The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network

A man orders a robotic dog kit in the mail, and instead receives an android—one ready to serve in every capacity and equally ready to reproduce himself a thousand-fold. All his problems vanish - until the government sticks their bean-counting nose into it.

Mankind has retreated underground to escape the horrors of a surface decimated by World War Three, leaving the machines to continue the fighting.

A pregnant wife stows away on an Earth-Moon liner to be with her husband the pilot, unaware that space travel is fatal both to her and her unborn child. Her husband must choose between their lives and a maneuver which could kill everyone on board.

Colonists from Mars return to Earth generations after the Atomic War and discover a few survivors—a family with some very odd peculiarities about them. Part of the Martian Chronicles series.

X Minus One is an example of this. One of the earliest original X Minus One broadcasts was one of its best: "A Gun for Dinosaur". Strip it of the opening and closing credits and you are left with 26 minutes for continuous storytelling. Compare this with one of the last X Minus One broadcasts: "Grey Flannel Armor". Stripped of the opening, closing, and commercial break, we are left with 15 min for storytelling... and that was broken up by the commercial break! The result was stories that were one-dimensional, with no suspense, no character development, and very little conflict. You may as well be watching TV.

Entrepreneurs appeal the government to award official state recognition to their own personal republic of Mastodonia, 50,000 years in the past. Sounds like a great opportunity to make a fortune, but the past is not all it's cracked up to be...

Tensions at a deepspace relay station erupt over a veteran's claim that his homeworld, Lulungomeena, is the most beautiful in the galaxy. To resolve the dispute, they must rely on the arbitration of an alien Hixabrod, the most literal and honest race in the universe. Part of his Dorsai series about a planet that breeds mercenary soldiers.

Astronomers on a colonized Mars take on the local casino syndicate to stop the nightly fireworks which are fogging their photographic plates.

For years following a nuclear holocaust, a husband bullies his wife to never open the windows of their shelter, for fear of the terrible mutants who live outside. But temptation proves a little too much for her.

Classic story of a space engineer who suffers a tragic accident and ends up tramping about the Solar System singing about the life of spacers and dreaming of returning to Earth once more before he dies.