1950
April 8, 1950
The Outer Limit
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A test pilot returns from ten impossible hours aloft carrying an alien warning no one will believe.
April 15, 1950
With Folded Hands
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A robot-maker is ruined by rival machines so bent on protecting humanity that they leave people nothing left to do.
April 22, 1950
Report on the Barnhouse Effect
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A pacifist professor masters mind over matter -- then schemes to keep the power away from the generals who covet it.
April 29, 1950
No Contact
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Six ships have vanished at an invisible wall at the edge of space; a seventh sets out to learn why.
May 6, 1950
Knock
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The last man on Earth hears a knock at the door, in Fredric Brown's chilling tale of aliens who never learned to die.
May 13, 1950
Almost Human
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A stolen robot with a child's mind and a criminal for a tutor decides, in the end, to think for itself.
May 20, 1950
The Lost Race
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Castaways on a dead world uncover the secret that annihilated a great civilization -- and now threatens theirs.
May 27, 1950
To the Future
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Fugitives from a war-bound year 2155 hide in sunlit old Mexico, hunted by the Searchers sent to drag them home.
June 3, 1950
The Embassy
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A detective takes a crank's impossible case: proving that Martians walk among us, preparing an invasion.
June 10, 1950
The Green Hills of Earth
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Rhysling, the blind singer of the spaceways, roams the planets composing his songs and aching to see Earth again.
June 17, 1950
There Will Come Soft Rains / Zero Hour
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A Bradbury double bill -- an automated house keeps house for the long-dead, and children everywhere play a game called Invasion.
June 24, 1950
Destination Moon
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A privately built rocket races a government ban to put the first men on the Moon.
July 1, 1950
A Logic Named Joe
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A home computer will answer any question at all -- including the ones no one in a decent society should ask.
July 7, 1950
Mars Is Heaven!
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The first crew to reach Mars finds their dead loved ones waiting in a town far too much like home.
July 14, 1950
The Man in the Moon
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A brushed-off distress call from 'the Moon' turns out to explain years of unexplained disappearances.
July 21, 1950
Beyond Infinity
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A reporter chasing a revolution finds a scientist shrinking matter to atom size -- and rebels who mean to weaponize it.
July 28, 1950
The Potters of Firsk
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An Earth officer is caught between a hard colonial administrator and a cult that kills to make its sacred pottery.
August 4, 1950
Perigi's Wonderful Dolls
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A father buys a doll that seems to answer back -- and may be far more than a clever toy.
August 11, 1950
The Castaways
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An atomic test stalls when islanders vow mass suicide rather than be moved off their home.
August 18, 1950
The Martian Chronicles
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Several of Bradbury's Mars tales braided into one arc of conquest, ruin, and conscience.
August 25, 1950
The Parade
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An ad agency is hired to promote a coming Martian parade -- by a client who insists that he is a Martian.
September 1, 1950
The Roads Must Roll
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A future runs on giant moving roadways, until the engineers who maintain them strike for power.
September 8, 1950
The Outer Limit
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A rebroadcast of the premiere: the pilot back from ten impossible hours with a warning for Earth.
September 15, 1950
Hello, Tomorrow
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Two thousand years after atomic war, an underground society has no place for the 'unfit' -- or the geneticist who loves one.
September 22, 1950
Dr. Grimshaw's Sanitorium
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A private eye inside an asylum uncovers patients quietly undergoing bizarre physical change.
September 29, 1950
And the Moon Be Still as Bright
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With the Martians dead of Earth's diseases, one crewman takes up arms to defend their desecrated ruins.
October 28, 1950
No Contact
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A rebroadcast: the seventh expedition against the barrier that swallowed every ship before it.
November 5, 1950
The Professor Was a Thief
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New York panics as Grant's Tomb, then the Empire State Building, simply vanish -- and a meek professor claims the credit.
November 12, 1950
Shanghaied
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A man is drugged from his own bachelor party onto a freighter bound fifteen years out to Alpha Centauri.
November 19, 1950
Competition
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A woman bound for a fresh start on the Rim Worlds is seized as a pawn between rival frontier pirates.
November 26, 1950
Universe
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Aboard a generation ship whose people have forgotten they are flying, one man climbs toward a forbidden truth.
December 24, 1950
The Green Hills of Earth
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A rebroadcast: Rhysling the blind spaceways singer and his last longing for Earth.
1951
January 7, 1951
Mars Is Heaven!
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A rebroadcast: the Mars crew welcomed by a too-perfect town where the dead seem to wait.
January 14, 1951
The Martian Death March
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The last Martians flee their reservation across the deserts, led by a human zealot, in one of Kinoy's own stories.
June 3, 1951
The Last Objective
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With the surface poisoned by fallout, humanity keeps waging its war underground in tunneling warships.
June 10, 1951
Nightmare
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A statistician grows certain that the world's machines are quietly conspiring to overthrow their makers.
June 17, 1951
Pebble in the Sky
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A shabby, radioactive Earth secretly plots to reclaim the galactic empire it once ruled, from Asimov's first novel.
June 24, 1951
Child's Play
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A timid lawyer is mailed a cloning kit from the future and sets out to build a better version of himself.
July 12, 1951
Time and Time Again
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A soldier dying in a future war wakes in his own boyhood, with a chance to rewrite what is to come.
July 19, 1951
The Dwellers in Silence
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Colonists returning from Mars discover that the handful of humans still on Earth are one deeply strange family.
July 26, 1951
Courtesy
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A dying expedition's plague serum runs out, and the immune natives will not say why they are spared.
August 2, 1951
Universe
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A rebroadcast: the generation ship, and the man who climbs to the truth of the voyage.
August 9, 1951
The Veldt
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A couple's virtual-reality nursery conjures an African veldt that turns on them, in one of Bradbury's most famous tales.
August 16, 1951
The Vital Factor
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A ruthless tycoon vows to be first into space, and a stranger offers the missing answer -- at a terrible price.
August 23, 1951
Untitled Story
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Part hard-boiled detective yarn, part science fiction: a private eye hunts an elixir of life and finds a dangerous conspiracy.
August 30, 1951
Marionettes, Inc.
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A husband buys a robot double to cover his getaway from marriage, with predictably disastrous results.
September 8, 1951
First Contact
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Two ships meet in deep space, each afraid to leave first and betray the way home to a possible enemy.
September 15, 1951
Kaleidoscope
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A meteor scatters a ship's crew into the void, and the dying men talk of what, at the end, truly matters.
September 22, 1951
Requiem
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A dying tycoon gives two grounded spacemen one last chance to put him, at last, on the Moon.
September 29, 1951
Nightfall
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On a world lit by six suns, a civilization faces madness and collapse as true night falls for the first time in millennia.