X Minus One - "The Martian Death March" (Old Time Radio, 1955)

Podcast: The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time Radio · Old Time Retro Radio

Opublikowano: 2026-09-25

X Minus One presents “The Martian Death March,” episode 17, originally broadcast on NBC on September 8, 1955. Written by Ernest Kinoy, this production remakes a script first heard on Dimension X in 1951. On Mars in 1997, an Earthman recalls meeting John, a man sympathetic to the Martians confined to reservations, and Cantalcar, a displaced Martian Highlander. When Martians begin a dangerous desert journey toward their ancestral northern mountains, the story becomes a powerful science-fiction allegory of conquest, prejudice, and the meaning of home. Norman Rose narrates. The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows presents the original broadcast with a newly prod...