Dimension X presents “The Martian Death March,” episode 34, originally broadcast on NBC on January 14, 1951. This original radio drama was written by Ernest Kinoy, with Norman Rose as announcer/narrator and a cast including Bill Zuckert.

On a human-conquered Mars in 1997, a young colonist recalls encountering spider-like Martians forced into Earth-imposed reservations. When refugees set out across the harsh red landscape toward their northern mountain homeland, he becomes caught up in a powerful journey of displacement, endurance, and human solidarity. The story’s forced-removal premise carries an allegorical echo of the Trail of Tears.

Old Time Sci-Fi Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:52 Original Broadcast
26:37 Closing

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CBS Radio Workshop presents “Space Merchants Part 1,” episode 55, originally broadcast on February 17, 1957. This CBS adaptation of Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth’s influential novel The Space Merchants was written for radio by Charles Monroe and directed by Paul Roberts.

In a future ruled by the immense power of advertising, star copywriter Mitchell Courtney of Fowler Schocken receives a daunting assignment: sell the public on colonizing Venus. Staats Cotsworth stars as Courtney, with Virginia Kaye as Cathy, in the first half of a sharp science-fiction satire of corporate influence, consumer culture, and promotion without limits.

Old Time Sci-Fi Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:48 Original Broadcast
25:30 Closing

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X Minus One, “Lulu,” originally broadcast on October 31, 1957, is episode 118 of NBC Radio’s classic science-fiction anthology series. Adapted by George Lefferts from Clifford D. Simak’s novelette, the drama features Henry Norrell, Jan Miner, James Stevens, Nelson Olmsted, and Walter Black.

Three space travelers accompany Lulu, a highly advanced Planetary Exploration Robot that serves as both spacecraft and mission base. When the crew gives their machine a personal name—and poetry enters the picture—their routine exploration assignment takes an unexpected and humorous turn.

Old Time Sci-Fi Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:47 Original Broadcast
22:27 Closing

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2000 Plus presents “The Robot Killer,” originally broadcast on Mutual on August 30, 1950. Episode 25 of the sustained science-fiction anthology was produced by Sherman H. Dryer and Robert Weenolsen.

Happy Sam’s television promotion offers Experimental Robot 23, a six-foot household robot, as its grand prize. When John Hanold brings the remarkable machine home, its voice-command controls and place in the Hanolds’ already strained household raise unsettling questions about technology, publicity, and human emotion. Professor Straker and neighbor Virginia Barden share growing concern.

Old Time Sci-Fi Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:38 Original Broadcast
28:28 Closing

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Space Patrol presents “The Voice from the Future,” episode 105, originally broadcast on ABC on October 2, 1954. In this Nestlé’s Chocolate-sponsored adventure, Commander Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy are played by Ed Kemmer and Lyn Osborn; the story was written by Lou Huston and produced and directed by Larry Robertson.

At the Lunar Fleet Base, Corry and Happy prepare to test a closely guarded experimental ship equipped with a star drive. When danger turns the mission into a struggle for survival in hyperspace, a strange broadcast that seems to come from October 1972 may hold a vital clue.

Old Time Sci-Fi Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:38 Original Broadcast
30:05 Closing

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Dimension X, episode 32, “The Green Hills of Earth,” originally broadcast December 24, 1950. This NBC sustaining broadcast is a rebroadcast of the series’ June 10, 1950 production, adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Robert A. Heinlein’s celebrated short story.

Radiation-blinded spaceman Rhysling—known as the singing poet of the spaceways—travels the future Solar System carrying songs and memories of those who work among the stars. With Tom Glazer performing Rhysling’s music, this lyrical drama follows a final rocket voyage shaped by longing for Earth and fellowship aboard ship. Directed by Edward King and produced by William Welch.

Old Time Sci-Fi Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:41 Original Broadcast
30:14 Closing

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X Minus One presents “Perigi’s Wonderful Dolls,” episode 34, originally broadcast on January 18, 1956. Written by George Lefferts for NBC, this program is a repeat of the series’ June 5, 1955 production, based on Lefferts’s earlier Dimension X script.

In Washington, D.C., a government official’s family discovers an unusual dollmaker whose remarkably lifelike creations can talk. A new doll brings wonder to the household, but its presence soon casts an unsettling shadow over the family and the official’s sensitive work. The cast includes Joe De Santis, Les Damon, and Joan Alexander.

Old Time Sci-Fi Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:44 Original Broadcast
25:02 Closing

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Dimension X, episode 22, “The Roads Must Roll,” originally broadcast on NBC on September 1, 1950. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Robert A. Heinlein’s celebrated short story, the production was directed by Edward King and features Norman Rose as narrator.

In a future America, enormous rolling roads have replaced cars and trucks, carrying people and freight across a nation dependent on their constant motion. When the engineers who maintain this vast transportation system challenge its authority, the indispensable roads become the center of a growing crisis.

Old Time Sci-Fi Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:51 Original Broadcast
30:33 Closing

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X Minus One presents “Target One,” originally broadcast on NBC on December 26, 1957. This is episode 123 of the classic science-fiction radio series.

In a future devastated by atomic war, officials approve a desperate time-travel mission to alter the course of history. Adapted by George Lefferts from Frederik Pohl’s Galaxy story, “Target One” turns Cold War-era nuclear fears into a tense drama centered on the moral cost of reshaping the past. The cast includes Frank Silvera and Joseph Bell.

Old Time Sci-Fi Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:46 Original Broadcast
21:46 Closing

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Dimension X presents “The Professor Was a Thief,” episode 28, originally broadcast on NBC on November 5, 1950. This sustaining broadcast was adapted for radio by George Lefferts from L. Ron Hubbard’s 1940 science-fiction novelette, with Norman Rose as host.

When reporter Sweeney claims that Grant’s Tomb has vanished, skeptical New York City editor Pop Attaby finds himself chasing a story that grows stranger by the minute. Amid missing Manhattan landmarks and baffled newsroom staff, a quiet, bookish man named Hannibal Purtwee may hold the key. The cast includes Arthur Maitland, John Larkin, and Bob Hastings.

Old Time Sci-Fi Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:46 Original Broadcast
31:07 Closing

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