X Minus One

About X Minus One

X Minus One | Old Time Radio brings you classic science fiction from the golden age of radio, exploring space travel, alien worlds, time travel, futuristic technology, strange experiments, 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. X Minus One became one of radio’s most celebrated science-fiction anthologies, adapting stories by influential writers including Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, and others. Rediscover classic old time radio science fiction, X Minus One, vintage sci-fi, space adventure, speculative fiction, futuristic drama, and classic radio. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/x-minus-one-old-time-radio--7222646/support (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/x-minus-one-old-time-radio--7222646/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss).

Publisher

Old Time Retro Radio

Category

arts · fiction · fiction

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Nov 2025

Latest episode

17 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

176 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 Oct 2026

   X Minus One - "Tsylana" (Old Time Radio, 1957)

   X Minus One presents “Tsylana,” originally broadcast on September 19, 1957. This is episode 112 of NBC Radio Network’s acclaimed science-fiction anthology series. In a future Earth ruled by statistical planning and strict conformity, a statistician is troubled by evidence of a petty theft—an event his orderly society has no precedent for handling. Adapted by George Lefferts from James E. Gunn’s Galaxy Science Fiction story, “Tsylana” is a suspenseful satire of crime, conformity, and human unpredictability. The cast includes Walter Black, David Ross, Adele Ronson, and Guy Repp. Old Time Retro Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:45 Original Broadcast 20:59 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/x-minus-one-old-time-radio--7222646/support (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/x-minus-one-old-time-radio--7222646/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss). Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio (https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio)

2. 

   16 Oct 2026

   X Minus One - "Junkyard" (Old Time Radio, 1956)

   X Minus One presents “Junkyard,” episode 39, originally broadcast on NBC on February 22, 1956. Adapted by George Lefferts from a short story by Clifford D. Simak, the episode features John Larkin, Bob Hastings, Mercer McLeod, Stan Early, and Jack Orrison. A galactic survey ship makes an unscheduled stop on an apparently unimportant planet, where its crew finds a vast field of discarded alien machinery. What begins as a routine investigation becomes a tense science-fiction mystery involving technology, memory, and the hazards hidden in a world of strange debris. Old Time Retro 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 00:39 Original Broadcast 30:07 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/x-minus-one-old-time-radio--7222646/support (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/x-minus-one-old-time-radio--7222646/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss). Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio (https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio)

3. 

   14 Oct 2026

   X Minus One - "How - 2" (Old Time Radio, 1956)

   X Minus One presents “How - 2,” episode 45, originally broadcast on NBC Radio Network on April 3, 1956. Adapted by William Welch from Clifford D. Simak’s Galaxy Science Fiction novelette, the production was directed by Daniel Sutter and features Alan Bunce, Anne Seymour, Les Damon, and Santos Ortega. In a twenty-first-century suburban home, kit-building enthusiast Gordon Knight orders a mail-order spaniel kit—then receives a much larger and more sophisticated shipment from How-2 Kits, Inc. As Gordon and his wife Grace assemble and activate Albert, the unexpected robot brings comic complications and timely questions about automation, ownership, work, and legal status. Old Time Retro 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 00:42 Original Broadcast 29:06 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/x-minus-one-old-time-radio--7222646/support (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/x-minus-one-old-time-radio--7222646/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss). Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio (https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio)

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

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