Ernest Kinoy

From NBC's Dimension X comes Episode 10, The Green Hills of Earth, first heard June 10, 1950.

Adapted for radio by Ernest Kinoy from Robert A. Heinlein's short story, it follows noisy Reisling, once a space engineer and now a bard drawn again toward Earth.

Norman Rose heads the cast, with Tom Glazer providing the songs heard in the program.

Here is the original broadcast.

With the crew unable to identify its position, the gravely injured navigator, Lieutenant Grodin, becomes central to their effort to chart a route through unfamiliar space.

Ernest Kinoy adapted Frederick Pohl's galaxy science fiction story for radio with Daniel Sutter directing.

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On August 18th, 1950, NBC presented episode 20 of Dimension X, adapting Ray Bradbury's newly published The Martian Chronicles.

Ernest Kinoy prepared the radio adaptation, with Norman Rose as narrator.

Inge Adams, Roger DeKoven, Donald Buka, and David Anderson are featured in the cast.

The program follows connected passages from Earth to Mars, where human arrivals encounter the remains of an older Martian world.

On August 4th, 1955, NBC aired the 12th broadcast of X Minus 1.

Tonight's story, Ray Bradbury's The Veldt, was adapted for radio by Ernest Kinoy from Bradbury's short story with Daniel Sutter directing.

In the automated happy life home, George and Lydia Abbott have grown concerned about their children's nursery, where crystalline walls turn thought into lifelike surroundings.

The room keeps returning to an African veldt, and psychologist Dr. David McClean is asked to look into the matter.

From NBC, this is Dimension X, Episode 8, To the Future, first heard on May 27th, 1950.

Ray Bradbury's story was adapted for radio by Ernest Kinoy, with John Larkin and Jan Miner as the fugitive couple.

And now, the original broadcast.

Adventures in time and space told in future tense.

Tonight, Dimension X presents Episode 20: The Martian Chronicles, a composite adaptation from Ray Bradbury's Martian stories, heard on NBC August 18th, 1950.

Ernest Kinoy prepared the radio adaptation.

Jack Cooney directed, with Inge Adams, Roger DeKoven, and Donald Booker in the cast.

Bradbury himself hosts this broadcast.

Frederick Pohl's story, The Map Makers, adapted for radio by Ernest Kinoy, brings a deep space survey ship far beyond its charts.

On September 26th, 1956, NBC's X Minus One presented episode 68, with John Larkin, Ed Prentice, Bob Hastings, and Tom Collins among the cast.

A meteor strike has thrown the ship out of hyperspace, damaged its systems, and destroyed the atlas the crew needs to find its way.

From NBC's sustaining run of Dimension X, this is Competition, Episode 30, broadcast November 19th, 1950.

Ernest Kinoy adapted E. Mayne Hull's short story for radio, with Les Tremayne and Elaine Ross featured in the cast.

Van Woodward produced this broadcast.

And now, we return to the original broadcast.

From NBC's Dimension X, this is Requiem, episode 49, broadcast September 22, 1951.

Ernest Kinoy adapted Robert A. Heinlein's story, first published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1940.

Rod Hendrickson stars as Harriman, with Bill Quinn as McIntyre, and Owen Jordan as Charlie.

And now, our story begins.