Dimension X

On remote Tahani Atoll in the South Pacific, preparations for an atomic bomb test meet resistance when the island's residents refuse evacuation from their ancestral home.

This is Dimension X, Episode 19, The Castaways.

First heard on NBC August 11th, 1950, Santos Ortega appears as General Frank Gadosh, overseeing Operation Destruction.

Daniel Occo and Greg Morton are also heard.

The original radio drama was written by Ernest Kenoy and George Lefferts, with Jack Cuny directing and Van Woodward producing.

Now, back to the golden age of radio.

It's National Wheaties Week! Yes, it's National Wheaties Week, and Wheaties present Dimension X.

On stage tonight, Dimension X, another in the Wheaties big parade of exciting half-hour presentations.

Santos Ortega portrays archeologist Bel Arverdan with Susan Douglas as Pola in this adaptation of Isaac Asimov's novel.

From NBC's Dimension X, broadcast June 17th, 1951, comes Episode 37: A Pebble in the Sky.

On a future Earth, regarded by the Galactic Empire as a radioactive and impoverished backwater, Arverdan arrives to investigate his belief that humanity began there.

His meeting with Pola draws him into the tensions between Earth and the wider empire.

We now take you back to the original broadcast.

[dramatic music] Adventures in time and space, transcribed in future tense.

Dimension X.

[dramatic music] The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of Astounding Science Fiction, bring you Dimension X.

A New York private detective named Broderick is approached by an eccentric client who believes a Martian embassy is concealed somewhere in the city.

That assignment sets the scene for Embassy, episode 9 of NBC's Dimension X, first heard on June 3, 1950.

The cast includes Joseph Julian, Barry Kroger, Dan Ocko, and Bryna Raeburn.

George Lefferts adapted the drama from Donald A. Walheim's 1942 short story, published under the name Martin Pearson, Edward King directed, with Van Woodward producing.

For a late-hour visit to a New York where private eye inquiry and extraterrestrial intrigue overlap, here is Dimension X, and now, the original broadcast.

Adventures in time and space told in future tense.

Out of the infinitude of stars and planets in the solar system... and other systems in the universe...

Oh, why don't they listen? Why don't they believe me?

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1951 broadcast of Dimension X.

In episode 44, Vital Factor, Raymond Edward Johnson heads the cast as Wayne Crowder, the force behind Crowder Industries and its drive to build the first spacecraft capable of carrying a man into space.

The ship can be built, but its propulsion problem remains unsolved.

Adventures in time and space.

Told in future tense.

Dimension X.

The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of astounding science fiction, bring you Dimension X. I doubt that anywhere on Earth there's a man or a woman or a child who doesn't know the name Wayne Crowder.

A New York publicity agent is hired by a client who insists he is a Martian and who proposes a campaign announcing that the Martians are coming.

From NBC's Dimension X comes The Parade, Episode 21, originally broadcast August 25th, 1950.

Joseph Curtin stars as Sid Ryan, with Barry Kroeger as Luchar, and Alexander Scourby as broadcaster Ron Heilman.

George Lefferts wrote this original radio drama, produced by Van Woodward and directed by Edward King, as Ryan's Fifth Avenue promotion moves toward a June 1st Martian Day parade.

And now, the original broadcast.

It's National Wheaties Week.

[upbeat music] Yes, it's National Wheaties Week, and Wheaties presents Dimension X.

Transcribed onstage tonight, Dimension X, another in the Wheaties big parade of exciting half-hour presentations.