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• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Bound for Mars, Captain Summers and two fellow crewmen find
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: their ship's newly installed computer equipment may be dangerously unreliable.
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: When their vessel is forced beyond the solar system with
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: too little fuel for its intended landing, survival becomes the
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: immediate concern. From NBC's X-1, this is Death Wish, episode 115,
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: first heard October 10th, 1957. Adapted for radio by William
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: Welch from a 1956 galaxy science fiction story by Robert Sheckley,
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: writing as Ned Lang, it features Ralph Camargo, Morris Tarplin,
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: Walter Black, and Joseph Bell. And now, we return to
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: the original broadcast.
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: This is Nightline, your tie line to the world, and
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  Speaker 2: this is Walter O'Keefe. Tonight, a visit to worlds strangely
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  Speaker 2: different from ours, the world of the future, the world
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  Speaker 2: of X-1.
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  Speaker 3: Now, here is the future, X-1.
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  Speaker 4: Countdown for blastoff.
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  Speaker 5: X-5, 4, 3.
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  Speaker 4: 2... X minus one, fire.
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  Speaker 6: From the far horizons of the unknown come tales of
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  Speaker 6: new dimensions in time and space.
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  Speaker 5: These are stories of the future.
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  Speaker 6: Adventures in which you'll live in a million could be
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  Speaker 6: years on a thousand maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company,
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  Speaker 6: in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, presents.
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  Speaker 7: X minus 1.
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  Speaker 5: Tonight, Death Wish by Ned Lang. But first, hear this.
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  Speaker 6: During the theater season in New York, people flock from
• 2:38
  Speaker 6: everywhere in the nation to see the latest Broadway plays.
• 2:41
  Speaker 6: But very few of these people have ever been fortunate
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  Speaker 6: enough to experience the thrill and excitement backstage at one
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  Speaker 6: of Broadway's top musical comedies. Tomorrow night, Monitor invites you
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  Speaker 6: along as Don Russell goes backstage at the Broadway musical
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  Speaker 6: hit Simply Heavenly, introducing you to the cast, the author,
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  Speaker 6: listening to the songs from this fine musical show. It'll
• 3:01
  Speaker 6: be an experience you won't soon forget. Then on Saturday,
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  Speaker 6: for sports enthusiasts, Army vs. Notre Dame, and Monitor brings
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  Speaker 6: you this football classic direct from Municipal Stadium in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 6: Add to these features Monitor's special coverage of the pomp, ceremony,
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  Speaker 6: and celebration during Queen Elizabeth's Tour of Canada. Visits from
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  Speaker 6: celebrities like Mickey Rooney, Tennessee Williams, Tony Bennett, and Burl Ives,
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  Speaker 6: and you have some idea of the top variety of
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  Speaker 6: entertainment Monitor will bring you all weekend. So start your
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  Speaker 6: weekend right with Monitor on Friday night and stay with
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  Speaker 6: Monitor all weekend long over most of these same NBC
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  Speaker 5: ¶ ¶.
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  Speaker 6: And now, X minus one, and tonight's story, Death Wish.
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  Speaker 6: Fuel consumption normal.
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  Speaker 5: We'll reach point able in ten seconds from now. Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. Well, gentlemen,
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  Speaker 5: we're on our way to Mars. Now, Mr. Ratchick, give
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  Speaker 5: me a 30-second warning before we reach Point Baker. Very well, Captain.
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  Speaker 7: Now, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Watkins, what's the condition of your engines?
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  Speaker 7: Don't you worry about my engines. The Deidre may be
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  Speaker 7: a cantankerous old crate, but she's good for another five
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  Speaker 7: or ten round trips to Mars.
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  Speaker 5: You can lay to that. Look at him, Captain.
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  Speaker 6: If anybody criticizes his engines, you can actually see that
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  Speaker 6: walrus mustache of his bristles.
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  Speaker 7: Listen, Ratchick, I've had about enough of these personal remarks
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  Speaker 7: of yours. Stick to your navigation and let me alone. Now, now, Watkins,
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  Speaker 7: let's not get into another of those arguments.
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  Speaker 5: Now, that's an order.
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  Speaker 7: Aye, sir.
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  Speaker 5: You had a reason for asking about your engines. I've
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  Speaker 5: made enough trips to Mars to know the way a
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  Speaker 5: ship should sound. There's something about this one. I don't
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  Speaker 5: know quite what... There's nothing wrong.
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  Speaker 7: With this ship, Captain Summers. I'll tell you something, though,
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  Speaker 7: every engineer worthy of salt knows. There are just two
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  Speaker 7: kinds of equipment. The kind that fails bit by bit
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  Speaker 7: and the kind that goes all at once. When something
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  Speaker 7: happens to the Deidre, you'll know it right away. You
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  Speaker 7: won't have to ask.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe so. I wonder if our cargo didn't shift on
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  Speaker 5: the takeoff. Mr. Ratchick, would you be kind enough to
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  Speaker 5: check on it? You bet, Captain.
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  Speaker 7: Right away. You worried about that new Ferenson computer we're carrying, Captain?
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  Speaker 5: Not worried exactly, but it's a responsibility. That thing is
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  Speaker 5: by far the largest, heaviest, most delicate piece of machinery
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  Speaker 5: ever transported in space.
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  Speaker 7: It's an evil thing, with its blinking eyes and scheming brain.
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  Speaker 7: I'll be glad to get to Marsport and get it
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  Speaker 7: off the ship.
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  Speaker 5: So will I, Watkins, but not quite for the same reason.
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  Speaker 5: I don't quite share your feelings about the personality of machines.
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  Speaker 7: That's because you don't know anything about them, Captain. I do.
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  Speaker 7: And I don't like that computer thing back there in
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  Speaker 7: the hold. All in order and a whole, boss.
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  Speaker 5: Cargo hasn't shifted. All right, Mr. Ritchie. Maybe I'm borrowing trouble, huh?
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  Speaker 5: 30 seconds to point Baker, sir. Very well. Strap yourselves
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  Speaker 5: on the acceleration couches again. You sure you don't read anything, Mr. Watkins?
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  Speaker 7: Not a thing, sir. I'll vouch for every bit of
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  Speaker 7: equipment on the Deidre.
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  Speaker 5: 15 seconds to point Baker. Prepare for new acceleration. Engines
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  Speaker 5: ready for firing, sir.
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  Speaker 3: 10... 9... 8.
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  Speaker 5: We fire for exactly 5 seconds on reaching point Baker
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  Speaker 5: for maximum acceleration. 4... Three, two, one, fire.
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  Speaker 3: That's fine.
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  Speaker 5: It didn't cut off. We're overfiring. My fuel. Of course.
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  Speaker 5: We'll be off course. The switch doesn't respond.
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  Speaker 7: Emergency cutoff. Hit the emergency.
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  Speaker 5: I can't move my arms. Acceleration. Stop it. Stop the rockets.
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  Speaker 5: My arms are so heavy.
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  Speaker 8: If I could just reach the cutoff switch.
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  Speaker 5: There. What happened?
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  Speaker 7: We're on emergency lights. We blew the generator off. Of
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  Speaker 7: all the lousy things to happen.
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  Speaker 5: What was it?
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  Speaker 7: Main firing circuit. It fused on us. Metal fatigue, I'd say.
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  Speaker 7: Must have been flawed for years.
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  Speaker 5: When was it last checked out?
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  Speaker 7: Well, it's a sealed unit, Captain. It's supposed to outlast
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  Speaker 7: the ship.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely foolproof. Unless it's flawed.
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  Speaker 7: Now, don't go blaming it on me. Those circuits are
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  Speaker 7: supposed to be x-rayed, heat-treated, fluoroscoped. You just can't trust machinery.
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  Speaker 5: How are we on fuel?
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  Speaker 7: Not enough to push a kiddie car down Main Street.
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  Speaker 7: If I could just get my hands on those factory inspectors.
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  Speaker 6: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Ratchick, how does this affect our course? I'm computing it now. Well,
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  Speaker 5: hurry it up. I'm working as fast as I can. Mr. Watkins,
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  Speaker 5: can we fire those rockets on manual?
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  Speaker 7: Sure we can, but we only have enough fuel for
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  Speaker 7: about a three-second burst. It'll mean a crash landing.
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  Speaker 5: We'll worry about that when we come to it. Well, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Ratchick, this kills us, Captain. We're going to cross the
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  Speaker 6: orbit of Mars before Mars gets there.
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  Speaker 5: How long? Too long.
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  Speaker 6: Captain, we're flying out of the solar system at just
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  Speaker 6: under the speed of light. You're listening to Death Wish,
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  Speaker 6: tonight's attraction on X-Minus-One. Now back to X minus one
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  Speaker 6: and Death Wish.
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  Speaker 7: Look at him. Look at how he sits there staring
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  Speaker 7: at nothing. Here we are kiting off into space and
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  Speaker 7: what do you do? We got a little fuel left.
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  Speaker 7: We can turn the ship, can't we? Look, you are
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  Speaker 7: a navigator, aren't you?
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  Speaker 5: I am, Mr. Watkins. And for your information, if I
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  Speaker 5: plotted my courses the way you maintain your engines, we'd
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  Speaker 5: be plowing into the middle of Australia right now.
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  Speaker 7: Why, you little company toady. At least I got my
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  Speaker 7: job honestly. Not by marrying the owner's daughter.
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  Speaker 5: Why, you dirty old man.
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  Speaker 3: Stop it.
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  Speaker 5: Stop it, both of you. No more of this now.
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  Speaker 5: I give the orders here. All right, then give some.
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  Speaker 5: Tell him to plot a return curve. This is life
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  Speaker 5: and death. All the more reason for keeping our heads. Stranger,
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  Speaker 5: can you plot such a course? The first thing I tried.
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  Speaker 5: On the fuel we got left, there isn't a chance.
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  Speaker 5: Best I could do would be a degree or two.
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  Speaker 5: That won't help.
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  Speaker 7: What do you mean it won't? We'll turn back into
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  Speaker 7: the solar system.
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  Speaker 5: Sure, but the best curve we can make will take
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  Speaker 5: us a few thousand years to complete. What about a
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  Speaker 5: landfall on some other planet? Neptune? Uranus?
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  Speaker 7: Impossible.
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  Speaker 5: In the first place, the right planet would have to
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  Speaker 5: be in the right place at the right time. And
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  Speaker 5: if it were, we'd need fuel, a lot of fuel,
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  Speaker 5: to get into a breaking orbit. And if we could,
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  Speaker 5: who'd come and get us? No ship has gone past
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  Speaker 5: Mars yet. Yeah, but maybe there'd be a chance, just
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  Speaker 5: a slim chance. Maybe, maybe, but we can't swing it. Gentlemen,
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  Speaker 5: I'm afraid... we'll have to kiss the solar system goodbye.
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  Speaker 5: It just doesn't seem possible. Who would believe we're traveling
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  Speaker 5: at almost the speed of light? Look out the viewing port.
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  Speaker 5: You'd swear we were standing still in space. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 5: because there's no reference point, as you know. I assure you,
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  Speaker 5: we're traveling faster than any men have ever traveled.
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  Speaker 7: What should we do, Captain?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, Watkins. I just don't know. Our noble
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  Speaker 5: captain can't face the situation. Of course I can face it.
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  Speaker 5: I can follow any course you plot. That's my only
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  Speaker 5: real responsibility. Now let's get a grip on ourselves.
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Radjic, suppose you raise Mars on the radio. Aye, aye, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Deidre to Marsport. Deidre to Marsport. Urgent. Repeat, urgent. Come in, Marsport.
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  Speaker 3: Marsport to Deidre. Read you. Over.
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  Speaker 5: Emergency, Marsport. Firing mechanism jammed. Fuel almost totally expended. Acceleration
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  Speaker 5: 15 seconds past safe maximum. Heading out of solar system.
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  Speaker 5: Request help. Over.
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  Speaker 3: Can you turn the ship, Deidre? Can you put it
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  Speaker 3: into any kind.
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  Speaker 7: Of an orbit?
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  Speaker 5: No fuel, Marsport. We can only turn a degree or two. Over.
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  Speaker 3: Put your captain on, Deidre.
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  Speaker 1: Over.
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  Speaker 5: Captain Summers, Marsport. Over.
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  Speaker 3: Captain, what do you propose to do?
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  Speaker 5: Good Lord, man, that's what we're asking you. What do
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  Speaker 5: you propose to do?
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  Speaker 3: I say, what do you propose to do?
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  Speaker 5: What are they saying? I don't know. I couldn't catch it.
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Radgett, can't you get better reception? Rapidly running out of range, Captain.
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  Speaker 5: I'll give it all the gain I can get.
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  Speaker 3: To Deidre. Mars port to Deidre. Can you read me?
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  Speaker 7: There they are.
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  Speaker 5: Shut up. Deidre, what can you do for us? Over.
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  Speaker 3: Captain, we can't think of a thing.
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  Speaker 1: If you could swing into any sort of orbit.
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  Speaker 5: We can't. I told you that.
• 12:01
  Speaker 8: Under the circumstances, Captain, you have the right to try
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  Speaker 8: anything at all.
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  Speaker 3: Anything, Captain.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, that's nice of them.
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  Speaker 5: What do they expect us to do, complain to the company? Listen, Marsport. Marsport,
• 12:13
  Speaker 5: do you still read me?
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  Speaker 3: Over. Read you faintly. Go on, but hurry.
• 12:21
  Speaker 5: I can think of just one thing. We could bail
• 12:23
  Speaker 5: out in space suits as near Mars as possible. The
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  Speaker 5: Diana is laying over there, isn't she? You could have
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  Speaker 5: her pick us up. Over.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, Captain. You're confused.
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  Speaker 8: If you left your ship, your momentum would not be affected.
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  Speaker 3: You and your crew would continue through space at the
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  Speaker 3: same rate as the ship. Over.
• 12:43
  Speaker 5: Of course. I wasn't thinking. I have it. Send the
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  Speaker 5: Diana out to intersect our course. Maybe we can find
• 12:50
  Speaker 5: some way to transfer. My navigator will help you plot
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  Speaker 5: the intersection. Over.
• 12:54
  Speaker 7: They've gone again.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, Marsport. Hello, Marsport. Come in, Marsport. I can't bring
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  Speaker 5: them in again.
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  Speaker 3: To do it that way, sorry.
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: Over.
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  Speaker 5: You mean you can't do it? Why not? It is
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  Speaker 5: our only chance. Over.
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  Speaker 3: Diana's laid up, having her engines overhauled.
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  Speaker 5: How long before she can be space-born?
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: Too long. Three weeks. Sorry, Captain. I wish we could
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: think of something. But the only thing we can suggest... What?
• 13:42
  Speaker 5: I didn't get it. Reception's gone again, Captain. We're getting
• 13:45
  Speaker 5: out of range. I don't know whether I can raise
• 13:46
  Speaker 5: them again or not. Well, try, try. Come on, maybe
• 13:49
  Speaker 5: that's a good idea.
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  Speaker 7: What can they suggest that we don't already know?
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  Speaker 5: Even the static's getting weaker now. We only knew what
• 13:55
  Speaker 5: they were going to say. What's the difference?
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  Speaker 7: They didn't really think it would work anyhow.
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  Speaker 5: Wait a minute. Wait, wait. Maybe something's come. Hold it.
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  Speaker 7: Suggest.
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  Speaker 3: Can you hear? Suggest. Most unlikely. But try. Try calculator.
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  Speaker 3: Try calculator.
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  Speaker 5: They're gone. For good this time.
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  Speaker 7: I heard what he said. The calculator.
• 14:26
  Speaker 5: Does he mean the Farrinson computer in our hole? Yes. Yes,
• 14:30
  Speaker 5: I see what he meant. The Farrinson's a very advanced job.
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  Speaker 5: No one knows the limits of its potential. He suggests
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: we present our problem to him. Ah, that's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 7: The problem has no solution.
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't seem to, but the big computers have solved
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  Speaker 5: other problems that seem to have no solution. Now, we
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: can't lose anything by trying. No, not as long as
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: we don't pin any hopes on it. That's right. We
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: don't dare hope.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Watkins, I believe this is your department.
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  Speaker 7: Ah, what's the use? You say don't hope, but both
• 14:57
  Speaker 7: of you are hoping anyhow. You think the big electronic
• 15:00
  Speaker 7: god is going to save your lives?
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: Well, it's not. We have to try, man. Who says
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  Speaker 5: we do?
• 15:05
  Speaker 7: I wouldn't give it the satisfaction of turning us down.
• 15:08
  Speaker 5: Are you implying that machines think?
• 15:10
  Speaker 7: You bet I am, because they do. No, I'm not
• 15:13
  Speaker 7: out of my head. Any engineer will tell you that
• 15:16
  Speaker 7: a complex machine has a personality all its own. Do
• 15:20
  Speaker 7: you know what that personality is like? It's cold, withdrawn, uncaring, unfeeling.
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  Speaker 7: A machine's only purpose is to frustrate desire and produce
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  Speaker 7: two problems for every one it solves. And do you
• 15:34
  Speaker 7: know why a machine feels this way?
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: You're hysterical.
• 15:36
  Speaker 7: Oh, no, I'm not. A machine feels this way because
• 15:39
  Speaker 7: it knows it's an unnatural creation in nature's domain. It
• 15:44
  Speaker 7: wants to reach entropy and cease. It's a death wish.
• 15:48
  Speaker 7: A mechanical death wish.
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  Speaker 5: Gibberish. Watkins, are you going to hook up that computer?
• 15:52
  Speaker 7: Oh, sure. I'm human. I keep trying. I just wanted
• 15:57
  Speaker 7: you to understand that there's no hope. I'll get it
• 16:00
  Speaker 7: warmed up.
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  Speaker 5: We better watch him. He'll be all right.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: Maybe.
• 16:08
  Speaker 6: He's blaming the situation on a machine personality now, trying
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: to absolve himself of guilt. It's his fault we're in
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: this spot. An engineer is responsible for all equipment.
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: What's the good of blaming anybody? None, I guess. Personally,
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: I don't much care. This is as good a way
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: to die as any. Better than most. Don't talk like that.
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: Why not?
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: Death in space is an appealing idea in certain ways.
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: Imagine an entire spaceship for a tomb. And you have
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: a certain choice in how you die. Thirst, hunger, heat, cold.
• 16:44
  Speaker 7: Shut up.
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: Now that's an order.
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: This is your first real emergency, Captain.
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: And you're responding like a stunned ox. Wake up. You
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: can't live with joy. At least try to extract a
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: little pleasure out of your die. Shut your mouth.
• 16:59
  Speaker 7: Well, gents, your little tin god's ready and waiting. Anybody
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: care to make a burnt offering in front of it?
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: Have you given it the problem?
• 17:09
  Speaker 7: Most of it. You two have to punch up your
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: own details. Position, elapse time from maximum acceleration, water, oxygen, food.
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: All right. Come on, Ratchick. Did you tell it we
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: want to return to Earth alive? Oh, yes. Yes, it
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: loves that part.
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: It'll get such pleasure out of rejecting the problem as unsolved.
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: Oh, no.
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: No, no. It won't say that. It'll say insufficient data.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: And I'll punch up the rest of the information.
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: Insufficient data. You see the point? It hints a solution
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: is possible, but just out of reach. A subtle torture.
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: It can keep us hoping.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: There.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: That's the complete picture. Now let's see what happens when
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: I press this.
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: Now just keep your eye on that red light up there.
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: If it goes on, it means a problem is rejected.
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: Watch it now. And if it solves it?
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: That's a little bell, sort of like a typewriter bell.
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: But you won't hear it, don't worry.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: Don't say that.
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: What's the matter, Rodgick?
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: Superstition? Oh, shut up. You two have to keep up
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: that everlasting wrangling.
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: Not for long, Captain. We haven't much longer to live, Captain.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: Maybe that's good.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: What's that?
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: A solution. It's found a solution.
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: That must be a mistake. There is no solution.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: It's fooling us, leading us on. Now who's superstitious? Here's
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: the tape. The solution's on this. What's it say? Come on,
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: come on. Read it, read it.
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: No, not me. You read it, Captain. I won't play
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: its fiendish game.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: Oh, I see. That's fine. That's just fine. What does
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: it say, for the love of heaven? You figured a
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: few thousand years to return to the solar system, Ratchick? Well,
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: the computer agrees. 2,300 years, to be precise.
• 19:05
  Speaker 9: Therefore, it has given us the formula for a longevity serum.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: 2,300 years? What are we supposed to do, hibernate? Not
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: at all. As a matter of fact, the serum does
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: away quite neatly with the need for sleep. But 2,300 years, gentlemen.
• 19:22
  Speaker 9: We three sit here in this little ship and look
• 19:25
  Speaker 9: at each other. 2,300 years of that.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's just the sort of thing a machine would do.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Fred Collins again, and I'll have another word for
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: you about X-1 in a moment. That how you feel?
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: Blue and miserable with a deep down cold? Listen. Every
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: second someone takes it for the miseries of a cold.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: Millions more take Bromoquinine. Every second someone takes it for
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: the miseries of a cold.
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: Bromoquinine.
• 20:27
  Speaker 8: More people have taken more Bromoquinine cold tablets for more
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: complete relief than any other cold tablet ever sold. You
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: could use aspirin or cough syrups or nose drops all
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: day and not get Bromoquinine's relief. Bromoquinine works to relieve
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: stopped up nose, body aches, fever, irregularity, the blues, and
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: headache too.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: Yes, more complete relief for even virus colds.
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: For Bromoquinine is the only cold tablet sold with wonder-working
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: quinine and five medicines health-fortified with vitamin C.
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: Remember.
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: Every second someone takes it for the miseries of a cold.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: Millions more take Bromoquinine. Get Bromoquinine brand cold tablets. You
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: have just heard X-1 presented by the National Broadcasting Company
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, which this month features...
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: You were right, Joe, by J.T. McIntosh. The story of
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: a time traveler who, going into the future, hardly expected
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: to encounter a Neanderthal man. Read it in Galaxy magazine
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: on your newsstand today. X-1 has brought you Death Wish,
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: a story written by Ned Lang and adapted for radio
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: by William Welch. Featured in our cast were Ralph Camargo
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: as Watkins, Maurice Tarplin as Captain Summers, Walter Black as Racheck,
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: and Joseph Bell as the Radioman. This is Fred Collins speaking.
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: X-1 was directed by George Gutzas and is an NBC
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: Radio Network production. There's excitement in the air at night,
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: and Nightline brings it to you.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Hear Nightline with Walter O'Keefe next on most of these
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: NBC stations. X-1 has concluded with Death Wish. Good night,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: and thank you for sharing this broadcast.