Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio brings you classic science fiction from the golden age of radio, exploring space travel, alien worlds, futuristic technology, strange experiments, time travel, and humanity’s encounters with the unknown. Each episode is an Old Time Retro Radio production, presenting the original broadcast with gently cleaned and mastered audio, a newly produced introduction and closing, and custom episode artwork. Featuring imaginative stories of distant planets, scientific breakthroughs, mysterious visitors, and possible futures, Old Time Sci-Fi Radio celebrates the creativity and wonder of vintage science-fiction broadcasting. Rediscover classic old time radio science fiction, vintage sci-fi, space adventure, futuristic drama, speculative fiction, and classic otr radio.
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X Minus One presents “Honeymoon in Hell,” episode 81, originally broadcast on NBC on December 26, 1956. This radio adaptation of Fredric Brown’s 1950 novelette was written for radio by George Lefferts and directed by Daniel Sutter.
In a near-future world burdened by Cold War tensions and a startling decline in male births, an American space pilot and a Soviet scientist are assigned to a politically charged mission to the Moon. William Redfield and Vilma Cure star in this tense, satirical drama of international rivalry, human survival, and the unsettling calculations of a powerful computer.
Old Time Sci-Fi Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.
Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:47 Original Broadcast
29:45 Closing
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7 Oct 2026
Dimension X - "Dr Grimshaw's Sanatorium" (1950)
Dimension X presents “Dr Grimshaw’s Sanatorium,” episode 25, originally broadcast on NBC on September 22, 1950. Adapted by George Lefferts from a short story by Fletcher Pratt, the drama stars Karl Weber as private detective John Doherty.
After a disturbing discovery at a cemetery points toward Dr. Grimshaw’s exclusive institution outside Gowanda, New York, Doherty goes undercover as a patient to investigate. Missing patients, secretive staff, and forbidden areas make the sanatorium a dangerous place to seek the truth. Edward King directed this sustaining-period broadcast.
Old Time Sci-Fi Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.
Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:49 Original Broadcast
31:12 Closing
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6 Oct 2026
X Minus One - "The Cave of Night" (1956)
X Minus One presents “The Cave of Night,” episode 36, originally broadcast on February 1, 1956. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from James E. Gunn’s Galaxy Science Fiction story, this NBC sustaining broadcast uses a striking radio-documentary style.
Broadcast journalist Harry Anders assembles reports, official statements, and radio transmissions as an experimental rocket pilot becomes stranded in orbit. With the world listening and teams at Goddard Rocket Base racing to respond, the drama turns a distant emergency into an urgent public event. The cast includes Alexander Scourby, Joe DeSantis, and Bob Hastings.
Old Time Sci-Fi Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.
Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:55 Original Broadcast
29:14 Closing
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