Quasar Dragon Spotlight On X Minus One.

X Minus One was a half-hour science fiction radio anthology that ran from April 24, 1955 to January 9, 1958 on NBC.  It was overseen by NBC staff writers Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts, who also wrote some stories and adapted most of the rest.  The series featured stories by many of the best writers of that era (Bradbury, Asimov, Heinlein, Pohl, Dick, etc.), typically either a rewrite of a Dimension X script or taken "from the pages of Galaxy Magazine," and was one of the last great Old Time Radio series.

As with virtually every anthology series, the episodes were rather hit or miss. Some were great, while other (including most original stories by Kinoy and Lefferts) weren't very good.  But with so many episodes, if a listener likes even half of them, it's a great series.  Tastes vary so I'm reluctant to recommend any except to say that the stories by the better known writers tend to the best ones.

There was a single episode attempt to revive the series in 1973, that some purists do not consider part of the series.  And I'm the only person in the world, but I consider the 19 Nocturne Boulevard episode "The leech" to be an honorary X Minus One episode. (It's a dramatization of 1950's Galaxy Magazine story by a big name SF writer - Robert Sheckley).

While X Minus One had some flaws, such as a half-hour being a bit short for the adaptations, it was one of the high points of twentieth century science fiction.

The links after the fold are direct download MP3 from the Internet archive, except on names which lead to the original story at Project Gutenberg and on The 19 Nocturne Boulevard which leads to that site.