A blackboard lesson about evil turns into a chilling test of what Junior has been taught.
A blackboard lesson becomes the center of a frightening experiment, as Junior repeats Duke's teaching that people are evil and must be destroyed.
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X minus one was effectively the return of Dimension X, and although the opening sequence was revamped and the announcer became Fred Collins, the stories were still as bizarre and intriguing as its predecessor. The first X minus one shows used scripts from Dimension X, but soon created new shows, employing the talents of many great sci–fi authors, including staff writers Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts, Asimov, Bradbury and Heinlein. From the far horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories of the future, adventures in which you'll live in a million could–be years on a thousand maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company, in co–ope…
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The nursery's lions sound close enough to make you reconsider every smart gadget you own.
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- a missing-persons list that names people before they vanish, with time to wonder how
- to hear parents argue over whether their children's make-believe lions can get out
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Best episodes of X Minus One
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A Mars-bound escape turns sharper with every bargain Morton makes.
A Mars-bound traveler tries to bargain his way out of a grim sentence, driven by the need to reach Earth before his bride-to-be gives him up for dead.
A comfort-built house turns its nursery into a place where illusion feels harder to dismiss.
In "The Veldt," an automated house has become so attentive that it cooks, creates Africa behind glass, and leaves Lydia feeling displaced inside her own home.
A plague mystery on Landau turns alien contact into a desperate race against time.
Landau is framed as the kind of mission record nobody wants to find: a doomed expedition, a shrinking crew, and a warning left under a brutal countdown.
Podcasts like X Minus One
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55.08.11 013 Almost Human
Hidden gemX Minus One’s “Almost Human” adapts Robert Bloch’s story about cybernetics, a nursery-trained machine, and a criminal plan built around Junior.
May 16, 2020·25m·1 clip - 2
55.09.08 017 The Martian Death March
May 16, 2020·29m - 3
55.09.01 016 Shanghaied
Hidden gemX Minus One's "Shanghaied" turns Jeff Coffin's night out in Scully Square into a forced 15-year run on the R.S.
May 16, 2020·24m·1 clip - 4
55.08.04 012 The Veldt
Hidden gemX Minus One adapts Ray Bradbury's The Veldt as Dr.
May 16, 2020·24m·2 clips - 5
55.08.18 014 Courtesy
Hidden gemX Minus One's "Courtesy" follows Captain Ira Warren, Dr.
May 16, 2020·25m·1 clip - 6
55.08.25 015 The Cold Equations
X Minus One adapts Tom Godwin's "The Cold Equations," placing pilot John Barton on an emergency serum run to Woden.
May 16, 2020·25m·1 clip - 7
55.07.28 011 The Embasy
May 16, 2020·25m - 8
55.04.24 001 No Contact
May 15, 2020·28m - 9
55.04.00 AUD And the Moon Be
May 15, 2020·22m - 10
55.05.29 006 The Man In The Moon
Hidden gemX Minus One's 1955 science-fiction drama follows Henry Timkin as a 12-year records custodian investigating a radio message from the moon.
May 15, 2020·28m·1 clip - 11
55.06.05 007 Perigee's Wonderful Dolls
A classic science fiction radio drama about a mysterious doll shop with lifelike dolls that seem to have a mind of their own.
May 15, 2020·26m - 12
55.07.14 009 Dr. Grimshaw's Sanitorium
A classic science fiction radio drama from the 1950s, presenting a story about Dr.
May 15, 2020·28m - 13
55.07.07 008 The Green Hills of Earth
A blind singer named Riesling hustles drinks and sings for tips in a Mars bar, telling the story of his life as a space wave pioneer.
May 15, 2020·25m - 14
55.07.21 010 Nightmare
A worker at a nuclear project suspects that machines are deliberately causing accidents, leading to a confrontation with her boss.
May 15, 2020·20m - 15
55.05.22 005 Knock
May 15, 2020·28m - 16
55.05.08 004 Universe
May 15, 2020·28m - 17
55.05.05 003 Mars Is Heaven
May 15, 2020·26m - 18
55.05.01 002 The Parade
May 15, 2020·22m