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Dimension X - "The Castaways" (1950) · Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: On remote Tahani Atoll in the South Pacific, preparations for
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: an atomic bomb test meet resistance when the island's residents
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: refuse evacuation from their ancestral home. This is Dimension X,
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  Speaker 1: Episode 19, The Castaways. First heard on NBC August 11th, 1950,
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: Santos Ortega appears as General Frank Gadosh, overseeing Operation Destruction.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: Daniel Occo and Greg Morton are also heard. The original
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  Speaker 1: radio drama was written by Ernest Kenoy and George Lefferts,
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: with Jack Cuny directing and Van Woodward producing. Now, back
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: to the golden age of radio.
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: It's National Wheaties Week!
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it's National Wheaties Week, and Wheaties present Dimension X.
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  Speaker 4: On stage tonight, Dimension X, another in the Wheaties big
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  Speaker 4: parade of exciting half-hour presentations.
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  Speaker 3: It's National Wheaties Week. Yep, time to try Wheaties. If
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  Speaker 3: you haven't had any for a while, try them now.
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  Speaker 3: If you've been eating them right along, have an extra
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  Speaker 3: bowl full for me. How about that? You know, I've
• 1:31
  Speaker 3: been talking about Wheaties all summer, saying, see how Wheaties
• 1:34
  Speaker 3: at 7 can help at 11.
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  Speaker 4: Well, by golly, they can.
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  Speaker 3: I get up to Wheaties, bananas on mine, thanks, and
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  Speaker 3: I honestly feel as if I had more pep all morning.
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  Speaker 3: And why not you? This is National Wheaties Week. Time
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  Speaker 3: for you to have some Wheaties. Breakfast of champions. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: go ahead, have some. It's National Wheaties Week.
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  Speaker 5: Now, tonight's adventure into the world of the unknown. The
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  Speaker 5: world of Dimension X. In the South Pacific, night comes
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  Speaker 5: on rapidly. The sun dips below the flat horizon. The
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  Speaker 5: sea is crimson for a moment, and then night falls.
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  Speaker 5: But on Tahani Atoll, giant arc lights turn night into day.
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  Speaker 5: Across the waters of the lagoon within the barrier reef,
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  Speaker 5: launches and tugs skitter back and forth, while on the
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  Speaker 5: curving half-moon of the island, army trucks and jeeps scuttle
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  Speaker 5: down the rough roads bulldozed by the Seabees just six
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  Speaker 5: weeks ago. A low Quonset hub stands near the beach,
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  Speaker 5: surrounded by tangled wire. This is the preliminary command post.
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  Speaker 5: And inside is General Frank Gaydash, field director of the test.
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  Speaker 2: Operation Destruction.
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  Speaker 6: Well, everything on schedule, General Gaydash. Radiological survey is complete.
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  Speaker 6: Instruments placement check.
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  Speaker 4: Get my navy and tell them HR is as ordered.
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  Speaker 4: Send a periodic time check to Air Force and EWINT
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  Speaker 4: talk and observation control on the Missouri.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: I want a complete roster check on all personnel before HR.
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  Speaker 4: That test bomb is going off at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
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  Speaker 4: Even if there's a whole battalion stranded on the target vessels.
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  Speaker 4: You see that everybody's clear.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir. Oh, uh, Nate Cohen wants to see you.
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  Speaker 4: Who the devil is he?
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  Speaker 2: AP man.
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  Speaker 6: He's been selected by the press radio pool to interview you.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't got time. Tell him to speak to Major Breedenburg.
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  Speaker 4: He's the PRO.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think perhaps you'd better see him, sir.
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  Speaker 6: The directive on public relations from Washington was very clear.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, what blazes am I supposed to run a bomb
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  Speaker 4: test and play mother hen to a bunch of reporters?
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  Speaker 2: Washington said.
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  Speaker 4: All right, all right, all right. Bring him in.
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  Speaker 7: Raleigh.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, sir?
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  Speaker 4: Get me some black coffee.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, this is Mr. Cohen, uh, General Gaydox.
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  Speaker 9: How do you do, General?
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  Speaker 4: Lousy, as a matter of fact.
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  Speaker 2: Is that an official statement?
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 4: Run some of that world is at the crossroads baloney.
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  Speaker 2: I wrote that yesterday.
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  Speaker 9: General, what effect do you think the new bomb will
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  Speaker 9: have in the world situation?
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  Speaker 4: I can't tell you that, even if I knew. My
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  Speaker 4: job is to set the blaster thing off, see that
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  Speaker 4: nobody gets hurt, and collect the data.
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  Speaker 2: Can I speak with you for a moment, sir?
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  Speaker 4: Later, Alan.
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  Speaker 10: Go ahead, Cone.
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  Speaker 9: Can you release anything on the scientific principles involved?
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  Speaker 4: I don't even understand it myself.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 11: I'll come over.
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  Speaker 6: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: Come over here a moment, will you? Come on, this
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  Speaker 4: is Dr. Fred Muller.
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  Speaker 2: How do you do?
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  Speaker 4: Civilian scientific director. He's the only one who knows what's
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  Speaker 4: inside that warhead.
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  Speaker 2: How do you do, Mr.
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  Speaker 12: Kahn?
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  Speaker 4: How about a statement, doctor?
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  Speaker 12: Well, I'm afraid all I'm allowed to say is that
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  Speaker 12: the bomb is new. It's extremely powerful. And off the record,
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  Speaker 12: it's very tricky and dangerous. Well, what'll happen if it
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  Speaker 12: goes off prematurely?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we have to worry about that.
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  Speaker 12: In fact, we wouldn't even know about it, if you'll
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  Speaker 12: excuse me now.
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  Speaker 9: How about the natives?
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  Speaker 4: What about them?
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  Speaker 9: They're going to be evacuated from the island?
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  Speaker 4: They already have been.
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  Speaker 2: General Gaydar?
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  Speaker 9: I saw the Tahani chief outside when I came in.
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  Speaker 9: The whole tribe's out there squatting down at the motor
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  Speaker 9: pool having a conference.
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  Speaker 10: What?
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  Speaker 6: Alan, I've been trying to tell you, sir, the Tahani
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  Speaker 6: are still on the island.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 4: The LCTs are ready, aren't they?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, but they won't go. They refuse.
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  Speaker 4: The schedule called for their evacuation to Milani three hours ago.
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  Speaker 6: I realize that, sir, but I hope we could still
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  Speaker 6: get them off without violence.
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  Speaker 4: Look, Alan, they're either on the island or off. Wait
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  Speaker 4: a minute. Go on, that's all.
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  Speaker 9: What are you going to do about the natives, General?
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  Speaker 4: I'll issue a statement later.
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  Speaker 9: You going to force them?
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  Speaker 4: Go on, out. I haven't got time. All right, General.
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  Speaker 9: Thanks. Thanks a lot.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Alan, let's have it.
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  Speaker 8: Well, sir.
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  Speaker 6: The Tahani have been kicking up a fuss all along.
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  Speaker 4: They won't leave.
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  Speaker 2: They won't?
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  Speaker 4: Do they know what's going to happen to the island?
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  Speaker 4: Do they know we're going to blow it higher than
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  Speaker 4: a kite?
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  Speaker 2: I told the chief, and he just said they won't go.
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  Speaker 4: They'll go, all right, if I have to... Get him
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  Speaker 4: in here.
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  Speaker 2: Chief?
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  Speaker 4: And the lieutenant who interprets.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: How do you like that, Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Muller?
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  Speaker 4: I haven't got enough trouble.
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  Speaker 12: You know, I feel rather sorry for the Tahani.
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  Speaker 2: It can't make much sense to them. We arrive and
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  Speaker 2: tell them they've got to get out.
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate your finer feelings, Muller. But I can't let
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  Speaker 4: a hundred half-naked Kanakas hold up the bomb test.
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  Speaker 12: They're not Kanakas, General. Captain Cook discovered the island in 1788.
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  Speaker 12: What's the difference?
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  Speaker 2: Lieutenant Gilbert reporting, sir. Ma'a Noah.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't got time for ceremony, Gilbert. Tell the chief
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  Speaker 4: he and his tribe have to get off the island.
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  Speaker 4: We're providing homes for the Mamalani.
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  Speaker 13: Translate, Gilbert. The chief says, you do not understand. My
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  Speaker 13: Lani is a bad island. My people have lived on
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  Speaker 13: the Lani from the time that our ancestors were cast
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  Speaker 13: away on the island. The spirits of our ancestors are
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  Speaker 13: buried in the earth. Our fathers are buried here.
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  Speaker 2: Our fathers' fathers.
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  Speaker 4: If he thinks I'm going to move his graveyard, he's crazy.
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  Speaker 13: In our ancestors' time, the Tawani came in a great
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  Speaker 13: bird canoe. We were cast away on this island, and
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  Speaker 13: we have made it our home. What right have you
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  Speaker 13: now to carry us over the sea... to a strange
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  Speaker 13: land where we would die weeping for our homes.
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  Speaker 2: We will not go.
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  Speaker 12: By the water of Babylon, there we sat down and
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  Speaker 12: we wept when we remembered Zion.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. Thank you, Dr.
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  Speaker 8: Muller.
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  Speaker 4: You're a great help. Gilbert.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir?
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  Speaker 4: Tell him I have no choice. He's got till midnight
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  Speaker 4: to get his tribe on board those LCTs peacefully, or
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  Speaker 4: I'll have the Marine Detachment carry them on board. Isn't
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  Speaker 4: that rather harsh, General?
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  Speaker 12: After all, the justice is on their side. We're preparing
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  Speaker 12: to blow up their island, and we haven't asked.
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  Speaker 2: Them about it.
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  Speaker 7: Dr.
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  Speaker 4: Muller, you will kindly confine yourself to the scientific aspect
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  Speaker 4: of this operation. I'll take care of administrative matters. Well,
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  Speaker 4: if you could explain to them what is at stake here...
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  Speaker 4: Any further explaining I've got to do, I'll do with
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  Speaker 4: the Marine Detachment. I'm not going to hold up my
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  Speaker 4: schedule to coddle a hundred barefoot natives.
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  Speaker 13: Well, Gilbert?
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  Speaker 2: I told him.
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  Speaker 4: All right, get him out of here. I've heard enough.
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  Speaker 4: What the devil is that?
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  Speaker 2: Some kind of a curse, sir. I can catch some
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  Speaker 2: of it. The island will remember.
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  Speaker 13: The tears of its children and punish the invaders. The
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  Speaker 13: great destroyer will not destroy. And the evil man who
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  Speaker 13: is the chief will travel far through the blackness of night.
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  Speaker 13: Even as the children of the island end, so will he.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Gilbert, take him away.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Colonel Allen, get a detail from the Marine Detachment with
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  Speaker 4: tear gas and small arms down to the motor pool.
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  Speaker 4: One hour, have those natives on that transport. I don't
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  Speaker 4: care how they do it. Is that my coffee, Varely? Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 12: They must know about the bomb. The great destroyer will
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  Speaker 12: not destroy.
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  Speaker 4: You worried about that curse?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I should think you might be. He threatened you personally.
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  Speaker 2: If I were you, I'd carry a pistol till they
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  Speaker 2: got off the island.
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  Speaker 12: The chief looked as if he'd cheerfully strangled you with
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  Speaker 12: his bare hands.
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  Speaker 4: I'm supposed to end the way they do, huh? What's that?
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  Speaker 10: Oh, probably the Tahanis saying goodbye to their island. I
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  Speaker 10: think I'll go down to the motor pool.
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  Speaker 4: Well, stay out of the way and get back here
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  Speaker 4: in an hour. We've got to have this wrapped up
• 9:18
  Speaker 4: and headquarters moved out to the Missouri by dawn.
• 9:21
  Speaker 14: Baby, an instrument room checking in, sir.
• 9:35
  Speaker 4: That's the last. Have the Missouri take over control and
• 9:38
  Speaker 4: central my jeep.
• 9:39
  Speaker 10: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Are the LCTs there standing by for those natives?
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  Speaker 11: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: They're on the beach.
• 9:43
  Speaker 10: The bomb unit is assembled in place, General.
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  Speaker 7: 23-30.
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  Speaker 4: Right on the nose. Robin, start evacuation procedure.
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  Speaker 2: The Tehani have stopped.
• 9:55
  Speaker 4: Allen's probably moving them out to the beach. Check in
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  Speaker 4: with the Navy and Air Force, Raleigh.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 10:01
  Speaker 8: What's that?
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  Speaker 2: It's coming from the beach.
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  Speaker 4: The Tahani are making trouble.
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 4: Joe.
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  Speaker 2: Joe Gilbert, what is it?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 12: Colonel Allen ordered the Marines in, sir.
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  Speaker 4: What happened? What happened, man?
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  Speaker 2: The natives. They just got up and started marching.
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  Speaker 4: Did they embark?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you don't understand, sir.
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  Speaker 4: They marched up the cliff and right off into the lagoon.
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 12: All of them.
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  Speaker 2: The women and the kids, too.
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  Speaker 5: They.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't even try to swim, sir.
• 10:30
  Speaker 4: What were you doing all this time, just standing around
• 10:32
  Speaker 4: with your thumb in your mouth? Well, it was a
• 10:34
  Speaker 4: Marine detachment. We couldn't stop them, sir. They just walked
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  Speaker 4: over the cliff.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't even scream, not even the kids.
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  Speaker 13: We sent the crash boats out, but we couldn't get
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  Speaker 13: any of them out.
• 10:45
  Speaker 4: Crazy idiots. Were any of the reporters there?
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  Speaker 13: Uh, Cohen and a life photographer.
• 10:50
  Speaker 4: Get his film and hold it till I release it.
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: What are you going to do, General?
• 10:53
  Speaker 4: Postpone H.R.? It's too late for that now. Calling H.R.
• 10:56
  Speaker 4: off isn't going to bring the natives back. But 100 men, women,
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  Speaker 4: and children just walking into the water.
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  Speaker 2: It's horrible.
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  Speaker 4: Look, I'm not happy about it either, but there's nothing
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  Speaker 4: we can do now. I gave them a chance to
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  Speaker 4: get off. They didn't want to take it. That's their
• 11:07
  Speaker 4: hard luck, not mine.
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: I hope you're right. What do you mean by that?
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  Speaker 10: Oh, I was just thinking about the curse the chief
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  Speaker 10: put on you. Even as the children of the island end,
• 11:18
  Speaker 10: so will he. That's what he said to you, General.
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: I heard him. Keep waiting, General.
• 11:22
  Speaker 12: The great destroyer will not destroy. That must mean the bomb.
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  Speaker 4: Don't worry, Dr.
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  Speaker 7: Muller.
• 11:28
  Speaker 4: It'll take more than a mumbo-jumbo curse from a native
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  Speaker 4: witch doctor to stop this operation. At each hour, that
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  Speaker 4: bomb goes off.
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  Speaker 2: The End There's now H hour minus one minute, 30 seconds.
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  Speaker 8: H minus one, 30.
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  Speaker 2: Radio screens hooked in, sir.
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  Speaker 4: All right, check control stations.
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  Speaker 2: Observation station one.
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  Speaker 9: Observation station one, check.
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  Speaker 2: Radiation station.
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  Speaker 4: Radiation control, check.
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  Speaker 2: Testifying.
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  Speaker 4: Observation station two.
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  Speaker 12: Right, General.
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  Speaker 10: Observation station two, check.
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  Speaker 2: Damage control station.
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  Speaker 9: Damage control, check.
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  Speaker 2: Communications. Communications, check. All checked in.
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  Speaker 8: There's H minus one minute, H minus one.
• 12:22
  Speaker 4: Take a good look at that island on the screen, Muller.
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: When you throw that key, it just won't be there anymore.
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  Speaker 4: Nothing but an atom mushroom over the lagoon.
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  Speaker 2: It's quite a funeral pyre for the Tahani.
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  Speaker 4: Stubborn idiots. No way it serves them right, Muller. They
• 12:37
  Speaker 4: can't get in the way of progress.
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: Progress? I wonder if it is, General.
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  Speaker 12: It's H minus 30 seconds, H hour minus 30, 29, 28.
• 12:45
  Speaker 10: 27, 26... The Great Destroyer.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he called the bomb.
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  Speaker 4: Call it, Miller.
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  Speaker 2: Allen, report. All checked in. Camera's running.
• 12:55
  Speaker 4: Sound fire warning. Stand by for firing.
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  Speaker 2: Ready, Miller?
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  Speaker 7: Ready.
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  Speaker 10: 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5.
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  Speaker 7: 4, 3, 2, 1, fire!
• 13:23
  Speaker 2: General, it didn't go off.
• 13:26
  Speaker 7: Really?
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: The bomb didn't go off.
• 13:28
  Speaker 8: Really?
• 13:29
  Speaker 4: Signal and standby. Condition red. Island check readings. Muller, what's wrong?
• 13:34
  Speaker 4: What happened?
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: I don't know. The bomb didn't go off.
• 13:37
  Speaker 4: What do you mean? Why did it go off?
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know, except for one thing.
• 13:44
  Speaker 12: The Tahani chief said the great destroyer would not destroy.
• 13:47
  Speaker 4: It didn't, General.
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: The bomb didn't go off.
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: Dimension X will continue in just a moment. It's National
• 14:07
  Speaker 4: Wheaties Week.
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: And from behind the scene in the radio studio, here
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: comes one of Hollywood's foremost radio producers, Mr. Joe Parker,
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: stepping out of the control room to help celebrate National
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: Wheaties Week.
• 14:21
  Speaker 7: Mr.
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: Parker puts on radio programs, and he's a visitor to
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: Dimension X tonight. His regular program for Wheaties is Sarah's
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: Private Keeper. Joe's a regular guy. He sits there in
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: the glass cage called the control room, running his show.
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: But right now, here he is at the microphone to
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: say his say about Wheaties.
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  Speaker 11: Ready, Joe?
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Frank.
• 14:44
  Speaker 7: You know, folks, I sit there in the glass cage,
• 14:46
  Speaker 7: as Frank calls it, and I have to stop my
• 14:48
  Speaker 7: programs long enough for him to talk about Wheaties. But
• 14:52
  Speaker 7: you know, I don't mind. I kind of like this
• 14:55
  Speaker 7: talk about Wheaties and milk and fruit. That's a lot
• 14:58
  Speaker 7: of good eating. And I like the idea of celebrating
• 15:01
  Speaker 7: National Wheaties Week, too. You know, we enjoy putting radio
• 15:05
  Speaker 7: programs on for your entertainment. And we'd enjoy knowing that, well,
• 15:10
  Speaker 7: that you're going to try Wheaties because of us. I
• 15:13
  Speaker 7: hope you'll get Wheaties tomorrow and have some. The whole family.
• 15:17
  Speaker 7: Matter of fact, I think I'll join you. Thank you,
• 15:20
  Speaker 7: producer Joe Parker. If you like this program, friend, get
• 15:24
  Speaker 7: some Wheaties and help celebrate National Wheaties Week.
• 15:48
  Speaker 9: How about it, General?
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: What happened?
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: You got a statement?
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: Nothing you can use, Cone. Not until we find out
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: what went wrong. Why don't you come aboard this ship?
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: I walked on.
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: You don't know why the bomb failed, huh? It didn't fail.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: It just didn't go off. Say, what's that tank thing
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: on deck, General?
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: Undersea salvage unit Mark IV. They call it an undersea crawler.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: Somebody going down? That bomb is down there in the
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: lagoon somewhere. Could go off at any second. Somebody has
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: to go down, find it, and disarm it.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: That's a lovely job.
• 16:21
  Speaker 9: Who's elected?
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: I am. Dr.
• 16:26
  Speaker 7: Muller.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: He's the only one who knows how to dismantle it.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: The crawler's ready, General. All right, come on, Muller.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: I'm ready.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: Alan, as soon as we hit shallow water, get those
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: gates open. We'll pull the crawler out, then you get
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: away in a hurry. That bomb goes off while we're
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: working on it. I don't want any casualties.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: Inside, Muller.
• 16:46
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 16:51
  Speaker 11: I'm in.
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: Remember, get this LCT out of the lagoon in a hurry.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: You got that, Alan? You take your orders from Admiral Yancey.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir. And good luck.
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: Closing the hatch.
• 17:06
  Speaker 8: Get the sonar and gaga counter warmed up, Muller. Right.
• 17:10
  Speaker 10: I was just thinking of something, General. That curse, part
• 17:15
  Speaker 10: of it came true. The bomb didn't go off.
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: Well?
• 17:19
  Speaker 10: The second part of that curse was that you would
• 17:22
  Speaker 10: end where they ended, and that was at the bottom
• 17:25
  Speaker 10: of the lagoon.
• 17:25
  Speaker 8: What are you trying to do, Muller? Nothing, I.
• 17:29
  Speaker 10: I was just thinking this crawler is going to take
• 17:32
  Speaker 10: us right down there where the Tahani died.
• 17:34
  Speaker 8: I'm not worried about a handful of dead natives, mother.
• 17:37
  Speaker 8: I'm worried about that bomb. Okay, they're opening the gate.
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: Let's go.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: Let's go. USU-4 to control. Depth 50 feet, bottom sandy.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: Dropping off sharp. Anything on sonar, Muller?
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: A school of fish. Nothing down the crawlable, fool? Only
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: in the tank at New London.
• 18:24
  Speaker 15: I think I've got a Geiger reading dead ahead.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: Hang on.
• 18:30
  Speaker 15: We're going up over the reef. It must be the bomb,
• 18:37
  Speaker 15: all right. The Geiger counter's clocking like a pulled hen.
• 18:40
  Speaker 15: Keep an eye on the front vision plate. If you
• 18:43
  Speaker 15: run over the bomb, we're liable to set it off.
• 18:48
  Speaker 15: I think I'm getting something on Sonar.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Left of point. USU-4 to control.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Over.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: USU-4 to control.
• 19:01
  Speaker 13: Over.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: That's a fine note.
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: Radio's out. Dead ahead. It looks too large to be
• 19:13
  Speaker 8: the bomb.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: Can't see much in the forward vision, Blake.
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: Wait a minute.
• 19:18
  Speaker 10: That's part of the reef ahead. That's where the Geiger
• 19:21
  Speaker 10: reading indicated. The bomb must have settled in a hole
• 19:24
  Speaker 10: in the reef. We'll have to go after it in
• 19:26
  Speaker 10: diving suits. Suits are in the locker. Let's get this
• 19:31
  Speaker 10: over with.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: The less time I spend down here waiting for that
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: bomb to blow, the better I like it.
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: Eddie Miller, grab your helmet.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Getting me all right on your headset? Okay, I'm gonna
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: fill my lock. Okay. Let's go. This isn't like that
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: diving tank in New London.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Look out for that car.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: It'll cut you to ribbons. There's a.
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: There's an opening of some sort there.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: I'd like us to light up.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: See if we can get a gaga reading out of
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: that opening.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Just a.
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: Over there.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: It's down there, all right.
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: Careful.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: I'll go down first. See anything down there?
• 20:38
  Speaker 12: Well, uh.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: Get down here fast.
• 20:40
  Speaker 11: What is it?
• 20:41
  Speaker 12: You find something?
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: The bottom of this hole. It's metal on the sides.
• 20:45
  Speaker 10: But it's the coral reef.
• 20:46
  Speaker 12: Look.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Well, the joints.
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: There's a house plate of some kind.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Look out above us. It's closing.
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: Love it.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: It's too late.
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: A little hatch.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Just lit over the top.
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: This is impossible.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: What's going on?
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: Like an ally. The water's being pumped out.
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: General, do you realize what this means?
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: There's another door opening.
• 21:22
  Speaker 8: Help.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: It's a passageway. What do we do now?
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: There isn't much to do. We can take off our helmets, though.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: The dial shows good air. All right.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: Come on.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: What is this?
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: Undersea fort?
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: What's it doing here? What does it mean?
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: Whatever it is, our bomb must be down here.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Wait.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: There's someone there.
• 21:58
  Speaker 10: I can't see.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: There's a shadow. Who is it? Who's that?
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: Mahanua, Dr. Mother.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Welcome to our ship. We have been waiting for you. General,
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: it can't be. Did you see it? It's the Tani chief.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: How long has the undersea crawler been down, Varely?
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: Four hours, sir.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Two since we lost contact. Keep trying.
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: I've given them enough time. I'm going to send another
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: crawler down. What do you figure happened to them, Colonel? Well,
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: there are a lot of things. Hey, how did you
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: get in here? I walked in.
• 22:50
  Speaker 9: When are you going to release this, Colonel? It's the
• 22:52
  Speaker 9: biggest story since the election. The bomb at Dud, Dr. Muller,
• 22:55
  Speaker 9: General Gaydash dead.
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: They're not dead.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: At least we don't know they are.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: As long as the bomb doesn't go off, there's still
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: a chance it's something else.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Alarm. Morale, condition red.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: Gilbert, radiation control into action. Get the hot squad into
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: Tejani Lagoon as soon as it's cleared.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: And get me a PT board with radiation screens.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: What is it, Colonel?
• 23:19
  Speaker 8: What happened?
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: The bomb must have blown.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: What about Muller and the general?
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: If they were down in that lagoon, you guess.
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: Radiation reading 75 and steady.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Now take her in as close to the beach as
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: you can.
• 23:47
  Speaker 12: Steady as she goes.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Is there any danger of more explosions? No, when she goes,
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: she goes.
• 23:56
  Speaker 10: Radiation 82.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: The danger is radioactivity.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Radioactivity.
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: Our shields aren't much good, but we've got to pick
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: up the recording instruments as soon after the blast as possible.
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: Radiation 93.5.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Well, that's still safe. Hey, Cohen, is there something on
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: the beach there?
• 24:13
  Speaker 9: Oh, yeah, looks like a body. Maybe you blew one
• 24:15
  Speaker 9: of the Tahani back out of the lagoon.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, it's moving. Gilbert, glasses. Yes, sir. It's
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: a man, all right.
• 24:23
  Speaker 10: Head into the beach.
• 24:24
  Speaker 12: Aye, aye, sir.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Who is it, Colonel? I can't tell, but he's in
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: a diving suit.
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: It's either Muller or General Gaydash.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: No radiation burns. Superficial bruises. Mild shock. He'll be all right, Colonel.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Can he talk?
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: For a while.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: I'm going to give him a sedative shortly. Muller... Muller,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: what happened? How did the bomb go off? Oh, you didn't.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: He's still out of his head. Quiet, Colin, quiet. Go on, Dr. Muller.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: What did you find? A ship. A giant metal ship.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: There in the lagoon. A submarine? No, no, no. It was.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: It was a spaceship. Camouflaged right next to the reef.
• 25:28
  Speaker 12: What?
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: What?
• 25:30
  Speaker 12: When we went inside... We found the Tahani chief... And
• 25:37
  Speaker 12: all the tribe... Alive.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: What are you saying? They drowned in the lagoon. I
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: saw them.
• 25:44
  Speaker 12: No, they didn't commit suicide as we thought. They just
• 25:47
  Speaker 12: dived underwater into the rocket.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: A rocket? Built by Polynesian savages? But they're not savages. They're... Castaways...
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: They're from another planet. Don't you understand?
• 26:04
  Speaker 12: Their spaceship was wrecked here 400 years ago. They've been
• 26:08
  Speaker 12: waiting ever since for a chance to go home.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: This boy's out of his mind. You better put him
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: under the sedative, Doctor.
• 26:15
  Speaker 12: It's true.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: They'd exhausted their fuel.
• 26:20
  Speaker 12: They couldn't find anything here on Earth to replace it
• 26:24
  Speaker 12: until we developed atomic power.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Atomic power? You mean they stole our bomb?
• 26:31
  Speaker 12: They made me dismantle it for them at the point
• 26:33
  Speaker 12: of a gun. And then just before they blasted off,
• 26:36
  Speaker 12: they let me go.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: But what about the general? You mean they killed him?
• 26:45
  Speaker 12: You don't understand. I said I dismantled that bomb at
• 26:50
  Speaker 12: the point of a gun. It was General Gaydash. who
• 26:56
  Speaker 12: was holding it.
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: What's that?
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: He was one of them.
• 27:00
  Speaker 12: One of their spies, sent out to bring back the
• 27:02
  Speaker 12: rocket fuel they needed. And now, after 400 years, the
• 27:13
  Speaker 12: castaways are going home.
• 27:19
  Speaker 8: THE END.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: Tonight, Dimension X has transcribed The Castaways, written by Ernest
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: Canoy from an original story by Ernest Canoy and George Lefferts.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: Featured in the cast were Santos Ortega as General Gaydash,
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: Greg Morton as Dr. Muller, your narrator, Norman Rose, music
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: by Albert Berman, engineer Bill Chambers. Dimension X is produced
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: by Van Woodward and directed tonight by Jack Cuny. In
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: a moment, we'll tell you about next week's show. And now,
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: here is your Wheaties man, Frank Martin. It's National Wheaties Week.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: And listen, if producer Joe Parker is going to buy
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: Wheaties tomorrow, and I go out and buy Wheaties tomorrow,
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: and you go out and buy Wheaties.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Tomorrow, well, that makes three of us, huh?
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: And if everybody goes out and buys Wheaties tomorrow, then
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: the whole doggone country is going to be celebrating National
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Wheaties Week in the proper manner. And it's a real
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: nice celebration, too. Pour out those golden flakes, pour on
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: the milk, put on the fruit... and you'll be eating
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: good to be feeling good. Breakfast of champions.
• 29:01
  Speaker 11: Get yours. It's National Wheaties Week. Next week on Dimension X...
• 29:17
  Speaker 11: a dramatization of Ray Bradbury's new novel... The Martian Chronicles.
• 29:22
  Speaker 11: The epic story of how man conquered a new planet
• 29:26
  Speaker 11: and then lost his own.
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: Another adventure into the unknown world of the future.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: The world of.
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: Dimension X.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Dimension X.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: And this is the Wheaties man, Frank Martin, inviting you
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: to listen also on Saturday, that's tomorrow night, to Joel
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: McRae in Tales of the Texas Rangers on the Wheaties
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Big Parade. It's National Wheaties Week.
• 29:57
  Speaker 16: Swing your partners right and left. It's National Wheaties Week.
• 30:01
  Speaker 16: Come on, everybody, to the Wheaties party. Eat a lot
• 30:03
  Speaker 16: of Wheaties like the champions do. Dance together cheek to cheek.
• 30:07
  Speaker 16: This is National Wheaties Week. Eat a lot of Wheaties
• 30:09
  Speaker 16: like the champions do. Wheaties are breakfast of champions.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: Jack Lake tells the story of the Canada Kid next
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: on NBC.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: We leave Dimension X, Episode 19, The Castaways, until our
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: next meeting with Classic Radio.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Good night.
• 30:58
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