The run
Dimension X was first heard on NBC April 8, 1950, and ran until September 29, 1951. Strange that so little good science fiction came out of radio; they seem ideally compatible, both relying heavily on imagination. Some fine isolated science fiction stories were developed on the great anthology shows, Suspense and Escape .
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
11 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Restored broadcasts from 1950, in original transmission order.
8 Apr 1950 · 30 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Dimension_X_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
6 May 1950 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Dimension_X_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
3 Jun 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 3 June 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
1 Jul 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 1 July 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
28 Jul 1950 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 28 July 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
25 Aug 1950 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 25 August 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
22 Sep 1950 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 22 September 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
12 Nov 1950 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 12 November 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 28 Jul 1950.
28 Jul 1950 · 29 min
Broadcast 28 July 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
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Also on NBC
Other series the network carried while Dimension X was on the air.
Same seasons
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
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
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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