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Dimension X - "Mars Is Heaven" (Old Time Radio, 1951) · The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time Radio

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