posted by
Woods
on Wednesday June 11 2014, @10:01PM
from the things-to-do-for-the-next-25-hours dept.
from the things-to-do-for-the-next-25-hours dept.
In case you haven't been following all the collections at archive.org, here's an article that showcases some amazing science fiction episodes from the early 1950's Dimension X radio show. Fifty half hour shows are available at the archive.org site which should be a good TV replacement for a week or two.
From the site:
Dimension X made its mark by adapting short stories by acknowledged masters of the craft: Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, and even a non-genre-bound literary mind like Kurt Vonnegut. All of these world-creators knew well the value of imagination, and radio, in its way, stood then and remains today the most evocative, imagination-driven medium of them all.
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Dimension X: The 1950s SciFi Radio Show
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(Score: 2) by Theophrastus on Wednesday June 11 2014, @10:11PM
Some of these are really wonderful - thank you for posting this source!
My old man had some of these on reel-to-reel, which i listened to as a kid; several of these have plots that are damn close to later TV scripts. As one example, i recall that "Mars is Heaven" (Dimension_X_1951-01-07__33_MarsIsHeaven.mp3) has many of the plot points of star-trek/orig-series "The Cage" (later "The Menagerie"). Also some of the Outer Limits plots sync right up. I think all the old TV scifi series producers must have listened to "Dimension X".
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Wednesday June 11 2014, @10:39PM
About 10 years ago I subscribed to live365, and ended up mostly listening to those old-time radio shows. I especially liked the Science Fiction ones.
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(Score: 2) by tynin on Wednesday June 11 2014, @10:44PM
Did some of them get replayed? Or is their legitimately two "No Contacts", two "Mars is Heaven", etc? I suppose I'll have to download and find out. The file sizes suggest they are different... though I suspect they must be the same.
Sounds like it should be rather enjoyable to listen to during commutes. Thanks for sharing!
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 12 2014, @01:21AM
Wikipedia has a list of episodes [wikipedia.org], but no commentary to explain.
For these older shows, though, there were usually two reason for repeats:
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 11 2014, @11:19PM
They are dismantling the sleeping middle class. More and more people are becoming poor. We are their cattle. We are being bred for slavery.
They are dismantling the sleeping middle class. More and more people are becoming poor. We are their cattle. We are being bred for slavery.
(Score: 2) by jackb_guppy on Thursday June 12 2014, @12:12AM
"The Roads Must Roll", "Nightfall" and "Pebble in the Sky" are stories I remember reading in anthology books. It is a pleasure to hear them too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 12 2014, @01:36AM
(Score: 2) by mendax on Thursday June 12 2014, @03:55AM
I would also call everyone's attention to the "X Minus One" radio series which was a more successful reboot of "Dimension X". The producers were the same, some of the same stories were dramatized (e.g., No Contact, Mars is Heaven), and some of the shows were direct rebroadcasts (e.g., There Will Come Soft Rains, Zero Hour). Those are also available at archive.org. Enjoy! I do regularly. [archive.org]
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 2) by Jaruzel on Thursday June 12 2014, @08:56AM
I'd like to listen to these in my car (burnt to CD) - is there anyway to do this? I've looked at the HTML source, and ripping the mp3s direct doesn't seem trivial.
-Jar
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(Score: 2, Informative) by dak664 on Thursday June 12 2014, @01:37PM
There's a torrent at the bottom of the page, all the mp3 files in 1.28 GB. Health is 4 bars at the moment :)
(Score: 2) by Jaruzel on Thursday June 12 2014, @02:38PM
Oh yeah, ta. That'll teach me not to bother scrolling down.... doh.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by mendax on Thursday June 12 2014, @08:39PM
It's trivial to me, in that I've done it. Right-click on link for zip file, select "save link as...", poof.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 2) by Woods on Thursday June 12 2014, @03:07PM
I just listened to a commercial for Wheaties, it starred some popular baseball player of the time saying how he has eaten Wheaties for the last 20 years. It was weird.