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DIMENSION X - Embassy (Donald Allen Wollheim)
DIMENSION X
Embassy
June 3, 1950
This Radio Play is based on Donald Allen Wollheim's short story Embassy. It was originally published in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction, March 1942 under the pseudonym Martin Pearson. Wollheim used numerous pseudonyms for his short stories but published his novels under his given name, Donald A Wollheim; novels such as The Secret of the Ninth Planet published in 1959. He became a publisher and editor and promoted Science Fiction through The New York Science Fiction League and The Futurians, among others.
There is a Hall of Fame for Sci-Fi writers housed in the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) in Seattle, Washington. In 2002 they inducted Wollheim and sa...
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DIMENSION X - To The Future (Ray Bradbury)
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DIMENSION X To The Future May 27, 1950 Ray Bradbury first published "To The Future" in Collier's Magazine on May 13, 1950. It was barely two weeks later that Ernest Kinoy had the adaptation ready to broadcast as a play on Dimension X, May 27, 1950. Later Bradbury included the story in his 1951 book, The Illustrated Man, which contained 18 of his short stories. He renamed it "The Fox And The For...
DIMENSION X - Almost Human (Robert Bloch)
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DIMENSION X Almost Human May 13, 1950 Though Robert Albert Bloch is mostly recognized for his crime dramas, psychological horror, and fantasy, he wrote a plethora of short SciFi stories which were widely published in pulp magazines. Over a 60 year professional career which began when he was only 17, he authored novels, screenplays and radio plays, and he wrote for Television. His short story Al...
DIMENSION X - Knock (Fredric Brown)
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DIMENSION X Knock May 6, 1950 Knock is a short story by Fredric Brown published in the Science Fiction magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories in their December 1948 issue. It was adapted into a radio play for Dimension X by Ernest Kinoy whose writing career included screenplays, stage plays, Television, film, and of course, radio. The show begins and ends with a knock at the door, and between those ...
DIMENSION X - No Contact (George Lefferts)
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DIMENSION X No Contact April 29, 1950 George Lefferts and Ernest Kinoy, both working for NBC at the time, came up with the idea for No Contact together. George Lefferts wrote the script and is usually credited with the story, but he himself credited Kinoy as his co-creator. It was written for Dimension X and first aired on April 29, 1950. Then it was produced again for Dimension X, October 28, ...
DIMENSION X - Report on the Barnhouse Effect (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
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Report on the Barnhouse Effect is Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s first published short story. It appeared in Collier's Weekly on February 11, 1950. Vonnegut is a ubiquitous 20th century author whose writing blends science fiction with insightful social commentary. Though his novels and short stories lean heavily into science fiction, his characters and settings span across genres. Script and literary edit...
DIMENSION X - With Folded Hands (Jack Williamson)
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DIMENSION X With Folded Hands April 15, 1950 John Stewart Williamson wrote using the name Jack Williamson, mostly, though he published some of his earlier works as Will Stewart or Nils O Sonderlund. In 1947 his novella length story With Folded Hands... appeared in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction. It was well received and the publisher, John W. Campbell, asked for a novel length version,...
DIMENSION X - Requiem (Robert A Heinlein)
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DIMENSION X Requiem September 22, 1951 Robert A Heinlein was a popular and well respected science fiction author in the 1950s. He drew on his real life experience as an aeronautical engineer to ensure that his stories had a feel of accurate science. His short story Requiem was published in the magazine Astounding in their January 1940 issue. His later novella The Man Who Sold the Moon was a pre...
DIMENSION X - Marionettes, Incorporated (Ray Bradbury)
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DIMENSION X Marionettes, Incorporated August 30, 1951 The original short story, Marionettes, Incorporated, was written by Ray Bradbury and first published in the magazine Startling Stories, March 1949. It was adapted for Dimension X by author, playwright, scriptwriter, and story editor, George Lefferts and aired August 30, 1951. It also appeared on the radio show X Minus One, December 21, 1955....
DIMENSION X - Dwellers in Silence (Ray Bradbury)
Просмотров 676Месяц назад
DIMENSION X Dwellers in Silence July 19, 1951 The short story The Long Years by Ray Bradbury was originally published in Maclean’s Magazine on September 15, 1948. Later the story was included in Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, published in 1950, under the amended title: April 2026: The Long Years. George Lefferts adapted Bradbury's short story into a radio play, making some fundamental chang...
DIMENSION X - The Lost Race (Murray Leinster)
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DIMENSION X The Lost Race May 20, 1950 William Fitzgerald Jenkins wrote engaging and topical science fiction under the pseudonym Murray Leinster. His short story The Lost was adapted and dramatized for radio by Ernest Kinoy, a script writer whose career in Hollywood spanned 50 years and multiple mediums: radio, television, film, stage. Murray Leinster's short story was renamed for radio and bec...
DIMENSION X - Pebble in the Sky (Isaac Asimov)
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DIMENSION X Pebble in the Sky Jun 17, 1951 Isaac Asimov wrote a novella for the sci-fi magazine Startling Stories. He titled it Grow Old with Me. Startling Stories was not able to publish it, so Asimov expanded the story to novel length, changed the title to Pebble in the Sky, and sold it to Doubleday, the largest book publisher in the United States at that time. It was published it in 1950, an...
DIMENSION X - The Parade (George Lefferts)
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DIMENSION X The Parade Aug 25, 1950 George Lefferts was a writer, producer, and director. In addition to television, radio, and movie dramas, he was a documentarian. He wrote The Parade for radio in 1950. It was first performed on Dimension X, August 25, 1950, and again on the show X Minus One, May 1, 1955. The story plot is rather predictable, but the social commentary and observation about hu...
DIMENSION X - A Logic Named Joe (Murray Leinster)
Просмотров 133Месяц назад
DIMENSION X A Logic Named Joe July 1, 1950 William Fitzgerald Jenkins wrote engaging and topical science fiction under the pseudonym Murray Leinster. Usually. But A Logic Named Joe was first published under the name Will F. Jenkins in the March 1946 issue of the American science fiction magazine "Astounding Science Fiction". And then it was published in the collections Sidewise in Time (Shasta,...
DIMENSION X - There Will Come Soft Rains / Zero Hour (Ray Bradbury)
Просмотров 130Месяц назад
DIMENSION X There Will Come Soft Rains / Zero Hour June 17, 1950 Ray Bradbury had a significant impact on 20th century literature with such classics as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes, among countless others you have no doubt heard of. Two of his short stories were juxtaposed in this episode of Dimension X, adapted for radio by George Lefferts. The first ...
DIMENSION X - The Outer Limit (Graham Doar)
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DIMENSION X - The Outer Limit (Graham Doar)
JOHNNY DOLLAR The Matter of the Medium Well Done
Просмотров 752 месяца назад
JOHNNY DOLLAR The Matter of the Medium Well Done
The Adventures of NERO WOLFE - "Stamped for Murder"
Просмотров 522 месяца назад
The Adventures of NERO WOLFE - "Stamped for Murder"
NIGHT BEAT Adventures of RANDY STONE Railroaded OR Hit and Run
Просмотров 682 месяца назад
NIGHT BEAT Adventures of RANDY STONE Railroaded OR Hit and Run
Old Time Radio THE SAINT: No Hiding Place or Everyone Wants to Kill Tommy
Просмотров 603 месяца назад
Old Time Radio THE SAINT: No Hiding Place or Everyone Wants to Kill Tommy

Комментарии

  • @markrossow6303
    @markrossow6303 2 дня назад

    ( and highly recommend "The Green Hills of Earth" that is announced near the end -- radio version of a Robert Heinlein short story )

  • @sandeakilpatrick2386
    @sandeakilpatrick2386 2 дня назад

    Very entertaining. Thank you!

  • @sandeakilpatrick2386
    @sandeakilpatrick2386 6 дней назад

    Very good, but I want to know more! What happened when they got back? Thank you.

  • @markrossow6303
    @markrossow6303 9 дней назад

    Nice notes ~~~

  • @sandeakilpatrick2386
    @sandeakilpatrick2386 9 дней назад

    Evil never wins. 😁

  • @roelienpostma2367
    @roelienpostma2367 9 дней назад

    Thank you for this insight into this history/ future!

  • @0mega.mechan1c.
    @0mega.mechan1c. 9 дней назад

    2:50 starts.

  • @michaelkottler
    @michaelkottler 10 дней назад

    I2R: Your diligent efforts to archive & disseminate this fine CBSRMT material represent a significant public service & are much-appreciated. Fans have access to several great channels featuring OTR, audiobooks, short fiction and related material but none do it w/the expert enthusiasm & bonus info I2R be droppin' like science.

  • @feralbluee
    @feralbluee 10 дней назад

    OMG - Fred Weigh - my parents knew him. (there was a very well to do area near Shenorock, NY, northern Westchester County) we went to his house. i remember that visit very well. i don’t know in particular why. he had one of the very first stereo record players. he played a record of a steam engine traveling from the right speaker across the room to the left speaker. and, for PETE’S sake, i just found who he was. he directed this radio show, which was very popular, so he must have been quite big in the business. my dad was a Broadway actor, so we knew a lot of people. (not that anyone knows who i’m talking about, but as little girl i had a big crush on Bud Whitney and later found out, he was a big deal person, too. i also liked Rufus Smith a lot and he did have red hair. He sang They Call the Wind Mariah in Paint Your Wagon. i loved that show. (Do Not think it was Anything like the movie!! They couldn’t have ruined more than if baboon had produced it !!! 😡 and a baboon would have cared more!!)

  • @roelienpostma2367
    @roelienpostma2367 12 дней назад

    Enjoying these immensely! Thank you!

  • @markrossow6303
    @markrossow6303 12 дней назад

    maybe Collective You ?

  • @sandeakilpatrick2386
    @sandeakilpatrick2386 13 дней назад

    Thanks for doing all the work! 😁

  • @sandeakilpatrick2386
    @sandeakilpatrick2386 16 дней назад

    Space blues. I like it. Thank you.

  • @jonbarber1
    @jonbarber1 16 дней назад

    Please keep it up until your fine work is discovered.

  • @roelienpostma2367
    @roelienpostma2367 17 дней назад

    Loving these interesting stories

    • @roberthoffman7695
      @roberthoffman7695 16 дней назад

      As a writer, I find these broadcasts very instructive - the writing is so tight!

  • @roelienpostma2367
    @roelienpostma2367 17 дней назад

    Fantastic! Hilliarious! What clear vision of the future!

  • @roelienpostma2367
    @roelienpostma2367 17 дней назад

    Very entertaining, when writers were so immaginative!

  • @jonbarber1
    @jonbarber1 17 дней назад

    Born in 51. Almost no radio where I lived. I am enjoying these very much. Better than anything contemporary.

  • @mikehobart
    @mikehobart 17 дней назад

    I had known about this story for years, but it was only recently I read it for the first time. It was amazing - if you substituted laptops and servers for logics and tanks, you'd think it had been written in the early days of home computers !

  • @VickiNikolaidis
    @VickiNikolaidis 18 дней назад

    Great job! Murray Leinster is one of my faves.

  • @markrossow6303
    @markrossow6303 19 дней назад

    always assumed "Line stir" like German and the closing credits announcer does too

  • @sandeakilpatrick2386
    @sandeakilpatrick2386 19 дней назад

    I liked it! Thank you.

  • @janerichman3100
    @janerichman3100 21 день назад

    All the unprepared stuff at the beginning and I turned off

    • @insights2reality100
      @insights2reality100 19 дней назад

      Thanks for the input. This was one of my earlier videos and I'm getting better at it. I hope you'll give a listen to one of the more recent ones.

    • @markrossow6303
      @markrossow6303 19 дней назад

      ​@insights2reality100 <3 <3

    • @roberthoffman7695
      @roberthoffman7695 11 дней назад

      patience . . .

  • @markrossow6303
    @markrossow6303 22 дня назад

    Fun ! (& the 1950s were an odd era of many wives even w/0 children sitting home all day while Mod(ern) Con(venience)s of home appliances + canned food (!!) had reduced the housekeeping workload... )

  • @videojeff01
    @videojeff01 22 дня назад

    Also, thank you for showing the script! I like to follow along and know exactly what they said. Sometimes it's hard to make out just by listening.

    • @insights2reality100
      @insights2reality100 19 дней назад

      Yes! That has always been my thought and since it didn't exist out there I decided to make videos with the scripts. I appreciate the encouragement.

    • @roberthoffman7695
      @roberthoffman7695 11 дней назад

      videojeff! I've had the privilege of assisting (where I can) when the available scripts are - well - suspect at best. I look forward to exploring more of these scripts and radio shows.

  • @videojeff01
    @videojeff01 22 дня назад

    Wow, interesting. It held my attention all the way to the end. Thank you for adding the historical glossary! It was interesting and useful.

  • @cathystrydom8731
    @cathystrydom8731 23 дня назад

    Thankyou very much luv oldies. South Africa. ❤❤

  • @michaelkottler
    @michaelkottler 23 дня назад

    Excellent again, I2R. This was one of the 1st Dimension X rebroadcasts I listened to, in spellbound awe, on late-night AM radio as a child in the 70's. As always, the description, historical glossary & preamble elevate your channel to apex-level OTR. Thanks.

    • @roberthoffman7695
      @roberthoffman7695 16 дней назад

      just now seeing this. I, likewise, recall radio rebroadcasts of many shows in the 70s. In the Los Angeles area, 93 KHJ - and yes - after midnight. Dimension X - x - x - x rings a bell, but not until I reheard these, would I have remembered. My siblings and I would borrow records from the library of old radio programs, but most of those were comedies, as I recall.

  • @michaelkottler
    @michaelkottler 23 дня назад

    Epic Heinlein Dimension X epi w/an edifying preamble. Excellent again, I2R & much-appreciated. It is this listener's hope that you'll add additional episodes of DX, X-1, CBSRMT etc at your leisure (& by "at your leisure" I mean make that sh-t for now lol). Also: The inclusion of scripts is a nice touch, especially useful for total DX geeks and those who prefer to read along including the hearing-impaired.

  • @michaelkottler
    @michaelkottler 23 дня назад

    I don't listen to Dimension X often, but when I do I tune in to Insights 2 Reality's YT channel, the discriminating radio-play enthusiast's choice for thoughtfully-selected episodes and edifying, in-depth monographs overflowing with salient information. Thanks, I2R! In the interest of full-disclosure: I do listen to radio-plays frequently including Dimension-X, the follow-up to NBC's epoch-making X-1 (and a plethora of other shows like CBS Radio MT, Quiet, Please and so on), and while there are several extremely good YT resources for OTR, contemporary radio-plays and audiobooks, I2R's addition of interesting background material on each epi and the friendly, relaxed, inviting and natural flow of the preamble to each episode places it in a category all its own. In short, insights 2 Reality is 100% dope so if you're on the fence about subscribing to yet another radio-play channel: this is the droid you're looking for.

  • @sandeakilpatrick2386
    @sandeakilpatrick2386 24 дня назад

    Once again, very interesting. I liked it!

  • @jordsupp
    @jordsupp 26 дней назад

    Hilarious - these old futuristic space exploration stories all relied on the Space Program having recruited a bunch of unstable personalities who were pursuing their own personal agendas 😅

  • @roberthoffman7695
    @roberthoffman7695 29 дней назад

    Brilliant. I was introduced to Heinlein during a Greyhound Bus trip across the U.S. Methuselahs Children (If I got the title right). Also brilliant is the advance warning about the 'noise' from the recordings. Simple truth: I was able to follow along to the end and am glad for it. Great job and thanks for being brave to submit this!

    • @michaelkottler
      @michaelkottler 23 дня назад

      Cool. I was introduced to Heinlein at an early age via my father's extensive library which included a myriad sci-fi authors' material including PK Dick, Bradbury, Heinlein, Asimov , Sturgeon et al and while at age seven I didn't fully "grok" every nuance and salient plot point, each story and novel made an impression on me including Stranger in a Strange Land, Venus on the Half Shell (which made me wish I was the protagonist!), "The Veldt" (and other stuff from The Illustrated Man), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, A Scanner Darkly, and so on. As I matured, I revisited every one of these authors' works and realized through the lens of age, education and experience just how prescient, relevant, often amusing and amazing in general these works are. So yeah, what you said: Brilliant!

    • @roberthoffman7695
      @roberthoffman7695 22 дня назад

      @@michaelkottler Friday got me! It was then I recognized those writers were holding back. I've been to Comic-Cons since the late 70s - and the last 20 years solid (for various reasons). My point (boast) is that I was able to meet with Bradbury during an LA Museum "lecture" he gave in the early 90s. Give or take. What charmed me about him was that he was charmed by me. Oh. My. My ultimate take away was him saying to me - "Please, my friend, please just don't stop writing - you'll figure it out." Me: Yessir! :0) Thanks for the thoughts.

  • @sandeakilpatrick2386
    @sandeakilpatrick2386 Месяц назад

    Very good. I understand his longing to go to the moon.

  • @solomonkane102
    @solomonkane102 Месяц назад

    To record the ahow for other time zones they cut large 18" records called transcriptions. That's why its scratchy.

  • @roberthoffman7695
    @roberthoffman7695 Месяц назад

    Some fun stuff! Bill Conrad aka William Conrad was the main actor for the television show Cannon when I grew up. It's terrific to see these name appear in these radio shows year earlier! In the 21st century, we've been currently inundated with court dramas. Think Depp & Herd; Trump & et.al.; and of course Simpson, if you go that far back! My point being: It was easy for me to follow this drama as a result of our current (over 70 years later) social attention on the court system. Prosecutors and Defendants, and so forth. Another social echo is to what lengths a public servant will/would go to, to retain their place of power.

  • @sylviahoffman9440
    @sylviahoffman9440 Месяц назад

    Wow Ray is such a talent writer, I enjoy all of his stories. I really love how he predicted the smart house, roomba, and possible nuclear or climate change apocalypse 70 years ago. Incredible. Neither of the stories wanted me to turn them off - they were very engaging. Loved them. Especially the poem. Thanks for sharing

  • @sylviahoffman9440
    @sylviahoffman9440 Месяц назад

    Wow - a week long adventure. I like Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Nice detective work for an Insurance Officer. Fun story. Thanks for sharing.

  • @sylviahoffman9440
    @sylviahoffman9440 Месяц назад

    Nice ending surprise! I didn't expect that, but it makes sense no one could "find" the treasure since no matter what the papers inside the envelope say, the real treasure was not where anyone would even look. Very cool. Thanks for sharing the story and the historical idioms. ❤

  • @sylviahoffman9440
    @sylviahoffman9440 Месяц назад

    When Paul said Ann was "in no condition to see anyone" and near "breakdown" I thought he had her committed and heavily sedated brcause she knew the truth and he will not let anything stand in his way of his "senate seat". Not an unheard of thing to do with a family member who could ruin a reputation. Look at JFK's sister. I suspected from this conversation, Paul was responsible. ⚖️ Nice story. Thanks for sharing.

  • @sylviahoffman9440
    @sylviahoffman9440 Месяц назад

    "Mechanical Monster did its work" - perfect description of an alarm clark. My feelings exactly. 💯

  • @sylviahoffman9440
    @sylviahoffman9440 Месяц назад

    It sounds like Sheldon Leonard is playing Frank. I loved him in "It's A Wonderful Life". I added the comment before Vincent gave the cast. It's fun hearing voices you know on these shows. I looked up "newspaper morgue", I guess we call that archives now. This was a lot of fun to listen to. Thanks for putting this together. Nicely done. ❤

    • @roberthoffman7695
      @roberthoffman7695 27 дней назад

      I thought the same thing about Frank and I looked it up - yes, it is Sheldon Leonard! (he was also mentioned by Vincent Price at the end) what a sonic pleasure this piece is.

  • @roberthoffman7695
    @roberthoffman7695 Месяц назад

    Oh, my! I know the trope, of course, but for some reason not this particular story. A couple of thrills: I caught the Nettie connection pretty early - woo hoo!; I'm fond of the fantasy moment that $10,000 was taken out of the bank for a $9,000 product . . . what would you do with $1,000 in 1951?: and I had wondered at B-2 . . . was the Braeling actor good enough to voice both roles? I was shocked/pleasantly surprised/enamoured when I saw that Ross Martin played the voice of B-2. I've always enjoyed Martin's acting, introduced to me as the side kick (can't remember the name) to James West in The Wild Wild West. I know next to nothing of Martin's history of acting, but in the Wild West shows, he was always mimicking character roles in the series: sea-salt captains, drunkin' fools, old ladies and such. So the light went on for me - here he is mimicking the voice and style of the hen-pecked Braeling. Brilliant.

    • @michaelkottler
      @michaelkottler 18 дней назад

      Well, I wouldn't kick his performance out of bed for turning on the Resonator once in awhile (but just for, like, 30 seconds at a time).

  • @sandeakilpatrick2386
    @sandeakilpatrick2386 Месяц назад

    This was very clever. I enjoyed it immensely.

  • @heebieggs
    @heebieggs Месяц назад

    Agreed about the historical touches, i love the introductions on these! Found your channel yesterday and binged all your videos already!

  • @heebieggs
    @heebieggs Месяц назад

    i love how you set these up with the script on screen too, thanks for uploading! Subbed.

  • @roberthoffman7695
    @roberthoffman7695 Месяц назад

    These stories are great. (and I'ma Bradbury fan, too) One thing I love is that these 'future' Dimension X stories published in 1950-51, so far, often reference the far-far future in 1974 or 1984 or *gasp* later! (but never by much). Love it. Thanks for offering these up.

  • @sandeakilpatrick2386
    @sandeakilpatrick2386 Месяц назад

    As always, another great story!

  • @sandeakilpatrick2386
    @sandeakilpatrick2386 Месяц назад

    Very interesting. It shows how far we've come; from a good imagination about space to real satellite pictures. It makes me wonder what it will be like 70 years from now.

  • @sandeakilpatrick2386
    @sandeakilpatrick2386 Месяц назад

    Very good. I agree; it makes me want to read the book.