Dimension X is an American science fiction radio anthology series broadcast on NBC from 1950 to 1951, adapting stories from leading science fiction writers of the period, including Ray Bradbury and Robert A. Heinlein, into hour-long dramatized episodes. The series was produced with notably higher production values and more serious literary ambition than earlier genre radio, presenting speculative and often morally probing stories rather than simple adventure serials. Dimension X is regarded as one of the most respected science fiction radio programs ever produced and directly prefigured its successor series X Minus One, which continued adapting the same body of science fiction literature.
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Why is Dimension X treated as a turning point for science fiction on radio?
It brought science fiction to network radio as a serious adult drama about two decades after network radio began.
The Old Time Radio Researchers Group describes Dimension X as the first major network radio science fiction series of broad appeal to adults. It notes that the premiere came a full two decades after network radio was established, and that before it only some fine isolated science fiction stories had appeared on anthology shows such as Suspense and Escape. The program dramatized work by young writers such as Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov and Kurt Vonnegut, with Ernest Kinoy as in-house script writer and Norman Rose as narrator. The claim of being first rests on that collectors' description, so it is best read as the series' reputation rather than a settled ranking.
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Dimension X was an NBC radio program broadcast mostly on an unsponsored, sustaining basis from April 8, 1950, to September 29, 1951.
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Dimension X was an NBC radio program broadcast mostly on an unsponsored, sustaining basis from April 8, 1950, to September 29, 1951.
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Dimension X is an American science fiction radio anthology series broadcast on NBC from 1950 to 1951, adapting stories from leading science fiction writers of the period, including Ray Bradbury and Robert A. Heinlein, into hour-long dramatized episodes.
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Dimension X was an NBC radio program broadcast mostly on an unsponsored, sustaining basis from April 8, 1950, to September 29, 1951.
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