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Dimension X — 1950

32 episodes broadcast in 1950.

April 8, 1950 The Outer Limit Listen (MP3)
A test pilot returns from ten impossible hours aloft carrying an alien warning no one will believe.
April 15, 1950 With Folded Hands Listen (MP3)
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 Listen (MP3)
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 Listen (MP3)
Six ships have vanished at an invisible wall at the edge of space; a seventh sets out to learn why.
May 6, 1950 Knock Listen (MP3)
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 Listen (MP3)
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 Listen (MP3)
Castaways on a dead world uncover the secret that annihilated a great civilization -- and now threatens theirs.
May 27, 1950 To the Future Listen (MP3)
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 Listen (MP3)
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 Listen (MP3)
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 Listen (MP3)
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 Listen (MP3)
A privately built rocket races a government ban to put the first men on the Moon.
July 1, 1950 A Logic Named Joe Listen (MP3)
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! Listen (MP3)
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 Listen (MP3)
A brushed-off distress call from 'the Moon' turns out to explain years of unexplained disappearances.
July 21, 1950 Beyond Infinity Listen (MP3)
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 Listen (MP3)
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 Listen (MP3)
A father buys a doll that seems to answer back -- and may be far more than a clever toy.
August 11, 1950 The Castaways Listen (MP3)
An atomic test stalls when islanders vow mass suicide rather than be moved off their home.
August 18, 1950 The Martian Chronicles Listen (MP3)
Several of Bradbury's Mars tales braided into one arc of conquest, ruin, and conscience.
August 25, 1950 The Parade Listen (MP3)
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 Listen (MP3)
A future runs on giant moving roadways, until the engineers who maintain them strike for power.
September 8, 1950 The Outer Limit Listen (MP3)
A rebroadcast of the premiere: the pilot back from ten impossible hours with a warning for Earth.
September 15, 1950 Hello, Tomorrow Listen (MP3)
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 Listen (MP3)
A private eye inside an asylum uncovers patients quietly undergoing bizarre physical change.
September 29, 1950 And the Moon Be Still as Bright Listen (MP3)
With the Martians dead of Earth's diseases, one crewman takes up arms to defend their desecrated ruins.
October 28, 1950 No Contact Listen (MP3)
A rebroadcast: the seventh expedition against the barrier that swallowed every ship before it.
November 5, 1950 The Professor Was a Thief Listen (MP3)
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 Listen (MP3)
A man is drugged from his own bachelor party onto a freighter bound fifteen years out to Alpha Centauri.
November 19, 1950 Competition Listen (MP3)
A woman bound for a fresh start on the Rim Worlds is seized as a pawn between rival frontier pirates.
November 26, 1950 Universe Listen (MP3)
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 Listen (MP3)
A rebroadcast: Rhysling the blind spaceways singer and his last longing for Earth.
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Other seasons: 1951