"Countdown for blastoff... X minus five, four, three, two, X minus one... Fire! 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 may-be worlds. The National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of Astounding Science Fiction presents...X Minus One! X Minus One was a science fiction series that was an
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extension, or revival, of the earlier science fiction series, Dimension X. Both shows are remembered for bringing really first rate science fiction to the air by such authors as Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury. After the first 15 episodes new versions of episodes, X-Minus One continued with new territory featuring new work by modern popular science fiction authors including Philip K. Dick, Fritz Leiber, J.T. McIntosh, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl and Theodore Sturgeon among others. Many of the episodes deal with future human existence. Martians play a prominent roll in the series, in one episode humans exterminate all the Martians with chickenpox. Martians later hire an advertising agency to give the invaders popular PR campaign to announce their arrival on our planet. In another episode, a detective agency is hired to find all the Martins living in America.
