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Seeing Ear Theater was an internet based drama/re-enactment troupe attempting to capture the feel of older scifi radio plays. The content was originally maintained on the SciFi.com website and ran from 1997 to 2001. Episodes can be retrieved from the Internet Archive, but the episode numbers and dates are incorrect.

TitleAir Date (yyyy mm dd)Author (adapted by)
"Alice in Wonderland"1998? mm? dd? Lewis Carroll (adapted by Charles Potter) [1]
"The Bigger One"1998? mm? dd? Gregory Benford [1]
"Black Canoes"2000 09 01 [2] Tony Daniel [2]
"Breakaway, Backdown"1997? mm? dd? James Patrick Kelly [1]
"Child's Play"Unknown William Tenn (adapted by Andrew Joffe) [1]
"The City of Dreams – Episode 1: The Damned Are Playing at Godzilla's Tonight"2000 07 10 [3] J. Michael Straczynski
"The City of Dreams – Episode 2: Rolling Thunder"2000 mm? dd? J. Michael Straczynski
"The City of Dreams – Episode 3: The Friends of Jackie Clay"2000 mm? dd? J. Michael Straczynski
"The City of Dreams – Episode 4: The Tolling of the Hour"2000 mm? dd? J. Michael Straczynski
"The City of Dreams – Episode 5: Night Calls"2001 mm? dd? J. Michael Straczynski
"The City of Dreams – Episode 6: MCSD 00121J"2001 mm? dd? J. Michael Straczynski
"The City of Dreams – Episode 7: Samuel Beckett, Your Ride Is Here"2001 mm? dd? J. Michael Straczynski
"The City of Dreams – Episode 8: The Alpha and Omega of David Wells"2001 mm? dd? J. Michael Straczynski
"A Clean Escape"1997 mm? dd? [4] John Kessel (adapted by ?) [1]
"The Country Doctor"1997 03 dd?(before March 14) [5] [6] Franz Kafka (adapted by ?) [1]
"Daughter Earth" (Part 1)1999 02 08 [7] James Morrow [1] (adapted by?)
"Daughter Earth" (Part 2)1999 02 22 [7] James Morrow [1] (adapted by?)
"Death of Captain Future"1998 03 05 [8] Allen Steele (adapted by Brian Smith) [1]
"Diary of a Mad Deity"2000 mm? dd? [9] James Morrow [10]
"A Dry Quiet War"2000? mm? dd? Tony Daniel [1]
"An Elevator and a Pole"Unknown [11] Tony Daniel [1]
"Emily 501" (Part 1)1999 12 31 [7] Tamara Hladik [1]
"Emily 501" (Part 2)UnknownTamara Hladik [1]
"Facade"UnknownAmanda Hopkins [1]
"Feel the Zaz" (Part 1)1999 10 04 [7] James Patrick Kelly [1]
"Feel the Zaz" (Part 2)1999 10 18 [7] James Patrick Kelly [1]
"Fire Watch"2000? mm? dd? Connie Willis (adapted by Tony Daniel) [1]
"The First (and Last) Musical on Mars" (Part 1)1998 08 17 [12] [13] George Zarr [1]
"The First (and Last) Musical on Mars" (Part 2)1998 08 24 [12] [13] George Zarr [1]
"The Flat Edge of the Earth" (Part 1)1998 [14] 10 03 [15] Brian Smith and Terry Bisson [1]
"The Flat Edge of the Earth" (Part 2)1998 [14] 10 12 [15] Brian Smith and Terry Bisson [1]
"George and the Red Giant" (Part 1)1998 07 20 [16] Stephen Baxter (adapted by Eric Brown) [1]
"George and the Red Giant" (Part 2)1998 08 03 [16] Stephen Baxter (adapted by Eric Brown [1]
"A Good Knight's Work"Unknown Robert Bloch (adapted by George Zarr) [1]
"Greedy Choke Puppy"1998 03 10 [1] Nalo Hopkinson [1] (adapted by ?)
"Herd Mentality"1998 03 31 [17] Kurt Roth [1]
"History of the Devil" (Part 1)1999 03 08 [18] Clive Barker [19]
"History of the Devil" (Part 2)1999 03 22 Clive Barker
History of the Devil (Part 3)1999 04 05Clive Barker
"History of the Devil" (Part 4)1999 04 19Clive Barker
"History of the Devil" (Part 5)1999 05 03Clive Barker
"In the Shade of the Slowboat Man"Unknown Dean Wesley Smith (adapted by Kristine Kathryn Rusch) [1]
"Into the Sun"1997 03 10 [20] [21] [22] Brian Smith [1]
"The Jaguar Hunter"Unknown [23] Lucius Shepard
"Jumping Niagara Falls"1999 10 30 [24] Brian Smith and George Zarr [1]
"Kindred" (Part 1)2001 02 15 [25] [26] Octavia Butler [25] (adapted by Tony Daniel) [1]
"Kindred" (Part 2)2001 02 20 [26] Octavia Butler (adapted by Tony Daniel)
"Kindred" (Part 3)2001 02 22 [26] Octavia Butler (adapted by Tony Daniel)
"Kindred" (Part 4)2001 02 27 [26] Octavia Butler (adapted by Tony Daniel)
"Knock"2000? mm? dd? Fredric Brown (adapted by ?)
"Lay Your Hands on Me"UnknownUnknown
"The Lucky Strike"2000 07 21 [27] Kim Stanley Robinson [28] (adapted by Fiona Avery) [1]
"The Man Who Could Work Miracles"Unknown H. G. Wells (adapted by Andrew Joffe) [1]
"Marilyn or the Monster" (Part 1)1999 12 03 [7] Jack Dann (adapted by Jack Dann and Brian Smith) [1]
"Marilyn or the Monster" (Part 2)1999 12 17 [7] Jack Dann (adapted by Jack Dann and Brian Smith) [1]
"The Martian Crown Jewels"1998 mm? dd? Poul Anderson (adapted by Andrew Joffe) [1]
"Meet the Neighbor"1999 06 28 [7] George Zarr [1]
"Monkey's Paw"1998? mm? dd? W. W. Jacobs (adapted by ?)
"The Moon Moth" (Part 1)2000 08 04 Jack Vance (adapted by George Zarr) [1]
"The Moon Moth" (Part 2)2000 08 11 Jack Vance (adapted by George Zarr) [1]
"Murder Mysteries" (Part 1)1999 08 ? [29] [30] Neil Gaiman (adapted by ?)
"Murder Mysteries" (Part 2)1999 09 10 [29] [30] Neil Gaiman
"The Nostalgianauts"2000? mm? dd? S.N. Dyer (adapted by George Zarr) [1]
"The Oblivion Syndrome"1998? mm? dd?Benjamin Wach [31]
"Orson the Alien"1998 10 30 [32] Terry Bisson [32]
"Other Worlds"1999 01 25 [7] Charles Potter [1]
"Propagation of Light in a Vacuum" (Part 1)1999 07 12 [7] James Patrick Kelly [1]
"Propagation of Light in a Vacuum" (Part 2)1999 07 26 [7] James Patrick Kelly [1]
"The Signal-Man"1998? mm? dd? Charles Dickens (adapted by George Zarr) [1]
"Sleepy Hollow: The Legend"1997? mm? dd?Washington Irving (adapted by George Zarr) [1]
"Snow, Glass, Apples"2001 05 31 [33] Neil Gaiman [34]
"Sorry, Wrong Number"1999 11 01 [7] Lucille Fletcher [1]
"The Tell-Tale Heart"1997 04 dd? [5] Edgar Allan Poe (adapted by Brian Smith) [1]
"Think Like a Dinosaur"1998 02 05 James Patrick Kelly (adapted by ?)
"The Time Machine"Unknown H. G. Wells (adapted by Charles Potter) [1]
"Times Arrow, Time's Spiral"1998 12 28 [7] [35] George Zarr [1]
"Titanic Dreams"2000? mm? dd? Robert Olen Butler (adapted by Sarah Montague) [1]
"Too Late – An Experiment in Sound"1998? mm? dd?Brian Smith, George Zarr, and Rick Bradley [1]
"Tripping Astral"1997? mm? dd?Unknown
"Wanted in Surgery"1997 10 31 [36] Harlan Ellison [37]
"The Wheel" (Part 1)1999 05 17 [38] Jeff Kraus and Sue Zizza [1]
"The Wheel" (Part 2)1999 05 31 [7] Jeff Kraus and Sue Zizza [1]

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