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X Minus One - "Mars Is Heaven" (1955) · Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On May eighth, nineteen fifty five, NBC brought listeners the
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  Speaker 1: third broadcast of X minus one. This Is Mars Is Heaven,
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  Speaker 1: adapted for radio by Ernest Kinoy from a Ray Bradbury story,
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  Speaker 1: with Wendell Holmes as Captain John Black and Peter Cappell
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  Speaker 1: as Doctor Horst. It is April twentieth, nineteen eighty seven.
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  Speaker 1: Black commands Earth's first manned rocket, the XR fifty three,
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  Speaker 1: as it lands on Mars beyond the Mist. At the
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  Speaker 1: landing site, Black, Horst and Lieutenant Lustig find an American
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  Speaker 1: small town that appears fixed in the nineteen twenties, complete
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  Speaker 1: with familiar sounds and objects. Their effort to reconcile that
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  Speaker 1: discovery with their mission takes the expedition deeper into Bradbury's
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  Speaker 1: Martian setting. We now take you back to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Calm down, perplaster off X minus five minus four US
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  Speaker 2: three minus two X minus.
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  Speaker 3: One fire.
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  Speaker 2: From the far horizons of the unknown come transcribe tales
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  Speaker 2: of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories
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  Speaker 2: of the future adventures in which you'll live in a million,
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  Speaker 2: could be years, on a thousand, maybe worlds. The National
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  Speaker 2: Broadcasting Company presents X minus one the Night's story, Mars
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  Speaker 2: is Heaven. When the first space rocket lands on Mars.
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  Speaker 3: What will we find only the.
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  Speaker 2: Ruins of a dead and deserted planet, or will there
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  Speaker 2: be life, intelligent life in some strange form that we
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  Speaker 2: can only imagine. Will we be welcomed with open arms,
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  Speaker 2: or will the Martians treat us as invaders? Only one
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  Speaker 2: thing is certain. Someday a giant metalship will take off
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  Speaker 2: from Earth to travel through the black velocities, the silent
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  Speaker 2: ghats of space, to descend at last into the darkness
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  Speaker 2: of the upper Martian atmospheres. And on that day man
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  Speaker 2: will finally know the answers the day we first land
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  Speaker 2: on Mars.
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  Speaker 4: Now hear this, Now hear this? Approaching critical deceleration. Fashioned
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  Speaker 4: gravity suits stand by the land.
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  Speaker 5: There it is. We've intersected the course vector.
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  Speaker 6: Sir.
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  Speaker 5: All right, mister lustig over the manual control. I say, masters,
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  Speaker 5: sound General Quarters, What do.
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  Speaker 6: You make of the terrain? There needs to be a
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  Speaker 6: heavy ground, miss Captain. We won't be able to use
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  Speaker 6: the infra red lights and we'll have to come in
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  Speaker 6: on radar.
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  Speaker 7: There's not a little.
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  Speaker 6: 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: and 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.
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  Speaker 4: Air speed five hundred altitude now four thousand.
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  Speaker 5: Bridge to engine room, stand by for deceleration. Fire forward
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  Speaker 5: tubes one and three.
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  Speaker 6: Steady as you're going, mister lastic.
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  Speaker 4: As she goes to speed one hundred altitude one thousand,
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  Speaker 4: they don't ready to get the level stretch, get a headset,
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  Speaker 4: skits down, gets kicked altitude five hundred four.
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  Speaker 5: Three fifty three up a point now, all right, let's
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  Speaker 5: shut her down. Cut the par master's high battle stations,
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  Speaker 5: I said.
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  Speaker 6: A security.
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  Speaker 5: Well, gentlemen, gentlemen, we're now on Mars, April twentieth, nineteen
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  Speaker 5: eighty seven, or thirty three Greenwich time ended.
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  Speaker 6: Up in the log message.
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  Speaker 5: I said, Well, gentlemen, it's less than two hours, will dawn.
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  Speaker 6: As soon as it's light, we'll send out a landing party.
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  Speaker 5: Masters, get me an all over HOOKUPAD set up.
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  Speaker 6: I'll hear this.
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  Speaker 5: All right, man, the smoking lamp is lit. Well, we're
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  Speaker 5: on Mars. The first man shipped from Earth to land. Man,
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  Speaker 5: we don't know what we're going to find or what
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  Speaker 5: dangers we may face. We're seventeen men on an alien world,
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  Speaker 5: and it's up to us whether we ever get home again.
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  Speaker 5: The next few hours should tell the story. And I
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  Speaker 5: want instant obedience to all commands. I'll court Marshall the
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  Speaker 5: first man who doesn't come too when he's order.
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  Speaker 6: And one other thing.
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  Speaker 5: We may be on Mars, but this is still the
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  Speaker 5: United States Naval Vesfort officers will conduct a personal and
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  Speaker 5: weapons inspection in one hour.
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  Speaker 6: That's all inspection, Captain.
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  Speaker 5: Now, mister Lustig, we've got an hour and a half
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  Speaker 5: to sweat out before we find out what's outside that airlock.
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  Speaker 6: I'd rather have a man worried about.
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  Speaker 5: His stripes about what's waiting outside on Mars.
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  Speaker 8: Now I hear this landing body report the forward airlot.
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  Speaker 8: Captain Black, Lieutenant Hinston, Lieutenant Lustig, and doctor Horse report
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  Speaker 8: immediately the forward air lock.
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  Speaker 6: He's now landing time minus five.
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  Speaker 5: And paging us, Uh you ready duck to hoist?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, mister Lastic, as ready as I will ever be.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, let's get in the lock.
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  Speaker 9: Ain's s Elastic and Horse reporting in the air luck.
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  Speaker 7: Very well, so the captain will join you.
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  Speaker 6: Four minutes to go.
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  Speaker 5: At least the captain would get here. What difference does
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  Speaker 5: it make?
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  Speaker 6: I just want to get it over with, that's all.
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  Speaker 5: Anybody got a cigarette?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: I think you're smoking too much. Lieutenant Plastic? Are you
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  Speaker 5: nervously off for your horse?
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  Speaker 10: Wondering what's hidden outside underneath that ground?
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  Speaker 6: Missed?
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  Speaker 10: I've been giving it some thought to be very interesting
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  Speaker 10: to find out a very unusual planet, Mars.
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  Speaker 7: Why it has an atmosphere?
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  Speaker 10: A wonderful thing in an atmosphere where you find one,
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  Speaker 10: you find.
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  Speaker 6: Life in Martians. What do you think they'll look like?
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  Speaker 7: Who knows? Intelligent life can take many forms.
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  Speaker 5: I mean they may have green skins and eyes on
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  Speaker 5: stalks or something.
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  Speaker 10: The comic book conception is possible, of course. Or they
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  Speaker 10: may have developed beyond us. Perhaps they have a science
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  Speaker 10: that can produce weapons far more dangerous than our atomic missiles.
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  Speaker 6: You think we may have to fight our way.
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  Speaker 7: Out, after all, we are invaders. I am this landing
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  Speaker 7: time minus two?
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  Speaker 6: All right? All right, we heard this, and I'd like
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  Speaker 6: to find outside that air lock. Go Illinois? Ever been there?
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  Speaker 6: Lasting homely Chicago?
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  Speaker 11: You want to see my hometown green lawns, big white houses.
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  Speaker 6: Sounds like my hometown. My grandmother used to have one
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  Speaker 6: of those ion deer on the lawn. Every Halloween. We'd
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  Speaker 6: paint another color.
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  Speaker 5: One time we painted in black and white, like a
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  Speaker 5: Hallstein cow. Where does your family live, doctor Houst, I.
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  Speaker 7: Have no family.
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  Speaker 10: When I was a child, they were guests of death
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  Speaker 10: in the Daho concentration camp. Tough, No, it has its advantages.
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  Speaker 10: I have no ties on Earth. Nothing to lose now
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  Speaker 10: I met, and I'm the.
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  Speaker 5: Only one on board who was free to enjoy our
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  Speaker 5: present peculiar position. All right, Masters, you can button it
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  Speaker 5: up now. Well, gentlemen, check your sidearms. In one minute,
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  Speaker 5: will be the first men to set foot on Mars.
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  Speaker 10: Quite an honor, right, as long as the metals are
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  Speaker 10: not rewarded posthumously.
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  Speaker 6: Still uneasy, doctor Hurst, Captain.
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  Speaker 10: Black, I've been uneasy ever since I can remember, on
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  Speaker 10: Earth and on Mars.
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  Speaker 5: Well, thirty seconds. Give me the intercom phone listing. Yes
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  Speaker 5: it Masters, battle stations. It'll be manned till we return.
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  Speaker 5: If we're not back in two hours, I want no
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  Speaker 5: rescue party sent out. Blast off and save the ship.
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  Speaker 5: You understand, all right? Five seconds four three two one,
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  Speaker 5: lusting open the outer air lock.
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  Speaker 6: I say, it's fresh air. Let's go.
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  Speaker 5: All right, now, take it easy. It's too dark to
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  Speaker 5: move fast. Fire, isn't it not even a wind? Can't
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  Speaker 5: see anything for miss Groundness. We're gonna what's out here?
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  Speaker 6: All right? Come on? What the chaps and I can
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  Speaker 6: swear it. That sounds like a rooster.
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  Speaker 7: I don't hear it anymore.
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  Speaker 10: Very homely but unlikely sound a rooster crowing on moss piston.
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  Speaker 5: I said, set that machine gun twenty five yards to
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  Speaker 5: the flank. We'll stay here to the ground, Miss lifts,
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  Speaker 5: I said, what do you make of the ground?
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  Speaker 7: Horse grass, plain grass?
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  Speaker 10: You can see some large foliage there with the mists
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  Speaker 10: thin down.
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  Speaker 6: Hold you fire, you fool my head, Captain, some kind
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  Speaker 6: of wild animal.
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  Speaker 12: I hit it.
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  Speaker 9: I could see the tracers, but it's still standing.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, Horst, Doctor Berger.
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  Speaker 7: Off ahead, admiring the wild animal.
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  Speaker 6: Careful, Herst, wait for us.
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  Speaker 10: I don't worry, Captain. It's an iron deer a lawn
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  Speaker 10: on the money. That's impossible. It's hollow. Interesting, isn't it?
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  Speaker 5: A white washed Victorian iron deer is sitting on a
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  Speaker 5: lawn in the middle of mass.
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  Speaker 6: I don't understand.
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  Speaker 7: Look around the mists, lifting the captain.
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  Speaker 5: Look there it's a house, a regular old fashioned house.
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  Speaker 6: Sir, 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 the geraniums.
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  Speaker 6: There, that's what it was.
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  Speaker 5: A rooster, Captain, you give me the glasses, lustig, I
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  Speaker 5: want to take a look for that front window. There's
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  Speaker 5: an upright piano, some sheet music on it, plastic, it's
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  Speaker 5: it's beautiful.
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  Speaker 6: Ohio, I can't, hors horst.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think that civilization of two planets could be identical?
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  Speaker 10: I don't know that specific variety of uraniums is only
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  Speaker 10: fifty years old or not?
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  Speaker 5: Is it logical? But they should develop in Mars. How
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  Speaker 5: about that port, swing of the piano and beautiful Ohio?
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  Speaker 5: Why it's impossible, Captain Black, This looks like the town
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  Speaker 5: I was born in.
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  Speaker 6: It looks like my hometown too. I thought it something, Sir.
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  Speaker 6: It's the only solution.
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  Speaker 11: Maybe maybe we're not the first ship to reach Marsamarth.
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  Speaker 5: Don't be ridiculous, lusting, Oh how else can you explain it?
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  Speaker 6: I suppose some scientists got together. They invented some spaceship
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  Speaker 6: and planet a colony. Year, that's the only answer.
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  Speaker 5: That's some possible lusting ben space trouble. It couldn't be secret.
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  Speaker 5: Do you have any idea what ships cost, what industrial
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  Speaker 5: powers needed? No, there's got to be some logical reason.
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  Speaker 10: I think perhaps we might find out. Captain the light
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  Speaker 10: just went on, and then how.
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  Speaker 5: Thingston covered that door of the machine gun? I say,
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  Speaker 5: all right, come on, horseman, we're going to ring that doorbell.
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  Speaker 5: There's got to be a scientific answer to all this.
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  Speaker 10: And there's something moving in there. Stand back course, give
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  Speaker 10: me a clear shot, and you're sure a bullet can
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  Speaker 10: stop a martian?
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  Speaker 6: Steady?
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  Speaker 12: Now?
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  Speaker 13: Can I help you?
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  Speaker 12: Right?
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  Speaker 6: Will we?
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  Speaker 13: If you're selling anything, it's much to earn.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no, wait just a minute. What what town
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  Speaker 5: is this?
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  Speaker 13: What do you mean are you census takers?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 10: No, we're strangers here. We want to know how this
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  Speaker 10: town got here.
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  Speaker 7: Is this a game? No, No, it's not a game.
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  Speaker 6: We're from Earth.
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  Speaker 7: From where from Earth?
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  Speaker 13: Do you mean? Out of the ground?
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  Speaker 6: Are you sure you're feeling well? Madam?
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  Speaker 5: We came in a flying ship across space. We're from
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  Speaker 5: the third planet Earth. This is Mars. Now do you
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  Speaker 5: understand Mars?
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  Speaker 13: You go away.
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  Speaker 14: Now you're here, I'll call my husband from stairs and
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  Speaker 14: you'll chase you go on.
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  Speaker 7: This is Mars, isn't it.
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  Speaker 14: This is Green Lake, Wisconsin, in the United States of America, bounded.
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  Speaker 13: On the east by the Advantage and on the west
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  Speaker 13: by the Pacific. Now go away, goodbye, Furst.
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  Speaker 5: Do you suppose it's really pass I've got to find
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  Speaker 5: out more about this.
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  Speaker 13: I told you, I call my husband.
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  Speaker 3: Now you go away.
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  Speaker 5: You've got to tell me one thing first. What year
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  Speaker 5: is this year?
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  Speaker 13: Nineteen twenty eight? Of course, for.
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  Speaker 5: Goodness sake, you hear that horse, and we know it's
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  Speaker 5: nineteen eighty seven, and we know.
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  Speaker 6: This is Mars.
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  Speaker 5: The horse is impossible that we got poled up, made
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  Speaker 5: some tremendous blunder, circled around and landed back on Earth
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  Speaker 5: in nineteen twenty eight.
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  Speaker 6: Well maybe some switch in time or dimension.
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  Speaker 15: Could we have shifted somehow gone gone backward in time?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, horse, this won't hold water. It's it's not logical.
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  Speaker 5: We've we checked every mile. We went past the Moon
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  Speaker 5: out into space where we're on Mars. Lustick out a
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  Speaker 5: point Taston in the rear keep that gun at half load.
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  Speaker 5: I said, of course, there's got to be some cold
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  Speaker 5: logical solution.
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  Speaker 6: Cap.
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  Speaker 5: But that house down the street, the white were the
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  Speaker 5: green shutters leusting?
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  Speaker 6: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 15: I never thought, I never put up nothing.
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  Speaker 5: Let's the come back here running for that house, crazy
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  Speaker 5: fool leprin quick ross they stopped?
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  Speaker 6: Come down? What the devil do you think you're doing?
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  Speaker 6: But Tama, Grandpa, is you laste?
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  Speaker 5: What is going on here?
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  Speaker 6: Elbus?
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  Speaker 16: See it's been so many years, how you've grown so goodness?
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  Speaker 11: See, Captain, Grandma, I want you to meet my friends.
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  Speaker 11: This is Captain Black. Captain, I want you to meet
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  Speaker 11: my grandfather.
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  Speaker 6: Party.
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  Speaker 9: Any friend of Albert is a friend of ours.
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  Speaker 6: How long have you been here, Grandma?
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  Speaker 14: Oh?
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  Speaker 13: A good many years. Ever since we died.
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  Speaker 6: Ever since you what?
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  Speaker 12: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, they've been dead thirty years?
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  Speaker 12: What? Oh?
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  Speaker 14: Now, don't you trouble yourself. It's all right. We're alive again.
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  Speaker 7: That's all you.
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  Speaker 6: Mean to tell me? That Mars is heaven own nunsense?
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  Speaker 9: No, all we know is here.
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  Speaker 16: We're alive again, And who are we to question God's
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  Speaker 16: infinite ways? Last think we're going back to the ship
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  Speaker 16: cat And I want to talk to my grand.
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  Speaker 5: Kind of blusting. I don't like any part of this.
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  Speaker 5: You'll come back with us if I have to club
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  Speaker 5: you and carry you.
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  Speaker 6: I said, now let's go.
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  Speaker 5: Heavin only knows what they've run up against. Back of
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  Speaker 5: the ship.
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  Speaker 6: Horse.
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  Speaker 15: Look at that crowd around the ship.
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  Speaker 10: It's like we're being welcome with a celebration, cap.
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  Speaker 15: Celebration like abandoned ship.
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  Speaker 5: Every report is open. No guard said you do master?
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  Speaker 6: Hi, you captain?
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  Speaker 9: Beat my old dad.
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  Speaker 3: That's hell. I'm black.
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  Speaker 9: I've got a bad eye for or not. I'm on
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  Speaker 9: Hayston and what's it?
• 16:39
  Speaker 15: Bring that band back?
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  Speaker 5: Use four of you? I have to yeah, Oh, excuse me,
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  Speaker 5: says my uncle joy Hatest will be right back.
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: Have an uncle toy? What the devil?
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  Speaker 5: Don't understand? So they've all found friends and relevant.
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  Speaker 10: Look that they're all here, right, I've founded the whole
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  Speaker 10: crews out in the crowd.
• 16:52
  Speaker 9: But I gave orders.
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  Speaker 15: Coming to an order is don't understand, cap, I understand
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  Speaker 15: new to me.
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  Speaker 5: I don't care how many.
• 16:57
  Speaker 9: Relatives show up.
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: I'll have get the mont Honey.
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  Speaker 9: Johnny, you old son of a gun with you?
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  Speaker 6: Edward?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, of course it is Johnny.
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  Speaker 5: Johnny, doctor Horst, this is my brother Edward.
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  Speaker 7: How do you do?
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  Speaker 9: Hello, sir, It's.
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  Speaker 6: Wonderful to see you, Edward.
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  Speaker 5: Look, I've I've got to get back to my ship.
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  Speaker 9: Johnny.
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  Speaker 17: Wait, I almost forgot. Mom's waiting at home. Mom, Yeah,
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  Speaker 17: and dad? Do Mom and dander alive? When when your
• 17:36
  Speaker 17: real head?
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  Speaker 15: Well, of course, don't I feel for you, my head.
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  Speaker 18: We've got lunch for you, Johnny, Mom's making corn fit.
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  Speaker 6: It's doctor Horst.
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  Speaker 5: I havn't two found anybody?
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  Speaker 7: Oh no, God, no, I have nobody.
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  Speaker 6: Well, then you come on home with me, right, Ed?
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  Speaker 17: Why?
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  Speaker 5: Sure, Hearst Hairst. You wouldn't believe it. But it's been
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: thirty five years since I had mom's car fitters, Bye, George,
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: thirty five years.
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  Speaker 13: And there's plenty more in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 14: So don't hold back, Johnny YouTube Doctor Horace.
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  Speaker 9: Well, Johnny, you're stealing the Navy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right, Dad, I'm in command of the ship.
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  Speaker 5: We're an old Navy family, Doctor Horse. All three of
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: our boys in the seven ed was the best pilot
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  Speaker 5: in the Pacific Tool What did happen?
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  Speaker 17: Ed?
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  Speaker 7: What's the difference?
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  Speaker 9: I'm here now?
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, but you know it's almost perfect. All we're missing
• 18:44
  Speaker 14: is your brother Will. Then the whole family could be together.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it won't be long.
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  Speaker 5: Mom, Will's in charge of the XR fifty four next
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  Speaker 5: rocket coming out to Mars. Well, little Will, when does
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: he leave Johnny when they take off schedule for September?
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: But it depends on.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: What we report. Oh yeah, there's no question about that.
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: Christmas together again, that'll be.
• 19:03
  Speaker 9: Something you really yes, siree, Well this calls for celebration.
• 19:08
  Speaker 9: How about a little of the old dandelion wine are now?
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: Father?
• 19:11
  Speaker 13: Don't you go giving Johnny too much one?
• 19:14
  Speaker 9: He's a big boy now, mother, Well, sir everything does finne?
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: Man, play that one again? Will your help?
• 19:44
  Speaker 11: Sure?
• 19:50
  Speaker 14: Well, doctor Horst, what are you doing sitting over here alone?
• 19:55
  Speaker 13: What do you think of my little family?
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: Very nice?
• 19:58
  Speaker 13: You know, I can't understand.
• 20:00
  Speaker 14: And why you didn't find any folks here, doctor Horst,
• 20:03
  Speaker 14: It's just a shame. Everybody else is so happy.
• 20:06
  Speaker 10: I never remembered my family, Missus Black. All I know
• 20:09
  Speaker 10: is they were gassed at Daha during the Second World War.
• 20:12
  Speaker 10: When I was liberated, I was in delirium three months.
• 20:14
  Speaker 10: I cannot remember anything before then. A psychiatric phenomena.
• 20:18
  Speaker 13: That's terrible. Isn't there anything anybody can do?
• 20:21
  Speaker 10: I don't want to remember. I have not had a
• 20:24
  Speaker 10: pleasant life. I prefer to be free of emotional entanglements.
• 20:27
  Speaker 10: They interfere with a scientific approach.
• 20:30
  Speaker 13: I'm sorry, doctor Horst.
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: I'll get it.
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: That's our ring long and three shorts.
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: I remember that.
• 20:40
  Speaker 14: Well, maybe we'd better call it a night. You must
• 20:42
  Speaker 14: be getting tired, Johnny, i'd better be going.
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: Back to the ship.
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: Nonsense, you stay the night, we'd see it.
• 20:47
  Speaker 13: I just couldn't rest thinking of you all alone on
• 20:50
  Speaker 13: that ship.
• 20:51
  Speaker 18: I'll be all right, Well, good night. Wait a minute,
• 20:54
  Speaker 18: doctor Horst. That phone message was for you me. Yes,
• 20:58
  Speaker 18: that's right, A message from Anna. No, I don't know there.
• 21:03
  Speaker 13: She must be an old friend. Isn't that nice?
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: I don't I should was for me. I don't remember
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: any Anna.
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: She asked if you were better.
• 21:12
  Speaker 13: Perhaps she's someone who knew.
• 21:13
  Speaker 18: You at Dahoo said, she's coming over here first thing
• 21:16
  Speaker 18: in the morning.
• 21:17
  Speaker 9: So you have to stay over.
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: Yes, but that it.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: Then you stay here, horse, you can bunk with me
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: in my old room.
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 21:23
  Speaker 9: But Johnny, we thought you'd like to be.
• 21:25
  Speaker 13: With Edward so you could talk the way you're used to.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: We can't put doctor Horse on the day bed. I
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: think we better share the room tonight. There be plenty
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: of time for talking.
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: Ed, Yes, I guess so.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: I suppose I better dropped back to the ship, you know,
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: ed security check.
• 21:38
  Speaker 13: But why do you have to do that here?
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: I don't know, Mom, is no good reason. I guess
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: it was.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: Suppose we skip it tonight. Well, good night, everybody.
• 21:49
  Speaker 13: Oh, it's good Dad, your home, Johnny, it's.
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: Good to be home.
• 21:53
  Speaker 12: Mom, catain black, Huh you asleep?
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: No?
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: No, I've been thinking about what we were expecting, green
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: skinned martians All the time there was only Mom and
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: Dad and Edward waiting. That's funny. What tricks your imagination
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: can play on you. Oh, I guess Mars is heaven Horse.
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: You know, I've been thinking about Martians too. Gotten.
• 22:39
  Speaker 10: Just suppose suppose there were Martians, you know, and they
• 22:43
  Speaker 10: saw us land, and suppose they thought of us as invaders.
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: What would be the best weapon they could use against
• 22:49
  Speaker 10: our appom bombs.
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: I don't see what you're getting at.
• 22:52
  Speaker 10: They would want to disarm us first, huh, to wipe
• 22:55
  Speaker 10: out all suspicions. Can make us feel at home? Suppose
• 23:02
  Speaker 10: this house isn't real. I suppose the people are just
• 23:06
  Speaker 10: images stolen from our own memories by Martians, created for
• 23:10
  Speaker 10: us by telepathy.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: That's the craziest theory I ever heard.
• 23:15
  Speaker 10: Maybe that's why there was no one for me, because
• 23:17
  Speaker 10: in all my life there is no happy memory, no
• 23:19
  Speaker 10: real love person, not even my mother. I don't remember her,
• 23:21
  Speaker 10: only the piles of rotten compass of Daha. There was
• 23:24
  Speaker 10: no happy emotion for these people to recreate.
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: How about that phone call Anna?
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: Yes, Anna, I didn't remember who she was. That I
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: do now.
• 23:34
  Speaker 10: I just remember when I was freed from Daha, sick, delirious,
• 23:40
  Speaker 10: I raved about a wonderful kind nurse named Anna that
• 23:43
  Speaker 10: took care of her.
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: You were It's largical She's coming to see you tomorrow.
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: But there was no Anna. I've been nursed by a man.
• 23:49
  Speaker 10: Anna was only a dream, and there's only one way
• 23:52
  Speaker 10: they could have learned about her by reading my subconscious mind.
• 23:55
  Speaker 10: That's impossible, herd, why the whole crew was thinking of home.
• 24:00
  Speaker 10: Suppose the martians read our mind. If there are Martians.
• 24:03
  Speaker 10: If there are, they have a separated each man in
• 24:07
  Speaker 10: a different house, sleeping, trusting no one at the guns,
• 24:16
  Speaker 10: and I.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: Left my pistol downstairs. Do you think there's something to
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: this course? It's a perfect trap, Captain. Who would suspect
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: his own mother, his grandparents?
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: How easy? Just a knife in the heart of each
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: sleeping man.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: That's impossible, Horst. But we've we've got to get back
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: to the ship. Listen, the crickets have stopped. Come on,
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: we don't know when they change back to what happened.
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: They really are like.
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: Carol, where are you going? John Head?
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: We we wanted to drink of water.
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: That's that's all ed.
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: You're not mercy, John. You don't want a dream.
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: Look out, you don't. It's it's changing. He's a mass.
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: Run horse, run, you can get away? This horse? Har fire? Hello, Hello,
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: can you hear me? Earth? This?
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: This is Captain John Black the x R fifty three
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: calling from ours. I've blocked myself in the ship, but
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: they've crippled it. I can't take off a fire of
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: the guns and they're coming from me now, the martians.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: I'm all alone here. All the rest are dead. Kingston,
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: lustic doctor horse, poor horse.
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: He didn't even reach the door.
• 25:47
  Speaker 15: Listen, listen, they're trying to break through.
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: The hall Edward and Mom cast all the folks.
• 25:52
  Speaker 15: But they're changing now, they're melting and changing back into
• 25:56
  Speaker 15: their Martians. Can you understand martians?
• 25:59
  Speaker 9: Men?
• 26:00
  Speaker 15: They think that Mars was heaven and we talked to
• 26:02
  Speaker 15: the trap.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: Can you hear me, Earth.
• 26:04
  Speaker 15: You've got this, got the next rocket?
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: Listen, tell my brother.
• 26:07
  Speaker 15: Will tell my brother not the calm. They'll trap him too.
• 26:10
  Speaker 15: Tell them all, Hello, Hello, can you hear me Arth?
• 26:14
  Speaker 15: This is John Black on Mars. Hello Earth, This is
• 26:19
  Speaker 15: John Black on Mars.
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: Hello Hell.
• 26:28
  Speaker 19: Tonight X minus one has brought you the science fiction
• 26:31
  Speaker 19: classic Mars Is Heaven, written by Ray Bradbury and adapted
• 26:36
  Speaker 19: for radio by Ernest Canoy. Featured in the cast were
• 26:40
  Speaker 19: Wendell Holmes as Captain Black and Peter Cappel as Doctor Horst,
• 26:43
  Speaker 19: with Bill Zuckard as Masters, Bill Lifton as Hingston, Margaret
• 26:46
  Speaker 19: Berlin as the Old Lady, Bill Griffis as Edward, Ken
• 26:49
  Speaker 19: Williams as Lustic Ethel, Everetts Mom, and Edwin Jerome as Dad.
• 26:52
  Speaker 19: You're announcer Fred Collins. X minus one was directed by
• 26:55
  Speaker 19: Fred Wayne as a transcribed NBC Radio Network production.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Of Minus one.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: We Close with X minus one and Mars Is Heaven
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: from May eighth, nineteen fifty five. This is Victor Sterling.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Until next time, goodnight. Follow Old Time Sci Fi Radio
• 27:27
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