X Minus One · 1956 · 29 min · 4,102 words
The transcript of “A Pail Of Air”, an episode of X Minus One from 1956. 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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In just a moment, X minus 1. But first, if you're planning to join the family for this holiday weekend, remember you have a friend who will keep you company through the long hours on the road.
That friend is your car radio, and it brings you a full weekend of the most stimulating variety entertainment when you tune in to NBC's monitor. Yes, you set your dial just once for hours and hours of refreshing variety. News as it happens, sports coverage, everything from baseball to skin diving, interviews with the stars, plus lots of the relaxing music you like to hear.
It's all on monitor this weekend, and I'll stay tuned for X minus one on NBC. Countdown for blast off, X minus five, four, three, two, X minus one, fire. From the far horizons of the unknown, come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time and space.
These are stories of the future, adventures in which you will 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 XLEQEG, MSAA XLEW Tonight's Story, A Pale of Air, By Fritz Lieber It was pretty quiet in the nest.
Paul lives just sitting by the fire staring into it like he does these days, And time was asleep. That's why it was so quiet, Paul has some pretty bad times when she just screams and screams and huddles back against the blankets that line the nest.
This was looking at herself in the mirror that hangs next to the bookshelf. I don't know what she finds to look at so long, but then she's a girl. She just looks at herself. Saturdays when Pa puts a couple of extra lumps of coal on the fire and we take a bath, she looks at herself in the mirror and sometimes she cries.
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