Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio

Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio

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. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/old-time-sci-fi-radio-old-time-radio--7215317/support.

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September 26, 2026 • 30 mins
Dimension X presents “Universe,” episode 42, originally broadcast on August 2, 1951. This NBC Radio Network drama adapts Robert A. Heinlein’s classic science-fiction story, with a radio script by George Lefferts. Mason Adams stars as Cadet Hugh Hoyland, with Norman Rose as host and announcer.

Aboard a vast, many-decked generation spaceship, Hugh and his friend Alan Mahoney live among people who believe the ...
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Space Patrol presents “Prison Planet,” episode 119, originally broadcast on ABC on January 8, 1955. Ed Kemmer stars as Commander Buzz Corry, with Lyn Osborn as Cadet Happy, in this late-run adventure from the series’ continuing Draxock galaxy storyline.

Returning aboard the Terra V to a star system half a million light-years from the United Planets, Buzz and Happy search for the last missing pilot from a di...
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CBS Radio Workshop, episode 44, “The King of the Cats,” originally broadcast on CBS on November 25, 1956. Adapted from Stephen Vincent Benét’s fantastical short story, this production was directed and produced by William N. Robson and stars Byron Kane as Tommy Culverin.

Tommy, a young office worker and committed cat hater, recalls his unsettling courtship of the enigmatic Princess Vivranka amid New York&rsq...
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September 23, 2026 • 29 mins
X Minus One presents “The Moon Is Green,” originally broadcast on January 2, 1957. This is episode 82 of the NBC science-fiction series, adapted for radio by George Lefferts from Fritz Leiber’s 1952 Galaxy Science Fiction story.

In a post-atomic-war world, Effie and Hank remain sealed inside their shelter, certain that radioactive dust has made the outdoors unlivable. When Effie opens a window and meets a w...
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September 22, 2026 • 30 mins
Dimension X presents “Mars Is Heaven,” episode 14, originally broadcast on July 7, 1950. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Ray Bradbury’s celebrated short story, this NBC production stars Wendell Holmes as Captain John Black and Peter Capell as Dr. Horst.

In 1987, Captain Black leads an Earth expedition to Mars, where the crew emerges from heavy mist to find something no one expected: a welcoming small American ...
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X Minus One presents “And the Moon Be Still as Bright,” originally broadcast on September 22, 1955. Commonly cataloged as episode 19, this NBC Radio Network drama adapts Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles story for radio, with a script by Ernest Kinoy.

After three Earth expeditions vanish on the way to Mars, Captain Wilder leads a fourth mission to a vast, silent Martian city. Among its deserted streets, tow...
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Dimension X, episode 11, “There Will Come Soft Rains - Zero Hour,” originally broadcast on NBC on June 17, 1950. This sustaining half-hour adapts two Ray Bradbury stories for radio, with George Lefferts’ adaptation directed by Edward King.

In “There Will Come Soft Rains,” an automated house carries on its precise daily routines in an empty future world. “Zero Hour” shifts to a quiet ...
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September 19, 2026 • 29 mins
X Minus One presents “The Last Martian,” originally broadcast on NBC on August 7, 1956. Episode 63 is adapted by George Lefferts from a short story by Fredric Brown, with Santos Ortega and Elliott Reid among the featured cast.

A newspaper reporter investigates a troubled bar patron who claims to be a Martian trapped in an Earthman’s body. As the stranger describes disaster on Mars, the reporter must decide ...
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Space Patrol presents “The Mystery of the Masked Martians,” episode 88, originally broadcast on June 5, 1954. This ABC adventure, sponsored by Ralston Cereals, stars Ed Kemmer as Commander Buzz Corry and Lyn Osborn as Cadet Happy.

On a remote stretch of Mars, Buzz and Happy encounter an isolated community descended from space pirates stranded there centuries earlier. Captured in unfamiliar territory, the Space Pa...
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September 16, 2026 • 29 mins
2000 Plus presents “Worlds Apart,” originally broadcast on November 29, 1950, over the Mutual Broadcasting System. This 30-minute science-fiction anthology drama was produced by Sherman H. Dryer and Robert Weenolsen.

The spaceship Phoenix sets out on a pioneering voyage to Neptune with Captain Roberts, rocket engineer Jim Granger, and a group of passengers aboard. When a navigational emergency forces the ship dow...
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September 14, 2026 • 31 mins
Old Time Sci-Fi Radio presents Dimension X, Episode 1, “Outer Limit,” originally broadcast on NBC on April 8, 1950. This premiere episode was adapted for radio by Ernest Kinoy from Graham Doar’s short story “The Outer Limit.”

In the then-future year of 1965, test pilot Steve Weston takes an experimental rocket aircraft aloft from a Southwest desert base with only minutes of fuel to spare. When h...
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September 13, 2026 • 29 mins
Old Time Sci-Fi Radio presents X Minus One, “The Man in the Moon,” episode 6, originally broadcast on NBC on May 29, 1955.

A routine nationwide missing-persons broadcast is interrupted by a mysterious distress signal that seems to come from the Moon. When records custodian Henry Timkin recognizes a name in the transmission, a trail through government files points toward a disturbing pattern of vanished scientific...
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Space Patrol presents “The Spies from Planet X,” episode 51, originally broadcast on ABC on September 19, 1953. Commander Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy are played by Ed Kemmer and Lyn Osborn.

Space Patrol intelligence reports a possible sighting of Prince Baccarratti in Saturn City, though the prince is believed to be at his remote Planet X stronghold. Buzz and Happy investigate the busy Saturn City spaceport, follo...
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Dimension X presents “The Martian Death March,” episode 34, originally broadcast on NBC on January 14, 1951. This original radio drama was written by Ernest Kinoy, with Norman Rose as announcer/narrator and a cast including Bill Zuckert.

On a human-conquered Mars in 1997, a young colonist recalls encountering spider-like Martians forced into Earth-imposed reservations. When refugees set out across the harsh red l...
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CBS Radio Workshop presents “Space Merchants Part 1,” episode 55, originally broadcast on February 17, 1957. This CBS adaptation of Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth’s influential novel The Space Merchants was written for radio by Charles Monroe and directed by Paul Roberts.

In a future ruled by the immense power of advertising, star copywriter Mitchell Courtney of Fowler Schocken receives a daunting assign...
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September 9, 2026 • 22 mins
X Minus One, “Lulu,” originally broadcast on October 31, 1957, is episode 118 of NBC Radio’s classic science-fiction anthology series. Adapted by George Lefferts from Clifford D. Simak’s novelette, the drama features Henry Norrell, Jan Miner, James Stevens, Nelson Olmsted, and Walter Black.

Three space travelers accompany Lulu, a highly advanced Planetary Exploration Robot that serves as both spacecra...
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September 8, 2026 • 28 mins
2000 Plus presents “The Robot Killer,” originally broadcast on Mutual on August 30, 1950. Episode 25 of the sustained science-fiction anthology was produced by Sherman H. Dryer and Robert Weenolsen.

Happy Sam’s television promotion offers Experimental Robot 23, a six-foot household robot, as its grand prize. When John Hanold brings the remarkable machine home, its voice-command controls and place in the Han...
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Space Patrol presents “The Voice from the Future,” episode 105, originally broadcast on ABC on October 2, 1954. In this Nestlé’s Chocolate-sponsored adventure, Commander Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy are played by Ed Kemmer and Lyn Osborn; the story was written by Lou Huston and produced and directed by Larry Robertson.

At the Lunar Fleet Base, Corry and Happy prepare to test a closely guarded experimental shi...
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Dimension X, episode 32, “The Green Hills of Earth,” originally broadcast December 24, 1950. This NBC sustaining broadcast is a rebroadcast of the series’ June 10, 1950 production, adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Robert A. Heinlein’s celebrated short story.

Radiation-blinded spaceman Rhysling—known as the singing poet of the spaceways—travels the future Solar System carrying songs and memorie...
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X Minus One presents “Perigi’s Wonderful Dolls,” episode 34, originally broadcast on January 18, 1956. Written by George Lefferts for NBC, this program is a repeat of the series’ June 5, 1955 production, based on Lefferts’s earlier Dimension X script.

In Washington, D.C., a government official’s family discovers an unusual dollmaker whose remarkably lifelike creations can talk. A new doll ...
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