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The Big Dive

Suspense · August 7, 1960 · 20 min · 2,797 words

The transcript of “The Big Dive”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast August 7, 1960. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Suspense plays Suspense free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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And now, another tale well calculated to keep you in. Some island amusement park, late one summer night. The smell of popcorn and Frank, the music of the carousel. The thunder of the roller coaster. The steady sound of shots from the shooting gallery.

The sleepless calls of arkers along the midway. All the garish lights and color of a carnival. And hiding behind them, the shadows that oft alive of the carny people. I'm a hunchback with metal balloons to Danny King, the diving wonder of the world.

Over this way, boss. Danny King is down at the end of the midway. Oh, this is fun island. Somehow I've never been at it before. Yeah, you go more for nightclubs than racetrack, boss. But a lot of people like this kind of fun.

So what if we shouldn't look into it? What a potential customer's out here. Ah, there are two bits and there's every one of them. Oh, there's Danny King's fit. Hey, you see that diving tower that's him now climbing up on it Yeah, you know if I hadn't seen his mug and had newspapers we better hurry boy

He's already up on a platform and he's really gonna die from upstairs must be 60 feet up 75 And he dives into a canvas pool You know he's a bum this guy's a no-good me but in college he was a diamond champ Okay, boys.

We bring you our feature attraction, Danny, King, for human feel. The diving wonder of the world. It's free, folks. It's free. Set, pop, set, pop, pop. In just a moment, this staring young man you see standing far above your head is going to dive through flaming gasoline into five feet of water.

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