2000 Plus
2000 Plus was an early American adult science-fiction anthology that imagined futures of robots, space travel, altered bodies and technological danger before network radio had fully established science fiction as a regular dramatic genre.
Where to Start
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The Men from Mars
Two boys secretly build a rocket and head for Mars, an appealing introduction to 2000 Plus because its futuristic premise is adventurous, reckless and unmistakably rooted in early radio science fiction.
Episode details →A Veteran Comes Home
A veteran returns traumatized from a Martian war only to see his son eager to enlist, giving the series a surprisingly somber story about how futuristic warfare can repeat familiar human cycles.
Episode details →The Rocket and the Skull
A shattered test pilot, experimental surgery and the race for space combine medicine with technological anxiety, showing the more ominous side of the future imagined by 2000 Plus.
Episode details →Program History
A pioneering adult science-fiction anthology built around original stories of future technology, space travel, scientific experiments, and the consequences of invention.
Mutual science-fiction anthology created by Sherman H. Dreyer and produced with Robert Weenolsen.
The run breaks into several distinct periods: Mutual run (1950-03 to 1952-01) on Mutual Broadcasting System.
Names that turn up again and again in the surviving run include Sherman H. Dreyer (creator (performer), producer) (performer), Robert Weenolsen (producer), Elliot Jacoby (composer and conductor), Emerson Buckley (conductor and composer), Walt Shaver (sound, performer, and sound-effects artist), and Ken Marvin (announcer).
Across its run, the surviving broadcasts are tied to Mutual Broadcasting System.
The stories often return to science fiction and speculative futures, future technology and technological anxiety, space travel and extraterrestrial exploration, aliens and extraterrestrial contact, robots, machines and automation, and AFRS rebroadcast preservation.
The show also sits in a wider radio history that includes Early adult science-fiction radio anthology boom, Fragmentary 2000 Plus survival record, Korean War opening context for A Veteran Comes Home, and Postwar technological and Cold War context.
If you are following the same actors and creative circles, related programs worth opening next include X Minus One, The Mysterious Traveler, Theater Five, Words at War, and CBS Radio Mystery Theater.
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The Men from Mars
Two boys who are refused permission to make a trip to Mars decide to take matters into their own hands, putting together a rocket of their own and setting off…
When the Machines Went Mad
In a future city run by a computerized Master Controller, a small group of dissidents challenges a system in which machines dominate civic life and electronic authority has become a…
When the Worlds Met
Martians arrive on Earth to deliver a grave warning to humanity, only to find a civilization still organized around fear, military force, and suspicion of outsiders.
When the Worlds Met (AFRS)
Martians arrive on Earth to deliver a grave warning to humanity, only to find a civilization still organized around fear, military force, and suspicion of outsiders.
The Brooklyn Brain
A dim-witted Brooklyn man volunteers for an experiment that can dramatically increase his intelligence, hoping that becoming cultured and clever will finally help him win the woman he loves.
Space Wreck
In the year 2370, the interplanetary passenger liner Golden Star begins its maiden voyage but is struck by a meteor and left crippled in space, turning a routine commercial flight…
A Veteran Comes Home
A traumatized veteran returns to his family after fighting in the Martian War and struggles with what he experienced, only to discover that his own son is eager to enlist…
The Green Thing
Patients in a sanitarium begin reporting the same nightmare about a strange green creature. The shared dream suggests that what appears to be mass hysteria may instead be an intrusion…
The Giant Walks
A power-mad scientist develops a serum capable of turning ordinary men into thirty-foot giants and intends to use his new race of titans as the foundation for world conquest.
Alone (AFRS #39)
A man finds himself apparently alone in the world, confronting the eerie isolation of a society in which everyone else seems to have disappeared.
Worlds Apart
A space expedition returning from Neptune is unexpectedly arrested and imprisoned, leaving its crew to discover why they are being treated as criminals after coming home.
The Rocket and the Skull
Colonel Bradbury survives a catastrophic experimental rocket crash only because he is ejected in time, but his skull is badly shattered. Doctors implant an experimental metal plate while the West's…
The Insect
A scientist experiments with a growth ray capable of enlarging arthropods. While he is away, his wife becomes trapped in the laboratory with one of the experiment's terrifyingly successful results.
The Flying Saucers
An alien spacecraft appears over an Air Force base. When military leaders choose to fire on the unidentified visitor, the attack sets off consequences far beyond what they expected.
The Other Man (AFRS #13)
Scott Douglas returns home to learn that the World Security Police want him for murder, but the case becomes impossible when evidence indicates that another Scott Douglas exists at the…
The Robot Killer
A suburban couple wins a robotic house servant in a contest, but the supposedly helpful machine becomes dangerous inside a household already destabilized by the wife's severe psychological problems and…
The Temple of the Pharaohs
Astronaut Wilson and archaeologist Professor Sebastian are thrown thousands of years into the past and land in ancient Egypt. Mistaken for divine messengers, they use futuristic technology to help the…
Cast, Crew & Contributors
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