2000 Plus

 

                                                         

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First show date: 1950

Last show date: 1950

Number of shows: Unknown

 

 

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2000 Plus was an American old-time radio series that ran on the Mutual Broadcasting System from March 15, 1950 to January 2, 1952 in various 30-minute time slots. A Dryer Weenolsen production, it was the first adult science fiction series on radio, airing one month prior to the better known Dimension X.

2000 Plus was an anthology program, using all new material rather than adapting published stories. The series was the creation of Sherman H. Dryer (October 11, 1913-December 22, 1989) who scripted and produced the series with Robert Weenolsen. Dryer directed cast members Lon Clark, Joseph Julian, Bryna Raeburn, Bill Keene and Amzie Strickland. Emerson Buckley conducted the music composed by Elliott Jacoby. Ken Marvin was the program's announcer, and the sound effects were by Adrian Penner. The nature of the series is indicated in the titles of 1950 episodes: "The Brooklyn Brain," "The Flying Saucers," "The Robot Killer," "Rocket and the Skull," "A Veteran Comes Home," "Men from Mars," "When the Machines Went Wild," "When the Worlds Met," "The Insect." "Silent Noise," "The Green Thing," "The Giant Walks" and "Worlds Apart."

In Science Fiction Television (2004), M. Keith Booker wrote: .....It was not until the 1950s that science fiction radio really hit its stride, even as science fiction was beginning to appear on television as well. Radio programs such as Mutual's 2000 Plus and NBC's Dimension X were anthology series that offered a variety of exciting tales of future technology, with a special focus on space exploration (including alien invasion), though both series also often reflected contemporary anxieties about the dangers of technology.

 

 

episodes

TITLE

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1. Hosts Above the Thunder

 

03/15/50

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2. Journey Into The Germ World

 

03/22/50

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3. The Men From Mars

 

03/29/50

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4. The Diamond Skull

 

04/05/50

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5. The Man Who Conquered Time

 

04/12/50

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6. A Rocket To The Moon

 

04/19/50

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7. When The Machines Went Mad

 

04/26/50

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8. When The Worlds Met

 

05/03/50

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9. Silent Noise

 

05/10/50

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10. Under The Sea

 

05/17/50

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11. The Man Who Tried to Stop June 8

 

05/24/50

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12. The First Men

 

05/31/50

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13. The Other man (The man Who found Himself)

 

06/07/50

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14. The Earth Vs. Alexander Corday

 

06/14/50

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15. The Brooklyn Brain

 

06/21/50

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16. Space Wreck

 

06/28/50

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17. A Veteran Comes Home

 

07/05/50

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18. Flower Of Evil

 

07/23/50

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19. Explorers From Space

 

07/19/50

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20. The Living Dead

 

07/26/50

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21. The Doom Machine

 

08/02/50

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29. The Green Thing

 

09/27/50

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That Which Lives in a Steel Head

 

10/04/50

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The Giant Walks

 

11/08/50

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Worlds Apart

 

11/15/50

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