X Minus One - "How - 2" (Old Time Radio, 1956)

X Minus One | Old Time Radio · Oct 14, 2026 · 29m · transcript

X Minus One presents “How - 2,” episode 45, originally broadcast on NBC Radio Network on April 3, 1956. Adapted by William Welch from Clifford D. Simak’s Galaxy Science Fiction novelette, the production was directed by Daniel Sutter and features Alan Bunce, Anne Seymour, Les Damon, and Santos Ortega.

In a twenty-first-century suburban home, kit-building enthusiast Gordon Knight orders a mail-order spaniel kit—then receives a much larger and more sophisticated shipment from How-2 Kits, Inc. As Gordon and his wife Grace assemble and activate Albert, the unexpected robot brings comic…