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Dimension X - "Mars Is Heaven" (1950) · Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: An Earth expedition reaches Mars in 1987 and finds through
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  Speaker 1: the mist a small American town seemingly unchanged since the 1920s.
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  Speaker 1: It is Dimension X, Episode 14, Mars is Heaven, first
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  Speaker 1: heard on NBC July 7, 1950. Wendell Holmes stars as
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  Speaker 1: Captain John Black, leading the landing party. Peter Capel is Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Horst.
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  Speaker 1: The script is Ernest Kenoy's adaptation of Ray Bradbury's story,
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  Speaker 1: directed by Edward King and produced by Van Woodward. As
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  Speaker 1: Captain Black and his crew walk from their rocket toward
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  Speaker 1: familiar streets and faces that should be impossible, their mission
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  Speaker 1: takes an unexpected turn. We now take you back to
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  Speaker 1: the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: Wheaties presents... Dimension X. Adventures in time and space.
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  Speaker 4: Transcribed in future tense.
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  Speaker 5: Dimension X.
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  Speaker 3: On stage tonight, Dimension X. Another in the Wheaties' big
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  Speaker 3: parade of exciting half-hour presentations. Say, tomorrow's Saturday, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and maybe you don't have to show up for work.
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  Speaker 3: A whole swell summer day for just what you want
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  Speaker 3: to do. So start off with a big holiday bowl
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  Speaker 3: of Wheaties at breakfast and just see how it sparks
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  Speaker 3: up the morning. Wheaties are whole wheat, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: I don't have to tell you what good, sturdy nourishment
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  Speaker 3: that is. So if you've got fish to catch or
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  Speaker 3: golf to play or maybe a hike to take, just
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  Speaker 3: see how Wheaties.
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  Speaker 5: Can make it all a lot more fun. You know why?
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  Speaker 3: Why, lady, mister, it's just because you feel good when
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  Speaker 3: you've had your Wheaties. Those two-fisted little whole wheat flakes
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  Speaker 3: are loaded with vitamins and minerals. And so are you,
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  Speaker 3: when you've had your Wheaties. Go on, try them. Just
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  Speaker 3: you see how Wheaties at seven can help at eleven.
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  Speaker 3: When the first space rocket lands on Mars, what will
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  Speaker 3: we find? Will we be welcomed with open arms, or
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  Speaker 3: will the Martians treat us as invaders?
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  Speaker 6: Only one thing is certain.
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  Speaker 4: Someday a giant metal ship will take off from Earth
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  Speaker 4: to travel through the black velocities, the silent gulfs of space,
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  Speaker 4: to descend at last into the darkness of the upper
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  Speaker 4: Martian atmospheres. And on that day, man will finally know
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  Speaker 4: the answer. The day we first land on Mars.
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  Speaker 7: Now hear this.
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  Speaker 6: Now hear this.
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  Speaker 8: Approaching critical deceleration.
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  Speaker 6: Fasten gravity suits.
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  Speaker 9: Stand by to land. Mr. Lustig, what do you make
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  Speaker 9: of the terrain?
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  Speaker 6: There seems to be a heavy ground, Miss Captain. We
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  Speaker 6: won't be able to use our infrared lights.
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  Speaker 9: Then we'll have to come in on radar.
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  Speaker 6: Isn't that a little risky, sir, landing in the dark?
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  Speaker 10: I'd rather run the danger of a blind landing, Lieutenant,
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  Speaker 10: than come in without the cover of darkness. Remember, we
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  Speaker 10: don't know what kind of reception is waiting.
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  Speaker 9: For us down there.
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  Speaker 11: Airspeed 500.
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  Speaker 8: Altitude now 4,000.
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  Speaker 9: Bridge to engine room. Stand by for deceleration.
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  Speaker 6: Engine room.
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  Speaker 3: Aye.
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  Speaker 9: Fire forward tubes 1 and 3. Aye. Skids down.
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  Speaker 6: Skids check.
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  Speaker 8: Altitude 500. 4.
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  Speaker 3: 350. 3. Up a point now.
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  Speaker 6: All right. Let's set her down.
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  Speaker 9: Look out!
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  Speaker 8: Hey! Cut to power.
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  Speaker 9: Masters, pipe battle stations.
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  Speaker 3: Aye, sir.
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  Speaker 8: All secured, sir.
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  Speaker 6: Well, we're on Mars.
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  Speaker 5: April 20th, 1987.
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  Speaker 9: 4.33, Greenwich time. Enter that in the log, Masters. Aye, sir.
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  Speaker 10: Well, gentlemen, it's less than two hours till dawn. As
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  Speaker 10: soon as it's light, we'll send out a landing party. Masters,
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  Speaker 10: get me an all-over hookup.
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  Speaker 6: All set, Captain.
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  Speaker 8: Now hear this.
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  Speaker 9: Now hear this. All right, men.
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  Speaker 10: The smoking lamp is lit. We're 17 men on an
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  Speaker 10: alien world. And it's up to us whether we ever
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  Speaker 10: get home again. Next few hours should tell the story.
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  Speaker 10: And I want instant obedience to all commands. I'll court-martial
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  Speaker 10: the first man who doesn't jump, too, when he's ordered.
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  Speaker 9: And one other thing.
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  Speaker 10: We may be on Mars, but this is still a
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  Speaker 10: United States naval vessel. Officers will conduct a personal and
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  Speaker 10: weapons inspection.
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  Speaker 5: In one hour.
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  Speaker 6: That's all. Inspection, Captain? Now?
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  Speaker 9: Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Lustig, we've got an hour and a half to sweat
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  Speaker 10: out before we find out what's outside that airlock.
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  Speaker 9: I'd rather have a man worried.
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  Speaker 10: About his stripes than about what's waiting outside on Mars.
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  Speaker 3: Now hear this. Landing party report to forward airlock.
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  Speaker 1: Captain Black, Lieutenant Hinkston, Lieutenant Lustig, and Dr.
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  Speaker 9: Horst report immediately to forward airlock.
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  Speaker 5: It is now landing time, minus five.
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  Speaker 6: Sounds like they're paging us, Hinkston. You ready, Dr. Horst?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, ready as I will ever be.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, let's report to the airlock. Four minutes to go.
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  Speaker 6: Where's the captain?
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  Speaker 7: Who knows?
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  Speaker 5: What difference does it make?
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  Speaker 6: Just want to get it over with, that's all.
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  Speaker 2: Has anybody got a cigarette? I think you're smoking too much,
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  Speaker 2: Lieutenant Lustig. Are you nervously off with your horse, wondering
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  Speaker 2: what's hidden outside underneath that ground mist?
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  Speaker 5: Very unusual planet, Mars.
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  Speaker 6: Why?
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  Speaker 2: It has an atmosphere. Wonderful thing, an atmosphere. Where you
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  Speaker 2: find one, you find life.
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  Speaker 6: You mean Martians? What do you think they'll look like?
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  Speaker 5: Who knows? Intelligent life can take many forms.
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  Speaker 9: You mean they may have green skins and eyes on
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  Speaker 9: stalks or something?
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  Speaker 5: A comic book conception is possible.
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  Speaker 2: Or they may have developed to a point that is
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  Speaker 2: far beyond us. Perhaps they have a science that can
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  Speaker 2: produce weapons far more dangerous than our atomic missiles.
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  Speaker 6: You think we may have to fight our way out?
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  Speaker 5: After all... We are invaders.
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  Speaker 6: Now hear this.
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  Speaker 10: Landing time minus two.
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  Speaker 5: Landing time minus two. All right, all right.
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  Speaker 6: We heard this. I know what I'd like to find
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  Speaker 6: outside that airlock. Good old Illinois.
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  Speaker 5: You ever been there, Lustig?
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  Speaker 6: I don't need Chicago.
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  Speaker 9: You ought to see my hometown. Green lawns, big white houses.
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  Speaker 6: Sounds like my hometown. My grandmother used to have one
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  Speaker 6: of those iron deers on the lawn. Every Halloween, we'd
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  Speaker 6: paint it another color.
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  Speaker 2: One time we painted it black and white like a
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  Speaker 2: whole steamed cow.
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  Speaker 6: Where does your family live, Horst?
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  Speaker 2: I have no family. When I was a child, they
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  Speaker 2: were gassed to death in the Dachau concentration camp.
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  Speaker 6: That's tough.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it has its advantages. I have no ties on Earth.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing to lose now. I imagine I'm the only one
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  Speaker 2: on board who is free to enjoy our present peculiar position.
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  Speaker 9: All right, Lustig. Button it up now.
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  Speaker 6: Aye, sir.
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  Speaker 9: Now, gentlemen, in one minute we'll be the first men
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  Speaker 9: to set foot on Mars. Quite an honor, eh?
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  Speaker 2: As long as the medals are not awarded posthumously.
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  Speaker 9: Still uneasy, Dr.
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  Speaker 5: Horst?
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  Speaker 2: Captain Black, I've been uneasy ever since I can remember.
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  Speaker 2: On Earth and on Mars.
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  Speaker 9: Now, 30 seconds. Give me the intercom phone, Lusty. Masters?
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  Speaker 6: Aye, sir.
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  Speaker 10: Battle stations will be manned till we return. If we're
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  Speaker 10: not back in two hours, I want no rescue party
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  Speaker 10: sent out. Blast off and save the ship, you understand?
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  Speaker 9: Aye, sir. All right, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 6: Five seconds. Four. Three. Two.
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  Speaker 3: One.
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  Speaker 9: Lustig, open the outer airlock.
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  Speaker 5: Fresh air.
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  Speaker 6: Let's go.
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  Speaker 9: Hold it now. It's too dark to move fast.
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  Speaker 6: Quiet, isn't it? Not even a wind.
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  Speaker 9: You can't see anything through this ground.
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  Speaker 6: Quiet.
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  Speaker 9: You don't know what's out here. Come on.
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  Speaker 6: What the... Quiet, Captain.
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  Speaker 9: I could swear that sounded like a rooster. I don't
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  Speaker 9: hear it anymore.
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  Speaker 5: A very unlikely sound. A rooster crowing on moss.
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  Speaker 6: Kingston. Aye, sir.
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  Speaker 10: Set that machine gun 25 yards to the flank. We'll
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  Speaker 10: stay here till the ground mist lifts.
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  Speaker 6: Aye, aye, sir.
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  Speaker 9: What do you make of the ground, Horst?
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  Speaker 6: Grass.
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  Speaker 2: Plain grass. You can see some large foliage there where
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  Speaker 2: the mists stand on.
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  Speaker 8: Kingston! Hold your fire, you fool!
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  Speaker 9: I hit it, Captain.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 9: Some kind of wild animal.
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  Speaker 8: I hit it.
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  Speaker 9: I could see the traces, but it's still standing.
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  Speaker 10: Come on, Horst.
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  Speaker 9: Doctor.
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  Speaker 6: Doctor, where are you?
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  Speaker 4: Up ahead.
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  Speaker 8: Admiring the wild animal.
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  Speaker 6: Careful, Horst.
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  Speaker 8: Wait for us.
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  Speaker 5: Don't worry, Captain. It's an iron deer. A lawn ornament.
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  Speaker 9: That's impossible.
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  Speaker 8: It's hollow.
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  Speaker 5: Interesting, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: A whitewashed Victorian iron deer. Sitting on a lawn in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of Mars.
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  Speaker 9: I don't understand.
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  Speaker 5: Look around.
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  Speaker 2: The mist's lifting.
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  Speaker 9: Captain.
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  Speaker 6: Captain. Look there. A house.
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  Speaker 11: A regular old-fashioned house.
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  Speaker 2: On Mars.
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  Speaker 9: Good Lord.
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  Speaker 10: I haven't seen carved scrolls and gingerbread like that in years.
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  Speaker 10: Look at that port swing.
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  Speaker 9: The geraniums.
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  Speaker 6: There.
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  Speaker 9: I told you it was a rooster, Captain. Give me
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  Speaker 9: the glasses, Lustig.
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  Speaker 10: I want to take a look through that front window.
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 9: There's an upright piano. Some sheet music on it.
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  Speaker 5: Lustig, it's beautiful Ohio.
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  Speaker 6: Beautiful Ohio? That can't be.
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  Speaker 9: Look here, Horace, do you think that civilizations of two
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  Speaker 9: planets could be identical?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: That specific variety of geraniums is only 50 years old
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  Speaker 2: on Earth.
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  Speaker 10: Is it logical they should develop in Mars? How about
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  Speaker 10: that port swing, that piano, and beautiful Ohio?
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  Speaker 6: No, it's impossible.
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  Speaker 5: Captain Black, this looks like the town I was born in.
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  Speaker 9: Well, it looks like my hometown, too.
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  Speaker 6: I've thought of something, sir. It's the only solution.
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  Speaker 9: Maybe we're not the first ship to reach Mars from Earth.
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  Speaker 6: That's the only answer. That's impossible, Lester.
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  Speaker 10: If there'd been space travel, it couldn't be secret. Do
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  Speaker 10: you have any idea what ships cost, what industrial power
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  Speaker 10: is needed?
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  Speaker 2: There's got to be some logical reason. Captain, I think
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  Speaker 2: perhaps we might find out. The light just went on
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  Speaker 2: in that house.
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  Speaker 9: Kingston, cover that door with a machine gun.
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  Speaker 6: Aye, aye, sir.
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  Speaker 9: Come on, horse. Let me ring that doorbell. There's got
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  Speaker 9: to be a scientific answer to all this here.
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  Speaker 5: There's something moving in there.
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  Speaker 6: Stand back, Horst.
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  Speaker 9: Give me a clear shot. Maybe a Martian.
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  Speaker 7: Can I help you?
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  Speaker 3: We.
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  Speaker 9: We were looking... Well, if.
• 12:03
  Speaker 7: You're selling anything, it's much too early.
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  Speaker 9: No, no, wait. Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 6: What, uh.
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  Speaker 9: What town is it?
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  Speaker 7: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 12: Are you census takers?
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  Speaker 5: No, we're strangers here. We want to know how this
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  Speaker 5: town got here.
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  Speaker 7: Is this a game?
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  Speaker 5: No, no, it's not a game. We're from Earth.
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  Speaker 7: From where?
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  Speaker 5: From Earth.
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  Speaker 12: You mean out of the ground? Say, uh, are you
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  Speaker 12: sure you're feeling well?
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  Speaker 10: Madam, we came in a flying ship across space. We're
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  Speaker 10: from the third planet. This is, this is Mars. Now
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  Speaker 10: do you understand?
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  Speaker 5: Mars.
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  Speaker 7: I know, I know. You go away now, you hear?
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  Speaker 12: I'll call my husband from upstairs and he'll chase you.
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  Speaker 9: Now go on.
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  Speaker 5: But this is Mars, isn't it?
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  Speaker 12: This is Green Lake, Wisconsin, in the United States of America,
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  Speaker 12: bounded on the east by the Atlantic and on the
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  Speaker 12: west by the Pacific.
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  Speaker 7: Now go away. Goodbye.
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  Speaker 10: Of course, do you suppose it's really possible? I've got
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  Speaker 10: to find out more about this.
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  Speaker 7: For the last time, now go away.
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  Speaker 9: Pardon me, madam. What year is this? Year?
• 13:13
  Speaker 7: Well, 1928, of course. Who's that going to say?
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  Speaker 9: You hear that, Horst?
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  Speaker 10: And we know it's 1987. And we know it's Mars.
• 13:22
  Speaker 9: Is it possible that.
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  Speaker 10: We got fouled up, made some tremendous blunder and circled
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  Speaker 10: around and landed back on Earth?
• 13:28
  Speaker 5: In 1928?
• 13:28
  Speaker 10: Maybe some switch in time or dimension. Could we have
• 13:32
  Speaker 10: shifted somehow and gone backward in time?
• 13:34
  Speaker 9: Horst, it won't hold water.
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  Speaker 6: It's not logical.
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  Speaker 9: We've checked every mile. We went past the moon and
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  Speaker 9: out into space. We're on Mars.
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  Speaker 6: Find out anything, Captain?
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  Speaker 10: No, we're going back to the ship till I figure
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  Speaker 10: out some logical explanation for all this.
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  Speaker 9: Lustig, out at point.
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  Speaker 6: Aye, sir.
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  Speaker 9: Hinkston in the rear. Keep that gun at half-load.
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  Speaker 6: Aye, sir.
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  Speaker 9: Of course, there's got to be some cold, logical solution. Captain. Captain. What?
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  Speaker 9: That house down the street. The white one with the
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  Speaker 9: green shutters. Lustig, what's the matter?
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  Speaker 7: I never thought. I never thought.
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  Speaker 8: Thank God. Thank God.
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  Speaker 5: Lustig.
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  Speaker 8: Lustig, come back here.
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  Speaker 5: He's running for that house.
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  Speaker 9: That crazy fool.
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  Speaker 8: After him, quick. Lassie, stop. Come down off of that porch.
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  Speaker 8: Grandma and Grandpa, it is you.
• 14:22
  Speaker 9: Lustig, what's going on here? Albert, why, it's been so
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  Speaker 9: many years.
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  Speaker 7: How you've grown, boy.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, it's so good to see you.
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  Speaker 9: Lieutenant Lustig.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, oh, Captain. Grandma, I want you to meet my friend.
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  Speaker 6: This is Captain Black. Captain, I want you to meet
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  Speaker 6: my grand folks.
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  Speaker 13: Howdy.
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  Speaker 3: Many friends of Albert's, friends of ours.
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  Speaker 6: How long you been here, Grandma?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, good many years. Ever since we died.
• 14:46
  Speaker 9: Ever since you what?
• 14:47
  Speaker 6: Oh, yes, sir. They've been dead 30 years.
• 14:49
  Speaker 10: What?
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  Speaker 9: You mean to tell me that Mars is heaven?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, nonsense, no.
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  Speaker 5: All we know is here we're alive again.
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  Speaker 9: And who are we to question God's infinite ways?
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  Speaker 6: Hi.
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  Speaker 9: Lustig, we're going back to the ship.
• 15:04
  Speaker 6: But, Captain, I want to talk to my grandfather.
• 15:06
  Speaker 9: Listen, Lustig, I don't like any part of this. You'll
• 15:08
  Speaker 9: come back with us. I have to club you and
• 15:10
  Speaker 9: carry you.
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  Speaker 6: But, sir, they're my.
• 15:12
  Speaker 9: Heaven only knows what they've run up against back.
• 15:14
  Speaker 6: At the ship.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: Dimension X will continue in just a moment. Well, now
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: let's come back to Earth for a moment. And what's
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: more appropriate than Wheaties and baseball? You'll see what I
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: mean as I introduce Ed Prentiss, who has a special
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: treat for you.
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: Carry on, Mr. Prentiss.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: Folks, I'd like to have you meet a good friend
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: of mine and a prominent member of a fine little
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: organization known as the Chicago White Sox, Mr. Lucius Benjamin Affleck. Ooh, Ed,
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: don't say it like that. Who ever heard of a
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: ball player named Lucius? What if I went around calling
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: you Paul Edward Prentiss? Let's just make it Ed and Luke, huh?
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  Speaker 6: All right, Luke.
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: Say, just how long have you been with the White Sox?
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: Over 20 years, Ed. Golly, I've played in darn near 2,500 games.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: Been at bat almost 9,000 times, man. I'm from way back. Well, Luke,
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: you don't look it. How do you keep up the pace, anyway? Well, Ed,
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: I sleep good.
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: I eat good.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: I eat mighty good. Tweet is about four mornings a week.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: Those little old flakes put a lot of snap, even
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: in an old-timer like me. Must be because they're 100%
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: whole wheat. I sure like Wheaties and milk and fruit.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: You know, Luke, that's exactly what I hear from a
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: lot of ballplayers and plenty of other people, too. No
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: wonder they call Wheaties the breakfast of champions. Well, thanks,
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Luke Appling and Ed Prentiss. You know, folks, you may
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: not be a champion ballplayer, but Wheaties can help you
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: feel like one. So try them.
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: Wheaties, that is. See how Wheaties at 7 can help
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: at 11.
• 17:12
  Speaker 8: Horst, look at that crowd around the ship.
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: Looks like we're being welcomed with a celebration, Captain.
• 17:16
  Speaker 8: Celebration?
• 17:17
  Speaker 9: They've abandoned ship.
• 17:18
  Speaker 8: Every port is open. No guard set. You! You, masters! Hiya, Captain.
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: Meet my old dad.
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: Dad, that's Captain Black, and he's not a bad guy
• 17:25
  Speaker 8: for an officer. Of all the.
• 17:27
  Speaker 9: Higston!
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: What, sir?
• 17:28
  Speaker 9: Bring that man back. Use force if you have to.
• 17:30
  Speaker 8: Excuse me, sir. There's my Uncle George.
• 17:32
  Speaker 13: Higston!
• 17:33
  Speaker 8: I'll be right back, Captain. Uncle George!
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: Uncle George!
• 17:35
  Speaker 9: What the devil is going on?
• 17:36
  Speaker 13: Don't you understand, sir?
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: They've all found friends and relatives. They're all here. He's right, Captain.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: I've counted. The whole crew's out on the crop.
• 17:42
  Speaker 9: But I gave orders.
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: Definite orders. You don't understand, Captain.
• 17:45
  Speaker 10: I understand mutiny. I don't care how many relatives show up.
• 17:48
  Speaker 10: I'll have discipline.
• 17:49
  Speaker 9: Johnny!
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: Johnny, you old son of a gun.
• 17:52
  Speaker 8: Edward.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Edward.
• 17:55
  Speaker 9: It's you. It can't be.
• 17:58
  Speaker 8: Of course it is.
• 18:00
  Speaker 9: Johnny, you old son of a gun.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Ed. Edward.
• 18:04
  Speaker 9: Dr. Horst. This is my brother, Edward.
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: How do you do?
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: Hello.
• 18:09
  Speaker 9: It's... It's wonderful to see you, Edward. Look, I've got
• 18:13
  Speaker 9: to get back to my ship.
• 18:14
  Speaker 13: Hey, I almost forgot.
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: Mom's waiting at home.
• 18:19
  Speaker 9: Mom?
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: And Dad, too.
• 18:21
  Speaker 9: Mom?
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: Dad are alive?
• 18:26
  Speaker 9: Excuse me, horse.
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: Then you're real, Ed.
• 18:30
  Speaker 9: Don't I feel real?
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: How's that, huh?
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Ed. Ed, we've got lunch for you, Johnnie.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: Mom's making corn fritters.
• 18:40
  Speaker 9: Corn... Dr. Horst, haven't you found anybody?
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: No, Captain. I have nobody.
• 18:46
  Speaker 9: Then you come on home with me, right, Ed?
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: Sure, you bet.
• 18:49
  Speaker 10: Horst, you wouldn't believe it, but it's been 35 years
• 18:52
  Speaker 10: since I had Mom's corn fritters.
• 18:55
  Speaker 9: By George. 35 years.
• 19:12
  Speaker 12: And there's plenty more in the kitchen, so don't hold back, Johnny.
• 19:16
  Speaker 7: You too, Dr.
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: Horst. Well, Johnny, you're still in the Navy, huh?
• 19:20
  Speaker 9: That's right, Dad. I'm in command of the ship.
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: We're an old Navy family, Dr.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Horst.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: All three of our boys in the service.
• 19:27
  Speaker 9: Ed was the best pilot in the Pacific.
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: What didn't happen, Ed? Oh, what's the difference?
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: I'm here now.
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: Oh, you know, it's almost perfect. All we're missing is
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: your brother, Wilk. Then the whole family could be together.
• 19:40
  Speaker 9: Well, it won't be long, Mom.
• 19:41
  Speaker 10: Will's in charge of the XR-54. That's the next rocket
• 19:43
  Speaker 10: coming out to Mars.
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: Well, little Will.
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: When does he leave, Johnny?
• 19:48
  Speaker 10: Takeoff's scheduled for September, but it depends. on what we report.
• 19:51
  Speaker 10: But there's no question about that now, eh? Christmas together again.
• 19:55
  Speaker 10: That'll be something, eh?
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: Yes, sirree. Well, this calls for a celebration.
• 20:00
  Speaker 9: How about a little of the old dandelion wine, eh, Johnny?
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: Now, Father, don't you go giving Johnny too much wine.
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: Oh, he's a big boy now, Mother. Well, sir, isn't
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: everything just fine? Just fine.
• 20:16
  Speaker 9: Just fine.
• 20:26
  Speaker 13: Till more the candlelights are gleaming on the.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Banks of the Wallach far away.
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: Play another song.
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: Sure.
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: Well, Dr. Horst, what do you think of my little family?
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: Very nice.
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: You know, I can't understand why you didn't find any
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: folks here, Dr.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Horst.
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: Just a shame everybody else is so happy.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: I never remembered my family, Mrs.
• 21:02
  Speaker 9: Black.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: All I know is they were gassed at Dachau during
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: the Second World War. When I was liberated, I was
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: on delirium three months. I cannot remember anything before then.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: The psychiatric phenomenon.
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: That's terrible. Isn't there anything anybody can do?
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: I don't want to remember.
• 21:23
  Speaker 12: Oh.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: I haven't had a pleasant life. I prefer to be
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: free of emotional entanglements. It ain't a fear with a
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: scientific approach.
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry, Dr. Horse.
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: No, I'll get it. Hey, that's our ring, long and
• 21:43
  Speaker 9: three shorts. I remember that.
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: Well, maybe we'd better call it a night. You must
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: be getting tired, Johnny.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: I'd better be going back to the ship.
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: Oh, nonsense. You stay the night. We insist.
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: I just couldn't rest thinking of you all alone on
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: that ship.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: I'll be all right. Well, good night.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute, Dr.
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: Horst.
• 22:02
  Speaker 9: That phone message was for you.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: Me? Yeah, that's right. A message from Anna.
• 22:06
  Speaker 9: Anna?
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: I don't remember any Anna.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Anna?
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: She asked if you were better.
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: Perhaps she's someone you knew at Dachau.
• 22:17
  Speaker 9: She said she's coming over here first thing in the morning.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: So you'll have to stay over.
• 22:21
  Speaker 9: Well, that settles it then. You stay here, Horst. You
• 22:24
  Speaker 9: can bunk with me in my old room.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: Oh, but Johnny, we thought you'd like to be with Edward.
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: So you could talk the way you used to.
• 22:31
  Speaker 9: Well, we can't put Dr.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: Horst on the daybed.
• 22:33
  Speaker 9: I think we'd better share the room tonight.
• 22:34
  Speaker 10: There'll be plenty of time for talking, Ed.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: I guess so.
• 22:37
  Speaker 9: Well, I suppose I'd better drop back to the ship.
• 22:39
  Speaker 9: You know, Ed, security check.
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: Why do you have to do that here?
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: Well, I don't know.
• 22:44
  Speaker 9: There's no good reason, I guess. Well, I suppose we
• 22:47
  Speaker 9: skip it tonight.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: Oh, sure.
• 22:49
  Speaker 9: Well, good night, everybody.
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: Oh, it's good to have you home, Johnny.
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: It's good to be home, Mom.
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: ¶ ¶.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: Captain Black.
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: Are you asleep? No, no.
• 23:18
  Speaker 10: I've just been thinking about what we were expecting. Green-skinned
• 23:24
  Speaker 10: Martians with eyes on stalks. All the time it was
• 23:27
  Speaker 10: only Mom and Dad and Edward waiting. It's funny what
• 23:32
  Speaker 10: tricks your imagination can play on you. Yeah, I guess
• 23:35
  Speaker 10: Mars is heaven, Horst.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Hmm.
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: I've been thinking about Martians, too.
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: Captain. Captain. Just suppose....
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Suppose there were Martians, and they saw us land. Suppose
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: they thought of us as invaders. What would be the
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: best weapon they could use against our atom bombs?
• 24:00
  Speaker 9: I don't see what you're getting at.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: They would want to disarm us first. To wipe out
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: all suspicion. To make us feel at home. But suppose
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: this house isn't real. Suppose the people are just images.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Stolen from our own memories.
• 24:18
  Speaker 9: By Martians.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: Created for us by telepathy.
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: Hypnotism.
• 24:24
  Speaker 9: That's the craziest theory I ever heard.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Maybe that's why there was no one for me. Because
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: in all my life there is no happy memory. No
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: real loved person.
• 24:32
  Speaker 9: How about that phone call from Anna? Yes.
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: Anna.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: I didn't remember who she was, but I do now.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: I just remembered. When I was freed from Dachau, sick
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: and delirious, I raved about a wonderful, kind nurse named.
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: Logical.
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: She's coming to see you tomorrow.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: But there was no Anna. I'd be nursed by a man. What?
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Anna was only a dream. And there's only one way
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: they could have learned about her. By reading my subconscious mind.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: But that's impossible, Horst.
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: Why?
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: The whole crew was thinking of home. Suppose the Martians
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: read our minds.
• 25:08
  Speaker 9: But there are Martians. If there are, they have it separated.
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: Each man in a different house.
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: Sleepy.
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: Trusting.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: No one at the guns.
• 25:18
  Speaker 9: I left my pistol downstairs. Do you think there's something
• 25:23
  Speaker 9: to this horse? It's a... Who would suspect his own mother?
• 25:28
  Speaker 9: His grandparents?
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: How easy. Just a knife in the heart of each
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: sleeping man.
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: That's impossible, horseman.
• 25:36
  Speaker 9: We've got to get back to the ship.
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: Listen.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: The crickets have stopped. We don't know when they change
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: back to whatever they really are.
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: Where are you going, John?
• 26:00
  Speaker 9: Ed, well, we wanted to drink a water. That's all, Ed.
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: You're not thirsty, John.
• 26:09
  Speaker 10: You don't want to drink.
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: You don't want to drink.
• 26:13
  Speaker 9: Look out! His face!
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: It's changing! And his hands! He's a Martian!
• 26:16
  Speaker 9: Run, horse!
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Run!
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: You can't get away, John.
• 26:18
  Speaker 8: You can't.
• 26:34
  Speaker 12: Hello?
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Hello?
• 26:35
  Speaker 8: Can you hear me, Earth?
• 26:36
  Speaker 11: This is Captain John Black, the XR-53, calling from Mars.
• 26:40
  Speaker 11: I've locked myself in the ship, but they've crippled it.
• 26:43
  Speaker 11: I can't take off or.
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: Fire the guns, and they're coming for me now, the Martians.
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: I'm all alone here. All the rest are dead. Hinkston, Lustig, Dr.
• 26:49
  Speaker 9: Horst.
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: Poor Horst, he didn't even reach the door.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: Listen.
• 26:53
  Speaker 10: Listen.
• 26:53
  Speaker 11: They're trying to break through the hull now. Edward and
• 26:55
  Speaker 11: Mom and Dad and all the folks. But they're changing now.
• 26:58
  Speaker 11: Melting and changing back into... They're Martians.
• 27:01
  Speaker 8: Can you understand me?
• 27:02
  Speaker 11: Martians, not men. They made us think that Mars was heaven.
• 27:05
  Speaker 11: We fell into the trap.
• 27:06
  Speaker 8: Can you hear me, Earth? You've got to stop the
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: next rocket. Tell... Tell my brother Will. Tell my brother
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: Will not to come. They'll trap him, too. They'll kill
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: them all. Hello.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Hello.
• 27:16
  Speaker 8: Can you hear me, Earth? This is John Black on Mars.
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: Hello, Earth.
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: This is John Black on Mars.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: Tonight, Dimension X has presented and transcribed the Ray Bradbury story,
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Mars is Heaven, adapted for radio by Ernest Canoy. Featured
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: players were Wendell Holmes as Captain Black and Peter Capel
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: as Dr.
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: Horse.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: Your narrator, Norman Rose. Music by Albert Berman. Engineer, Bill Chambers.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Dimension X is produced by Van Woodward and directed by
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Edward King. Robert Warren speaking. In a moment, we'll tell
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: you about next week's show. And now, here is your
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Wheaties man, Frank Martin. Folks, tonight we have a special
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: guest for you. Here he is, Joel McRae.
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: Hello, Frank Martin.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: I kind of expected to see a package of Wheaties
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: sticking out of your pocket.
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: What?
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: Did I forget them? You must like Wheaties, Frank. Sure,
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: don't you? You bet.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: I'm joining the big parade of Wheaties programs, you know,
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: with Tales of the Texas Rangers come Saturday night. That
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: promises to be real entertainment, Joel. Understand these are true
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: stories of the Texas Rangers.
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: Absolutely.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: Each story is straight from the Texas Ranger files. Well,
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: we're mighty proud to have you join us, Joel, with
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: this new program. We'll all be listening on the same
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: NBC station Saturday night for Joel McRae in Tales of
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: the Texas Rangers.
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: Okay, Mr.
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: McRae? Okay, partner.
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: Good night. Good night, Joel.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: And friends, be sure to listen Saturday, that's tomorrow night,
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: to Joel McRae and his new program, Tales.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: Of the Texas Rangers. And get your Wheaties, everybody.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: And this is the Wheaties man, Frank Martin, inviting you
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: again to listen tomorrow night to Joel McRae in Tales
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: of the Texas Rangers on the Wheaties Big Parade.
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: See you then.
• 29:10
  Speaker 13: Next week, the story of the strangest case ever recorded
• 29:13
  Speaker 13: in the files of the Bureau of Missing Persons. The
• 29:16
  Speaker 13: case of the man in the moon. You'll hear the
• 29:19
  Speaker 13: whole story next week when we venture once more into
• 29:22
  Speaker 13: the unknown world of.
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: The March on Axe. This is NBC, the national broadcasting company.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: This has been Dimension X, Episode 14, Mars is Heaven.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us for this July 1950 broadcast.
• 30:15
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