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Dimension X presents “The Castaways,” episode 19, originally broadcast August 11, 1950. This NBC science-fiction drama was written by Ernest Kinoy from an original story by Kinoy and George Lefferts, and stars Santos Ortega as General Frank Gaydosh.

At a remote South Pacific atoll, a military atomic test known as Operation Destruction is threatened when the Tahani people refuse to leave their ancestral home. As pressure mounts between military authority, scientific concerns, and the islanders’ resistance, an unsettling mystery emerges beneath the lagoon.

Dimension X presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:53 Original Broadcast
31:02 Closing

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Dimension X presents “Mars Is Heaven,” episode 33, broadcast January 7, 1951. This NBC science-fiction drama is a rebroadcast of the production first heard on July 7, 1950, adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Ray Bradbury’s short story “Mars Is Heaven!”

In 1987, Captain John Black and Earth’s first expedition to Mars emerge into heavy mist—and find an impossible, welcoming vision of a familiar American town from the 1920s. Wendell Holmes stars as Captain Black in this eerie tale of wonder, nostalgia, and growing unease.

Dimension X presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:48 Original Broadcast
26:08 Closing

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Dimension X presents “There Will Come Soft Rains - Zero Hour,” episode 11, originally broadcast June 17, 1950. This NBC anthology installment adapts two Ray Bradbury stories for radio, with George Lefferts’ adaptation directed by Edward King.

First, an automated house carries on its daily routines in an empty future world. Then “Zero Hour” follows eight-year-old Mink and her neighbors as a nationwide children’s game called “Invasion” begins to feel increasingly unsettling to the adults around them. Norman Rose narrates the first segment, with Denise Alexander as Mink.

Dimension X presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:50 Original Broadcast
30:47 Closing

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Dimension X presents “Embassy,” episode 9 of the NBC science-fiction anthology, originally broadcast June 3, 1950. Adapted by George Lefferts from Donald A. Wollheim’s 1942 story “The Embassy,” published under the name Martin Pearson, the drama was directed by Edward King.

In New York City, private detective Broderick is hired by the eccentric Mr. Grafius, who insists that a Martian embassy is hidden somewhere in the city. The case blends hard-boiled detective atmosphere with unsettling extraterrestrial possibility, featuring Joseph Julian, Berry Kroeger, Dan Ocko, and Bryna Raeburn.

Dimension X presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:54 Original Broadcast
30:51 Closing

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Dimension X presents “Dr Grimshaw’s Sanatorium,” episode 25, originally broadcast on September 22, 1950. Adapted by George Lefferts from Fletcher Pratt’s short story, this NBC thriller is directed by Edward King and stars Karl Weber as private detective John Doherty.

A suspicious burial draws Doherty to an exclusive private sanatorium outside Gowanda, New York, where he enters undercover as a patient. Inside, troubling clues, a long-term inmate, and the institution’s guarded clinic suggest that Dr. Grimshaw’s official explanations may conceal something far more unsettling.

Dimension X presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:47 Original Broadcast
31:10 Closing

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Dimension X presents “Shanghied,” episode 29, originally broadcast on NBC on November 12, 1950. This original radio drama was written by Ernest Kinoy and directed by Edward King.

On the eve of his wedding in Boston, wealthy heir Jeff Coffin awakens aboard the R.S. Michael M. Rafferty, a Coffin-owned deep-space vessel already bound on a long run toward Centaurus. Trapped within the ship’s rigid command structure, he confronts the realities faced by its working crew. The cast includes John Sylvester, Bill Griffis, Bill Zuckert, and Joe DeSantis.

Dimension X presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:49 Original Broadcast
31:13 Closing

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Dimension X presents “Report on the Barnhouse Effect,” episode 3, originally broadcast on NBC on April 22, 1950. This early adaptation of a Kurt Vonnegut Jr. story was adapted for radio by Claris A. Ross and features Santos Ortega and Bob Hastings.

At an Eastern U.S. college in 1960, psychology professor Barnhouse discovers he can affect physical objects and events through the power of his mind. As news of his remarkable ability spreads, official attention follows—and the implications of such power become increasingly unsettling.

Dimension X presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:51 Original Broadcast
30:50 Closing

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Dimension X presents “Perigi’s Wonderful Dolls,” episode 18, originally broadcast on August 4, 1950. This NBC Radio Network thriller was written by George Lefferts and produced by Van Woodward.

In Washington, D.C., a government official’s wife and young daughter encounter a doll maker whose handcrafted creations can talk. What begins as an innocent visit to a doll shop becomes an unsettling domestic mystery, with Les Tremaine, Joan Alexander, Denise Alexander, and Joe De Santis featured in the cast.

Dimension X presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:46 Original Broadcast
29:55 Closing

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Dimension X presents “Veldt,” episode 43, originally broadcast on August 9, 1951. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Ray Bradbury’s unsettling short story, this NBC Radio Network drama stars Bill Quinn and Lesley Woods.

In a highly automated Happylife Home, George and Lydia Hadley grow increasingly disturbed by their children’s immersive nursery, whose walls conjure a blazing African veldt complete with heat, distant cries, and lions. As the family confronts technology built to satisfy every need, Bradbury’s tale explores dependence, control, and the hidden costs of domestic convenience.

Dimension X presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:41 Original Broadcast
30:53 Closing

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Dimension X presents “Dwellers in Silence,” episode 40, originally broadcast on July 19, 1951. Adapted by George Lefferts from a Ray Bradbury story later collected as “The Long Years” in The Martian Chronicles, this NBC production stars Peter Capell as Captain Parsons and Bill Griffis as Dr. Hathaway.

Twenty years after humanity’s survivors fled war-ravaged Earth for Mars, Captain Parsons leads an expedition back to the old home world. In a dark, ruined city that is nonetheless mysteriously illuminated, the travelers find signs that challenge everything they expected to discover.

Dimension X presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:44 Original Broadcast
30:23 Closing

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Dimension X presents “Nightmare,” episode 36, originally broadcast on NBC on June 10, 1951. This tense science-fiction drama stars John Gibson as statistician Samson Gurney.

At Long Island’s Brook Meadow atomic-pile project, Gurney finds a troubling pattern in a series of supposedly routine mechanical accidents. As skepticism mounts, his search for an explanation leads into a chilling technological fable adapted by George Lefferts from Stephen Vincent Benét’s poem “The Revolt of the Machines.”

Dimension X presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:51 Original Broadcast
25:45 Closing

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Dimension X presents “The Green Hills of Earth,” episode 32, originally broadcast December 24, 1950. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Robert A. Heinlein’s short story, this NBC drama features Ken Williams as Rhysling, with songs performed by Tom Glazer.

After a radiation accident leaves rocket engineer Rhysling blind, he becomes the beloved singing poet of the spaceways. This lyrical journey through the working ships and communities of the future Solar System follows a wandering spacefarer whose songs carry an enduring love for distant Earth. The December broadcast reprises the series’ earlier June 10, 1950 production.

Dimension X presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:49 Original Broadcast
30:22 Closing

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Dimension X presents “First Contact,” episode 47, originally broadcast on NBC on September 8, 1951. Adapted for radio by Howard Rodman from Murray Leinster’s celebrated short story, the production features Bill Quinn, Bob Hastings, and Cameron Prud’Homme.

In the Crab Nebula, an Earth exploratory vessel encounters an alien ship—the first meeting between humanity and another intelligent civilization. As communication begins, both crews must confront the perilous uncertainty of trust, friendship, and revealing the way home.

Dimension X presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:45 Original Broadcast
23:18 Closing

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Dimension X presents “The Outer Limit,” episode 1, originally broadcast April 8, 1950. In the series premiere, Joseph Julian stars as test pilot Steve Weston, with Wendell Holmes as ground controller Hank Hansen.

Set in the imagined year 1965, this atomic-age suspense drama follows an experimental rocket flight from a Southwest desert test base to the edge of space. When the pilot disappears from radar after encountering something unexplained, the base must confront a mystery that challenges the known limits of flight and exploration. Adapted for radio by Ernest Kinoy from Graham Doar’s short story, the episode was directed by Edward King for NBC.

Dimension X presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:46 Original Broadcast
30:57 Closing

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Dimension X presents “The Man in the Moon,” episode 15, originally broadcast July 14, 1950. This original radio story by George Lefferts aired on NBC/WNBC as part of Wheaties’ “Big Parade.”

At the Federal Bureau of Missing Persons, a routine radio bulletin is interrupted by an astonishing SOS that appears to come from the Moon. Meticulous records clerk Henry Timkin recognizes the name of a brilliant atomic physicist missing for years, setting off a tense investigation into a signal that should be impossible. Louis Van Rooten stars as Timkin, with Santos Ortega as Wade.

Dimension X presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:48 Original Broadcast
31:01 Closing

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Dimension X presents “The Parade,” episode 21, originally broadcast August 25, 1950. This NBC science-fiction drama was written as an original radio play by George Lefferts, directed by Edward King, and produced by Van Woodward.

New York publicity agent Sid Ryan takes on an unusual client, Luchar, who claims to be from Mars. What begins as an extravagant campaign built around the slogan “The Martians Are Coming!” builds toward a spectacular Fifth Avenue parade. Joseph Curtin stars as Ryan, with Berry Kroeger as Luchar and Norman Rose as narrator.

Dimension X presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:44 Original Broadcast
31:04 Closing

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Dimension X presents “A Pebble in the Sky,” episode 37, originally broadcast on June 17, 1951. This NBC drama adapts Isaac Asimov’s 1950 novel, with Santos Ortega as archaeologist Bel Arvardan and Susan Douglas as Pola.

On a future Earth dismissed by the Galactic Empire as a radioactive, impoverished backwater, Arvardan arrives to investigate his controversial belief that humanity began there. His search brings him into contact with Earth’s tightly controlled society, mounting prejudice between worlds, and warnings of a danger that reaches far beyond the planet. The radio adaptation was written by Ernest Kinoy and directed by Edward King.

Dimension X presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:44 Original Broadcast
25:38 Closing

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Dimension X presents “Embassy,” episode 9, originally broadcast on June 3, 1950. This NBC science-fiction drama adapts Donald A. Wollheim’s 1942 short story “The Embassy,” published under the name Martin Pearson.

In New York City, private detective Broderick is hired by the eccentric Mr. Grafius, who insists that a Martian embassy is hidden somewhere in the city. Adapted for radio by George Lefferts, the episode blends hard-boiled detective atmosphere with an unsettling extraterrestrial mystery. The cast includes Joseph Julian, Berry Kroeger, Dan Ocko, and Bryna Raeburn.

Dimension X presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:43 Original Broadcast
30:40 Closing

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Dimension X presents “Vital Factor,” episode 44, originally broadcast August 16, 1951. This NBC sustaining-program drama adapts Nelson S. Bond’s short story “The Vital Factor,” with a script by Howard Rodman and direction by Fred Weihe.

Wayne Crowder, the relentless head of Crowder Industries, is determined to make history with the first human spaceflight—but his engineers still cannot conquer the problem of propulsion. When an enigmatic visitor arrives with a possible answer, Crowder’s ambition meets conditions that neither wealth nor industrial power can easily command. The cast includes Raymond Edward Johnson and Luis Van Rooten.

Dimension X presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:53 Original Broadcast
30:45 Closing

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Dimension X presents “The Parade,” episode 21, originally broadcast August 25, 1950. This original radio drama was written by George Lefferts, produced by Van Woodward, and directed by Edward King for NBC.

New York publicity agent Sid Ryan takes on an unusual client, Luchar, who claims to be a Martian and wants to promote an extraordinary message: “The Martians Are Coming!” As a lavish Fifth Avenue “Martian Day” parade approaches, Ryan’s publicity stunt grows increasingly hard to explain. Joseph Curtin stars as Ryan, with Berry Kroeger as Luchar and Alexander Scourby as broadcaster Ron Heilman.

Dimension X presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:42 Original Broadcast
31:02 Closing

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