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Shanghied

Dimension X · November 12, 1950 · 30 min · 3,977 words

The transcript of “Shanghied”, an episode of Dimension X first broadcast November 12, 1950. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Dimension X plays Dimension X free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Adventures in time and space. Transcribed in future. Tense. Dementia. Can you predict what will come in 100 years? Can you see beyond the known dimensions of time and space? Into the unknown.

Dimension X. In 1987 Atlantic Space Port was established on the site of old Fort Devon outside of Boston. And as the ships pushed deeper and deeper into space, the time of voyage increased by geometrical progression.

It became more and more difficult to persuade able spaceman to sign on for flights which lasted for years, 10 to 15 monotonous years in the crap-foupsal of a deep spacer. Rooms in one arm joints in Scully Square in Boston were plastered with recruiting posters for the deep space star runs.

fleshy four color signs with a blue-eyed young man gazing into a star-studded sky. Seek your future in the stars! Jeff there's your last chance to get out of the wedding. Sure! Just send Judith a short note. I can't get away to marry you today. I'm 300 million light years away. Very funny, very funny.

I'll take it over, boy. Tomorrow the shackles of matrimony. But tonight, the stars. The mystery of the galaxy eat drink and be merry for tomorrow you commit Matrimony come on we came here to have a little fun. They might as well bid mothers music on and come and walk out And please the problems of the rich

Hey Jeff just where does the coffin fortune come from? Hmm? I guess it started in non-tucket my great great something or other used to be a whaler to whaler Theres a dead whale or a stove boat.

Watch my trusty harpoon out! Who's the money now? Oh, I don't know. We've got a lot of commercial holdings, mills, and poor. That's what I've put out. It's rocket lines, you know. Oh, mere travies.

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