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This is Nightline, your open door to people and places, and this is Walter O'Keefe. Nightline invites you to listen in on NBC's award-winning science fiction series, X-1. Now escape to a world of the future. Countdown for blast-off. X minus five, four, three, two, X minus one, fire. From the far horizons of the unknown come tales of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories of the future, adventures in which you'll live in a million could-be years on a thousand may…

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Synopsis

In The Merchants of Venus, the narrative unfolds in a future where Earth faces a dire overpopulation crisis. The UN Off-World Commission is tasked with the monumental job of establishing a colony on Venus, but the challenge is not merely to send people there; it is to keep them from returning to Earth. The personnel director, Workum, is inundated with complaints and resignations from the colony, which threatens the viability of the entire project.

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X Minus One, Episode 103

The Merchants of Venus

Thursday, July 18, 1957 · 21:50

X Minus One, Episode 103

The Merchants of Venus

Thursday, July 18, 1957 · 21:50

Summary

In The Merchants of Venus, the challenge lies not in sending colonists to Venus, but in keeping them there amidst rising discontent. As resignations mount, the personnel director grapples with the implications for Earth's future.

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