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X Minus One is an American half-hour science fiction radio drama series that was broadcast from April 24, 1955, to January 9, 1958, in various timeslots on NBC.Known for high production values in adapting stories from the leading American authors of the era, X Minus One has been described as one of the finest offerings of American radio drama and one of the best science fiction series in any ...
Title Air Date Author 33. "The Roads Must Roll" January 4 Robert A. Heinlein (adapted by Ernest Kinoy) : 34. "Time and Time Again" January 11 H. Beam Piper (adapted by Ernest Kinoy)
Perigi's Wonderful Dolls is a 1955 science fiction short story written and adapted by George Lefferts for the radio drama series X Minus One.It was originally aired without commercials by NBC on June 5, 1955, and later rebroadcast on January 18, 1956. [1]
The story is narrated by a ten-year-old boy living on Earth after it has become a rogue planet, having been torn away from the Sun by a passing "dark star".The loss of solar heating has caused the Earth's atmosphere to freeze into thick layers of "snow".
NBC's radio series X Minus One was made in partnership with Galaxy Science Fiction. The adaptation "The Seventh Victim" was written by Ernest Kinoy, and remains relatively close to the original story. The only major change was to introduce the character Immanuel Gale of the Bureau, who introduces the backstory of the Hunt through a conversation ...
A man sees a woman on the beach one night—he suspects she will attempt suicide. He spots her in the ocean and plunges in to save her. She struggles but he manages to get her ashore. Subsequently, she tells him her story: Years earlier in Central Park she saw a very small flying saucer hovering about her, small enough to put her arms around it ...
It is one of several of his stories to be expanded into a novel. The story was first published in the January 1953 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction . In 1956, the story was adapted for the radio program X Minus One by George Lefferts .
Two radio adaptations of "Tunnel Under the World" were broadcast as episodes of X Minus One. It was produced by the BBC in 1966 in series 2 of the anthology series Out of the Unknown. [1] It is one of only four episodes from the thirteen-episode season to survive.