Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Dr_Kildare_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1950–1952
- Surviving broadcasts
- 16
- Genre
- science fiction
2000 Plus was broadcast on Mutual from March 1950 to January 1952 and was the first adult science-fiction anthology written directly for American radio, predating Dimension X by a month. Sherman Dryer produced original scripts rather than magazine adaptations. These public-domain transfers stream from the Internet Archive.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: otr_2000Plus
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
7 dated broadcasts across 3 years on the air, with 2 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
JFMAMJJASOND
1950
1951
1952
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1950, in original transmission order.
- 1. Men From Mars · 29 Mar 1950
- 2. When Machines Went Mad · 26 Apr 1950
- 3. When Worlds Met · 3 May 1950
Men From Mars
29 Mar 1950 · 29 min
2000 Plus was broadcast on Mutual from March 1950 to January 1952 and was the first adult science-fiction anthology written directly for American radio, predating Dimension X by a month.
When Machines Went Mad
26 Apr 1950 · 21 min
2000 Plus was broadcast on Mutual from March 1950 to January 1952 and was the first adult science-fiction anthology written directly for American radio, predating Dimension X by a month.
When Worlds Met
3 May 1950 · 29 min
2000 Plus was broadcast on Mutual from March 1950 to January 1952 and was the first adult science-fiction anthology written directly for American radio, predating Dimension X by a month.
The Insect
17 May 1950 · 29 min
2000 Plus was broadcast on Mutual from March 1950 to January 1952 and was the first adult science-fiction anthology written directly for American radio, predating Dimension X by a month.
The Other Man
7 Jun 1950 · 30 min
2000 Plus was broadcast on Mutual from March 1950 to January 1952 and was the first adult science-fiction anthology written directly for American radio, predating Dimension X by a month.
Brooklyn Brain
21 Jun 1950 · 29 min
2000 Plus was broadcast on Mutual from March 1950 to January 1952 and was the first adult science-fiction anthology written directly for American radio, predating Dimension X by a month.
Space Wreck
28 Jun 1950 · 29 min
2000 Plus was broadcast on Mutual from March 1950 to January 1952 and was the first adult science-fiction anthology written directly for American radio, predating Dimension X by a month.
AVeteran Comes Home
5 Jul 1950 · 28 min
2000 Plus was broadcast on Mutual from March 1950 to January 1952 and was the first adult science-fiction anthology written directly for American radio, predating Dimension X by a month.
Same night on the air
26 Apr 1950
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 26 Apr 1950.
Broadcast 26 April 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1950–1952
Other series the network carried while 2000 Plus was on the air.
Same seasons
science fiction on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The rocket age
Dimension X put Bradbury and Asimov on the air with sound design as the special effect. Every science fiction audio drama since is working in that studio.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of 2000 Plus
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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