X Minus One - Skulking Permit (#38)

02/15/56, episode 38
This episode provided by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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The planet New Delaware in the year 2204 is being contacted for the first time in 200 years. It is still an Earth colony so it won't have to be reconquered, but the people will have to be civilized. This means they will have to have jails. But that also means they have to have crime, so the citizens hire someone to be a criminal and prepare to show the Earthlings how civilized they can be. The actors are delightful, giving it a real Mayberry R.F.D. feel. This is a very funny, thoughtful story by Robert Sheckley. (from "The Critical X Minus One" by Jim Fanisher)
Credits (Goldin): Joseph Boland, Joe DeSantis, Mandel Kramer, Richard Hamilton, Robert Sheckley (author), Ruby Dee, Ernest Kinoy (adaptor), Daniel Sutter (director, transcriber), Jack Costello (announcer), William Welch (producer), Daniel Sutter (director), Jack Costello (announcer), Wendell Holmes, Alan Hewitt, William Quinn

[@Wraiths_and_Wreckage]

One of the best things I've ever heard

[@paulkieran2308]

Excellent show!

[@reubenaberlin]

This is a great episode I laughed aloud more than once.

[@DressedForDrowning]

"Why me?"
"You have narrow eyes. Criminals always have narrow eyes."
😄😄

[@mariehayes8358]

This is my favorite ever!

[@betsya7054]

So Good

[@harmonichebe]

unbelievably great!!! Be Blessed

[@blitzkrieg3558]

So ahead of its times 😊

[@MonteLogic]

21:19 is the funniest thing ever

[@deadjuice1880]

Wholesome, and perturbing at the same time.

[@scottuehlinger7887]

Sheckley was always one of the more humorous SF writers - strong sense of Satire....

[@sugarhieroglyph]

Satire is a dying art.

[@jameswest7290]

Hilarious