Science Fiction Radio; Atom Age Adventures


(3.8 stars; 5 reviews)

UPDATE 09-05-2021 Added newly restored version of 00 Mercury Theater; War Of The Worlds 1938-10-30 from a VG+ quality Vinyl Record!!! Each of these shows is NON COPYRIGHTED and is currently in the PUBLIC DOMAIN. This Digitally Restored Collection represents hundreds of hours of labor in Digitally Restoring/Enhancing each of the shows included in this one of a kind collection!!!! CD Quality audio for ALL SHOWS!!! Compare them with any other available versions and you will see there is no comparison. If you find these lectures beneficial and appreciate the work I have put into it, please feel free to send a donation in any amount via Paypal using the link below: https://paypal.me/NicholasHansGary This is the BEST Quality set of Science Fiction Radio shows currently available ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD!! This is a Custom Collection of what I feel are the BEST 53 Sci-Fi Radio Shows every produced, from shows like X-Minus 1, Dimension X, Suspense, Exploring Tomorrow, 2000 Plus, etc. I have spent several years tracking down these shows from MANY difference sources (Official Cassette, LP Vinyl, Digital etc) and enhancing shows that are of lower audio quality so as to try to remove muffling, overblown sharp highs, enhance vocals, tighten bass, clean audio, remove hiss, pops, fix speed/pitch etc. On every episode I also normalized the audio levels of speech throughout the episode and loud music/effects portions to be very close to that of the actual performance instead of 4-5 times the volume. Quality will vary somewhat from episode to episode given the rarity of many of these shows. I have been working on restoring these episodes since 2017. Please be aware that not all episodes are of perfect flawless quality, as source materials which would allow such restoration are extremely rare.  ALL mp3 files are properly tagged and titled. MP3 metadata is also complete with artist, genre, album, album art etc so they will ALL properly show on ANY mp3 player or ipod.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

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Chapters

00 Mercury Theater; War Of The Worlds 1938-10-30 58:02
01 X Minus One; The Cave of Night 02-01-56 29:17
02 X Minus One; C-Chute 02-08-56 29:21
03 Escape; North of Polaris 05-17-53 28:48
04 Suspense; Doom Machine 03-04-62 21:23
05 X Minus One; The Discovery of Mornial Mathaway 04-17-57 21:42
06 Quiet Please; One for the Book 11-21-48 29:29
07 X Minus One; Man's Best Friend 04-24-57, 22:42
08 Quiet Please; Very Unimportant Person 12-05-48 29:29
09 2000 Plus; The Brooklyn Brain 06-21-50 28:57
10 X Minus One; Hostess 12-12-56 29:20
11 Exploring Tomorrow; First Contact 1958-01-15 19:38
12 X Minus One; Something for Nothing 04-10-57 21:54
13 Exploring Tomorrow; The First Baby in Space 1958-06-18 19:41
14 2000 Plus; The Green Thing 09-27-50 30:23
15 Exploring Tomorrow; The Adventure of the Beauty Queen 1958-04-23 19:37
16 2000 Plus; World's Apart 11-15-50 28:08
17 Suspense; Report From a Dead Planet 07-10-60 19:37
18 Escape; Conqueror's Isle 01-11-53 26:54
19 2000 Plus; The Other Man 1950-06-07 30:37
20 2000 Plus; The Flying Saucers 1950-08-23 29:38
21 Dimension X; Report on the Barnhouse Effect, 04-22-50 29:59
22 Escape; Mars Is Heaven 06-02-50 29:30
23 X Minus One; Honeymoon in Hell 12-26-56 29:50
24 Dimension X; With Folded Hands, 04-15-50 29:58
25 Suspense; Twenty-Four Sixty-Two 01-21-62 22:51
26 Suspense; Kaleidoscope 55-07-12 24:00
27 X Minus One; The Lifeboat Mutiny 09-11-56 28:55
28 Exploring Tomorrow; Planet of Geniuses 58-04-16 19:25
29 Suspense; Frankenstein 52-11-03 29:32
30 Dimension X; The Outer Limit, 04-08-50 30:10
31 Escape; The Earthmen 07-25-51 29:30
32 Exploring Tomorrow; The Stowaway 58-04-30 17:42
33 Suspense; Donovan's Brain, Part One 44-05-18 29:27
34 Suspense; Donovan's Brain, Part Two 44-05-25 29:18
35 Hall of Fantasy; The Automaton 02-27-53 26:17
36 Exploring Tomorrow; The Mountain of Diamond Inferiority 58-06-04 20:04
37 Escape; The Invader 03-29-53 29:30
38 Hall of Fantasy; The Man From The Second Earth 1951-08-12 22:42
39 Suspense; How Long Is The Night 52-10-13 25:23
40 2000 Plus; When the Worlds Met 1950-05-03 29:50
41 Suspense; Plan X 53-02-02 29:22
42 Escape; Earth Abides, Part 1, 11-05-50 29:58
43 Escape; Earth Abides, Part 2, 11-12-50 29:40
44 Suspense; Zero Hour 55-04-05 24:36
45 Suspense; The Hitch-Hiker 42-09-02 29:12
46 Suspense; Heaven's to Betsy 55-10-11 619 27:37
47 Suspense; Man from Tomorrow 57-09-01 30:05
48 Dimension X; The Martian Chronicles 1950-08-18 30:19
49 Dimension X; Pebble In The Sky 1951-06-17 24:54
50 Escape; The Time Machine 50-10-22 29:30
51 Lux Radio Theatre; War of the Worlds 55-02-08 59:03

Reviews

A Great Introduction to the Theater of the Mind


(4 stars)

Old Time Radio (OTR) was the first mass audience information & entertainment medium produced. From the mid-1920s to the early 1960s it was the way the population would gt breaking news, sports, and theater of the mind. With the advent of television in the 1950s, radio drifted to music in the United States, though it continued as a mainstay of entertainment in other parts of the world including Great Britain. As late as the 1980s and early 90s, the only way you could listen to OTR was through records and cassette tapes. An album would have two shows on it and a cassette collection could have as many as sixty or so, usually centered on a theme like this collection. Where once you could only find a few episodes of a particular program, thanks to sites like the Internet Archive you can listen to collections like this and then seek out all the available episodes of shows you particularly like. A great advancement to be sure. Thank you to Nicholas Hans Gary for assembling this collection and introducing yet another generation to a valuable form of entertainment and information.

Thanks for this upload


(5 stars)

A great collection of "atom" related shows. Nice variety and quality.

Excellent listening!


(4 stars)

Really well curated collection! Thanks!

Is this public domain ?


(0 stars)

Is this completely public domain, free of any restrictions ... ?