X Minus One: Old-Time Radio Science Fiction

Walter Feline, an associate professor of anthropology, wakes to find that alien beings called Zanns have conquered Earth and taken the surviving specimens of its life to a zoo. He is held in a room with a woman named Grace Evans. The Zanns, who believe they are immortal, learn that other animals in the zoo are dying, and they demand that Walter reveal how he is causing these deaths. The transcript covers only the first part of the episode. The episode is from the series X Minus One, first broadcast on May 22, 1955, with Alex Scob as Walter and Laurie March as Grace. Walter and Grace are kept under questioning as the Zanns press for an explanation.With Walter Feline, Grace Evans, George (a Zann).Listen for: The Zanns' questioning of Walter about the dying animals, and how the Zanns' belief in their own immortality shapes what they do.First aired on May 22, 1955.Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.Free, complete and restored, no modern ads. A new episode every week: X Minus One on Stupid Potato, live around the clock.Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 61 free 24/7 channels and 190 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.

Hugh Holland and his friend Alan Mahoney, cadets on a vast ship, climb deck levels to visit John the Witness, an old keeper of the ship's sacred legend, to hear the word of Jordan as it was passed down. Their questions about what lies beyond the ship provoke the old man, and a violent confrontation follows. Holland and Alan are forced to flee into the upper levels, where they meet a mutant leader named Gregory. Gregory's people, outcasts of the ship's order, offer Holland a glimpse of what the ship really is, and Holland begins to question everything he was taught. The story is an episode of the radio series X Minus One, first broadcast on May 15, 1955.With Hugh Holland, Alan Mahoney, John the Witness, Gregory, Bobo, Holland's uncle, The captain, The lieutenant.Listen for: Listen for the moment Holland is shown the true view from the ship's control room, and for the lieutenant's reaction to it.First aired on May 15, 1955.Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.Free, complete and restored, no modern ads. A new episode every week: X Minus One on Stupid Potato, live around the clock.Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 61 free 24/7 channels and 190 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.

Captain John Black leads a crew of seventeen men who land a naval spacecraft on Mars in the dark. At dawn they find a quiet small town with a white house, an iron deer on a lawn, and a family waiting for them. Captain Black and his officers, including Lieutenant Lustig and Dr. Horst, are welcomed by a woman who claims that the town is in 1928 Wisconsin, and then by the family of John Black himself. Lustig is drawn to the house and the family, and the officers begin to question what they see. The episode is from the X Minus One radio series, first broadcast on May 8, 1955, and is adapted from a story by Ray Bradbury.With Captain John Black, Lieutenant Lustig, Dr. Horst, Masters, Hinkston, Edward, Mom, Dad.Listen for: The moment the crew realizes the town and family are not what they seem.First aired on May 8, 1955.Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.Free, complete and restored, no modern ads. A new episode every week: X Minus One on Stupid Potato, live around the clock.Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 61 free 24/7 channels and 190 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.

Sid Ryan, a New York publicity man, is approached by Mr. Lucha, who claims to be a Martian and pays a large retainer to run a campaign announcing a Martian invasion. Ryan builds a suspense campaign leading to a Martian Day parade on Fifth Avenue, complete with midgets, clowns and a silent column of men in spacesuits. As the parade draws near, Ryan grows suspicious of his mysterious client and the true purpose behind the spectacle. This is the X Minus One radio series, first broadcast on May 1, 1955, with George Leopold's story performed by Joseph Curtin as Ryan and Joe De Santis as Lucha.With Sid Ryan, Mr. Lucha, Oliver, Sammy, Commissioner Patrick Lee, Ken Bailey, Ada Shackley, Gloria Montetex.Listen for: The parade narration on Fifth Avenue, when the silent Martian ranks march past the reviewing stand and the crowd turns grim.First aired on May 1, 1955.Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.Free, complete and restored, no modern ads. A new episode every week: X Minus One on Stupid Potato, live around the clock.Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 61 free 24/7 channels and 190 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.

Captain Lewis Forson commands the Star Cloud, the sixth ship sent to cross the galactic barrier, a wall in space that has destroyed five earlier vessels on the way to the planet Volta. Lieutenant Collier, son of a navigator lost on an earlier flight, takes the navigation post as the ship launches from Earth. Ship's doctor Smithson treats crew members suffering from a condition called space blues, and the men grow tense as the barrier approaches. The episode is X Minus One, first broadcast on April 24, 1955, and its transcript is partial, so the guide follows only the early portion of the story.With Captain Lewis Forson, Dr. Smithson, Lieutenant Collier, Lieutenant Paulson, Charlie, Colonel Harrison.Listen for: Listen for the tension aboard the Star Cloud as the crew approaches the galactic barrier, and for the recurring mention of space blues among the crew.First aired on April 24, 1955.Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.Free, complete and restored, no modern ads. A new episode every week: X Minus One on Stupid Potato, live around the clock.Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 61 free 24/7 channels and 190 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.