Friday, May 29, 2026

Journey #211 - Almost Human by Robert Bloch (X-Minus One)

A professor created an advanced robot named Junior, but it was stolen by a crook during the early stages of its intellectual and emotional development.





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Robert Bloch was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, psychological horror and fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and television. He also wrote a relatively small amount of science fiction. Best known as the writer of Psycho (1959), the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock, Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over 30 novels. He was a protégé of H. P. Lovecraft, who was the first to seriously encourage his talent

X Minus One was a half-hour science fiction radio drama series broadcast from April 24, 1955 to January 9, 1958 in various timeslots on NBC. Initially a revival of NBC's Dimension X (1950–51), the first 15 episodes of X Minus One were new versions of Dimension X episodes, but the remainder were adaptations by NBC staff writers, including Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts, of newly published science fiction stories by leading writers in the field, including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl and Theodore Sturgeon, along with some original scripts by Kinoy and Lefferts.

Theme music: Liberator by Man In Space

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Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Trekkin' Log #31 - Short Treks

Join Keith and Marshal as they trek through various anecdotes and adventures throughout the eras and members of Starfleet and beyond. In this episode, we apprehend the elusive Harcourt Mudd in "The Escape Artist," greet Ensign Spock onto the Enterprise in "Q&A," and conduct experiments on tribbles in "The Trouble with Edward."








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Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Outfield Excursion #47 - Burnt Offerings (1976)

The Rolf family, including Aunt Elizabeth, rent a large country mansion for the summer, and care for an 85-year-old lady in the attic. What could go wrong?








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