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X Minus One - "Nightmare" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One presents “Nightmare,” episode 10, originally broadcast on NBC Radio on July 21, 1955. Adapted for radio by George Lefferts from Stephen Vincent Benét’s poem “The Revolt of the Machines,” this unsponsored science-fiction drama stars John Gibson, Joyce Gordon, Luis Van Rooten, Joseph Julian, and Santos Ortega.
At Long Island’s Brook Meadow Atomic Pile, statistical clerk Sampson Gurney spots an alarming pattern in a series of seemingly unrelated accidents and equipment failures. As he turns to the installation’s immense electronic computer for answers, everyday office and industrial…
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