I've had a number of people contact me requesting recommendations on what shows to pursue to begin their collections. So I am indulging them (and myself!) by posting my 'essentials' list for any OTR collection.
Here's your chance to speak out, and maybe help some people who are new to the hobby get their collections off on the right foot. As experienced collectors know, not all radio drama is created equal, and a few unfortunate choices can dampen a newcomer's enthusiasm pretty fast. So...
I encourage you to send me your own 'Essentials' list - I will be happy to post it!
Jeff Dickson's Top 10:
A Sound of Thunder (Bradbury 13)
Fatherland (BBC)
An Alternative to Suicide (BBC)
Kaleidoscope (Bradbury 13)
Prisoner of the Machines (CBS Radio Mystery Theater)
Here, There be Tigers (Bradbury 13)
The Map Makers (X Minus One)
The Last Objective (Dimension X)
The Martian Death March (X Minus One, Dimension X)
Call Me Joe (Sci-Fi Radio)
Other Great Choices from Jeff:
When the Worlds Met (2000 Plus)
Leviathan 99 (BBC)
Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed (Bradbury 13)
The Lost Race (Dimension X)
Mars is Heaven (ABC Radio Workshop, Dimension X)
The Green Hills of Earth (Dimension X, CBS Radio Workshop)
Hostess (X Minus One)
Universe (X Minus One)
The Vital Factor (Dimension X)
A Gun for Dinosaur (X Minus One)
A Sense of Wonder (X Minus One)
The Seventh Victim (X Minus One)
Captain of the Pole Star (CBS Radio Mystery Theater)
The Abominable Snowman (Escape)
The Thirteenth Truck (Escape)
Three Skeleton Key (Escape)
The House in Cypress Canyon (Suspense)
Hallucination Orbit (X Minus One)
Sea Legs (X Minus One)
The Cold Equations (Exploring Tomorrow)
Bathysphere (Lights Out)
None of the above are in any particular order.
From B. Stewart
Country of the Kind (Mind webs)
The Devil Car (Mind webs)
After Sunset (Nightfall)
The Talkers (Theater Five)
The Noon Stars (Theater Five)
Meteor (Vanishing Point)
Crazy Town (Lights Out)
The Night the Fog Came (Hall of Fantasy)
Apartment Hunting (Mind webs)
Little Girl, Little Girl (Theater Five)
From Rich Carlson - Kirkland, WA
The Thing on the Fourble Board (Quiet Please)
Ghost Hunt, Donovan's Brain (Suspense)
The Last Objective (Dimension X)
Death Robbery (Lights Out)
The Man Who Stole a Planet (Quiet Please)
Johnny Got His Gun (Arch Oboler's Plays)
The Gibbering Things (The Shadow)
The Map Makers (X Minus One)
Three Skeleton Key (Escape)
Earth Abides (Escape)
The Lottery (NBC Presents: Short Story)
The Hole in Empty Space (Space Patrol)
From Michael Lloyd - Los Angeles, CA
Zero Hour (Suspense)
Mars is Heaven (X Minus One)
Marionettes, Inc. (Dimension X)
A Sound of Thunder (Bradbury 13)
Kaleidoscope (Bradbury 13)
The Too Perfect Alibi (Suspense)
The Parade (X Minus One)
The Ravine (Bradbury 13)
The Man (Bradbury 13)
The Waxwork (Suspense)
From M.P. Cassidy - Thornton, New Hampshire
The Hitchhiker (Suspense)
Sorry,Wrong Number (Suspense)
The Martian Chronicles (Dimension X)
Berlin, 1945 (Quiet Please)
Dracula (Mercury Theatre on the Air)
Home Surgery (Gunsmoke)
The Adventure of the Speckled Band (The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
The Old Post Road (Nightfall)
From Seth Gaines
With Folded Hands (Dimension X)
Three Skeleton Key (Escape)
A Little Piece of Rope (Suspense)
A Friend to Alexander (Suspense)
An Evening's Diversion (Suspense)
Donovan's Brain (Suspense)
The Hitchhiker (Suspense)
Fire in the Sky (The Mysterious Traveler)
Skulking Permit (X Minus One)
The Cold Equations (X Minus One)
From Luc L'Heureux
The Thing On The Fourble Board (Quiet, Please)
Northern Lights (Quiet, Please)
Whence Came You? (Quiet, Please)
Let The Lilies Consider (Quiet, Please)
Shadow Of The Wings (Quiet, Please)
The House In Cypress Canyon
The Hitch Hiker (Suspense)
Ghost Hunt (Suspense)
Three Skeleton Key (Suspense)
Sorry, Wrong Number (Suspense)
The Veldt (X Minus One)
Mars Is Heaven (X Minus One)
Zero Hour (X Minus One)
Nightfall (X Minus One)
Sea Legs (X Minus One)
The Hole (Lights Out)
The Dark (Lights Out)
Chicken Heart (Lights Out)
Cat Wife (Lights Out)
Poltergeist (Lights Out)
Resolution 1841 (Dark Fantasy)
Death Is A Savage Deity (Dark Fantasy)
The Man With The Scarlet Satchel (Dark Fantasy)
The Demon Tree (Dark Fantasy)
Pennsylvania Turnpike (Dark Fantasy)
The Martian Chronicles (Dimension X)
Nightfall (Dimension X)
Dr. Grimshaw's Sanitarium (Dimension X)
Mars Is Heaven (Dimension X)
A Pebble In The Sky (Dimension X)
Casting The Runes (Escape)
Country Of The Blind (Escape)
Three Skeleton Key (Escape)
Bloodbath (Escape)
War Of The Worlds (The Mercury Theatre On The Air)
The Shadow (all)The Lone Ranger (all)
From Rob Knaap - The Hague, Netherlands
Aliens in the Mind (BBC)
The Day of the Triffids (BBC)
The Man (Bradbury 13)
Murder on the Orient Express (BBC)
Baldi (BBC)
Paradise Lost in Space (BBC)
Unpleasantness in Bellona (BBC)
Charity Ends at Home (BBC)
On the Farm (BBC)
From an anonymous listener in Washington DC:
Faith and the Faker (CBS Radio Mystery Theatre)
Temple of Vampires (I Love a Mystery)
The Whirlpool (Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theatre)
Escape in Time (The Avengers)
Specialty of the House (Price of Fear)
Odyssey of Flight 33 (Twilight Zone Radio Dramas)
Heir Hunters (The Zero Hour)
Country of the Blind (Escape; Suspense)
Lost Horizon (Lux Radio Theatre)
Sam, This is You (X Minus One)
Book of Belll (Nightfall)
Graveyard Shift
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