X Minus One
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Oct 30, 2026
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
August 15, 1957, brought NBC Radio episode 107 of X-1 at the Post.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Adapted by Ernest Kenoy from a story by H.L. Gold, it follows New York race handicapper Clocker Locke as he searches for meaning in the repeated actions of his institutionalized wife, Zelda, and other patients.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
The broadcast revisits a script heard earlier that year with a different cast for this performance.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
From the NBC sustaining series X-1, here is At The Post.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
And now, the original broadcast.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
Countdown for blastoff.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
X-5, 4, 3, 2, X-1, fire.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
From the far horizons of the unknown come tales of new dimensions in time and space.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
X-5, 4, 3, 2...
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
X minus one, fire.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
From the far horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time and space.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
These are stories of the future.
Jim BowlesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Zim or Zet?
Fred CollinsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You have just heard X-Minus One presented by the National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, which this month features Man in the Jar, the story of Vane who did not bottle live people indiscriminately.
Fred CollinsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He had to have a sound business reason.
Fred CollinsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Galaxy Magazine on your newsstand today.
Fred CollinsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Tonight, X-Minus One has brought you The Lights on Precipice Peak, a story from the pages of Galaxy written by Stephen Tall and adapted for radio by Ernest Kenoy.
Fred CollinsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Featured in the cast were Jim Bowles as John Drinkhart, Joseph Helgeson as his fellow climber Chuck Evers, Ted Osborne as Zell, and Kurt Benson as the man who called himself Royston.
Fred CollinsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Your announcer, Fred Collins.
Jim BowlesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Zim or Zet?
Fred CollinsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You have just heard X-Minus One presented by the National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, which this month features Man in the Jar, the story of Vane who did not bottle live people indiscriminately.
Fred CollinsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He had to have a sound business reason.
Fred CollinsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Galaxy Magazine on your newsstand today.
Fred CollinsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Tonight, X-Minus One has brought you The Lights on Precipice Peak, a story from the pages of Galaxy written by Stephen Tall and adapted for radio by Ernest Kenoy.
Fred CollinsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Featured in the cast were Jim Bowles as John Drinkhart, Joseph Helgeson as his fellow climber Chuck Evers, Ted Osborne as Zell, and Kurt Benson as the man who called himself Royston.
Fred CollinsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Your announcer, Fred Collins.
speaker_14VOICE_ACTOR
I gotta get this latrine ready for inspection by 1300.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
You have just heard X-Minus One, presented by the National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, which this month features the William Tenn novelette, Time in Advance, the story of a man who made a strange bargain and endured the worst the galaxy had to offer, so that someday he could make the Earth sweat.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
Galaxy Magazine, on your newsstand today.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
Tonight, by transcription, X-Minus One has brought you Project Trojans, An original story by Ernest Canoy based on an idea contained in an editorial in Galaxy written by H.L. Gold.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
Featured in the cast were Burford Hampton, Alistair Duncan, Ivor Francis, Alfred Shirley, Bill Quinn, and your narrator was Alfred Hislip.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
Your announcer, Fred Collins.
Walter O'KeefeNARRATOR
X-5, 4, 3, 2...
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
X minus one, fire.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
From the far horizons of the unknown come tales of new dimensions in time and space.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
These are stories of the future.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
Countdown for blastoff.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
X minus 5, minus 4, minus 3, minus 2, X minus 1.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
Fire! From the far horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time and space.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
These are stories of the future.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
Adventures in which you'll live in a million could-be years on a thousand maybe worlds.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
The National Broadcasting Company presents
Ken WilliamsVOICE_ACTOR
X
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
minus one.
Austin RichHOST
This is a more extended conversation because previously we really only spoke about the 1950-1951 events.
Austin RichHOST
early early early phase of radio and sci-fi this conversation is a more extended conversation about the 10 year period between 1950 and 1960 the period that encapsulates Dimension X and X minus one being on the air on NBC and so it's a longer conversation we get into some more stuff hopefully for those sci-fi nerds out there they're appreciating the talk and yeah What can I say? I always love hanging out with y'all.
Austin RichHOST
Especially a seasonal broadcast like this.
Austin RichHOST
Make sure to support your radio here in the area.
Austin RichHOST
Yeah.
Austin RichHOST
Which blows my mind, because other much better authors got one story.
Austin RichHOST
So somebody at X-1 was like, I like this Dick guy, we should do a couple of his stories.
Obadiah BairdGUEST
Phil K. Dick came out of the gate kind of pushing the genre forward.
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Meet them all tomorrow when NBC's Weekday brings you another day of fact and fun on this station.
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now stay tuned for X-1 on NBC.
Fred CollinsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Countdown for blastoff.
Fred CollinsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
X-5, 4, 3, 2, X-1, fire.
Fred CollinsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
From the far horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time and space.
Fred CollinsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
These are stories of the future.
Fred CollinsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Adventures in which you'll live in a million could be years on a thousand maybe worlds.
Fred CollinsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, presents
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
On Mars, a narrator recalls Rizzling, a blind singer whose guitar songs have entered the folklore of the spaceways.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
That recollection opens X-1's eighth episode, The Green Hills of Earth, broadcast by NBC on July 7, 1955.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Adapted for radio by Ernest Kenoy from Robert A. Heinlein's 1947 story, it follows Reisling as an offer to join the spacecraft, Goshawk carries him back toward deep space, among crews who know its hazards, humor, and homesickness.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Ken Williams portrays Rissling.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
From the twin moons bar in dry waters Mars to the working routes between worlds, we now take you back to the original broadcast.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
Countdown for blastoff.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
X minus 5, 4, 3, 2, X minus 1, fire.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
Fire.
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