Originally broadcast on ABC, 24 December 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1950–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 50
- Genre
- science fiction
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 .
1951 · 181950 · 22
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 40 of 40
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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: OTRR_Dimension_X_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
13 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1950
1951
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. ToTheFuture · 27 May 1950
- 2. Embassy · 3 Jun 1950
- 3. ThereWillComeSoftRain-ZeroHour · 17 Jun 1950
Nightfall
29 Sep 1951 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 29 September 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Requiem
22 Sep 1951 · 31 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 22 September 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
TheKaleidoscope
15 Sep 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 15 September 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
FirstContact
8 Sep 1951 · 22 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 8 September 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Dimension-X Ma
30 Aug 1951 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 30 August 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
UntitledStory
23 Aug 1951 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 23 August 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
VitalFactor
16 Aug 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 16 August 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Veldt
9 Aug 1951 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 9 August 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
24 Dec 1950
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 24 Dec 1950.
Originally broadcast on CBS, 24 December 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 24 December 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 24 December 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1950–1951
Other series the network carried while Dimension X was on the air.
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 Dimension X
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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