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Countdown for blast off. X minus five, four, three, two, X minus one, fire. From the far horizons of the unknown come 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 cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine presents X minus one. Tonight the time is the late 1960s, the place, Washington DC, the story, Honeymoon in Hel…

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Synopsis

In the gripping episode Honeymoon in Hell, the world is on the brink of atomic war, and a startling crisis emerges: a dramatic decline in the birth rate of male children. Set in the late 1960s, the narrative follows Carmody, a grade one cybernetics operator at the Pentagon, who is tasked with analyzing alarming birth statistics. As he feeds data into Junior, the most advanced electronic brain, he learns that if the trend continues, humanity could face extinction within a generation.

Host

Fred Collins

Cast›

Jack Grimes

Leon Janney

R

Roger De Koven

V

Vilma Cure

W

Wendell Holmes

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A treasury agent investigates a series of counterfeit credit notes that bear identical serial numbers, raising alarms about a potential security breach in the currency system.

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Credits

  • Audio from Internet Archive (OTRR_X_Minus_One_Singles). Curated by OTRR. Goldie does not claim ownership of this broadcast.
  • Cast and sponsor data from RadioGold Index (J. David Goldin / UMKC Libraries).
  • Historical context from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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X Minus One, Episode 81

Honeymoon in Hell

Wednesday, December 26, 1956 · 28:58

X Minus One, Episode 81

Honeymoon in Hell

Wednesday, December 26, 1956 · 28:58

Summary

As the world faces a potential atomic war, a couple is sent to the moon for a unique honeymoon that could help solve a dire population crisis. However, their mission is complicated by unexpected revelations.

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William Redfield

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NBC

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An ambitious man rescues an old man from a brutal beating, hoping to use the incident to expose the city's failures in handling juvenile delinquency. As he takes the old man home, tensions rise between his desire for a story and the well-being of his family.

Ep 106 · Thursday, August 8, 1957 · 21:28

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