SCIENCE FICTION ON RADIO

Originally broadcast WDCB
Saturday, August 27, 2005 

ESCAPE (10-22-50) ‘The Time Machine” star­ring John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin and Georgia Ellis. “Escape to the year 100,080 and a world where beauty and terror live side­ by-side” in this classic story by H.G. Wells. Roy Rowan announces. Sustaining, CBS. (30 min)

SUSPENSE (1-3-60) “Zero Hour” is Ray Bradbury’s story about children around the world who are playing a new game called “Invasion.” None of their parents are aware of what this new game is doing to their children. Cast: John Gibson, Ginger Jones and Francine Meyers with Vivian Smolen and Sarah Fussel. Multiple sponsors, CBS. (24 min)

CBS RADIO WORKSHOP (2-17-57) Dedicated to man’s imagination, “the Theatre of the Mind.” Part 1 of “The Space Merchants,” a modern classic about the future. A super advertising agency in the 22nd Century has secured the rights to “sell” 1800 seats on a space ship to colonize the Planet Venus. Cast features Staats Cotsworth, Virginia Kaye, lan Martin, Ralph Bell, Ralph Camargo, Robert Dryden, Leon Janney, Joseph Julian, Ed Prentiss, Robert Readick, Jackson Beck. Announcer is Ted Pearson. Story by C.M. Cornbluth and Frederik Pohl. Sustaining, CBS. (24 min)

CBS RADIO WORKSHOP (2-24-57) Part 2 of “The Space Merchants.” Sustaining, CBS. (24 min)

X MINUS ONE (3-14-56) “Tunnel Under the World.” The date June 15 keeps recurring for a man who wakes up screaming each morn­ing. He finds another person who also seems aware of the repeating day. John Larkin nar­rates this Frederik Pohl story. Cast: Les Damon, Ginger Jones, Bob Hastings, Connie Lempke, Stan Early, Kermit Murdock. Sustaining, NBC. (28 min)

OUR SPECIAL GUEST is popular culture his­torian CURTIS KATZ.