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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 (2000-4-2) – 26 September 2000 (2000-9-26) |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
2000X is a dramaticanthology series released byNational Public Radio and produced by the Hollywood Theater of the Ear. There were 49plays of various lengths in 26 one-hourprograms, broadcast weekly and later released on the Internet. Plays were adaptations of futuristic stories, novels and plays by noted authors. Producer/directorYuri Rasovsky andHarlan Ellison won the 2001Bradbury Award from theScience Fiction Writers of America for their work on this program. Ellison acted as host and consultant, and co-adapted hisshort story "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Harlequin".
| 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 (asLewis 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 |