Dimension X - "Nightfall" (09-29-51)

Nightfall (Aired September 29, 1951)

INTRO: Bob Camardella Plays The Supremes "You Cant Hurry Love" (1966)

It was released on July 25 of 1966 as the second single from their studio album The Supremes A' Go-Go (1966). Written and produced by Motown production team Holland–Dozier–Holland, the song topped the United States Billboard pop singles chart, made the UK top five, and made the top 10 in the Australian Singles Chart.

Dimension X was first heard on NBC April 8, 1950, and ran until September 29, 1951. Strange that so little good science fiction came out of radio; they seem ideally compatible, both relying heavily on imagination. Some fine isolated science fiction stories were developed on the great anthology shows, Suspense and Escape. But until the premiere of Dimension X -- a full two decades after network radio was established -- there were no major science fiction series of broad appeal to adults. This show dramatized the work of such young writers as Ray Bradbury, Robert (Psycho) Bloch, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Kurt Vonnegut. In-house script writer was Ernest Kinoy, who adapted the master works and contributed occasional storied of his own. Show Notes From The Old Time Radio Researcher's Group.

 

THIS EPISODE:

 
September 29, 1951. NBC network. "Nightfall". Sustaining. A visit to a planet on the edge of our galaxy that circles a group of six suns. There hasn't been a sunset for the last two thousand forty nine years...until now! The last show of the series. The script was used subsequently on "X Minus One" on December 7, 1955. Cameron Prud'Homme, Isaac Asimov (author), Lyle Sudrow, Ernest Kinoy (adaptor), John McGovern, Norman Rose (host), Albert Buhrman (music), William Welch (producer), Fred Weihe (director), Bill Rippe (announcer), Staats Cotsworth, Joseph Boland. 30:22. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.