Science Fiction – Retro Radio Podcast: Recent Episodes
Keith Heltsley
A bunch of the guys are enjoying a night out. As the party breaks up, Charlie is left to pay the bill, but when he has just one last drink…
The story of the second expedition to a faraway planet. Only 2 are left of the original 180 men, and only minutes are left to live. In flashback, the story…
Cybernetics, the study of robots and artificial intelligence, someday something like this may happen. A professor and his female assistant are visited by a rude man from her past. He…
The planet seemed to be an underdeveloped backwater with no life on it. Then a junkyard was spotted. The exploratory spaceship took a chance, landed, but now is plagued with…
Recounts a fictitious telling of the beginnings of Mars exploration. An astronaut is stranded in space. The nation gets behind the rescue project and contributes mass amounts of cash to…
In the future, traffic has become so bogged down that engineers develop a rolling road. A cross-country conveyor belt that efficiently transports cargo without the trouble of collisions. The engineers…
Joe is a 1974 model logic, and this is the story of how Frank Caldwell saved civilization as we know it. Frank is a salesman who deals in logics. It’s…
In that far flung, futuristic year of 1990, a couple of businessmen meet in a bar after work to discuss their married life. How does Walter manage to maintain his…
By Isaac Asimov. A planet on the far reaches of the universe has six suns, with At least two shining at any given time over the entire globe. A reporter…
A Ray Bradbury story. A few friends talk about the new concept of taking a vacation by travelling to a different time. When one of them does go back in…
An invisible force that destroys all matter may be the end of Commander Corry, but stay tuned to see how it all came to be. After a meteor is observed…
Stand by for danger in the asteroid belt around Jupiter’s forth moon. After a police call is responded to, it turns out to just be a false alarm. As Commander…
A high powered business executive, Mr Crowder, wants to build a spaceship. He is determined to be the first man to build one. Money is no object, and he fires…
Episode 018. Nuclear testing on a remote Pacific island goes awry when the natives, rather than be relocated, threaten to commit mass suicide to put a curse on the project.
A secret, experimental installation has been bothered by several sightings of flying saucers. As a letter is dictated to national headQuarters, we learn the sensitive details. Will the test project…
Schoolboys in a futuristic year talk about the possibilities of a mission to Mars, and such historical events as the first space ship to the moon in 1980, the Christopher…
Join the trip to the far flung futuristic year of 1965! This science fiction adventure has a moral for society and culture of the age of technological advancement. This is…
On the planet Uranus, and halfway between the sun, and the outer planet Pluto, trucking companies are having trouble. Is it a matter of sabotage? A woman has taken over…
A Classic story from Ray Bradbury. In the far flung futuristic year of 1985, kids play outdoors, just as on any typical day. Mom gets dinner ready and dad is…
A pilot of an experimental rocket is shot into space. All goes well, until communication is lost. Hours go past with no word from the missing pilot. If he is…
Introducing Commander Buzz Correy, before he rose to power in the Space Patrol, that powerful instrument in keeping justice in the space lanes between planets of the solar system. While…
In the far flung year of 1958, at a university, Professor Barnhouse talks with his assistant, Clinton. Robots are being used as drones for military service, but sometimes their brains…
Episode 023. To escape a world devastated by nuclear radiation, Mankind has retreated underground, but the Final War still rages on. A woman betrays her country by falling in love with an Asiatic POW from the other side, a capital crime punishable by exile to the ruined surface.
A Ray Bradbury story brought to life. After three failed missions to Mars that have vanished from existence, a fourth one sets out. Finding a glaringly vacant city, and Martian…
Transcribed tales of time and space, the story for today is either a magnificent hoax, or the true account of what happened at Grimshaw’s sanitarium back in 1947. A manuscript…
Industrial sabotage threatens the advancement of technology on the planet Jupiter. The set backs could halt the biggest advancement since the inventions of the automobile, or rubber. Who could be…
The story of a blind singer of the spaceways. The flippant singer has gotten on the captain’s bad side, but today he has been offered the chance to redeem himself.…
In the radio broadcast service for the Missing Persons Bureau, a strange radio signal cuts in over the normally secure channel. Who could be doing such a thing? Where is…
After an announcement of a radio tribute to the recently fallen acting great, Lionel Barrymore, the premiere episode of this popular Science Fiction show kicks off. In the far flung…
Previously, Cain appeared on Barney’s rocketplane and kidnapped him, and Buck is left at the landing pad for the ship to come in. Today Buck and Wilma begin to think…
Episode 095. The story of the Dodgers baseball team and their Martian player hired by the new owner.
A classic story by Ray Bradbury. Travelling astronauts find a well known doctor, and are welcomed to the feast the old gent has prepared for them. Doc Hathaway, and his…
A story about an Air base that has been built on an old dry lake bed. Lake Muroc now hosts all sorts of test planes, fighters, bombers, and even ground…
Episode 071. A close encounter of the third kind being told by a newspaperman who follows the story by deciphering radio siginals.
Episode 118. 3 spacers are saddled with a lovesick ship's computer who is unwilling to return home unless they indulge her romantic inclinations.
In this futuristic story by Ray Bradbury, we find a young family who moves into their dream home. The house is full of the latest in high tech appliances, conveniences,…
After a fatal wound in a battle in the year 1975, a soldier goes back in time to 1945, on his 13th birthday. He discovers he can change the future…
Stories of the future where you’ll live in a thousand maybe worlds. At a doll shop near the Pentagon, a little girl and her mom do some window shopping. When…
Cybernetics, the study of robots and artificial intelligence, someday something like this may happen. A professor and his female assistant are visited by a rude man from her past. He…
In the far flung year of 1982 space travel has become commonplace. A series of spaceships have been mysteriously disappearing at a place in outer space. A military vessel is…
Episode 097. A worthless artist receives a visitor from the future who tells him his art will come to be known as the work of a genius.
Thousands of years in the future, the earth has been demolished by atomic war. People have survived by living underground. Genetic breeding only allow the perfect ones to marry. The…
A radio show sponsor is to give away as a contest prize, a mechanical man, a robot. XR23 is 6 feet tall, made of metal, yet with human like features.…
Nobody knows exactly when the nightmare began, or how the series of accidents have fit together, until in a computing room, a mousey clerk handles the data crunching for a…
After time traveling to ancient earth, the crew is offered help to get back to the moon. We find them back in their own spaceship, getting ready for lift off.…
Previously, the crew spent time exploring the dome city of the aliens, Jet Morgan and his crew finally meet the aliens face to face. Lenny gets spooked and runs. Today,…
Jet Morgan and his crew have left their spaceship, and went onboard the alien ship. They are flown on auto pilot to where the aliens are located. The crew has…
What if you were the last man on earth, sitting alone in a room, then heard a knock at the door? That’s where the story begins. The alien race known…
In recent episodes, our astronauts have discovered they have landed on Earth, but either in a time far in the future or the past. A time when both advanced, and…
With technology advances in space exploration, we are just beginning to realize the vastness of what’s out there. Imagine distances too far to travel within the lifetime of a human…
In recent episodes, Jet Morgan and his crew have taken off from the moon, but found themselves travelling through space to land on a planet that supports life. The crew…
The BBC presents another installment of Jet Morgan, and Operation Luna. After taking off from the moon, and intent on returning to Earth, the crew encounters an alien space craft,…
In the thrilling final moments of the last episode, the crew learns the other space ship is from a far away galaxy. The adventure takes some exciting twists as the…
After strange knocking is heard, and images appear on the viewer screens, power is restored to the space ship. With limited resources, the crew decide to stay and explore mysterious…
After completing the scheduled amount of time exploring the moon, and filled with weird events, the blast off goes wrong. The main power supply fails, and the rocket goes dark.…
After landing on the moon, a strange sound is heard. The moments of Jet’s disappearance is relived. Strange things are happening to each of the crew. Back at the rocket,…
Jet Morgan and his crew continue on their journey to the moon. After blasting off, and taking a space walk, the three astronauts return to the rocket’s cabin. They discuss…