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Dimension X - "Mars Is Heaven" (1951) · Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: In 1987, Captain John Black leads Earth's first expedition to Mars,
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: where a rocket landing through heavy mist reveals an American
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: small town seemingly preserved from the 1920s. Tonight, Dimension X
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: presents Mars is Heaven, Episode 33, heard on NBC January 7, 1951,
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: a rebroadcast of the production first aired July 7, 1950.
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: Wendell Holmes stars as Captain Black, with Peter Capel as Dr.
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: Horst and Norman Rose narrating. Ernest Kenoy adapted Ray Bradbury's
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  Speaker 1: short story for radio under Edward King's direction. As Black, Horst,
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: and the crew investigate those familiar streets, their certainty about
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: where and when they have landed begins to falter. We
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: now take you back to the original broadcast.
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: Adventures in time and space transcribed in future tense. When
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: the first space rocket lands on Mars, what will we find?
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  Speaker 2: Will we be welcomed with open arms or will the
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  Speaker 2: Martians treat us as invaders?
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  Speaker 3: Only one thing is certain.
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  Speaker 4: Someday a giant metal ship will take off from Earth
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  Speaker 4: to travel through the black velocities, the silent gulfs of space,
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  Speaker 4: to descend at last into the darkness of the upper
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  Speaker 4: Martian atmospheres. And on that day, man will finally know
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  Speaker 4: the answer. The day we first land on Mars.
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  Speaker 5: Now hear this.
• 2:01
  Speaker 6: Now hear this.
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  Speaker 5: Approaching critical deceleration. Massive gravity suits. Stand by to land. Mr. Lustig,
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  Speaker 5: what do you make of the terrain?
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  Speaker 3: There seems to be a heavy ground, Miss Captain. We
• 2:14
  Speaker 3: won't be able to use our infrared lights.
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  Speaker 5: Then we'll have to come in on radar.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't that a little risky, sir, landing in the dark?
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  Speaker 5: I'd rather run the danger of a blind landing, Lieutenant,
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  Speaker 5: than come in without the cover of darkness. Remember, we
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  Speaker 5: don't know what kind of reception is waiting for us
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  Speaker 5: down there. Airspeed 500.
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  Speaker 3: Altitude now 4,000.
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  Speaker 5: Bridge to engine room. Stand by for deceleration.
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  Speaker 3: Engine room.
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  Speaker 7: Aye.
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  Speaker 5: Fire forward tubes 1 and 3.
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  Speaker 8: Aye.
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  Speaker 5: Skids down.
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  Speaker 3: Skids check.
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  Speaker 5: Altitude 500. 4.
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  Speaker 9: 350. 3.
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  Speaker 10: Top of point now.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Let's set her down.
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  Speaker 8: Look out!
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  Speaker 11: Cut to power.
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  Speaker 5: Masters, pipe battle stations. Aye, sir. I'll secure it, sir. Well,
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  Speaker 5: we're on Mars. April 20th, 1987. 4.33, Greenwich time. Enter
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  Speaker 5: that in the log, Masters. Aye, sir. Well, gentlemen, it's
• 3:19
  Speaker 5: less than two hours till dawn. As soon as it's light,
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  Speaker 5: we'll send out a landing party. Masters, get me an
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  Speaker 5: all-over hookup. All set, Captain. Now hear this. Now hear this.
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  Speaker 5: All right, men. The smoking lamp is lit. We're 17
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  Speaker 5: men on an alien world. And it's up to us
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  Speaker 5: whether we ever get home again. Next few hours should
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  Speaker 5: tell the story. And I want instant obedience to all commands.
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  Speaker 5: I'll court-martial the first man who doesn't jump, too, when
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  Speaker 5: he's ordered. And one other thing. We may be on Mars,
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  Speaker 5: but this is still a United States naval vessel. Officers
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  Speaker 5: will conduct a personal and weapons inspection in one hour.
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  Speaker 5: That's all.
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  Speaker 3: Inspection, Captain, now? Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Lustig, we've got an hour and a half to sweat
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  Speaker 5: out before we find out what's outside that airlock. I'd
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  Speaker 5: rather have a man worried about his stripes than about
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  Speaker 5: what's waiting outside on Mars. Now hear this. Landing party
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  Speaker 5: report to forward airlock. Captain Black, Lieutenant Hinkston, Lieutenant Lustig,
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  Speaker 5: and Dr. Horst report immediately to forward airlock.
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  Speaker 12: It is now landing time, minus five.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds like they're paging us, Hinkston. You ready, Dr.
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  Speaker 12: Horst? Yes, ready as I will ever be.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, let's report to the airlock.
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  Speaker 3: We're honest to go. Where's the captain?
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  Speaker 12: Who knows? What difference does it make?
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  Speaker 3: Just want to get it over with, that's all. Has
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  Speaker 3: anybody got a cigarette?
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  Speaker 12: I think you're smoking too much, Lieutenant Lustig.
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  Speaker 9: Are you nervously off with your horse, wondering what's hidden
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  Speaker 9: outside underneath that ground mist?
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  Speaker 12: Very unusual planet, Mars.
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 12: It has an atmosphere. Wonderful thing, an atmosphere. Where you
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  Speaker 12: find one, you find life.
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  Speaker 3: You mean Martians? What do you think they'll look like?
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  Speaker 12: Who knows? Intelligent life can take many forms. You mean
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  Speaker 12: they may have green skins and eyes on stalks or something?
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  Speaker 9: A comic book conception is possible. Or they may have
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  Speaker 9: developed to a point that is far beyond us. Perhaps
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  Speaker 9: they have a science that can produce weapons far more
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  Speaker 9: dangerous than our atomic missiles.
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  Speaker 3: You think we may have to fight our way out?
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  Speaker 12: After all... We are invaders.
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  Speaker 5: Now hear this. Landing time minus two. Landing time minus two.
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  Speaker 3: All right, all right.
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  Speaker 5: We heard this.
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  Speaker 12: I know what I'd like to find outside that airlock.
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  Speaker 3: Good old Illinois. You ever been there, Lustig? Only Chicago.
• 6:12
  Speaker 12: You ought to see my hometown. Green lawns, big white houses.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds like my hometown.
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  Speaker 9: My grandmother used to have one of those iron deers
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  Speaker 9: on the lawns.
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  Speaker 12: Every Halloween, we'd paint another color. One time, we painted
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  Speaker 12: it black and white like a Holstein cow.
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  Speaker 3: Where does your family live, Horst?
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  Speaker 9: I have no family. When I was a child, they
• 6:36
  Speaker 9: were gassed to death in the Dachau concentration camp.
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  Speaker 5: That's tough.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, it has its advantages. I have no ties on Earth.
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  Speaker 9: Nothing to lose now. I imagine I'm the only one
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  Speaker 9: on board who is free to enjoy our present peculiar position.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Lustig. You can button it up now.
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  Speaker 3: Aye, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Well, gentlemen, in one minute we'll be the first men
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  Speaker 5: to set foot on Mars. Quite an honor, eh?
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  Speaker 12: As long as the medals are not awarded posthumously.
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  Speaker 5: Still uneasy, Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Horst?
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  Speaker 9: Captain Black, I've been uneasy ever since I can remember.
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  Speaker 9: On Earth and on Mars.
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  Speaker 5: Now, 30 seconds. Give me the intercom phone, Lusty. Masters? Aye, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Battle stations will be manned till we return. If we're
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  Speaker 5: not back in two hours, I want no rescue party
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  Speaker 5: sent out. Blast off and save the ship, you understand? Aye, sir.
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  Speaker 5: All right, gentlemen. Five seconds.
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  Speaker 12: Four.
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  Speaker 3: Three. Two. One.
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  Speaker 5: Lustig, open the outer airlock.
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  Speaker 3: Fresh air. Let's go. Hold it.
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  Speaker 12: It's too dark to move fast. Quiet, isn't it? Not
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  Speaker 12: even a wind. You can't see anything through this ground.
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  Speaker 3: Quiet.
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  Speaker 5: We don't know what's out here.
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  Speaker 3: What the... Quiet, Captain.
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  Speaker 12: I could swear that sounded like a rooster.
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  Speaker 5: I don't hear it anymore.
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  Speaker 12: A very unlikely sound. A rooster crowing on Mars.
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  Speaker 3: Kingston.
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  Speaker 10: Aye, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Set that machine gun 25 yards to the flank. We'll
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  Speaker 5: stay here till the ground mist lifts. Aye, aye, sir.
• 8:41
  Speaker 5: What do you make of the ground, Horst?
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  Speaker 3: Grass.
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  Speaker 12: Plain grass. You can see some large foliage. There, where
• 8:49
  Speaker 12: the mists stand on.
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  Speaker 5: What the heck is that?
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  Speaker 12: Kingston!
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  Speaker 5: Hold your fire, you fool!
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  Speaker 2: I hit it, Captain.
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  Speaker 12: What?
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  Speaker 4: Some kind of wild animal.
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  Speaker 12: I hit it. I could see the traces, but it's
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  Speaker 12: still standing.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, Horst. Doctor.
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  Speaker 3: Doctor, where are you?
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  Speaker 8: Up ahead.
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  Speaker 5: Admiring the wild animal.
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  Speaker 3: Careful, Horst.
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  Speaker 5: Wait for us.
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  Speaker 12: Don't worry, Captain. It's an iron deer.
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  Speaker 10: A lawn ornament.
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  Speaker 5: That's impossible. It's hollow. Interesting, isn't it?
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  Speaker 9: A whitewashed Victorian iron beard, sitting on a lawn in
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  Speaker 9: the middle of Mars.
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  Speaker 5: I don't understand.
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  Speaker 12: Look around. The mist's lifting.
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  Speaker 3: Captain, look there.
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  Speaker 12: A house, a regular old-fashioned house.
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  Speaker 3: On Mars.
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  Speaker 5: Good Lord. I haven't seen carved scrolls and gingerbread like
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  Speaker 5: that in years. Look at that port swing.
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  Speaker 3: The geraniums. There.
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  Speaker 12: I told you it was a rooster, Captain. Give me
• 9:49
  Speaker 12: the glasses, Lustig. I want to take a look through
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  Speaker 12: that front window.
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  Speaker 5: What? There's an upright piano. Some sheet music on it.
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  Speaker 3: Lustig!
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  Speaker 12: It's beautiful Ohio.
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  Speaker 3: Beautiful Ohio? That can't be.
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  Speaker 5: Look here, Horace.
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  Speaker 12: Do you think that civilizations of two planets could be identical?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 9: That specific variety of geraniums is only 50 years old
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  Speaker 9: on Earth.
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  Speaker 5: Is it logical they should develop in Mars? How about
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  Speaker 5: that port swing, that piano, and beautiful Ohio? No, it's impossible.
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  Speaker 12: Captain Black, this looks like the town I was born in.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it looks like my hometown, too.
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  Speaker 12: I've thought of something, sir.
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  Speaker 3: It's the only solution.
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  Speaker 12: Maybe we're not the first ship to reach Mars from Earth.
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  Speaker 3: That's the only answer.
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  Speaker 5: That's impossible, Lister. If there'd been space travel, it couldn't
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  Speaker 5: be secret. Do you have any idea what ships cost,
• 10:38
  Speaker 5: what industrial power is needed? There's got to be some
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  Speaker 5: logical reason. Captain, I think perhaps we might find out.
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  Speaker 5: A light just went on in that house. Kingston, cover
• 10:48
  Speaker 5: that door with a machine gun. Aye, aye, sir. Come on, Horst.
• 10:54
  Speaker 5: Ring that doorbell.
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  Speaker 12: There's got to be a scientific answer to all this.
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  Speaker 12: There's something moving in there.
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  Speaker 3: Stand back, Horst.
• 11:06
  Speaker 5: Give me a clear shot. Maybe a Martian.
• 11:10
  Speaker 6: Can I help you?
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  Speaker 5: We... We were looking... Well, if.
• 11:15
  Speaker 6: You're selling anything, it's much too early.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, wait. Wait a minute. What, uh... What town
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  Speaker 5: is it?
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean? Are you census takers?
• 11:27
  Speaker 12: No, we're strangers here. We want to know how this
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  Speaker 12: town got here.
• 11:31
  Speaker 6: Is this a game?
• 11:32
  Speaker 12: No, no, it's not a game.
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: We're from Earth.
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  Speaker 6: From where?
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  Speaker 5: From Earth.
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  Speaker 6: You mean out of the ground? Are you sure you're
• 11:45
  Speaker 6: feeling well?
• 11:46
  Speaker 5: Madam, we came in a flying ship across space. We're
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  Speaker 5: from the third planet. This is Mars. Now do you understand?
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  Speaker 8: Mars!
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  Speaker 6: You go away now, you hear? I'll call my husband
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  Speaker 6: from upstairs and he'll chase you. Now go on.
• 11:58
  Speaker 12: But this is Mars, isn't it?
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  Speaker 6: This is Green Lake, Wisconsin, in the United States of America.
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  Speaker 6: Bounded on the east by the Atlantic and on the
• 12:08
  Speaker 6: west by the Pacific. Now go away. Goodbye.
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  Speaker 12: Of course, do you suppose it's really possible? I've got
• 12:15
  Speaker 12: to find out more about this.
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  Speaker 6: For the last time, now go away.
• 12:20
  Speaker 5: Pardon me, madam. What year is this?
• 12:24
  Speaker 6: Year? Well, 1928, of course. Oh, for goodness sake.
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  Speaker 5: You hear that, Horst?
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  Speaker 12: And we know it's 1987. And we know it's Mars.
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  Speaker 5: Is it possible we got fouled up, made some tremendous
• 12:38
  Speaker 5: blunder and circled around.
• 12:39
  Speaker 12: And landed back on Earth? In 1928? Maybe some switch
• 12:42
  Speaker 12: in time or dimension. Could we have shifted somehow and
• 12:45
  Speaker 12: gone backward in time?
• 12:48
  Speaker 5: Horst, it won't hold water. It's not logical. We've checked
• 12:51
  Speaker 5: every mile. We went past the moon and out into space.
• 12:54
  Speaker 5: We're on Mars.
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  Speaker 12: Find out anything, Captain?
• 12:56
  Speaker 5: No, we're going back to the ship till I figure
• 12:58
  Speaker 5: out some logical explanation for all this. Lustig, out at point.
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: Aye, sir.
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  Speaker 12: Hinkston in the rear. Keep that gun at half-load.
• 13:03
  Speaker 3: Aye, sir.
• 13:06
  Speaker 12: Of course, there's got to be some cold, logical solution.
• 13:08
  Speaker 7: Captain.
• 13:09
  Speaker 8: Captain.
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  Speaker 5: What?
• 13:10
  Speaker 12: That house down the street. The white one with the
• 13:12
  Speaker 12: green shutters.
• 13:13
  Speaker 5: Lustig, what's the matter? I never thought.
• 13:15
  Speaker 12: I never thought. Thank God.
• 13:17
  Speaker 5: Thank God.
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  Speaker 8: Lustig.
• 13:18
  Speaker 5: Lustig, come back here.
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  Speaker 12: He's running for that house. That crazy fool.
• 13:20
  Speaker 5: After him, quick.
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  Speaker 3: Stop!
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  Speaker 5: Come down off of that porch!
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  Speaker 3: Grandma and Grandpa, it is you.
• 13:35
  Speaker 5: Lustig, what's going on here? Albert, why, it's been so
• 13:38
  Speaker 5: many years.
• 13:38
  Speaker 6: How you've grown, boy.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's so good to see you.
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  Speaker 5: Lieutenant Lustig. Oh, oh, Captain.
• 13:44
  Speaker 12: Grandma, I want you to meet my friend. This is
• 13:45
  Speaker 12: Captain Black. Captain, I want you to meet my grand folks.
• 13:48
  Speaker 3: Howdy.
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  Speaker 5: Any friends of Albert's is friends of ours.
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  Speaker 3: How long you been here, Grandma?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, good many years. Ever since we died.
• 13:58
  Speaker 5: Ever since you what?
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, sir.
• 14:00
  Speaker 12: They've been dead 30 years.
• 14:01
  Speaker 11: What?
• 14:02
  Speaker 5: You mean to tell me that Mars is heaven? Oh, nonsense.
• 14:06
  Speaker 10: No.
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  Speaker 5: All we know is here we're alive again.
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  Speaker 12: And who are we to question God's infinite ways?
• 14:14
  Speaker 5: Hi.
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  Speaker 12: Lustig, we're going back to the ship.
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: But, Captain, I want to talk to my grandfather.
• 14:18
  Speaker 5: Listen to Lustig.
• 14:19
  Speaker 12: I don't like any part of this. You'll come back
• 14:21
  Speaker 12: with us. I have to club you and carry you. But, sir,
• 14:23
  Speaker 12: they're my... Heaven only knows what they've run up against
• 14:26
  Speaker 12: back at the ship.
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  Speaker 7: THE END.
• 14:54
  Speaker 5: Horst, look at that crowd around the ship.
• 14:55
  Speaker 12: Looks like we're being welcomed with a celebration, Captain.
• 14:58
  Speaker 5: Celebration? They've abandoned ship. Every port is open. No guard set.
• 15:01
  Speaker 12: You!
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: You, Masters! Hiya, Captain.
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: Meet my old dad, Dad.
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: That's Captain Black, and he's not a bad guy for
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: an officer. Of all the.
• 15:08
  Speaker 6: Higston!
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: Oh, what, sir? Bring that man back. Use force if
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: you have to. I... Excuse me, sir.
• 15:13
  Speaker 12: There's my Uncle George.
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: Higston!
• 15:14
  Speaker 6: I'll be right back, Captain.
• 15:15
  Speaker 5: Uncle George!
• 15:16
  Speaker 8: Uncle George!
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: What the devil is going... Don't you understand, sir?
• 15:19
  Speaker 12: They've all found friends and relatives.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: They're all here. He's right, Captain.
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: I've counted.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: The whole crew's out on the crop.
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: But I gave orders. Definite orders.
• 15:26
  Speaker 12: You don't understand, Captain.
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: I understand mutiny. I don't care how many relatives show up.
• 15:30
  Speaker 12: I'll have discipline.
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: Johnny!
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: Johnny, you old son of a gun!
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: Edward!
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: Edward!
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: It's you.
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: It can't be.
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: Of course it is.
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: Johnny, you old son of a gun.
• 15:43
  Speaker 9: Ed. Edward.
• 15:46
  Speaker 6: Dr.
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: Horst. This is my brother, Edward.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: How do you do? Hello.
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: It's... It's wonderful to see you, Edward. Look, I've got
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: to get back to my ship. Hey, I almost forgot.
• 15:59
  Speaker 12: Mom's waiting at home.
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: Mom?
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: And Dad, too.
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: Mom?
• 16:04
  Speaker 10: Dad are alive?
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: Excuse me, horse. Then you're real, then. Don't I feel real?
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: How's that, huh? Ed, we've got lunch for you, Johnnie.
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: Mom's making corn fritters. Corn... Dr. Horst, haven't you found anybody? No, Captain.
• 16:27
  Speaker 12: I have nobody.
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: Then you come on home with me, right, Ed?
• 16:30
  Speaker 12: Sure, you bet.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: Horst, you wouldn't believe it, but it's been 35 years
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: since I had Mom's corn fritters. By George. 35 years.
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: And there's plenty more in the kitchen, so don't hold back, Johnny.
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: You too, Dr.
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: Horst.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: Well, Johnny, you're still in the Navy, huh?
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: That's right, Dad. I'm in command of the ship. We're
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: an old Navy family, Dr.
• 17:06
  Speaker 11: Horst.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: All three of our boys in the service.
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: Ed was the best pilot in the Pacific. What didn't happen, Ed?
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Oh, what's the difference?
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: I'm here now.
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: Oh, you know, it's almost perfect. All we're missing is
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: your brother, Will. Then the whole family could be together.
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: Well, it won't be long, Mom. Will's in charge of
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: the XR-54. That's the next rocket coming out to Mars.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: Well, little Will.
• 17:29
  Speaker 12: When does he leave, Johnny?
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: Takeoff's scheduled for September, but it depends on what we report.
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: There's no question about that now, eh? Christmas together again.
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: That'll be something, eh?
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Yes, sirree.
• 17:40
  Speaker 8: Well.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: This calls for a celebration.
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: How about a little of the old dandelion wine, eh, Johnny?
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: Now, Father, don't you go giving Johnny too much wine.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: He's a big boy now, Mother. Well, sir, isn't everything
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: just fine? Just fine.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Just fine.
• 18:08
  Speaker 13: Till all the candlelights are gleaming on the banks of
• 18:16
  Speaker 13: the Wallach far away.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: Play another song. Sure.
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: Well, Dr. Horst, what do you think of my little family?
• 18:32
  Speaker 12: Very nice.
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: You know, I can't understand why you didn't find any
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: folks here, Dr.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Horst.
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: Just a shame everybody else is so happy.
• 18:42
  Speaker 12: I never remembered my family, Mrs.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: Black.
• 18:46
  Speaker 9: All I know is they were gassed at Dachau during
• 18:50
  Speaker 9: the Second World War. When I was liberated, I was
• 18:53
  Speaker 9: on delirium three months. I cannot remember anything before then.
• 18:59
  Speaker 9: The psychiatric phenomenon.
• 19:00
  Speaker 12: That's terrible.
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: Isn't there anything anybody can do?
• 19:04
  Speaker 12: I don't want to remember.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 19:11
  Speaker 9: I haven't had a pleasant life. I prefer to be
• 19:15
  Speaker 9: free of emotional entanglements. They interfere with a scientific approach.
• 19:21
  Speaker 9: I'm sorry, Dr.
• 19:22
  Speaker 12: Horst.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: I'll get it. Hey, that's our ring. Long and three shorts.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: I remember that.
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: Well, maybe we'd better call it a night. You must
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: be getting tired, Johnny.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: I'd better be going back.
• 19:32
  Speaker 12: To the ship.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Oh, nonsense. You stay the night. We insist.
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: I just couldn't rest thinking of you all alone on
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: that ship.
• 19:39
  Speaker 12: I'll be all right.
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: Well, good night.
• 19:41
  Speaker 12: Wait a minute, Dr. Horst.
• 19:43
  Speaker 10: That phone message was for you.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: Me?
• 19:46
  Speaker 12: Yes, that's right. A message from Anna.
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: Anna?
• 19:49
  Speaker 12: I don't remember any Anna.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: She asked if you were better.
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: Perhaps she's someone you knew at Dachau.
• 20:00
  Speaker 12: She said she's coming over here first thing in the morning.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: So you'll have to stay over.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: Well, that settles it, then. You stay here, Horst. You
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: can bunk with me in my old room.
• 20:08
  Speaker 12: Oh, but Johnny, we thought you'd like to be with Edward.
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: So you could talk the way you used to.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: Well, we can't put Dr. Horst in the daybed. I
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: think we'd better share the room tonight. There'll be plenty
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: of time for talking, Ed. I guess so. Well, I
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: suppose I'd better drop back to the ship. You know, Ed,
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: security check.
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: Why do you have to do that here?
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: Well, I don't know.
• 20:27
  Speaker 12: There's no good reason, I guess. Well, I suppose we
• 20:30
  Speaker 12: skip it tonight.
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: Oh, sure.
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: Well, good night, everybody.
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: Oh, it's good to have you home, Johnny.
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: It's good to be.
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: Home, ma'am.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Captain Black.
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: Are you asleep? No, no. I've just been thinking about
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: what we were expecting. Green-skinned Martians with eyes on stalks.
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: All the time it was only Mom and Dad and
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: Edward waiting. It's funny what tricks your imagination can play
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: on you. Yeah, I guess Mars is heaven, Horst.
• 21:21
  Speaker 9: Hmm.
• 21:23
  Speaker 12: I've been thinking about Martians, too.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: Captain.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: Captain.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Just suppose....
• 21:32
  Speaker 9: Suppose there were Martians, and they saw us land. Suppose
• 21:37
  Speaker 9: they thought of us as invaders. What would be the
• 21:40
  Speaker 9: best weapon they could use against our atom bombs? I
• 21:43
  Speaker 9: don't see what you're getting at. They would want to
• 21:45
  Speaker 9: disarm us first. To wipe out all suspicion. To make
• 21:49
  Speaker 9: us feel at home. But suppose this house isn't real.
• 21:56
  Speaker 9: Suppose the people are just images. Stolen from our own memories.
• 22:01
  Speaker 12: By Martians. Created for us by telepathy.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: Hypnotism. That's the craziest theory I ever heard.
• 22:08
  Speaker 9: Maybe that's why there was no one for me. Because
• 22:11
  Speaker 9: in all my life there is no happy memory. No
• 22:13
  Speaker 9: real loved person.
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: How about that phone call from Anna?
• 22:16
  Speaker 12: Yes.
• 22:17
  Speaker 9: Anna. I didn't remember who she was, but I do now.
• 22:20
  Speaker 9: I just remembered. When I was freed from Dachau, sick
• 22:25
  Speaker 9: and delirious, I raved about a wonderful, kind nurse named
• 22:28
  Speaker 9: Anna that took care of me.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Sure, there you are.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: It's logical. She's coming to see you tomorrow.
• 22:31
  Speaker 12: But there was no Anna. I'd be nursed by a man.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: What?
• 22:36
  Speaker 9: Anna was only a dream. And there's only one way
• 22:40
  Speaker 9: they could have learned about her. By reading my subconscious mind.
• 22:44
  Speaker 9: But that's impossible, Horst.
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: Why?
• 22:46
  Speaker 12: The whole crew was thinking at home. Suppose the Martians
• 22:49
  Speaker 12: read our minds.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: But there are Martians.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: If there are.
• 22:53
  Speaker 12: They have it separated. Each man in a different house. Sleeping.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Trusting.
• 22:59
  Speaker 12: No one at the guns.
• 23:01
  Speaker 9: I left my pistol downstairs. Do you think there's something
• 23:06
  Speaker 9: to this horse? It's a pet who would suspect his
• 23:10
  Speaker 9: own mother. His grandparents.
• 23:13
  Speaker 12: How easy. Just a knife in the heart of each
• 23:16
  Speaker 12: sleeping man.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: It's impossible, horseman.
• 23:19
  Speaker 12: We've got to get back to the ship.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: Listen.
• 23:27
  Speaker 12: The crickets have stopped.
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: Come on.
• 23:32
  Speaker 12: We don't know when they change back to whatever they
• 23:36
  Speaker 12: really are.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: Where are you going, John?
• 23:44
  Speaker 12: Ed, well, we wanted to drink a water. That's all, Ed.
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: You're not thirsty, John. You don't want to drink You
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: don't want to drink. Look out!
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: His face!
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: It's changing!
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: And his hands!
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: He's a Martian!
• 23:59
  Speaker 8: Run, horse! Run!
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: You can't get away, John.
• 24:01
  Speaker 10: You can't get away.
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: Hello?
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Hello?
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: Can you hear me, Earth?
• 24:19
  Speaker 11: This is Captain John Black, the XR-53, calling from Mars.
• 24:23
  Speaker 11: I've locked myself in the ship, but they've crippled it.
• 24:26
  Speaker 11: I can't take off or fire the guns, and they're
• 24:28
  Speaker 11: coming for me now, the Martians.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: I'm all alone here. All the rest are dead. Hinkston, Lustig, Dr. Horst.
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: Poor Horst, he didn't even reach the door. Listen.
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: Listen.
• 24:37
  Speaker 11: They're trying to break through the hull now. Edward and
• 24:38
  Speaker 11: Mom and Dad and all the folks. But they're changing now.
• 24:42
  Speaker 11: Melting and changing back into... They're Martians.
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: Can you understand me? Martians, not men. They made us
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: think that Mars was heaven and we fell into the trap.
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: Can you hear me, Earth? You've got to stop the
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: next rocket.
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: Tell.
• 24:53
  Speaker 11: Tell my brother Will. Tell my brother Will not to come.
• 24:56
  Speaker 11: They'll trap him, too.
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: They'll kill them all.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Hello.
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: Hello.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: Can you hear me, Earth? This is John Black on Mars. Hello, Earth.
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: This is John Black on Mars.
• 25:15
  Speaker 10: Tonight, Dimension X has presented and transcribed the Ray Bradbury story,
• 25:19
  Speaker 10: Mars is Heaven, adapted for radio by Ernest Canoy. Featured
• 25:23
  Speaker 10: players were Wendell Holmes as Captain Black and Peter Capel
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: as Dr.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Horse.
• 25:28
  Speaker 10: Your narrator, Norman Rose. Music by Albert Berman. Engineer, Bill Chambers.
• 25:34
  Speaker 10: Dimension X is produced by Van Woodward and directed by
• 25:37
  Speaker 10: Edward King. Robert Warren speaking.
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: In a moment, Dimension.
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: X.
• 25:59
  Speaker 12: This is NBC, the national broadcasting company.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: This concludes Dimension X, episode 33, Mars is Heaven. The
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: night is yours again.
• 26:23
  Speaker 10: Good night.
• 26:24
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