Monday, October 20, 2008

Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - X Minus One "Cold Equations" (8-25-55)


Cold Equations (Aired August 25, 1955)


X Minus One was a half-hour science fiction radio series broadcast from April 24, 1955 to January 9, 1958 in various timeslots on NBC. Initially a revival of NBC's Dimension X (1950-51), X Minus One is widely considered among the finest science fiction dramas ever produced for radio. The first 15 episodes were new versions of Dimension X episodes, but the remainder were adaptations of newly published science fiction stories by leading writers in the field, including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl and Theodore Sturgeon, along with a few original scripts.


THIS EPISODE:

August 25, 1955. Program #15. NBC network origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "Cold Equations". A good story without the expected happy ending. A beautiful young girl stows away on a spaceship, and must be killed. The script was subsequently used on "Future Tense" May 22, 1974 and on October 6, 1990 on "Audion Theatre". Bill Rippe (announcer), Bob Hastings, Court Benson, George Lefferts (adaptor), Jack Arthur, Jay Meredith, Kenneth MacGregor (studio director), Milo Boulton, Tom Godwin (author), Walter Kinsella, William Welch (producer). 25 minutes.

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