X Minus One was a half-hour science fiction radio drama series broadcast from
April 24, 1955 until it was canceled on January 9, 1958. The program aired in
various timeslots on NBC. It opened with announcer Fred Collins delivering the countdown.
Fred Collins
1948
Harry Houdini (born Erik Weisz, later Ehrich Weiss or Harry Weiss)
(March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926)
The iconic magician and escape artist, Houdini is most remembered for
the difficult stunt of escaping from handcuffs that took a locksmith five
years to build. In his youth, he took a job as a trapeze artist under the
name Ehrich, the Prince of the Air, and was a successful cross-country
runner.
