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Dimension X - "The Man in the Moon" (1950) · Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: July fourteenth, nineteen fifty, NBC's Dimension X presented its fifteenth broadcast,
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  Speaker 1: an original radio drama by George Lefferts. At the Federal
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  Speaker 1: Missing Persons Bureau, an ordinary radio bulletin is broken by
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  Speaker 1: a desperate SOS said to be coming from the moon.
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  Speaker 1: The call is dismissed at first, but clerk Henry Timpkin
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  Speaker 1: finds reason to connect it with a series of unexplained disappearances.
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  Speaker 1: Luis van Rutten and Santos Ortega are featured, with Norman
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  Speaker 1: Rose as narrator. Edward King directed, and Van Woodward produced.
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  Speaker 1: Now Dimension X presents The Man in the Moon. Here
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  Speaker 1: is the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Witties present Dimension X.
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  Speaker 3: Adventures in Time and Space, transcribed in future.
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  Speaker 2: Tense on stage tonight, Dimension acts another in the Wheaties
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  Speaker 2: Big Parade of exciting half hour presentations.
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  Speaker 4: I don't mean to be too personal, mind you, but
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  Speaker 4: have you found out how Wheaties at seven can help
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  Speaker 4: at eleven? It's really very easy to find out, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and it's mighty worthwhile. And what you do is this,
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  Speaker 4: come breakfast time some morning, real soon, dish yourself up
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  Speaker 4: a bowl of wheaties, crisp golden flakes, one hundred percent
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  Speaker 4: whole wheat, add some fruit, add milk, and you'll be
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  Speaker 4: getting some real nourishment. And at eleven am, I think
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  Speaker 4: you'll begin to understand why, because wheaties have it, the
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  Speaker 4: whole wheat energy that makes such a difference. Come mid morning,
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  Speaker 4: wheaties have it, and it's for you. I'll see if
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  Speaker 4: you don't look better, feel better, smile easier every day
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  Speaker 4: that breakfast begins with wheaties.
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  Speaker 5: I know.
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  Speaker 4: I do see for yourself how Wheedy's at seven can
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  Speaker 4: help at eleven it's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Really, do you remember when you were young, how your
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  Speaker 3: elders would tell you bedtime stories about the man in
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  Speaker 3: the moon. Well, tonight we have a different kind of
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  Speaker 3: story to tell about him, a story of suspense in
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  Speaker 3: the unknown world of the future, where anything can happen.
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  Speaker 5: Attention, Attention.
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  Speaker 6: This is the Federal Bureau of Missing Persons calling all
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  Speaker 6: local agencies.
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  Speaker 5: Attention.
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  Speaker 6: This is a coded report nationwide missing since nine o'clock
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  Speaker 6: this morning. The following persons Smedgeley Jonathan five feet eight
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  Speaker 6: inches tall, brown hair, brown eyes, last time, O hey, hey,
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  Speaker 6: get off this wave blank. This is a restricted bat
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  Speaker 6: he look whoever you are. You're on a coded wavelength.
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  Speaker 5: Now tune now.
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  Speaker 6: This frequency is reserved for the Federal Bureau Missing person.
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  Speaker 7: This is the moon thirt hellow dirt.
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  Speaker 6: This guy's loony transmitting room j transmission Jake. This is
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  Speaker 6: Charlie in the code room. Some crackpots on our frequency.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I heard him, Charlie.
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  Speaker 5: I got trying to trade it now, Yeah, we'll hurry
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  Speaker 5: it up. Where you some hams in for a good
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  Speaker 5: stiff fined by the FCC.
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  Speaker 8: They want to take his lightnse away. Here comes Plenty
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  Speaker 8: with a directional.
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  Speaker 5: Fake Jake, I checked it four times.
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  Speaker 3: Why this is impossible?
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  Speaker 9: And you know I can't help it?
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  Speaker 5: And what's going on down?
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  Speaker 6: Then? How about it?
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  Speaker 5: Get that ham out of my killer side. Charlie.
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  Speaker 2: That interference is being bean from two hundred and forty thousand.
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  Speaker 6: Miles away, Now, Jake, you know there ain't no such
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  Speaker 6: thing as two hundred and forty thousand miles away.
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  Speaker 5: Answer Charlie straight out straight Hey, Now wait a.
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  Speaker 8: Minute, Arlie, that signal is coming from the moon. Are
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  Speaker 8: you'll nuts somebody might be bounting it like a radar signal?
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  Speaker 6: Radar on this frequency? Where did you study basic radio.
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  Speaker 3: I listened flathead, Yes for a fix.
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  Speaker 8: I gave the best picture instruments confined, I take it
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  Speaker 8: or leave it. Somebody on the moon is calling the
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  Speaker 8: Bureau of Missing Burton.
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  Speaker 9: Mister Temple, wats the sweat, Charlie?
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  Speaker 5: Shouldn't you be broadcast? I listen, mister Timpkin. You know
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  Speaker 5: I'm a sober citizen.
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  Speaker 6: Right. Never once have I broadcast with the smell of
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  Speaker 6: alcohol in my breath? Right in all your twelve years
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  Speaker 6: here at the Bureau, did I once a matter?
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  Speaker 5: Charlie? We're picking up a message on our way free.
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  Speaker 5: When did you report to the FCC? I ain't got
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  Speaker 5: the nerves, So what's wrong? You'll scream when.
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  Speaker 6: You hear this, mister Timpkin, you'll jump right out the window.
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  Speaker 5: But we are getting in this SOS from the moon
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  Speaker 5: that's got it. Started on voice and switched to Morris.
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  Speaker 5: What did he say? Let's see now? Can you read me? Help?
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  Speaker 6: Otter Burn will contact when the moon is in phase.
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  Speaker 6: That sounds like a name, otter Burn. Otter Burn, Holy
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  Speaker 6: jumping Jojoseph, where are you going to talk to the chief?
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  Speaker 6: Wait a minute, what are you gonna tell him? We
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  Speaker 6: just got to see Q from the Man in the Moon.
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  Speaker 5: That's exactly what I'm going to tell him. What Oh no,
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  Speaker 5: this is too much for me, O Washington.
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  Speaker 6: Let me have O'Brien on the city task speaking Seamous,
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  Speaker 6: this is Charlie stuff. But damn at the missing person's bill.
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  Speaker 6: You want a hot one, no kid, mis will cost.
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  Speaker 5: You a deer. Okay, sure, I'll stay in your wave
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  Speaker 5: lane for thirty seconds. Okay, we just got a radio
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  Speaker 5: message from the moon. From the moon, call me back
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  Speaker 5: when you're so okay, Seamus. If you don't know a story,
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  Speaker 5: when you say what, I'll send you the name of
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  Speaker 5: a good psychiatry. So long? Orson, Well, what's in wills? Hey,
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  Speaker 5: how do you like that? He don't believe me? Utter Burn?
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  Speaker 9: Mister Wade, does that name ring a bell?
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  Speaker 5: The older man with a photographic memory? An ray?
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  Speaker 9: What about Olim Cornelius otter Burn, atnic physicist, reported.
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  Speaker 5: Missing from his home in Baltimore on June fifth.
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  Speaker 9: Nineteen forty five, just five years ago, vanished completely.
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  Speaker 5: Are you trying to tell me you really think there's
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  Speaker 5: something to this man in the Moon business, Henry, I'm
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  Speaker 5: surprised at you. This is some crackpot trying to jam
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  Speaker 5: the airways. But the name otter Burn is so unusual
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  Speaker 5: over a lot of names.
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  Speaker 9: But mister Wade, I have a theory, Henry. You always
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  Speaker 9: have a theory. But mister Wade out, Henry, mister Wade out.
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  Speaker 9: I'm busy. Yes, I'm sorry, Henry. Oh here, take this
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  Speaker 9: full or of reports for the death. Oh yes, sir,
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  Speaker 9: And no more nonsense, Henry.
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  Speaker 5: I appreciate that you have a very dull job filing
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  Speaker 5: all missing person reports, and I appreciate that you take
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  Speaker 5: an active interest in the affairs.
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  Speaker 3: Of the Bureau.
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  Speaker 9: But no more, non, no so chief, no more nonsense.
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  Speaker 10: Oh pardon me, are you mister Henry Timkin? That's my
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  Speaker 10: name for me, Jefferson Philo, Scientific feature writer.
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  Speaker 5: I have a moment of your certainly, just sit down
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  Speaker 5: at my desk right over here. Thank you. Hi, that's
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  Speaker 5: quite a stack of.
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  Speaker 9: Paper, filing filing. I'm the Record's custodian of the Bureau
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  Speaker 9: twelve years and never misplaced the record.
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  Speaker 10: Magnificent now, mister Timpkins, Yes, sir, Brian, the editor of
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  Speaker 10: the Style. I just said I might drop by an
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  Speaker 10: investigated rumor, only a rumor, mind you.
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  Speaker 5: That a message from the uh Moon.
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  Speaker 9: Well, we aren't certain it's from the moon. It may
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  Speaker 9: be a bounce. They have bounced raight our waves off
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  Speaker 9: the moon.
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  Speaker 5: You know, yes, I know, I wrote the first newspaper
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  Speaker 5: article on it. Oh really, i'd be interested to read it.
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  Speaker 5: I must have a copy in my briefcase. Well, don't bother,
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  Speaker 5: Oh but I insist. There you are.
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  Speaker 10: I'll leave it on your desk, Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 10: Now about this message from the moon, mister Timpkin.
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  Speaker 9: Well, we don't not for sure, as I said, but
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  Speaker 9: I believe that this message, wherever it originates, is from
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  Speaker 9: Cornelius Ottoburn, the physicist.
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  Speaker 5: Oh you know him.
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  Speaker 10: I once wrote an article on his contribution to nuclear mechanics.
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  Speaker 10: The brilliant man are to burn years ahead of his contemporary.
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  Speaker 9: Whoever is sending those signals, if he isn't on the moon,
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  Speaker 9: is at least using the Moon as a sounding board
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  Speaker 9: bouncing the signal.
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  Speaker 5: But why, mister Timkin, Why look.
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  Speaker 9: Here, mister Pilo, If you will come here tomorrow night
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  Speaker 9: at eight, we may learn the answer to that question.
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  Speaker 9: I have arranged with Charlie, our radio mantle. Let me
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  Speaker 9: use the equipment.
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  Speaker 10: May I consider this an invitation. You certainly may very well, sir,
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  Speaker 10: until tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 9: Then goodbye, goodbye, mister Pilo, Oh good bye, lack a day.
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  Speaker 5: I'll let me see now, well, that's funny.
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  Speaker 9: This list of names come from Paul Aaron's astro mathematician,
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  Speaker 9: Robert Simon's electronic engineer, Carl Parker mining specialist. Oh, this
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  Speaker 9: must have got mixed up with the papers on my
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  Speaker 9: desk by accident. It's a peculiar list of names. Most peculiar.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, Charlie. Oh see we made the papers.
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  Speaker 1: Huh?
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  Speaker 6: And has the chiefs seemed upper party? What did the
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  Speaker 6: papers say?
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  Speaker 5: Mostly? Ha ha, here's the herod oh brother, what a patny?
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  Speaker 9: Oh dear, Oh my, no wonder mister Wade is hopping
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  Speaker 9: oh about tonight, mister Tilke and Ida, now you promised
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  Speaker 9: you'd give me a key to the radio room.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but I didn't expect this.
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  Speaker 9: And Charlie, we've got to find out if there's something
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  Speaker 9: to that message. If Otterburn is life somewhere and radioing
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  Speaker 9: for help of.
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  Speaker 5: The morning broadcast. We've got quite a list today.
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  Speaker 9: You mind if I listen to while we may here Otterburn.
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  Speaker 5: It's so conscious sticker that attention. Attention.
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  Speaker 6: This is the Federal Bureau of Missing Persons calling all
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  Speaker 6: local agencies nationwide.
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  Speaker 5: This is a coded broadcast. The following persons are missing.
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  Speaker 6: Aaron's doctor Paul five feet five, brown hair, brown eyes,
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  Speaker 6: scar on.
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  Speaker 5: Left side of chin.
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  Speaker 6: Aarons thick glasses, occupation astro mathematician, missing since six o'clock
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  Speaker 6: this morning, being sought by bel Air police. Charlie repeat,
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  Speaker 6: doctor Paul Aaron. Charlie, shut it off a second. No, listen,
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  Speaker 6: mister Timpkin. It's okay to stay, but you can't because.
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  Speaker 5: This is important. Now.
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  Speaker 9: What time was doctor Aaron's reported missing?
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  Speaker 5: Six am? We got the report from the laire Lessen
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  Speaker 5: an hour ago. Are you certain, Charlie? Are positive? What
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  Speaker 5: is this, Charlie?
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  Speaker 9: What's the next name on the list.
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  Speaker 6: Let's see Simon's. Robin Well, engineer came in less than
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  Speaker 6: twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 5: Twenty. What's the matter with you? You look like you've
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  Speaker 5: seen a ghost.
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  Speaker 9: Nothing, Charlie, except that last night, quite by accident, someone
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  Speaker 9: left the list of names on my desk, and that
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  Speaker 9: list included the names of those two men who weren't
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  Speaker 9: reported missing until an hour ago.
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  Speaker 5: What and that don't sound right to me.
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  Speaker 9: It isn't right, Charlie, which raises a question, who would
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  Speaker 9: make up a list of missing persons before they were missing?
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  Speaker 9: Not after?
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  Speaker 2: The mansion acts will continue in just a moment.
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  Speaker 4: You know, friends, when I talk about Wheati's breakfasted champions,
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  Speaker 4: I mean something like this. Champions do eat wheedys because
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  Speaker 4: they feel wheaties give them energy they need, and because
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  Speaker 4: they just playing like the way wheaties taste. And even
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  Speaker 4: though they are champions, that isn't unusual, sort of the
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  Speaker 4: way you and I look at it, isn't it. Here's
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  Speaker 4: Ed Prentice with a perfect illustration of my meanings.
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  Speaker 3: Now, young man, would you tell us what you do
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  Speaker 3: for a living? I pitch you what pitch?
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  Speaker 5: Pitch? You know? Baseball? They have a baseball team. You
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  Speaker 5: have to have a pitcher. I'm a pitcher.
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  Speaker 3: I pitch.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, yes, yes, I see. And are you on a team, Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 11: I wanted to Cleveland Indians. Cleveland Indians.
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  Speaker 3: What is your name, young man?
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  Speaker 5: I'm Bob Feller, and you know it as well as
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  Speaker 5: I do it.
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  Speaker 3: Sure I do, Bob.
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  Speaker 5: It's good to see you.
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  Speaker 11: This makes your fourteenth season playing with the Indians, doesn't
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  Speaker 11: it You have had fourteen years? Well tell me, Bob,
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  Speaker 11: how long you've been eating whitty All.
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  Speaker 4: About twenty years?
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  Speaker 5: Do you?
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  Speaker 4: Or take a couple?
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  Speaker 11: You mean you started eating Whitties before you started playing ball?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I have court.
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  Speaker 12: What's was strange about that? Most people start eating wheties
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  Speaker 12: before they get the playing ball. In fact, most people
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  Speaker 12: never start playing baseball. You don't have to be a
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  Speaker 12: ball player. You enjoy the lift, you get the Winni
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  Speaker 12: with milk and fruit.
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  Speaker 8: You're right as rained, Bob.
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  Speaker 4: No champ ever said a truer word.
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  Speaker 9: About Whitty breakfast stub champion.
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  Speaker 13: And you say this list of names was left on
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  Speaker 13: your desk accidentally, I believe so, mister Wade, do you
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  Speaker 13: have any ideas well?
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  Speaker 9: It's hard to say. Mister Fino left some papers from
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  Speaker 9: his briefcase a science feature writer. I see, And you
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  Speaker 9: were the leak on the story then? Oh, oh yes, sir,
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  Speaker 9: I'm afraid I was. I didn't think it would be
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  Speaker 9: treated as a laughing stock. Well we'll deal with that later.
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  Speaker 9: What's this file like? Well, he's strange, A bald, thick
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  Speaker 9: glasses tall, seems to know a great deal about scientific data.
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  Speaker 9: But being a science writer.
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  Speaker 5: Is there any other possibility?
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  Speaker 9: I don't know, but I do believe that this is
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  Speaker 9: all hooked up with the broadcast from Otterburs.
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  Speaker 5: That seems like a very remote possibility.
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  Speaker 9: A Missing Person's Bureau deals in remote possibilities, mister Wade.
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  Speaker 5: Henry, I do not require a statement of policy. What's
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  Speaker 5: the theory, mister Wade.
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  Speaker 9: I have discovered that each year, literally thousands of persons vanished,
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  Speaker 9: leaving no trace. They are never located, where do they go?
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  Speaker 9: Nobody knows, and they disappear in interesting cycles, sort of
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  Speaker 9: cycles occupations. For example, one year we'll have a run
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  Speaker 9: on We'll say coal miners. Next year the proportions of
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  Speaker 9: engineers increases, then scientists.
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  Speaker 5: What do you think happens, Henry.
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  Speaker 9: I don't know, mister Wade, but I'm beginning to suspect
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  Speaker 9: that somebody else has discovered the same phenomenon, even to
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  Speaker 9: the point perhaps of being able to predict who will
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  Speaker 9: turn up among the missing next PILO. I don't know,
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  Speaker 9: but I would like to find out.
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  Speaker 5: And you think Olibot may be a part of this picture,
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  Speaker 5: I definitely do, mister Henry.
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  Speaker 9: Do you honestly expect me to buy an idea like that,
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  Speaker 9: it's more than an idea.
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  Speaker 5: The two top men on this list are missing.
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  Speaker 13: Maybe so for the rest of them, Mark Parker, Watson Gibbs.
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  Speaker 13: But I saw Parker on the restaurant where I had
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  Speaker 13: lunch today. Yes, sir, but do you think I'm going
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  Speaker 13: to make myself a laughing start by putting any Belley
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  Speaker 13: in such a cracked frame?
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  Speaker 5: Thee yes?
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  Speaker 13: Hello, wait speaking, yes, yes, I see what name? Just
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  Speaker 13: a moment, Henry, let me see that listing. Oh yes,
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  Speaker 13: here you go ahead, I see. I'll get back to you. Hey, uh, yes,
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  Speaker 13: I owe you an apology. And sir, Carl Parker was
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  Speaker 13: just reported missing. Parker the third man on your list.
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  Speaker 13: Holy exactly, Henry.
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  Speaker 5: Perhaps I've underreestimated joke, But this time you really stumble
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  Speaker 5: out of something.
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  Speaker 9: What do you intend to do, mister Wade.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. I haven't thought it out yet.
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  Speaker 9: I was planning to listen for another broadcast tonight in
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  Speaker 9: the hope that Otterburn might try to contact us again.
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  Speaker 5: I'll join you.
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  Speaker 9: I also invited mister Filo, the science feature writer.
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  Speaker 5: I'll be glad to meet him. I'm beginning to get.
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  Speaker 13: Interested in your mister Filo, mister Wade, you don't think
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  Speaker 13: that he's mixed up on this?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, Henry.
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  Speaker 9: Mister wait, let's contact the police.
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  Speaker 8: Henry.
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  Speaker 13: I think we're better off keeping this between ourselves for
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  Speaker 13: the moment. I don't want the police laughing at the
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  Speaker 13: bureau if you're wrong. I don't know, mister Wayside, there
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  Speaker 13: may be more danger, and you realize let's keep it quiet,
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  Speaker 13: shall we, Henry, Yes, sir, I didn't realize there was
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  Speaker 13: any danger. Eight o'clock when mister Pilo was late, he
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  Speaker 13: said he'd be here.
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  Speaker 5: Sir. The moon is almost in direct phase. You can't
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  Speaker 5: wait much longer. You'd better switch on the set.
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  Speaker 9: Yer.
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  Speaker 5: I left a light in the hall for mister Pilom
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  Speaker 5: in the cameras. Are you getting anything? Just some foreign
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  Speaker 5: stead South Africa? Oh no, damn.
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  Speaker 9: That's a very peculiar transmission sound. That sounds like something.
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  Speaker 9: See if I can work a selector here?
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  Speaker 5: The moon is in phase? Hello, can you hear me?
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  Speaker 5: I'm trying to return Hello? Hello, Hello, Hello, do you
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  Speaker 5: hear me?
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  Speaker 8: I get you now?
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  Speaker 5: My god? Who are you? Can you hear me? Who
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: are you?
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  Speaker 2: This is Professor Cornelius Ordoberd.
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  Speaker 9: Hello, go on, go on, I hear you.
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  Speaker 8: How much time they're on the way they located said,
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: do you hear me?
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead, keep talking.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: I'm only enough oxygen for a few minutes more.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: Well, where are you on the Earth's.
• 19:25
  Speaker 9: Side of the moon?
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: You get that? The Earth side of the moon?
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  Speaker 9: About kind of crick lord, start that recorder, mister Wade,
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  Speaker 9: go on, explain, please explain, please, there's.
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  Speaker 4: An Earth colony on the moon.
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  Speaker 3: There is an Earth.
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  Speaker 9: Colony on the far side of the moon, made up
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  Speaker 9: of relegate scientists and criminals. Professorsman. He died in an
• 19:46
  Speaker 9: end astylum in nineteen thirty eighth Horsman discovered nuclear rocket
• 19:50
  Speaker 9: Powell in nineteen thirty five turned his plans over to
• 19:53
  Speaker 9: escape inmates of the asylum.
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  Speaker 8: They took off and set up a colony on the
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  Speaker 8: far side of the.
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  Speaker 9: Moon in nineteen thirty eight.
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead, where calling.
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  Speaker 2: You cheer the new colonists from Earth slave labor, mostly
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: some women scientists.
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  Speaker 8: The extra problem probably is a big one.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: I was kidnapped in.
• 20:09
  Speaker 8: Nineteen forty five.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: Yes, we know, he talked. They wanted me to work
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: on atomic drive. When they're frying in but it was
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: still getting you. Go on, go on, speak louder, getting weaker.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: We pulled a little oxygen. We had the others.
• 20:25
  Speaker 9: They got a rag to.
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  Speaker 8: You've got to stop them, stop them, stop colony planning
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: to take over the Earth. Listen, they have agents on Earth.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, me, agents on Earth? Well? Where who? Hello?
• 20:38
  Speaker 8: Hello?
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: Agents? And here you look out, he's a light someone
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: at the window. Get down, Henry, How are you all right? Hi?
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: I think so? Oh? His shot smashed the transmitter.
• 20:53
  Speaker 13: Stripe and match careful, that was close. I got to
• 20:58
  Speaker 13: look at him from the descript was your mister Pilo.
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  Speaker 9: Well we got a recording anyway, but not the most
• 21:04
  Speaker 9: important part of the message.
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  Speaker 5: Henry. We've got to get you out of here, he said.
• 21:07
  Speaker 13: They have agents. Filo's probably one of them. He'd be
• 21:09
  Speaker 13: looking for you now, trying to kill you. The police
• 21:11
  Speaker 13: busin police would believe a fantastic story like this, people
• 21:14
  Speaker 13: being kidnapped to the Moon as slave labor.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: Moon Colony planning an invasion of the Earth. Henry, believe me.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: They clap us into straight jackets before we could finish.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: We've got to do so any time time to get
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: them proved. We can't walk out of here. Filo's probably
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: waiting only figure some way. Wait, I know.
• 21:29
  Speaker 13: Listen, there's a service elevator that leads to the basement garage.
• 21:32
  Speaker 13: My car is the ister waits the police get.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: Here, will be dead. You think Filo will wait outside
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: all night?
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Come on, m.
• 21:55
  Speaker 13: This is the basement. Come on, keep the acid. Yes,
• 22:00
  Speaker 13: sh here's the car. All right, Henry, you open the
• 22:06
  Speaker 13: garage door. Then jump into the car.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: We'll make a dash for where can we call? I
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: have a farm outside Chevy Chase.
• 22:12
  Speaker 9: It's private, miles from the nearest neighbor and completely hidden
• 22:14
  Speaker 9: my trees.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: We'll run for that. Go ahead, stop the door, all right,
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: just wait.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Quick jump in?
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: Yes, all right, here we go os fingers, Henry, I
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: read it out, all right? Anything doing?
• 22:49
  Speaker 9: There's a blue BOOPEI behind us. It seems to be following.
• 22:53
  Speaker 13: I'll cut off Pennsylvania Avenue an outroot one toward Blomar.
• 22:57
  Speaker 9: It is following turned with us.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: Can you go faster? Not much faster? He's gaining on us.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: We've got an idea. Hang on here, yes, why did
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: you stop? Turn off the lights? Quick? It worked?
• 23:21
  Speaker 13: He shot right past us. Now we'll double back and
• 23:24
  Speaker 13: go out another route. I think everything is going to
• 23:27
  Speaker 13: be all right. Now we can be at my farm
• 23:29
  Speaker 13: in less than an hour.
• 23:44
  Speaker 9: This place is really out in the wilderness, mister Wade.
• 23:47
  Speaker 9: You can stay here indefinitely and we figure out the
• 23:49
  Speaker 9: next move.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: It's up this third road.
• 23:53
  Speaker 13: Now with a big abandoned wheat silo on my grounds.
• 23:56
  Speaker 13: It's down in the hollow where it can't be seen
• 23:58
  Speaker 13: except from the air. Even then, the oak tree shielded
• 24:03
  Speaker 13: hid there and we can leave the car here. Come on,
• 24:13
  Speaker 13: how did you ever find this place, mister Wigg I've always.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: Liked seclusion, came up here to get away from it all.
• 24:21
  Speaker 13: There's a silo well certainly well hidden. There's a small
• 24:27
  Speaker 13: door around the side. Come on, yes, sir, oh teveral
• 24:30
  Speaker 13: of those bushes t to see them.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: In the dark.
• 24:36
  Speaker 9: Do you suppose Pilo will find us?
• 24:38
  Speaker 13: I assure you, Henry, that mister Pilo will never find
• 24:40
  Speaker 13: us here, not in a million years.
• 24:43
  Speaker 14: Here's the Door's pitch dark, oh my eye, and oh
• 24:52
  Speaker 14: the way just a few steps up then another door.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: Yes, steal.
• 25:04
  Speaker 9: This is an unusual silo, double walls, wood outside, steal
• 25:08
  Speaker 9: inside completely fire.
• 25:10
  Speaker 13: An army couldn't break it. We're inside the inner shell.
• 25:17
  Speaker 13: You're in the circular room. There a moment I will
• 25:20
  Speaker 13: go outside and see if the coast is clear, and
• 25:22
  Speaker 13: the moment your eyes will become accustomed to the doctors.
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: I'll bring back some food.
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: More don't belong, mister Wade. This place gives me the willies.
• 25:30
  Speaker 9: I'll just be answer, mister Wade. Uh uh, mister Wade.
• 25:46
  Speaker 9: I swear I hear something, mister Wade.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: There is something. Good, Lord, there's someone in here slopped.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: Oh no, this must be a light switch. Oh thank god.
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: People ten, fifteen to twenty of them. He's the way.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Well, well, well do you know?
• 26:11
  Speaker 8: Open to shout?
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: Henry, mister Wade, where.
• 26:15
  Speaker 8: Are you outside? Speaking over the intercom.
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: Mister Wade, there are people in here, fifteen or twenty
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: of them. They're sitting like statutes, just staring at me.
• 26:25
  Speaker 8: They will you, Hanry. They've all been drugged. They're even
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: more helpless than you.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: But who are they? Admit me to.
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: Introduce them, Henry, since they're currently unable to introduce themselves.
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: The gentleman seated before you as doctor Paul Errands, the
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: astro mathematician. Parents next to him is mister Robert Simon's
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: electronic engineer.
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: Names on the list.
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: Yes, they've all been recruited for what with Professor Horsman's.
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: Group on the mall from the moon, and you you're
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: one of them.
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: Of course you'll.
• 26:55
  Speaker 7: Turn around, Henry, you'll recognize the drugged father of your
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: old friend, mister Pyle.
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: Final But I thought that he was part.
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: Of the conspiracy. Oh, on the contrary, it's still being
• 27:06
  Speaker 8: made it necessary for me to include him.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: He's put the man in the window, the one who
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: fired the shots.
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: An agent of mine, the pilot of the ship.
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: Hip what ship?
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: This silo was a camoplage for a rocket launching platform,
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: and the moment the rope will slide back for the rockets.
• 27:19
  Speaker 8: Takeoff a rocket ship in exactly seventy.
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: Hours, you and your companion will join Professor Roderburton on
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: the move.
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: But you you, you, you can't do this to me?
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: Have done?
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: No?
• 27:31
  Speaker 8: Said?
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: There was another name or minute from that list, WHI
• 27:33
  Speaker 7: John carelessly mixed up with your papers that of Henry Timkin.
• 27:37
  Speaker 8: No, fun boy, I.
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: Won't let you do this.
• 27:42
  Speaker 14: Way.
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: Many attention attention missing since eight o'clock last night, The
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: following persons Tilkin Henry, aged forty five, height five feet eight,
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: brown eyes, slightly falding.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Tonight, dimension X has presented The Man in the Moon,
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: an original story by George Leppards. Featured players were Louis
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: van Ruten as Henry Timpkin and Sata Setega as Wade.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Your narrator was Norman Rose. Music by Albert Berman, engineer
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Bill Chambers. Dimension X is produced by Van Woodward and
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: directed by Edward King. In a moment, we'll tell you
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: about next week's show. And now here is your wheaties man,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Frank Martin.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: Everybody knows whole wheat has vitamins and minerals in quantities. Sure,
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: no great trouble figuring that out. The trick is in
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: making the whole wheat into crisp, toasty flakes like wheaties,
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: with all the good whole wheat things still in them,
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: and with all the good natural whole wheat taste. Well,
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: do you know how the wheaties.
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: People do it?
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: Well, I'll tell you it's simple. They use a whole
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: kernel of wheat to make one wheaty's flake. You see,
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: no wonder wheaties are good for you, and you know
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: how good they taste crisp sweeties are not simply wonderful.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: How can you stand missing them? If you are missing
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: them when they're all that good and all that good
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: for you? Why don't you breakfast up the Wheaties tomorrow morning?
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: Huh and see for yourself how Wheaties at seven can help.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: At eleven, Breakfast of Champions, Yes, Yes.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: Next week, a strange and thrilling story of the foreign
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: underground of a brilliant young scientist and his wife whose
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: only chance for escape from the secret police lay in
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: a world that is beyond infinity, the world of.
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: Imason. And this is the Wheaties Man.
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: Frank Martin inviting you to listen tomorrow night to Joel
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: McCrae in Tales of the Texas Rangers on the Wheaties
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: Big Parade.
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: See you then. This program was transcribed Jack Blate tells
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: the story of the Underworld.
• 30:47
  Speaker 8: Next on NBC.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Dimension X has concluded The Man in the Moon. Good,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: good evening, and thank you for joining us for this
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty NBC broadcast.