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Death Wish

X Minus One · 1957 · 21 min · 2,905 words

The transcript of “Death Wish”, an episode of X Minus One from 1957. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). X Minus One plays X Minus One free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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This is Nightline, your tie-line to the world, and this is Walter O'Keefe. Tonight, a visit to worlds strangely different from ours, the world of the future. The world of X minus one. Now, here is the future, X minus one.

Countdown for blast off. X minus five, four, three, two, X minus one, fire. From the far horizons of the unknown, come tales of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories of the future.

Adventures in which you'll live in a million could be years on a thousand maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxy's Science Fiction Magazine presents... Egg, egg, egg, egg, egg, egg, egg, egg, egg...

Minus, minus, minus, minus, minus... One, one, one, one. Tonight, Death Wish by Ned Lang. But first, hear this. During the theater season in New York, people flock from everywhere in the nation to see the latest Broadway plays.

But very few of these people have ever been fortunate enough to experience the thrill and excitement backstage at one of Broadway's top musical comedies. Tomorrow night, Monitor invites you along as Don Russell goes backstage at the Broadway musical hit Simply Heavenly, introducing you to the cast, the author, listening to the songs from this fine musical show.

It'll be an experience you won't soon forget. Then on Saturday for Sports enthusiasts, Army vs Notre Dame, and Monitor brings you this football classic direct from municipal stadium in Philadelphia. Add to these features Monitor's special coverage of the pumped ceremony and celebration during Queen Elizabeth's tour of Canada.

Visits from celebrities like Mickey Rooney, Tennessee Williams, Tony Bennett and Burl Ives, and you have some idea of the top variety of entertainment, monitor will bring you all weekend. So start your weekend right with monitor on Friday night and stay with monitor all weekend long over most of these same NBC radio stations.

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