Spacemens Luck

 

Where Tom Corbett, Captain Video, CMDR Corry and Other Spacemen Still Live

It is with regret that, for now I hope, there are no more 2000 Plus “Space Travel” related episodes known to be in circulation. There are a handful of episodes in the series that are in circulation but are not part of this website as they were not “space travel” themed shows. 2000 Plus (also called Two Thousand Plus and 2000+) was an Old Time Radio (OTR) series which ran from March 15, 1950 to January 2, 1952 in various 30-minute time slots. It is most notable for being the first adult science fiction series on radio, airing one month prior to the better known Dimension X.

During the 1950s, science fiction became a popular genre, and stories exploring future technologies, space expeditions and alien invasions made up the story lines of the episodes that are known today and available for listening.

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When The Worlds Met begins at the giant space port in Washington D.C., temporary capitol of the Federated World Government. The date is April 21, 2000, Plus 20 (2020). People from Earth are excitedly awaiting for one of Earth’s space ships, Rocket Ship 307, to return from a mission at Luna City on the moon. Audio and Telebox Networks are covering the event for the whole world.

Johnny Dixon, one of the astronauts, is only happy to come back. Not only are they bringing with them specimens from the moon, his crew has also detected messages coming from Mars. Earth scientist manage to decode these messages after realizing they are not normal radio transmissions but thought waves. With the aid of the “Telepathator” the scientist are able to not only understand the signals from Mars but are able to reply to Mars with the same thought wave signals. We now have proof of the existence of life on the fourth planet.

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We find our self in the far distant future of 2006. A future where the Mark 3 Electronic Brain is the latest computer and is used in places like Harvard University. Soon there will be the next generation computer the Mark 4 Electronic Brain.

First we meet Harry Underhill, manufacturer of domestic robots who finds his livelihood threatened when a new competitor appears on the market. Humanoids, which are vastly superior to his, which are inefficient and clunky, are devoted to the protection and service of mankind. Their “prime directive” is to serve man.

The first time Harry speaks to one of these new robots he calls it a robot and he is promptly informed that they are mechanicals and not robots. The mechanical offers a service contract to him but Underhill immediately declines with disgust.

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The Dimension X Radio Show ran from April 8, 1950 to September 29, 1951 for a total of 50 episodes. The first 13 episodes were broadcast live, and the remainder were pre-recorded. Dimension X was Radio’s early 1950′s premier series of adult science fiction tales. The series opened with The Outer Limit, an Ernest Kinoy adaptation of Graham Doar’s short story from The Saturday Evening Post (December 24, 1949), about alien contact. This story was very popular and over the next few years aired on several other Old Time Radio Shows such as X-1, Escape, Suspense, Beyond Tomorrow, Exploring tomorrow and probably others. A week later (April 15, 1950), the program presented Jack Williamson’s most famous story, With Folded Hands, first published in the July 1947 issue of Astounding Science Fiction.

Below is a list of all 50 episodes with their broadcast dates. Over time I will be adding each and everyone of these episodes to the Spacemen’s Luck website so you can hear these excellent programs yourself. You will be able to add your comments about each of these episodes and rate them using our star rating system.

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2000 Plus (aka Two Thousand Plus and 2000+) was the first of the science fiction anthology radio program, using all new material rather than adapting published stories that ran on the Mutual Broadcasting System from March 15, 1950 to January 2, 1952 in various 30-minute time slots. 2000 Plus offered a variety of exciting adventures of future technology, with several episodes dealing with space exploration (of interest to Spacemens Luck), including alien invasion. The “outer space” themes portray our 1950′s fears in the post WWII atomic and new cold war eras.

“Let us send our imaginations forward in time into the years beyond 2000 AD. What strange adventures, what exciting things will we find in the world of tomorrow? 2000 Plus!”

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