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I need help identifying the title and date of an X-Minus One show. The beginning of the show is intact but the title is missing. I can't find this particular episode listed in any log.

It concerns a convict who was given the choice of prison on Earth or exile on Mars. After a few years on Mars he is desperate to return to Earth even if it means going to prison. He complains that Mars is always cold. In the end he hijacks a rocket and ends up landing on Earth in the middle of winter and dying in a snowstorm.

Does anyone out there know the name of this episode and/or the broadcast date?

Doesn't sound like X-1 to me. There are a bunch of non-X-1 shows that the X-1 opening was added to at some time. You may have one of those.

Walt

the episode you heard is from "exploring tomorrow", a pretty good series
with rambling, quasi-drunken introductions by john campbell.
gwangi featured it on his radio review here.

jeffcovey wrote:the episode you heard is from "exploring tomorrow", a pretty good series
with rambling, quasi-drunken introductions by john campbell.

Radio Memories (the real one, not that "network" who stole Ted's name) carries the existing episodes of the series.

jeffcovey wrote:the episode you heard is from "exploring tomorrow", a pretty good series
with rambling, quasi-drunken introductions by john campbell.
gwangi featured it on his radio review here.

Yeah, what was with that, anyway??? It was like the sci-fi version of "The Continental", what with the soft-spoken Campbell and the backround music (As Time Goes By) playing gently in the background!!! "Hey... what's going on here? Is John W. puttin' the moves on me???"