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X Minus One - "Perigi's Wonderful Dolls" (1956) · Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Near the Pentagon in Washington, a mother and her young
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: daughter step into a doll shop run by Santor Parigi,
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: whose creations can speak. On January 18, 1956, NBC presented
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: episode 34 of X-1, Parigi's Wonderful Dolls. When a lifelike
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: doll called Toto arrives at the Grayson home, Colonel Henry
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: Grayson's sensitive government work becomes entwined with troubling developments. The
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: cast includes Joe DeSantis, Les Damon, Joan Alexander, Denise Alexander,
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: and Leon Janney. The script by George Lefferts had earlier
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: been heard on Dimension X. And now, our story begins.
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: X minus 5, 4, 3, 2, X minus 1, fire.
• 1:12
  Speaker 3: Tonight, George Leppert's original radio drama of the 21st century,
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  Speaker 3: Parigi's Wonderful Dolls.
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  Speaker 4: The doll shop stood on a quiet Washington side street,
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  Speaker 4: not too far from the sprawling Pentagon building. A woman
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  Speaker 4: and a child waited outside, the little girl peering eagerly
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  Speaker 4: through the window at the doll's inside, and the woman
• 1:38
  Speaker 4: glancing impatiently at her wristwatch, as if expecting someone who
• 1:41
  Speaker 4: was late for an appointment.
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  Speaker 2: And there was nothing.
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  Speaker 4: About the doll shop to warn them that they were
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  Speaker 4: waiting to keep an appointment with doom.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Mommy, look!
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  Speaker 6: Yes, what is it, dear?
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  Speaker 7: In the window of the shop, the giant doll... Oh, Mommy,
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  Speaker 7: do you think Daddy will buy me one?
• 2:01
  Speaker 6: Well, we'll ask him when he comes, Judy. He said
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  Speaker 6: 3 o'clock on this corner.
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  Speaker 5: I see him, Mommy.
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  Speaker 1: There he is.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Henry, here we are. Hello, dear.
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  Speaker 6: Hi.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry I'm late.
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  Speaker 6: Well, we've been waiting for you. Cindy's been telling.
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  Speaker 8: I'm afraid I'll have to call off the shopping, Alma.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Henry, we promised.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, I know.
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  Speaker 8: I'm sorry. It's just one of those things.
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  Speaker 9: You've been the wife of an army colonel long enough
• 2:21
  Speaker 9: to know his life isn't his own.
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  Speaker 6: What is it this time?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, it's more of that flying sphere nonsense. The pilot
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  Speaker 9: who says he sighted it last month crashed and was
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  Speaker 9: killed today, so the general wants.
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  Speaker 2: A full report.
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  Speaker 6: Dear, what in the... Daddy!
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  Speaker 8: We'll have a staff meeting at the Pentagon at 3.50.
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  Speaker 5: Daddy, look in this window.
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  Speaker 8: I haven't time, dear.
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  Speaker 5: Just for a minute, Daddy, please.
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  Speaker 9: Indeed. I haven't time to stop and watch a bunch
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  Speaker 9: of six-inch dolls parading around in the shop.
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  Speaker 8: See, they are lifelike, aren't they?
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  Speaker 2: Look at that, Alma.
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  Speaker 8: Dolls are marching around like a regular review.
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  Speaker 9: They've even got their own little band.
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  Speaker 6: Henry, your staff meeting.
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  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah, yeah. Yes, I've got to run. Now, look,
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  Speaker 8: don't go spending a lot of money on that nonsense, Alma.
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  Speaker 9: No, dear.
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  Speaker 1: Bye.
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  Speaker 2: Bye, dear.
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  Speaker 6: Bye, Cindy.
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  Speaker 5: Bye, Daddy.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, Mommy, look.
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  Speaker 5: Look, the band's going to play.
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  Speaker 6: Aren't they wonderful, honey? You know, it's funny. I must
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  Speaker 6: have stood on this corner a thousand times, and I've
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  Speaker 6: never even noticed this shop before.
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  Speaker 2: Good evening, children.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, well, good evening.
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  Speaker 5: Mummy, he talks awful funny.
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  Speaker 6: Hush, Cindy.
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  Speaker 11: Would you like to step inside the shop of Santor Perigi?
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  Speaker 6: Well, yes, we would.
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  Speaker 2: This way.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, mummy, it's like, it's like beer.
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  Speaker 11: Here in the shop of Santor Perigi, creator of Perigi's
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  Speaker 11: universal wonderful dolls. The world of adult reality is blended
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  Speaker 11: with the world of child's fantasy.
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  Speaker 6: This is a new shop, isn't it, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Parigi?
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  Speaker 2: What is new and what is old? Come, this way.
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  Speaker 2: Would you like to meet one of my little ones?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 2: This one in the red jacket is Toto. Speak, little one.
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  Speaker 6: How you doing?
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  Speaker 2: How you doing?
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  Speaker 5: Isn't that wonderful? Mommy, he talks.
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  Speaker 10: The dolls talk.
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  Speaker 6: Amazing. It's absolutely amazing.
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  Speaker 2: That is nothing for Perici's wonderful dolls.
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  Speaker 6: Listen.
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  Speaker 2: Sing, Toto. Sing for the little girl.
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  Speaker 10: My name is Toto. Sing me.
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  Speaker 6: Listen.
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  Speaker 2: Sing, Toto.
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  Speaker 5: Are big and tall.
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  Speaker 10: Dolls are very small. When men begin to fall, the
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  Speaker 10: dolls will rule them all.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, Lord, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Carter, Lord!
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  Speaker 6: Well, how do they work, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Perici?
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  Speaker 2: How do they work?
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  Speaker 11: Ah, that is the secret of the great Perici, greatest
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  Speaker 11: of all doll masters. To make an ordinary doll is nothing.
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  Speaker 11: To make a perfect replica, that is something. But to
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  Speaker 11: make a doll with intelligence, that is the work of an.
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  Speaker 2: Artist, eh? Well, yes.
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  Speaker 6: They must be very expensive.
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  Speaker 11: Madame, when I construct a doll like Toto, I cannot
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  Speaker 11: bear to be parted from him permanently.
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  Speaker 2: So instead of selling, I rent my little people.
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  Speaker 6: You rent dolls?
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  Speaker 2: Precisely. Ten dollars. I have but one request.
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  Speaker 11: When you grow tired of my dolls, you must return
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  Speaker 11: them to me in good condition.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Mommy, could we take him home? Take him home!
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  Speaker 5: Take him home!
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  Speaker 10: Take him home!
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  Speaker 9: Oh, look, Mommy, look!
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  Speaker 5: He's bowing and dancing. Oh, Mommy, he wants to come. Please,
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  Speaker 5: I'll take such good care of it. Please.
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  Speaker 6: Well, honey, we'll have to deal with your father later, but... Well... Oh, Mommy!
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  Speaker 6: All right, wrap him up, Mr.
• 5:31
  Speaker 5: Breedgy.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, dear, I have a feeling when your father comes home,
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  Speaker 6: we'll be sorry.
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  Speaker 7: Be sorry, be sorry, be sorry, be sorry. Now, Toto,
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  Speaker 7: you're my roommate. And you're going to sleep right here
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  Speaker 7: next to my pillow. Oh, Toto, don't laugh like that.
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  Speaker 7: I'm going to have to teach you some manners.
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  Speaker 5: Ah!
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  Speaker 7: You be quiet, because my daddy will be home soon,
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  Speaker 7: and he's a colonel in the army, and he'll bust
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  Speaker 7: you to private if you don't behave.
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  Speaker 5: Will you wait here? I'm going to introduce you to
• 6:07
  Speaker 5: my puppy dog, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Blister.
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  Speaker 5: It'll be good now. Here, Blister. Here, Blister. Come on, Blister.
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  Speaker 6: Come here.
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  Speaker 10: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Blister, this is Toto. Oh, Kira, I don't think Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Blister likes you.
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  Speaker 12: Stop it, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Blister. Come over here and shake hands with Toto, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Blister.
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  Speaker 5: Come on now.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Blister, let him go, let him go, let him go.
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  Speaker 3: Get away from him, get away from.
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  Speaker 9: Him, get away from him.
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  Speaker 5: Cindy, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Blister, come over here. Why, what happened, dear?
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  Speaker 9: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Blister tried to bite my doll. Look how frightened Toto is.
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  Speaker 6: Dolls don't get frightened, Cindy.
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  Speaker 5: But he is, Mommy, he screams.
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  Speaker 6: You just imagined it, honey.
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  Speaker 5: But he did, he did.
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  Speaker 6: Well, Mr.
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  Speaker 12: Blister didn't mean it. You know he's the gentlest little
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  Speaker 12: pup alive.
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  Speaker 5: He isn't. He's nasty and I hate him.
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  Speaker 6: Cindy, you've hurt his feelings.
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  Speaker 5: He tried to buy my new doll, and I don't
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  Speaker 5: ever want to see him again, ever.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, dear.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Mr.
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  Speaker 12: Blister, you come downstairs with me. Come on now. Cindy's
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  Speaker 12: angry at you tonight.
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  Speaker 5: I'll kill him.
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  Speaker 6: Why, Cindy, where did you... Where did you hear a
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  Speaker 6: thing like that?
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  Speaker 5: Toto said it.
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  Speaker 2: I see.
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  Speaker 12: Well, you've had an exciting day, honey. Brush your teeth
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  Speaker 12: now and go to bed. Daddy's coming home late, so
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  Speaker 12: we'll see you in the morning.
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  Speaker 6: Good night, darling. Sleep well.
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  Speaker 10: I hate him, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Toto.
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  Speaker 5: I hate him.
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  Speaker 6: Hate him, hate.
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  Speaker 2: Him, hate him, hate him.
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  Speaker 1: Morning, Alma.
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  Speaker 2: Breakfast ready?
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  Speaker 6: In just a minute. How was the staff meeting last.
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  Speaker 9: Night, dear?
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  Speaker 8: A horrible bore, as usual. Where's the little one?
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  Speaker 6: Up in her room. She'll be down in a minute.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, say, remind me to take some papers back to
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  Speaker 9: the war department, will you?
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  Speaker 8: I left them in my strong box.
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  Speaker 5: Henry.
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  Speaker 10: Hmm?
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  Speaker 6: You told me it was against regulations to bring secret
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  Speaker 6: papers home.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I had to finish some work for the old man.
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  Speaker 8: Nobody will ever know the difference.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I suppose not. All right.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Theo, would you feed the puppy before we sit down?
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  Speaker 6: His bowl's under the sink. Where is he?
• 8:34
  Speaker 8: That's funny. Here's his supper from last night, only half eaten.
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  Speaker 6: He's getting fussy.
• 8:38
  Speaker 2: Blister?
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  Speaker 9: Here, Blister.
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  Speaker 8: Blister!
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  Speaker 9: Where the dickens is that mutt?
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  Speaker 6: Maybe he's on the back porch.
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  Speaker 10: Maybe.
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  Speaker 2: Here, Blister.
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  Speaker 11: Here, Blister.
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  Speaker 1: Alma.
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  Speaker 6: What is it, dear?
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  Speaker 8: Alma, look.
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  Speaker 6: Henry!
• 9:00
  Speaker 5: Is he.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he's dead. But how?
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  Speaker 6: What happened?
• 9:04
  Speaker 9: From the looks of it, he might have been poisoned.
• 9:07
  Speaker 6: Poisoned? Who on earth would do a thing like that
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  Speaker 6: to an innocent little pup?
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  Speaker 8: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see his dish.
• 9:14
  Speaker 6: Oh, Henry.
• 9:14
  Speaker 8: I don't understand this at all.
• 9:18
  Speaker 2: Say, what's this?
• 9:19
  Speaker 6: What's what?
• 9:19
  Speaker 9: Look, there are pieces of broken glass in his food.
• 9:22
  Speaker 2: Blue glass.
• 9:23
  Speaker 10: Glass?
• 9:25
  Speaker 5: Glass.
• 9:27
  Speaker 6: Henry.
• 9:27
  Speaker 3: Huh?
• 9:29
  Speaker 6: Well, I just remembered something.
• 9:31
  Speaker 2: What?
• 9:32
  Speaker 6: It may just be coincidence, but in the bathroom this morning...
• 9:35
  Speaker 6: What about the bathroom? Cindy's blue glass, you know, the
• 9:37
  Speaker 6: one with the Mickey Mouse on it. It was broken, Henry.
• 9:41
  Speaker 6: I found pieces in the wastebasket. I meant to ask
• 9:44
  Speaker 6: her about it.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, Alma, for heaven's sake, you aren't suggesting that our
• 9:46
  Speaker 9: little girl... Why, she loved Blister more than anyone.
• 9:50
  Speaker 6: Not last night, she didn't.
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  Speaker 9: Why not?
• 9:52
  Speaker 6: Well, he went after Toto.
• 9:56
  Speaker 9: Who's Toto?
• 9:56
  Speaker 6: A new doll.
• 9:58
  Speaker 8: You bought her one of those dolls?
• 9:59
  Speaker 6: Well, I just rented it.
• 10:00
  Speaker 9: Rented it?
• 10:01
  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: Look, Alma.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no.
• 10:03
  Speaker 8: Oh, well, all right.
• 10:05
  Speaker 9: What's this got to do with Blister?
• 10:06
  Speaker 6: He went for the doll, and Cindy... Well, Cindy said.
• 10:12
  Speaker 6: Henry, she said she'd kill him.
• 10:13
  Speaker 10: What? What?
• 10:14
  Speaker 8: Well, that's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 6: It's true.
• 10:16
  Speaker 9: Good heavens, a nine-year-old child putting ground glass in dog food?
• 10:19
  Speaker 8: She'd have to be a monster.
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: Mommy.
• 10:21
  Speaker 8: Now, don't say anything. I'll talk to her.
• 10:24
  Speaker 6: Good morning, dear. Morning, Mommy.
• 10:26
  Speaker 9: Morning, Daddy.
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  Speaker 8: Hello.
• 10:28
  Speaker 12: What's the matter?
• 10:30
  Speaker 8: Nothing, Cindy.
• 10:30
  Speaker 2: Sit down, dear.
• 10:33
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
• 10:34
  Speaker 9: Cindy, your mother tells me you broke your blue drinking glass.
• 10:38
  Speaker 5: Oh, no, I didn't break it.
• 10:40
  Speaker 6: Now, Cindy. I didn't.
• 10:41
  Speaker 8: Well, now, somebody broke it.
• 10:43
  Speaker 9: It wasn't your mother and.
• 10:44
  Speaker 8: It wasn't me.
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  Speaker 5: Well, then it must have been Toto, isn't there?
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  Speaker 9: Cindy, you know Toto was only a doll. Now, a
• 10:50
  Speaker 9: doll couldn't have broken your glass.
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: Could he?
• 10:53
  Speaker 8: Well?
• 10:54
  Speaker 5: But he must have done it, Daddy.
• 10:56
  Speaker 9: Cindy, you know how Daddy feels about little girls who
• 10:59
  Speaker 9: tell untruths. I'd hate to think you'd done something you
• 11:01
  Speaker 9: knew was wrong and you were blaming it on a doll.
• 11:03
  Speaker 5: What's the matter with Mr. Blister? Is he sick?
• 11:07
  Speaker 8: He's dead, Cindy.
• 11:08
  Speaker 5: Oh, no, he can't be dead. He isn't dead, Daddy. No,
• 11:12
  Speaker 5: he isn't.
• 11:13
  Speaker 10: He isn't.
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  Speaker 5: Mommy, I.
• 11:16
  Speaker 6: Yes, dear.
• 11:18
  Speaker 5: But he'll come back. He has to come back.
• 11:21
  Speaker 6: No, he won't come back, honey.
• 11:23
  Speaker 10: Not ever?
• 11:26
  Speaker 6: No, Cindy, not ever.
• 11:28
  Speaker 8: Now that we've told you, Cindy, do you want to
• 11:31
  Speaker 8: change your mind about the glass?
• 11:32
  Speaker 6: Let me let her know.
• 11:33
  Speaker 5: Daddy, you think I killed him?
• 11:37
  Speaker 6: I'll see what you've done. The child feels guilty enough, Henry.
• 11:39
  Speaker 8: Dear, this is no time for feelings to interfere.
• 11:41
  Speaker 6: Feelings don't really come, Henry. When they come, they just come.
• 11:44
  Speaker 6: You go up to your room, honey. Daddy and I'll
• 11:46
  Speaker 6: be up in just a minute.
• 11:47
  Speaker 5: I don't want to.
• 11:48
  Speaker 6: Please, Cindy. We'll be right up.
• 11:50
  Speaker 11: See?
• 11:51
  Speaker 6: There, that's a good girl. Close the kitchen door behind you.
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 12:08
  Speaker 6: Blister's dead.
• 12:09
  Speaker 7: And he isn't coming back ever.
• 12:14
  Speaker 2: Ever.
• 12:16
  Speaker 5: Daddy, neither was me, but it was you.
• 12:19
  Speaker 6: It was you!
• 12:33
  Speaker 3: You're listening to NBC Radio's award-winning science fiction series, X-1.
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: Now we return to X-1 and Parigi's Wonderful Dolls.
• 12:52
  Speaker 6: Eat your supper, dear. I'm not hungry. Cindy, you scarcely
• 12:55
  Speaker 6: touched your lunch.
• 12:56
  Speaker 5: I don't feel like eating.
• 12:59
  Speaker 6: Is it, Mr. Blister?
• 13:00
  Speaker 5: Oh, love it.
• 13:02
  Speaker 8: Cindy, answer your mother.
• 13:03
  Speaker 6: Henry, she'll work it out her own way, dear.
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know.
• 13:07
  Speaker 9: When I was a boy, there was such a thing
• 13:09
  Speaker 9: as discipline. Where this child is being brought up.
• 13:11
  Speaker 6: Henry.
• 13:11
  Speaker 9: Well, it's true.
• 13:12
  Speaker 8: There's no respect lying. Oh, I don't know.
• 13:16
  Speaker 9: Alma, what's happened to us? We were a nice, peaceful,
• 13:19
  Speaker 9: happy family until you bought that cursed doll.
• 13:22
  Speaker 6: Now who's blaming things on the doll?
• 13:24
  Speaker 9: Well, it's true.
• 13:25
  Speaker 3: Henry.
• 13:28
  Speaker 6: You wanted to get some papers from your strongbox.
• 13:30
  Speaker 8: What? Oh, yes, excuse me.
• 13:33
  Speaker 6: Will you try to eat something, Cindy? Now, darling.
• 13:36
  Speaker 5: Yes, dear.
• 13:38
  Speaker 9: Alma!
• 13:39
  Speaker 5: Alma! Yes, Henry, what is it?
• 13:42
  Speaker 8: Alma's gone.
• 13:43
  Speaker 6: What's gone?
• 13:44
  Speaker 9: The box, the strong box is gone.
• 13:46
  Speaker 6: But it can't be. The door to your study's always locked,
• 13:49
  Speaker 6: and you and I have the only key.
• 13:51
  Speaker 8: I know all that, and I tell you what isn't there.
• 13:53
  Speaker 5: Well, who would.
• 13:54
  Speaker 9: I don't know, Alma.
• 13:56
  Speaker 8: Those confidential reports, if they ever get into the wrong hands.
• 13:58
  Speaker 6: Oh, I warned you about keeping them here.
• 14:00
  Speaker 8: Whatever it ever came out in the open... Can't you
• 14:03
  Speaker 8: see the papers?
• 14:03
  Speaker 9: Army Colonel, derelict in duty.
• 14:06
  Speaker 6: Call the police, Henry.
• 14:07
  Speaker 9: What, and throw my career in the wastebasket after 17 years?
• 14:11
  Speaker 9: We've got to find it ourselves.
• 14:12
  Speaker 6: But it was there when I went in to clean
• 14:13
  Speaker 6: this morning.
• 14:14
  Speaker 8: Well, what about your key?
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: Well, it's right here.
• 14:15
  Speaker 6: I always keep it right with me. That's funny.
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
• 14:21
  Speaker 6: But my other keys are all in the room.
• 14:22
  Speaker 8: You've lost it.
• 14:23
  Speaker 5: I don't see how.
• 14:24
  Speaker 8: Alma, how could you do it?
• 14:25
  Speaker 5: Henry, please.
• 14:26
  Speaker 8: Come on, we'll search the house. I can't think of
• 14:27
  Speaker 8: anything else to do.
• 14:28
  Speaker 6: Oh, dear, you're going to miss your staff meeting.
• 14:30
  Speaker 9: Well, all right, never mind the meeting. My whole career
• 14:32
  Speaker 9: goes up in smoke if we don't find those reports.
• 14:35
  Speaker 9: Somebody get hold of your key and open that room.
• 14:36
  Speaker 8: I know Cindy.
• 14:38
  Speaker 6: Oh, let the child alone. She's been through enough. You
• 14:41
  Speaker 6: know she wouldn't do a thing like that.
• 14:42
  Speaker 8: I don't know anything anymore. I don't know my own child.
• 14:45
  Speaker 8: I don't even know you.
• 14:46
  Speaker 10: Henry.
• 14:47
  Speaker 9: All I know is that strongbox is gone with papers
• 14:49
  Speaker 9: that are dynamite if the wrong person gets them. The
• 14:52
  Speaker 9: question being who. What's that?
• 14:55
  Speaker 6: Coming from upstairs.
• 14:56
  Speaker 10: Dodo, Dodo, Dodo.
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: Kill him, kill him, kill him.
• 15:03
  Speaker 7: How do you do?
• 15:06
  Speaker 9: Stop it.
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: How do you do?
• 15:08
  Speaker 9: Blasted little imp.
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: There. Henry.
• 15:13
  Speaker 8: But since we've got this thing.
• 15:14
  Speaker 10: Henry.
• 15:14
  Speaker 8: What?
• 15:15
  Speaker 11: Look.
• 15:16
  Speaker 9: Where, what?
• 15:18
  Speaker 6: Around the dog's neck.
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: The key. The key to your study.
• 15:22
  Speaker 8: It was Cindy, after all.
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: I don't believe it.
• 15:24
  Speaker 9: Ever since she got this fool doll, she's been acting
• 15:26
  Speaker 9: half insane. First the dog, now this. I think she
• 15:29
  Speaker 9: hates us, Helen.
• 15:30
  Speaker 6: Henry, Cindy is my child, and I know her.
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: I know she's a good, sensitive little person with no.
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: Malice in her.
• 15:36
  Speaker 8: You're just simply refusing to face the facts, dear.
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: What are you going to do?
• 15:39
  Speaker 8: I'm going downstairs and have a talk with that young lady.
• 15:40
  Speaker 6: The End.
• 15:52
  Speaker 8: Cindy, you're not telling me the truth.
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, I am, Daddy.
• 15:56
  Speaker 9: All I'm asking is that you tell me the truth.
• 15:58
  Speaker 8: Now, where is it?
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: I didn't take it, Daddy. Honest, I didn't take it.
• 16:02
  Speaker 9: I suppose you're going to tell me now that a
• 16:04
  Speaker 9: little six-inch doll took my strong box and hid it.
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: Well?
• 16:09
  Speaker 9: Cindy, I'm speaking to you.
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: I didn't take it, Daddy. You don't understand. Total, Daddy. Oh,
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: you're terrible, awful. He says things. He says he's going
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: to kill everybody.
• 16:21
  Speaker 8: Cindy, you're inventing things.
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: It's true. At night when I'm sleeping, he stands next
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: to my pillow and whispers things to me. Awful things.
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: He told me he'd kill me, too, if I told him.
• 16:33
  Speaker 9: Alma, I think this child is sick. I think she
• 16:35
  Speaker 9: needs a doctor.
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: It's frightened Henry. She's trembling like a leaf. Come on, darling.
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: We'll go up to your room.
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: I don't want to go up there. No, honey.
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: Mommy will stay with you.
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: I'm afraid. He's up there.
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: Who, Cindy?
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: Toto.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Toto.
• 16:48
  Speaker 8: Well, he won't be up there for long.
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 16:50
  Speaker 9: Toto is going right back to Parigi's wonderful doll shop
• 16:53
  Speaker 9: before I lose my sanity.
• 16:54
  Speaker 11: Which means right now. Ah, Colonel Grayson. Welcome to the
• 17:08
  Speaker 11: home of Parigi's wonderful doll.
• 17:10
  Speaker 8: Are you Parigi?
• 17:11
  Speaker 11: Santor Parigi, creator of the universal doll. The doll with
• 17:14
  Speaker 11: the mind.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: The doll with.
• 17:16
  Speaker 8: Yes, well, I'm returning one of your masterpieces.
• 17:18
  Speaker 10: Oh?
• 17:19
  Speaker 11: If you will step into the rear of my shop. Now,
• 17:26
  Speaker 11: what is the complaint?
• 17:27
  Speaker 8: There's no complaint.
• 17:28
  Speaker 9: Here's your doll.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Good riddance.
• 17:31
  Speaker 11: My little Toto, rejected you found the world of men.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Too filled with hate.
• 17:35
  Speaker 9: Hate, hate, hate, hate.
• 17:37
  Speaker 11: We will change all that later on. Return to your
• 17:40
  Speaker 11: comrades in the window, little one. And now, Colonel Grayson?
• 17:46
  Speaker 9: I think we have no further business, sir.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Ah, but we do, Colonel. Let me see.
• 17:51
  Speaker 10: Here it is.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Do you recognize this, Colonel?
• 17:54
  Speaker 9: That's my strong box.
• 17:56
  Speaker 8: Quit it.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: My little Toto is very clever, sir.
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: Are you trying to tell me your doll stole that
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: from me?
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Let us not say stole. I'm merely keeping it in custody.
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: What's your game, Parigi?
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Blackmail. You give me what I want, I do not
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: ruin your career.
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: What do you want?
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Information.
• 18:15
  Speaker 11: We already know something from the reports of the War Department, reported.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: By one of your pilots.
• 18:20
  Speaker 8: What government do you represent?
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: I represent Perici's Wonderful Dolls, none other.
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: I'm not so naive, sir.
• 18:25
  Speaker 11: Perhaps I should explain. Each man hides something from the world.
• 18:29
  Speaker 11: Each man loves something more than life. With the help
• 18:31
  Speaker 11: of my Wonderful Dolls, I obtain personal information, which enables
• 18:35
  Speaker 11: me to control the men who control the world.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Men like you.
• 18:40
  Speaker 8: Hand over that strong box.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: I warn you, I have a gun.
• 18:42
  Speaker 8: Give it to me.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: You are being foolish. Put down that walking stick.
• 18:45
  Speaker 10: Now.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: No closer.
• 18:47
  Speaker 11: Now.
• 18:56
  Speaker 9: Hello.
• 18:57
  Speaker 8: Give me the police. Hello.
• 19:01
  Speaker 9: This is Colonel Henry Grayson. I've just killed a man.
• 19:06
  Speaker 9: Parigi's doll shop. Corner of 4th and Lexington. The body
• 19:11
  Speaker 9: is in the rear.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: I'll wait for you. Shut up.
• 19:18
  Speaker 9: Shut up, you little fiend.
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: Colonel Grayson.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: Did I hear you speak?
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: Colonel Henry Grayson.
• 19:25
  Speaker 8: Oh, it can't be. I must be going out of
• 19:27
  Speaker 8: my mind. Six-inch dog.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: Shut up.
• 19:32
  Speaker 8: The master's dead.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: You are mistaken, Colonel.
• 19:35
  Speaker 9: I took.
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: What do you mean?
• 19:39
  Speaker 10: If you will examine the body of Santo Perigi, you
• 19:42
  Speaker 10: will see that he does not bleed.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: And he does not bleed.
• 19:45
  Speaker 10: Colonel, because Santo Parigi never lived.
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: Never lived?
• 19:50
  Speaker 10: Santo Parigi is a doll.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: A doll?
• 19:55
  Speaker 8: But he's a man.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: He talks.
• 19:57
  Speaker 10: He walks. The people of Meritrix are skillful doll builders.
• 20:02
  Speaker 8: Meritrix? Doll builders?
• 20:05
  Speaker 9: Who are you?
• 20:06
  Speaker 10: I am Xanthus Imperator, commander of the legions of the
• 20:09
  Speaker 10: third planetoid, Meritrix.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Legions?
• 20:12
  Speaker 9: Planetoid?
• 20:12
  Speaker 10: My people and I, whom you regard as dolls, come
• 20:16
  Speaker 10: from a tiny planet beyond the moon.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: What?
• 20:18
  Speaker 10: So small that it cannot support our population.
• 20:22
  Speaker 9: That's true.
• 20:22
  Speaker 10: We landed one of our space spheres on Earth three
• 20:26
  Speaker 10: months ago with the intention of colonizing. Unfortunately, one of
• 20:31
  Speaker 10: your pilots intercepted us.
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: So that's why you wanted our information.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Please.
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: And you are human?
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Quite human.
• 20:39
  Speaker 10: Of course, in order to deal with Earth people without suspicion,
• 20:43
  Speaker 10: we were forced to construct Perici, a man-sized doll.
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: No, I can't believe this. I'm having hallucinations. I've got
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: to get out of here.
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: That will be impossible.
• 20:53
  Speaker 10: We have weapons of destruction quite unknown to Earth people.
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: I phoned the police. They'll be here soon.
• 20:59
  Speaker 10: By the my people will.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: Have prepared something quite shocking.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Keep me covered, Ryan.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: Okay, Sergeant.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: All right. You're the guy who turned in the call?
• 21:26
  Speaker 8: Yes, that's right, Sergeant. Where's the body? Well, you see,
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: it isn't exactly a body.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: What do you mean?
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: It's a doll.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: A what? Now, wait.
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: You've got to let me explain.
• 21:33
  Speaker 9: I know this sounds fantastic, but I've stumbled onto an
• 21:36
  Speaker 9: unbelievable plot.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Keep talking.
• 21:38
  Speaker 9: Well, you see these little dolls?
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: They aren't really dolls. They're tiny people. Now, there's a
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: big doll named Santor Parigi. They're using him as a
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: front to run the shop.
• 21:45
  Speaker 9: He's off his trolley side. Now, now, look here.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Now, listen, mister.
• 21:48
  Speaker 9: We got a call that there was a murder here.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Now, if there was one, where is the body?
• 21:52
  Speaker 9: Well, it's behind the curtains in the back. Only, you see,
• 21:54
  Speaker 9: it isn't really a body. It's a big wax dummy.
• 21:57
  Speaker 9: It's all part of their plot to gain control of
• 21:58
  Speaker 9: the world.
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: Holy smoke. He's really off his rock. Now, look, if
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: you don't believe me, I'll prove it to you.
• 22:04
  Speaker 9: Come here.
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: Look behind this curtain.
• 22:05
  Speaker 9: You'll see the dummy lying on the floor.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Welcome, gentlemen. Are you looking for something? Parigi.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: Parigi.
• 22:13
  Speaker 9: This is impossible. I smashed his skull.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Do you know this guy?
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: That's the one, the doll.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: What's your name, mister? Perigi.
• 22:19
  Speaker 11: Santor Perigi. Creator of the universal doll. You ever see
• 22:22
  Speaker 11: this man? Never until just now.
• 22:24
  Speaker 8: That's not true. He's lying.
• 22:25
  Speaker 9: I tell you, he's nothing but a big doll. The
• 22:27
  Speaker 9: real masters of the little dolls.
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: Ryan, are you getting this?
• 22:29
  Speaker 9: He's wacko, Sarge. No, he's a fruitcake.
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: I'm not crazy, I tell you.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: I can prove it.
• 22:34
  Speaker 8: They must have fixed up his head where I smashed
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: it in. Touch him and you'll see.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 22:37
  Speaker 13: Parigi, do you know what this guy is talking about?
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: The man is demented, obviously.
• 22:41
  Speaker 9: No, that's not true.
• 22:42
  Speaker 8: I tell you, there's a plot to control the earth.
• 22:45
  Speaker 9: I've got to call the water department. They want to
• 22:46
  Speaker 9: know about the flying sphere.
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: Holy mackerel, this gets worse every minute.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Brian.
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: Take him to headquarters.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Save some time. Take him down to Psycho Ward.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: All right, Buck. Just come along nice and quiet. No,
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: don't you see? He's nothing but a man-sized doll. I'm
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: sure the little ones are going to take over the
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: earth and you're going to wait and.
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: Cut out some.
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: Listen to me.
• 23:01
  Speaker 9: You've got to.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Sorry you had all this trouble, Mr. Parigi. Poor chap.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: He is obviously suffering from delusion.
• 23:09
  Speaker 13: Well, he's not the only one in Washington today. You know,
• 23:12
  Speaker 13: we've been getting a whole string of crack-ups lately. Bigwigs
• 23:15
  Speaker 13: blowing their tops under pressure. If you could see some
• 23:18
  Speaker 13: of the names in our confidential files.
• 23:20
  Speaker 11: You keep confidential files on cases like this?
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Certainly. Believe me, they'd be dynamite if they ever got
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: in the wrong hands. Well, I'd better be running along.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: My little girl would be nuts for that. So? Then
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: please accept the doll for saving my life. That madman
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: might have killed me. Yes, but I... He took Toto
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: home with you as a gift. Well, I don't know, Mr.
• 23:44
  Speaker 9: Parigi.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: It's against regulations for us to accept favors. But this
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: is not for you. It is for your little daughter.
• 23:50
  Speaker 11: And if you will only take the doll and give
• 23:52
  Speaker 11: him a good home, you will be doing me a
• 23:55
  Speaker 11: great favor.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Well, then, if you insist, and thanks very much.
• 24:01
  Speaker 13: When my kid sees this, will she be surprised?
• 24:05
  Speaker 11: Yes, Toto will come as a great surprise. A very
• 24:09
  Speaker 11: great surprise.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Eh, Toto?
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: This was from The World of X-1. Tonight's story, Parigi's
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Wonderful Dolls, an original drama written for NBC Radio by
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: George Lepperts. Featured in the cast were Denise Alexander, Joan Alexander,
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Les Damon, Joe DeSantis, and Leon Janney as the doll Toto.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Music by Al Behrman. Narration by Norman Rose. Tonight's program
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: was directed by Edward King, executive producer Robert Wogan.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: That was X-Minus One and Parigi's Wonderful Dolls. Until our
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: next visit to the radio dial, good night.