X Minus One - "A Logic Named Joe" (Old Time Radio, 1955)

X Minus One | Old Time Radio · Sep 27, 2026 · 28m · transcript

X Minus One presents “A Logic Named Joe,” episode 31, originally broadcast on NBC on December 28, 1955. The drama adapts Murray Leinster’s influential short story, with a radio adaptation by Claris A. Ross and direction by Daniel Sutter.

In the imagined year of 1974, household “Logic” machines handle communication, information, and daily conveniences for an increasingly dependent public. When Logic Corporation serviceman Frank Caldwell encounters an unusual new unit named Joe, he must confront the unsettling possibilities of a network that may be answering too much. Wendell Holmes, Mandel…