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The Seventh Order

X Minus One · 1956 · 29 min · 4,008 words

The transcript of “The Seventh Order”, 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 one man whose personality belies his name is Quizmaster Groucho Marx. Because Mr. Marx is hardly one of the grouchy kind, when it comes to welcoming guests and dispensing good humor on his Wednesday night quiz show you bet your life.

Why don't you tune in and hear for yourself tomorrow? And while you're listening, don't forget that each Wednesday night there's more great entertainment when Jack Bailey and contestants play truth or consequences. And all of the staff on airtime join Starge as Elle McKenzie in bringing you top musical listening.

Enjoy music and fun tomorrow night on this station. And now 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. 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 galaxies, science, fiction magazines, presents... Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh.

Minus, minus, minus, minus, minus, mwah, mwah. Tonight, the dramatization of a story by Jerry Soul, the seventh order. Brentwood, Illinois would have been just about like any other average community of 10,000. Had it not been for pressure college, one of the country's finest small institutions of learning.

Its residents were used to the pranks, the haisings, and the practical jokes of the students, But even Professor Ansel Tomlin was surprised when the blue humanoid came down the street and up to the porch where the professor was sitting in an old winter rocking chair.

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