Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - X Minus One - Double Feature "To The Future" (12-14-55) "Time and Time Again" (01-11-56)


Double Feature "To The Future" (Aired December 14, 1955) "Time and Time Again" (Aired January 11, 1956)


X MINUS ONE was an NBC science fiction series that was an extension, or revival, of NBC's earlier science fiction series, DIMENSION X. which ran from Apr. 8, 1950 through Sept. 29, 1951. Both are remembered for bringing really first rate science fiction to the air. The first X MINUS ONE shows used scripts from DIMENSION X, but soon created new shows from storied from the pages of Galaxy Magazine. A total of 125 programs were broadcast, some repeats or remakes, until the last show of Jan. 9, 1958.


TODAY’S SHOW:

December 14, 1955. NBC network origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "To The Future". A trip two hundred years into the past...to 1955! William Welch (producer), Ernest Kinoy (adaptor), Daniel Sutter (director), Fred Collins (announcer), Alexander Scourby, Mercer McLeod, Joe DeSantis, Guy Sorel, Al Collins, Stan Early, Ray Bradbury (author), Teri Keane. 1/2 hour.

January 11, 1956. NBC network. "Time and Time Again". Sustaining. A soldier from the future (1975) is hit by a bomb during World War III and sent thirty years back into the past. Clarke Gordon, Ernest Kinoy (writer), Fred Collins (announcer), H. Beam Piper (author), Herm Dinken, Jack Grimes, James Dukas, Joe DeSantis, Joseph Bell, Peter Fernandez, Richard Hamilton. 28:52.

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