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X Minus One
- The Reluctant Heroes (Dramatized)
- Narrated by: Radio Spirits Inc.
- Length: 29 mins
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X Minus One premiered in April 1955 on NBC and ran until January 1958. Like its predecessor series, Dimension X, X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.
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"[X Minus One] brought current SF to radio, providing adaptations of many excellent new stories and thus allowing the public to appreciate the best science fiction available at the time." (Michael Ashley, The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines)
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Jim "The Impatient"
- 04-23-11
a waste
Beware on all x-minus one productions, all start and end with a loud shrill blast to your ears. Frank M. Robinson is a great writer. His best book was probably (The Power). X-Minus one bastardizes there stories and I don't know what the original of this was like, but this performance is a waste of time.
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