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Dimension X: 11/19/1950 – Competition

A spaceship filled with women emigrating to the stars find themselves taken to a planet not of their choosing. Miss Travis finds herself an innocent pawn in a high stakes game of intrigue.

The final public service announcement and system cue have been deleted.

Dimension X – Competition

Albert Buhrman (music), Bill Chambers (engineer), E. M. Hull (author), Edward King (director), Elaine Rost, Ernest Kinoy (adaptor), Les Tremayne, Norman Rose (host), Van Woodward (producer), Bob Warren (announcer), Joseph Julian, Ed Latimer, Staats Cotsworth, John McGovern, Peter Capell.

NBC network. Sponsored by Wheaties.

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Dimension X: 11/12/1950 - Shanghied

To man the space freighters for the fifteen year long journeys to the stars, evil crewmen shanghai young men for the foc’sle.

The script was subsequently used on X Minus One September 1, 1955.

Dimension X – Shanghied

Albert Buhrman (music), Edward King (director), Ernest Kinoy (writer), John Sylvester, Norman Rose (host), William Griffis, William Welch (producer), Van Woodward (producer), Fred Collins (announcer), Leon Janney, William Zuckert, Bill Chambers (engineer), Karl Weber, Jack Grimes, Joe DeSantis.

NBC network. Sponsored by Wheaties.

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Dimension X: 11/05/1950 – The Professor was a Thief

A strange little man has the power to make buildings disappear. He starts with Grant’s Tomb!

Dimension X – The Professor was a Thief

Arthur Maitland, John Larkin, John Gibson, L. Ron Hubbard (author), Joseph Julian, George Lefferts (adaptor), Van Woodward (producer), Norman Rose (host), Edward King (director), Bob Warren (announcer), Ralph Bell, Bob Hastings.

NBC network. Sponsored by Wheaties.

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The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: 1/28/1946 – The Case of Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber

Holmes and Watson try to keep an actor who is portraying a fiendish killer, from being driven crazy. Holmes fails when the actor is found with his throat slit, just as Sweeney Todd would have done it! Holmes almost makes a very serious mistake.

The story is based on The Yellow Face.

The New Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes – The Case of Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber

Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Harry Bartell (announcer), Denis Green (writer), Anthony Boucher (wrtier), Dean Fosler (music), Arthur Conan Doyle (author), Edna Best (producer).

Mutual network. Sponsored by Petri Wines.

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Dimension X: 10/29/1950 - No Contact

A trip to the always fatal “Galactic Barrier” on June 2, 1987!

The script was used on Dimension X previously on April 29, 1950 and subsequently on The Chase December 28, 1952, and on X Minus One on April 24, 1955.

Dimension X – No Contact

George Lefferts (writer, adapter), Ernest Kinoy (writer), Luis Van Rooten, Donald Buka, Cameron Prud’Homme, Van Woodward (producer), Norman Rose (host), Edward King (director), Bob Warren (? announcer), Mel Brandt (? announcer), Matt Crowley, Wendell Holmes, John McGovern.

NBC network. Sponsored by Wheaties.

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Dimension X: 9/29/1950 - And the Moon be Still as Bright

A story adapted from Ray Bradbury’s classic, The Martian Chronicles.

Just who is the last Martian?

The script was used subsequently on X Minus One on September 1, 1955.

Dimension X – And the Moon be Still as Bright

Albert Buhrman (music), Alexander Scourby, Bill Chambers (engineer), Bob Warren (announcer), Edward King (director), Ernest Kinoy (adaptor), Norman Rose (host), Ray Bradbury (author), Wendell Holmes, Van Woodward (producer), Dan Ocko, John McGovern, Joseph Julian, Arthur Gary (announcer).

NBC network. Sponsored by Wheaties.

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Dimension X: 9/22/1950 – Dr. Grimshaw’s Sanitarium

A good story about a mad Nazi scientist and his fiendish experiments.

The script was subsequently used on X Minus One on July 14, 1955 and on Future Tense (I’m not positive on the date though).

Dimension X – Dr. Grimshaw’s Sanitarium

Albert Buhrman (music), Bill Chambers (engineer), Edward King (director), Fletcher Pratt (author), George Lefferts (adaptor), Karl Weber, Norman Rose (host), Roger De Koven, Van Woodward (producer), Edward King (director), Bob Warren (announcer), Stefan Schnabel, William Redfield, Edwin Jerome, Kermit Murdock.

NBC network. Sponsored by Wheaties.

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Dimension X: 9/15/1950 – Hello Tomorrow

A return to the surface: a story of genetic imperfection.

The script was used subsequently on X Minus One on November 3, 1955 and January 29, 1956.

Dimension X – Hello Tomorrow

George Lefferts (writer), Nancy Olson, Santos Ortega, Donald Buka, Norman Rose (host), Van Woodward (producer), Edward King (director), Bob Warren (announcer), William Keene, William Zuckert, Arthur Gary (announcer), Albert Buhrman (music), Leon Janney.

NBC network. Sponsored by Wheaties.

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