X Minus One
1955-1958
Circulating Episodes: 122
The first 15 episodes of X Minus One re-used scripts from Dimension X before continuing with original stories, also maintaining its media partnership with Astounding Science Fiction andGalaxy magazines.
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Almost Human
A thug discovers his girlfriend is babysitting a cybernetic child! He plans to get in the child’s good graces, then manipulate the strong robot into helping him rob armored cars. The Duke convinces Junior that his creator, Professor Blasserman, is evil and must be killed. When it’s finally time to cover their tracks, Duke decides Junior needs to be destroyed but he didn’t count on one thing. Junior has a crush on his nursemaid Lola, and Duke is the competition! [by Robert Bloch in Fantastic Adventures, 1943]
Coffin Cure, The
Dr. Coffin discovers a cure for the common cold! A few weeks later, the lab crew that tested the injection on themselves discover an incredible development in their senses of smell… but not in a good way! They have to engineer a cold virus so strong a dog could catch it. Funny because dogs don’t catch human colds, but this was written before MRSA.
Cold Equations
A rescue pilot bringing antidote serum to an interplanetary colony discovers a stowaway. But there is only enough fuel to get the ship and one person to the destination safely. Will the pilot jettison the attractive young woman… or will he fall in love and sacrifice himself?
Dr. Grimshaw’s Sanitarium
A private eye goes undercover to discover why a man’s death was faked. They are shrinking the people. They shrink the private eye. Hee hee!
Dwellers in Silence
Humans launch a ship to scout out a once uninhabitable Earth to see if it is safe to return. There they find a single family living alone. When father has a heart attack it is revealed his family are androids. Sorry for spoiler, but this was so edited down it lost any storytelling value. [Adapted from Ray Bradbury]
Mars is Heaven
The first scout mission to Mars discovers that their dead loved ones are still alive… and living on Mars! But a doctor who lost his family in Dachow and has no memory of them finds no one there. He wonders how Martians would defend their homeworld against Earth nukes. The ending is no real surprise, but left me with the creepy-crawlies nonetheless! [Adapted from Ray Bradbury]
Trap, The
Two guys on a hunting trip discover a box outside the cabin door. It produces unearthly prey! The guys get drunk and one of them, instead of being trapped by aliens as intended, goes through the dimension gate and starts collecting everything he can find and shoving back through to Earth!
Wherever You May Be
A man writing his thesis on witchcraft goes to the Ozarks and meets an eighteen year old girl who has run away from home and is looking for a husband. But when she gets mad, her telekinesis tends to kill her men. This story had real potential, but never scored.
