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X Minus One
X Minus One was a science fiction radio series on NBC from April 1955 through January 1958. The show feature stories written by some of the big names in 1950s science fiction, like Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, and Issac Asimov. X Minus One followed another great sci-fi series called Dimension X that was broadcast in 1950-51. Some of the X-1 shows were rebroadcasts of Dim X. For baby boomers that liked The Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone and for all you Trekkies, X Minus One is the forefather of the science fiction you grew up with.



SYNOPSIS

listen: X-1: Soldier Boy

After 500 years of peace the armies of the earthlings is just of group of misfits and drunks. Equipment stinks and no one knows how to fight anymore. The fleet is decimated. When alien invasion of the rim colonies looms the decision is to have them evacuate, no defence is planned. Our hero is ordered to notifiy the colonies. He rises to the occasion when the colony he is on is attacked. He catches an alien and that leads to saftey for all earthlings.
Really great acting, story is great to a point. It should be a serial but by the time it was produced radio plays were dying, no sponsers could be found and the network was the only support.

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EPISODES

X-1: And the Moon Be Still As Bright
X-1: No Contact
X-1: Dr. Grimshaw's Sanitorium
X-1: The Parade
X-1: Mars is Heaven
X-1: Universe
Dimension X - Destination Moon
X-1: Surface Tension
Dimension X - First Contact
Dimension X - The Veldt
X-1: Marionettes Incorporated
X-1: Bad Medicine
Dimension X - Untitled Story
Dimension X - Shanghaied
X-1: Open Warfare
X-1: The Girls from Earth
X-1: Saucer of Loneliness
X-1: The Moon is Green
X-1: Honeymoon in Hell
X-1: The Reluctant Heros
Dimension X - Requiem
Dimension X - Potters Of Firsk
X-1: Soldier Boy
X-1: Colony
X-1: Protective Mimicry
Dimension X - Time And Time Again
Dimension X - Martian Chronicles
Dimension X - Report on the Barnhouse Effect
X-1: The Stars Are the Styx
X-1: The Old Die Rich
X-1: Student Body
X-1: The Last Martian
X-1: The Snowball Effect
X-1: The Lifeboat Mutiny
X-1: Venus is a Mans World
Dimension X - Kaleidoscope
X-1: Chain of Command
X-1: Pictures Dont Lie
Dimension X - Hello Tomorrow
Dimension X - The Green Hills of Earth
Dimension X - Beyond Infinity