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X Minus One - "Shanghaied" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One presents “Shanghaied,” episode 16, originally broadcast on September 1, 1955. This NBC Radio Network science-fiction drama was written by Ernest Kinoy and remade from his 1950 Dimension X play of the same name.
On the eve of his wedding, Jeff Coffin wakes aboard a deep-space freighter bound for Alpha Centauri on a voyage expected to last fifteen years. His claim that he has been kidnapped meets a hard-bitten crew and the unforgiving rules of interstellar service in a futuristic take on the classic shanghaied-at-sea adventure. The cast includes Ivor Francis, Ross Martin, Luis Van…
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