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- 1:30Now it's time for today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar The Caliicles manor Part
- 1:36five from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar David Parsons. Did you
- 1:45read the morning paper. Yeah, it's spread all over them. My son
- 1:48missing. I've had called from New York all morning long. The business mercher's
- 1:52jeopardizing that you're doing anything else to say, When I finished with you and
- 1:56your liability company, there won't be enough left to burn the jump mister,
- 2:00before you shoot off any more steam. Do you want me to give the
- 2:01papers the other half of the story, the one about you arranging for people
- 2:05to impersonate your son and his wife? Are you? I guess I am?
- 2:08Why? By tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey, in the
- 2:22Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expenser, out America's fabulous freelance
- 2:25insurance investigator as truly Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollar
- 2:43to the Eastern Casualty and Trust Company, Boston, Massachusetts. The following is
- 2:46the counting of expenditures during my investigation of the Caliicles matter. It I'm eleven
- 2:52ten cents one newspaper. I lied to Parsons about seeing the paper. I
- 2:55hadn't seen it at all, but I can guess what had happened when they
- 2:59got hold of the story that a prominent broker had been missing some fourteen days.
- 3:02It was all there, spread over the front page. I waited a
- 3:06couple of hours before I took old man Parsons on again. You think you're
- 3:09pretty smart, don't you. You should have given this matter to the police
- 3:14in the first place. I gave it to a detective agency. And what
- 3:15do you mean by fire now? Oh? They were just spending your money
- 3:19and you're losing it for me with all listen to paper. I'm still trying
- 3:23to find your son, mister Parsons. Remember, you aren't going to find
- 3:25him here. Something's come up. Maybe you can explain it. The DA's
- 3:29office and pounded the books yesterday. Fine, thousand dollars was withdrawn from your
- 3:31son's personal account. What do I have to explain about that? Wait?
- 3:36It was taken out the morning he disappeared. You have any idea why he'd
- 3:39withdraw some of money that size? No? You sure somebody could have been
- 3:44standing at back him with a gun threatening to blow his head off. You
- 3:46might have had a date to go to a wedding and needed some tip money.
- 3:50What can you add? You're getting mad dollar Go find your answers someplace
- 3:55else. You don't care if he's ever located, do you Dollar, Let
- 3:59me tell you something. My son means that to me no more. He's
- 4:03never had brains enough for energy enough to do anything by himself. I do
- 4:06everything, always have the only reason I want him back is to affect the
- 4:11merger with the little in Tennyson. You knew that right away, I suppose
- 4:14so. I just wanted to hear it said to believe it. Well,
- 4:15now you've heard me say it. You know one reason why I always run
- 4:20the show. Dollar. My face never looks like yours over anything. I
- 4:28got out of there fast. I went downtown with a tall policeman named Jerry
- 4:31Angel to interview a bank teller. I'm sage an angle, is mister Dollar?
- 4:34Oh, yes, you phoned me. It's about mister Parsons. You
- 4:38took care of him when he came in here last Tuesday week ago. Is
- 4:40I handle it withdraw Yes? We'd like to see the slip on that.
- 4:43Yes, I looked it up. I have it ready for you. Have
- 4:46you known mister Parsons very long? Well? I don't know him well.
- 4:48Really, look at this picture. This man is the same who signed the
- 4:51withdrawal slip last Tuesday morning. Yes, that's mister Parsons. Okay, tell
- 4:57us what happened. We just came up to the the cage and handed me
- 5:00the withdrawal slip. That's I see. Weren't you a little surprised when he
- 5:03made out a withdrawal slip for five thousand dollars? That's a lot of money.
- 5:06Well, maybe I was a little surprised, but mister Parsons has withdrawn
- 5:11large sums from his personal account several times. I always assumed it was some
- 5:15sort of speculation where he needed cash on hand. When he came up to
- 5:17the cage to you, what exactly did he say, Oh, just good
- 5:21morning or something like that, and then will you please take care of this?
- 5:25Didn't he stipulate how he wanted the money? Oh? Yes, yes
- 5:28he did say that. I'm sorry he took it mostly in hundreds and fifties.
- 5:30Any of these bills having to be recorded? No such? Uh?
- 5:34Anything else you can remember about the transaction that might help? Sorry? Nothing?
- 5:41What? Maybe? Yeah? Well you both know the kind of business
- 5:45mister Parsons is in. I mean it seems like a hurried sort of business.
- 5:47Always phone calls, rushing and so on. He was always always like
- 5:51that. It seemed to me, come in here, do what he had
- 5:54to do, and rush out very brisk, you know. But that morning
- 5:58he didn't seem in a hurry at all when he left. I mean,
- 6:00I had the distinct feeling that mister Parsons didn't particularly care in what direction he
- 6:05went. I rechecked with Missus Parsons, and the house servants established that Parsons
- 6:14had not left the house with a described money bag. The police went to
- 6:17work on that angle, trying to find out where he had purchased it.
- 6:20A supplementary bulletin went out with the news about the bag that district attorneysmen were
- 6:24trying to find out if he was involved with another woman and if so,
- 6:27whole Parsons was reported to be in Toledo, Detroit, the Virgin Islands,
- 6:30in Boston. All the reports were untrue. Yeah, opposite, that's sim
- 6:34That's the guy who was in here that night. Are you sure that's his
- 6:39picture? Was he with anybody? He was all alone, he said,
- 6:43over there and that stool. How long was he here? Oh? He
- 6:45was here. We closed the joint. Did you happen to see where he
- 6:46went from here? No? And what kind of shape was he? Drunk?
- 6:50No, No, he was real sober and quiet. Drank all night,
- 6:54but he seemed to hold his stuff. Okay, did you talk to
- 6:56him at all? No, just took a order for drinks. He didn't
- 6:59seem to want to talk to any I see. Did you happen to notice
- 7:00if anybody who was in here went over and talked to him. I think
- 7:03a couple of people tried, you know, you get that sort of thing
- 7:06in a giant like this, but he didn't say much to any of them,
- 7:10so they just left them alone. They just settled on and drank.
- 7:12No, he was making a phone call all the time he was here,
- 7:14a long distance call from the booth over there. He sat at the end
- 7:16of the bar so he could hear the phone ring. How do you know?
- 7:19He was making a long distance call and the twenty once and asked me
- 7:24to change it to quarters for him all the quarters I had About What time
- 7:28was this? I don't know exactly, but it took him two or three
- 7:31hours. Anyway, do you know if he ever completed his call? He
- 7:34poured a lot of dough into the phone. I guess he did. Finally,
- 7:39did he have anything with him while he was here? What do you
- 7:42mean, was he carrying a little black bag? Maybe nothing but his overcoat?
- 7:48What he did say something to me at that? He asked me if
- 7:53I knew Cali cleans, Cali clean, Yeah, sergeant. He was about
- 7:57three bourbons along by then. Mean anything I heard about that before? Jerry
- 8:01Callicles was a Greek. Parsons quoted him to his doctor once, something about
- 8:05a man breaking through and shaking off his chains. Pretty piece of poetry,
- 8:11poet. I thought he was a Buckeye. Oh excuse me, well,
- 8:13Jerry, one thing for sure, we know he was alive. That night,
- 8:24Jerry Engel started to check with a telephone company. Erek has disclosed that
- 8:28David Parsons had placed a call from the papers from the bar on the night
- 8:31in question. It had been a person A person called to a Kenneth temple
- 8:35in San Francisco. We tried to place a call to the same number,
- 8:37but there was no answer. We waited another two hours trying to complete the
- 8:41call, and the operators were still trying. When we drove out to the
- 8:43Parsons residence once more, Missus Parsons gave us a cool greeting. I certainly
- 8:50don't appreciate any of this you're responsible, mister Dollar for all this publicity.
- 8:54We don't have to go into that, Missus Parsons. We need your help
- 8:56now. We found out that your husband called a man named ken Temple and
- 9:00San Francisco the night he disappeared. Oh, that name Kenneth Temple. Does
- 9:05it mean anything to you? No, I've never heard it before, mister
- 9:07Parsons, never mentioned it to you. Oh. I can't say for certain,
- 9:11but it's not familiar to me at the moment. Have you ever been
- 9:13to San Francisco? Yes, twice, going to and coming back from Hawaii
- 9:18two years ago. Has mister Parson's ever been in San Francisco? He was
- 9:22on the same trip. This name Temple. Maybe it was someone you met
- 9:26while you were there. No, I don't recall meeting anyone there at all.
- 9:30Sergeant All. This has been quite upsetting, quite nerve wracking. Really,
- 9:35I don't know what progress you people are making, but I do wish
- 9:37it would all be handled soon. Not excuse me, sure this isn't getting
- 9:43us very far. I don't get it. Hello. Who oh oh,
- 9:48yes, operated just a moment for you, sergeant. Oh, thanks,
- 9:52probably San Francisco operator, Thank you, Sergeant Angle. Yeah, all this
- 9:58temple Sargon Ago missing person's division was as please, and we're trying to locate
- 10:03a man named David Parsons. Huh, all right, he's there now.
- 10:09Put him on, David, let me talk to him. I just wanted
- 10:13an extension. Yes, please, let me talk. Hold of the minute,
- 10:18miss Parsons. We're pretty worried about you. Yes, yes, she's
- 10:22all right. She's right here. Okay, missus Parson's here tacking, David.
- 10:28How are you? Oh so good to hear your voice, David,
- 10:33when you're coming home. Your father and I have been. I read about
- 10:37it in the papers. Now I want you to listen to me, Dorothy.
- 10:41Dad's going to ask you so listen, but I'm listening. David.
- 10:46Do you remember all the times that I've asked you to talk to me,
- 10:50the times during these years when I've wanted companionship, warmth, a home that
- 10:56was lived in. Each time I ask for these things, you're always too
- 11:00busy to taken up with things outside my life. Do you remember all that?
- 11:05But yes, yes, David, I remember all that. Well,
- 11:07this is the end of you and me, but your father and a father
- 11:11and me too, Dorothy. You tell him that he probably won't believe it,
- 11:16but you tell him the merger is all his. You have to get
- 11:20another figure hit. I be so angry, Dorothy. What I'm trying to
- 11:26say is his anger doesn't worry me anymore? What about me? I never
- 11:33worried you. I'm going away a long sea voyage with temples. You don't
- 11:39remember him, but he was a sailor. I used to talk to a
- 11:41board ship when we went to Hawaii. He has a boat. Now I'm
- 11:43shipping on it. When will you be back? I won't be back now
- 11:48when you put that police officer on aw along, mister Parsons, my name
- 11:52is Johnny Dollar. I've been trying to find you for two weeks. I'm
- 11:56an insurance investigator. Oh I've found out quite a lot about you. I
- 12:00want to make sure I'm talking to the right man. I won't answer a
- 12:03lot of questions. Just one that's not even a question, Calicles, oh
- 12:09mean anything. I don't know who you are. I didn't even get your
- 12:13name, But you did find out. If there were a man who had
- 12:20sufficient force, he would shake off and break through and escape from all this.
- 12:28He would trample underfoot all our formulas and spells and charms and all our
- 12:35laws which are against nature. The slave would rise in rebellion and mean lord.
- 12:43Or so far as the police were concerned, there was nothing more to
- 12:48do. So far as the insurance company is concerned, We'll have to sit
- 12:54on one hundred thousand dollars bond and hope that David Parsons will return to his
- 12:56life in Los Angeles when he gets whatever it is out of his system.
- 13:01Expense account total eleven d dollars and fifty nine cents. Remarks just missus Parsons
- 13:07to me. She asked why he never talked about this to her? I
- 13:11told her he did. No one ever listened. She didn't understand that either.
- 13:16Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. No, here's our star to tell you
- 13:33about next week's intriguing story. Next week, one of the most heartless,
- 13:37most vicious rackets and insurance investigator ever had to face join us. Won't you
- 13:43yours truly, Johnny Dollar? Yours truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Dailey,
- 14:07is transcribed in Hollywood. Written by John Dawson, it is produced and directed
- 14:11by Jack Johnstone. Heard in this week's cast were Virginia, Greg, Harry
- 14:16Bartel, Lillian Biaff will Wright, Gene Bates, Carlton Young, Lawrence Dabkin,
- 14:20Bert Holland, Marvin Miller and Herb Vibrant musical supervision by Amerigo Marino.
- 14:26Be sure to join us on Monday Night, same time and station, or
- 14:31another exciting story of yours truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking welcome back.
- 16:11Well, you really feel for the guy in many ways, just because he
- 16:18you know, really this is kind of a midlife crisis brought about by just
- 16:26the lack of respectracy from his wife as well as from his father. I
- 16:32think we also have the sense, at least I do, that this is
- 16:37not in any way a permanent, final solution to his problem. It's a
- 16:45way that he can first of all acknowledge what's going on or what he's feeling,
- 16:49but the story leaves his future very uncertain. John c Abbott in his
- 16:56book The Who Is Johnny Dollar Matter, he notes on this episode first that
- 17:03the episode was based on the Brisbane Fraud matter, and he notes the quote
- 17:08is from Plato's Gorgeous The speech of Caliicles is from Convention and Nature. Technically,
- 17:18the references in the program should have been to Plato, not to Calickles
- 17:22and so some interesting insight there because I wondered about exact sourcing of the speech.
- 17:33But with that we do turn down some listener comments and feedback before we
- 17:37get into Doctor Tim Chemo said, so, I'm not a fan of Dragdad,
- 17:42as many of these reviewers seem to be, but I love Johnny Doller
- 17:45and have been digging the serials Adams been playing. I love to see Rocky
- 17:49Jordan make his way into the lineup sooner rather than later. But always enjoy
- 17:53Adam's choices in his commentary before and after. This is a great show.
- 18:00Thanks so much, Chimo. And now we turn to doctor Tim Detective in
- 18:06today's program, Poisoner at Large. This is doctor Tim Detective to bring you,
- 18:12by transcription, the mystery of the Poisoner at Large. It is very
- 18:27often these days that you run across a case of wholesale poisoning. But when
- 18:32you do well, there's never a dull moment until you've tracked the whole thing
- 18:34down. There's nothing worse than to be poisoned, whether you take the wrong
- 18:38medicine out of your medicine cabinet by a mistake, or whether it's fed to
- 18:42you by somebody else, as it was in this particular case which came to
- 18:45my attention not so long ago. But i'd better start right at the beginning.
- 18:51Sandy and Jill, they are a couple of my very best friends and
- 18:53helpers, are watching me at work in my laboratory this particular evening, and
- 18:57as usual, the questions flu thinking fast. Sure, I get the general
- 19:02idea, but what's that machine for a racket? Well, as I was
- 19:07saying, it's called a centrifuge. Uh huh, start to explains everything.
- 19:11I guess, Yeah, I can see it. Judge about as easy as
- 19:14a black sheep and a coal mine at night. Okay, kids, I'll
- 19:18back up a little. You see, when you have several kinds of bacteria
- 19:22or bugs I guess you'd call them, or when you want to separate one
- 19:26part of a substance from another, you put them in a centrifuge, turn
- 19:30on the switch, and the machine whirls them around at a few thousand revolutions
- 19:33per minute. Then what happens to custo Like this, centrifuge separates the lighter
- 19:38from the heavier parts. In this case, the bacteria I'm hoping to find
- 19:42from the solution they grow in, and you got to look for yourselves.
- 19:47See it'll be done. Oh, well, transfer these bacteria to a culture.
- 19:52Here we go again. Well, culture is merely something for the bacteria
- 19:56to grow in and feed from. In this case, I'm going to use
- 19:59the first lies bag of a chicken, and if the experiment works, I'll
- 20:03soon know if these back period can live and grow in living tissue. At
- 20:07other times, the culture might be a milk or sugar solution, or even
- 20:12a bit of custard pie. It's a way we scientific detectives have us finding
- 20:17out a lot of things. I don't see much detective work there. You'd
- 20:21be surprised, Sandy, you'd be surprised. Hello, Hello, Tim?
- 20:29Is that go? Oh hello Jervis pow things down at the health department.
- 20:33Well, we could use you right now, if you've got the time.
- 20:37We're pretty shorthands when something's cut up. I don't like it allhood well,
- 20:41anything serious? Fourteen calls during the last hour at all from your prottown food.
- 20:48I think, hmm any clues, Yeah, I haven't had time to
- 20:53check thoroughly. I thought you might help there. I'd get ask your out
- 20:56of post of sessions and do a little detective. Why, doctor Jarvis,
- 21:02You know us younior g men have given up disguises. The latest thing is
- 21:06to graft noses on us like a bloodhound. Now, I'll give you a
- 21:12list of the names and addresses of everybody we have that's been reported so far.
- 21:17A few minutes later, Sandy, Jill and I were mapping out our
- 21:37campaign. Now, some people think it's kind of funny for accommodation doctrine detective
- 21:41to count on a couple of kids for help in a case. Let me
- 21:45tell you that those two are just about the most valuable assistance I hand.
- 21:48In between phone calls reporting new cases of food poisoning, we outlined the problem
- 21:53and our work. So you mean you like if you get a complete list
- 21:56of everything is shit people write today exactly, And then by putting those lists
- 22:00together, we ought to find that all of them had one kind of food
- 22:03somewhere along the line al right at the same restaurant crams. In other words,
- 22:07you see, we need a common factor to start with. I get
- 22:11it to try to track down where the food poisoning came from exactly. In
- 22:14that way we can stop anyone else from eating the contaminated food. But what
- 22:18is it I sneak or rat poisoning from. That's what I'm going to find
- 22:22out my careful laboratory analysis after I visit a couple of those sick people.
- 22:27Howmember, I'm willing to bet that we'll find our old friends the bacteria at
- 22:32the bottom of it germs. Huh, yes, well let's get going kids,
- 22:53milk and can soup and cream pants. Oh yeah, Jack came a
- 22:57doc where you blotify or it's mesty if I had write miss read you and
- 23:02your wife at Hamburgers hands pork and beads and drank coffee. Doty Kim told
- 23:06me to ask you where you bought the hamburger. The rest of the things
- 23:07open you didn't need anything at home had from me. Now I'm supposed to
- 23:11saint had it qua, Thank thanks, I'll let be sure I have it
- 23:15write stakes potatoes, fresh carrots, and chocolate square. So sure that's everything
- 23:18Docorton wants to shirt. By the time I arrived home after looking in on
- 23:36some of the patients, I had enough laboratory material to keep me busy for
- 23:40quite a spell. Samples of food from several homes. I knew thatts of
- 23:44waste from the patients and lists similar to those Family and Jill were compiling.
- 23:52I went into my laboratory and sat down for a few moments to think.
- 23:57So far, nothing about the case made sense except that all those people did
- 24:02have food poisoning. None about that, and some of them were mighty sick.
- 24:07Indeed, there be a lot more if we didn't track down the source
- 24:10of the trouble in a hurry, stop anyone else from eating the germ laden
- 24:14food. Silently hanging to work. A few minutes later, Sandy and Jill
- 24:30were going over their lists of the food eaten by the poisoned patients with doctor
- 24:33Jarvis, and as I adjusted my microscope for the arteenth time, I found
- 24:38what I was looking for. I motioned the others over, well, here's
- 24:42the criminal. Yeah, me too. They all peered into the microscope.
- 24:48Doctor Jarvis was the first to speak, O Master's little germs emonof I suppose
- 24:53it accounts for more food poisoning than all the other back here you put together
- 24:57doesn't kill very many people, it makes a lot of them plenty sick.
- 25:00You probably all where it came from. Unfortunately, no around any samples of
- 25:06the food I've tested so far. That's sure. It's presence the bacteriod you
- 25:08see under the microscope or from the stomach contents of one of the patients.
- 25:12We're not having too much luck ourselves. Like to hear the reports of the
- 25:17investigation. I think that's the next step. Okay, Joe, you've been
- 25:21keeping scores before you start. Well, there isn't any one food that everybody
- 25:25ain't, wouldn't you know it? So it's worse than that. There are
- 25:29even two kinds of see on everybody's list. I mean, you know,
- 25:32half of them one thing and half another. Just plain doesn't make sense.
- 25:37It looks like a dead end. From there, Well, let's do the
- 25:40best we can. Let's finally say the three items that appear oftenest in the
- 25:44list you've made, it just might be a connection. First, I think
- 25:48we can rule out canned food because there hasn't been any real trouble with commercially
- 25:52canned food for years, and it's impossible that all those people ate the same
- 25:56home canned stuff that might have gone bad. This is going to be tougher
- 26:02than I thought. The results of our detective work were peculiar, to say
- 26:15the least, but we did prove one thing. There were three food items
- 26:19to be suspected, because one of those three appeared in all the diets of
- 26:22the ones who waited home with a flurry shut his pencil. Doctor Jarvis summed
- 26:26it up, Well, here we are. Those poisoned people have either Hamburger
- 26:30and some form cream pie or chocolate declares. Doesn't make sense. Wait a
- 26:34minute, I've got an idea. I've been working in the wind who wad
- 26:37out and all of them had Hold dam a minute. When you hear this
- 26:41one, I've been doing the stores and restaurants. Everybody the date out went
- 26:45to the drug store down on the corner. This is beginning to add up
- 26:47to something. Let me see your list, Joe, No, no,
- 26:48no, the other one. Huh. All the pastry, the cream pies,
- 26:52and the chocolate declares came from one bakery. Oh sure, and we
- 26:56have meet the old Hamburgers meet ofalking them. All the pies I'm meet from
- 27:00the same britty shop. You're sure of that, huh huh. Now,
- 27:03all we have to do is to chase all over town to those various stores
- 27:07trying to find out what and why. Gosh know, you don't don't don't
- 27:11have to chase all over town, or even this end of it, that
- 27:14bakery and the meat market and the drug store where the people later all right
- 27:15together. It's just four blocks down the street. They wait a minute.
- 27:18If that's true, Jarvis, I think we might have the answer. Let's
- 27:22get going fast. Come on, let's go. Come on, as we
- 27:30draw up the short distance to the shopping center, I got for thinking.
- 27:33You know, it's a funny thing about mysteries, especially complicated ones like this
- 27:38one, where people scattered over a wide area all come down with the same
- 27:42illness of ones. At first, things don't even make sense, look impossible,
- 27:47they might say. And then with a bit of information added here and
- 27:51there, a dim pattern begins to take shape. Well, that's exactly what
- 27:55happened in the poison mystery. This time, here's what we knew. Free
- 28:00food items caused those people to become deathly ill. Well two really, because
- 28:03it occurred to me that the filling of cream pie and the filling of chocolate
- 28:07declares is the same, and the other was Hamburger. Both items came from
- 28:12the same two stores. Those who had eaten at the drug store had eaten
- 28:17either Hamburger or the cream filling. What would be more logical, and for
- 28:21the drug store food to be purchased at the butcher shop next door and the
- 28:23bakery two doors down. So the pattern was now clear. Only one part
- 28:29of the mystery remained. How could both the pastry and the hamburger become poisoned
- 28:33with the germs of salmonellum? And as we drove up in front of the
- 28:37stores and parted, and almost forgotten item of my medical training popped into my
- 28:42mind, I was sure I had the answer. How I well, as
- 29:02we gathered in my laboratory a little later, Sandy, Jail, doctor Jarvis,
- 29:06and myself, we were a happy gang. There wouldn't be any more
- 29:08cases of food poisoning from that source, at least lost in thought, I
- 29:12heard Sandy ask, but you, doctor Tim, how come you went right
- 29:15into those stores and started looking for rats? Held me? Well, miss
- 29:21doctor Jarvis could tell you as well as I. One of the commonest carriers
- 29:25of salmonella, the food poisoning bug, is rats and mice. A few
- 29:29of their droppings around the food store, and well, you've seen what happens.
- 29:32Oh, that's why we have inspections by the city and campaigns against rats
- 29:36and nights. Even if you can't get results one hundred percent of the time.
- 29:38We were rejectant with a train filling in the hamburger before a game.
- 29:42Well, remember when I told you about cultures the perfect material for bacteria to
- 29:48grow on. Sure, well, two of the best cultures in the world
- 29:52for salmonella are cream fillings and ground meat, especially in a warm place like
- 29:56the bakery or when left outside the refrigerator you're in a butcher shop. It's
- 30:00the perfect setup for an epidemic like ours. The vino. Those stories being
- 30:04right together give you the idea elementary, my dear Sandy, elementary, it
- 30:08would be rather strange that two or three different sets of food poisoning would break
- 30:14out on the same day at widely separated spots, so figuring that adjoining buildings
- 30:18would offer plenty of opportunity for the same carriers to go back and forth freely.
- 30:22I apprehended the poisoners at large. It's a matter of get rid of
- 30:26the rats, get rid of the poisoners, and believe me, that's going
- 30:30to be done. This is doctor Tim detective saying, so long until next
- 30:51week, at this same time, when Sandy, Jim and I will bring
- 30:55you the exciting transcribed story I call the Mystery of the Hug that Jacksonville welcome
- 31:38back. Well, the other thing that makes Cindy Angel such great assistance is
- 31:45the free labor Uh. Seriously a good episode, and I love the series
- 31:52for what it is in terms of being a show that uses mystery UH and
- 31:59uh and the popularity of detective stories to educate kids about science and medicine.
- 32:06And I thought they did just a great job here kind of making everything plausible
- 32:10and giving the kids a raason to care about what Doctor Tim was talking about.
- 32:16So another good episode of Doctor Tim. Unfortunately, the next two episodes
- 32:22are missing, but we have one last program of Doctor Tim to bring you
- 32:25next Friday, so be sure to be listening then. And on Monday we'll
- 32:30start another Johnny Dollar serial, so get ready for that coming up tomorrow.
- 32:37It hits the lineup and we'll be looking forward to that. In the meantime,
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