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Suspense - "To None a Deadly Drug" (Old Time Radio, 1955) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: October 2nd, 1955 brings us to episode five of Suspense
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  Speaker 1: to None a Deadly Drug. At a family-owned pharmacy, a
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  Speaker 1: pharmacist discovers that a prescription mix-up has sent dangerous heart
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  Speaker 1: medicine home with a young child. The boy's mother is
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  Speaker 1: already traveling, and the pharmacist turns to the police as
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  Speaker 1: they try to trace her route before the medicine is given.
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  Speaker 1: The search moves from a neighborhood prescription counter onto surrounding
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  Speaker 1: highway roads. Hank Searles wrote this CBS drama, produced and
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  Speaker 1: directed by Anthony Ellis, with Harry Bartell, Charlotte Lawrence, Virginia Eiler,
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  Speaker 1: Sammy Ogg, High Averbach, Larry Thor, Jack Krushen, and John
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  Speaker 1: Stevenson in the cast. Now, back to the golden age
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  Speaker 1: of radio.
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  Speaker 2: And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. Tonight,
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  Speaker 2: we bring you transcribed a story of a prescription filled
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  Speaker 2: in error. We call it To None a Deadly Drug.
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  Speaker 2: So now, starring Harry Bartell, here is tonight's suspense play,
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  Speaker 2: To None a Deadly Drug. Sometimes it can happen. A
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  Speaker 2: prescription handed a druggist, a slip-up somewhere, a dead person.
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  Speaker 2: When it does occur, it's news, because it is almost
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  Speaker 2: unheard of. A druggist is a careful man, tempered in
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  Speaker 2: the tough crucible of pharmaceutical college, filtered by a board
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  Speaker 2: of examiners, sworn, as is a physician, to protect those
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  Speaker 2: he serves from wrong and harm. It almost never happens,
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  Speaker 2: but when it does, it can ruin a man, and
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  Speaker 2: it can ruin his wife. Manxville is on U.S. 99,
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  Speaker 2: near the junction of three main arteries, It's a small town,
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  Speaker 2: but it supports two drugstores. One is Foster's Pharmacy. It's
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  Speaker 2: owned and run by a young ex-GI pharmacist named Cal Foster.
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  Speaker 2: Next to his wife, Marion, he loves his pharmacy more
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  Speaker 2: than anything on earth. Cal has a soda fountain, but
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  Speaker 2: he lets a kid named Joe handle that. Cal's heart
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  Speaker 2: is with the gleaming scales and the sparkling bottles. That's
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  Speaker 2: where he was the evening it happened, typing a label
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  Speaker 2: for a prescription while Marion waited impatiently.
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  Speaker 3: Cal, you promised. It's 6.30 and you promised.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, honey, I shaved. Did you get my jacket from
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  Speaker 4: the cleaners?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: It's a half-hour drive to the club and it's 6.30 already.
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  Speaker 7: Are you listening?
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  Speaker 4: I'll just be a second.
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  Speaker 8: Mrs. Peabody lost her digitalis bottle. She's about to have
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  Speaker 8: a heart attack worrying about it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, she's as healthy as a horse.
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  Speaker 6: And you said you'd be ready at 6.30.
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  Speaker 4: We'll just deliver this on the way to the dance.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 8: It's not far, and she's a nice old gal for
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  Speaker 8: a hypochondriac. Look, why don't you hang up the close
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  Speaker 8: sign on the door? I'll have another customer for sure.
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  Speaker 8: I'll just stick this label on her bottle and put
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  Speaker 8: on my jacket.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, too late.
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  Speaker 3: Tell her you're closed.
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  Speaker 4: I can't do that, darling.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am. Hello.
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  Speaker 7: Can you fill a prescription for me, for my son?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I think so. Let's see. Tippy Smith, Elixir, Phenobarbital, Tincture, Belladonna.
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  Speaker 8: What's the matter, fella?
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  Speaker 4: Stomachache?
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  Speaker 9: No, I'm okay.
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  Speaker 5: He isn't either.
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  Speaker 7: He just doesn't like medicine, that's all.
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  Speaker 5: But the minute we get back on the road, he'll
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  Speaker 5: be miserable.
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  Speaker 4: Well, this will make him feel better. Hey, San Francisco
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  Speaker 4: doctor wrote this?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: I meant to have it filled there, but I got
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  Speaker 7: a wire my husband's due back from Japan. He's a
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  Speaker 7: Navy man.
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  Speaker 5: What with packing the car to go and meet him
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  Speaker 5: and getting Tip out of school and everything, I forgot.
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  Speaker 5: And now he's got the stomachache again.
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  Speaker 7: And I'm trying to make another hundred miles tonight.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we'll fix him up.
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  Speaker 5: How much will it be?
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  Speaker 4: Let's see, about $ 1.
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  Speaker 10: 75.
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  Speaker 4: Just take a minute.
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  Speaker 5: Gosh, he's a rugged guy.
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  Speaker 7: A kid has to be rugged for this sort of life.
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  Speaker 7: He's lived in half a dozen towns since he was born.
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  Speaker 5: No wonder he gets the stomachache.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he must get bored on the road.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, he sure does.
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  Speaker 7: But we listen to the radio and think up riddles
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  Speaker 7: and name cars. He knows every make of car on
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  Speaker 7: the road.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, where are you headed now?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, the ship's coming in descent. Tippi, leave the comic
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  Speaker 7: book alone. You have a dozen in the car.
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  Speaker 11: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Mom.
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 9: I don't really need the medicine.
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  Speaker 3: I feel all right.
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  Speaker 7: Well, you're going to take it, just the same.
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  Speaker 4: All right, now, just make up a label. You can
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  Speaker 4: get it back on the road. Let's see.
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  Speaker 8: Fifteen drops of glass of water every four hours, 7
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  Speaker 8: and 11 p.m., 3 and 7.
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  Speaker 4: You can start now if you want. It's almost seven,
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  Speaker 4: and then you won't have to stop on the road
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  Speaker 4: for a glass of water.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that's a good idea.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I don't think it is. It isn't time anyway.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's almost time.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, Mom, while we're driving, we can play the game.
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  Speaker 9: Like the other time. You know, when I lose, I'll
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  Speaker 9: take the medicine.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, all right.
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  Speaker 4: There we are. Oh, excuse me just a minute.
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  Speaker 12: Hello.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that horrible phone.
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  Speaker 6: I'm trying to get him to a dinner dance for
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  Speaker 6: the first time in two years. It's like getting a
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  Speaker 6: date with Marlon Brando.
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  Speaker 5: Well, at least your husband's home nights.
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  Speaker 12: I know.
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  Speaker 5: It must be awful.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, here, I'll put on the label and you can go.
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  Speaker 3: How much did he say it would be?
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  Speaker 12: $ 175.
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  Speaker 7: Out of two, as they say.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, and it looks as if Tippy's brought a comic book,
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  Speaker 6: after all, with his dirty hands.
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  Speaker 4: All over it.
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  Speaker 3: The comic book Tippy's on me.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, well, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks.
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  Speaker 9: Thanks a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Good luck.
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  Speaker 9: Have a good trip.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Mrs. Piedmont.
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  Speaker 11: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: And I won't forget to drop it off. Goodbye. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: what a character. Where's our customer?
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  Speaker 3: I gave her the medicine and she left.
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  Speaker 4: You gave it to her? What do you mean?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I sold it to her, I mean. I pasted
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  Speaker 3: on the label and sold it to her.
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  Speaker 4: You what? Look, Marion, don't you ever, ever label a
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  Speaker 4: bottle in this store. Do you understand?
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  Speaker 7: Well, Cal, don't.
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  Speaker 3: Look at me that way. That gold my eye.
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  Speaker 4: I mean it, Marion.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry if I usurped any of your prerogatives, Pastor.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't know it took a registered pharmacist to lick
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  Speaker 6: a label.
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  Speaker 4: Well, in my store, it does. Okay, let's forget it.
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  Speaker 4: Where's my jacket?
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  Speaker 3: In the back.
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  Speaker 7: Here.
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  Speaker 8: Here.
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  Speaker 6: Are you sure you don't want to wear your white
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  Speaker 6: coat so people will know you're a druggist?
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  Speaker 3: A pharmacist, I mean.
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  Speaker 4: All right, that's enough of that.
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  Speaker 10: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Are we all set? Safe lock, files closed, lights out.
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  Speaker 4: Let's roll, doll.
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  Speaker 6: Has the stern disciple of Hy-G forgotten something?
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  Speaker 13: Ooh, Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: Peabody's digitalis. She'll murder me. Just a second. Marion.
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 4: What bottle did you give that woman?
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  Speaker 3: What is it, Cal?
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean? That woman, we've got to stop her.
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  Speaker 4: Where was she parked? Where'd she go?
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  Speaker 5: What is it?
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  Speaker 4: The bottle that's left on the sink. It's the kid's medicine.
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  Speaker 4: You gave her the digitalis.
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  Speaker 5: Now, where are they?
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  Speaker 6: No, Cal, I took the bottle that was there.
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  Speaker 3: There were two bottles there, Marion, and two labels.
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  Speaker 8: The belladonna's left and the digitalis label.
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  Speaker 4: Do you understand?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Cal.
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  Speaker 4: Did she say where she was heading?
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  Speaker 3: To meet her husband.
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  Speaker 9: To meet his ship.
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  Speaker 4: I know, but where?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think she said.
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  Speaker 11: Think, think. What?
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  Speaker 3: She started to tell me, and then the boy, Tippy,
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  Speaker 3: it was.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, come on.
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  Speaker 3: He picked up a magazine. I can't remember, gal. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: she didn't say.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Lord, digitalis.
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  Speaker 3: If he takes it, what'll it do?
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  Speaker 4: And that dosage would probably kill him.
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  Speaker 5: Mom?
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  Speaker 6: Yes?
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  Speaker 9: You think Dad'll know me?
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  Speaker 5: What do you mean, will Dad know you?
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  Speaker 9: Will he?
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  Speaker 7: Well, of course he'll know you.
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  Speaker 5: Why wouldn't he?
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  Speaker 9: Well, you said once he wouldn't.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't.
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  Speaker 9: Well, that time he called from Japan. You said he
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  Speaker 9: wouldn't know me now. Well, you did.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Tippi. That's just something people say.
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  Speaker 7: Of course he'll know you. Oh, and you and he
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  Speaker 7: have lots of fun together before he leaves again. Turn
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  Speaker 7: on the radio.
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  Speaker 10: Okay.
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  Speaker 13: And for Mark and Jim and the guys and dolls
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  Speaker 13: and the Maxwell driving... Hey, kids, now you watch that movie,
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  Speaker 13: now you hear me. And for the captains of the
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  Speaker 13: Upper Valley... And for Matilda, from her mother on her 16th,
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  Speaker 13: for sweet 16. Sweet 16 to you. And for Donnie.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, we don't want that, Tippy. Try something else.
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  Speaker 11: Just going to play the kind of crazy wax.
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  Speaker 13: That's what it's going to do.
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  Speaker 11: We got a real good one for you.
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  Speaker 9: That's all I get, Mom.
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  Speaker 13: So from Al, your DJ pal, and KRMX, the voice
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  Speaker 13: of the valley, here we are with Perfidium.
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  Speaker 7: How's your stomach?
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  Speaker 9: Well, it doesn't hurt a bit. I feel just fine. Boy,
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  Speaker 9: it's a nice night, isn't it?
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  Speaker 10: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 9: Do you like to drive, Mom?
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  Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 9: When I get older, I'll help you with the driving.
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  Speaker 9: Jimmy drives for his folks sometimes.
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  Speaker 5: Hmm, he's three years older than you. And anyway, that's
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  Speaker 5: too young.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, look at that lake over.
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  Speaker 11: There, Mom.
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  Speaker 5: Tippy. What? Stop it.
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  Speaker 13: What?
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  Speaker 7: You're trying to make me forget about the medicine, aren't you?
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  Speaker 9: You said we could play the game before I had
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  Speaker 9: to take the medicine.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, all right. We'll start now. How many out-of-state licenses?
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  Speaker 12: Five.
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  Speaker 7: We won't see five in an hour.
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  Speaker 6: Two.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, no, you'll see two right away.
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  Speaker 12: Three. All right.
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  Speaker 7: Now, when I see three, you have to take your medicine.
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  Speaker 5: And what do you know?
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  Speaker 7: You see that car ahead?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, Mom, that isn't fair.
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  Speaker 5: Not the first car.
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  Speaker 9: We didn't really start yet.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, we did.
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  Speaker 7: See?
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  Speaker 5: Ohio.
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  Speaker 9: One down, two to go. No more out-of-states.
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  Speaker 10: Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 7: That doesn't look like a California plate to me, is it?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, it is, Mom.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, you're right. Well, still two to go.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, the things I have to do to make you
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  Speaker 7: take a perfectly harmless little medicine.
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  Speaker 9: I don't like that junk.
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  Speaker 5: I'm beginning to believe that.
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  Speaker 13: All right, all right. Now, let's stop that record. Our
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  Speaker 13: goofy engineer, he put the... I wanted Artie Shaw's perfidia. Well,
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  Speaker 13: which one's that? Is that that Perez somebody or something?
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  Speaker 13: It sounded like a free holy spin in there or something.
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  Speaker 11: Well, anyway, folks, you guys and.
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  Speaker 13: Dolls, this is Olad, your DJ pal, and I've got
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  Speaker 13: time for a couple of more phone requests here before
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  Speaker 13: the 7 o'clock news.
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  Speaker 11: Hey, here's a call. One of the buttons there. Let
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  Speaker 11: me get the... Hello? Hello, who's this? Mom?
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 9: How far do we have to go?
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  Speaker 5: Tonight?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, about 100 miles.
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  Speaker 9: When do we get to San Diego?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Tippi, what's wrong?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, nothing.
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  Speaker 7: Does your stomach ache again?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, no, honest, Mom, I'm okay.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't hurt at all.
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  Speaker 9: I want us to play the game.
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  Speaker 5: It does hurt, doesn't it? Oh, I think we'd better
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  Speaker 5: stop at the next place and give you those drops.
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  Speaker 2: You are listening to To None, A Deadly Drug. Tonight's
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  Speaker 2: presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. Listen in
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  Speaker 4: On CBS Radio.
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  Speaker 2: Listen Saturday in the daytime when United States Marshal Matt
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  Speaker 2: And listen again Sunday night on most of these same
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  Speaker 2: early west. Make Gunsmoke a listening habit, and you'll readily
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  Speaker 2: appreciate the sentiments of critics who have given this thrilling,
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  Speaker 2: realistic program their generous applause.
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  Speaker 4: Gunsmoke, at the star's address.
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  Speaker 2: And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage Harry Bartell,
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  Speaker 2: starring in tonight's production, To None a Deadly Drug. A
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  Speaker 2: tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. There are
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  Speaker 2: certain things a druggist learns in the School of Pharmacy.
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  Speaker 2: Certain things that have nothing to do with chemistry or
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  Speaker 2: toxicology or physiology. He learns the code of ethics, and
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  Speaker 2: he reads the oath of Hippocrates, and he knows that
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  Speaker 2: it applies to him as well as to the physician.
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  Speaker 2: To none will I give a deadly drug, even if solicited,
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  Speaker 2: nor will I counsel such. To none a deadly drug. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: there are certain things a druggist learns in the School
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  Speaker 2: of Pharmacy. But no one tells him how to track
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  Speaker 2: down a woman with a common name driving an unknown
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  Speaker 2: car on any one of three heavily traveled routes toward
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  Speaker 2: an unknown destination.
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  Speaker 4: For that, he gets the sheriff.
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  Speaker 8: No, she didn't say where she was heading. You're sure
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  Speaker 8: she didn't tell your wife while you were in the
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  Speaker 8: back there?
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  Speaker 4: Marion can't remember. Is she okay? She kind of just
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  Speaker 4: sits there. A little shocked, maybe.
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  Speaker 8: Foster, I just don't see how you expect us to
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  Speaker 8: stop this woman. We got no license number, no make
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  Speaker 8: of car, last name is Smith. You don't know where
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  Speaker 8: she's heading, and with the traffic that we have here,
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  Speaker 8: I don't know... We've got to stop her. What time
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  Speaker 8: is it?
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  Speaker 4: Ten to seven. You said the first dose was at seven?
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 11: Hello.
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  Speaker 13: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Foster?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 7: Ready on your call to San Francisco.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, thank you. Hello, Dr.
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  Speaker 12: Peters?
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  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 11: This is Dr. Peters.
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  Speaker 8: Doctor, this is Cal Foster. I got your number from
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  Speaker 8: a prescription. I'm a pharmacist in Manxville, Foster's Pharmacy.
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  Speaker 12: Yes?
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  Speaker 8: You treated a child named Tippy Smith, about 12 or 13,
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  Speaker 8: a Navy man's son. You wrote a prescription for belladonna
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  Speaker 8: and phenobarbital.
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  Speaker 11: I think I recall.
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  Speaker 6: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 8: Well, my wife... I made a mistake. He got digitalis instead,
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  Speaker 8: the same dosage.
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  Speaker 12: What?
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  Speaker 4: Digitalis.
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  Speaker 11: A well-built, rugged boy, blonde hair, pretty mother?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, that's right.
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  Speaker 11: As I remember.
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  Speaker 13: Is he alive?
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  Speaker 4: We can't find them. They're on the road. That's why
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  Speaker 4: I called.
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  Speaker 11: Well, I'll do anything I can.
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  Speaker 4: Did you tell us in that dossier? Do you know
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  Speaker 4: anything about them? Where they might be going? They'll make
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  Speaker 4: a car.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 13: Well, they were new in the city the first visit
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  Speaker 13: to me. Look, I'm at home, but her address will
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  Speaker 13: be in my files downtown.
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  Speaker 8: Just a minute, please. Sheriff, if we get her address,
• 16:00
  Speaker 8: can we find her license number? Well, sure, from Sacramento,
• 16:02
  Speaker 8: if it's a California license and if it's current. But
• 16:05
  Speaker 8: it'll take time. It's too long, and that's for sure.
• 16:07
  Speaker 8: We've got to try. Doctor, will you get her address?
• 16:10
  Speaker 11: I'm on my way. I'll call back.
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: I don't know what we can do until we find
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: that license number.
• 16:16
  Speaker 8: Can't you set up roadblocks? Call the State Highway Patrol.
• 16:19
  Speaker 8: Where are we going to set up those blocks? Well,
• 16:21
  Speaker 8: she's only been gone 20 minutes. How far has she driven? 12,
• 16:24
  Speaker 8: 15 miles, maybe. But which road? We don't even know
• 16:28
  Speaker 8: where she's heading. Husband's ship was coming in. Where would
• 16:31
  Speaker 8: a Navy ship come in?
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: That's easy. San Diego, Long Beach, San Pedro, Port One Amy.
• 16:36
  Speaker 8: She's on 399 or 99 or maybe 466.
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: Now, we don't know.
• 16:40
  Speaker 8: So I call the Highway Patrol for an all-points bulletin.
• 16:43
  Speaker 8: I want a roadblock for a woman and a kid.
• 16:45
  Speaker 8: No car description, no license number.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: We don't know what road they're on. They're gonna laugh
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: at me.
• 16:50
  Speaker 8: It's too late anyway, Foster. We only got three patrolmen
• 16:53
  Speaker 8: who could even get in the vicinity. You gotta forget
• 16:55
  Speaker 8: the roadblock.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: Well, we've got to do something. We can't sit here
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: and let this kid kill himself in five minutes. All right,
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: what do we do?
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: They're probably playing their game.
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: Mrs.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: Smith and Tippy.
• 17:05
  Speaker 10: What?
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: Their game. What game?
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: They were going to play a game before he had
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: to take his medicine. When he lost the game, he
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: had to take it.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: Foster, you better do something for your wife. All right,
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: now look, Marion, snap out of it, do you hear?
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: They were going to play a game.
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: He gets bored on the road, so they play games.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: And listen to the radio.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: They do what?
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Play games and listen to the radio.
• 17:26
  Speaker 8: Sheriff, the radio, KRNX, we can call them. Yeah, yeah,
• 17:30
  Speaker 8: you know, that might work at that. That's the only
• 17:32
  Speaker 8: station most people can get in the valley on their
• 17:34
  Speaker 8: car radios anyway.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: Here, give me the phone. Come on, come on.
• 17:46
  Speaker 13: Operator.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: Give me KRNX.
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: The radio station?
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: That's right, quick.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: You can dial that number, sir.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: Look, this is Sheriff Gibbs, and I haven't got time.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Now get it.
• 17:55
  Speaker 13: Just a moment, sir.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: The line's busy, sir.
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: It's their disc jockey.
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: He takes phone requests. He's always busy when he's on.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: Look, this is an emergency. I want you to break in.
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: I'll try again, sir.
• 18:26
  Speaker 13: Hello, this is Al, your DJ pal.
• 18:28
  Speaker 11: What's your musical pleasure?
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: This is Sheriff Gibbs. I want you to make an announcement.
• 18:32
  Speaker 11: Oh, yeah, sure. It's Sheriff Gibbs. Sheriff Gibbs, kids. And
• 18:38
  Speaker 11: he wants to make an announcement. Uh, you running for.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Sheriff again, Sheriff? Listen, Joker, this is Gibbs, and it
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: is an emergency.
• 18:45
  Speaker 11: Oh, yeah, yeah, I know.
• 18:46
  Speaker 13: He says it's an emergency, Katz. There's one in every crowd, kid.
• 18:51
  Speaker 13: Somebody's always got to get in the act.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: Now, look, fella, just let me have your request.
• 18:56
  Speaker 11: Come on, now.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: I got all the phones going here. Hello, Al.
• 18:59
  Speaker 11: Al, will you shut up?
• 19:02
  Speaker 8: This is Cal Foster at the pharmacy. I just sold
• 19:04
  Speaker 8: the wrong medicine to a woman named Smith for her son.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: They're on the road now. We can't contact them.
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: He's supposed to take it at 7.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: We think they might be listening.
• 19:12
  Speaker 11: Are you serious?
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: Of course I'm serious.
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: I want you to announce that the medicine just sold
• 19:17
  Speaker 8: to a Mrs. Smith at Foster's Pharmacy in Manxville is
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: the wrong medicine.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: It's deadly. She's to call me immediately.
• 19:24
  Speaker 11: Well, yeah, I.
• 19:25
  Speaker 13: Got it, but listen, if you think I'm sticking my
• 19:28
  Speaker 13: neck out for a lawsuit on account of a phone call,
• 19:30
  Speaker 13: you're nuts, but you're nuts.
• 19:32
  Speaker 11: How do I know you're Foster?
• 19:35
  Speaker 8: I sold you $ 10 worth of wheat germ last week,
• 19:37
  Speaker 8: you remember?
• 19:37
  Speaker 10: Uh.
• 19:39
  Speaker 11: Oh, wait, Germ.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess you did.
• 19:49
  Speaker 13: Well, kids, I guess you're kind of curious. You heard
• 19:53
  Speaker 13: one side of a pretty strange conversation. Now then, your
• 19:57
  Speaker 13: old pal is going to stick his neck way out
• 19:59
  Speaker 13: and make an announcement.
• 20:01
  Speaker 11: If I'm not on the air tomorrow, it means I
• 20:02
  Speaker 11: was wrong. The guy that called first really was the sheriff.
• 20:07
  Speaker 11: Sheriff of Maxville.
• 20:08
  Speaker 12: I hope.
• 20:10
  Speaker 11: Because if he asks me to make an important announcement,
• 20:12
  Speaker 11: and if it's Simone... For heaven's.
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: Sake, find some music, will you?
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: Anything.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: Silly chatter.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Or turn it off.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 20:19
  Speaker 9: Hey, where are we?
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: Oh, somewhere on US-99, going to meet your dad. Man,
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: what do you think I see on that car up ahead?
• 20:30
  Speaker 9: Oh, no, it's a California plate.
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: Oh, no, it isn't.
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: It's orange and black. It's New York. And that's two plates.
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: One to go.
• 20:38
  Speaker 9: Go slower, will you, Mom?
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: Slower?
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: So I won't catch up on any more out-of-state cars?
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: Mm-mm.
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: You're gonna take your medicine.
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: Well, Foster, it's almost seven. We'd have heard by now.
• 21:04
  Speaker 8: I guess they weren't listening to the radio.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: I guess not. That announcement, that took guts. I sure
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: hate to see it get wasted.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: I gave him a comic book.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: I did, Cal.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: I didn't mean to hurt him.
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: Darling, nobody thinks you meant to hurt him. Here, sit down.
• 21:26
  Speaker 8: Now take some of this. It'll make you feel better.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: No.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: No, I'm all right.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: I've got to think.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: I've got to think.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: I've got to think.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: Maybe she didn't say where she was going.
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: Tippy was looking at the magazine. I was by the
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: cash register. She was about to tell me, and then
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: she saw Tippy. The ship's coming into.
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: Into.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: San.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: San?
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: San something.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: San Pedro, San Diego.
• 21:52
  Speaker 10: San Pedro.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: She'd take 99 of either one. Can you send out
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: that information for a roadblock?
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: Yeah, if there's a highway patrol officer on 99, he
• 21:58
  Speaker 8: might try without a description. But one officer trying to
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: handle all those cars, I don't know. Well, how about
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: the places she'd stop? She has to get water for
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: the kid, for the medicine. Where would she stop? Oh,
• 22:06
  Speaker 8: there are 10 restaurants to a mile down there. She's
• 22:09
  Speaker 8: probably around Starrett by now.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: Let's see.
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: How do we tell which one she'd pick? Oh, the
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: kid might have taken it by now anyway.
• 22:16
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: Mom?
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 22:30
  Speaker 9: Suppose I'm well by the time you see the other
• 22:32
  Speaker 9: license plate. Suppose my stomach doesn't ache anymore.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 22:36
  Speaker 9: Do I still have to take it?
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: You sure do.
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: You don't want to be sick to meet your dad.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: Do you? Uh, Mom?
• 22:43
  Speaker 10: Hmm?
• 22:44
  Speaker 9: Look what I found in the glove compartment. Your old earring.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: Oh, that's interesting.
• 22:48
  Speaker 9: Look at it, Mom.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: Look at it.
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: What's going on here? Why the sudden interest in my
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: old jewelry?
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Oh, nothing.
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: Why, you little sneak. That car that passed, it has
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: a Texas plate.
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: Well, I almost fooled you.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: Okay, it's the medicine for you. It's past seven anyway.
• 23:05
  Speaker 9: I need a glass of water for it.
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: Oh, what's up at a restaurant?
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: There's one.
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: Oh, it looks pretty scroungy.
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: Look for a nice one.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: Okay, I'll look.
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: I'll just bet you will.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Name the restaurants, Sheriff. All of them, please.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: Well, let's see. There's Teppet's. And then just about a block. Cappy's. Lasky's.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: The A.M.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: Cafe.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: I remember that. Oh, she wouldn't take a boy in there.
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: It's dirty.
• 23:49
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: Now, past Starrett. I think it's a Green Bowl.
• 23:55
  Speaker 12: Yeah. Yeah.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: In the Valley Cafe. Look, there's 50 of them.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: Oh, please, please.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: Further on, let me see. I think that, what's it, Merritt's?
• 24:08
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: And then Tiny's.
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: Oh, I remember Tiny's. The big place with all the
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: glass and the big neon chicken.
• 24:14
  Speaker 13: On the highway.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the one.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'll give me the phone.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: Oh, honey.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Well, that's where I'd stop.
• 24:18
  Speaker 12: It is.
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: Yes, ma'am?
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: How about some ice cream after the medicine tip? Okay.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: I want chocolate, please.
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: And what would you like? Oh, a dish of vanilla
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: for me. And a glass of water for my boy's medicine, please.
• 24:48
  Speaker 9: Oh, I'm okay now, Mom.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: I'm honest.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: This is like my little boy. They all hate medicine. Oh,
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: this one's impossible. Thank you. Fifteen drops.
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: You want to count them, Tip? I might get an
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: extra one in by mistake.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: Oh, no.
• 25:08
  Speaker 12: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen.
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: Okay, pal, there it is.
• 25:27
  Speaker 11: Mom?
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm?
• 25:29
  Speaker 9: It smells funny.
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: You drink it or I'll tell your dad what a
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: baby you were about it.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: But he's drinking it. All right. Stop. Stop it.
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: What?
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
• 25:39
  Speaker 9: Are you Mrs.
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: Smith?
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: Take the phone.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: Take the phone, please. The phone? But how.
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: Hello?
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, no.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: No, it couldn't be.
• 25:53
  Speaker 10: Oh.
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: Oh.
• 26:00
  Speaker 10: Oh, yes.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: Yes, thank you.
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: Mom, are you sick?
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: Sick?
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: Oh, maybe a little. Maybe just a little bit.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: It's news when it happens. A drugstore mistake. Because it
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: almost never does happen. Stories of mistaken prescriptions in the
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: profession of pharmacy are practically non-existent.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: When it does occur, it can ruin a man.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Because this profession is hard on its own when one
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: falls short. It can ruin a man. Or it can
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: mold him.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: What'll happen to this, Cal?
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: This store?
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: It's your life.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I started from scratch once before.
• 26:58
  Speaker 12: I know.
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: But it's not fair.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: It wasn't your fault at all.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: It's my pharmacy, darling. Anyway, don't worry.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: Will they take your license?
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: I don't know. That isn't what matters. It's the people.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: The people?
• 27:17
  Speaker 8: The people we know, my customers. They come in blindly,
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: they put their lives in my hands. And that's what'll hurt.
• 27:25
  Speaker 8: Even if I keep my license.
• 27:29
  Speaker 11: Hello, Mrs. Smith.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: Where's Tippy?
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: In the car. He's tired.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: I don't know what to say.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: There's nothing to say. And there's nothing for you to
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: say either, Mrs.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: Foster.
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: I didn't really come all the way back to talk.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: Why did you come back, Mrs.
• 27:59
  Speaker 12: Smith?
• 28:00
  Speaker 10: Why?
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: Well, so you could give me Tippy's medicine.
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