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X Minus One

X Minus One is an American half-hour science fiction radio drama series that was broadcast from April 24, 1955, to January 9, 1958, in various timeslots on NBC. Known for high production values in adapting stories from the leading American authors of the era, X Minus One has been described as one of the finest offerings of American radio drama and one of the best science fiction series in any medium.[1][2]

Genre

Science fiction

US

English

NBC

Fred Collins

Fred Weihe, Daniel Sutter, George Voutsas

William Welch

April 24, 1955 (1955-04-24) –
January 9, 1958 (1958-01-09)

126

– "The Light"

Poul Anderson

– "Nightfall", "C-Chute", "Hostess"

Isaac Asimov

– "Surface Tension"

James Blish

– "Almost Human"

Robert Bloch

– "And The Moon Be Still As Bright", "Mars is Heaven!", "The Veldt", "Dwellers in Silence", "Zero Hour", "To the Future", "Marionettes, Inc.", "There Will Come Soft Rains"

Ray Bradbury

– "A Gun for Dinosaur"

L. Sprague de Camp

– "Star, Bright"

Mark Clifton

– "The Defenders", "Colony"

Philip K. Dick

– "The Cold Equations"

Thomas Godwin

– "Universe", "The Green Hills of Earth", "Requiem", "The Roads Must Roll"

Robert A. Heinlein

– "A Pail of Air", "Appointment in Tomorrow", "The Moon is Green"

Fritz Leiber

– "The Haunted Corpse", "Tunnel under the World", "Target One", "The Map Makers"

Frederik Pohl

– "Skulking Permit", "The Lifeboat Mutiney", "Protection", "Early Model", "The Seventh Victim", "Something for Nothing", "The Native Problem", "Bad Medicine"

Robert Sheckley

– "Double Dare", "The Iron Chancellor"

Robert Silverberg

– "Courtesy", "Junkyard", "How-2", "Project Mastodon", "Drop Dead", "Lulu"

Clifford D. Simak

– "Mr. Costello, Hero", "Saucer of Loneliness", "The Stars are the Styx"

Theodore Sturgeon

– "Venus is for Men"

William Tenn

, (Mutual) The first adult science fiction series on U.S. radio.

2000 Plus

, (NBC) The predecessor to X Minus One with 15 of the same stories.

Dimension X

, (Mutual) A 1957–1958 series narrated by John W. Campbell

Exploring Tomorrow

Golden Age of Radio

, (ABC) A short lived 1953 radio anthology with only 15 episodes, 4 stories of which were also made into X Minus One episodes.

Tales of Tomorrow

. Frank M. Passage log.

"Audion Theatre"

. Old Time Radio.

"Episode Reviews: X Minus One"

– plot summaries and reviews

OTR Plot Spot: X Minus One

at xminusone.com

X Minus One the official fansite!

. Jerry Haendiges Vintage Radio Logs.

"X Minus One, includes synopsis of each episode"

in the Internet Archive's Old-Time Radio Collection

X Minus One

X Minus One at oldclassicradio.com