X Minus One Radio Show

First Episode: April 22, 1955

Last Episode: January 9, 1958 (Plus one episode on January 27, 1973 by Renaissance Radio Features)

Number of Episodes: 127 (With 5 episodes being repeats of earlier broadcasts)

Network: NBC Radio Network

Cast Members: Changed each episode

Producers/Directors: Ed King, Daniel Sutter, Fred Weihe

Announcers: Fred Collins, Bob Warren

Sound Effects: Agnew Horine, Sam Monroe

Music: Unknown

Writers/Adaptations: Ernest Kinoy, George Lefferts, and many top sci-fi writers whose scripts were adapted for radio, mostly by Kinoy and Lefferts

Sponsor: Supported fully by NBC

Typical Episode Length: 30 Minutes

The X Minus One radio show was a pure sci-fi series. Many of them involved Earthlings exploring space or aliens coming to Earth. Often, the episodes would be adapted for radio from the stories by renowned sci-fi writers including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Phillip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein, Fritz Leiber, Fredrik Pohl, Robert Sheckley, Clifford D. Simac, Theodore Sturgeon, and others.

Listen to a X Minus One Radio Show episode by clicking on a link below:

The Man In The Moon - May 29, 1955 - 28 Minutes - In 1950, long before mankind's first spaceflight, a man interupts a broadcast by the bureau of missing persons to ask for help. It is determined that his message is coming from the Moon! But how could that be when no one has ever left the surface of the Earth? Or have they? Find the solution to this mystery by listening to "The Man in the Moon"!

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