Scifi Friday

I think this recovery of these old science fiction radio dramas is fantastic, however there are some episodes missing. I know it may be hard to find all the pieces, but it is a bummer when you get hooked on a show and then can’t finish it.

Overall a good collection of interesting SF tales, but some are missing, not many but it's worth mentioning. Some early episodes in the dozen range and more recently numbers 151 to 153. For example, The Destruction Factor is noted as 6 episodes. The first three are complete. Episodes 4 and 5 are missing. The final episode of that series, number 6 of 6, or 153 in the general numbering pattern, is only a minute or so long, so there's no way to find out what happened. I even did a Google and could not find the missing episodes. I did write to the podcaster a few months back and was promised it would be looked at, but -- anyway, overall it is a good job of gathering together older SF radio programs. Just needs a bit of double checking to make sure episodes get uploaded so they are complete and downloadable. (BTW, The annoying intro music stuff really could be skipped. I hold down Fast Forward on iPod.)

Got to wonder if anyone in the booth even listens to these before they are posted. Pro tip: If you want to run a boring eight part (i.e. 8 weeks long) series that is more camp comedy than science fiction, be prepared to lose some listeners.

Warning! The 45+mb "News Update" is just a dirty, underhanded way of getting you to listen to a really terrible (and long) advertisement for audible. Why couldn't they just label it honestly? Bandwidth is a precious commodity to some of us and deliberately lying to listeners to get them to download and listen to huge files is just plain wrong. There's nothing about it that is news, only really bad advertising. This used to be a good podcast, but has really dropped in quality. If you want scifi podcasts, there are so many much better alternatives out there (most without the exceptionally annoying advertising crammed down listeners ears).