Episode 432 – Out of This World (Dimension X & Dangerous Assignment)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2021
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
One of radio's best anthologies of adult science fiction, Dimension X presented adaptations of stories from Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, and more. We'll hear two tales from the series - each starring a private detective who gets more than he bargained for when he takes on an unusual case. First, it's a hunt for Martians on Earth in Donald Wollheim's "The Embassy' (originally aired on NBC on June 3, 1950). Then, in "Untitled Story" (originally aired on NBC on August 23, 1951), a gumshoe investigates a formula for eternal life. Finally, we'll hear Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell in Dangerous Assignment on a mission to investigate flying saucers and disappearing planes (originally aired on NBC on April 17, 1950).
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| 0:00.0 | Get this and get it straight. Crime is a suckers road and those who travel it would wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave. |
| 0:07.0 | The story you were about to hear is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. |
| 0:18.0 | The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective. |
| 0:22.0 | The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize |
| 0:25.4 | Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account |
| 0:30.6 | America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. |
| 0:33.0 | Yours truly, Johnny Deller. And the Hello and welcome to down these mean streets with more crime solving from the |
| 1:00.4 | golden age of Radio. |
| 1:03.1 | This week's show is a little different as we enter the realm of radio science fiction. |
| 1:10.5 | We've got a pair of other worldly detective stories courtesy of Dimension X, one of the first and best anthologies of adult science fiction from the radio era. |
| 1:24.5 | What's set to mention X apart from other shows that tried to present more grown-up science fiction |
| 1:30.4 | stories, programs like the anthology 2000 plus on mutual, was that |
| 1:36.6 | Dimension X dramatized previously published stories from well-respected |
| 1:42.2 | authors in the genre. |
| 1:44.7 | Writers like Isaac Asimov, Robert Block, and Ray Bradbury had their work adapted for the series |
| 1:50.7 | by Ernest Kanoy and George Lefferts, writers who would later create the Frank Sinatra |
| 1:56.6 | Detective Series Rocky Fortune. |
| 2:00.2 | Dimension X premiered on NBC on April 8th, 1950, and it left the airwaves the following September. |
| 2:08.8 | It aired only 50 episodes, but it paved the way a few years later for the longer running sci-fi |
| 2:16.0 | anthology X-minus 1. |
| 2:19.2 | Quite a few of the stories presented on Dimension X were restaged for X-1, and more than a few of them were |
| 2:27.0 | later adapted for escape and suspense. |
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