X Minus One

 

 

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From the far reaches of the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories of the future, adventures in which you'll live in a million could-be years on a thousand may-be worlds - -

 

X Minus One was an extension of the earlier NBC series Dimension X. With the first 15 shows being straight repeats from Dimension X, X Minus One then struck out into deeper space with new adaptations from Astounding Science Fiction Magazine and Galaxy Magazine as well as an occasional original (Dimension X) to keep the mix intriguing.

X Minus One transcended its parent program with some of the most creative melodrama the medium has yet heard.  Apart from its magazine affiliations, X Minus One gathered stories from such renown sci-fi writers as Isaac Asimov, Robert Bloch, Robert A. Heinlein and Poul Anderson.

A major asset was the NBC writing staff: two primary adapters, Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts were capable not only of distilling magazine stories but of writing their own superb originals.

Luckily all episodes of this great series have survived.

 

 

Want to check out an episode? - why not "taste & try"?

 

This episode can be freely downloaded to your computer - just right button click on any link below and chose "Download Linked File" (or words to that effect). The file is on an average about 17Mb - download time will depend on your (broadband) speed

 

XM1_1955-08-25 Cold Equations.mp3

 

In all 113 different episodes were broadcast - these comprised 32 revisits to Dimension X stories and 81 new stories - several programs were also repeated. Interestingly a failed attempt to revive the series in 1973 resulted in one further (original) 114th show

 

The 114 (different) episodes of X Minus One have been assembled here on three MP3 CDs

 

 

A.           Revisits to Dimension X Episodes

1.             XM1_1955-04-24 No Contact.mp3

2.             XM1_1955-05-01 The Parade.mp3

3.             XM1_1955-05-08 Mars is Heaven.mp3

4.             XM1_1955-05-15 Universe.mp3

5.             XM1_1955-05-22 Knock.mp3

6.             XM1_1955-05-29 The Man in the Moon.mp3

7.             XM1_1955-06-05 Perigi's Wonderful Dolls.mp3

8.             XM1_1955-07-07 The Green Hills of Earth.mp3

9.             XM1_1955-07-14 Dr Grimshaw's Sanitorium.mp3

10.         XM1_1955-07-21 Nightmare.mp3

11.         XM1_1955-07-28 The Embassy.mp3

12.         XM1_1955-08-04 The Veldt.mp3

13.         XM1_1955-08-11 Almost Human.mp3

14.         XM1_1955-08-18 Courtesy.mp3

15.         XM1_1955-09-01 Shanghaied.mp3

16.         XM1_1955-09-08 The Martian Death March.mp3

17.         XM1_1955-09-15 The Castaways.mp3

18.         XM1_1955-09-22 And The Moon Be Still As Bright.mp3

19.         XM1_1955-10-06 First Contact.mp3

20.         XM1_1955-10-20 Child's Play.mp3

21.         XM1_1955-10-27 Requiem.mp3

22.         XM1_1955-11-03 Hello Tomorrow.mp3

23.         XM1_1955-11-10 The Dwellers in Silence.mp3

24.         XM1_1955-11-16 The Outer Limit.mp3

25.         XM1_1955-11-30 The Vital Factor.mp3

26.         XM1_1955-12-07 Nightfall.mp3

27.         XM1_1955-12-14 To the Future.mp3

28.         XM1_1955-12-21 Marionettes Inc.mp3

29.         XM1_1955-12-28 A Logic Named Joe.mp3

30.         XM1_1956-01-04 The Roads Must Roll.mp3

31.         XM1_1956-01-11 Time And Time Again.mp3

32.         XM1_1956-12-05 There Will Come Soft Rains & Zero Hour.mp3

 

B.           X Minus One - New Episodes

1.             XM1_1955-08-25 The Cold Equation.mp3

2.             XM1_1956-02-01 The Cave of Night.mp3

3.             XM1_1956-02-08 C-Chute.mp3

4.             XM1_1956-02-15 Skulking Permit.mp3

5.             XM1_1956-02-22 Junkyard.mp3

6.             XM1_1956-03-07 A Gun for Dinosaur.mp3

7.             XM1_1956-03-14 Tunnel Under the World.mp3

8.             XM1_1956-03-21 One Thousand Dollars a Plate.mp3

9.             XM1_1956-03-28 A Pail of Air.mp3

10.         XM1_1956-04-03 How 2.mp3

11.         XM1_1956-04-10 Star Bright.mp3

12.         XM1_1956-04-17 Jaywalker.mp3

13.         XM1_1956-04-24 The Sense of Wonder.mp3

14.         XM1_1956-05-01 Sea Legs.mp3

15.         XM1_1956-05-08 The Seventh Order.mp3

16.         XM1_1956-05-15 Hallucination Orbit.mp3

17.         XM1_1956-05-22 The Defenders.mp3

18.         XM1_1956-05-29 Lulungameena.mp3

19.         XM1_1956-06-05 Project Mastodon.mp3

20.         XM1_1956-06-12 If You Was a Moklin.mp3

21.         XM1_1956-06-19 Project Trojan.mp3

22.         XM1_1956-06-26 Wherever You May Be.mp3

23.         XM1_1956-07-03 Mr Costello, Hero.mp3

24.         XM1_1956-07-10 Bad Medicine.mp3

25.         XM1_1956-07-17 The Old Die Rich.mp3

26.         XM1_1956-07-24 The Stars are the Styx.mp3

27.         XM1_1956-07-31 Student Body.mp3

28.         XM1_1956-08-07 The Last Martian.mp3

29.         XM1_1956-08-14 The Snowball Effect.mp3

30.         XM1_1956-08-28 Surface Tension.mp3

31.         XM1_1956-09-11 The Lifeboat Mutiny.mp3

32.         XM1_1956-09-26 The Map Makers.mp3

33.         XM1_1956-10-03 Protective Mimicry.mp3

34.         XM1_1956-10-10 Colony.mp3

35.         XM1_1956-10-17 Soldier Boy.mp3

36.         XM1_1956-10-24 Pictures Don't Lie.mp3

37.         XM1_1956-10-31 Sam This is You.mp3

38.         XM1_1956-11-07 Appointment In Tomorrow.mp3

39.         XM1_1956-11-21 Chain of Command.mp3

40.         XM1_1956-12-12 Hostess.mp3

41.         XM1_1956-12-19 The Reluctant Heroes.mp3

42.         XM1_1956-12-26 Honeymoon in Hell.mp3

43.         XM1_1957-01-02 The Moon is Green.mp3

44.         XM1_1957-01-09 Saucer of Loneliness.mp3

45.         XM1_1957-01-16 The Girls from Earth.mp3

46.         XM1_1957-01-23 Open Warfare.mp3

47.         XM1_1957-01-30 Caretaker.mp3

48.         XM1_1957-02-06 Venus is a Man's World.mp3

49.         XM1_1957-02-13 The Trap.mp3

50.         XM1_1957-02-20 Field Study.mp3

51.         XM1_1957-02-27 Real Gone.mp3

52.         XM1_1957-03-06 The Seventh Victim.mp3

53.         XM1_1957-03-13 The Lights on Precipice Peak.mp3

54.         XM1_1957-03-20 Protection.mp3

55.         XM1_1957-03-27 At the Post.mp3

56.         XM1_1957-04-03 Martian Sam.mp3

57.         XM1_1957-04-10 Something for Nothing.mp3

58.         XM1_1957-04-17 The Discovery Of Mornial Mathaway.mp3

59.         XM1_1957-04-24 Man's Best Friend.mp3

60.         XM1_1957-06-20 Inside Story.mp3

61.         XM1_1957-06-27 The Category Inventor.mp3

62.         XM1_1957-07-11 Early Model.mp3

63.         XM1_1957-07-18 The Merchants of Venus.mp3

64.         XM1_1957-07-25 The Haunted Corpse.mp3

65.         XM1_1957-08-01 End as a World.mp3

66.         XM1_1957-08-08 The Scapegoat.mp3

67.         XM1_1957-08-22 Drop Dead.mp3

68.         XM1_1957-08-29 Volpla.mp3

69.         XM1_1957-09-19 Tsylana.mp3

70.         XM1_1957-09-26 The Native Problem.mp3

71.         XM1_1957-10-03 A Wind is Rising.mp3

72.         XM1_1957-10-10 Death Wish.mp3

73.         XM1_1957-10-17 Point of Departure.mp3

74.         XM1_1957-10-24 The Light.mp3

75.         XM1_1957-10-31 Lulu.mp3

76.         XM1_1957-11-21 The Coffin Cure.mp3

77.         XM1_1957-11-28 Shock Troop.mp3

78.         XM1_1957-12-19 Double Dare.mp3

79.         XM1_1957-12-26 Target One.mp3

80.         XM1_1958-01-02 Prime Difference.mp3

81.         XM1_1958-01-09 Gray Flannel Armor.mp3

 

C.           A 70's Revival of X Minus One

1.             XM1_1973-01-27 The Iron Chancellor.mp3

 

 

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