The genre's radio decade
Science Fiction Before Television
For a few years, the best-produced American science fiction was on the radio, not in print or on screen. A short, dense era, worth the whole path.
1950 – 1955 · 5 stops · 1h 31m
- 1
Adaptations of the leading pulp writers, produced with real ambition.
- 2
The successor series, drawing on the same source material with a bigger budget.
- 3
The children's end of the genre — space opera played for a younger audience.
- 4
A cheaper, syndicated version of the same juvenile formula.
- 5
The same scripts, licensed and re-recorded for Australian radio.
