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Many OTR episodes were adapted from the novels, short stories and plays of major writers. As such, I have listed below my reviews by author, followed by my star rating and the series which produced it (linking to the actual review). Where stories were adapted for more than one series, the first listed is the one with my full review.

Anderson, Poul
  The Light (***) - X Minus One

Arr, Steven
  Chain of Command (***) - X Minus One

Asimov, Isaac
  The C-Chute  (****) - X Minus One
  Hostess (****) - X Minus One
  Nightfall (****) - X Minus One / Dimension X
  Pebble in the Sky (***) - Dimension X

Benét, Stephen Vincent
  Elementals (***) - Suspense
  The King of the Cats (
***) - CBS Radio Workshop
  Nightmare [original story: 'The Revolt of the Machines'] (**) - X Minus One / Dimension X

Bentley, E. C.
  Trent's Last Case (****) - Suspense

Blake, Nicholas
  The Beast Must Die (****) - Suspense


Blish, James
  Surface Tension (***) - X Minus One

Bloch, Robert
  Almost Human (***) - X Minus One / Dimension X

Bond, Nelson
  The Vital Factor [original story: 'Vital Factor'] (****) - X Minus One / Dimension X

Bradbury, Ray
  Hail and Farewell (****) - CBS Radio Workshop
  Kaleidoscope (*****) - Suspense / Dimension X [****]
  Marionettes, Inc. (***)  - X Minus One / Dimension X
  Riabouchinska (*****) - Suspense
  To the Future (*****) - X Minus One / Dimension X
  The Screaming Woman (*****) - Suspense
  Season of Disbelief (*****) - CBS Radio Workshop
  The Veldt (****) - X Minus One / Dimension X
  Zero Hour (*****) - Suspense / Dimension X [****] / X Minus One [****]

The Martian Chronicles (episodes in order of book chapters)
  The Martian Chronicles (***) - Dimension X 
  Mars Is Heaven ['The Third Expedition'] (****) - X Minus One / Dimension X
  And the Moon Be Still as Bright (***) - X Minus One / Dimension X
  Dwellers in Silence ['The Long Years'] (****) - X Minus One / Dimension X
  There Will Come Soft Rains (***) - X Minus One / Dimension X

Brown, Fredric
  Knock (***) - X Minus One / Dimension X
  Honeymoon in Hell (***) - X Minus One
  The Last Martian (**) - X Minus One

Budrys, Algis
  Protective Mimicry (***) - X Minus One

Burke, Thomas
  The Hands of Mr. Ottermole (***) - Suspense

Burrage, A. M.
  The Waxwork (*****) - Suspense

Carr, John Dickson
  The Burning Court (***) - Suspense
  Cabin B-13 [original radio play] (****) - Suspense
  The Customers Like Murder [original radio play] (**) - Suspense
  The Dead Sleep Lightly [original radio play] (****) - Suspense
  The Devil in the Summer House [original radio play] (***) - Suspense
  The Lord of the Witch Doctors [original radio play] (*) - Suspense
  Menace in Wax [original radio play] (**) - Suspense
  
Nothing Up My Sleeve [original radio play] (
**) - Suspense
   Will You Make a Bet with Death? [original radio play] (***) - Suspense

Carter, Paul

  The Last Objective (*) - Dimension X

Chandler, Raymond
  Pearls Are a Nuisance (*****) - Suspense

Cheever, John
  The Enormous Radio (***) - CBS Radio Workshop

Christie, Agatha
  The ABC Murders (***) - Suspense
  Philomel Cottage (***) - Suspense

Clark, Walter Van Tilburg
  The Track of the Cat (***) - Suspense

Clifton, Mark
  Star, Bright (****) - X Minus One
 
Collier, John
  Back for Christmas [also as 'Holiday Story'] (***) - Suspense
  Wet Saturday (****) - Suspense

Collins, Wilkie
  A Terribly Strange Bed (****) - Suspense

Connell, Richard
  The Most Dangerous Game (****) - Suspense

Cram, Mildred
  Time Found Again (**) - CBS Radio Workshop

Croft-Cooke, Robert
  Banquo's Chair (**) - Suspense

de Camp, L. Sprague
  A Gun for Dinosaur (****) - X Minus One

Dick, Philip K.
  Colony (****) - X Minus One
  The Defenders (***) - X Minus One

Dickens, Charles
  The Signalman (****) - Suspense

Dickson, Gordon R.
  Lulungomeena (**) - X Minus One

Dinelli, Mel
  John Barbie and Son [original radio play] (***) - Suspense
  A Tale of Two Sisters/The Ten Years [original radio play] (****) - Suspense
  To Find Help (****) - Suspense

Doar, Graham
  The Outer Limit (**) - Suspense / Dimension X / X Minus One

Eisinger, Jo
  The Walls Came Tumbling Down (***) - Suspense
 
Finney, Jack
  After the Movies [original radio play] (***) - Suspense

Fletcher, Lucille
  The Hitchhiker [original radio play] (*****) - Suspense
  The Search for Henri Lefevre [original radio play] (****) - Suspense
  Sorry, Wrong Number [original radio play] (****) - Suspense
 
Galouye, Daniel F.
  Shock Troop (***) - X Minus One
 
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
  The Yellow Wallpaper (*****) - Suspense

Godwin, Tom
  Cold Equations [original story: 'The Cold Equations'] (*****) - X Minus One

Gold, H. L.
  At the Post (**) - X Minus One
  The Old Die Rich (****) - X Minus One

Guin, Wyman
 
Volpla (*) - X Minus One

Gunn, James E.
  The Cave of Night (***) - X Minus One
  Open Warfare (**) - X Minus One
  Tsylana (**) - X Minus One
  Wherever You May Be (***) - X Minus One

Harvey, W. F.
  August Heat (*****) - Suspense

Hecht, Ben
  Actor's Blood (***) - Suspense

Heinlein, Robert A.
  Destination Moon (**) - Dimension X
  The Green Hills of Earth (**) - X Minus One / Dimension X / CBS Radio Workshop
  Requiem (**) - X Minus One / Dimension X
  The Roads Must Roll (**) - X Minus One / Dimension X
  Universe (****) - X Minus One / Dimension X
 
Herbert, A. P.
  The House by the River (**) - Suspense

Hubbard, L. Ron
  The Professor Was a Thief (**) - Dimension X

Hughes, Dorothy B.
  In a Lonely Place (****) - Suspense

Hull, E. Mayne
  Competition (*) - Dimension X

Huxley, Aldous

  Brave New World (*****) - CBS Radio Workshop
  Jacob's Hands [written with Christopher Isherwood] (
****) - CBS Radio Workshop

Isherwood, Christopher
  Jacob's Hands [written with Aldous Huxley] (****) - CBS Radio Workshop

Kaufman, George S.
  The Dark Tower [written with Alexander Woollcott] (***) - Suspense
 
Kendrick, Baynard
  Out of Control (**) -
Suspense

Kinoy, Ernest
  The Castaways [original radio play] (***) - X Minus One / Dimension X
  The Martian Death March [original radio play] (***) - X Minus One / Dimension X
  Martian Sam [original radio play] (**) - X Minus One
  Project Trojan [original radio play] (***) - X Minus One
  Real Gone [original radio play] (**) - X Minus One
  Shanghaied [original radio play] (*) - X Minus One / Dimension X


Kornbluth, Cyril M.
  The Space Merchants [written with Frederik Pohl] (****) - CBS Radio Workshop

Lefferts, George
  Hello, Tomorrow [original radio play] (***) - X Minus One / Dimension X
  The Man in the Moon [original radio play] (***) - X Minus One / Dimension X
  No Contact [original radio play] (***) - X Minus One / Dimension X
  The Parade [original radio play] (***) - X Minus One / Dimension X
  Perigi's Wonderful Dolls [original radio play] (***) - X Minus One / Dimension X

Leiber, Fritz
  Appointment in Tomorrow (***) - X Minus One
  The Moon Is Green (**) - X Minus One
  A Pail of Air (*****) - X Minus One

Leinster, Murray
  First Contact (*****) - X Minus One / Dimension X
  If You Was a Moklin (***) - X Minus One
  A Logic Named Joe (****) - X Minus One / Dimension X
  The Lost Race (****) - Dimension X
  Sam, This Is You (***) - X Minus One

Lesser, Milton
  The Sense of Wonder (***) - X Minus One

Lewis, Sinclair
  Young Man Axelbrod (***) - CBS Radio Workshop

Lipsky, Eleazar 
  Infanticide (*) - Suspense

Love, Edmund G.
  Subways Are for Sleeping (***) - CBS Radio Workshop

MacLean, Katherine 
  Pictures Don't Lie (***) - X Minus One
  The Snowball Effect (****) - X Minus One

MacLeish, Archibald
  Air Raid [original radio play] (***) - CBS Radio Workshop

Maples, Richard
  The Scapegoat (***) - X Minus One

McIntosh, J. T.
  Hallucination Orbit (*****) - X Minus One

McKenty, Jack
  A Thousand Dollars a Plate (**) - X Minus One

Mencken, H. L.
  Bring on the Angels (****) - CBS Radio Workshop

Nathan, Robert
  A Pride of Carrots, or Venus Well-Served (*****) - CBS Radio Workshop
  Report on the Weans (*****) - CBS Radio Workshop

Nourse, Alan E.
  The Coffin Cure (**) - X Minus One
  Prime Difference (**) - X Minus One

Phelps, Jr., A. H.
  The Merchant of Venus (****) - X Minus One

Phillips, Peter
  Field Study (**) - X Minus One

Piper, H. Beam 
  Time and Time Again (*****) - X Minus One / Dimension X

Poe, Edgar Allan
  Never Bet the Devil Your Head (***) - CBS Radio Workshop

Pohl, Frederik
  The Haunted Corpse (**) - X Minus One
  The Mapmakers (****) - X Minus One
  The Space Merchants [written with Cyril M. Kornbluth] (****) - CBS Radio Workshop
  Target One (***) - X Minus One
  Tunnel Under the World [original story: 'The Tunnel Under the World'] (*****) - X Minus One

Pratt, Fletcher
  Dr. Grimshaw's Sanitarium (**) - X Minus One / Dimension X

Quattrocchi, Frank
  Sea Legs (**) - X Minus One

Ramuz, Charles-Ferdinand
  When the Mountain Fell (**) - CBS Radio Workshop

Randau, Carl
  The Visitor [written with Leane Zugsmith] (***) - Suspense
 
Robinson, Frank M.
  The Girls from Earth (**) - X Minus One
  The Reluctant Heroes (****) - X Minus One
  Untitled Story (***) - Dimension X

Rocklynne, Ross
  Jaywalker (**) - X Minus One

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
  The Little Prince (****) - CBS Radio Workshop

Sayers, Dorothy L.
  The Cave of Ali Baba [original story: 'The Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba'] (**) - Suspense
 
Schmitz, James H.
  Caretaker (**) - X Minus One

Sellings, Arthur
  The Category Inventor [original story: 'The Category Inventors'] (***) - X Minus One

Shaara, Michael
  Soldier Boy (***) - X Minus One

Sheckley, Robert
  Bad Medicine (**) - X Minus One
  Death Wish (**) - X Minus One
  Early Model (****) - X Minus One
  Gray Flannel Armor (***) - X Minus One
  The Lifeboat Mutiny (****) - X Minus One
  The Native Problem (****) - X Minus One
  Protection (***) - X Minus One
  The Seventh Victim [original story: 'Seventh Victim'] (*****) - X Minus One
  Skulking Permit (*****) - X Minus One
  Something for Nothing (*****) - X Minus One
  The Trap [original story: 'Trap'] (***) - X Minus One
  A Wind Is Rising (**) - X Minus One

Shelton, Vaughn
  Point of Departure (*) - X Minus One

Silverberg, Robert
  Double Dare (***) - X Minus One
  The Iron Chancellor (***) - X Minus One

Simak, Clifford D.
  Courtesy (***) - X Minus One / Dimension X
  Drop Dead (***) - X Minus One
  How-2 (****) - X Minus One
  Junkyard (***) - X Minus One
  Lulu (**) - X Minus One
  Project Mastodon (****) - X Minus One

Siodmak, Curt
  Donovan's Brain (*) - Suspense

Smith, Evelyn
  Man's Best Friend (***) - X Minus One

Sohl, Jerry
  The Seventh Order (****) - X Minus One

Steele, Wilbur Daniel
  Footfalls (***) - Suspense

Stewart, George R.
  Storm (****) - CBS Radio Workshop

Stribling, T. S.
  A Passage to Benares (***) - Suspense

Sturgeon, Theodore
  Mr. Costello, Hero (**) - X Minus One
  A Saucer of Loneliness (****) - X Minus One
  The Stars Are the Styx (***) - X Minus One

Tall, Stephen
  The Lights on Precipice Peak (**) - X Minus One

Tenn, William
  Child's Play (***) - X Minus One / Dimension X
  The Discovery of Morniel Mathaway (****) - X Minus One
  Venus Is a Man's World (*) - X Minus One

Thurber, James
  You Could Look It Up (*) - CBS Radio Workshop

Twain, Mark

  Roughing It (***) - CBS Radio Workshop

Vance, Jack
  The Potters of Firsk (***) - Dimension X

Vonnegut, Kurt
  Report on the Barnhouse Effect (***) - Dimension X

Wallace, F. L.
  End As a World (****) - X Minus One
  Student Body (****) - X Minus One

Williams, Emlyn
  Night Must Fall (***) - Suspense

Williamson, Jack
  With Folded Hands (****) - Dimension X

Wilson, Richard
  Inside Story (***) - X Minus One

Wollheim, Donald A. 
  The Embassy (***) - X Minus One / Dimension X

Woollcott, Alexander
  The Dark Tower [written with George S. Kaufman] (***) - Suspense

Woolrich, Cornell
  After-Dinner Story (****) - Suspense
  The Black Curtain (
***) - Suspense
  Deadline at Dawn (****) - Suspense
  Dime a Dance (*****) - Suspense
  If the Dead Could Talk (***) - Suspense
  I Won't Take a Minute [original story: 'Finger of Doom'] (****) - Suspense
  Last Night [original story: 'The Red Tide']  (****) - Suspense
  The Night Reveals (***) - Suspense
  The Singing Walls (***) - Suspense
  The White Rose Murders [original story: 'The Death Rose'] (***) - Suspense
  You'll Never See Me Again (***) - Suspense
  You Take Ballistics (***) - Suspense

Zugsmith, Leane
  The Visitor [written with Carl Randau] (***) - Suspense






















































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