Bradbury's 'Mars Is Heaven' is as gripping today as when first heard. It came so late that nobody cared, but some of the stories stand as classics of the medium. In-house script writer was Ernest Kinoy, who adapted the master works and contributed occasional storied of his own.ĭimension X was a very effective demonstration of what could be done with science fiction on the air. This show dramatized the work of such young writers as Ray Bradbury, Robert (Psycho) Bloch, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Kurt Vonnegut. But until the premiere of Dimension X - a full two decades after network radio was established - there were no major science fiction series of broad appeal to adults.
Some fine isolated science fiction stories were developed on the great anthology shows, Suspense and Escape. Strange that so little good science fiction came out of radio they seem ideally compatible, both relying heavily on imagination. DIMENSION X Dimension X was first heard on NBC April 8, 1950, and ran until September 29, 1951.
