Latest / Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio / Tales of Tomorrow - ”Morrow on Mars” (Science Fiction Radio Drama, 1953)
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- 0:22Speaker 1: All round human imagination until they happen. Ever, tomorrow number fourteen.
- 0:34Speaker 1: Now I'm no, this is.
- 0:44Speaker 2: Your host comment or saying hello for ABC.
- 0:53Speaker 1: How more it thinkable?
- 0:54Speaker 2: They think that by the year four thousands, when the.
- 0:58Speaker 3: Colonization of the Plan a miss a fact, the folks.
- 1:03Speaker 2: Up there won't be too much different.
- 1:05Speaker 3: Than we are today, only perhaps wiser until our tale.
- 1:11Speaker 3: He is the sun of Matt Marle, editor of the
- 1:15Speaker 3: successful telepaper The Mine Used, and of what happened after
- 1:20Speaker 3: the strange little man walked into his office.
- 1:30Speaker 1: I don't know how the little man got into my
- 1:32Speaker 1: office in the pres One minute, I was alone on
- 1:35Speaker 1: my desk in minus just anything up a conversation with
- 1:38Speaker 1: the Earth, because a million miles of space. And the
- 1:41Speaker 1: next minute there he was. It was having a little
- 1:46Speaker 1: He was incungerent on the ear pair of piles, and
- 1:50Speaker 1: everyone on mys there streamline clothes run out of silicon
- 1:54Speaker 1: and fabric hard aluminum. But not him. He wore a
- 1:57Speaker 1: shiny blue serge suit and I always heard was a
- 2:00Speaker 1: fur hat. Fin just went out of Scarle back on
- 2:04Speaker 1: Earth hundreds of years ago. He was little. He was
- 2:08Speaker 1: in congruors and he was wiping.
- 2:18Speaker 4: Tomorrow my name is Rinker, that your aighborhood. I must
- 2:23Speaker 4: speak to you.
- 2:23Speaker 1: Because because you're get in here.
- 2:25Speaker 4: On the chief that was us time being changed.
- 2:29Speaker 1: The word did you get that hut?
- 2:30Speaker 4: Is from my grandfather. This hat carries my hearing aid,
- 2:34Speaker 4: So what my hearing aid inside the hat? But please tomorrow,
- 2:40Speaker 4: I arrived on Yes, it rocked from Earth special tim
- 2:43Speaker 4: Day tour and all that. I'm extremely agitated, mister Morrow.
- 2:46Speaker 4: Do you realize what's going on across mind at the
- 2:50Speaker 4: at the pine nutree of Minefield?
- 2:52Speaker 1: Here the cliffs are kind or mercer or not? You too?
- 2:55Speaker 1: Now I've just finished talking to her few people down there,
- 3:00Speaker 1: all of all parvate rumors about bars, warbbling and disorder.
- 3:03Speaker 4: They they're rumors, I assure you all. Look my Winker,
- 3:07Speaker 4: Professor Abelewinker, formerly Professor of myth Allergy at the Massachusetts
- 3:12Speaker 4: Student Technology in the mission tomorrow, you really must listen
- 3:16Speaker 4: to me.
- 3:16Speaker 1: I had done have much time, and there's nothing that replice.
- 3:19Speaker 1: Oh there is there is indeed.
- 3:21Speaker 5: This planet Mars.
- 3:22Speaker 1: It's it's very strange.
- 3:25Speaker 4: And what's begin with yellow plants of grease that I
- 3:31Speaker 4: would say miss to Morrow, I want you to examine
- 3:33Speaker 4: my wrist watch, my wrist watch mis tomorrow. Really it's
- 3:38Speaker 4: a vis and importance. Now now let me get it
- 3:41Speaker 4: off my witch. The crasty hard to manic.
- 3:47Speaker 1: Someone viewing me barnismorrow, Oh, Glen thelone arter. What's the
- 3:55Speaker 1: wire for? Is the c a lawyer hostess every five?
- 3:58Speaker 1: Every five at all?
- 4:00Speaker 4: Hey, that's quite an out of steel way you mean this?
- 4:04Speaker 1: Yeah? I like the way it things out. Uh, it's ten.
- 4:09Speaker 1: I'm glen. It's said a good luck like s m.
- 4:15Speaker 1: You weren't wedding that when I left the house this morning.
- 4:18Speaker 1: Otherwise I just stayed flattered. But I'm so glad you.
- 4:21Speaker 4: I I know it didn't quite what they'd approved of.
- 4:24Speaker 1: On Earth honor there behind the times. This is mys not. Look, honey,
- 4:29Speaker 1: I'm busy. You'll sling you mine.
- 4:30Speaker 6: Noh, have you seen my wedding ring? The wedding ring,
- 4:33Speaker 6: I've looked everywhere, and you know how expensive, but try
- 4:36Speaker 6: nutrient ring is much more expensive than gold. They never
- 4:40Speaker 6: get a sentimental house.
- 4:41Speaker 1: Oh it'll turn out money. It don't look so worried.
- 4:44Speaker 4: I can't help it.
- 4:44Speaker 5: I could cry.
- 4:45Speaker 1: Well, I'll be home in half an hour.
- 4:47Speaker 4: It must be on something that I've serious.
- 4:50Speaker 1: Oh what, no matter, what are you saying of me?
- 4:54Speaker 6: For I'm gotter do that behind you?
- 4:58Speaker 1: I've turned rhy. The traw hat was gone get away
- 5:04Speaker 1: while I talked to Glen, but he'd left his whip watch.
- 5:08Speaker 1: Not on top of my desk, not on top of anything,
- 5:12Speaker 1: or watch a suspended floating in the air. Tired, Now,
- 5:23Speaker 1: I'm glad I'm home. You didn't find him, No, and
- 5:28Speaker 1: I searched for three hours, hand running.
- 5:31Speaker 4: I even checked the Planet Security Police.
- 5:33Speaker 5: Was he really a professor Darling?
- 5:35Speaker 1: He said? So? Why?
- 5:37Speaker 6: It reminded me of that character and love and live.
- 5:42Speaker 1: Still listening to those Earth Shape operation.
- 5:44Speaker 4: Eyes really enjoying.
- 5:46Speaker 6: But Matt, I could agree with him.
- 5:48Speaker 4: In the buscop you guarded talking this is queer to
- 5:51Speaker 4: the man, oh fighting little man, And I couldn't help
- 5:54Speaker 4: thinking it might be some kind of hoax. Honey, I've
- 6:00Speaker 4: still got his watch, and look it's still flop through
- 6:05Speaker 4: the air.
- 6:06Speaker 6: That's what I mean. These days magicians a sch rend
- 6:10Speaker 6: little trip. They need atomic.
- 6:11Speaker 1: Grenergy and physics.
- 6:13Speaker 6: Well, I remember fifteen years ago, back on Earth, even
- 6:15Speaker 6: before I married the Eve and Bennie, you should lass
- 6:20Speaker 6: not my womnying what you call it? Oh no, no,
- 6:23Speaker 6: it's goodnisson, but I mean it.
- 6:25Speaker 1: Say you just watch it. He needed the same middle
- 6:29Speaker 1: try now trip.
- 6:30Speaker 6: It is last, look at the colors bright green.
- 6:34Speaker 1: It's probably imitation.
- 6:36Speaker 6: Oh you men, does it alaly take a woman to
- 6:40Speaker 6: recognize press medal? Darling, it's trying me to him.
- 6:44Speaker 1: Let me see that. Uh yeah, yeah, I guess it is.
- 6:55Speaker 1: You know he was fighting grin. He wanted to talk
- 7:00Speaker 1: before it was too late to group trying nutrient mind,
- 7:05Speaker 1: He said the clips of Kanna, a little man with
- 7:10Speaker 1: a hearing aid in his strong hat. Oh no, it's nonsense.
- 7:15Speaker 4: Nothing wrong out there, like those rumors coming from Earth.
- 7:19Speaker 4: The Mars is robbling on his taxes.
- 7:22Speaker 1: This planet is the stable as the long gravity and
- 7:25Speaker 1: science can make it. We've even stabilized the atmosphere. We
- 7:30Speaker 1: let's see the planet police calling me back. Hello Giovanni,
- 7:35Speaker 1: Hello mask Oh missus small, nice to see.
- 7:38Speaker 5: I haven't run across you since the interplanetary fashion show.
- 7:43Speaker 1: All right, all right, Chivanni, get to it.
- 7:45Speaker 5: Well, now that's no way to talk to the man
- 7:47Speaker 5: who keeps the peace on the planet.
- 7:50Speaker 4: We pays the taxes they pay your Saturday.
- 7:53Speaker 1: Now what about it, says the rinker.
- 7:55Speaker 2: Okay, okay, well we checked all over maps.
- 7:59Speaker 7: Last scene about an hour ago there City Spaceport, he
- 8:02Speaker 7: took a locket.
- 8:03Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 8:04Speaker 7: According to reports, he was talking with Dave Sedwick Edgwick,
- 8:08Speaker 7: Superintendent of to try new to your mind there at
- 8:11Speaker 7: the Karnacles the same yeah, uh, what's up tomorrow?
- 8:15Speaker 2: Who are the police?
- 8:16Speaker 1: You know? Uh? There another thing, Gil, honey, another thing O.
- 8:22Speaker 7: Thanks, thanks very much, A pleasure to.
- 8:25Speaker 2: See you again, missus Morrow.
- 8:27Speaker 4: What you shouldn't it shouldn't have what I could do
- 8:31Speaker 4: that it wasn't important.
- 8:32Speaker 6: How did you lay?
- 8:34Speaker 3: Well?
- 8:34Speaker 1: I don't want to make fool of myself if it
- 8:37Speaker 1: turns out to be a false alarm. And on the
- 8:40Speaker 1: other hand, if there is the story of real story.
- 8:45Speaker 6: Goop tomorrow the demon reporters, and you don't have to
- 8:49Speaker 6: tell me. I can read your mind.
- 8:51Speaker 4: You're going out to Karnack.
- 8:53Speaker 1: You bet, I am. If it gets boat energized.
- 8:56Speaker 6: I had a buzz this morning. I'm going with him
- 8:59Speaker 6: that now.
- 9:00Speaker 1: Gwen.
- 9:00Speaker 6: Oh, can I cause the Vanni's back?
- 9:04Speaker 8: Uh?
- 9:05Speaker 1: Okay? Ruin two thousand miles. We ought to make that
- 9:12Speaker 1: a couple of hours. Glan handle of controls, and I
- 9:22Speaker 1: watched the left Onnion City behind they cost tomorrow to
- 9:26Speaker 1: theether with the two mush and moons putting green shadows
- 9:28Speaker 1: on the sand. The lords.
- 9:30Speaker 4: They crossed the poor white step. They came to the
- 9:32Speaker 4: tist of Conda, fifteen thousand feet high and black as
- 9:36Speaker 4: in a spell. A space anything now at a time?
- 9:40Speaker 1: Where's the time? You don be here after the west
- 9:42Speaker 1: if you're building up against the pace of the crop.
- 9:44Speaker 6: But I can land beside them now, not two close.
- 9:47Speaker 4: I want you to stay with the jets, grand You'll
- 9:48Speaker 4: be paper.
- 9:49Speaker 1: Land on the far side of that lava.
- 9:51Speaker 4: Be not that I go along with you in sunchweeks around.
- 9:54Speaker 1: I want to talk to him along.
- 10:03Speaker 2: In those hounds the middle of the night. You come
- 10:05Speaker 2: halfway on mines, just as he could have spoken to
- 10:09Speaker 2: me on the juts gold Maw. I didn't think of that,
- 10:13Speaker 2: said we care of was a gun and put it
- 10:16Speaker 2: all the way from earth.
- 10:17Speaker 1: I don't I think. Uh, just tell me about this.
- 10:21Speaker 2: Yeah, this preventsor rink he did. Team at Lincoln State
- 10:24Speaker 2: Fort said, am I did. The security police were absolutely correct.
- 10:30Speaker 2: I never met the man. The formal life come up
- 10:33Speaker 2: from me grab mom and signed up. Babbles some sort
- 10:36Speaker 2: of nonsense.
- 10:37Speaker 1: Am I telling you what he said?
- 10:39Speaker 2: Space he's trying to steel. Try and new to him
- 10:42Speaker 2: and take it back to Earth to sew on the
- 10:44Speaker 2: black mark and they make clenty.
- 10:46Speaker 1: He going to VENI fifty times as valuable.
- 10:48Speaker 2: As good hamat amansa crackpot.
- 10:51Speaker 1: Uh, there's there's been no sign of anything going wrong here.
- 10:55Speaker 2: Well, I'm the superintendent. I'd know if there was. And
- 10:58Speaker 2: you've no idea where rink is now? Not just trying
- 11:02Speaker 2: my last I saw the spell of the space board
- 11:05Speaker 2: holding on the rap draw. Mm it looks like I
- 11:09Speaker 2: came out in a wild goose k and too lady
- 11:11Speaker 2: to go to sleep. I got some terrific nineteen fifty
- 11:16Speaker 2: Ryan car O, thank ah. Suit yourself.
- 11:22Speaker 1: When you leave your.
- 11:24Speaker 2: Jet boat out across the lava bed.
- 11:27Speaker 1: And now don't part of coming with me, he said,
- 11:30Speaker 1: I have to see I had service. I left the
- 11:37Speaker 1: building and started up. I went passed the miner person
- 11:40Speaker 1: of Domonies with a miner of the speaking. I passed
- 11:44Speaker 1: the Colter building with the alic fire O the fire
- 11:47Speaker 1: like a swinging giant. I started out across the lava too,
- 11:52Speaker 1: and I found our little man with set the river.
- 11:58Speaker 6: Swiss a mile.
- 12:00Speaker 4: Oh thanks heaven biter. I'll get down to tomorrow.
- 12:03Speaker 1: Please, your clothes were all tall.
- 12:04Speaker 6: Please get down.
- 12:07Speaker 1: And it's better then.
- 12:09Speaker 4: May be searching right now, mister Morrow. I was tied
- 12:13Speaker 4: up in one of those busines beings. That's how my
- 12:16Speaker 4: clothes getting away.
- 12:17Speaker 1: You're gonna tell me about the first things. Be the work,
- 12:19Speaker 1: It's true, every word of it. I didn't you go
- 12:21Speaker 1: to the blue so I meant to. I was being possible.
- 12:26Speaker 1: The next death place was your office, you're a wild.
- 12:29Speaker 4: Where they picked up my trail again. I was too
- 12:32Speaker 4: frightened to stay, but I left my wrist watch.
- 12:35Speaker 1: Say yeah, what about that risk watch? Well that's the group.
- 12:38Speaker 4: The fact that the wristwatch is lighter than the Marsian
- 12:41Speaker 4: atmosphere is the if.
- 12:44Speaker 1: I was here rest today.
- 12:46Speaker 2: I came up from Earth and.
- 12:47Speaker 4: The sight see with them. The first thing I wanted
- 12:49Speaker 4: to see was the try and the tree of mine,
- 12:52Speaker 4: and that's how I stumbled on it. I walked the
- 12:56Speaker 4: des tomorle Yes, yes, Ye're using a special process to
- 13:02Speaker 4: light the try new tree, to make a rock of
- 13:04Speaker 4: it to earth between men. Dis quantity, Oh, this sw
- 13:09Speaker 4: I baby. The security police must be motified.
- 13:12Speaker 1: Thing must be told that a dread Oh look yeah,
- 13:18Speaker 1: standing in front of the buildings.
- 13:19Speaker 4: There's some of my absences from the house.
- 13:21Speaker 1: The moment I get the right here when they come,
- 13:26Speaker 1: they get the top a head on the part part
- 13:28Speaker 1: of that bo boulder. I live.
- 13:34Speaker 5: Where I am not.
- 13:36Speaker 1: I haven't use an aferis let me. He's going to
- 13:40Speaker 1: let the way I get, I'm going make it. Having
- 13:43Speaker 1: come on, they're taking here the bolder. They jump in
- 13:47Speaker 1: the tete there we'll go far behind the lovers. The
- 13:53Speaker 1: dress was gone.
- 13:54Speaker 5: There was no sign of it anywhere.
- 13:56Speaker 1: It was just gone. Before either one of us could move.
- 13:59Speaker 1: The chase was there, but a mob came down unus.
- 14:02Speaker 1: I felt already I was stuck down me. I sat
- 14:07Speaker 1: a point of little harbor green over my read and
- 14:08Speaker 1: the moonlight when it swung in a bitious art shell
- 14:14Speaker 1: of pin urst inside my head. It went out, and
- 14:18Speaker 1: so did I. I had no idea how long Winker
- 14:25Speaker 1: and I were unconscious. The whole thing I became aware
- 14:28Speaker 1: was the sort of bobbing hum. But the moment I
- 14:30Speaker 1: thought it was then with the jets. Until I opened
- 14:33Speaker 1: my eyes, I said, pressure on my wrists and looked
- 14:37Speaker 1: at I sat strapped to a metal chair and sad
- 14:41Speaker 1: the little professor. We won't seeming anything quitable fashion as
- 14:44Speaker 1: the electric chairs on earth, and our situation was partly
- 14:48Speaker 1: less dangerous than if we had been. The room had
- 14:50Speaker 1: one curved wall that throb of the condensers told me
- 14:55Speaker 1: the rest. We were prisoners in the space bocket that
- 14:59Speaker 1: had to become in born in the bing green light
- 15:02Speaker 1: of all I could tell, I start, The professor slumped
- 15:05Speaker 1: down out.
- 15:07Speaker 5: Then with it and sha.
- 15:13Speaker 2: All hatchet and secure checked taste. About eight seconds take off.
- 15:21Speaker 1: I recognized coutlicas check was a space park. Turn up.
- 15:32Speaker 5: Yet up?
- 15:45Speaker 2: Well, no, I mean see you whether the take off
- 15:49Speaker 2: or where are we said? We the right five thousand
- 15:53Speaker 2: miles up and stay. We reached maximum clearations ten minutes ago.
- 15:58Speaker 2: All I could deserve out from your hit. The years
- 16:00Speaker 2: happened sphere approximately through days.
- 16:02Speaker 4: Oh oh, this is that regis list the saguation. You
- 16:08Speaker 4: can't steal train the trip.
- 16:09Speaker 2: It's a long, professor, you're being all fresh and raf.
- 16:14Speaker 2: We ought to put you back to three pusures. You're
- 16:17Speaker 2: the crailo amount of times professors of normal pall that
- 16:21Speaker 2: comes before long. I've got the fall.
- 16:24Speaker 1: Take with your thinking the density of bars every time
- 16:27Speaker 1: you decrease.
- 16:27Speaker 2: The way to trying to give you increase the way
- 16:29Speaker 2: to bars.
- 16:29Speaker 1: To get your right.
- 16:31Speaker 4: You're right, recycle taken a little out of the door.
- 16:34Speaker 5: But he's a house.
- 16:35Speaker 2: Oh think that myth maybe a half or brillion dollars worth.
- 16:40Speaker 4: You may not be able to control the process. Miss
- 16:43Speaker 4: your situated. When we reached the Earth, I shall report it.
- 16:46Speaker 1: I lost check this outs. Earth is a long way off, erectly.
- 16:51Speaker 2: A long long way off.
- 16:54Speaker 4: So it's but I I don't understand that.
- 16:58Speaker 2: Jim Well a busybody, PROFESSORIK a scientific busybody. He had
- 17:08Speaker 2: to comesniffing around the finestrian beggings and the and then
- 17:13Speaker 2: off your guard to the security police.
- 17:16Speaker 4: I'll try the castle ready.
- 17:18Speaker 2: H Some of my men were after you, but you
- 17:22Speaker 2: got to his R's office, didn't you. I didn't know
- 17:27Speaker 2: how much you told Tomorrow the boy you got scared
- 17:30Speaker 2: off again?
- 17:30Speaker 1: You don't tell me much, SEGREI got.
- 17:32Speaker 2: Turn off to make you another busy about it. Yeah,
- 17:37Speaker 2: now you're again out in space. Why do you think
- 17:43Speaker 2: I brought you to a uh? I'll tell you shot
- 17:48Speaker 2: for the althemus Yeah.
- 17:50Speaker 1: Don't be funny.
- 17:51Speaker 2: Segree met them bring in the state such.
- 18:00Speaker 7: Boots.
- 18:01Speaker 4: So let's see, I said, we got I don't come
- 18:04Speaker 4: to his Yeah, missed a mile.
- 18:07Speaker 2: It's nothing steading where I think is planning to get
- 18:09Speaker 2: rid of this?
- 18:10Speaker 4: I said, So that's hiculous. I'll give you.
- 18:13Speaker 2: Why not beg enough to hide you too forever?
- 18:18Speaker 4: Say that would be ready.
- 18:19Speaker 1: The body is where to.
- 18:20Speaker 2: Be found, but they would think of looking for you
- 18:23Speaker 2: and in her planet's face your for wurs enough oxygen
- 18:29Speaker 2: of the office for twenty four hours if you don't
- 18:33Speaker 2: get excited and breathe too fast?
- 18:36Speaker 1: Thank wey? What did you do with the jets?
- 18:37Speaker 2: And where's my wife?
- 18:39Speaker 1: Why worry about her?
- 18:41Speaker 2: You won't be seeing her anymore. I might spend some
- 18:44Speaker 2: time and get him into the flooring boots. We'll eject
- 18:49Speaker 2: them out of the fold the escape hat behind work
- 18:52Speaker 2: off Tella from her.
- 19:00Speaker 1: Nothing we could do. They were on and we had
- 19:02Speaker 1: our choice of being talked out dead or living a
- 19:05Speaker 1: while longer. The helmets were snapped on our heads.
- 19:10Speaker 5: We were stealed off in.
- 19:11Speaker 2: The escape hatch.
- 19:14Speaker 5: The outer shell open in the air from inside the
- 19:16Speaker 5: space ship pushed us out to the empty vacuum of
- 19:19Speaker 5: interplanetary space.
- 19:22Speaker 1: It's kind of ridiculous.
- 19:24Speaker 5: In one of his investor's clubs, the little professor was
- 19:27Speaker 5: still holding off his precious straw hats. Professor Helmi, the
- 19:34Speaker 5: director conferent on prother he very will now get out
- 19:42Speaker 5: loud again, looking at us from it by the walker
- 19:45Speaker 5: and you st yes had waking his west. Now why
- 19:51Speaker 5: don't they call.
- 19:52Speaker 4: Away from.
- 19:54Speaker 5: Franky? But they could easily based on what hock did
- 19:59Speaker 5: you get, and that would leave us behind, but would
- 20:02Speaker 5: be out of their gravitation voluntary. And I wish they would,
- 20:06Speaker 5: And so Sam, we'd be all along, yeah, completely alone,
- 20:11Speaker 5: you and me and George straw hat professor. He gets
- 20:15Speaker 5: me to my arm, tell me one thing, Why are
- 20:18Speaker 5: you holding onto that hat?
- 20:20Speaker 1: I had to.
- 20:22Speaker 4: Go fik inside space held me.
- 20:26Speaker 5: After that, I ran out of word. We addressed his
- 20:28Speaker 5: saying nothing. With a strange feeling all around this complete blackness.
- 20:33Speaker 1: Typt of the different stars, I revolved slowly, without waiting,
- 20:37Speaker 1: without something.
- 20:39Speaker 5: Sex Week decided to leave us. I saw him waves,
- 20:43Speaker 5: I saw a blinding pleasure.
- 20:44Speaker 1: He saw.
- 20:46Speaker 5: After a while, the.
- 20:47Speaker 3: Awful cold here to creep it.
- 20:50Speaker 5: Professor's fingers got numb and he let go of his hat.
- 20:53Speaker 5: It floated beside him. Get hold, I followed, Johanni, you
- 20:59Speaker 5: know what a fool I made the calling in on it.
- 21:03Speaker 5: I listened to the silence of an empty space.
- 21:12Speaker 1: Ody. It wasn't silent.
- 21:16Speaker 5: I heard a sound of my earphones. I heard it again,
- 21:22Speaker 5: the red hot signal.
- 21:25Speaker 1: But it was hopeful.
- 21:28Speaker 5: I paid no attention.
- 21:30Speaker 1: The cold was numbing my fingers and my toes.
- 21:33Speaker 5: I could feel it creeping up inside my spacesuit, creeping
- 21:37Speaker 5: like an invisible giant hand that would squeeze out life.
- 21:42Speaker 5: I tried to move my fingers, but they were stiff
- 21:44Speaker 5: and crumpy. I tried to.
- 21:50Speaker 8: Provisor Professor's getting on her look lookout that it's a
- 21:56Speaker 8: look at him. Come on the planet security locker.
- 22:05Speaker 1: Can't find us. Let it all day when we got
- 22:24Speaker 1: to get a gone, we got a smart wife tomorrow.
- 22:29Speaker 2: She had among the wave radio and Don Walkee was.
- 22:32Speaker 1: Waiting for it.
- 22:33Speaker 6: Just don't operate from earth man only.
- 22:36Speaker 2: Instead, she picks up such, we're talking on the same wave.
- 22:40Speaker 2: Then wait the minefield. Right after he left his office
- 22:44Speaker 2: said we picked up his short range two way.
- 22:47Speaker 6: Talkers and then you're what ard him that I hed
- 22:49Speaker 6: kid was telling his men to go after you. You
- 22:51Speaker 6: knew too much and I had then tells him that
- 22:54Speaker 6: thefessis in great a change.
- 22:55Speaker 2: So she takes off from Kimak and radio to us.
- 22:58Speaker 2: When we get to that, it's just decided to see
- 23:01Speaker 2: that rock.
- 23:01Speaker 1: It's just the beer in the States.
- 23:03Speaker 2: So we few up and tag along front of U.
- 23:05Speaker 6: Where is the professor santancious to putting the bed mask?
- 23:09Speaker 6: He kept mumbling about us the.
- 23:11Speaker 1: Saw hat Johanni, what about Tedwick? He's the older guy
- 23:15Speaker 1: with a half a billion dollars whip of trinusium. He's
- 23:17Speaker 1: heading for the Earth. I went there just their first
- 23:20Speaker 1: no forum. How about it? You want to be part
- 23:24Speaker 1: of the reception committee. Two days later, dawn was breaking
- 23:33Speaker 1: over the Nevada high country. The air was thin and shot.
- 23:38Speaker 1: The mountains threw long blue shadows over the stunted stage
- 23:42Speaker 1: and do I lay hidden behind a passive scrut with
- 23:46Speaker 1: Gwen decide this was part of the I It was
- 23:54Speaker 1: the first time Glen has betten back on Earth when
- 23:56Speaker 1: we were married, and he was quite excited. So was
- 23:59Speaker 1: I for a different reasons. Just as the sun touched
- 24:04Speaker 1: the high moutherns and the cross word lay over the
- 24:06Speaker 1: valley began to sparkle. Just then Sedgwick's rocket drifted in
- 24:11Speaker 1: like a pale moon. He was using his remaining rocket
- 24:14Speaker 1: puel to break his speed. He made a put the
- 24:17Speaker 1: landing on his tail fins. We watched as the hat
- 24:21Speaker 1: ribbon a ladder dropped down and the crew stepped out.
- 24:27Speaker 2: Oh there's the truck.
- 24:30Speaker 1: Yet, dear, we'll pedal this stop and we'll be rich
- 24:34Speaker 1: lovely when you wait here.
- 24:37Speaker 2: Oh, mat smell the stage boy doesn't.
- 24:39Speaker 1: Sline the sage bruss.
- 24:41Speaker 5: Just keep out of sight.
- 24:42Speaker 1: I will be careful, mess, I'll worry. Keep that light
- 24:47Speaker 1: shining in his big brown eyes.
- 24:50Speaker 5: I'll be back.
- 24:53Speaker 1: I circled, hoping to get almost upon him without being noticed.
- 24:57Speaker 1: Murchison had gone into the blucket sag lay stretched out
- 25:01Speaker 1: on the ground, and I had a bit of fast
- 25:04Speaker 1: action in mind. If I could get near enough, go
- 25:08Speaker 1: on my belly a fully time. I mean that mass
- 25:13Speaker 1: fifty yards until I was within three yards, and then
- 25:20Speaker 1: that sage brush gwen led the smell of a good
- 25:24Speaker 1: whipple that came my way and us What a time
- 25:30Speaker 1: to pick up analogy said return, wow, ard me surprise
- 25:36Speaker 1: more you're supposed to. Don't even mention it, Tetrick, I've
- 25:39Speaker 1: been brewing about that nasty trick of yours. I let's
- 25:41Speaker 1: see you straight numbers, I said, now done again?
- 25:45Speaker 5: Why I had my eye com oh be gone?
- 25:52Speaker 1: Eh the topic rob every right, I'm hurry. There's a
- 26:01Speaker 1: problem of place. Well, that's right, way up.
- 26:04Speaker 2: I'll keep him up. Five, We're done. It's too bad
- 26:09Speaker 2: you didn't have some joys around then. Everybody on Mars
- 26:12Speaker 2: could have seen a captain they have sid we're seeing
- 26:15Speaker 2: you right now. A few minutes from now, was doing
- 26:18Speaker 2: his light travels from here to there?
- 26:21Speaker 1: When way, what are you right here? John? Oh? Come on, Gwen.
- 26:27Speaker 1: The Earth is a nice planet to visit, but I
- 26:28Speaker 1: wouldn't live here if you gave me the place. Let's
- 26:32Speaker 1: go home tomorrow. We're coming there. Uh oh yeah, thanks,
- 26:51Speaker 1: you're glad you got your ring back.
- 26:54Speaker 6: He's just got you. So light exploded up to the
- 26:56Speaker 6: sitting and then they said they said it pertect, it's done.
- 27:00Speaker 6: It be again like the rest of the Chinesesium.
- 27:02Speaker 1: On Mars and flint down and King oh sedgery. Quite
- 27:08Speaker 1: a party, you know. The professor and I were lucky
- 27:12Speaker 1: to get out of that one alive. All uh say,
- 27:16Speaker 1: one thing puzzledly mm, I'll stop admiring that ring on
- 27:21Speaker 1: the entire attention. I mean, how Giovanni managed to locate
- 27:26Speaker 1: us out in space. Those radar sweeps should never have
- 27:30Speaker 1: put this up because this door had done.
- 27:34Speaker 6: Why the door had it red in it and it
- 27:39Speaker 6: turned on somehow it increased the strength of the return
- 27:42Speaker 6: stigma because it could track it down.
- 27:44Speaker 1: Crise, you mean that battered old store hat, the one
- 27:48Speaker 1: that that's still out there, an old store hat and
- 27:59Speaker 1: has third off lives.
- 28:01Speaker 4: Well, maybe I should put an ad on.
- 28:02Speaker 1: The next issue of my News, Lost in interstellar Space,
- 28:07Speaker 1: one sore hat it found, please return to Professor Abel
- 28:14Speaker 1: Winker or to Matt Morrow, editor my New.
- 28:39Speaker 2: That's it tomorrow and my next week.
- 28:45Speaker 3: Another extraordinary Tale of Tomorrow by John Christopher called The Drop,
- 28:52Speaker 3: But a fellow who.
- 28:53Speaker 2: Wanted to change, he didn't like the world he lived in,
- 28:58Speaker 2: tied to get himself to imparted to.
- 29:02Speaker 1: Earth.
- 29:04Speaker 2: So and this is your host, almontor still next week
- 29:08Speaker 2: and John go looking for old straw hats.
- 29:15Speaker 9: Tales of Tomorrow, Dans and A's play with George Petrie,
- 29:19Speaker 9: fran Colin Leon, Jenny, George Frabjoy and your host or
- 29:23Speaker 9: Mentor Laymond Edward Johnson, Testial Effects that.
- 29:27Speaker 1: Blaming and Bob Prescott engineer Joe Durantys.
- 29:30Speaker 9: The music was composed and conducted by Bobby Christians. Tales
- 29:34Speaker 9: of Tomorrow was produced by ABC and Association with George
- 29:37Speaker 9: Foley and directed by Warren Somemmerville.
- 29:42Speaker 2: Now a listening reminders you hear the latest news and
- 29:45Speaker 2: p e t A.
- 29:46Speaker 1: April one,