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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Adventures in Time and Space transcribed in future. The National
Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Sweet and Smith, publishers of
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Astounding science fiction, brings you Dimension Act. On a high
hill in Samoa, there is a grave inscribed on the
marker of these words, under the wide and starry sky.
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Did Mike be lie gladly? Did I live and gladly die?
And I lay me down with a will? This be
the verse you grave for me. Here he lies very
long to be home. Is the sailor home from the sea,
and the hunter home from the hills. These lines appear
another place, scrawled on a shipping tag from a compressed
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air container.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
And hinns of a ground with a knife.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
It lost much of a fair, as fairs go.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
The trotting races wouldn't be held till eight o'clock at night,
and the flags and bunting drooped in the gray afternoon,
and the pitchmen seemed discouraged. A large black capriole at
limousine stood up the side of the road, thirty two
cylinders hurrying quietly and over the dust, and the clatter
of a fair. A bullhorn blasted its highest pitch.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Hurry, hurry, hurry, This way of the all rock all
rot it the.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Actual put rocket light kill bill.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
We're all out of pay.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
You're gonna ride out for only thirty five dollars?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
All right, all right, hurry Henry, Yes, sir, I'm getting out.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
But the board meeting, sir, if you're due in Kansas
City at four, you ain't gotta need another five dollars
old piece. Oh no, sir, you find it, tell me
what to do, no, of course not. Then get this
confounded buffalo of off my legs. Get it off just
two minute, sir. I will help you play off. Of course.
They want you hit on the doors.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
They're off behind sorrn, sir, that's the shiprock in the
old tub single jet type profectional midwive controls.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Say here, Henry, I'm going over.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Bar.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I mean verty much.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Hurry, hurry, hurry, And Charlie, you got that feed two patched.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I wilded it good for maybe an hour. Oh what
a crowd they wouldn't risk.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
And nicol to see the sun blow up?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Okay, then oh excuse me, uh oh yes, sir, uh
fifty ten.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Simon peck the rock one.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Would you take a passing us in the street? You
mean you want to go up.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
It's twenty five bucks, yes, sir, right away, Charlie take
the pitch. Okay, step this way, sir, run look.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Out, look out for the feed lines. There, I see them.
Step for step right into the office. You got asking
for check up? Okay, this is it's necessary regulation take out.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
You go, open your shirt, blowed up your hat.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
See how things man slow, We're not going as much
the truts then, yeah, pick up tonight with the trogy.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
No, I'm ready, doctor, all right there, all right, breathe
him out, braid, breathe, good, breathe. M huh uh sorry, Mac,
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no go doctor. Cardiac condition and I couldn't certify him.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Sorry you mean you won't take me up? He's the doctor.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
I couldn't even guarantee you to live through the takeoff.
It's not only your bad heart, but with heavy acceleration,
your whole circulatory system would be endangered. And that your
age bones are brittle, highly calcified.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
You could snap one on the takeoff. M m hou well, uh, well,
expect to get I'm sorry. Between you and me, we
could have used.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
The twenty five you excuse me, captain, Yeah, would you
and your engineer have dinner with me after your freak
dinner at my home.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
My car is over there. That's your ki is.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You're serious, Mac, you want Charlie and meat for dinner?
But he is okay, okay, I don't say why not?
Thanks jolly jolly you had enough? Oh man, that's perfectly
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all right, Captain mecantayre a cigar, Thanks.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Life, Yeah. Thanks here.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
It's hard for me to see why any holder of
a Monster's ticket would put the Earth's moon roam.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I didn't like it. Yeah, yeah, don't hass that. It
was ul g walk you out nor ride? All right?
So I took a few drinks. I I could have
squared that.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
So many regulations red take it?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yeah? Would it uh help you to get back to
the moon. Sure, I could get a short haul job
hopping order.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
If I kept my nose clean, eye might even get
back on the run. Yes, and uh would you be
open to the business composition? What is it you own
your rockets, firing a couple of leans or anything. I
don't own the charter there to take me to the moon.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
What he hear?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
What he said?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Man?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
He wanted just to fry that old heath to the moon. No,
I can't do it. The old boats warn't out. We
don't even use standard fuel, just gasoline and liquid air.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Why don't you drive a couple of company medics have
been done before it, I know, but not for me.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I'm D. D. Harriman, harreman. Why you own the company?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I'm a large percentage of the company, but the other
directors won't permit me to jeopardize the franchise.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Can you tie that neck? A guy would have the
money in the world and he's up the creek. Shut up, Charley,
he's right now. It happened. It's against the law. I'd
make it work your way, sure they would, Man, D. D. Harriman,
he'd make it work a while. Why I'm not kidding?
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Why do you wanna go to the moon so bad?
Mister Harriman. It's the one thing I really wanted to
do all my life.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I'm maybe fifty years older than you were. When I
was a kid, nobody believed we'd really reached the moon.
You've seen rockets all your lives. But when I was
a boy, they laughed at the idea.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
But I believed.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I wanted the moon there.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I used to stand in the back yards scare.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I'll fall aways at month the moon far enough.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Why do people plotter w tar they can do?
Speaker 6 (08:26):
I not?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
They get can not now anyway, someday I will reporter
try on the moon.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Sure, sure, come on now, Dale, inside way.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Part of that time, I wanted to go.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
To college engineering, then the University of Chicago, and then
Yuki Is Observatory.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
That's what I wanted, but I didn't get it.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
Let me see, Dell, Dad and I wanted you to
go to college. We planned it, we staved for it.
But with your dad gone and the girls growing out,
I just can't manage it. The insurance form cover is
and it's getting harder to make ends meet. You've been
a good boy, Dal and worked hard to make out.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
You'll understand.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
And I understood, and I worked stopped for at the
old Fort Front in Detroit, accomplish credit manager from a
lawyer house, and then in New York Wall Street, and
then transportation from Honor rail Line between New Yorkshire Trustle
the Atlantic Pressure Tunnel and then Paraman Rockets.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Well, now I want to talk to you. If I'm
working in Charlotte, you talk to me now, to Aller.
You may not get another chance.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
What is head.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Luck with you.
Speaker 7 (09:59):
You sold out.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I run the business show there, I'm set up. I
got to hear it. I narried it because I love it.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I feel love you.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
But I'm cut up. Now what is it? Show? We're
not long as you're going Now, I'm tired. I'll not
ask you for a million, just a little life.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
For the tour. Oh, pull the money out, huh. I
know you will twenty hours a day on Ben's doing
to stay away from Neil barbertone to fleet. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I can't stop you doing it to yourself, but I
won't let you do it to me. Oh. I didn't
know about the divorce for a month.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I lost the papers under a stack of bootprints and
stock respectors.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Uh, here's the new, slashed down Stato Rocket reaches Paris.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
You've got the franchise lined up, the House committee is solid,
the Federal Rocket Commission is okay.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
And next step is the moon. Pratt, sure sure look
out if we cut the freight rate on the tongue.
I'm serious, Thread, The next step is the moon. Well,
you've been writing that joke for you. It's no Joe Thread.
I've signed a par million on our research contract with
National Fission corporation.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
And guaranteed the next two years output of the Brookhaven
Atomic Energy Institute.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Well, you couldn't. That's every liquid asse that we have.
You can't do that on your own initiative. I have,
and the board will back me up. Fred. We're going
to the Moon.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
It took two fraudulent bankruptcies and an investigation by the
Securities and Exchange Commission before we did it. There were
three injunctions on the rocket aboard. Last of all, I
was going on the second trip, but my considerate.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Board served a court order on me. You can't go down, Bird.
I'll break you. If it's the light. You've got a
bad heart. That's no secret.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
If you die out there, the old card house comes down.
We've got an equity in this corporation and we're going to.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
See it protected. You've stucked us in.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
On this wild scheme, and now that it paid off,
you're going to sit right down here on Earth and
see that the dividends come out on time. You're not
going to the Moonbell forget it.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
I never went.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
By the time my lawyers shook off the restraining orders,
the first cargo rocket had crashed into the Pacific and
Congress rushed through the space precautionary act. My heart was
earth bounds, but now I'm moves.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
But I will not die until I have set foot
on the move.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
There, Captain mecanclair you that's why I wanna go to
the moon. Well you'll find a ship, Miss Harriman, hold driver,
you'll get the moon.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
What mister Harrett, you heard me sell out my holdings.
I on every share I own, realize in cash as
soon as possible, but it'll depress the market. Sir, you
won't realize the food vy you of your holding us.
I think I know that I was juggling stuck before
you were born. I can afford to take the.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Loss, yes, sir, oh uh, mister Harriman, there are two
men outside.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Who are they? Uh?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Captain McIntyre and mister Schwartz will send them in, Henry,
what are you waiting for?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yes, of course amgency. Uh this way, gentlemen is the
har where Captain Magan.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Part had to see and mister Swartz come right in.
You weren't uh kidding about that job for us?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Were you?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Certainly not? You're not banking out on me? No, No,
we need the job.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, our ship is lying in the middle of the
outage river where the jets split open like a harry.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
You weren't hurt for you s friends and roses. That
song we jumped. I caught a catfish with my bare teeth.
It's all right.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Then we can get down the business.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
I'll have contracts throwing up for you. You two will
have to buy me your ship. I can't do it openly.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Ideal board of directors will find out and slap a
poor order on me.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
But we can't get credit.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
All the way.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I'll supply the cannas in advance. Beat some ship that
can be fitted for the jump. Strattle yacht moved to
a piece of desert. I'll find the strip and buy it.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
You mean fitter out there, yes, well, and store extra
few tanks, change the injectors and timers for spaceflight.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Spill all the money you want. I'll see the ticket.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
One hundred thirty two shares of APEX holding it, sixty
percent of paw jake, fifty two preferred space waste fuel,
fifty percent of paw jake.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
And and that is the list.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Uh, mister Harriman is a process servered outside?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
What is it? I don't know, sir, but I think
it's a subpoena.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I always expecting that Henry get mister Cammon's on the phone. Yes,
I think it's time for my lawyer.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yeah, you.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Comes all up with any Mister Harland's relatives contend that
it be here here for the past few weeks. It's
real indications that I'm a extant in the world of
finance has become enoch. They petition you to declare him
in common and to a find a conservator to protect
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his financial interests and those of his heirs. And it
suggests that in his last few words, my opponent gave
away his entire season. It is evident that the petitioners
believe that my client should comes up his affairs in
such a way as to ensure that his nephews, meieces
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and their issue will be supported in unand luxury the
rest of their lives.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Mike's boltures, they just said, not it a lot. It
is true that he has sold his holdings.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Is it strange that an elderly man should wish to retire?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
We play this court will confirm my clients it is
right to do what he likes with us all.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Denied his position and send these medalers about their.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Business well comings. He reserved judgment till tomorrow. Which way
is the catchwin to jump to?
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Judge Embrey is a strange one down. He assured me
he has a higher regard for personal liberty and then
added that any action he took would be in your interest.
But he did say that men do become senile and
must be protected senile.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
He might prove against me.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
He might. Here it is Etcric Millionaire disappeared.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Are you excentric, mister airman?
Speaker 3 (18:08):
They used to call me crazy? It depends on your credit.
RD A bench war under content proceedings. There's been issue.
They won't find me out here. How's the work going, Telly?
On my ends in pretty good shape.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
We finished the second pressure test and the new tanks
and fuel lines today.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
The ground tests are all down.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Accept The calibrations take about four hours unless I run.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
In the bugs. How about supplies food and water on board?
Three vacuum suits to spare servat kids.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I'm short navigation equipment, but give me a sextance and
now get you down on the moon at any spots
your name, just from a general knowledge of relevant speeds.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
And orbit are all right?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Columbus.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
We know you can hit the floor with your hat.
Are you ready to go?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
My nephews will have detectiveself looking for me.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Well, I could run those calibration.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Tests tonight, take to midnight. After that, it's step to
the commodore.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Here there, there she is, miss Ironman. That's the job
that will take you to the moon. It's uh good ship,
Uh uh, that's mac. Stop the car. Jolly's out there.
Look at where's his medicine? Red pocket? Break the fly? Alright,
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I hold a hundred snows.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
It's lousy.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Yeah, and he's breathing. We'll come around the sea. Mack.
We ain't gonna see this.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
It's murder. He'll ever stand up on his initial acceleration.
Maybe not, but it's what he wants to do. Get
that ship ready to fly? Are you hey? Dad? How
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many other people are there out here in this desert?
What can I do for you? You're James McIntyre, Hey,
mag Yeah, what's the man of car? Oh you McIntire? Yeah,
I'm the deputy Federal Marshall in Lici District. I got
a warrant for your arrest. What yard conspiracy to violate
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the space precautionary act. Are you with you? I suppose
you're uh Charles Schwartz, huh yeah, but like I went
to you too. Thanks, And a man named Harriman got
a court order to put seals on your spaceship. We
haven't got any spaceship. What are you doing? Kidney?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
What's that a kidney car?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
It's not? Oh yacht? Oh yeah, well I put seals
on under the spaceship shows up. I'll come on. Where's harrimy?
Uh in the chat over there? What shed do you? Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
My knuckle, that's the one I broke playing football. I'm
always hurting that singer.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Charlie. We gotta hurry get Popp into the cabin and
strap him into his hammock. Trys along japy day.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Oh my knuckle, she's warm, Charlie. Everything sets back there.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I don't I know. I didn't have time to run past.
Ugh you all right with tim? Anythink, Sue? These strengths
are taste have to be when we blast off.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
All set, Charlie, get me control check test key one,
bank check two? Bank has a art canary?
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Aren't we don't need it? Alright? Bore, I hang on,
let's go all right, bob. I'm it was pine, couldn't
be better. You better stay in your hammock. I'll uh
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loosen the scraps a little. What is it? I just
go easy, not suck pop.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
You ain't fooling me. You've got a couple of bus
of ribs. Follow as much I can do until we ground.
You'll take a neo barb at all and I'll wake
you when we cut you.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
No, no, no, I'll stay a week. Okay, just shoot stay.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
She's not an automatic, Charlie.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I'll the too cold enough fine tired. Is a drum.
She handles knights.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I was popped alive in in bad shape. How back
cracked a couple of ribs and take out. You'd better
set her down off police if you want him alive.
I'll make a pot swing around the moon, and he's
a rent on an approach curve. It'll go fine if
we've got enough fuel.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Who comed me? Something wrong?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Crop?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I thought somebody was coming me. It must have been asleep.
I swung your handing around for breaking down. There she
is a head the moon.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I've seen a thousand photographs here here that's Copernicus, and
take the new the news.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
The man still you know it all right? Pop? Where
are you're ending? I re embrum between a rich Pulus
and Archimedes that's about forty miles from Lunar City. Is sure? Sure?
It won't be easy landing with a garment approach radar,
will it?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I've done it before, not without a second parlot to
punch the studymeter.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Pop, do you want to have a nighth ticket? You
know the whole routine. Must have really studied up? Is
that's all I could to study till now?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Look at the moon, he feels if we're coming home? Yeah, Charley, yo,
I'm taking her in.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Cut in full power, make a Courtmac, I can't take
a rough one. Shut up and give me the power.
I'll do my bed. Okay, start a meter setting punch,
hang on, here we go.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
I was a lousy landing Mac started me to drift.
How's that passenger?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Quire?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
How'bout I wouldn't make any best that landing stuff?
Speaker 3 (25:17):
When you shut up?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Or did my bet? Hip hop?
Speaker 8 (25:23):
He?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Well, i've the is this right on his mouth trying
to say? How I take take it easy? FI? Way down?
Where take it easy? M vack? Huge suits? Where are
they not steady? Pop, steady, you can't go out there yet.
You gotta give us some first days. Get me that suit.
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What do you think back? Might as well get his
suit out of the lobby. Use the big one. He'll
be more comfortable. Okay, pop easy now hurst hur feel
little zippers chard huh right now, take it easy alright,
then helmet your die famsat check it. Harebout that with
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the nunner.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Don't hit 'em there.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Alright, Come on, Charlie, let's.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Get in the wat suits and we'll carry 'em out
the locks.
Speaker 9 (26:34):
Easy, easy one, okay, okay, you're all right out.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Oh I'm sad to be outside. What lay is going?
Speaker 9 (26:48):
Then get your shoulder him.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Right open the lock?
Speaker 9 (27:00):
Alright, come on, we're going out on the moon.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Boover.
Speaker 8 (27:15):
Alright, we're gonna leave you out here to work around
and we get ready for the hype the town. All right,
we have to break our air bottles and reck a stretcher.
Speaker 9 (27:29):
It's forty miles into the dog. Jolly bout something behind
his head?
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Okay, yeah, coutet.
Speaker 9 (27:39):
The work home word back soon, excuse.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
I can feel pubblics burst.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Be ready to be here.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Oh, we're here. We're give the sky. We m blue.
Speaker 9 (28:02):
I don't know the more.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Yeah yeah, yeah, hu about somebody calling my name? Getting more?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
My mother under d.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Yeah yeah, chul.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
That you know, isn't it?
Speaker 9 (28:30):
I hit it child? I on the move. You didn't understand.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
You're afraid.
Speaker 9 (28:39):
I wouldn't treat you of myself, but I dnt chaw.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
Yeah, oh on the.
Speaker 9 (28:55):
I like lly you better get pop on he'll get
bet had him gett him on the stretcher.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Never mind stretcher back?
Speaker 9 (29:05):
What's the matter?
Speaker 5 (29:07):
He won't need.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
He's dead.
Speaker 9 (29:10):
Oh we better get up the pumba skaters and hear bottles.
It's a long walk to time. Yeah, what about him?
Looks as if he's resting?
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Does me.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
Crossed us looking out on the pumpers? Well, he got
to the mood. Who want way to start walking?
Speaker 1 (29:52):
You've just heard another adventure into the unknown world of
the future.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
The world of uh huh.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Then imagine a planet somewhere in the universe where night
comes only once in a thousand years, the frindly darkness
night brings to our own world on this farah planet
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is a thing of terror, a breeder of panic. And
we were us next week as we bring you Isaac
Asimov's Nightfall. The Mantrinets is presented transcribed each week by
the National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Streephen Smith, publishes
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of the magazine Astounding Science Fiction. Today, the Nantenets is
presented Quiem written for radio by Ernest Canoia from the
story by Robert Heinlein, featured in the cast where Rob
Henderson as Harriman Bell quinn Is mcintie, and order In
Geordan as Charlie