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2000 Plus - "The Robot Killer" · Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: August 30th, 1950 marked the 25th broadcast of Mutual's science
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  Speaker 1: fiction anthology, 2000 Plus. In The Robot Killer, a television
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  Speaker 1: promotion awards experimental robot 23, a six-foot household robot, to
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  Speaker 1: John Hanold. He brings the machine home as his wife
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  Speaker 1: Mary returns from medical treatment, while their neighbor Virginia Barden
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  Speaker 1: and the robot's creator, Professor Straker, watch the situation closely.
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  Speaker 1: It is a Wednesday night visit to the future from
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  Speaker 1: the Mutual Broadcasting System. We now take you back to
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  Speaker 1: the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: All the time that I was alone, I thought of
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  Speaker 2: what I would do. If only I did. And then
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  Speaker 2: I saw the robots.
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  Speaker 3: 2000 Plus.
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  Speaker 4: Science fiction adventures in the world of tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: The years beyond 2000 A.D.
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  Speaker 6: 2000 Plus presents.
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  Speaker 7: The Robot Killer. So, you are Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Samuel Donaldson. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 6: Happy Sam, they call me.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I know.
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  Speaker 6: I have friends who think your television program is very funny.
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  Speaker 8: I do not.
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  Speaker 6: That's a living Professor Strager.
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  Speaker 3: Now, may I see the mechanical man I'm giving away
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  Speaker 3: as the jackpot prize on my show next week?
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  Speaker 6: It is not a mechanical man, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Donaldson.
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  Speaker 3: The correct word is robot.
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  Speaker 7: R-O-B-O-T. I know, I know.
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  Speaker 4: This robot is a supreme achievement of our electronics division.
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  Speaker 4: We've worked on it for six years.
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  Speaker 7: It will do whatever it is instructed to do.
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  Speaker 4: I simply do not understand how the management of this
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  Speaker 4: corporation can think of giving it away to this public,
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  Speaker 4: this magnificent mechanism.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, look, Professor, this corporation sponsors my TV show. We're
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  Speaker 3: on 1,246 stations. We're telecast in three-dimensional color. And the
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  Speaker 3: Happy Sam show is the number two favorite in the country.
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  Speaker 3: The sponsor thinks it would be a good advertising gimmick
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  Speaker 3: to offer a super jackpot prize, a mechanical man, a robot.
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  Speaker 6: And I never argue with a sponsor.
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  Speaker 3: Now, please, may I see what I've come to see?
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  Speaker 3: All right, young man, I have no choice.
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  Speaker 8: Come along.
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  Speaker 7: There it is.
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  Speaker 4: Experimental robot 23.
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  Speaker 8: Brother.
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  Speaker 6: He's really something, Professor.
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  Speaker 2: Six feet tall.
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  Speaker 3: Shiny metal.
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  Speaker 6: Flexible fingers. Say, how does he work?
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  Speaker 4: Very simply. His electronic controls respond to ultra-high frequency waves
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  Speaker 4: which emanate from this microphone box.
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  Speaker 2: Speak into the microphone.
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  Speaker 7: The robot will do whatever you order him to.
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  Speaker 6: Anything? Virtually.
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  Speaker 4: Robot 23 has an electronic brain.
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  Speaker 7: Try for yourself, here. Okay. Sing, sweet Adeline. Really, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Donaldson, what a ridiculous request.
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  Speaker 4: You think the best scientific brains in the country worked
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  Speaker 4: for six years for a brother?
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  Speaker 8: Peter the Lion.
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  Speaker 7: Heavens.
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  Speaker 6: Will you be mine?
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  Speaker 7: It really tried to sing.
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  Speaker 3: He's very clever, Professor. Hey, watch this. Pick up that
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  Speaker 3: broom in the corner and sweep the floor. Oh, boy,
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  Speaker 3: the housewives who watch my program will love this. What?
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  Speaker 7: I'll be darned.
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  Speaker 2: Look at that.
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  Speaker 7: He's doing it.
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  Speaker 6: He's doing it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, stop sweeping.
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  Speaker 7: What a gadget. What a giveaway.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I see something for the kiddies, and I... Hey,
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  Speaker 3: what is that?
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  Speaker 4: That kitten is the pet of Dr. Broderick of the
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  Speaker 4: physics laboratory, and I assure you, you cannot give that away.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to give the kitten away. I just
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  Speaker 3: want a little heartthrob on the show for the youngsters.
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  Speaker 6: Here, kitty.
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  Speaker 7: Come here, kitty. Come here, kitty.
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  Speaker 9: Come here, kitty.
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  Speaker 3: Now, now, now, Kitty.
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  Speaker 7: Now, down the floor you go. Now, down the floor.
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  Speaker 7: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: And we'll show how gentle and friendly our jackpot prize robot.
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  Speaker 7: Is with pets.
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  Speaker 3: Now, give me the mic.
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  Speaker 8: Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Donaldson, what are you going to do now?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Robot 23. Go over to the kitten.
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  Speaker 8: Pick it up.
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  Speaker 3: And pet the kitty. Nice kitty.
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  Speaker 6: Look at that.
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  Speaker 4: Isn't that sweet?
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  Speaker 3: Boy, what a camera shot on the air. Hey, what's
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  Speaker 3: he doing?
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  Speaker 10: Number 23, drop the kitten.
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  Speaker 7: Drop the kitten.
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  Speaker 8: Drop the kitten.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, poor Tabby.
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  Speaker 6: Why, he.
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  Speaker 2: Killed a kitten.
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  Speaker 3: Broke its neck.
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  Speaker 10: He tried to pet it, and he killed it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you see what comes when fools play with science.
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  Speaker 4: No good will come of giving this robot away to
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  Speaker 4: the public.
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  Speaker 7: I warn you, no good will come of it. Hello,
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  Speaker 7: ladies and gentlemen. Hello, this is.
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  Speaker 3: Happy Sam the Happy Man, welcoming you to another half
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  Speaker 3: hour of mirth and melody. Boys, how about a fanfare?
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  Speaker 9: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Very much.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 3: Now, you know that every week for the past four weeks,
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  Speaker 3: our grand super jackpot has been growing and growing.
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  Speaker 6: At this moment, these.
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  Speaker 3: Are the sensational prizes in that jackpot. A free rocket
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  Speaker 3: plane trip for two to Paris, flying in the new
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  Speaker 3: 150-passenger luxury rocket cruiser at 60,000 feet, only three hours
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  Speaker 3: and ten minutes.
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  Speaker 7: From New York to Paris.
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  Speaker 3: A caddy atomic-powered sports roadster, the automobile that never needs
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  Speaker 3: gas or oil.
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  Speaker 4: It runs almost forever. A Krylon man suit tailored to
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  Speaker 4: your measure. Krylon is the wonder fabric guaranteed to last
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  Speaker 4: 100 years. And with this suit, a special set of
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  Speaker 4: 14 different Krylon chemical colors.
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  Speaker 7: Dip that suit in the color you prefer.
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  Speaker 3: Wear it, then change.
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  Speaker 7: The color with another rinse. The suit is always pressed,
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  Speaker 7: always perfect.
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  Speaker 3: 14 suits in one. A complete wardrobe on your back.
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  Speaker 7: And the one.
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  Speaker 3: Thing money cannot buy, more money.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, $ 10, 000 cash.
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  Speaker 4: Now, those are jackpot prizes.
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  Speaker 3: And now tonight, we add one more prize. A prize
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  Speaker 3: so fantastic and wonderful, nothing like it has ever been
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  Speaker 3: offered to a lucky winner before. This prize is a
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  Speaker 3: supreme achievement of modern science. It is an entire revenue
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  Speaker 3: of servants in one amazing machine. It is a slave
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  Speaker 3: to your every command. And here it is, Michael the
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  Speaker 3: Mechanical Man.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. And now... Now to determine who wins this
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  Speaker 3: giant jackpot and who wins this mechanical marvel, Michael the
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  Speaker 3: Mechanical Man, a thousand slaves in one amazing machine. Now,
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  Speaker 3: as you know, ladies and gentlemen, each and every one
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  Speaker 3: of you millions of people watching this program on your
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  Speaker 3: business screens are receiving this program via microwave. And now
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  Speaker 3: our computators are in action. They are channeling every microwave
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  Speaker 3: reception on this program. When the spinner disc stops, if
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  Speaker 3: your television set is on, if you're the lucky person,
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  Speaker 3: you win the jackpot. Wait now, wait. The computator has finished.
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  Speaker 3: The engineer signals that the spinner.
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  Speaker 6: Disc is slowing down.
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  Speaker 3: And we have a winner tonight. We picked up a
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  Speaker 3: set who had us tuned in. Our pretty model is
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  Speaker 3: walking across the stage with a name. Thank you, honey.
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  Speaker 3: And now, here it is, the name you've all been
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  Speaker 3: waiting to hear. 423 North Glencoe Boulevard in Martin Hills,
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  Speaker 3: New York. Apartment 5B.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 3: John Hanold! Mr. John Hanold! Sit down, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Hanold.
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  Speaker 6: My practiced medical eye, judging from the smile on your face,
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  Speaker 6: tells me that you're pretty happy that Mrs. Hanold is
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  Speaker 6: being released from the hospital today.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's not only that, Doctor.
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  Speaker 6: Don't tell me you haven't heard of my other good
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  Speaker 6: piece of luck. Everyone in town's been calling me for
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  Speaker 6: hours before I left for the hospital.
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  Speaker 8: Another good piece of luck?
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  Speaker 7: No, I haven't heard.
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  Speaker 4: Why, I won some fabulous prizes and a giveaway show, including.
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  Speaker 11: $ 10, 000.
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 8: Ha, ha.
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  Speaker 6: That means your bill's going to be paid. And I
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  Speaker 6: also got a trip to Paris. I'm a mechanical man,
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  Speaker 6: and Lord knows what.
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  Speaker 7: That's wonderful.
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  Speaker 4: I congratulate you.
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  Speaker 6: However, I think I will forget that trip.
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  Speaker 7: To Paris for a while. What?
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  Speaker 6: In fact, wait a few hours before telling Mrs.
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  Speaker 7: Hanold about your good fortune. Why, Doctor?
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  Speaker 8: Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Hanold, after your wife's illness, she suffered a nervous breakdown.
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  Speaker 6: She became mentally unstable. But she's pretty good now, thanks
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  Speaker 6: to what the hospital has done. However, when you take
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  Speaker 6: her home, she must feel she's returning to her normal life.
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  Speaker 6: And winning $ 10, 000 prizes isn't very normal. Oh, I see.
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  Speaker 1: The main thing we want to avoid is a relapse.
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  Speaker 6: She should have a few neighbors who can drop in
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  Speaker 6: and see her.
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  Speaker 7: Now and then.
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  Speaker 6: Well, there's Miss Barden, Virginia Barden. She lives in the
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  Speaker 6: apartment next to us on our floor.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, yes, your wife mentioned her occasionally.
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  Speaker 6: Do they get along all right? I think so.
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 6: Nothing, I just wondered.
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  Speaker 7: Well, Mrs. Hannell's waiting for you. I know you're very.
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  Speaker 3: Anxious to get her home.
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  Speaker 7: Nurse, have Mrs.
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  Speaker 11: Hannell come in, please.
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  Speaker 6: I think in another month or so she'll be fine.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yes, she is now.
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  Speaker 7: Hello, Mrs. Hannell.
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  Speaker 6: Mary, darling, am I glad to see you.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, John.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, doctor.
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  Speaker 5: What did I tell you?
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  Speaker 7: Doesn't she look fine?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, she certainly does.
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  Speaker 2: John, how good it is to be going home. I'm
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  Speaker 2: as excited as a schoolgirl.
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  Speaker 6: Well, don't get too excited. You've got to take it
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  Speaker 6: easy for a while.
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  Speaker 2: Is that what the doctor says? He's such a worry bird.
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  Speaker 6: You do what your husband says, Mrs.
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  Speaker 7: Hannell, and you'll just be fine.
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  Speaker 3: See?
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  Speaker 7: Doctor's orders.
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  Speaker 2: I promise. Thank you, doctor. You've been very kind.
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  Speaker 4: I'll drop in from time to time to see you.
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  Speaker 7: Well, goodbye, Mrs.
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  Speaker 11: Hamill.
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  Speaker 7: Goodbye, Doctor.
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  Speaker 8: All right, dear, let's go.
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  Speaker 7: Let's go.
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  Speaker 2: John, I can hardly believe it.
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  Speaker 6: Well, the doctor told me to wait until you got
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  Speaker 6: home before telling you.
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  Speaker 11: $ 10, 000.
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  Speaker 7: And the trip to Paris.
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  Speaker 6: Think of it. Oh, I hope we can take it
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  Speaker 6: in the summer during my vacation.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a mechanical slave, John. Where will we put it?
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  Speaker 6: Now, wait, honey. You're not supposed to get excited. Oh,
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  Speaker 6: my boy, who can help it?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, the crazy things they give away.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, I'll see who it is.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, John.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, hello, Virginia.
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  Speaker 6: Who is it, darling? Why, it's, uh, it's Virginia.
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  Speaker 11: Mary, I just had to come and tell you how
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  Speaker 11: wonderful it is. Your being back and all those wonderful prizes.
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  Speaker 2: It was very nice of you to come in, Virginia.
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  Speaker 2: And thank you for the supper you prepared for my homecoming.
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  Speaker 2: I was delighted to, darling.
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  Speaker 11: When John asked me.
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  Speaker 2: John asked you to? Well, yes, he was so happy
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  Speaker 2: you were coming back.
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  Speaker 11: John, doesn't Mary's being home call for a celebration?
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  Speaker 6: Can't we have a drink? Well, I don't know, Virginia.
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  Speaker 6: Mary's supposed to get rest.
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  Speaker 7: Still, well, I.
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  Speaker 6: Suppose one sip won't hurt. But I'll have to go
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  Speaker 6: out and get something, though.
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  Speaker 11: I'll be right back. Darling, when you get your prizes,
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  Speaker 11: I'll have cause to be jealous of you.
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  Speaker 3: Cigarette?
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  Speaker 7: No, thanks.
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  Speaker 3: Jealous?
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  Speaker 11: Why?
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  Speaker 6: Well, you'll have two men.
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  Speaker 2: John and Barobus.
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  Speaker 11: Poor little me, a bachelor.
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  Speaker 3: Gal all alone.
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  Speaker 11: You know, I really think you ought to give me
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  Speaker 11: one of them.
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  Speaker 2: Which one would you like to have?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, darling, what a silly question.
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  Speaker 2: The mechanical man, of course. He doesn't drop ashes on
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  Speaker 2: the rods.
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  Speaker 9: He'll wash the dishes and put out the cat. He'll
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  Speaker 9: never argue.
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  Speaker 11: You're lying to me.
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  Speaker 7: I'm nearly receiving.
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  Speaker 2: What did you expect me to be?
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  Speaker 11: I don't understand.
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  Speaker 2: But I do.
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  Speaker 9: In the hospital, I began to understand a lot of things.
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  Speaker 11: I know the doctors thought something happened to my mind.
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  Speaker 2: But all that happened.
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  Speaker 11: Was that it became very clear, very sharp.
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  Speaker 2: And for the first time, I began to think clearly.
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  Speaker 11: Darling, I think.
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  Speaker 2: This excitement's been too much for you. I shouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: come in. Because I was here.
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  Speaker 11: Is that why you shouldn't have come in?
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  Speaker 3: You're wrong, Mary.
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  Speaker 11: Everything you're thinking is wrong. John would come to the hospital.
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  Speaker 2: Only once a day.
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  Speaker 3: But he was working.
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  Speaker 9: Some days he wouldn't come at all.
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  Speaker 11: Mary, you know we have to go out of town on.
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  Speaker 7: Business once in a while.
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  Speaker 2: I know many things.
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  Speaker 3: I would lie in my hospital bed and the shadows
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  Speaker 3: would whisper to me.
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  Speaker 11: They would say, where is John now? while you lie
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  Speaker 11: in an antiseptic bed in a hospital room that is
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  Speaker 11: as cold as a surgeon's knife, cutting your memories to pieces.
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  Speaker 2: You frighten me.
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  Speaker 5: Don't go.
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  Speaker 2: John will be back in a moment.
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  Speaker 3: I have a headache.
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  Speaker 7: I've got to go.
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  Speaker 2: But what will John say when you're not here?
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  Speaker 11: You poor darling.
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  Speaker 2: You poor, sick woman. Yes, walk out on me, Virginia.
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  Speaker 11: Leave me alone. But I'm not alone as I was
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  Speaker 11: in the hospital. I'm home now, my home.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm near you.
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  Speaker 11: Near enough to kill you. If only I could think
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  Speaker 11: of how to do it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no. That robot's quite a guy, isn't he? He
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  Speaker 3: looks something like the Tim Woodman of Oz I used
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  Speaker 3: to read about.
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  Speaker 6: I doubt so, but he can do any of the
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  Speaker 6: things they said on that program. My guess is they'll
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  Speaker 6: have to sell him for junk or give him away
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  Speaker 6: to some kids.
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  Speaker 7: Well, let's see.
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  Speaker 6: The directions say, turn on the racket switch for power,
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  Speaker 6: and then just talk into the microphone. Use simple phrases
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  Speaker 6: and precise instructions.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 6: What shall I tell him to do?
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  Speaker 11: He's your boyfriend. Tell him to move the green chair about.
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  Speaker 2: Two feet back in the corner.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: Move green chair back two feet into corner.
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  Speaker 2: John, he's walking.
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  Speaker 6: That's the darkest thing I ever saw.
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  Speaker 3: He did it. He's going to be all right.
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  Speaker 8: John.
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  Speaker 2: Does he have a name?
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  Speaker 3: A name?
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  Speaker 8: Don't be silly.
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  Speaker 11: He must have a name.
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  Speaker 2: He's almost like a person.
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  Speaker 7: Ask him.
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  Speaker 3: What does he talk to?
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  Speaker 6: What is your name?
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  Speaker 3: Your name.
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  Speaker 7: Do you have a name?
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  Speaker 6: I see he can't talk.
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  Speaker 2: Don't ask him a question. Tell him to tell you.
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  Speaker 2: Do as the directions say.
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  Speaker 3: Tell me your name.
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  Speaker 8: Experimental Robot 23.
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  Speaker 7: Robots?
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  Speaker 2: Twenty-three.
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  Speaker 6: Kind of gives me the creeps.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, it's wonderful.
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  Speaker 6: Well, now what do I do? He can't stand there
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  Speaker 6: staring at us. There's nothing for him to do around here.
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  Speaker 2: The poker, that steel poker in the fireplace.
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  Speaker 10: What about it?
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  Speaker 2: He looks so strong. Tell him, tell him to bend it.
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  Speaker 7: Bend it?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Mary, that's solid steel. He's just a tin toilet
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  Speaker 6: electronic nerd.
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  Speaker 2: Please, John, tell him.
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  Speaker 6: But, honey, he'll probably get a short circuit or something,
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: straining himself. Then we will have to junk him. Oh,
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: all right, all right.
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: Bend poker there.
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: Bend steel poker. There you see, it does speak to that.
• 16:55
  Speaker 8: But nothing's happening.
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: Bend it. Bend it. You see, I took.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: Good Lord.
• 17:04
  Speaker 11: He's bending the steel as if it were tapping.
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: And did you see that? Why, it's almost as if...
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: As if he threw it down, disdaining of showing off.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Why did you turn him off?
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: He's dangerous, Mary.
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: Dangerous and frightening. I'm going to dismantle him.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: No.
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: Now, wait.
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: Don't get so excited about it. You know what the
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: doctor said. Don't dismantle him, John.
• 17:28
  Speaker 9: Please.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: All right, all right, all right, all right.
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: You insist. Remember, Mary, you're not to give him any
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: orders except when I'm home.
• 17:35
  Speaker 11: Darling, I wouldn't do anything that wouldn't be right for me.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Two o'clock, almost four hours until John comes home. Lock
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: the door.
• 18:03
  Speaker 11: And now to make him come to life again.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Speak to me. Say to me, hello, Mary.
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: Hello, Mary.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Hello, Robert 23. How nice of you to visit me.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Every day you visit me. Why do you do that,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: tell me? Because I love you.
• 18:31
  Speaker 10: Because I love you.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Because you love me.
• 18:37
  Speaker 11: Oh, Robert 23, how handsome and strong you are.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: And you are mine. You do what I want you
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: to do.
• 18:44
  Speaker 11: You are my slave.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Say to me, I am your slave.
• 18:50
  Speaker 8: I am your slave.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: That vase, that vase that Virginia gave me last year.
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: There, the blue one.
• 18:57
  Speaker 11: Destroy that vase. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Robert 23,
• 19:12
  Speaker 11: very much. Of all the things in the world I have,
• 19:15
  Speaker 11: you are the most wonderful.
• 19:17
  Speaker 9: Because you love me and obey me and would do
• 19:20
  Speaker 9: anything for me.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Anything.
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: Oh, the door.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Someone there.
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: It can't be John.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: It's much too early for John.
• 19:29
  Speaker 11: I'll see who it is and you will wait for me.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Wait, as you always do.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: You.
• 19:39
  Speaker 11: Hello, Mary.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry to disturb you.
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: What do you want?
• 19:43
  Speaker 11: This package was delivered to my door.
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: Something you probably ordered by phone.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: It's marked 5D, but your name's on it. Should have
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: said 5B.
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Yes, from the grocery.
• 19:53
  Speaker 11: Oh, is that the mechanical man standing in the living room?
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: That is Robert 23.
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: Does he really work?
• 20:00
  Speaker 11: He's awfully big and clumsy looking.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: He's come to visit me.
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: He's mine.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: He doesn't love you.
• 20:07
  Speaker 11: Doesn't love....
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Of course not, Mary. Of course not. I'm sorry to
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: have disturbed you.
• 20:15
  Speaker 11: Is there anything I can do for you?
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: No, no, nothing. Go away.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: You saw her, didn't you? Say yes.
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: I saw her.
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: Yes, I saw her.
• 20:35
  Speaker 11: She's the one, the one I hate.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: And John, John is the one I love.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: And you, you love me.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Say, I love you.
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: I love you.
• 20:47
  Speaker 9: You must destroy her the way we destroyed the Bays.
• 20:50
  Speaker 9: Now that you've seen her, you know my secret. As
• 20:55
  Speaker 9: you are my slave, say, I will kill her.
• 21:01
  Speaker 8: I will kill her. Hello?
• 21:06
  Speaker 9: John? John?
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: Oh, hello, Virginia. This is a pleasant surprise.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Why are you calling me?
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: It's about Mary.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: Mary?
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: Has something happened? What is it?
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: I rang your doorbell a few minutes ago. One of
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: Mary's packages had been delivered to me by mistake.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: She came to the door.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: What?
• 21:40
  Speaker 11: She acted very strangely, particularly when I asked about the mechanical.
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: Man, the robot.
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: What do you mean, Virginia?
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: Strangely?
• 21:48
  Speaker 11: She wouldn't let me come in and look at him.
• 21:50
  Speaker 11: She said he.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: he didn't love me.
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: She was in a strange, well, a strange mental state.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: John, are you sure she's all right?
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: Virginia, listen, the robot wasn't moving or doing anything, was it?
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: Not that I could notice.
• 22:05
  Speaker 11: But Mary's attitude and her odd remarks.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: I knew I shouldn't have accepted that tin monster. Well,
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: I'll get home as soon as I can, Virginia. Thanks
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: for calling.
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: PHONE RINGS.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Hello? Dr.
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: Rosenblatt, this is John Hanold.
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: Oh, yes, Mr.
• 22:29
  Speaker 9: Hanold.
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: A neighbor just called me. Mary's acting strangely. I'm worried.
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: I don't understand, Mr.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Hanold.
• 22:36
  Speaker 10: We won some.
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: Prizes on a TV show a few days ago, and
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: one of them was a mechanical man, a robot.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, you told me about it.
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: A robot, in my opinion, is a dangerous gadget. Well, anyway,
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: one of the neighbors reported that Mary is talking strangely
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: about it. I wonder if you could meet me at
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: the apartment. It'll take me about half an hour to
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: get there.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: Hanold, I hope you'll forgive me, but you've got to
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: expect that neighbors with all the goodwill in the world
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: tend to exaggerate the exactions of the people whom they've
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: known to have been mentally ill. I'm sure there's nothing
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: to be alarmed about.
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: Yes, but, Doctor, this neighbor is a good friend and
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: an intelligent woman.
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: Well, I've had a lot of experience in these matters, Mr.
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: Hanold.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: However, to ease your mind, I'll try to drop over
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: sometime this evening or in the morning. We'll have a
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: talk about it. I'm in a meeting now.
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: Well, all right, Doctor, if you say so. Thanks very much.
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: Hello?
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: Oh, Virginia, this is John.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Yes, John.
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: I just spoke to the doctor. He thinks there's nothing
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: to worry about, but... Well, I wonder if you'd do
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: me a great favor.
• 23:51
  Speaker 11: Of course, John.
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: What is it?
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: I've got a few things here to clean up the desk,
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: so I can't get home right away. I wonder if
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: you'd go in and stay with Mary until I get there.
• 24:01
  Speaker 11: But, John, I.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Frankly, I'm a little frightened.
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: That's silly, Virginia. After all, what can happen.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: The door again.
• 24:23
  Speaker 11: The door. Wait, Rover 23, and I'll come back to you.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Say, I will wait for you.
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: I will wait for you.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you, darling.
• 24:39
  Speaker 11: Mary, I wonder if I could visit with you for
• 24:42
  Speaker 11: a while.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Why? Why do you want to visit with me?
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: Why, darling, I'm your neighbor.
• 24:48
  Speaker 11: And I thought it would be very nice if we
• 24:49
  Speaker 11: had tea. Don't you want me to come in, Mary?
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Yes, I do want you to come in. Come in
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: and meet Rosie 23.
• 25:00
  Speaker 11: Mary, you've moved since.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: I saw him last.
• 25:07
  Speaker 11: He was standing by the fireplace when I was at
• 25:09
  Speaker 11: the door before. And now he's by the sofa.
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: Oh, darling, that lovely vase I.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Gave you and Johnny.
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: It's broken.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Broken in a million pieces. I had him do it.
• 25:25
  Speaker 11: He did it.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: He did it.
• 25:28
  Speaker 9: What do you mean? You know what I mean.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: You and your lies and your deceit.
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: Mary, what are you doing?
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Why are you picking up that microphone?
• 25:36
  Speaker 9: Robert 23 loves me as I love John.
• 25:40
  Speaker 11: And you won't destroy my love.
• 25:42
  Speaker 9: You won't.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Robert 23, go to her. Kill her.
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: Kill her.
• 25:45
  Speaker 11: Mary.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: Mary.
• 25:47
  Speaker 11: No.
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: No.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: No.
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: Virginia, please, please stop crying.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Good heavens, what happened? Mary.
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: Excuse me, Mr.
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: Hanover, but I think I can tell you what happened.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: I'm Professor Strega, one of the men who built that robot.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: I came to your apartment hoping to persuade you to
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: return the robot. Another dreadful commotion inside called this patrolman
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: in the.
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: Corner and we forced our way in here. The robot
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: was moving towards this young lady here.
• 26:33
  Speaker 11: I tried to get away.
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: Whenever I went, it came after me.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: I shut off the control box and stopped the robot.
• 26:42
  Speaker 11: Mary wanted to kill me, John.
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: Kill me.
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: Doctor, how's Mary?
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: Is she all right?
• 26:49
  Speaker 8: I've given her sedatives, Mr. Harlow.
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: I'll take her back to the hospital in a few hours.
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: All this excitement. However, I'm sure she'll be all right
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: in another month or two. But she tried to kill me.
• 27:01
  Speaker 9: She tried to kill me.
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: For some reason, she was jealous of you. But now
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: that we know her obsession, we can treat it psychiatrically.
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: She'll be all right, Doctor.
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: She won't try to kill again. And I think what
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: might have happened to Virginia.
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: Mr.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: Hanold, nothing would have happened. You see, your wife told
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: the robot to kill, but that was not an instruction
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: the robot could carry out.
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: What do you mean, Professor?
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: You said yourself the robot was going toward Virginia? Yes,
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: of course, because your wife said go to her.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: A simple physical action the robot is capable of performing
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: due to its directional mechanisms. However, the command kill is
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: not sufficiently explicit. The robot cannot kill in general. It
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: must have step-by-step instructions as to how the command is
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: to be carried out.
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: You see, Mr.
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: Harold, I might put it this way.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: To strike out blindly, to kill without thinking, requires an
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: emotional drive, the capacity to hate.
• 28:05
  Speaker 10: And that the robot cannot do. It is, after all,
• 28:10
  Speaker 10: A machine, not a human being.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: That concludes 2000 Plus, The Robot Killer. Good night, and
• 28:32
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