2000X
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| Genre | science fiction |
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| Country of origin | USA |
| Language(s) | English |
| Home station | NPR |
| Original release | 2 April – 26 September 2000 |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
2000X is a dramatic anthology series released by National Public Radio and produced by the Hollywood Theater of the Ear. There were 49 plays of various lengths in 26 one-hour programs broadcast weekly and later released on the Internet. Plays were adaptations of futuristic stories, novels and plays by noted authors. Producer/director Yuri Rasovsky and host/consultant Harlan Ellison won the 2001 Bradbury Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America for their work on this program.
Plays in the series
| Program Number | Title | Air Date | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1a | Merchant | 2000 04 02 | Henry Slesar |
| 1b | By His Bootstraps | 2000 04 02 | Robert A. Heinlein |
| 2 | Vaster Than Empires and More Slow | 2000 04 09 | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 3a | Collector's Fever | 2000 04 16 | Roger Zelazny |
| 3b | Knock | 2000 04 16 | Fredric Brown |
| 3c | Even the Queen | 2000 04 16 | Connie Willis |
| 4 | The Mission of the Vega | 2000 04 23 | Friedrich Dürrenmatt |
| 5a | And Miles to Go Before I Sleep | 2000 04 30 | William F. Nolan |
| 5b | The Machine Stops | 2000 04 30 | E. M. Forster |
| 6a | Revival Meeting | 2000 05 07 | Dannie Plachta |
| 6b | Dear Pen Pal | 2000 05 07 | A. E. van Vogt |
| 6c | A Learned Fable | 2000 05 07 | Mark Twain |
| 07a | Why Support for Public Radio Must Increase in the New Century | 2000 05 16 | Yuri Rasovsky |
| 7b | Pillar of Fire | 2000 05 16 | Ray Bradbury |
| 8 | R.U.R. | 2000 05 21 | Karel Čapek |
| 9a | Sentience Today | 2000 05 28 | Gort Klatu |
| 9b | A Sleep and a Forgetting | 2000 05 28 | Robert Silverberg |
| 10a | The Survey | 2000 06 04 | Yuri Rasovsky |
| 10b | A Dream of Armageddon | 2000 06 04 | H. G. Wells |
| 11a | Watchbird | 2000 06 13 | Robert Sheckley |
| 11b | A Curious Fragment | 2000 06 13 | Jack London |
| 12 | As Easy as ABC | 2000 06 18 | Rudyard Kipling |
| 13 | Hunting Season | 2000 06 27 | Frank Robinson |
| 14a | Millennium Bug | 2000 07 02 | Yuri Rasovsky (as Ytzhak Berle) |
| 14b | In a Thousand Years | 2000 07 02 | Hans Christian Andersen |
| 14c | In the Year 2889 | 2000 07 02 | Jules Verne |
| 14d | Millennium Bug II | 2000 07 02 | Yuri Rasovsky (as Ytzhak Berle) |
| 15 | The Thing Happens | 2000 07 09 | George Bernard Shaw |
| 16a | It Came from Outer Pinsk | 2000 07 16 | Yuri Rasovsky |
| 16b | The Proud Robot | 2000 07 16 | Lewis Padgett |
| 17a | "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman | 2000 07 23 | Harlan Ellison |
| 17b | By the Waters of Babylon | 2000 07 23 | Stephen Vincent Benét |
| 18 | All for Love | 2000 07 30 | John Dryden |
| 19a | The Only Bird in Her Name | 2000 08 07 | Terry Dowling |
| 19b | Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow | 2000 08 07 | Kurt Vonnegut |
| 20 | The Marching Morons | 2000 08 14 | C. M. Kornbluth |
| 21a | Bloodchild | 2000 08 22 | Octavia Butler |
| 21b | Shambleau | 2000 08 22 | C. L. Moore |
| 22 | The Mad Planet | 2000 08 29 | Murray Leinster |
| 23 | Hurricane Trio | 2000 09 05 | Theodore Sturgeon |
| 24 | The Moon Maid | 2000 09 12 | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 25 | Ole Doc Methuselah | 2000 09 19 | L. Ron Hubbard |
| 26a | Blood | 2000 09 26 | Fredric Brown |
| 26b | A Little Bank Deposit | 2000 09 26 | Gerald Kersh |
| 26c | A Dialogue for the Year 2130 | 2000 09 26 | Thomas Henry Lister |
| 26d | The Choice | 2000 09 26 | Wayland Young |