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X Minus One - ”No Contact” (Pilot Episode, 1955 Science Fiction Classic) · Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: M h countdown for blast off x minus five minus
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  Speaker 1: four minus three minus two x minus one Fire from
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  Speaker 1: the far horizons of the unknown, contails of new dimensions
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  Speaker 1: in time and space. These are stories of the future
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  Speaker 1: adventures in which you'll live in a million could.
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  Speaker 2: Be years on a thousand baby worlds.
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  Speaker 1: The National Broadcasting Company presents X minus one on the
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  Speaker 1: night story No Contact. It was in the year of
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two that spacemen first discovered the Great Galactic Barrier.
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  Speaker 1: In the past ten years, rocket traveled to the Moon
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  Speaker 1: and the nearer planets had become commonplace, and then men
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  Speaker 1: fixed their sights on a more distant star, the remote
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  Speaker 1: planet known as Bota. Five exploratory ships went out and
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  Speaker 1: none came back, each in turn disappearing mysteriously at the
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  Speaker 1: same vanishing point at an invisible wall somewhere in the
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  Speaker 1: vast outer reaches that became known as the record of
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  Speaker 1: space Ships, the Galactic Wreath. And yet the explorers refused
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  Speaker 1: to admit defeat. It was on June the second, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty seven, that the rocket star Cloud made ready for
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  Speaker 1: takeoff the sixth to attempt to crack the barrier and
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  Speaker 1: win through to Bowl.
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  Speaker 3: Addition, greatly, addition, greatly. Dog Well, Lewis, this is it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't suppose you'll be needing the ship's doctor up
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  Speaker 3: here in the bridge during blaster. I think, nuts, middy,
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  Speaker 3: there's little chance of acceleration bends in these new overdrive ships.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be in my office then, counting vitamin pills. If
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  Speaker 3: you need me. It's only a few steps. Good luck, Lewis,
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, smiddy. Lieutenant Collier, yes it you're relieved. You'd
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  Speaker 3: better get down to navigation control and take over. Yes, sir, Lieutenant,
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  Speaker 3: we've never flown together before. This is your first flight
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  Speaker 3: in a space vessel as big as the star Cloud.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir, but I was trained in oversized jobs at
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  Speaker 4: the Naval Academy.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if you're half as good a navigator as your
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  Speaker 3: father was, you'll do fine.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Did you ship out with my father? I served under
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  Speaker 3: him on one of the first rocket runs to the Moon.
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  Speaker 3: I see I almost went along on his last trip
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  Speaker 3: to the barrier. Bad about that, Yes, sir, that's all. Collyer,
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  Speaker 3: get me the ground controlsar on the field. I want
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  Speaker 3: to talk to Colonel Harrison.
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead, sir, I've patched in the bridge.
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  Speaker 3: Speaker Colonel Harrison. Yes, captain, we're standing by for takeoff
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  Speaker 3: in thirty seconds.
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  Speaker 6: Good fields cleared of all personnel. We'll try to re
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  Speaker 6: establish radio contact immediately. Have to take off. In any event,
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  Speaker 6: there'll be a twenty four hour ground monitor.
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  Speaker 3: Fine, good luck, hope you'll make it. Thank you. Bridge
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  Speaker 3: to Navigation Control have control call you ready, Lieutenant ready.
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  Speaker 4: Captain of course, is in the integrator for take off
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  Speaker 4: at twelve hundred hours.
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  Speaker 3: All right, stand by for blastov. Bridge to engine room.
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  Speaker 3: Fire up your rocket chambers. Take off at exactly twelve
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  Speaker 3: hundred hours. I'll read you off twenty seconds. Nineteen eighteen,
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  Speaker 3: seventeen sixteen, hold it, revoke all orders. Who turned in
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  Speaker 3: that alarm store? We where? Have him brought up to
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  Speaker 3: the bridge enginerom kill your rockets and stand by thorson.
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  Speaker 6: This is Colonel Harrison and ground control.
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  Speaker 5: What's holding you up?
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  Speaker 3: Trouble? What's the matter with you? What's the matter with you?
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  Speaker 3: There's a stowaway of boards. Yes, I thought your men
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  Speaker 3: were supposed to police this base. What's the matter with you? You
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  Speaker 3: know what this the lake can do to us, don't you?
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  Speaker 3: One minute later? Take off can throw some million miles
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  Speaker 3: off course, we'll have to reintegrate the whole works.
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  Speaker 5: Well, look, how long do you think you'll take?
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  Speaker 3: You don't father for me, bro while I'm busy, stupid
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  Speaker 3: idious captains convinced Middy, here's your store marshalled. Oh Charlie,
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  Speaker 3: can you use a good radio man? Skipper? Well? I
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  Speaker 3: see you two have met.
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  Speaker 7: Matt Skipper me made fifty trips to the moon together, didn't.
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  Speaker 3: With Skipper, Charlie. If you wanted to come along, why
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  Speaker 3: didn't you volunteer? I did, Skipper? They they turned me down?
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  Speaker 3: And what's wrong?
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  Speaker 7: Acceleration Benz. They said my arteries wouldn't stand another trip.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry to hear that, but they're.
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  Speaker 7: Wrong, Skipper. I got one more good trip in me. Listen, Skipper,
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  Speaker 7: you you know that these green kids they don't know
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  Speaker 7: the first thing about space radio operation. Now you you
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  Speaker 7: put a man like me on and out, I'll be
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  Speaker 7: getting you bedtime stories from Mars.
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  Speaker 3: Charlie. You know the regulations as well as I do.
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  Speaker 3: I can't take you much as i'd like to. Colonel
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  Speaker 3: Harrison will murder me for this, and I'm sorry, Charlie.
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  Speaker 3: I'll have you put a ground. I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 3: I'll ask Carrison to put you on his ground radio
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  Speaker 3: contact and it'll seem as if you're right here with us.
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  Speaker 3: He won't do it, sir, Well, he'd better. I'll have
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  Speaker 3: him busted to corporal for letting you sneak aboard. Look, Charlie, look,
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  Speaker 3: you better be off. Poulson. I'm sending this man of ground.
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  Speaker 3: Give him time to clear the launching platform. Hold on, Charlie,
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, good luck skipper. I thought you were going
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  Speaker 3: to have him drawn and quartered. If it had been
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  Speaker 3: anyone else I would have smitty. But Charlie, well, he's
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  Speaker 3: kind of special. It's been with me since my first command,
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  Speaker 3: when we began the regular run to the Moon, and
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  Speaker 3: if he wanted to come along this time, well it's
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  Speaker 3: only through loyalty to me, you know, Lewis. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: realize it before, but you're almost human.
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  Speaker 2: Captain does control Collier?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Yes, Lieutenant, how badly are we filed up? Can
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  Speaker 3: you recalculate the course or shall I cancel the takeoff?
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  Speaker 2: I've already plotted a new course on the Integrator's heart.
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  Speaker 8: If we take off exactly thirty seconds, we need to
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  Speaker 8: correct for only a one degree deflection.
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  Speaker 2: I can do that before we.
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  Speaker 5: Reach the stratisfy.
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  Speaker 3: That's quick work. Are you sure all right? Colier? I'm
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  Speaker 3: putting it in your hands. We'll blast off on your signal.
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  Speaker 3: Bridge to engine room. Prepare to blast off on navigator's signal.
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  Speaker 3: How are we doing? Collyer the sir. That's four three two.
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  Speaker 4: Zero. We've intersected the course. Back to good work. God
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  Speaker 4: course is corrected, sir. Ready to go into atomic COVID
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  Speaker 4: drive anytime you say all right? Stand by yes, sir,
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  Speaker 4: Now hear this, Now hear this. Prepare for maximum acceleration.
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  Speaker 4: Bridge to engine room.
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  Speaker 3: Kill your rockets, rockets out, Fire up number one, cyclotron
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  Speaker 3: number one, Ready, fire up number two.
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  Speaker 5: Number two.
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  Speaker 3: Ready withdraw your dampening rods, patient chamber ready, last tub's
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  Speaker 3: clear call. Generators operating in capacity take it over, sir,
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  Speaker 3: Go into overdrive at the counter. Zero three seconds mitter collyne.
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  Speaker 2: Three two two one one zero zero?
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  Speaker 3: Are we doing? Collier?
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  Speaker 2: Course?
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  Speaker 3: Sir?
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  Speaker 2: She's running hot and true.
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  Speaker 3: My compliments, Lieutenant. This job would have done your father
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  Speaker 3: credit when he was the best navigation officer I ever saw.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Starter gyro's put her on robot control. All right, the
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  Speaker 3: bridge is yours, mister Collier. If you need me, I'll
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  Speaker 3: be in doctor Smithson's office.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, the worst.
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  Speaker 3: You've got us off the ground. You can thank young
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  Speaker 3: Collier for that chip off the old block. You knew
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  Speaker 3: his father, As a matter of fact, I knew him
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  Speaker 3: very well first rate space map. Is he the worst? Yes?
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  Speaker 3: He was lost in the galactic Barrier on the second
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  Speaker 3: ship we sent out to Volta. Lewis Just what do
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  Speaker 3: you think this s galactic barrier is? Ooh, your guess
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  Speaker 3: is as good as mine, Doc. All I know is
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  Speaker 3: that five ships have gone into it and none of
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  Speaker 3: them have come back out. You think it's a knit?
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  Speaker 3: How about Mestrovik's theory that it's a time warp in space,
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  Speaker 3: that the ships reach it and slip into another dimension.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's a lot of rubbish. My theory is
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  Speaker 3: that the galactic Barrier is nothing more than a radioactive
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  Speaker 3: layer of some kind. Why do you say that, Well,
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  Speaker 3: we know that radar signals bounce off it like they
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  Speaker 3: were hitting an invisible glass wall, and we know that
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  Speaker 3: it destroys our ships and cruise in some way. There's
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  Speaker 3: no other logical explanation. What makes you think we can
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  Speaker 3: get through it, Lewis, Because we're ready for it. The
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  Speaker 3: others weren't. The entire hull of this ship is completely
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  Speaker 3: shielded with lead. We can crack through any radioactive cloud
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  Speaker 3: ever detected. Besides, were equipped with some new UAHF radio
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  Speaker 3: devices that should enable us to maintain radio contact with
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  Speaker 3: her it. Nothing can happen, absolutely nothing. Now, who are
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  Speaker 3: you trying to convince myself? I suppose, Lewis, you've had
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  Speaker 3: your share of glory, first skipper to reach the moon
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  Speaker 3: back in nineteen Team sixty two. You could have retired.
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  Speaker 3: Why are you risking this strip? Five ships are missing,
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  Speaker 3: men like Prentice Margaretson, Young Collier's father. I'm tired of
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  Speaker 3: seeing good men fit into that meat chopper. Then why
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  Speaker 3: are we going to voter? We haven't any choicemoy. We're
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  Speaker 3: in a race, the kind of race where men and
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  Speaker 3: ships are expendable. According to the Interspace Code, the first
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  Speaker 3: nation to reach voltic conclaim it. Well, personally, I want
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  Speaker 3: no part. Not I'll have to play physician, morale builder
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  Speaker 3: and mother substitute for one hundred and twelve Slightly nervous men,
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  Speaker 3: and your morale doesn't sound too good. Dog. As morale officer,
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  Speaker 3: I can state without fear of contradiction, it is terrible.
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  Speaker 3: And something tells me as we approach that galactic barrier,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to be alone. Hello Earth, Hello Earth,
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  Speaker 3: Captain Thorson of the Stark Cloud calling Earth, Hello Star
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  Speaker 3: Cloud High Captain Charlie, Well, I see the having court
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  Speaker 3: martial gere yet no, sir, thanks to you. That's good
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  Speaker 3: to hear you. You can read us the funny papers
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  Speaker 3: on Sunday morning. How's our signal strong? Here's our log
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  Speaker 3: report for Colonel Harrison. You ready shoot Joan Second nineteen
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  Speaker 3: eighty seven, four weeks out from Earth, running through no
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  Speaker 3: radiation operation normal, still making our approach to the galactic barrier.
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  Speaker 3: That's all, Charlie, see you later.
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  Speaker 5: Good luck, Captain. I sure wish I was with you.
• 11:40
  Speaker 3: How's the morals, middie. The men know we're getting closer
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  Speaker 3: to the barrier. They're beginning to show a little tension
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  Speaker 3: of us. Now. How's their physical condition? Any sickness? About
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  Speaker 3: half the crew who has come down with space Blue?
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  Speaker 3: I was afraid of that? Are they been same as usual?
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  Speaker 3: Lips and hands with a bluish cast eires are sensitive
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  Speaker 3: to infrared. I don't know when I first started flying
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  Speaker 3: these tin cans. Nobody ever heard of space blues. Well,
• 12:05
  Speaker 3: now there's a theory. It's caused by the terrific acceleration
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  Speaker 3: of atomic overdrive. Change in gravity affects the circulation. What
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  Speaker 3: do you think? I think it's psychosomatic. I've noticed that
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  Speaker 3: the same men who get space blues under tension on
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  Speaker 3: a ship tend to get blue coloration back on Earth
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  Speaker 3: when they're upset. I guess it's just an occupation, the
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  Speaker 3: disease of space. Now do you think it's just nerves? Then, well,
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  Speaker 3: young Collier's got a bad case. I think it's tension
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  Speaker 3: from over Maybe he needs some vitamins, Lois, When will
• 12:40
  Speaker 3: you realize that vitamins are not a panacea for all
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  Speaker 3: the troubles of mankind? Sir, I understand that you relieve
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: me from beauty. Well, doctor Smithson says you aren't looking
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  Speaker 3: very well, Collier. I'm giving you a wrist, Sir, I
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  Speaker 3: feel perfectly able to continue. Your lips are as blue
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  Speaker 3: as Minnetonka. Captain, I'd like to remain at my post.
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  Speaker 3: Don't be foolhardy, Lieutenant.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not being foolhardy, Sir. I have a special personal
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  Speaker 8: reason for wanting this expedition to reach Bolt your father.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, you think he might still be alive. I
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: have to find out what happens, Sir, I think I
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  Speaker 3: understand very well. Collier, report back to duty. What's the
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  Speaker 3: reading policy.
• 13:53
  Speaker 9: We're getting at plus five rdar bonds now coming off
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  Speaker 9: the barrier almost as fast as we send it out.
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  Speaker 3: What's the interval?
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  Speaker 9: Two seconds shortening steadily. It's right, we'll hit the wall
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  Speaker 9: in the next few minutes.
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  Speaker 3: All right, alert the crew, sound General Quarters, Now.
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  Speaker 10: Hear this condition red. We are now approaching the galactic barrier.
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  Speaker 10: All hands to stations, All radiation detectors to be fully manned.
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  Speaker 10: Full security will prevail until further notice.
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  Speaker 3: That is all policy. Yes, the radar bounces up to
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  Speaker 3: plus six. We'd better try to make final contact with Earth.
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: The sparks still tried to raise the base.
• 14:34
  Speaker 9: Yes, but he's not having much luck. Huh, seems to
• 14:36
  Speaker 9: be some interference. That's the radio room, now, Yes, you
• 14:41
  Speaker 9: got them well, cut in on the bridge speaker.
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  Speaker 3: Captain will take it from here. Hello Star Cloud to Earth.
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  Speaker 3: Can you hear me Earth?
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  Speaker 7: Hello, Skipper, I can barely read you. We're getting heavy
• 14:54
  Speaker 7: static from Sunspot.
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  Speaker 3: That's not Sunspot's Charlie. We're right on top of the
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  Speaker 3: galactic barrier, getting a plus no plus seven radar bounce.
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  Speaker 3: I expect to hit the barrier almost any second. Now.
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: If we crack the barrier and come through still in
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  Speaker 3: one piece, I'll try to get back to you on
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  Speaker 3: the high frequency band.
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  Speaker 5: Got you, Skipper, don't worry.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: I'll be waiting so long, Charlie, so long.
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  Speaker 2: Stark Cloud.
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: Must be getting off with close now, Captain. It goes
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  Speaker 3: bouncing back so fast it's almost beating the signal when
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: they go inside. Hold onto your hat. That's when we
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: run into the wall.
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  Speaker 11: Any second, hold on, here goes nothing, Here it comes, Captain.
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: Nothing happened. We made it. We made it, Captain. No radiation,
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  Speaker 3: no time warp, no nothing. The crew's gone crazy, Sir.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: Let them they've earned it.
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: Doc.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: Can you break out a few bottles of snake bite
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: serum for medicinal purposes? Sure?
• 15:59
  Speaker 6: Can.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go for a celebration.
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  Speaker 2: How's your moral?
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: No, it couldn't be better?
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  Speaker 10: Condition red condition radiation detectex condition red radiation.
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  Speaker 3: Holy mackerel, look at the needle on that indicator. Allison Hollison, Yes,
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: I see it, Captain picking radiation like crazy? What's it like?
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: What's a strong impulse? What kind? I don't know.
• 16:21
  Speaker 9: It's too long for a cosmic ray, too short for UHF.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: Whatever it is, sir, the ship is allowsy. We'll track
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  Speaker 3: it down, triangulate it and make it fast. I want
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: a directional fix. Yes, the engine room, we're picking up radioactivity.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: Who's the fission chambers? No, cacer, check your gauges, nothing, hare,
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: Captain must be coming from outside damage control? Is our
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: leg shield leaking radiation? We'll keep at it. Allison, how
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: are you doing? I've got to fix the captain? Well,
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: what is it? I don't have to recheck my figure.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: I'll hurry it up. Angle is correct, but I can
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  Speaker 3: one man for Pete's sake. Where's the radiation coming from?
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: Sirds It's coming from inside the shift. It's impossible, no, sir,
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  Speaker 3: I've checked the twelve. It's not to be the engines.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: Then it is, sir. We're finished engine room.
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: That radiation must be in the overdrive pile. Oh, sir.
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  Speaker 12: It isn't.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Are you certain? Yes? All right, keep checking the only
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  Speaker 3: one thing left to do, Paulus, and get a guy
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: your counter. We're gonna start calmbing this ship inch by inch, yes, sir,
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: all right, turn it on, yes, sir, all right, ready, captain,
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: we'll check the atomic guns first. Come on. We'll got
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: through the officers quarters here to ordinans. I'll turn here.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, sir, what is it?
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: The signal is weaker? Now, yeah, let's go back. Hold it.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Hold it seems strongest right about here. Doesn't make sense.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Whose cabin is this?
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: Turning? Carliers here? Oh, he's done, and that. I'll try
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: the door.
• 17:53
  Speaker 9: Alright, it's not locked, sir, it's in here, all right.
• 17:59
  Speaker 9: Listen that counter.
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  Speaker 3: Strongest over here, Open that wall, cabinet, it's lot. Let's fashion.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: And shut off that Giger college.
• 18:11
  Speaker 11: What do you make of this, polisy It looks like
• 18:14
  Speaker 11: some sort of portable transmitter, sir.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: It must be foreign manufactured. I don't recognize the calibration
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: symbols at all. I've never seenything like it, which raises
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: a small question. What is Lieutenant Collier doing with a
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: transmitter in his cabin? I don't know well. I intend
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: to find out Poulson get down and have control and
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: bring Collier up to the bridge on the double.
• 18:35
  Speaker 9: Haven't we better find somewhere to shut this thing off first?
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: I know a.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: Way, Lieutenant Collier. I'm going to ask a few simple questions,
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: and I want a few simple answers. Yes, sir, what
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: were you doing with a transmitter in your cabin? Transmitter? Captain? Oh,
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: you know nothing about it?
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: No, sir, I don't.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Do you recognize these calibration symbols? No, sir? Can you
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: think of how it might have been placed in your
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: cabin without your knowing it?
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: No, sir, unless someone came in while I was on duty.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Would that have been possible? I suppose so if someone
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: had a key. I found your cabin door unlocked. When
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: I met a key to the wall cabin, I didn't.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Say the wall cabinet. Well, I you what, Lieutenant, How
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: could you have known it was in the wall cabinet? Well?
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: I just assumed, Sir, Tenant Callier.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: I find it hard to believe you would lie, having
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: known and respected your father, having observed the way you
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: handled your job. However, I intend to get to the
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: root of this thing. May I have your wristwatch, Lieutenant, sir,
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: your wrist watch, yes, sir, Pollison, turn on that Geiger collar, yes, sir,
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: pull this watch next to it, yes, sir, that's all. Lieutenant.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: If you hadn't any close contact with that transmitter, how
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: do you explain the radioactivity of this watch? I don't, sir.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: I think you'd better to whom were you sending those signals?
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: There's your answer, Captain?
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: What is this? Collier? Call your who's a board that ship?
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: All right? Now?
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: Talk very well, captain. My mission seems completed.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Your mission? Are you admitting that you're an agent of
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: a foreign power?
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: I am stating it's what nation?
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: No nation?
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Captain? What I am an agent of the Voltime government?
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: What?
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: The government of the planet of Voltime?
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Crazy?
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Are you so stupid? Captain?
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: Do you think your people are the only ones who
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: can invade another planet?
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: What do you mean?
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: We've had agents.
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: Operating on Earth since nineteen one hundred and forty five.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Don't believe you?
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: What do you think happened to those five ships?
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Captain?
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: Where do you suppose we got our information? Your language
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: or culture, family background, appearance. You'll you look like like
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: command to Collier well, is that so surprising?
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Captain?
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: You see, Captain, we had a living model.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: I ought to kill you.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: It would be very foolish. Captain. I would advise you
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: to surrender without delay.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: I'll deal with you later. Call your polison. Yes, what
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: this man and irons take him away? Don't worries, so
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: I will take good care of him. Governor, Gunnery Connery Richardson?
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: What's the range?
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: Ten thousands? The closing fast?
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: But your guns on? Radar tracking?
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: Tracking? Coming on the bearing?
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Fire? Fire? Richardson, Richardon, did you hear me?
• 21:53
  Speaker 13: Fire?
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: What's the matter down there? Did you hear me? Richardson? Anthomy,
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: it's no use to shout, Captain Collier, how did you
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: get loose? Where's Paulison?
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Lieutenant paulis and he is dead?
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Pulse stations. Lieutenant Collier has escaped.
• 22:14
  Speaker 8: Seasy men, don't waste your breath. Your men can't hear you.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Captain? What those still alive? My man done?
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: No, Captain, every ship that has ever left Earth was
• 22:29
  Speaker 8: controlled by a Voltan cruise.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: It's impossible. Those were hand picked men and picked by us.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: I don't believe you know.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Then, why not call for help?
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Carpenter Robinson Hailey, report you see, Captain cut Carpenter Robinson Hailey.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: It's quite useless.
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: Captain, I would advise you to sit very quietly and
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: do nothing.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Very well. Caughtier you beateness? What now the ship will
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: be taken to Volta for.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Shall we say, further experimentation?
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: I see, of course there's one thing you hadn't counted on.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Just what is that?
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Captain Carpenter? Are you a lieutenant Carpenter? You can all
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: be dead. There must be one alive. Marry doctor Smithson, Sperry, Smedy.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: What have they done to you?
• 23:44
  Speaker 14: Lewis Arlie, I don't talk, I must lean lean closer.
• 23:50
  Speaker 14: It's not much time, Louis, Space blues.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Space blues?
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: What is it?
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Smitty? What are you trying to tell me? Oh? Men
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: with space blues?
• 24:04
  Speaker 13: Voltime Hell, let me help you out, Louis, get message
• 24:08
  Speaker 13: back to Worth Voltime fifth column, watch out for it space.
• 24:19
  Speaker 15: Smith smy and and you can't now come back by
• 24:28
  Speaker 15: the brain m horender my men will.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Hello Hello Star cloud calling Earth to please can't let
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: me throws too lay Hello Stark loud to Earth, come
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: in prease, come.
• 24:54
  Speaker 12: In breath, Hello, Hello Star clattering Earth Captain Thawson calling Charlie,
• 25:06
  Speaker 12: come in, please hurry Hello.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: Can you hear me? Charlie?
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: Skipper? Is that you?
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: You kidding?
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: My signals? It's coming in a little louder now skip
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: keep sending.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: God Now look, Charlie, listen to me. Not much time.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: Get word to Colonel Harrison.
• 25:20
  Speaker 12: Crew mutant, most of crew members PHOTONSA Fulton's.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Spell that feed O L Fultons.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: That's right. They're from the planet photo.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Skipper, Skipper, Are you all right, Charlie?
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: This is serious. They'll be here any second. I'll listen.
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: They have a fifth column on Earth. They're planning to
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: invade you.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: You mean, of course?
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: I mean it.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Tell Harrison posing as humans, you can detect them by
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: space Bruce, you got that?
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: Only phultons get space Blue, Charlie. Did you hear me?
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Space Blue? I got you? You get Charlie.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: I'm reading a you for everybody.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: C're open the door, so chary happen? Captain Thawson, Hello, hello,
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: star Cloud. What's the trouble, Sergeant? I was just trying
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: to raise the star Cloud.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: Colonel had any luck, no no contact no contact ee,
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: no sir. Nearly an hour since they hit the galactic barrier.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: I don't understand why they haven't tried to get a
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: message back.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: No, sir, neither do I. Oh right, I'll take over
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: for a while.
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: Yes, you you do that, sir. It's all yours right.
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: Oh and Charlie better go on and get yourself some coffee.
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: You look a little blue around the gills.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: The night X minus one has brought you No Contact,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: written by George Leopards from an original story of Leopards
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: and Ernest Kenoy featured in the cast where Louis van
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Ruten as Captain, Donald Bucher as Collier, Wendell Holmes as Charlie,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: and Bill Griffiths, Bill Smith, Matt Crowley and Ken Williams.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: You're announce it, Don Pardow.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: X minus one was directed by Fred Way and is
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: the transcribed NBC Radio Network production.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: And Now next Week.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: When you want to take over a world, you naturally
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: look for its week point, some way to catch its
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: people off guard.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: We live in a world where everybody loves.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: A parade, a world of press agents and publicity stunts.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: But who would ever dream that invaders from outer space
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: would take advantage of that weakness and actually hire a
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: press agent to advertise their coming. Who would believe it
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: was anything but just another publicity gang, at least not
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: until the terrible moment when it was already too late,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: The moment of
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: X minus one,