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The Rocket (Aired January 4, 1952)
The Stories of Ray Bradbury is, as the title suggests, an anthology containing 100 short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury and was first published by Knopf in 1980. The hundred stories, written from 1943 to 1980, were selected by the author himself. Bradbury's work had previously been collected in various compilations, such as The Martian Chronicles and The October Country, but never in such a large volume (912 pages) or spanning such a long period of time. Some of the more famous stories in this collection include "The Fog Horn", "The Veldt", "The Day It Rained Forever", "The Small Assassin" and "I Sing the Body Electric!". THIS EPISODE: January 4, 1952. "The Rocket" - NBC Broadcast Network. A poor man who runs a junkyard wants nothing more in life than to travel to Mars...which is just what he does! David DuVal, Don Diamond (producer, host, performer), Dorothy Brown, Ernest Kinoy (adaptor), Joel Nessler, John Wald (announcer), Margaret Brayton, Andrew C. Love (director), Kurt Martell, Ralph Moody, Ray Bradbury (author), Stan Waxman (narrator), William Welch (script editor), Margaret Cuthbert (supervisor of Public Affairs programming), Wade Arnold (executive producer). 29:33. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.