Radio show from 1976 – 84. These are readings of stories, rather than radio dramas. (Although they tend to have added background music, etc.) Most were half hour. The show was based at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Plot summaries available at: http://otrplotspot.com/mindWebs.html - the episode descriptions below are also from otrplotspot.com

Absalome by Henry Kuttner
Genre: SF
Due to mutations that occur every generation, children are becoming smarter than their parents before them. What are the implications when a son intellectually surpasses his father at age eight?

Adam And No Eve by Alfred Bester
Genre: Future Earth
Due to an energy conversion experiment gone awry, the earth is turned into an ash filled landscape. As the last man on earth, the person responsible starts a dogged journey to the sea, to set things right.

Affair with a Green Monkey by Theodore Sturgeon
Genre: ?
A nurse and her husband (a rehabilitation expert for the government) rescue a man from a brutal mob beating. The husband explains that mobs attack people who appear different because they think that anything different is dangerous... and this young man certainly appears different.

After The Myths Went Home by Robert Silverberg.
Genre: Future Earth
Millennia from now, the bored human race amuse themselves by 'resurrecting' the great heroes and myths out of history and imagination.

Allegory by William T. Powers (aka Bill Powers)
Genre: Super Science
An inventor seeking to patent his anti-gravity device comes up against a bureaucracy convinced that such a device is scientifically impossible.

Apartment Hunting by Harvey and Audrey Bilker
Genre: Future Earth / Dystopia
In an overcrowded future, a young couple achieve the right to their own apartment - if they can carve through the red tape in time to kill its present occupant before the deadline.
[Episode also includes story The King Of The Beasts.]

Apple by John Baxter
Genre: ?
In a time when miners tunnel into giant apples to collect the creamy, ripe flesh... others seek to keep the miners safe by destroying the moths that hide within.

Available Data On The Worp Reaction by Lion Miller
Genre: Super Science
At six years old, the mentally challenged Aldus Worp begins collecting parts from the city dump. Nearly twenty years later, something miraculous happens.

Beachhead In Utopia by Lloyd Biggle Jr.
Genre: Future Earth
In the past 10 years, the International Poverty Control Agency has made great progress toward eliminating all poverty. William Zarney, however, has not been able to find work for 2 years. Something must be done about it.

Beyond the Wall of Sleep by H. P. Lovecraft
Genre: Suprenatural
An intern at a mental hospital relates his experience with an inmate and explores the notion that dreams, although often mundane, can sometimes reveal a separate mental realm.

The Bible after Apocalypse by Laurence M. Janifer
Genre: Aliens
When a part of New Jersey and a suburb of Cleveland and a small town in the state of Washington become three columns of smoke, all the radios begin to broadcast in the voices of the people from the Crab Nebulae and their ships begin landing.

Born Of Man And Woman by Richard Matheson
Genre: Horror
A classic story of a malformed youth kept locked up in the cellar by his own horrified parents.
[Episode also includes Happily Ever After by William F. Nolan]

The Brink Of Infinity by Stanley Weinbaum.
Genre: undefinable
A mathematician is held captive by a madman who demands he solve an impossible equation or be killed.

The Builder by Philip K. Dick
Genre: ?
In 1950s suburbia, Elwood - a man who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, and shuns most people around him - builds a boat in his backyard to the annoyance of his wife and neighbors.

The Cage by A. Bertram Chandler
Genre: Space Exploration / Aliens
How could you prove to a wholly alien life-form that you are a rational being? To the survivors of the wrecked spaceship Lode Star it was a challenge of a more vital sort - a riddle of life or death.

Carcinoma Angels by Norman Spinrad
Genre: undefinable
A wealthy entrepreneur who has conquered every challenge life has to offer takes on his own mortality when he discovers he has cancer.

The Castaway by Charles E. Fritch
Genre: Space Exploration
A futuristic Robinson Crusoe crash lands on a planet of eternal daylight, which makes the passage of time hard to quantify. He begins to measure his stay in a different manner.
[Episode also includes The Weapon by Frederic Brown]

Cephes 5 by Howard Fast.
Genre: SF
A green space officer seeks out a venerable old counselor to help dispel his feelings that something is wrong on board their starship. Instead of solace, however, the counselor can only offer a disturbing revelation.

A Child Is Crying by John D. MacDonald.
Genre: SF
A nervous military gets their hands on a freaky 7 year old boy who has an IQ well above Einstein's, an ability to calculate the future, and his own intentions for how that future will play out.

Computers Don't Argue by Gordon Dickson.
Genre: SF
A disagreement with his book club over an undue charge ignites a series of tragi-comical events that eventually land him on death row.

Corita by Roger Zelazny.
Genre: Horror
A story of a man tormented by a thing.

The Country of the Kind by Damon Knight
Genre: ?
In a world where violence and crime have been almost totally eliminated, a man engages in antisocial behavior.

Crisis by Edward Grendon
Genre: Aliens
Earthmen meet to study a proposal from an alien race; the aliens wish to send an ambassador to Earth to see if Earth is mature enough for long-term interstellar contact. Should Earth accept the proposal at face value?

The Day of the Butterflies by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Genre: Fantasy
A farm girl working in Manhattan starts to imagine the city is being invaded by the country.

Descending by Thomas Disch.
Genre: undefinable
A man finds himself on a series of escalators that only go down and seemingly don't lead anywhere.

Desertion by Clifford Simak
Genre: Aliens / Space Exploration
Four men have been transformed into native Jovian life forms and sent from protective dome to explore the surface of Jupiter. None have returned.

The Devil Car by Roger Zelazny
Genre: Horror
To avenge the death of his brother, Sam Murdock and his death car Jenny seek out the evil Black Caddy and its pack of wild cars.

Doing Lennon by Gregory Benford
Genre: Future Earth / Cryogenics
A man comes up with a scheme to become rock legend John Lennon after emerging from cryogenic sleep. But can he fool the people in the year 2108 (or is it 2180?) and live out his dream?

Don't Look Now by Henry Kuttner
Genre: Mars / Aliens
A drunk in a bar harasses a fellow patron with warnings about the Martians who are secretly controlling the world.

A Dream at Noonday by Gardner Dozois
Genre: SF
A man drifts between recollections of his childhood and observations of his present situation. The prose is dream-like, almost hypnotic in its effect, with an overall impact that may well stay with you for a lifetime... or not.

Dreamworld by Isaac Asimov
Genre:
A young boy immerses himself in day dreaming and fantasy, much to the chagrin of his aunt, who is trying to raise him by rule and rod and pious memory of her deceased sister. "Face reality, Eddie," she constantly tells him.

Earthmen Bearing Gifts by Fredric Brown.
Genre: Mars / Aliens
The last few of the dying Martians anticipate the arrival of the first explorers from Earth.

The Eel by Miriam Allen DeFord
Genre: SF
The "Eel" is a super-thief whose eventual capture has been an eagerly anticipated event on a dozen worlds across half the galaxy, all drooling over the opportunity to exact a lengthy and unpleasant vengeance - but will any of them manage to bring him to conviction and punishment? He did not earn his name for nothing...

En Passant by Britt Schweitzer
Genre: ?
Suddenly, and without warning, a man loses his head and struggles to remain calm.

The End by Ursula Le Guin
Genre: ?
While the members of a small sea-side community kill their animals, destroy their possessions, and prepare for The End, a lone man wonders if maybe this isn't The End, and if life can continue in the guessed-at islands beyond the horizon.

The End of the World Rag by Jack C. Haldeman II
Genre: ?
A rambling reminiscence about how Apathy killed incentive, desire, love, and everything we ever really cared about.

The Enormous Radio by John Cheever.
Genre: undefinable
A couple's broken radio starts picking up conversations from elsewhere in their apartment block , and they can hardly resist becoming voyeurs into the sordid privacies of their neighbours.

The Eternal Machines by William Spencer.
Genre: SF
A hermit with a poetic soul takes sole custodianship of a junk planet, the garbage dump of the galaxy, in order to build an eternal monument to his creative urges.

Eurema's Dam by R. A. Lafferty
Genre: ?
He was the last of the dolts - the last of dumb kids. But, sometimes, stupidity is the mother of invention.

The Ever-Branching Tree by Harry Harrison.
Genre: Time Travel
A teacher takes his class on a field trip through time to explore the origins of life.

The Evergreen Library by Bill Pronzini and Jeffrey Wallmann
Genre: ?
After Pruett Evergreen dies, his lawyer visits the Evergreen Estate to make sure everything is in order prior to passing on the bulk of the property, including the library, to the Enchiridion Society - a European group that has something to do with books.

The Exhibition by Scott Edelstein
Genre: ?
William Francis Howell Markem, ident-a-gram 5551070023, is one of 8,997,020 living impressionist painters. He is still on the dole... which means he is an unknown... which means he is a failure... But he has just painted his 105th painting and if he can sell it, he just might become a Recognized Artist.

The Fly by Arthur Porges
Genre: ?
A prospector, while taking a break for lunch, notices a spiderweb and watches an ancient, unfolding drama between spider and fly. But there is something strange about that fly.

The Fog Horn by Ray Bradbury.
Genre: Creatures
A lighthouse's lonely fog horn calls up a primeval horror out of the depths.
Other version on: BBC Story inspired the film The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

The Food Farm by Kit Reed
Genre: ?
Nelly is a very big girl, and that's just how Tommy Fango likes them.

The Funny Farm by Robert Bloch.
Genre: ?
When attempting to rob an eccentric comic book collector, a thief encounters some unexpected complications.

Game for Motel Room by Fritz Leiber
Genre: ?
After spending a satisfying night together, a man listens to his lover tell a bizarre tale about her life and her relationship with her husband.

The Garden Of Time by J. G. Ballard
Genre: ?
An aristocratic couple try to keep history's destructive tide of humanity at bay.

Gas Mask by James D. Houston
Genre: ?
One summer afternoon, at about 5:30, the eight lanes of traffic around Charlie Bates slowed to a creep and finally to a standstill. Gridlock. How long will it take to get moving again when there is nowhere to go? And what should he do in the meantime?

The Gift by Ray Bradbury.
Genre: Mars
Parents plan a special Christmas gift for their son on a trip to Mars.
[Episode also includes The Star by Arthur C. Clarke)

The Great Slow Kings by Roger Zelazny.
Genre: Aliens
Twin reptilian monarchs who have lost their kingdom and all their subjects save for a robot servant ponder searching out the galaxy for new subjects, but their painfully slow metabolisms make the effort difficult, to say the least.

The Gun Without a Bang by Robert Sheckley
Genre: ?
Now Dixon knew he was being followed... but he wasn't worried. He was a great believer in personal armament, and he was carrying The Weapon. Why look for fuzzy economic, philosophical or political reasons when everything was so simple?

Hall Of The Machines by Langdon Jones
Genre: SF
A lengthy narrative describing the mechanical wonders of a repository of ancient machines whose purpose has long been forgotten.

Hands of the Man by R. A. Lafferty
Genre: ?
A "spotter" encounters a "sky man" in a tavern and engages in a tricky and delicate negotiation for the sale and delivery of the truly impressive ring which the sky man is wearing.

Happily Ever After by William F. Nolan.
Genre: SF
A newly married couple settle on their own asteroid.
[Episode also includes Born Of Man And Woman by Richard Matheson]

Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Genre: Future Earth / Dystopia
Classic story of a rebel in an age whose political correctness has lead to a fanatical devotion to the lowest common denominator.
[Episode also includes The Haunted Spacesuit by Arthur C. Clarke]

The Haunted Spacesuit by Arthur C. Clarke
Genre: Space Exploration
Story aka: Who's There?
An astronaut on a spacewalk is convinced that something is trying to get into his spacesuit.
[Episode also includes Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut]

Helen O'Loy by Lester del Rey
Genre: Robots
Two young men, a mechanic, Dave, and a medical student, Phil, collaborate on modifying a household robot, originally meant only to cook food and clean, in order to allow it to have emotions.

The Hell-Bound Train by Robert Bloch
Genre: Supernatural
A young drifter makes a deal with the Devil and promises to ride the Hell-bound train when the time comes.

I Kill Myself by Julian Kawalec
Genre: Super Science
A scientist involved in the creation of an ultimate weapon begins to suffer pangs of conscience.

I See You
Genre: Super Science
A research engineer developers a distant viewer; after production, some units fall into the hands of political dissidents ...

The Icebox Blonde by Thomas N. Scortia
Genre: Robots
A stodgy husband is forced to confront his conservative mores when his wife has an affair and the local supermarket is selling female androids in its freezer section.

Impostor by Philip K. Dick
Genre: Future Earth / Aliens / War
Story of a future weapons scientist working to save Earth from an alien invasion who finds himself accused of being an alien changeling, a clone with a ticking time bomb in his body.
Other version on: Sci-Fi Radio.

In The Abyss by H. G. Wells.
Genre: Undersea
An undersea explorer uses a modified diving bell to descend to the bottom of the ocean where he makes an extraordinary discover.

In The Imagicon by George Henry Smith
Genre: Super Science
Isolated on a cold and desolate colony world and nagged by a shrewish wife, a husband's only escape is through a virtual reality machine.

An Infinity of Loving by David Gerrold
Genre: ?
Two young lovers, lucky to fall in love, fear that their love for each other will fail and so seek a means of joining that love together for all eternity.

Kaleidoscope by Ray Bradbury.
Genre: Space Exploration
A spaceship crew is condemned to float forever in space when their ship is destroyed by a passing meteor.
Other versions on: Dimension X, Bradbury 13, Suspense, and BBC

Kellerman's Eyepiece by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
Genre: undefinable
Cyrus Kellerman orders a telescope eyepiece through the mail, only to find it discontinued. The newer model sent to him by the telescope company, however, seems to pick up more than just stars and moon craters. Like Allegory and Computers Don't Argue, this story was written in the brilliant form of back and forth correspondence.

The King Of The Beasts by Philip Jose Farmer
Genre: ?
A biologist of the future recreates extinct animals for a zoo/laboratory... including the most dangerous animal of them all.
[Episode also includes story Apartment Hunting ]

Knock by Fredric Brown
Genre: ?
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door...

The Language of Love by Robert Sheckley
Genre: ?
Story of a young lover, frustrated by his inability to articulate his love fully and precisely, who travels to the planet Tyana II to learn the "Language of Love".

The Last Ghost by Stephen Goldin
Genre: ?
Eternity is a terrible place to endure alone. Especially when memory has failed and thought processes have nearly ceased. The last ghost struggles with... he searches for... he wants a... he desires some... he loves to....

Letter to a Phoenix by Fredric Brown
Genre: ?
A retrospective on the human race from a man who has lived 180,000 years.

The Liberators by Lee Harding
Genre: Future Earth / Dystopia
In the far distant future, a group of people awoken from the dream tanks flee the City, whose A.I. brain needs them to provide it with a human soul.

Light of Other Days by Bob Shaw
Genre: ?
A couple driving through the country notice a sign and stop at a farm advertising "slow glass" for sale.

Look Homeward, Spaceman by Robert Silverberg
Genre: ?
Paul Robinson returns home on a 2-day furlough after 6 years in space and is surprised at what he finds.

The Machine In Shaft 10 by John Harrison (as Joyce Churchill).
Genre: Aliens
The discovery of a vast underground machine complex sends civilization into a frenzy of hysteria, despair, social upheaval and religious chaos. Apparently the Machine has been recording human emotions throughout history and transmitting their energy to some distant point in space. The scientist responsible for the discovery resolves to shut the complex down, regardless of what consequence might come of it when the Makers stop receiving...

The Man From Earth by Gordon Dickson
Genre: Aliens
When the first Earthman to arrive on the capital world of galactic civilization, he unwittingly commits an offence that could cost him his life.

The Man Who Returned by Edmond Hamilton
Genre: Horror
An invalid awakens to discover he has been buried alive.

The Martian El Dorado Of Parker Whintley by Lin Carter.
Genre: Mars / Aliens
Parker Wintley is out of money, but not of luck or charm . He has secured a claim on a remote area of Mars where a cache of diamonds is ripe for the taking - if he can con them from the natives.

The Maze by Stuart Dybek
Genre: ?
Through the use of radioactively-induced mutation and chemically altered DNA, a researcher attempts to expand intelligence. He uses a maze to provide controlled problems of survival and a method of measuring, testing and selecting those mice that have been successful.

The Meeting by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
Genre:
Harry Vladik struggles with possible futures for his developmentally challenged child.

The Metal Man by Jack Williamson
Genre: ?
Prof. Thomas Kelvin of the Geology Department of Tyburn College undertakes a solo expedition to find the source of El Rio de la Sangre and, hopefully, deposits of radium-bearing minerals that make the river radioactive.

Midnight Express
Genre: Fantasy
Fantasy and reality become blurred in a dream about a stranger at a dark train station.

Moth Race by Richard Hill
Genre: Future Earth / Dystopia
A future society of drug-induced pacifists finds emotional release through the minds and feelings of champions willing to risk their lives in a deadly game of car vs. computer.

My Object All Sublime by Poul Anderson
Genre: Time Travel
An evening's musings between friends on time travel takes an unpleasant turn.

Nackles by Donald E. Westlake (as Curt Clark)
Genre: Fantasy
Does God create Men, or does Man create gods? It might seem an academic question, but it seems that nearly every god has a corresponding devil. And if Man does create his own gods... then I guess the next question would be whether Santa Claus is a god?

Nature Boy by Josephine Saxton
Genre: ?
A somewhat surreal psychological tale about... er... about... Actually I have no idea what it's about.

The Night He Cried by Fritz Leiber
Genre: Aliens
A parody in which a peace-loving alien from Galactic Center attempts to reform a misogynistic man named Slickey Millane.

A Night In Elf Hill by Norman Spinrad.
Genre: Space Exploration
A spacer writes his Earth bound psychiatrist brother to ask for help. He wants to be convinced not to return to one of the planets he's visited, because forever can be a very short time.

The Night of the Nickel Beer by Kris Ottman Neville
Genre: Fantasy
Upon turning 40 and finding himself unable to sleep, a man takes a late-night walk through the mist and finds a bar which serves up nickel beer and tantalizes him with the promise of youth. A remembered past? A new beginning? Or a return to his wife, sleeping at home?

The Night That All Time Broke Loose by Brian W. Aldiss
Genre: Time Travel
A couple purchases a home time converter, only to have the central timeworks plant go awry, turning a pleasant evening of decade jaunting into an annoying rewrite of history.

The Nine Billion Names Of God by Arthur C. Clarke.
Genre: Fantasy
A cloister of Himalayan monks hire a computer programmer to design a mainframe capable of cataloguing every possible name of the Supreme Deity.
[Episode also includes 'Test')

None Before Me by Sidney Carroll
Genre: ?
A man devotes his life as a connoisseur to obtaining the best single piece of anything... until he develops an obsession with one of his acquisitions.

Or All the Seas with Oysters by Avram Davidson
Genre: ?
Struck by the fact that there are never enough pins and always too many coat-hangers, a bicycle shop owner begins to speculate on the possible parallels between natural and man-made objects.

Over The Line by Barry Malzberg
Genre: Space Exploration
Another 'generational starship lost in space' story - as a rite of passage a young man asks the ship's computer the meaning of existence.

Pain God by Harlan Ellison.
Genre: Fantasy
Reluctantly appointed the universal dispenser of suffering, the 'pain god' has a revelation when he decides upon a case study of a few paltry mortals on a remote dust speck called Earth.

Paradise Regained by Theodore L. Thomas (as Cogswell Thomas)
Genre: SF
A group of escapees on a prison world aptly named Hell determine to make a home in the only livable valley on the planet.

Paxton's World by Bill Pronzini
Genre: Aliens
When a spacer gets marooned on a distant planet, he sets himself up as a god to the simplistic natives.

The Petrified World by Robert Sheckley.
Genre: Fantasy
A man's dreams intrude upon his experience of 'reality'.

Phoenix by Ted White and Marion Zimmer Bradley
Genre: Supernatural
After waking from an odd dream, a man struggles to understand the limits of his new "wild talent" or psi power.

The Place Of The Gods by Stephen Vincent Benet
Genre: Future Earth
An post-holocaust tale of a shaman's son whose rite of passage is to venture to the forbidden ruins left by the long-departed gods.

The Plot is the Thing by Robert Bloch
Genre: SF
Having withdrawn into a fantasy world of old horror movies, a woman undergoes a severe form of rehab that challenges the borders of reality.

Pond Water by John Brunner.
Genre: Robots
Scientists create an immortal super-robot named Alexander to rule the human race and who, like his namesake, possesses an insatiable thirst for conquest that extends across the stars.

The Portable Phonograph by Walter van Tilburg Clark
Genre: Post-apocalyptic
Four men, struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic time, meet regularly to cherish memories of better times - reading from a few remaining books and listening to a few surviving recordings.

The Power of the Sentence by David M. Locke
Genre: Fantasy
An English professor lecturing about the use of sentences finds his examples are taking on a life of their own.

Promises To Keep by William F. Nolan
Genre: Space Exploration
A dying spaceman whose last wish is to return to Earth to see his parents once more concocts a unique means of cheating death.

Public Hating by Steve Allen
Genre: Future Earth
A criminal is sentenced to be telepathically hated in a public stadium by fifty thousand of his peers.
[Episode also includes story Winter Housekeeping]

Pure Gold by Lord St. Davids
Genre: undefinable
Bizarre story about a couple whose homebuilt sailboat spins gold off its mast on the open water.

The Racer by Ib Melchior
Genre: Future Earth / Dystopia
Auto racing in the future has turned into a bloodsport.
Inspiration for the movie Death Race 2000.

Rebel by Ward Moore
Genre: ?
A young man is confronted by his parents who wish him to conform to their style of living. Classic story told with a twist.

Remembrance to Come by Gene Wolfe
Genre: ?
In this psychological tale, a literature professor wonders if he is seeing things when a strangely clad student turns up in his classroom and begins following him.

Repent, Harlequin! Said The Tick-Tock Man by Harlan Ellison.
Genre: Future Earth/ Dystopia
A future society enslaved to the tyranny of the 'schedule' looks for a savior in the form of a clownish prankster who refuses to punch the state time clock.
Other version on: 2000 X

Restricted Area by Robert Sheckley
Genre: Space Exploration
Scientists exploring a new world are unable to account for what they find: animals, plants, and mineral structures that simply shouldn't exist!

The Rollerball Murder by William Harrison.
Genre: Future Earth / Dystopia
The murderous sport of Rollerball has become the world's most popular sport, and Johnathan E. it's most popular champion - but though he can survive the blood-soaked brutality of the game, can he survive its corporate exploitation?
Story also used in films 'Rollerball'.

The Rules Of The Road by Norman Spinrad
Genre: SF
A great silver dome sits in the desert at Yucca Flats, featureless, except for an innocent-looking open entranceway. Ten military men have entered - none have returned. A civilian prepares to enter and discover if the dome is the key to the stars... or just a better mouse-trap.

The Run by Christopher Priest.
Genre: SF
A senator responsible for the nation's missile silos confronts his humanity when malcontents challenge his passage on the road.

Running Around by Barry Malzberg.
Genre: Time Travel
Dissatisfied with his life, the inventor of a time machine returns to the past to murder his father and thus pre-empt his own existence.
[Episode also includes the story 'Swords Of Ifthan')

A Saucer of Loneliness by Theodore Sturgeon
Genre: SF
After an unsuccessful suicide attempt, a woman explains to her rescuer how she received a message from a flying saucer, her subsequent imprisonment and interrogation by a government bent on discovering that message... and her lifelong loneliness.

The Sentinel by Arthur C. Clarke
Genre: Aliens
In the late summer of '96 a lunar expedition exploring the great walled plain called the Mare Crisium - the sea of crises - detours to investigate a metallic glitter high an the ridge of an unclimbed peak.
Story was part of the inspiration for 2001: A Space Odyssey

The Show Must Go On by James Causey
Genre: Robots
Man built better than himself. Anything he can do, his androids can do better. So he rarely bothers to do anything anymore. Except hate. In an effort to save mankind from a long drawn-out suicide, a new android show is being produced. Hopefully this will draw men away from the Hate Bars and give them hope in the future.

Singularities Make Me Nervous by Larry Niven
Genre: Time Travel
After traveling back in time via a black hole, an astronaut and his future self plan their financial freedom.

The Sky Was Full Of Ships by Theodore Sturgeon.
Genre: Aliens
On trial for the murder of an eminent scientist, the accused tells the jury an impossible tale of the discovery of a cave housing alien machinery.
Other version on: Beyond Tomorrow (title 'Incident at Switchpath'.)

The Snake by John Steinbeck
Genre: ?
The symbolic story of a mysterious woman who visits Dr. Philips in his laboratory and seems obsessed with watching a snake eat a rat.

The Sound Machine by Roald Dahl
Genre: ?
Klausner is a man obsessed with sound. He develops a machine which converts ultra-sonic frequencies into audible tones... with unexpected results.

The Squirrel Cage by Thomas Disch.
Genre: undefinable
A prisoner in a whitewalled cube has no idea who his jailers are, what crime he has committed, or how long his incarceration will last.

Stair Trick by Mildred Clingerman
Genre: undefinable
A bartender, when asked, descends the stairs behind his bar to fetch an obscure vintage of wine from his cellar. Newcomers to the bar are amazed when they discover that there are no stairs and no cellar. Nobody ever really notices a bartender.

The Star by Arthur C. Clarke.
Genre: Space Exploration
A cleric on a deep space survey has his faith in God sorely tested when the expedition happens upon the ruins of a civilization destroyed when its parent star went nova.
[Episode also includes The Gift by Ray Bradbury]

Subjectivity by Norman Spinrad.
Genre: Space Exploration
Repeated attempts at manned interstellar flight have only succeeded in the crews going mad, until the planners program the latest ship with a holo-projector capable of rendering images from the minds of the crew. Bad idea...

Summertime On Icarus by Arthur C. Clarke.
Genre: Space Exploration
An astronaut crashed onto the night side of an asteroid in tight orbit of the sun faces a desperate flight of terror away from the rise of the sun.

The Swimmer by John Cheever
Genre: ?
A middle-aged, but youthful, man attending a party in an affluent suburb of New York decides to head home by swimming across Westchester county. His journey - from residential pool to residential pool - is a blend realism and surrealism, of myth and symbolism, and a commentary on the relationship between wealth and happiness.

Sword Game by Ben Neal Ramey (as H.H. Hollis)
Genre: ?
A bored professor of Topology meets a grubby teenage, girl who claims to be a wandering gypsy fortune teller. They wander off so she can tell his fortune... and begin an adventure of their own.

Swords Of Ifthan by James Sutherland
Genre: Aliens
A very short story about a man recruited into helping out a distant civilization still moldering in medievalism.
[Episode also includes Running Around by Barry Malzberg]

The Tank and Its Wife by Arsen Darnay
Genre: ?
A military tank, T98, serving as a prothesis for a stroke victim, goes AWOL to visit its wife.

A Taste for Dostoevsky by Brian W. Aldiss
Genre: ?
A psychological tale which blends surreal stream-of-consciousness fantasy with reality.

Test by Theodore L. Thomas
Genre: ?
Robert Proctor was a good driver for one so young... a very good driver.

That Only A Mother by Judith Merrill.
Genre: Future Earth/ Dystopia
In a future plagued by radiation-induced mutations, one mother revels in her perfect and 'gifted' child.

They by Robert A. Heinlein
Genre: undefined
A paranoiac in a mental hospital is convinced that the world around him is a construct provided solely to prevent him from realizing the ultimate truth behind existence.

To See The Invisible Man by Robert Silverberg
Genre: Future Earth / Dystopia
Convicted of the crime of coldness, a man is sentenced to a year of 'invisibility', during which time no one will acknowledge his existence.

To The Dark Star by Robert Silverberg.
Genre: Space Exploration/ Aliens
The mutual distrust and enmity among a trio of ill-matched astrophysicists sent on an expedition to observe the collapse of a dying star turn deadly when it becomes obvious one must sacrifice their life to complete the mission.

The Top by George Sumner Albee
Genre: ?
In this subtly satirical allegory of American business, Johnathan Gerber receives a memorandum to meet with his boss and an elevator pass to reach the upper levels.

Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot by Grendel Briarton (anagrammatic pseudonym of Reginald Bretnor)
Genre: ?
One in a series of over 80 very short story puns (also known as a poetic story jokes or "Feghoots") involving Ferdinand Feghoot resolving a situation encountered while traveling through time and space, culminating with a bad pun.

Treasure Hunt by Joseph Green
Genre: Aliens
A man's consciousness is transfered into the body of an alien, that he might better search for the Egg of Beauty... and of Life and Death. The Egg of the Firebird.

Twenty-Four Letters from Underneath the Earth by Hilary Bailey
Genre: ?
A woman discovers an unused tunnel designed to shuttle letters between Complexes - carefully controlled and isolated social environments of roughly 150 people probably located beneath the Preseli Hills in North Wales.

The Unfinished by Frank Belknap Long
Genre: Space Exploration / Aliens
Two space explorers land on a remote jungle planet where they confront hostile natives.

The Unremembered by Edward Mackin.
Genre: Future Earth
A citizen in a society of the artificially rejuvenated experiences discontent.

The Valley of Echoes by Gerard Klein
Genre: Mars
Three men explore the surface of Mars, searching for evidence of a legendary ancient civilization.

The Veldt by Ray Bradbury.
Genre: Super Science
A couple purchase a holo-theater to keep their son and daughter amused, but the recreation of the sweltering African savannah the children concoct is anything but amusing...
Other versions on: Dimension X, Bradbury 13, CBC Playhouse, X Minus One, and BBC

The Vertical Ladder by William Sansom
Genre: ?
A young man tries to impress a young woman by accepting a dare to climb a ladder extending high above the ground along the outside of a gasometer.

A Walk In The Dark by Arthur C. Clarke.
Genre: SF / Horror
A hard-bitten engineer finishing up a contract on a remote colony planet has his pragmatism put to the test when he must face a long walk through a wilderness reported to be the domain of a nameless horror.

Wasted on the Young by John Brunner
Genre: Future Earth
A future social system in which the young, up until age 30, are allowed to live at society's expense, charging any extravagance they desire to the state, after which they must repay that luxury with years of service.

The Weapon by Frederic Brown.
Genre: SF
A scientist working on WMD is confronted with an unusual form of protest from a concerned citizen.
[Episode also includes The Castaway by Charles Fritch]

Webster by Greg Bear
Genre: Fantasy
A lonely spinster conjures up a lover out of the dictionary, but he doesn't quite live up to her expectations.

Weep No More, Old Lady by Charles L. Grant
Genre: ?
A prodigious "brain child" takes part in a secret government program to test the limits of mental development.

What Really Caused The Energy Crisis by Paul Nahin
Genre: Super Science
A physics professor at a local university explains to a doubting class of freshmen what caused the energy crisis in the latter half of the Seventies. He presupposes that the formula E=mc2 could be reversed and was extensively used by the military to create super-dense plating... Was he just a crazy old professor waiting to retire?

When It Changed by Joanna Russ
Genre: Future Earth
The Men have returned. And the technologically advanced, all-female population on the former Earth colony are not entirely happy about it.

When We Went To See The End Of The World by Robert Silverberg.
Genre: Time Travel
Couples who regularly party with each other while civilization crumbles around them find novelty in traveling through time to see the end of the world.

The Winner by Donald E. Westlake
Genre: ?
The Guardian is combination radio transmitter/receiver. The receiver is surgically implanted into the body of a prisoner and induces incredible pain if the prisoner moves more than 150 yards from the transmitter. Escape is impossible... but that doesn't stop prisoners from making the attempt.

Winter Housekeeping by Molly Daniel
aka: Winter Housecleaning
Genre: ?
What would it be like if old age were a substance that permeates the air, settles like dust around oneself, and enters the body when one inhales? And with proper breathing, can be exhaled as well?
[Episode also includes story Public Hating]

The Word by Mildred Clingerman
Genre: Space Exploration
After their ship is forced to make an emergency landing for repairs and additional food, 3 crew members venture forth to observe the hideous, indigenous population. With every step, they are painfully aware they are violating regulations... but nevertheless feel compelled to push on and examine the locals more closely.
[Episode also includes the story 'Stair Trick']

The Worm by David Keller
Genre: ?
The miller and his dog are the only ones left in Thompson Valley. The grist mill has stood for over 200 years, but now, nature is slowly taking the valley back from the farmers and millers who once lived there.

Young Girl at an Open Half-Door by Fred Saberhagen
Genre: ?
A newly installed, state-of-the-art, intrusion-detection system at an art gallery intermittently registers a disturbance. By the time a guard can get to the gallery where the disturbance originates, the signal has returned to normal.