These are production organizations that have a large catalog of material. This is not intended to be a complete listing, others are doing that. Here are some sources on the web for science fiction audio theater. Also take a look at the Mark Time Awards winners for some of the best audio theater in recent years. It is searchable, so you can look for specific things, or generalize and find something you didn’t know was out there.

(Jesse Willis includes reviews, notifications and links to science fiction, fantasy and horror audiobooks, and Scott Danielson focuses on full-cast audio drama, and Old Time Radio. In fact it's ALL OVER the Internet.Ī good place to look on the Internet for SF Audio is. It's on the Internet - a very science fictional sort of medium. And a large portion of it is science fiction and fantasy. Now there is more audio theater being produced that at any time since the radio networks ceased it in 1962. But it was probably the Star Wars radio series from National Public Radio that showed that there might be an audience, just as there was a huge fan base for the Star Wars movies. In 1981 ZBS released the first series of ' Ruby: The Adventures of a Galactic Gumshoe ' in 3-minute episodes on both public and commercial radio. 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' rekindled an awareness of good radio in 1978. They made use of new stories from the best science fiction magazines and writers of the period.Īll that went away and for a long time there were only sporadic outbreaks of SF on the airways of America. Lawton, 1932.) Perhaps the best Old Time Radio SF shows are NBC's Dimension X (1950-51) and X Minus One (1955-57). (Some scripts are reprinted as examples in Radio Speech, by S. No audio of the shows has survived, but the scripts have. Anthony Tollin tells us that Ultra Violet was syndicated as early as 1930, written and produced by Fran Striker. There has been science fiction on the radio since before Buck Rogers in 1932. The best aliens are the ones that only you can see. ' The best special effects are the ones inside your head.

Public domain radio play scripts