Each week, a different personality would choose a favorite story to be dramatized on radio
station KFI’s, Los Angeles, Favorite Story program hosted and narrated by actor True
Boardman. They broadcast at least three time-travel tales, all adapted by Jerome Lawrence and
Robert E. Lee. In fact, the first time travel was also KFI’s first episode,
A
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, selected by actor Ed Gardner. Another
episode was bandleader Kay Kyser’s favorite,
The Time Machine, which was the second
radio script for the Wells classic, significantly abridged but more faithful than the 1948
Escape radio production.
More or less concurrently, the broadcasts were repackaged
nationally for NBC radio by Ziv Syndication with Ronald Colman as host; there were also some
new NBC episodes (not adapted by Lawrence and Lee) including A Christmas Carol, which
as everyone knows has no real time travel. The KFI dates below are taken from ocrsite.com;
the NBC dates (which were aired differently across the country) are from audio-classics.com.
The selector for each story is also given in the list below.
I ask you to imagine, gentlemen, a cube—a square box, let us say—which has only those
three dimensions: length, breadth, and thickness.
. . . Would
not such a cube also require another dimension?