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The Light

X Minus One · 1957 · 20 min · 2,580 words

The transcript of “The Light”, 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. You're open door to people and places, and this is World Road Keep. Nightline invites you to listen in on NBC's award-winning science fiction series X-minus 1. Calm down for blast off. X-minus 5, 4, 3, 2, X-minus 1, fire.

From the far horizon 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- X-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x! One, one, one, one- Tonight, The Light, by Paul Anderson. But first, hear this. The glamour backstage at Broadway's newest hit musical show, the spectacular West Side Story, the novel experience of accompanying a congressman, Joseph Martin, as he searches out the complaints, compliments, and problems of his constituents on a grassroots tour of his

district, the thrill of attending one of the top football games in the nation as Army versus Virginia, the excitement of spending late evening hours with the music of top artists performing in famous nightclubs in New York and Chicago.

These are just a few of the highlights of the weekend entertainment monitor has planned for you. Beginning tomorrow night, Jean Kelly, Milton Burrow, Tab Hunter and Tony Martin are among the celebrities who will be visiting you over the monitor weekend.

They'll be comedy by Fiverr McGee and Molly and Bob and Ray, music, news and sports, all on monitor. So why don't you start your weekend right with monitor on Friday night and stay with monitor all weekend long over most of these same NBC radio stations.

Our X minus one and tonight's story. The light. You really should feel highly honored, Professor. You're the only person I've been allowed to tell this to. And of course, that's a good reason why you're being permitted to hear it.

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