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X Minus One

Saucer of Loneliness (Dramatized)

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X Minus One

By: Theodore Sturgeon
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Summary
An alien lands on Earth and only talks to one woman. And she's not revealing what she heard. Based on a story by Theodore Sturgeon, this episode of X Minus One originally aired on January 9, 1957.

X Minus One premiered in April 1955 on NBC and ran until January 1958. Like its predecessor series, Dimension X, X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.

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"[X Minus One] brought current SF to radio, providing adaptations of many excellent new stories and thus allowing the public to appreciate the best science fiction available at the time." (Michael Ashley, The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines)

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