C-chute: X Minus One (February 8, 1956)

“C-chute” is an episode of X Minus One, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 8, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Six passengers aboard the merchant spaceship Starfire are trapped in their after cabin when Chloro invaders board the vessel during the second interstellar war between Earth and the planet Chloro. Among them are Colonel Anthony Windham, Demetrius Paliarchitos, LeBlanc, Randolph Mullen and John Stewart, who has lived among the Chloro people before. As the Chloro seize the ship and kill its crew, the passengers must decide whether and how to resist. The episode is part of the NBC series X Minus One, which aired on February 8, 1956, and is adapted from the Isaac Asimov story as presented in the broadcast.

Aboard the merchant spaceship Starfire during the second interstellar war between Earth and the planet Chloro

Characters: John Stewart, Colonel Anthony Windham, Demetrius Paliarchitos, LeBlanc, Randolph Mullen

Listen for: The passengers' debate over how to resist the Chloro boarding party, and the discussion of the sea shoot

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.