This episode was originally released on 7/1/2021. While new episodes of Breaking Walls are on hiatus I'll be going back and posting the older episodes.

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In Breaking Walls episode 117 we blast off with NBC in the fall of 1955 and spotlight its premiere science fiction series, X Minus One. We’ll listen to episodes, hear interviews with those involved, and find out why this series continues to be a favorite among listeners today.

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Highlights:

• The Beginning of the End for Network Radio Drama

• Ernest Kinoy: NBC Staff Writer

• Ray Bradbury’s Radio Memories

• New York’s Radio Actors

• Dimension X Leads to the Launching of X-Minus-One

• In Late 1955 CBS is Radio’s Top Network

• Mars is Heaven

• Radio’s Vital Factor

• Nightfall on X-Minus-One

• Looking Ahead By Gassing Up

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The reading material used in today’s episode was:

On the Air - By John Dunning

Articles from:

Broadcasting-Telecasting Magazine

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On the interview front:

• Jackson Beck, John Gibson, Larry Haines, Mary Jane Higby, Joseph Julian, Mandel Kramer, Jan Miner, Arnold Moss, and Guy Sorel, spoke with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. Hear these full interviews at Goldenage-WTIC.org

• Himan Brown and Nelson Olmsted were with SPERDVAC. For more information, go to SPERDVAC.com

• Bob Hastings spoke with Chuck Schaden. Hear this full chat at SpeakingOfRadio.com

• Ernest Kinoy was with both Fran Stoddard for PBS and Walden Hughes for Yesterday USA

• Ray Bradbury spoke with Jerry Haendiges

• Santos Ortega was with Richard Lamparski

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Selected music featured in today’s episode was:

• Ill Wind — By the John Buzon Trio

• Rock Around the Clock — By Bill Haley and the Comets

• Satan Takes a Holiday — By Jack Malmsteen