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Long before Rod Serling created The Twilight Zone, probably the best science fiction and fantasy program made, there was X Minus One, the radio drama which ran during 1955-1958 on the NBC radio network. Using material supplied by the two major science fiction magazines of the day, Astounding Science Fiction and later Galaxy, the show produced a weekly radio drama involving science fiction, aimed at adults. (One of the program's sponsors was Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.) As noted on The Other Wiki, the show opened with the same teaser:

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Long before Rod Serling created The Twilight Zone, probably the best science fiction and fantasy program made, there was X Minus One, the radio drama which ran during 1955-1958 on the NBC radio network. Using material supplied by the two major science fiction magazines of the day, Astounding Science Fiction and later Galaxy, the show produced a weekly radio drama involving science fiction, aimed at adults. (One of the program's sponsors was Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.) As noted on The Other Wiki, the show opened with the same teaser: Later they would use Galaxy in place of Astounding. Some openings did not include the word 'transcribed'. Each week, a new story, taken from either Astounding or Galaxy, was performed as a radio drama (or comedy) in which the material was played straight for an adult audience, as opposed to typical 1950s science fiction (especially science fiction movies) which either trivialized this type of story (as in the case of most "bug eyed monster" style low-budget "earth is being invaded by monsters (or) martians" films) or targeted it for juveniles. For its time, the show was somewhat groundbreaking in that it covered science fiction as serious fiction directed to adults. Story lines included characters with gambling and addiction problems, criminal tendencies, and even one case where a space ship piloted by a computer with a female personality, was being "made love to" by its "robot boyfriend." MP3s of the show can be downloaded for free from the Internet Archive , or can be purchased on CD for $10 for the low quality set or $25 for the high-quality set from the "official" website, it claims to include all 195 episodes.