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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 Harlan Ellison won the 2001 Bradbury Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America for their work on this program. Ellison acted as host and consultant, and co-adapted his short story "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Harlequin".
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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 |
| Program number | Title | Air date | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1a | "Merchant" | 2000 04 02r | 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 M. 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 | Henry Kuttner (as 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 |
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