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Dimension X: The 1950s SciFi Radio Show

posted by Woods on Wednesday June 11 2014, @10:01PM   
from the things-to-do-for-the-next-25-hours dept.

carguy writes:

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.

• Re:Noticing some dups in the list (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 12 2014, @01:21AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 12 2014, @01:21AM (#54372)

  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:

  1. Performed live twice in one evening, once for the east coast, once (a few hours later) for the west coast.
  2. Script or other logistical problems would leave them with no choice but to reprise a previous show.

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