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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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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).
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.
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.
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