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X Minus One - "The Man in the Moon" (Old Time Radio, 1955) · X Minus One | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A routine nationwide missing person's bulletin is interrupted by an
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: urgent shortwave transmission, apparently coming from the Moon. That signal
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: sets the Federal Bureau of Missing Persons on the trail
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: of Professor Cornelius Otterburn, an atomic physicist who vanished years earlier.
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: As records custodian Henry Timpkin recognizes his name from NBC
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  Speaker 1: Radio Network. This is X minus one The Man in the.
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  Speaker 2: Moon, Episode six, originally broadcast May twenty ninth, nineteen fifty five.
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  Speaker 2: Luis van Ruten stars as Timpkin, with Santos Ortega, Ross Martin,
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  Speaker 2: and Sidney Smith. George Lefferts wrote the original radio drama
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  Speaker 2: and Fred wyhad directed. And now our story begins.
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  Speaker 3: Countdown for blast off X minus five minus four minus
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  Speaker 3: three minus two x minus one.
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  Speaker 4: Fire.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, from the far horizons of the unknown, come tails
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  Speaker 3: of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories
• 1:14
  Speaker 3: of the future adventures in which you'll live in a million,
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  Speaker 3: could be years, on a thousand, would be worlds. The
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  Speaker 3: National Broadcasting Company presents one tonight's story, The Man in
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  Speaker 3: the Moon.
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  Speaker 5: Attention, attention, this is the Federal Bureau of Missing Persons
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  Speaker 5: calling all local agencies. Attention. This is a coded report
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  Speaker 5: nationwide since nine o'clock this morning. The following person's Smigley
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  Speaker 5: Jonathan five feet eight inches tall, brown hair, brown eyes,
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  Speaker 5: mastoid scar behind right ear last scene, wearing blue top
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  Speaker 5: coat and tan cap. Wanted by los Angele. Hello, get
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  Speaker 5: off this wavelength. This is a restricted band.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, Hello Earth, whoever you are, You're on a coded wavelength.
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  Speaker 5: Tune out. This frequency is reserved for the Federal Bureau
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  Speaker 5: of Missing.
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  Speaker 6: Persons, the Mooning Earth.
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  Speaker 7: Hello.
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  Speaker 4: This guy's looney is Jake in transmission? Jake.
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  Speaker 5: This Charlie of the Code room. Some crackpot is on
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  Speaker 5: our frequency.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I heard him, Charlie. I've got CQ trying to
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  Speaker 8: trace a source. Now we should have a triangulation any second.
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  Speaker 5: We'll hurry it up. Will you some Hamazon for a
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  Speaker 5: good stiff fine by the FCC.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I got to take his license away.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, here comes learning with a drag from fig Thanks.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, what's this? This is impossible?
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  Speaker 5: What's going on down there? How about it? Get that
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  Speaker 5: ham out of my kilicycles?
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  Speaker 4: Oh listen, Charlie.
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  Speaker 8: List This is a gag that interference is being bean
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  Speaker 8: from two hundred and forty thousand miles away.
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  Speaker 9: A not, Jake.
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  Speaker 5: You know there ain't no such thing as two hundred
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  Speaker 5: and forty thousand miles away.
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  Speaker 9: Yes there is, Charlie, straight out. I'll wait a minute, Charlie.
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  Speaker 4: That signal is coming from the all are you nuts?
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  Speaker 8: Somebody might be bouncing it like a radar signal?
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  Speaker 5: Radar on this frequency. Where'd you study basic radio?
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  Speaker 10: Now?
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  Speaker 8: Listen, flahead. You asked for a fix. I gave the
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  Speaker 8: best fixed, our instruments confined, take it a leave it.
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  Speaker 8: Somebody on the moon is calling the Bureau of Missing.
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  Speaker 11: Person what's the sweat, Charlie?
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  Speaker 4: Shouldn't you be broadcasting?
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  Speaker 5: Listen, mister Timpty, you know I'm a sober citizen. Right once?
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  Speaker 5: Have I broadcast with the smell of alcohol on my breath?
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  Speaker 4: Right right? In all your twelve years here at the Bureau,
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  Speaker 4: did I once? Never mattered? Charlie. We're picking up a
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  Speaker 4: message on our wavelength. Did you report to the FCCN.
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  Speaker 4: I ain't got the nerves. What's wrong?
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  Speaker 5: You'll scream when you hear this, mister Timpkin, you'll jump
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  Speaker 5: right out the window. But we are getting an SOS
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  Speaker 5: from the moon. All that said, he started on voice
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  Speaker 5: and switch tomors. The way the signal repeats sounds like
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  Speaker 5: a phonograph record or automatic center of some sort of
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  Speaker 5: what's it say?
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  Speaker 4: Let's see here? Can you read me help? Otter Burn.
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  Speaker 4: We'll contact when moon is in phase. Let's have that again.
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  Speaker 5: Can you read me help? Otter Burn. We'll contact when
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  Speaker 5: moonas in phase.
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  Speaker 4: Hotter Burn.
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  Speaker 12: It sounds like a name otter Burn, hotter Wait a minute,
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  Speaker 12: something registered c needs utter Burn? Holy jump by where
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  Speaker 12: are you going talk to the chie?
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  Speaker 4: Wait a minute?
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  Speaker 5: What are you gonna tell him? We just got to
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  Speaker 5: seek you from the man the moon.
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  Speaker 4: That's exactly what I am gonna tell him.
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  Speaker 9: Tony just too much for me, Washington.
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  Speaker 5: Let me have O'Brien on city desk. O'Brien, Seamous, Charlie
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  Speaker 5: Starbuck down at the missing person's viewer. You want a
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  Speaker 5: hot one, No kidding, this will cost your beer.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, all right, sug noodle brain. I'll stay on your
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  Speaker 4: wavelength for thirty seconds.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, we just got a radio message from the moon.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, what from the moon?
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  Speaker 5: Call me back when you're sober, okay, Seamous. If you
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  Speaker 5: don't know a story when you see one.
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  Speaker 7: I'll send you the name of a good psychiatrist.
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  Speaker 9: So long Orson Wells. How do you like that.
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  Speaker 4: You don't believe me? Otter Burn? Mister weed? Now does
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  Speaker 4: that name ring a bell? The old man with a
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  Speaker 4: photographic memory?
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  Speaker 8: Henry?
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  Speaker 4: What about Ottoburn? Cornelius Otterburn, a comic physicist, reported missing
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  Speaker 4: from his home in Baltimore on June fifth, nineteen forty five,
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  Speaker 4: just five years ago, vanished completely? Are you trying to
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  Speaker 4: tell me you really think there's something to this man
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  Speaker 4: of the moon business? Henry, I'm surprised at you. This
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  Speaker 4: is some crack pop trying to jam the airwa is
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  Speaker 4: the name Honor Burn is so unusual? A lot of names?
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  Speaker 4: And I have a theory that I was afraid, Henry.
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  Speaker 4: You always have a theory. Let's see what was it
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  Speaker 4: last year? Oh? Yes, that people disappear an occupational side.
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  Speaker 4: But it's true. Please, Henry, I'm a busy man. Expect
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  Speaker 4: me to believe that this out of Burn is sitting
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  Speaker 4: up on the moon sending out shortwave messages. He might
• 6:30
  Speaker 4: be on Earth bouncing the messages off the moon, but
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  Speaker 4: who's to say he isn't on the move. Henry is
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  Speaker 4: chief of this Bureau. I have my hands full trying
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  Speaker 4: to coordinate reports from forty eight states in Alaska. I
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  Speaker 4: have no time to include the move mister Wade out, Henry,
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  Speaker 4: mister wade out, I'm busy. Yes, oh, here, take this
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  Speaker 4: folder of reports for the dead file. Yes and no
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  Speaker 4: more nonsense. Hey, Henry, Yes, I appreciate that you have
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  Speaker 4: a very dull job filing old missing person's reports, and
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate that you take an active interest in the
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  Speaker 4: affairs of the Bureau. What no more nonsense, an no
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  Speaker 4: more nonsense? Pardon me? Hmm. You are mister Henry Timpkin.
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  Speaker 13: That's my name of mine, Jefferson file of Scientific feature writer.
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  Speaker 4: How do you do well? Are you a newspaper man?
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  Speaker 13: Not exactly. I write as a hobby. Occasionally the papers
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  Speaker 13: give me leads on an assignment. If I may have
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  Speaker 13: a moment of your time, certainly just sit down my
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  Speaker 13: desk over here. Thank you, my, that's quite a stack
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  Speaker 13: of papers filing.
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  Speaker 4: I'm the record's custodian the Bureau of twelve years and
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  Speaker 4: never misplaced a record. Magnificent. I admire the precise mind, mister.
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  Speaker 13: Uh, of course, Now, mister Timkin, mister O'Brien, the editor
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  Speaker 13: of the Star. I just said I might drop by
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  Speaker 13: and investigate a rumor, only a rumor, mind you, that
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  Speaker 13: a message from the moon.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we aren't certain it's from the moon. It may
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  Speaker 4: be a bounce. They have bounced radar waves off the moon.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Yes, I know. I wrote the first newspaper
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  Speaker 4: article on it.
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  Speaker 13: I'd be understood to read it. I must have a
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  Speaker 13: copy in my body. I don't bother hypo, but I insist. Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 13: there you are. I'll leave it on your desk, Thank
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  Speaker 13: you very much. Now about this message from the moon,
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  Speaker 13: mister Timkins.
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  Speaker 4: And now we don't know for sure, as I said,
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  Speaker 4: but I believe that this message, wherever it originates, is
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  Speaker 4: from Cornelius Outerburn, the physicist. What do you know him?
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  Speaker 13: I once wrote an article on his contribution to nuclear mechanics,
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  Speaker 13: A brilliant man, o Burn, years ahead of his contemporaries.
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  Speaker 4: Well, whoever is sending those signals, if he isn't on
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  Speaker 4: the moon, is at least using the moon as a
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  Speaker 4: sounding board bouncing the signals. Why, mister Timpkins, Why and
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  Speaker 4: if you will come here tomorrow night at eight, mister Filo,
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  Speaker 4: we may learn the answer to that question. I've arranged
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  Speaker 4: with Charlie, our radio man, to let me use the equipment.
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  Speaker 4: May I consider this an invitation? Who certainly may very
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  Speaker 4: well said until tomorrow night. Then goodbye, mister Filo. Let's
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  Speaker 4: see now, baken Amblage, Abram and Ronald. Actually that's funny.
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  Speaker 4: Where did this list of names come from? Paul Aaron's
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  Speaker 4: astro mathematician, Robert Simon's electronic engineer, Carl Parker mining specialist. Well,
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  Speaker 4: this must have got mixed up with the papers on
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  Speaker 4: my desk by accident. Peculiar list. Good morning, Charlie. See
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  Speaker 4: we made the papers.
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  Speaker 5: Oh and how is the chief steamed up about it?
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  Speaker 4: He really gave me what for it? What did the
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  Speaker 4: papers say? Almostly ha ha, here's a herold listen.
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  Speaker 5: Man on the moon contacts Missing Person's Bureau, Missing atomic
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  Speaker 5: scientists sitting on the moon say, bureau experts, et cetera,
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  Speaker 5: et cetera.
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  Speaker 9: What a fanny?
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  Speaker 4: Well, no wonder mister Wade is hopping say about tonight? Was?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know? Now, you promised you would give me
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  Speaker 4: a key to the ra Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: But I didn't expect.
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  Speaker 4: I'll take full responsibility with mister Wade.
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  Speaker 5: At the time for the morning broadcast.
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  Speaker 4: We got quite a list today. Well mind, if I
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  Speaker 4: listen a while, we may hear otto burn my self conscious.
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  Speaker 5: Just stick around, Yes, attention, attention. This is the Federal
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  Speaker 5: Missing Persons Bureau calling all local agencies nationwide. This is
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  Speaker 5: a coded broadcast following persons are missing errands. Doctor Paul
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  Speaker 5: five feet five, brown hair, brown eyes, scar on left
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  Speaker 5: side of chin, thick glasses, occupation astro mathematician, missing since
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  Speaker 5: six o'clock this morning, being sought by bell Air police.
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  Speaker 5: Charlie repeat, doctor Paul, Delay one minute.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, mister Timpkin.
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  Speaker 5: It's okay to stay, but you can't interrupt.
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  Speaker 4: This is important. Did you say doctor Aarons was reported
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  Speaker 4: missing this morning six am.
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  Speaker 5: We got the report from bell Air less than an
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  Speaker 5: hour ago. That are you certain, Charlie positive? What is this, Charlie?
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  Speaker 4: What's the next name on the list. Uh, let's see
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  Speaker 4: Simon's Robert engineer. What came in less than twenty minutes ago?
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  Speaker 4: What's the matter with you?
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  Speaker 5: You look like you've seen a ghost.
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  Speaker 4: Nothing, Charlie, except that last night, quite by accident, someone
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  Speaker 4: left the list of names on my desk. And that
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  Speaker 4: list included the names of those two men who were
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  Speaker 4: reported missing within the last hour. What Oh, that's right
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  Speaker 4: to me, But it isn't right, Charlie, Dave's a big
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  Speaker 4: question to be answered. Who who would make up a
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  Speaker 4: list of missing persons before they were missing, not after?
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  Speaker 4: And you say this list of names was left on
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  Speaker 4: your desk accidentally. I believe so, mister Wade, do you
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  Speaker 4: have any ideas Henry, It's hard to say. Mister Fido
• 11:52
  Speaker 4: left some papers from his briefcase. Mister Philo a science
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  Speaker 4: feature writer. See you were the leak on that story, then, yes,
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  Speaker 4: afraid I was. I didn't think it would be treated
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  Speaker 4: as a laughing matter. I will deal with that later. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: what's this file like? Well, he's a strange old duck, bald, thin,
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  Speaker 4: glasses tall, He walks stooped over, seems to know a
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  Speaker 4: great deal about scientific data. But of course, speaking a
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  Speaker 4: science writer, he is there any other possibility? I believe
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  Speaker 4: that this is all hooked up with the broadcast from Otterburn.
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  Speaker 4: That seems to be a very remote possibility. A Missing
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  Speaker 4: Person's Bureau deals in remote possibilities. I do not require
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  Speaker 4: a statement of policy. Yes, what's the theory. For some
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  Speaker 4: time now, it has been my contention that in a
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  Speaker 4: country like ours, where even the cleverest criminal can be
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  Speaker 4: ferreted out and located, eventually, there is no such thing
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  Speaker 4: as a missing person. I was afraid of that for
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  Speaker 4: twelve years now. I have kept the central files, where
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  Speaker 4: information from all over the country is channeled and recorded.
• 12:51
  Speaker 4: I have made a private study. This is beginning to
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  Speaker 4: sound familiar, and I have discovered that each year, literally
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  Speaker 4: thousands of persons vanished, leaving no trace. They are never located,
• 13:01
  Speaker 4: where do they go? Nobody knows, and they disappear in
• 13:06
  Speaker 4: interesting cycles. What sort of cycles occupations? For example, one
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  Speaker 4: year we'll have a run on, say coal miners. Next
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  Speaker 4: year the proportion of engineers increases, and then scientists. And
• 13:17
  Speaker 4: what do you think happens, Henry? I don't know, mister Wade,
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  Speaker 4: but I'm beginning to suspect that somebody else has discovered
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  Speaker 4: the same phenomenon, even to the point perhaps of being
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  Speaker 4: able to predict who will turn up among the missing
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  Speaker 4: next Filo. Well, I don't know, but I would like
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  Speaker 4: to find out. And you think Ought to Burn may
• 13:35
  Speaker 4: be a part of this picture, mister Wade, I definitely do, Henry.
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  Speaker 4: Do you honestly expect me to buy an idea like that?
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  Speaker 4: It is more than I an idea that the two
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  Speaker 4: top men on this list are missing, and maybe so
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  Speaker 4: for the rest of them. Mart Parker Watson Gibbs. Why
• 13:47
  Speaker 4: I saw Parker in the restaurant where I had lunch today.
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  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And if you think I'm going to make myself for
• 13:51
  Speaker 4: laughing stuck by accepting such a cracked brank figure, well
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: excuse me. Yes, hello Wade speaking, Yeah, yeah, I see
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  Speaker 4: what name. In just a moment, Henry, let me see
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  Speaker 4: that list here you are, go ahead, I see. I'll
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  Speaker 4: get back to you. I uh, I guess I owe
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: you an apology, Henry, Sir Carl Parker was just reported missing.
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  Speaker 4: Parker third man on your list, Holy Macro. Exactly, Henry.
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  Speaker 4: For a good many years now, I've readiculed these theories
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  Speaker 4: of yours. I don't know. Perhaps I have underestimated you.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe this time you've really stumbled onto something. What do
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  Speaker 4: you intend to do, mister Wade, I don't know. I
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  Speaker 4: haven't thought it out yet. I was planning to listen
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  Speaker 4: for another broadcast tonight in the hope that Otterburn might
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: try to contact us again. I believe I'll join you.
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  Speaker 4: I also invited mister Fidal the feature. I'm glad to
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  Speaker 4: meet him. Anything to get interested in you. Mister Pilo. Wait,
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  Speaker 4: you don't think he's mixed up in this? Yes, I
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  Speaker 4: don't know, Henry, but it suddenly strikes me that we
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: don't know very much about him. Really wet contact the police, No, Henry,
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  Speaker 4: I think we're better off keeping this between ourselves for
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  Speaker 4: the moment. We're dealing with the unknown, and in solving
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  Speaker 4: an equation for the X factor, it's alten easier to
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: limit the number of terms we don't know. Mister Wade,
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: that may be more danger in what you have discovered
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  Speaker 4: than you are aware of. Let's keep it quiet.
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  Speaker 9: You agree.
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: Maybe you're right, mister Wade. I I haven't thought of
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  Speaker 4: the danger involved eight o'clock when mister Pilo was late
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: and he said he'd be here. He strikes me as
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: a man who keeps appointments. Look out the window. Yes,
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: one is almost in direct phase. Don't work much longer.
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  Speaker 4: That's a perfectly clear knighte for transmission. If anybody's sending
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: we ought to pick it up with this equipment. You
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: better switch on the set. Yes, I never realized how
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: eerie this office could see when it was empty. I
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: left a light in the whole, mister Pott when it comes,
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: are you getting anything? Just some foreign stuff? I think.
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: The British Court of Lights programming from Johannesburg.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: So we continue, And that's a peculiar transmission sound that
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: sounds like something. See if I can work the selected
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: the moons?
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  Speaker 9: And hello, U can you hear me?
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: I try to return Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello? Do you
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  Speaker 4: hear me? I get you now? Thank God? Who are you?
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  Speaker 4: Can you hear me? Who are you? This is Professor
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: Cornelius Oliver. Go on, I hear you. Not much time
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: they're on to me. They've located by sending point. Do
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: you hear me? Go ahead, keep talking.
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  Speaker 14: I'm only enough oxygen for a few minutes more.
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  Speaker 4: Where are you? I'm on the Earth side of the moon.
• 17:09
  Speaker 7: You get that.
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  Speaker 15: The Earth side of the moon a volcanic crater.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: Start that recorder, mister Wade. Go on, explain, please explain,
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  Speaker 4: please closely.
• 17:22
  Speaker 14: There is an Earth Earth colony on the moon.
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  Speaker 4: There is an Earth colony on the far side of
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  Speaker 4: the Moon.
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  Speaker 14: Made up of renegade scientists and criminals.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: Professor Ernst Halsman. He died in an insane aside in
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: nineteen thirty eight.
• 17:38
  Speaker 14: Professor Ernst Hausmann discovered nuclear rocket power in nineteen thirty
• 17:43
  Speaker 14: five turned his plans over to escaped inmates of the asylum.
• 17:48
  Speaker 14: They took off and set up a colony on.
• 17:51
  Speaker 15: The far side of the Moon in nineteen thirty eight.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead, we're recording you.
• 17:56
  Speaker 14: Each year they recruit colonists from Earth, save labor mostly.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: I was kidnapped in nineteen forty five. I know, I'll
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: keep talking.
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: They wanted me to work on atomic drive for their flying.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: Yes, still getting you.
• 18:14
  Speaker 15: Go on last month, six others and I escape to
• 18:18
  Speaker 15: speak louder you. You got to stop them, stop them,
• 18:23
  Speaker 15: to stop the bone colony planning to take over the
• 18:26
  Speaker 15: Earth invasion, hang on and the oxygen.
• 18:32
  Speaker 9: To pray listening.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: They have agents on Earth? Are agents on Earth? Where? Who? Hello?
• 18:43
  Speaker 9: Hello?
• 18:44
  Speaker 10: Hello?
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: Turn me look out someone at the wind to get down.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: Are you all right? How do you think? So? The
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: shot smashed the transmitter and the lights. It's like a match. Yeah,
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: it was close. I gotta look at him from the description,
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  Speaker 4: was your mister Filo? We got a recording anyway, but
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: not the most important part of the message. Poor hunterbird
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: suffocating to death. Henry, We've got to get you out
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  Speaker 4: of here, he said. They have agents. Filo was probably
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: one of them. He'll be looking for you and not
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: trying to kill you. The police. Do you think the
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  Speaker 4: police would believe a fantastic story like this, people being
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: kidnapped to the Moon as slave labor Moon colony planning
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: an invasion of the Earth. But Henry, believe me that
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: they trap us into straight jackets before we could finish.
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  Speaker 4: We've got to do something. We need time, time to
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: get you. Don't think my theory was bunk thing. I
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: know it wasn't, Henry. Right now, my only concern is
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: for your safety. But we can't walk out of here.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: Filo's probably waiting list. There's a service elevator that leads
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  Speaker 4: to the basement garage. We can get down there. There
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  Speaker 4: are some delivery trucks parked there all night. You can
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: probably get once started the garage doors off the ramp
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  Speaker 4: worked from the inside, we'll stop the mechanism and make
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: a run for it. I don't know. I think if
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: we call the police, by the time the police get
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: here will be dead. You think I follow. We'll wait
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: outside all night. Come on, that's an order. Okay. What
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: about the recording of Otterburn's notes. We'll leave that here
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: in the safe in my office. They'll never get into that.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: Let's go. You buzz the elevator while I hide the recording.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: This is the basement. Come on, keep to the side. Yes,
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: sh Let's try that delivery truck over there. I'll get
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: in all right, Henry, you start the mechanism to open
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: the garage door, then jump onto the truck or nagodash
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: for it. Where can we go? I have a farm
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: outside Chevy Chase. It's private, miles from the nearest neighbor
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: and completely hidden by trees. We'll run for that. Go ahead,
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: stop the door, all right, quick jump in, ploss her fingers.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: We made it out, all right? Anything doing? There's a
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: group cook behind us, mister Wade, it's eamed free following.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: I'll color Pennsylvania Avenue now Route one, Todd Boloma, it
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: is following. He turned with us. Can you go faster?
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: How much faster he's gaining on us? I've got an idea.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: Hang on, Henry, fix where'd you start I'll turn out
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: the lights. He worked. He shall right past us. Now
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: we'll double back and go out another route. Right. I
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: don't see anything. I think we've lost it good. I
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: think everything is going to be all right. Now. You
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: can be at my farm in less than an hour,
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: not much longer. Now is anyone behind us? I thought
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: I saw the blue poop again, but I was mistaken.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: This place is really hot in the wilder. We can
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: stay here indefinitely. The world figure out the next movie.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Just up the stead road. Naw, there's the house up ahead,
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: but you're not going toward it. No, I have a
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: better idea. There's a big abandoned wheat salow on my grounds.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: It's down a hollow where it can't be seen except
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: in the air, and even then the oak trees shielded.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: We'll hide you out there. We leave the truck here
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: and I'll be seen. Man. Yes, how did you ever
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: find this place, mister Wade? I've always liked seclusion. I
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: bought it about twelve years ago. I'm up here on
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: the summer time to get away from at all. There's
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: the silo, certainly well hidden. There's a small door around
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: the side. The capital of those bushes hard a scene
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: in the dark. Do you suppose Filo will find us?
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: I assure you, Henry, mister Folow will never find us
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: here at in a million years. Here's the door, bitch dark,
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Oh my aunt, I know the way. Just a few
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: steps up and another door.
• 23:50
  Speaker 9: Steal.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: This is an unusual silos, double walled wood outside and
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: steal inside, completely fireproof. An army couldn't break it. Where
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: inside the enn of shell? Careful, We're in a circular room.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: Stay here a moment. I'll go outside and see if
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: the coast is clear. In a moment, you rise, what
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: become accustomed to the darkness. I'll bring back some food
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: and water.
• 24:15
  Speaker 10: Don't belong, mister Wade. This place gives me the willies.
• 24:19
  Speaker 10: Just a moment, mister Wade. He's swearing, mister Wade.
• 24:33
  Speaker 9: What's that?
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: There is something gold? One do someone in here? It's luck.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: It's the way way to be out. I'm not alone
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: in here. It's a wait. This must be a light switch,
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: Thank god, who go people, mire's the way down.
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: We'll do your shout, Henri, Wait, where are you outside
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: speaking over the enter?
• 25:06
  Speaker 9: Cause is the way?
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: There are people in here?
• 25:08
  Speaker 16: Fifteen or twenty op of there city like statue, just
• 25:12
  Speaker 16: just staring at me. I won't hurt you, Henry. They've
• 25:15
  Speaker 16: all been drugged, even more helpless than you. Who are
• 25:21
  Speaker 16: they meet me to introduce them.
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: Since they're currently unable to introduce themselves. The gentleman seated
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: before you, the one with the scar, is doctor Paul ERNs.
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: The astro mathematician next to him is mister Robert Simon's
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: alectronic engineer. Teams of the list, Yes, you're familiar with
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: the rest. They've all been shall we say, recruited. We
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: work with Professor Horsman's.
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: Group in the moon O.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: Mhmm. You you're one of them, of course.
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: Oh yes, there's one whose name was not on our list.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: If you'll turn around, Henry.
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: You reckon ignize the drug form of your.
• 26:01
  Speaker 9: Old friend, mister Pylon.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: Pilon.
• 26:05
  Speaker 16: But I thought that he was part of the conspiracy
• 26:09
  Speaker 16: no On the contrary, this snooping made it necessary for
• 26:12
  Speaker 16: us to put the man in the window, the one
• 26:14
  Speaker 16: who find the shot an agent of mine.
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: The pilot of this ship, Missus Silah, was camouflaged for
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: a rocket launching platform. In a moment, the roof will
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: slide back for the Rockets take on in exactly seventy hours,
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: you and your companions will join Professor on the You
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: can't do this to me. You see, there was another
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: name omitted in that list, which I carelessly mixed up
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: with your papers, that Henry Timpkin.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: I won't let you do that. You can't let me,
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: let me up, let me.
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: Attention attention missing since eight o'clock last night. The following
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: persons Timpkin, Henry, age forty five, height, five feet eight,
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: one hundred and sixty five pounds, brown eyes, slightly baulding,
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: occupation records, custodian repeat Timpkin, Henry, age.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: Forty five, fight, five feet eight, one hundred and sixty five.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: In just a moment, a word about next week's adventure.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: To night by transcription X minus one has brought you
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: The Man in the Moon, an original radio drama written
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: by George Lefferts.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: Featured in the cast where.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: Lois van Ruton as Henry, satos Orte as the Chief,
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: Ross Martin as Charlie, Sidney Smith as Otterburn, Bob hay
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Gus Jake, Joe DeSantis as Filo, and Ed Latimer as O'Brien.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: You're announcer Fred Collins. X minus one was directed by
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Fred Way and as an NBC Radio Network production and
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: bow next week. The sign on the window said Perigi's
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Wonderful Dogs. A woman and a child waited outside.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: The little girl peering eagerly.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: Through the window, and the woman glancing impatiently at her
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: wristwatch as if expecting someone who was late for an appointment.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: And there was nothing about Perigi's doll shop to warn
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: them that they were waiting to keep an appointment with
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: doom at ee.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: This was the May twenty ninth, nineteen fifty five broadcast
• 28:58
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