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X Minus One | Old Time Radio
X Minus One | Old Time Radio brings you classic science fiction from the golden age of radio, exploring space travel, alien worlds, time travel, futuristic technology, strange experiments, and humanity’s encounters with the unknown. Each episode is an Old Time Retro Radio production, presenting the original broadcast with gently cleaned and mastered audio, a newly produced introduction and closing, and custom episode artwork. X Minus One became one of radio’s most celebrated science-fiction…
Episodes
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Requiem" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One presents “Requiem,” episode 22, originally broadcast on NBC on October 27, 1955. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Robert A. Heinlein’s short story…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Tunnel Under the World" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Tunnel Under the World,” episode 42, originally broadcast on March 14, 1956. Adapted by George Lefferts from Frederik Pohl’s Galaxy…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "To the Future" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One, “To the Future,” originally broadcast on NBC on December 14, 1955. This is episode 29 of the classic science-fiction series, adapted by Ernest…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Protection" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One, “Protection,” originally broadcast March 20, 1957, is episode 93 of the NBC Radio Network science-fiction series. This surviving 22-minute…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Apail of Air" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “A Pail of Air,” episode 44, originally broadcast on NBC Radio Network on March 28, 1956. Adapted by George Lefferts from Fritz Leiber’s…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Hello, Tomorrow" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Hello, Tomorrow,” episode 40, originally broadcast on February 29, 1956. This NBC sustaining drama was written by George Lefferts and…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Target One" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One presents “Target One,” episode 123, originally broadcast on NBC on December 26, 1957. This Cold War-era science-fiction drama was adapted by George…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "At the Post" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One presents “At the Post,” episode 107, originally broadcast on NBC Radio Network on August 15, 1957. This science-fiction drama was adapted by Ernest…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Jaywalker" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Jaywalker,” episode 47, originally broadcast on NBC on April 17, 1956. Adapted by George Lefferts from Ross Rocklynne’s 1950 Galaxy…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Skulking Permit" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One, “Skulking Permit” — episode 101, originally broadcast July 4, 1957. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from a Robert Sheckley story, this NBC science-fiction…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Childs Play" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One, “Childs Play,” originally broadcast October 20, 1955, is episode 21 of NBC’s classic science-fiction series. Adapted by George Lefferts from…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Chain of Command" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One, “Chain of Command,” originally broadcast November 21, 1956, is episode 76. Adapted for radio by George Lefferts from Stephen Arr’s Galaxy Science…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "The Castaways" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
Old Time Retro Radio presents X Minus One, “The Castaways,” originally broadcast on NBC on September 15, 1955. This is episode 18, written by Ernest Kinoy and…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "The Green Hills of Earth" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One presents “The Green Hills of Earth,” episode 8, originally broadcast on July 7, 1955. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Robert A. Heinlein’s 1947 short…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Something for Nothing" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One, “Something for Nothing,” originally broadcast April 10, 1957, is episode 96. This NBC Radio Network science-fiction drama adapts Robert Sheckley’s…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Dwellers in Silence" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One, “Dwellers in Silence,” originally broadcast on NBC on November 10, 1955, is episode 24. Adapted for radio by George Lefferts from Ray Bradbury’s…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Stars Are the Styx" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Stars Are the Styx,” episode 61, originally broadcast on NBC on July 24, 1956. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Theodore Sturgeon’s Galaxy…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "The Outer Limit" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One presents “The Outer Limit,” originally broadcast on NBC on November 16, 1955. This is episode 25, adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Graham Doar’s short…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Tsylana" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One presents “Tsylana,” originally broadcast on September 19, 1957. This is episode 112 of NBC Radio Network’s acclaimed science-fiction anthology…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Junkyard" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Junkyard,” episode 39, originally broadcast on NBC on February 22, 1956. Adapted by George Lefferts from a short story by Clifford D…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "How - 2" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
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…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Star Bright" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Star Bright,” originally broadcast on NBC on April 10, 1956. This is episode 46, adapted for radio by George Lefferts from Mark Clifton’s…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Inside Story" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One presents “Inside Story,” episode 99, originally broadcast on NBC on June 20, 1957. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Richard Wilson’s Galaxy Science…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Surface Tension" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Surface Tension,” originally broadcast on NBC on August 28, 1956. Listed as episode 65, this adaptation of James Blish’s celebrated 1952…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Colony" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Colony,” episode 70, originally broadcast on NBC on October 10, 1956. This science-fiction drama was adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Philip…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "The Parade" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One presents “The Parade,” episode 2, originally broadcast on NBC on May 1, 1955. This satirical science-fiction drama was written by George Lefferts…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Universe" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One presents “Universe,” episode 4, originally broadcast on May 15, 1955. This NBC Radio Network drama adapts Robert A. Heinlein’s celebrated short…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Man's Best Friend" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One presents “Man’s Best Friend,” originally broadcast on April 24, 1957. Episode 98 adapts a story by Evelyn E. Smith, with radio adaptation by Ernest…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "The Haunted Corpse" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One presents “The Haunted Corpse,” episode 121, originally broadcast on NBC Radio Network on December 12, 1957. Adapted by William Welch from Frederik…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Protective Mimicry" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Protective Mimicry,” originally broadcast on NBC Radio Network on October 3, 1956. This is episode 69, adapted for radio by Ernest Kinoy…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Dr Grimshaw's Sanitarium" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One, “Dr. Grimshaw’s Sanitarium,” originally broadcast on NBC on July 14, 1955, is episode 9 of the series. Adapted from Fletcher Pratt’s short story…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Double Dare" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One presents “Double Dare,” originally broadcast December 19, 1957, as episode 122. This NBC science-fiction drama adapts Robert Silverberg’s Galaxy…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Perigi's Wonderful Dolls" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One presents “Perigi’s Wonderful Dolls,” episode 7, originally broadcast on NBC on June 5, 1955. Written by George Lefferts and directed by Daniel…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Open Warfare" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One, “Open Warfare,” originally broadcast January 23, 1957, is episode 85. This NBC Radio Network science-fiction drama was adapted by Ernest Kinoy…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Time and Time Again" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Time and Time Again,” originally broadcast on January 11, 1956, as episode 33. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from H. Beam Piper’s short story…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "The Scapegoat" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One presents “The Scapegoat,” episode 106, originally broadcast on August 8, 1957. In this tense NBC science-fiction drama, Ed steps in to help a frail…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Marionettes, Inc" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One presents “Marionettes, Inc.,” originally broadcast on December 21, 1955, as episode 30. This NBC science-fiction drama adapts Ray Bradbury’s…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "A Logic Named Joe" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
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…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "The Defenders" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “The Defenders,” episode 52, originally broadcast on May 22, 1956. Adapted by George Lefferts from Philip K. Dick’s Galaxy Science Fiction…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Real Gone" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One, “Real Gone,” originally broadcast on February 27, 1957. Episode 90 of NBC Radio’s science-fiction anthology features real-life New York disc…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Pictures Don't Lie" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Pictures Don’t Lie,” episode 72, originally broadcast on NBC on October 24, 1956. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Katherine MacLean’s 1951…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Skulking Permit" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One, “Skulking Permit,” originally broadcast February 15, 1956, is episode 38. This NBC Radio Network science-fiction drama was adapted by Ernest Kinoy…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Soldier Boy" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Soldier Boy,” originally broadcast on October 17, 1956. Episode 71, this NBC science-fiction drama adapts a story by Michael Shaara, with…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Sea Legs" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Sea Legs,” episode 49, originally broadcast on NBC on May 1, 1956. Adapted for radio by George Lefferts from Frank Quattrocchi’s 1951…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Courtesy" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One presents “Courtesy,” episode 14, originally broadcast on NBC on August 18, 1955. Adapted by George Lefferts from Clifford D. Simak’s 1951…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "There Will Come Soft Rains - Zero Hour" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One, “There Will Come Soft Rains - Zero Hour,” originally broadcast on NBC on December 5, 1956. Episode 78 adapts two Ray Bradbury stories for radio…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Bad Medicine" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
Old Time Retro Radio presents X Minus One, “Bad Medicine,” originally broadcast on July 10, 1956. Episode 59 takes listeners to New York City in 2103 for a…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Hello, Tomorrow" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One, “Hello, Tomorrow” — episode 23, originally broadcast November 3, 1955. In this NBC science-fiction drama, set in A.D. 4195, humanity lives beneath…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "No Contact" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One, “No Contact” (Episode 1), originally broadcast on NBC on April 24, 1955. This opening regular-series broadcast was a revised remake of an earlier…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Student Body" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Student Body,” originally broadcast on NBC on July 31, 1956. This is episode 62 of the classic science-fiction anthology series, adapted…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "The Embassy" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One, episode 11, “The Embassy,” originally broadcast on July 28, 1955. In this early NBC science-fiction drama, adapted by George Lefferts from Donald…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "The Trap" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One presents “The Trap,” episode 88, originally broadcast on NBC on February 13, 1957. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Robert Sheckley’s Galaxy Science…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Shanghaied" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One presents “Shanghaied,” episode 16, originally broadcast on September 1, 1955. This NBC Radio Network science-fiction drama was written by Ernest…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "The Discovery of Morniel Mathaway" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One presents “The Discovery of Morniel Mathaway,” originally broadcast on NBC Radio Network on April 17, 1957. This is episode 97 of the classic…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Early Model" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One, “Early Model” (episode 102), originally broadcast on July 11, 1957. This NBC Radio Network science-fiction drama adapts Robert Sheckley’s short…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Wherever You May Be" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Wherever You May Be,” originally broadcast on June 26, 1956, as episode 57. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from James E. Gunn’s Galaxy Science…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "The Vital Factor" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One, “The Vital Factor,” originally broadcast November 30, 1955, is episode 27 of NBC Radio’s landmark science-fiction series. Adapted by Howard Rodman…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "The Veldt" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One presents “The Veldt,” episode 12, originally broadcast on August 4, 1955. This NBC science-fiction drama adapts Ray Bradbury’s unsettling short…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Project Trojan" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Project Trojan,” episode 56, originally broadcast on June 19, 1956. This NBC science-fiction drama was written by Ernest Kinoy and…
X Minus One | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Project Mastadon" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
X Minus One presents “Project Mastadon,” originally broadcast on NBC on June 5, 1956. This is episode 54 of the series, adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Clifford…