistant are visited by a rude man from her past. He…

The planet seemed to be an underdeveloped backwater with no life on it. Then a junkyard was spotted. The exploratory spaceship took a chance, landed, but now is plagued with…

Recounts a fictitious telling of the beginnings of Mars exploration. An astronaut is stranded in space. The nation gets behind the rescue project and contributes mass amounts of cash to…

In the future, traffic has become so bogged down that engineers develop a rolling road. A cross-country conveyor belt that efficiently transports cargo without the trouble of collisions. The engineers…

Joe is a 1974 model logic, and this is the story of how Frank Caldwell saved civilization as we know it. Frank is a salesman who deals in logics. It’s…

In that far flung, futuristic year of 1990, a couple of businessmen meet in a bar after work to discuss their married life. How does Walter manage to maintain his…

By Isaac Asimov. A planet on the far reaches of the universe has six suns, with At least two shining at any given time over the entire globe. A reporter…

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A Ray Bradbury story. A few friends talk about the new concept of taking a vacation by travelling to a different time. When one of them does go back in…

A high powered business executive, Mr Crowder, wants to build a spaceship. He is determined to be the first man to build one. Money is no object, and he fires…

Episode 018. Nuclear testing on a remote Pacific island goes awry when the natives, rather than be relocated, threaten to commit mass suicide to put a curse on the project.

A Classic story from Ray Bradbury. In the far flung futuristic year of 1985, kids play outdoors, just as on any typical day. Mom gets dinner ready and dad is…

A pilot of an experimental rocket is shot into space. All goes well, until communication is lost. Hours go past with no word from the missing pilot. If he is…

Episode 023. To escape a world devastated by nuclear radiation, Mankind has retreated underground, but the Final War still rages on. A woman betrays her country by falling in love with an Asiatic POW from the other side, a capital crime punishable by exile to the ruined surface.

A Ray Bradbury story brought to life. After three failed missions to Mars that have vanished from existence, a fourth one sets out. Finding a glaringly vacant city, and Martian…

Transcribed tales of time and space, the story for today is either a magnificent hoax, or the true account of what happened at Grimshaw’s sanitarium back in 1947. A manuscript…

The story of a blind singer of the spaceways. The flippant singer has gotten on the captain’s bad side, but today he has been offered the chance to redeem himself.…

In the radio broadcast service for the Missing Persons Bureau, a strange radio signal cuts in over the normally secure channel. Who could be doing such a thing? Where is…

After an announcement of a radio tribute to the recently fallen acting great, Lionel Barrymore, the premiere episode of this popular Science Fiction show kicks off. In the far flung…

Episode 095. The story of the Dodgers baseball team and their Martian player hired by the new owner.

A classic story by Ray Bradbury. Travelling astronauts find a well known doctor, and are welcomed to the feast the old gent has prepared for them. Doc Hathaway, and his…

Episode 071. A close encounter of the third kind being told by a newspaperman who follows the story by deciphering radio siginals.

Episode 118. 3 spacers are saddled with a lovesick ship's computer who is unwilling to return home unless they indulge her romantic inclinations.

In this futuristic story by Ray Bradbury, we find a young family who moves into their dream home. The house is full of the latest in high tech appliances, conveniences,…

After a fatal wound in a battle in the year 1975, a soldier goes back in time to 1945, on his 13th birthday. He discovers he can change the future…

Stories of the future where you’ll live in a thousand maybe worlds. At a doll shop near the Pentagon, a little girl and her mom do some window shopping. When…

Episode 097. A worthless artist receives a visitor from the future who tells him his art will come to be known as the work of a genius.

Thousands of years in the future, the earth has been demolished by atomic war. People have survived by living underground. Genetic breeding only allow the perfect ones to marry. The…

Nobody knows exactly when the nightmare began, or how the series of accidents have fit together, until in a computing room, a mousey clerk handles the data crunching for a…

With technology advances in space exploration, we are just beginning to realize the vastness of what’s out there. Imagine distances too far to travel within the lifetime of a human…

From the far horizons of the unknown come thrilling tales of science fiction. The last man on earth sat alone in a room, when there was a knock at the…

A strange and thrilling story by James Lepperts. A man claiming to be a Martian comes into an advertising agency. The agent thinks its a gimmick, he thinks the man…

Today is that day wen man first lands on Mars, with all it’s secrets to be revealed. A rocket lands in the dark. April 20, 1987. Wow, so that’s when…

At a small town college, the new president of the campus is face with making sure all his departments are operating in the black. Most departments are easily held to…

An explosion is the topic of a shared dream, but there’s no time to discuss it with his wife. The exec is off to the office, and his marketing job.…

An actor has close ties to a police officer, and gets to be on crime scene investigations. Though fairly young, his specialty is in playing elderly people. When a rash…

On the far flung futuristic date, May 2, 2103, Eldin Caswell, a homicidal maniac, walks the streets to look for his next victim. The fog on the street is so…

Strange things have been happening on this trip through space. Mr Costello seems to be at the center of the weirdness. He’s the ships only passenger, and takes a special…

A traveller needs help as he passes through the Ozark’s. The girl on the roadside fence laughs at his misfortunes in changing his tire. She wants to go with him,…

Exploring the blend of science fiction and science fact, we look at a time during the previous war. British intelligence investigates reports in advanced German technology. The news turns out…

A man with an odd request opens the show. He claims to represent a newly formed country named Mastadonia, and they want to establish diplomatic ties with America. Does that…

A reformed gambler of many years begins talking of going home to Lulungameena, a paradise planet. His young crew member on the star ship is tired of hearing about the…

War on the surface of Earth has destroyed civilization as we know it and driven humans underground. The Asians and those of Western Civilization are mortal enemies. A daughter of…

Astronauts are spending long terms alone on a space station. One man records his candid thoughts as he deals with cabin fever, and he talks of getting rid of various…

In an average sized college town, where pranks from the students are not unusual, aman who is all blue isn’t given much thought. It’s actually a blue robot, and he’s…

An astronaut decides to return to Earth after 16 years in space. He goes through adjustments to life in gravity to get rid of his sea legs of being weightless…

A Ray Bradbury story brought to life. After three failed missions to Mars that have vanished from existence, a fourth one sets out. Finding a glaringly vacant city, and Martian…

Intergalactic flights now boarding. Have your tickets ready. Mrs Foster, if that is her real name, shares in voiceover what happened that led up to her flight today. We learn…