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Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio brings you classic science fiction from the golden age of radio, exploring space travel, alien worlds, futuristic technology, strange experiments, time travel, 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. Featuring imaginative stories of distant planets, scientific

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Dimension X - "The Martian Death March" (1951)

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2026/09/11

Dimension X presents “The Martian Death March,” episode 34, originally broadcast on NBC on January 14, 1951. This original radio drama was written by Ernest Kinoy, with Norman Rose as announcer/narrator and a cast including Bill Zuckert.On a human-conquered Mars in 1997, a young colonist recalls encountering spider-like Martians forced into Earth-imposed reservations. When refugees set out across the harsh red landscape toward their northern mountain homeland, he becomes caught up in a powerful

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Cbs Radio Workshop - "Space Merchants Part 1" (1957)

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2026/09/10

CBS Radio Workshop presents “Space Merchants Part 1,” episode 55, originally broadcast on February 17, 1957. This CBS adaptation of Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth’s influential novel The Space Merchants was written for radio by Charles Monroe and directed by Paul Roberts.In a future ruled by the immense power of advertising, star copywriter Mitchell Courtney of Fowler Schocken receives a daunting assignment: sell the public on colonizing Venus. Staats Cotsworth stars as Courtney, with Virginia

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22:45

X Minus One - "Lulu" (1957)

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2026/09/09

X Minus One, “Lulu,” originally broadcast on October 31, 1957, is episode 118 of NBC Radio’s classic science-fiction anthology series. Adapted by George Lefferts from Clifford D. Simak’s novelette, the drama features Henry Norrell, Jan Miner, James Stevens, Nelson Olmsted, and Walter Black.Three space travelers accompany Lulu, a highly advanced Planetary Exploration Robot that serves as both spacecraft and mission base. When the crew gives their machine a personal name—and poetry enters the

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28:41

2000 Plus - "The Robot Killer"

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2026/09/08

2000 Plus presents “The Robot Killer,” originally broadcast on Mutual on August 30, 1950. Episode 25 of the sustained science-fiction anthology was produced by Sherman H. Dryer and Robert Weenolsen.Happy Sam’s television promotion offers Experimental Robot 23, a six-foot household robot, as its grand prize. When John Hanold brings the remarkable machine home, its voice-command controls and place in the Hanolds’ already strained household raise unsettling questions about technology, publicity, and

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30:17

Space Patrol - "The Voice from the Future" (1954)

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2026/09/07

Space Patrol presents “The Voice from the Future,” episode 105, originally broadcast on ABC on October 2, 1954. In this Nestlé’s Chocolate-sponsored adventure, Commander Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy are played by Ed Kemmer and Lyn Osborn; the story was written by Lou Huston and produced and directed by Larry Robertson.At the Lunar Fleet Base, Corry and Happy prepare to test a closely guarded experimental ship equipped with a star drive. When danger turns the mission into a struggle for survival in

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30:28

Dimension X - "The Green Hills of Earth" (1950)

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2026/09/06

Dimension X, episode 32, “The Green Hills of Earth,” originally broadcast December 24, 1950. This NBC sustaining broadcast is a rebroadcast of the series’ June 10, 1950 production, adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Robert A. Heinlein’s celebrated short story.Radiation-blinded spaceman Rhysling—known as the singing poet of the spaceways—travels the future Solar System carrying songs and memories of those who work among the stars. With Tom Glazer performing Rhysling’s music, this lyrical drama follows a

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X Minus One - "Perigi's Wonderful Dolls" (1956)

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2026/09/05

X Minus One presents “Perigi’s Wonderful Dolls,” episode 34, originally broadcast on January 18, 1956. Written by George Lefferts for NBC, this program is a repeat of the series’ June 5, 1955 production, based on Lefferts’s earlier Dimension X script.In Washington, D.C., a government official’s family discovers an unusual dollmaker whose remarkably lifelike creations can talk. A new doll brings wonder to the household, but its presence soon casts an unsettling shadow over the family and the

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Dimension X - "The Roads Must Roll" (1950)

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2026/09/04

Dimension X, episode 22, “The Roads Must Roll,” originally broadcast on NBC on September 1, 1950. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Robert A. Heinlein’s celebrated short story, the production was directed by Edward King and features Norman Rose as narrator.In a future America, enormous rolling roads have replaced cars and trucks, carrying people and freight across a nation dependent on their constant motion. When the engineers who maintain this vast transportation system challenge its authority, the

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21:59

X Minus One - "Target One" (1957)

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2026/09/03

X Minus One presents “Target One,” originally broadcast on NBC on December 26, 1957. This is episode 123 of the classic science-fiction radio series.In a future devastated by atomic war, officials approve a desperate time-travel mission to alter the course of history. Adapted by George Lefferts from Frederik Pohl’s Galaxy story, “Target One” turns Cold War-era nuclear fears into a tense drama centered on the moral cost of reshaping the past. The cast includes Frank Silvera and Joseph Bell.Old Time

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Dimension X - "The Professor Was a Thief" (1950)

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2026/09/02

Dimension X presents “The Professor Was a Thief,” episode 28, originally broadcast on NBC on November 5, 1950. This sustaining broadcast was adapted for radio by George Lefferts from L. Ron Hubbard’s 1940 science-fiction novelette, with Norman Rose as host.When reporter Sweeney claims that Grant’s Tomb has vanished, skeptical New York City editor Pop Attaby finds himself chasing a story that grows stranger by the minute. Amid missing Manhattan landmarks and baffled newsroom staff, a quiet, bookish

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22:53

2000 Plus - "When the Machines Went Mad" (1950)

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2026/08/28

2000 Plus presents “When the Machines Went Mad,” originally broadcast April 26, 1950, on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Written by Donald Stapleton, this early science-fiction drama stars Ken Williams and Charlotte Manson as Johnny and Jane.In the year 2800, Johnny and Jane encounter a human resistance fighting for freedom beyond the reach of Mechs City and its all-powerful Master Mechanical Brain. As the machines pursue new electronic servants, the rebels face an increasingly urgent struggle to

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X Minus One - "The Map Makers" (1956)

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2026/08/27

X Minus One presents “The Map Makers,” originally broadcast on NBC Radio on September 26, 1956. This is episode 68, adapted for radio by Ernest Kinoy from Frederik Pohl’s 1955 Galaxy Science Fiction story.When the deep-space survey ship Terra II is knocked off course during a hyperspace jump and its navigation atlas is destroyed, the crew faces an unfamiliar sky and an uncertain way home. With injured navigator Lieutenant Grodin at the center of the crisis, the stranded explorers must confront the

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31:28

Dimension X - "The Martian Chronicles" (1950)

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2026/08/26

Dimension X presents “The Martian Chronicles,” episode 20, originally broadcast on NBC on August 18, 1950. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Ray Bradbury’s newly published novel, this ambitious half-hour drama is narrated by Norman Rose.A series of linked journeys carries listeners from snowy Ohio to the canals, silent cities, and lingering mysteries of Mars. As Earth expeditions arrive and settlement begins, Bradbury’s lyrical vision contrasts human ambition with the haunting traces of an older Martian

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X Minus One - "The Veldt" (1955)

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2026/08/25

X Minus One, “The Veldt” (Episode 12), originally broadcast August 4, 1955. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Ray Bradbury’s short story, this NBC sustaining broadcast was directed by Daniel Sutter.In an automated future HappyLife Home, George and Lydia Abbott become disturbed by their children’s extraordinary nursery, whose crystalline walls turn thoughts into lifelike worlds. When the room repeatedly conjures an African veldt—with heat, distant animal cries, and ever-more-convincing lions—they call

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Dimension X - "To the Future" (1950)

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2026/08/24

Dimension X presents “To the Future,” episode 8, originally broadcast on NBC on May 27, 1950. This sustaining drama adapts Ray Bradbury’s “The Fox and the Forest,” with radio adaptation by Ernest Kinoy and starring John Larkin and Jan Miner.William and Susan Travis flee the war-ravaged authoritarian world of 2155 for the seeming safety of mid-century Mexico. But as they try to vanish into a more carefree era, searchers from the future close in. Directed by Edward King, this tense time-travel tale

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Space Patrol - "The Treasure of Planetoid 60" (1953)

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2026/08/23

Space Patrol presents “The Treasure of Planetoid 60,” episode 39, originally broadcast on June 27, 1953. Commander Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy, played by Ed Kemmer and Lyn Osborn, return in this ABC Radio adventure sponsored by Ralston Cereals.Clues to a century-old lost space expedition and a remarkably valuable mineral lead Buzz and Happy from Neptune City to remote Planetoid 60. With crooks also pursuing the vanished explorer’s cache, the Space Patrol faces a dangerous search involving a derelict

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27:44

2000 Plus - "The Rocket and the Skull" (1951)

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2026/08/22

2000 Plus presents “The Rocket and the Skull,” originally broadcast on October 10, 1951. Cataloged as episode 77, this Mutual Broadcasting System science-fiction drama imagines the challenges of spaceflight in the then-distant year 2006.Colonel Bradbury, a key figure in the Western drive to reach the Moon, is injured when his experimental X-93 rocket-jet suffers a catastrophic failure. As doctors attempt a daring medical procedure, pressure builds from a rival Eastern Alliance—and strange

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Dimension X - "Destination Moon" (1950)

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2026/08/21

Dimension X presents “Destination Moon,” episode 12, originally broadcast on NBC on June 24, 1950. Adapted by Robert A. Heinlein from the 1950 George Pal film, this lunar adventure features Ralph Bell, Santos Ortega, Wendell Holmes, and Norman Rose as host and narrator.At a Texas rocket project, a determined team races to send humanity’s first expedition to the Moon before official action can halt the mission. With a narrow launch window and urgent last-minute complications, the program captures the

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X Minus One - "Mars Is Heaven" (1955)

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2026/08/20

X Minus One, “Mars Is Heaven,” originally broadcast May 8, 1955, is episode 3 of NBC’s science-fiction anthology series. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Ray Bradbury’s “Mars Is Heaven!”—later revised as “The Third Expedition” in The Martian Chronicles—the drama stars Wendell Holmes as Captain John Black, with Peter Capell as Dr. Horst.Earth’s first manned rocket expedition lands on Mars in 1987, where Captain Black and his crew emerge from the mist to find an impossible sight: a quiet American small

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Dimension X - "And the Moon Be Still as Bright" (1950)

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2026/08/19

Dimension X presents “And the Moon Be Still as Bright,” episode 26, originally broadcast on September 29, 1950. This NBC sustaining broadcast adapts Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles, with radio adaptation by Ernest Kinoy and direction by Edward King.After three Earth expeditions vanish on Mars, a fourth lands beside a vast, seemingly deserted Martian city. Captain Wilder and archaeologist Spender confront the haunting remains of an alien civilization—and difficult questions about discovery,

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