August 15, 2025 • 42 mins
CBS Radio Mystery Theater was a noteworthy attempt to revive in American radio dramas like Inner Sanctum (1941-1952) and Suspense (1942-1962). Radio dramas were widely considered "dead" 12 years prior to this series. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, or simply Mystery Theater, was created by Inner Sanctum creator Himan Brown and ran on CBS from 1974-1982. The show, much like older radio dramas, was introduced by a host (E.G. Marshall in this program), who steers us through the creaking door to start the episode. Many voices from the golden age of radio were featured, including Richard Widmark, Bret Morrison, Agnes Moorehead and many more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stay tuned now for the w RP Theater which brings
you the Colony.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Come in welcome. I meean J.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Marshall, in charge of the Bizarre, keeper of the grotesque,
collector of the fantastic. It is my duty to delve
into unfrequented places in search of the unexpected ideal in
matte touch of the improbable, which gives a series of
events the quality we call mystery. If an element of
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horror creeps in now and again, you don't really mind you?
I thought, Actually, that's why we're all here.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Isn't it.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
You want to take some advice from an old woman.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Who our mystery drama.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
The Colony was written especially for the Mystery Theater by
Field and Farrington and stars Tony Roberts. It is sponsored
in part by sign Off the Sinus Medicines and Buick
Motor Division. I'll be back shortly with that one.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
If you were doing the looking, where would.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
You look for an occurrence that could be properly described
as macabre? Where would you expect a nightmare to happen
in some dusty dungeon overlaid with a patterna of past horrors?
In an ancient Middle European principality famous for its vampires
and walking dead. Well, weird goings on would seem suitable
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in such places, it's true. But how about a well
maintained highway in beautiful New Hampshire, clock basking in the
glory of the late.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Afternoon in the sun. I can't bereave it.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Can't believe what, Michael.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Three weeks, Mary, three long weeks of gypsy, three lovely
weeks of going wherever we choose to go, and staying
as long as we.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Like, going on whenever we like. I just can't believe it.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Well, what we'd better start thinking about is a campsite
for the night. Now, there's supposed to be a very
good one at a place called Essex. You don't suppose
we passed it through you?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Well'll check them up.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I have, I just can't seem to find it. Oh, Michael,
slow down, there's a sign coming up.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I see.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Colony, New Hampshire, population six hundred and thirty four. Well,
maybe we can stop and ask somebody.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Here where Essex is? Okay, and like to get everything
squared away before it gets.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Dark, we will remember we have at the carrying the world.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Michael got.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
What both that thing.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I have no idea I have a sawn anything like
it before. It's some kind of an airship.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
It looked like it came right up out of the
wall right in front of us.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I think it was behind that clump of trees at
the turn right up there.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I'm gonna get out and take a look.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I look and look at what the thing's gone.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Now, yeah, but I must have burned off some grass
or something.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Hey, didn't you see the flames shooting out or the
leave it some kind of rockets? I guess.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Come on, just just in.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Back of these trees. I'm sure this is where it
came from.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Michael. Do you think it was an unidentified flying object?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Now? Well, I sure couldn't identify it. There.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Look the goron's burned to a creep in that big circle.
Was the thing that big?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
No? I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Hey, if you ask me, there's been more than one
of these landing and taking off your.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Oh let's get back to the car, please. It's well,
it's kind of scary.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yeah, yeah, okay, but we ought to.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Report this to somebody, don't you think?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Everybody reports an unidentified flying object always gets treated like
a crime tak Nobody believes you wants to go to
reporting it.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
They'll have to.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Believe us we saw it, Yeah, and that's what they
all say.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Well, we can bring them back here and show them
where the grass is burned off.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, there is that, Michael. That was a real thing
we saw and we don't know where it came from
or what kind of a threat it may represent. Well,
somebody ought to check it out.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, I guess you're right.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Okay, we'll report it when we get to uh, what
was the.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Name of that town?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Colony Colony, New Hampshire, population six hundred and thirty four.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
And that's the way it was, Sheriff Marcus.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I mean, the thing nearly scared us to death, pushing
up out of nowhere in front of us, shooting out
flames and everything.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
But they always say, you know about flying sauces, is
that they're just some kind of optical illusion.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Well this was not an optical illusion, Sheriff. It was
just as real as you are sitting there.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, And we can take you back there and show
you where the grass is all burned off.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Well, we'll have a look later on, that's sure, later on.
Right now, what I'd like is to have talk with
Andy Stebbins about this, or who's Annie Stebbins.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
May have colony.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
You don't hardly ever do anything without consulting Honey on
it first.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Where was you on your way too?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Oh well, we're just sort of jiggling around, you know.
We're on a camping trip. I thought we'd see as much.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Of New England as we can in the three weeks.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
What we did want to get to a place called
Essex before dark. They say there's a good campsite there,
and well, we just thought we'd like to set.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Up camp before dark.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Don't knows you'd be able to do that. Ssex is
about sixty miles on down the road.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
It would have been nice to get to before dark.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
That's all tell you what.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
I'll take you on down to May Norton's place, whereas
I May's widow lady lives other end of town, the
old Daily Place.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
We haven't got a real.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Honest goodness restaurant in Colney, but May sometimes gives folks
on the way through their dinners.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
He puts them up for the night.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Oh well, I don't think we'd want to stay for
the night.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Oh dinner it doesn't sound like such a bad idea.
You know, you could have dinner while I am having
a talk with Nye Stebbins, and we can all go
have a look the place where your thing took off,
or be able to make it there before Doc.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I just don't like to make a move without I.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Talk to Arnie first, And I want to tell you,
mister miss Duncan, you're gonna get one of the finest.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Meals you ever at.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
This is not even a good kerkushion good seen the equolf.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I'll dothan Hello.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
May you feel like cooking a big dinner for a
couple of tired tourists tonight?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Well, I reckon I could see my way clear too.
Be the regular price.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
It's four dollars piece, which you always charge us.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Well, come in, come in.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
You can make yourself comfortable there in the sitting room
till I get things on the table.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
He maybe a half hour or so, just.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Make sales right at home, and he doesn't stand on ceremony.
I just want to have a word with him, and uh,
I'll go have him to talk with Annie. How long
do you think you'll be oh ought to be back
by the time you finished dinner shortly after.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Something. You wanna talk to me about them?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
You?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Uh wouldn't have a cup of coffee, would you?
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Well, I got something I made a while back. I
guess it's still fit to drink.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Sure it is.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
You wouldn't leave them in the sitting room just to
get a cup of coffee, though, did you?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Truth is, I've been wanting to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Made well, go ahead and talk then folks.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
You got out there and you're sitting room.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
The Duncans they'd come into my office seeing the scene
of flying So.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Oh happened again?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Did it?
Speaker 5 (08:04):
I have to go talk to Andy Stebbens, of course.
And I don't want them getting restless or I.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Get back, I'll give them a good, big dinner and
see they take their time eating it.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
They might get restless.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Or Do you think there was anything odd about the
way Sheriff Marcus took it when they told him about
the unidentified flying objay?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
No, In fact, I thought he took it very well,
you know, I guess that's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I mean, I I think he believes us.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Why didn't you want him to?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah? But I didn't expect him to. But he didn't
even seem surprised.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Well, it's just too bad there are more people around
like him would have had the whole UFO mystery cleared
up years ago.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Mm maybe mm, it just seems sort of strange to me,
that's all.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
You Sure you wouldn't like another piece of the blueberry pie,
mister Duncan.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Oh, I just wouldn't have any place to put it.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Missus Norton.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Oh, I can't remember the last time anybody called me
missus Norton. You better just make it may Well, if
I can't get you to eat anything more, why don't
we just take our coffee into the living room while
we're waiting for Fad to get through to in the
fat with Annie.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Mm.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
But I'm kind of surprised it's taking him so long.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
All things don't go very fast in calling me, mister Duncan.
Couple of old town people outside and irony get to
talk and make m go on half the night, And
maybe you'd like some of my blackbird brandy.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Oh no, thank you, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I feel fine, that's the way I am.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
So you've seen a flying saucer?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Did you?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
We sure did?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
How'd you know that?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
A third said something about it before he left. What
was it you wanted they had to do about the
flying saucer after you told him about it?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
I I just always thought you report a thing like
that to an official.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
That's all.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Yeah, Well maybe I may can think of something, or
I don't know what it'd be, if you don't mind
my saying so, you might have been smarter just to mind.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Your own business. I think UFOs or everybody's business.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, why why why do you think we would have
been smarter?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Well, no reason.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
I guess it's if it usually is smarter than mind
a person's own business. And I still say that a
UFO sighting is my business. I think people shrug 'em
off too easily. They can't all be weather balloons, tod
optical illusions.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Too many of the things have been seen.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Well, I never said you've seen a weather blown Well
you did say we should've minded our own business or
your own good, was what I meant.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yeah, how do you in what way for your own good?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
If I was you and wanted to finish my nice
vacation like I planned, I'd just get up from here
right now and get into my car, and I'd drive
right on ahead to wherever it was I wanted to
get to in the first place. I wouldn't spend one
more minute than I had to in the town of Colony.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Why just advice?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
I said, no, explaining, well, you can't just advise us
to do something like that without giving us a reason.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Sure I can. I just did.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
It's the story they told me Annie, and he figured
there wasn't much question.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
But what they.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Seemed was, ay, it's too bad. I figured I'd better come.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
To you with it, just for you to decide what
has to be done. Oh, you done right.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
I'm just wondering that maybe it won't have to go
a little hand than me. Ifore, it's settled up to
you to decide that.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Well, one thing I can tell you right now, we've
got to keep those two in town.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
We can't let him leave colony. Keep them high, Nie,
we're rich and to get on their way right now,
and we're going to talk with them in the state.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
You're the sheriff.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Anger got a jail ancher, but Ane, you act to
hold them, That hold them for what ain't no law
against thinking? You saw a flying saucer.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Who think of something they can't be allowed to leave colony,
not a lad. They can't. A quiet drive along a
peaceful New England road has led to a UFO sighting,
and the UFO sighting has led to danger for two
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innocent people.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
So much for the.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Idea, if anyone had it that you must go looking
in the wilds of Transylvania for improbable and dangerous happenings.
Start being careful right in your own home while waiting
for me to return. Shortly with that too. And there's
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been a great deal of speculation upon the nature and
origin of unidentified flying objects. The speculation has led to
a wealth of conjecture, but a remarkable dearth of answers.
Many reasonable thinking men and women believe the UFOs to
be very real, at least as many others believe them
to be figments of mass imagination. Our story doesn't pretend
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to offer an answer. It simply explores one of many possibilities.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
That's most likely the sheriff that from talking to the maya,
don't let on I said what I said to you
and advising us to run you mean, it wouldn't do
you to no good, and it most likely get me
into a mess of trouble, all right.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
If we won't say anything about it?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Willing my god, Oh I suppose not all right?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
All right, all right, I'm coming keep it shut.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
On everything, all right?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
May of course, everything's all right, Come on in.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Sorry, keep you too waiting around like this? And he
made me go over your story about two three times.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
He was right concerned about it.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
M Are we going to have a look at the
flight the thing took off from.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Oh, well, yes, we'll do that, of course. First though,
we're I'm going to meet my office town hall.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Well, it's going to be dark if we don't stop
fooling around.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Little ladies, one hundred percent right, We better be on
our way here, Steppins want you to meet miss and
Ms Duncan, who I told you about a pleasure?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Indeed, glad to know you, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Don't you think we better get started? I mean, Michael
and I still have to find a place to spend
the night.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
There's plenty of time, Miss Duncan, and a man never
did like the Russian things headlong? Better consider a thing
from all angles first.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Don't you think?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Now?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Where were you two driving from today?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Well, we spent last night at our motel, just outside Stamford.
We planned to start our real camping tonight a place
called Essex where you wanted to get to Yes, that's time.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Well, now where'd you stop for lunch today?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
What difference could that possibly make?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
We stopped at a roadside restaurant. I didn't notice what
talent was near.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Everything could drink at the roadside restaurant.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Drink a cup of coffee? I think, no alcoholic beverages.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
We don't drink mayor Stebbins.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
You didn't stop anywhere along the way in the afternoon
and have a drop?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
No, I told you we don't drink.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Well, why all the questioning?
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Man?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
We stopped at the Sheriff's office.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
To report the sighting of an unidentified flying object.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Why are we being questioned?
Speaker 5 (15:54):
I'll tell you it is mister Duncan, third night. Take
our responsibility to the town of Colony, right serious? Yes,
so one of the things we will not tolerate is
drunk and driving.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I couldn't agree with you more, sir, But what has
that got to do with us? Well, I'm the kind
of man, mister Duncan, that likes to keep both feet
on the ground.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I believe half what I see.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
And very little of what I hear.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
So when it comes to saucers, I never seen one.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
He needed it wasay, sir, until this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
And you're sure you saw one, then, yes, I'm quite sure.
Remember the time Roy Beecher thought he saw flying saucer
drunk's coolie worst time. He spent the night in jail
and had a good live in himself the next day
for thinking he'd seen a flying saucer.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And I remember it well.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Been my opinion ever since that anybody thinks he sees
a flying saucer, he's been drinking too much.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
All there is to it, flying saucer too much, bood.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
It is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
You're accusing us of drunken.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Dry You got no choice, you claiming you saw a
flying saucer, and away I tell.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
You, we don't drink.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
We never Dn't you have some kind of a test
boat of a loom or something like that.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Too late for that now. Might not have been when
you first came in, but it is now it Besides,
you've had one of may Norton's monstrous big suppers on
top of whatever it was you had to drink this afternoons.
Oh best, you just spend the night here with us.
We can talk more about it in the morning.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Spend the night here with you.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
We've got a right comfortable jail here right back there
through that door. Are you suggesting that my wife and
I spend the night in your jail?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Not just suggesting it, mister Duncan.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
That's the way it's going to be, Michael, Michael got gun,
Sheriff Marcus, you are going to be very sorry you
drew that gun. Maybe, so meantime you too, Just go.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
On back through that door and we'll get you tucked
in for the night.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Michael, good morning.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
You awake.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, I've been awake for quite a while. I thought
i'd love you sleep as long as you.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Couldn't surprised I went to sleep at all, did you.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah, I'm It's not really so bad, you know. And
we slept in motels that weren't any better. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Well, I'd rather sleep in a motel just to sing.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yeah, it's uh, it's the indignity of being jailed for
the night that's what makes.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
It so bad.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
And for drunk and driving.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Oh it wasn't for that, Mary.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
So I think we got put in jail because we
saw a flying saucer. I mean, I figured they're they're
hooked up somehow to that UFO. We saw who the.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Mayor and the sheriff. How could they be, I don't know,
But why else would they want to lock us up?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Well then you think the drunk and driving charge was
just an excuse for sure?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Of course it was.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Mister and missus duncan a wizard may not And I
brought your breakfast.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I'm a lot more interested in getting out of here
than I am in breakfast.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Wouldn't want you driving off on an empty stomach.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
What time does the sheriff get in in.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
The morning, I don't know, different times I expect.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
I don't have a key to the cell there. I'll
have to shove the trays in under the door.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
These country cured.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Ham, fried eggs, home fried potatoes, hot biscuits, and honey.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I hope you got a good appetite.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Well that's one thing we won't be able to complain about,
at least the food.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Or I'll be bringing all your meals. I'll see to
it you're fed real good.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yeah, Well, this is the last meal that you're gonna
have to bother with because the sheriff has no excuse
whatever for holding us any longer.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
He's gonna have to let us go this morning.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Well, I wouldn't depend on it if I was. You
eat your breakfast before your eggs get cold.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
You busy, Annie, Come in back, Come in. You've been
in to check up on our guests this morning. Ain't
been to my office yet. Don't know how get down
there for a while. Kind of embarrassing. You've decided yet what.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
We're going to do about them? I reckon, So I
had to take it out first because I don't feel
comfortable about it.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Annie, any special reason. Well, this young couple, they're the
kind of folks it's likely to have a whole slow
friends and relations fretting over them if they don't show
up where they're expected. How long a vacation they are
three weeks to think, one of them said, just starting to.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
M there's kind of meandering around camping.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Wherever they happen to be like it, that's the idea.
I got no advance that itinerary. You wouldn't think so? Well, then,
I don't see we got anything to worry about. Sooner
or later, they're folks are going to be out looking
for them.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Dad, We're going to have to convert them. We're going
to have to take them over and keep them here.
It's the only way.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Lunchtime. Yes, that you are.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
It's a nice clam jail. The sheriff, I couldn't rightly say,
mister Duncan. I did see him over at Harry's diner
around ten thirty or eleven.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
But we haven't seen us a pull all morning. I
mean except for you, there's been nobody in here the
whole day.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I reckon you must have had business some way.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
The sheriff has got no right to keep us in jail.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
And we want to get out.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I have the right to make a phone call now.
I should have been allowed to make a phone call
last night.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
It looks like I'm going to have to tell you
the whole story.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
What whole story? Here? Just let me shove your lunch
under the door here. You can eat while you're listening.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I don't want to eat anything.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Might as well, Michael, Well, what story are you going
to tell us? Well, it started a couple of years ago.
What started, Well, that was when they first landed the
flying saucers.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Do you mean flying saucers have insighted here before?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (22:20):
My yes, I was sitting out in my front yard
there shelling peas.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I recollect like it was yesterday.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
They came swooping down out of the sky like to
scare me out of my wits.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Three of them there was in that first bunch.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I know there'd been more than one landing in that place.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
I've seen folks coming out of their houses looking todd
where they'd landed, you know. So I put my pen
a piece to one side, and I started walking in
that direction along with the rest of them.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Where it's a funny thing. What what funny thing?
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Now there's a spare there where everything was real mixed up,
and I don't remember very well.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
You never remember why, Well.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
For one thing, what they looked like. Who the folks,
those things.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Whatever they was that got out of those frying sauces.
I've talked to some of the others and they can't
remember that time, either, like it got erased or something.
All I remember is just a kind of jumble until
that evening. I guess it would be that same evening.
Why what happened that evening? They had us all collected
in a place that looked like one of them mad
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scientists' laboratories, I like to see the old movies. You know,
they had the whole town in there, every soul of us.
I found out later it was down in the basement
of the town hall there. They'd rigged the old cellar
down there for a laboratory, still using it.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
There still, You mean they're still around.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Wait till I tell you side Marcus and Ironie Stebbens
were already running things they'd been conveyed before we woke up,
or or we'd come to, or whatever was we did.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Converted, that's what they called it.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
They was leading us, one at a time up to
a thing looked like a dentist chair, and they'd make
us sit.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
In it and put a thing kind of like a.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Hair dryer over our heads, and then they'd flick a
lot of switches, Fad Marcus and Ernie Stebbins, just like
they knew what they were doing.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
And then whoever was in the chair.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Would kind of shiver and slump down for a minute
until Fad and Ernie threw some are switches, and then
they'd take that one back to his seat and lead
up the next one. Well, what were they doing to
the people in the chair?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Converting?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
You mean by uh converting, Well you.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Will when I come to that pop.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
They put me in the dentist chair and put their
hair dryer thing over my head and started flipping their switches.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I got a funny feeling.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
I'll never forget it, like my head was being all
baid it into little bitty pieces and put back together
in a different way, something like that. Well, I passed
out for a minute. When I come to, they was
leading me back to my seat.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
With the others. Only it wasn't me, wasn't you? Well
I was.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
It seemed like I was occupying just a little corner
of my head while somebody or something else was using
the rest of it. But I don't understand why in
either at first, but I did later on. One of the
things out of the flying saucers had taken me over.
I was still in there, the real me, but I
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had nothing to do with what my body thought or
said or did.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I'd been possessed.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
But what about what about the rest of them all
just like me?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Took over every.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Last one of them?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
And are they uh still controlled still?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Every last song in this town?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
And were get free, stubborn, That's all.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
I just wouldn't give into all that electrical mumbo jumbo
kept on resisting and fighting till I got the upper hand.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
How could you do that when the others couldn't.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
I've been thinking about that a lot, and I think
I got it figured out. My great or my great
great grandmother something like that was burned for a witch
when they had the trouble over in Salem.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Maybe I inherited something from her. Was So, what are
you saying that you're a witch?
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Oh, Land, No, I don't believe that kind of nonsense. No,
what I'm saying is all them women that God accused
of being witches, all they was was just stubborn women.
I mean stubborn, way past ordinary, so stubborn they.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Just would have their own way and nothing else would do.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
And that's what you think you inherited from your great
great grandmother, her stubbornness. Well I got it, no question
about that. Come to some aliens taken over my mind.
I was just too pig headed to let him have it,
that's all.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
But what about the others, I mean, all the rest
of the people who've been taken over, Well.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
It's my opinion that if they had just stood up
and refused to give into the aliens, they'd all be
free right now.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
What happened to the alien who tried to take possession
of you?
Speaker 4 (27:19):
I just threw out last I've heard of her. I
don't know what became of her, evaporated, I wouldn't be spied.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Well, that's quite a story.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
It's more than stories. You'll find out. What do you
mean is we'll find out.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Don't you see?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
They'll have to convert you. What else can they.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Do now that you know about the flying saucers this
time tomorrow, unless you can figure some way out of it,
you will be one of them.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
What could be more terrifying than the prospect of having
your mind and body taken over by an alien being,
then being left with nothing of your true self but
a small, impotent corner of awareness, to.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Be forced to watch helplessly.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
As your own body performed deeds you found unspeakable. This
is what may confront Michael and Mary Duncan when I
returned shortly with Act three. If we're to believe may
Norton's story, the bodies and minds of all the citizens
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of Colony New Hampshire have been taken over and are
controlled by alien beings who come and go in spaceships
like the one Michael and Mary Duncan saw on the
way into the village. Michael and Mary are being held
in communicato in the colony jail and are again, according
to May Norton, slated to be they can over themselves
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by the aliens.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
They can't do it, can they?
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Michael?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I don't know, take control of our mind?
Speaker 4 (29:07):
You really believe that all the people in this whole
town are being controlled by being from another galaxy or something.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
It sounds pretty outlandish, I grant you, but look, there's
something fishy going on here.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
That's got something to do with that UFO we saw.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
What are we going to do?
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Michael?
Speaker 2 (29:24):
I don't know. I'm trying to think of something.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
You made up your mind and about them? Have you
been in touch with the folks up on the mothership
about it?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
I had a long talk with them earlier this morning.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
They agree with this.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
There ain't nothing we can do but take over the Duncans.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
I just wish I could feel more comfortable about it.
What exactly was decided? The ship's sending down the two
new colonists around eight to not that figure we can
have they her down the lab around eight thirty sounds
all right? You sounds fine? Sooner I get them too
out of my jail better I like it. Wait you
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figure on putting them up?
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Well?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I thought about letting them have a couple of rooms
of minors. She's just rattling around that big old house
all by herself, all that extra space that's going to waste.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Good idea.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Wouldn't hurt to have somebody keep an eye on me anyway?
He's still making trouble?
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Is she?
Speaker 5 (30:29):
Kind of halfway? Subversive talk? Nothing anybody can put a
finger on. Now, I'll schedule to takeover for half past
eight tonight. We'll have everybody in the witness it as usual.
Hold down every man, jackab want me to let them
all know?
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I guess you better? Yes, tell them eight thirty sharp.
We don't want to waste time waiting for anybody. Howdy made.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
I've been looking for you all day, sad. Where are
you been?
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Oh? Here and there? What'd you wanna see me about?
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Young Duncan boy? You got over there in jail. He
asked me to tell you he wants to see you.
Said you hadn't been in all morning.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Oh well, he's busting to talk to you.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
I had another business round and about You've been keeping
a fed good.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Ain't you?
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (31:24):
And that was something else I wanted to talk to
you about. It don't seem right shoving that tray into
them under the door.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
There's no way to serve a meal.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Why didn't you let me have a key to their
sell so as I can bring the trays in.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
And serve him?
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Right?
Speaker 5 (31:38):
I uh, I don't think so. May rather not take
a chance them jumping into something. Main reason I stopped
around there his meeting tonight, basement of the town hall,
half fist eight o'clock.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Down in that laboratory place.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
It's right, I guess that means you're planning to take
over the duncan Stone It you just.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Get to the meeting on time.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
May, that's all you got to worry about.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Marco, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
I'm just checking to see if there's a loose bar anywhere.
I wanna get out of this place.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Oh escape? I mean that's a little melodramatic, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Well, damn it?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
We could rot here, Mary, I mean, with May bringing
this our meals, there's no reason why the sheriff would
ever have to come around.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
I don't know. In view of what May told us,
I just assume he didn't.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
What do you mean about aliens taking possession of us? Yeah? Yeah,
I've been thinking about that. Do you believe it?
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Well?
Speaker 1 (32:39):
I mean we probably we saw a flying saucer whatever
if you want to call it, and they we're being
held in jail here for nothing? Are the aliens any
heart of to believe?
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Please me and jem May Supper time pot roasted mashed
potatoes tonight.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Uh? Have you seen anything of Sheriff Marker Bad?
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Sure, I saw told him you wanted to talk to him,
but I don't think it done any good.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
No, no, no, he hasn't been around.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
I'll just shove his trays under the door.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Here.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
You better eat up right away.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
I tried to get the keys to the jail from Fad,
but he wouldn't give them to me. Said, I'd like
to have him so I could serve your dinner proper.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Were you gonna let us out?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Well?
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Of course, what else would I want the keys for?
Speaker 4 (33:23):
It's very good If you May, well, you'd have had
to take me away with you. I couldn't have stayed
on after turning you loose.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Yeah, I've been wondering about that. May, Why haven't you
run away? I mean, you are not possessed by these aliens.
There's nothing holding you here.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
I don't know. I've always lived here all my life.
Well that's one thing. It been for another. And I
keep figuring sooner.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Or later I'll get the chance to do some good.
I need help set the others free, or maybe keep
them from taking over somebody like you.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
I don't know, I just stayed around.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Is there any way you can uh keep them from
taking us over?
Speaker 2 (34:05):
May?
Speaker 3 (34:06):
No way I can think of. I've been wracking my
brains and I've got some bad news. I'm afraid.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Oh what bad news.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
They're planning on doing it tonight tonight eight thirty shops.
There's a meeting in the basement under the town hall.
That's where they got that laboratory place. I told you
about a m uh a meeting. Yeah, they all turning
out the whole town whenever there's a takeover.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
S What what do what do they look like? I mean, now,
the these creatures, you know, the creatures from out of space, well,
some like us.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
I mean two arms, two legs, all that a face was,
two eyes, a nose, a mouse, only just not quite
exactly in the right places, you know what I need?
And hair more like young ducks down than hair. Oh,
we don't see much of 'em. They don't show up
except when they absolutely have to. You'll see a couple
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of them tonight.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
We will. Yeah, the two they send down to take
you over.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Oh alright, I look that there's gotta be some way
to stop them. There must be.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
I wish I could think of what it is.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
What time is it, Mary, I've let my watch run
down ten to eight?
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Michael, they'll be coming for it, s all right.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Now. Look when they come I imagine it'll be the sheriff.
Don't don't make a fuss of any kind, you know,
don't try to hold back or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Why not.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Well, I want the sheriff to be as uh favorably
disposed toward us as possible.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
I'm gonna ask him to let me make.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
A little speech before they're change over.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
What kind of the speech, Michael?
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Well, I think it's just as well you don't know
in advance.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Mary, have you thought of a way to keep us
from being taken over?
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (35:59):
Maybe you too can take your places on the podium
there to the left of the Mayor, and.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Will be sitting just to your left.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Why do we have to be on stage?
Speaker 2 (36:15):
You'll find out all in good time.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Don't you standing to the bank of the stage, Just
find the mayor. They really not human?
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Rdy No, oh, Michael, I don't want one of those
things inside my mind.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
No, all right, let's come to order here, Sheriff Marcus.
Have these two been informed of the nature of the
night's proceedings? Not yet, Mayor, please have informed them.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Michael Duncan, Mary Duncan, you are hereby served. Notice that
you will this night have the honor of contributing your
bodies the remainder of your lives the advancement of the
great new civilization which is about.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
To be realized upon your earth. How can you do
a thing like that? You've already been told all you
need to know. I see.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Listen to me, you who are enslaved in your own
minds and bodies, hear me and think, think as yourselves.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
You can do it. If you try. One of your
number has done it.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
There is one of you who has been secretly free
the whole time we have we know and al all right,
all right, have.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Been out you Mayor Stebbens.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
I want to talk to you, Not to the arrogant
creature who has assumed command of your body, Arnie Stebbens,
but you, the Arnie Stebbens, who was once the mayor
of this town, the Stebbens who can hear me but
cannot act. I'm speaking to you, Arnie Stebbens. You can
act if you will it strongly enough. But you are
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once a strong man. That strength is all it takes
to set you free. Use it, resist, think yourself your
own man, and you will be your own man. Make
him top Fad doesn't want me to stop, not the
real Fad. He's like you, Arnie Stebbens and all the
rest of you.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
He wants to be free.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Also try Arnie, try now, make him stop. Look at
what Annie you can't No, No, Arnie Stevens has won.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Arnie Stevens is free, and what he has done you
can all do.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Try.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
He's stronger than may are.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Try, duncan help me from Sad Marcus, really Sad Marcus.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
I want out. Yes, you get out, you all will.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
You're all going to be free.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
It ain't quite twenty four hours yet, mister Duncan, and
more than half up and free already, and then that
ain't are harboring some mighty sick aliens.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
You think they'll all be able to free themselves, every.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Last one of them, no doubt in my mind, whatever where?
And yet I just wondering what happens to the aliens
when they're cast out?
Speaker 3 (39:20):
I don't know they're out.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
That's all I care about. We'll be all right here,
mister Duncan. You too, can go ahead with your trip now.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Yeah, you don't think we ought to stay until they're
all free.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
I don't think there's any need for it. We're all
right now or soon will be, all of us. The
only thing that worries me what there's still something there.
Speaker 4 (39:41):
I can't help wondering how many other towns they've got
the way they had colony.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
How many towns the size of colony in New Hampshire
do you suppose there are in this huge country of ours?
And what do you do if you see an unidentified
flying object taking off near one of them? Stop at
the sheriff's office and report it, or drives straight arms
through the town as if somebody or something were after you.
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I'll be back in a few minutes. Colony is just
another small New England town these days. The people go
about their commonplace affairs as though nothing more melodramatic than
a Sunday school picnic had ever happened there. But they
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remember Arnie Stebbins never meets for the town council without
wondering if they are all truly themselves. And Tad Marcus,
making his rounds in the Sheriff's official car, keeps a
weather eye out for unidentified flying objects. Our cast included
Tony Roberts, Morgan Fairchild, Francis Sternhagen, Jackson Beck, and Guy Sorell.
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The entire production was under the direction of Hymond Brown.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
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Speaker 1 (41:05):
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Speaker 1 (00:26):
Marshall, in charge of the Bizarre, keeper of the grotesque,
collector of the fantastic. It is my duty to delve
into unfrequented places in search of the unexpected ideal in
matte touch of the improbable, which gives a series of
events the quality we call mystery. If an element of
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horror creeps in now and again, you don't really mind you?
I thought, Actually, that's why we're all here.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Isn't it.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
You want to take some advice from an old woman.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Who our mystery drama.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
The Colony was written especially for the Mystery Theater by
Field and Farrington and stars Tony Roberts. It is sponsored
in part by sign Off the Sinus Medicines and Buick
Motor Division. I'll be back shortly with that one.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
If you were doing the looking, where would.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
You look for an occurrence that could be properly described
as macabre? Where would you expect a nightmare to happen
in some dusty dungeon overlaid with a patterna of past horrors?
In an ancient Middle European principality famous for its vampires
and walking dead. Well, weird goings on would seem suitable
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in such places, it's true. But how about a well
maintained highway in beautiful New Hampshire, clock basking in the
glory of the late.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Afternoon in the sun. I can't bereave it.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Can't believe what, Michael.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Three weeks, Mary, three long weeks of gypsy, three lovely
weeks of going wherever we choose to go, and staying
as long as we.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Like, going on whenever we like. I just can't believe it.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Well, what we'd better start thinking about is a campsite
for the night. Now, there's supposed to be a very
good one at a place called Essex. You don't suppose
we passed it through you?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Well'll check them up.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I have, I just can't seem to find it. Oh, Michael,
slow down, there's a sign coming up.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I see.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Colony, New Hampshire, population six hundred and thirty four. Well,
maybe we can stop and ask somebody.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Here where Essex is? Okay, and like to get everything
squared away before it gets.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Dark, we will remember we have at the carrying the world.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Michael got.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
What both that thing.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I have no idea I have a sawn anything like
it before. It's some kind of an airship.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
It looked like it came right up out of the
wall right in front of us.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I think it was behind that clump of trees at
the turn right up there.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I'm gonna get out and take a look.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I look and look at what the thing's gone.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Now, yeah, but I must have burned off some grass
or something.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Hey, didn't you see the flames shooting out or the
leave it some kind of rockets? I guess.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Come on, just just in.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Back of these trees. I'm sure this is where it
came from.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Michael. Do you think it was an unidentified flying object?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Now? Well, I sure couldn't identify it. There.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Look the goron's burned to a creep in that big circle.
Was the thing that big?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
No? I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Hey, if you ask me, there's been more than one
of these landing and taking off your.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Oh let's get back to the car, please. It's well,
it's kind of scary.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yeah, yeah, okay, but we ought to.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Report this to somebody, don't you think?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Everybody reports an unidentified flying object always gets treated like
a crime tak Nobody believes you wants to go to
reporting it.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
They'll have to.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Believe us we saw it, Yeah, and that's what they
all say.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Well, we can bring them back here and show them
where the grass is burned off.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, there is that, Michael. That was a real thing
we saw and we don't know where it came from
or what kind of a threat it may represent. Well,
somebody ought to check it out.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, I guess you're right.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Okay, we'll report it when we get to uh, what
was the.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Name of that town?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Colony Colony, New Hampshire, population six hundred and thirty four.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
And that's the way it was, Sheriff Marcus.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I mean, the thing nearly scared us to death, pushing
up out of nowhere in front of us, shooting out
flames and everything.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
But they always say, you know about flying sauces, is
that they're just some kind of optical illusion.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Well this was not an optical illusion, Sheriff. It was
just as real as you are sitting there.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, And we can take you back there and show
you where the grass is all burned off.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Well, we'll have a look later on, that's sure, later on.
Right now, what I'd like is to have talk with
Andy Stebbins about this, or who's Annie Stebbins.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
May have colony.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
You don't hardly ever do anything without consulting Honey on
it first.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Where was you on your way too?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Oh well, we're just sort of jiggling around, you know.
We're on a camping trip. I thought we'd see as much.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Of New England as we can in the three weeks.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
What we did want to get to a place called
Essex before dark. They say there's a good campsite there,
and well, we just thought we'd like to set.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Up camp before dark.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Don't knows you'd be able to do that. Ssex is
about sixty miles on down the road.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
It would have been nice to get to before dark.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
That's all tell you what.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
I'll take you on down to May Norton's place, whereas
I May's widow lady lives other end of town, the
old Daily Place.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
We haven't got a real.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Honest goodness restaurant in Colney, but May sometimes gives folks
on the way through their dinners.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
He puts them up for the night.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Oh well, I don't think we'd want to stay for
the night.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Oh dinner it doesn't sound like such a bad idea.
You know, you could have dinner while I am having
a talk with Nye Stebbins, and we can all go
have a look the place where your thing took off,
or be able to make it there before Doc.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I just don't like to make a move without I.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Talk to Arnie first, And I want to tell you,
mister miss Duncan, you're gonna get one of the finest.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Meals you ever at.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
This is not even a good kerkushion good seen the equolf.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I'll dothan Hello.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
May you feel like cooking a big dinner for a
couple of tired tourists tonight?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Well, I reckon I could see my way clear too.
Be the regular price.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
It's four dollars piece, which you always charge us.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Well, come in, come in.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
You can make yourself comfortable there in the sitting room
till I get things on the table.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
He maybe a half hour or so, just.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Make sales right at home, and he doesn't stand on ceremony.
I just want to have a word with him, and uh,
I'll go have him to talk with Annie. How long
do you think you'll be oh ought to be back
by the time you finished dinner shortly after.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Something. You wanna talk to me about them?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
You?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Uh wouldn't have a cup of coffee, would you?
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Well, I got something I made a while back. I
guess it's still fit to drink.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Sure it is.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
You wouldn't leave them in the sitting room just to
get a cup of coffee, though, did you?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Truth is, I've been wanting to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Made well, go ahead and talk then folks.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
You got out there and you're sitting room.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
The Duncans they'd come into my office seeing the scene
of flying So.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Oh happened again?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Did it?
Speaker 5 (08:04):
I have to go talk to Andy Stebbens, of course.
And I don't want them getting restless or I.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Get back, I'll give them a good, big dinner and
see they take their time eating it.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
They might get restless.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Or Do you think there was anything odd about the
way Sheriff Marcus took it when they told him about
the unidentified flying objay?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
No, In fact, I thought he took it very well,
you know, I guess that's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I mean, I I think he believes us.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Why didn't you want him to?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah? But I didn't expect him to. But he didn't
even seem surprised.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Well, it's just too bad there are more people around
like him would have had the whole UFO mystery cleared
up years ago.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Mm maybe mm, it just seems sort of strange to me,
that's all.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
You Sure you wouldn't like another piece of the blueberry pie,
mister Duncan.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Oh, I just wouldn't have any place to put it.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Missus Norton.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Oh, I can't remember the last time anybody called me
missus Norton. You better just make it may Well, if
I can't get you to eat anything more, why don't
we just take our coffee into the living room while
we're waiting for Fad to get through to in the
fat with Annie.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Mm.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
But I'm kind of surprised it's taking him so long.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
All things don't go very fast in calling me, mister Duncan.
Couple of old town people outside and irony get to
talk and make m go on half the night, And
maybe you'd like some of my blackbird brandy.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Oh no, thank you, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I feel fine, that's the way I am.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
So you've seen a flying saucer?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Did you?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
We sure did?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
How'd you know that?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
A third said something about it before he left. What
was it you wanted they had to do about the
flying saucer after you told him about it?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
I I just always thought you report a thing like
that to an official.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
That's all.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Yeah, Well maybe I may can think of something, or
I don't know what it'd be, if you don't mind
my saying so, you might have been smarter just to mind.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Your own business. I think UFOs or everybody's business.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, why why why do you think we would have
been smarter?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Well, no reason.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
I guess it's if it usually is smarter than mind
a person's own business. And I still say that a
UFO sighting is my business. I think people shrug 'em
off too easily. They can't all be weather balloons, tod
optical illusions.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Too many of the things have been seen.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Well, I never said you've seen a weather blown Well
you did say we should've minded our own business or
your own good, was what I meant.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yeah, how do you in what way for your own good?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
If I was you and wanted to finish my nice
vacation like I planned, I'd just get up from here
right now and get into my car, and I'd drive
right on ahead to wherever it was I wanted to
get to in the first place. I wouldn't spend one
more minute than I had to in the town of Colony.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Why just advice?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
I said, no, explaining, well, you can't just advise us
to do something like that without giving us a reason.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Sure I can. I just did.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
It's the story they told me Annie, and he figured
there wasn't much question.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
But what they.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Seemed was, ay, it's too bad. I figured I'd better come.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
To you with it, just for you to decide what
has to be done. Oh, you done right.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
I'm just wondering that maybe it won't have to go
a little hand than me. Ifore, it's settled up to
you to decide that.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Well, one thing I can tell you right now, we've
got to keep those two in town.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
We can't let him leave colony. Keep them high, Nie,
we're rich and to get on their way right now,
and we're going to talk with them in the state.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
You're the sheriff.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Anger got a jail ancher, but Ane, you act to
hold them, That hold them for what ain't no law
against thinking? You saw a flying saucer.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Who think of something they can't be allowed to leave colony,
not a lad. They can't. A quiet drive along a
peaceful New England road has led to a UFO sighting,
and the UFO sighting has led to danger for two
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innocent people.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
So much for the.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Idea, if anyone had it that you must go looking
in the wilds of Transylvania for improbable and dangerous happenings.
Start being careful right in your own home while waiting
for me to return. Shortly with that too. And there's
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been a great deal of speculation upon the nature and
origin of unidentified flying objects. The speculation has led to
a wealth of conjecture, but a remarkable dearth of answers.
Many reasonable thinking men and women believe the UFOs to
be very real, at least as many others believe them
to be figments of mass imagination. Our story doesn't pretend
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to offer an answer. It simply explores one of many possibilities.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
That's most likely the sheriff that from talking to the maya,
don't let on I said what I said to you
and advising us to run you mean, it wouldn't do
you to no good, and it most likely get me
into a mess of trouble, all right.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
If we won't say anything about it?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Willing my god, Oh I suppose not all right?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
All right, all right, I'm coming keep it shut.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
On everything, all right?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
May of course, everything's all right, Come on in.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Sorry, keep you too waiting around like this? And he
made me go over your story about two three times.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
He was right concerned about it.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
M Are we going to have a look at the
flight the thing took off from.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Oh, well, yes, we'll do that, of course. First though,
we're I'm going to meet my office town hall.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Well, it's going to be dark if we don't stop
fooling around.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Little ladies, one hundred percent right, We better be on
our way here, Steppins want you to meet miss and
Ms Duncan, who I told you about a pleasure?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Indeed, glad to know you, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Don't you think we better get started? I mean, Michael
and I still have to find a place to spend
the night.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
There's plenty of time, Miss Duncan, and a man never
did like the Russian things headlong? Better consider a thing
from all angles first.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Don't you think?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Now?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Where were you two driving from today?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Well, we spent last night at our motel, just outside Stamford.
We planned to start our real camping tonight a place
called Essex where you wanted to get to Yes, that's time.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Well, now where'd you stop for lunch today?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
What difference could that possibly make?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
We stopped at a roadside restaurant. I didn't notice what
talent was near.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Everything could drink at the roadside restaurant.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Drink a cup of coffee? I think, no alcoholic beverages.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
We don't drink mayor Stebbins.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
You didn't stop anywhere along the way in the afternoon
and have a drop?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
No, I told you we don't drink.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Well, why all the questioning?
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Man?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
We stopped at the Sheriff's office.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
To report the sighting of an unidentified flying object.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Why are we being questioned?
Speaker 5 (15:54):
I'll tell you it is mister Duncan, third night. Take
our responsibility to the town of Colony, right serious? Yes,
so one of the things we will not tolerate is
drunk and driving.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I couldn't agree with you more, sir, But what has
that got to do with us? Well, I'm the kind
of man, mister Duncan, that likes to keep both feet
on the ground.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I believe half what I see.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
And very little of what I hear.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
So when it comes to saucers, I never seen one.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
He needed it wasay, sir, until this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
And you're sure you saw one, then, yes, I'm quite sure.
Remember the time Roy Beecher thought he saw flying saucer
drunk's coolie worst time. He spent the night in jail
and had a good live in himself the next day
for thinking he'd seen a flying saucer.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And I remember it well.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Been my opinion ever since that anybody thinks he sees
a flying saucer, he's been drinking too much.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
All there is to it, flying saucer too much, bood.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
It is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
You're accusing us of drunken.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Dry You got no choice, you claiming you saw a
flying saucer, and away I tell.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
You, we don't drink.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
We never Dn't you have some kind of a test
boat of a loom or something like that.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Too late for that now. Might not have been when
you first came in, but it is now it Besides,
you've had one of may Norton's monstrous big suppers on
top of whatever it was you had to drink this afternoons.
Oh best, you just spend the night here with us.
We can talk more about it in the morning.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Spend the night here with you.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
We've got a right comfortable jail here right back there
through that door. Are you suggesting that my wife and
I spend the night in your jail?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Not just suggesting it, mister Duncan.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
That's the way it's going to be, Michael, Michael got gun,
Sheriff Marcus, you are going to be very sorry you
drew that gun. Maybe, so meantime you too, Just go.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
On back through that door and we'll get you tucked
in for the night.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Michael, good morning.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
You awake.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, I've been awake for quite a while. I thought
i'd love you sleep as long as you.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Couldn't surprised I went to sleep at all, did you.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah, I'm It's not really so bad, you know. And
we slept in motels that weren't any better. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Well, I'd rather sleep in a motel just to sing.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yeah, it's uh, it's the indignity of being jailed for
the night that's what makes.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
It so bad.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
And for drunk and driving.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Oh it wasn't for that, Mary.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
So I think we got put in jail because we
saw a flying saucer. I mean, I figured they're they're
hooked up somehow to that UFO. We saw who the.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Mayor and the sheriff. How could they be, I don't know,
But why else would they want to lock us up?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Well then you think the drunk and driving charge was
just an excuse for sure?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Of course it was.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Mister and missus duncan a wizard may not And I
brought your breakfast.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I'm a lot more interested in getting out of here
than I am in breakfast.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Wouldn't want you driving off on an empty stomach.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
What time does the sheriff get in in.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
The morning, I don't know, different times I expect.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
I don't have a key to the cell there. I'll
have to shove the trays in under the door.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
These country cured.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Ham, fried eggs, home fried potatoes, hot biscuits, and honey.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I hope you got a good appetite.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Well that's one thing we won't be able to complain about,
at least the food.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Or I'll be bringing all your meals. I'll see to
it you're fed real good.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yeah, Well, this is the last meal that you're gonna
have to bother with because the sheriff has no excuse
whatever for holding us any longer.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
He's gonna have to let us go this morning.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Well, I wouldn't depend on it if I was. You
eat your breakfast before your eggs get cold.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
You busy, Annie, Come in back, Come in. You've been
in to check up on our guests this morning. Ain't
been to my office yet. Don't know how get down
there for a while. Kind of embarrassing. You've decided yet what.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
We're going to do about them? I reckon, So I
had to take it out first because I don't feel
comfortable about it.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Annie, any special reason. Well, this young couple, they're the
kind of folks it's likely to have a whole slow
friends and relations fretting over them if they don't show
up where they're expected. How long a vacation they are
three weeks to think, one of them said, just starting to.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
M there's kind of meandering around camping.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Wherever they happen to be like it, that's the idea.
I got no advance that itinerary. You wouldn't think so? Well, then,
I don't see we got anything to worry about. Sooner
or later, they're folks are going to be out looking
for them.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Dad, We're going to have to convert them. We're going
to have to take them over and keep them here.
It's the only way.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Lunchtime. Yes, that you are.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
It's a nice clam jail. The sheriff, I couldn't rightly say,
mister Duncan. I did see him over at Harry's diner
around ten thirty or eleven.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
But we haven't seen us a pull all morning. I
mean except for you, there's been nobody in here the
whole day.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I reckon you must have had business some way.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
The sheriff has got no right to keep us in jail.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
And we want to get out.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I have the right to make a phone call now.
I should have been allowed to make a phone call
last night.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
It looks like I'm going to have to tell you
the whole story.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
What whole story? Here? Just let me shove your lunch
under the door here. You can eat while you're listening.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I don't want to eat anything.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Might as well, Michael, Well, what story are you going
to tell us? Well, it started a couple of years ago.
What started, Well, that was when they first landed the
flying saucers.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Do you mean flying saucers have insighted here before?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (22:20):
My yes, I was sitting out in my front yard
there shelling peas.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I recollect like it was yesterday.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
They came swooping down out of the sky like to
scare me out of my wits.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Three of them there was in that first bunch.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I know there'd been more than one landing in that place.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
I've seen folks coming out of their houses looking todd
where they'd landed, you know. So I put my pen
a piece to one side, and I started walking in
that direction along with the rest of them.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Where it's a funny thing. What what funny thing?
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Now there's a spare there where everything was real mixed up,
and I don't remember very well.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
You never remember why, Well.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
For one thing, what they looked like. Who the folks,
those things.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Whatever they was that got out of those frying sauces.
I've talked to some of the others and they can't
remember that time, either, like it got erased or something.
All I remember is just a kind of jumble until
that evening. I guess it would be that same evening.
Why what happened that evening? They had us all collected
in a place that looked like one of them mad
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scientists' laboratories, I like to see the old movies. You know,
they had the whole town in there, every soul of us.
I found out later it was down in the basement
of the town hall there. They'd rigged the old cellar
down there for a laboratory, still using it.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
There still, You mean they're still around.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Wait till I tell you side Marcus and Ironie Stebbens
were already running things they'd been conveyed before we woke up,
or or we'd come to, or whatever was we did.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Converted, that's what they called it.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
They was leading us, one at a time up to
a thing looked like a dentist chair, and they'd make
us sit.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
In it and put a thing kind of like a.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Hair dryer over our heads, and then they'd flick a
lot of switches, Fad Marcus and Ernie Stebbins, just like
they knew what they were doing.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
And then whoever was in the chair.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Would kind of shiver and slump down for a minute
until Fad and Ernie threw some are switches, and then
they'd take that one back to his seat and lead
up the next one. Well, what were they doing to
the people in the chair?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Converting?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
You mean by uh converting, Well you.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Will when I come to that pop.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
They put me in the dentist chair and put their
hair dryer thing over my head and started flipping their switches.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I got a funny feeling.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
I'll never forget it, like my head was being all
baid it into little bitty pieces and put back together
in a different way, something like that. Well, I passed
out for a minute. When I come to, they was
leading me back to my seat.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
With the others. Only it wasn't me, wasn't you? Well
I was.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
It seemed like I was occupying just a little corner
of my head while somebody or something else was using
the rest of it. But I don't understand why in
either at first, but I did later on. One of the
things out of the flying saucers had taken me over.
I was still in there, the real me, but I
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had nothing to do with what my body thought or
said or did.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I'd been possessed.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
But what about what about the rest of them all
just like me?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Took over every.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Last one of them?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
And are they uh still controlled still?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Every last song in this town?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
And were get free, stubborn, That's all.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
I just wouldn't give into all that electrical mumbo jumbo
kept on resisting and fighting till I got the upper hand.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
How could you do that when the others couldn't.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
I've been thinking about that a lot, and I think
I got it figured out. My great or my great
great grandmother something like that was burned for a witch
when they had the trouble over in Salem.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Maybe I inherited something from her. Was So, what are
you saying that you're a witch?
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Oh, Land, No, I don't believe that kind of nonsense. No,
what I'm saying is all them women that God accused
of being witches, all they was was just stubborn women.
I mean stubborn, way past ordinary, so stubborn they.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Just would have their own way and nothing else would do.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
And that's what you think you inherited from your great
great grandmother, her stubbornness. Well I got it, no question
about that. Come to some aliens taken over my mind.
I was just too pig headed to let him have it,
that's all.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
But what about the others, I mean, all the rest
of the people who've been taken over, Well.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
It's my opinion that if they had just stood up
and refused to give into the aliens, they'd all be
free right now.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
What happened to the alien who tried to take possession
of you?
Speaker 4 (27:19):
I just threw out last I've heard of her. I
don't know what became of her, evaporated, I wouldn't be spied.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Well, that's quite a story.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
It's more than stories. You'll find out. What do you
mean is we'll find out.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Don't you see?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
They'll have to convert you. What else can they.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Do now that you know about the flying saucers this
time tomorrow, unless you can figure some way out of it,
you will be one of them.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
What could be more terrifying than the prospect of having
your mind and body taken over by an alien being,
then being left with nothing of your true self but
a small, impotent corner of awareness, to.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Be forced to watch helplessly.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
As your own body performed deeds you found unspeakable. This
is what may confront Michael and Mary Duncan when I
returned shortly with Act three. If we're to believe may
Norton's story, the bodies and minds of all the citizens
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of Colony New Hampshire have been taken over and are
controlled by alien beings who come and go in spaceships
like the one Michael and Mary Duncan saw on the
way into the village. Michael and Mary are being held
in communicato in the colony jail and are again, according
to May Norton, slated to be they can over themselves
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by the aliens.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
They can't do it, can they?
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Michael?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I don't know, take control of our mind?
Speaker 4 (29:07):
You really believe that all the people in this whole
town are being controlled by being from another galaxy or something.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
It sounds pretty outlandish, I grant you, but look, there's
something fishy going on here.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
That's got something to do with that UFO we saw.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
What are we going to do?
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Michael?
Speaker 2 (29:24):
I don't know. I'm trying to think of something.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
You made up your mind and about them? Have you
been in touch with the folks up on the mothership
about it?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
I had a long talk with them earlier this morning.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
They agree with this.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
There ain't nothing we can do but take over the Duncans.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
I just wish I could feel more comfortable about it.
What exactly was decided? The ship's sending down the two
new colonists around eight to not that figure we can
have they her down the lab around eight thirty sounds
all right? You sounds fine? Sooner I get them too
out of my jail better I like it. Wait you
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figure on putting them up?
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Well?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I thought about letting them have a couple of rooms
of minors. She's just rattling around that big old house
all by herself, all that extra space that's going to waste.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Good idea.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Wouldn't hurt to have somebody keep an eye on me anyway?
He's still making trouble?
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Is she?
Speaker 5 (30:29):
Kind of halfway? Subversive talk? Nothing anybody can put a
finger on. Now, I'll schedule to takeover for half past
eight tonight. We'll have everybody in the witness it as usual.
Hold down every man, jackab want me to let them
all know?
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I guess you better? Yes, tell them eight thirty sharp.
We don't want to waste time waiting for anybody. Howdy made.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
I've been looking for you all day, sad. Where are
you been?
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Oh? Here and there? What'd you wanna see me about?
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Young Duncan boy? You got over there in jail. He
asked me to tell you he wants to see you.
Said you hadn't been in all morning.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Oh well, he's busting to talk to you.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
I had another business round and about You've been keeping
a fed good.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Ain't you?
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (31:24):
And that was something else I wanted to talk to
you about. It don't seem right shoving that tray into
them under the door.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
There's no way to serve a meal.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Why didn't you let me have a key to their
sell so as I can bring the trays in.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
And serve him?
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Right?
Speaker 5 (31:38):
I uh, I don't think so. May rather not take
a chance them jumping into something. Main reason I stopped
around there his meeting tonight, basement of the town hall,
half fist eight o'clock.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Down in that laboratory place.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
It's right, I guess that means you're planning to take
over the duncan Stone It you just.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Get to the meeting on time.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
May, that's all you got to worry about.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Marco, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
I'm just checking to see if there's a loose bar anywhere.
I wanna get out of this place.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Oh escape? I mean that's a little melodramatic, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Well, damn it?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
We could rot here, Mary, I mean, with May bringing
this our meals, there's no reason why the sheriff would
ever have to come around.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
I don't know. In view of what May told us,
I just assume he didn't.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
What do you mean about aliens taking possession of us? Yeah? Yeah,
I've been thinking about that. Do you believe it?
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Well?
Speaker 1 (32:39):
I mean we probably we saw a flying saucer whatever
if you want to call it, and they we're being
held in jail here for nothing? Are the aliens any
heart of to believe?
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Please me and jem May Supper time pot roasted mashed
potatoes tonight.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Uh? Have you seen anything of Sheriff Marker Bad?
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Sure, I saw told him you wanted to talk to him,
but I don't think it done any good.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
No, no, no, he hasn't been around.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
I'll just shove his trays under the door.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Here.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
You better eat up right away.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
I tried to get the keys to the jail from Fad,
but he wouldn't give them to me. Said, I'd like
to have him so I could serve your dinner proper.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Were you gonna let us out?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Well?
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Of course, what else would I want the keys for?
Speaker 4 (33:23):
It's very good If you May, well, you'd have had
to take me away with you. I couldn't have stayed
on after turning you loose.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Yeah, I've been wondering about that. May, Why haven't you
run away? I mean, you are not possessed by these aliens.
There's nothing holding you here.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
I don't know. I've always lived here all my life.
Well that's one thing. It been for another. And I
keep figuring sooner.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Or later I'll get the chance to do some good.
I need help set the others free, or maybe keep
them from taking over somebody like you.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
I don't know, I just stayed around.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Is there any way you can uh keep them from
taking us over?
Speaker 2 (34:05):
May?
Speaker 3 (34:06):
No way I can think of. I've been wracking my
brains and I've got some bad news. I'm afraid.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Oh what bad news.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
They're planning on doing it tonight tonight eight thirty shops.
There's a meeting in the basement under the town hall.
That's where they got that laboratory place. I told you
about a m uh a meeting. Yeah, they all turning
out the whole town whenever there's a takeover.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
S What what do what do they look like? I mean, now,
the these creatures, you know, the creatures from out of space, well,
some like us.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
I mean two arms, two legs, all that a face was,
two eyes, a nose, a mouse, only just not quite
exactly in the right places, you know what I need?
And hair more like young ducks down than hair. Oh,
we don't see much of 'em. They don't show up
except when they absolutely have to. You'll see a couple
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of them tonight.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
We will. Yeah, the two they send down to take
you over.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Oh alright, I look that there's gotta be some way
to stop them. There must be.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
I wish I could think of what it is.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
What time is it, Mary, I've let my watch run
down ten to eight?
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Michael, they'll be coming for it, s all right.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Now. Look when they come I imagine it'll be the sheriff.
Don't don't make a fuss of any kind, you know,
don't try to hold back or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Why not.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Well, I want the sheriff to be as uh favorably
disposed toward us as possible.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
I'm gonna ask him to let me make.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
A little speech before they're change over.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
What kind of the speech, Michael?
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Well, I think it's just as well you don't know
in advance.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Mary, have you thought of a way to keep us
from being taken over?
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (35:59):
Maybe you too can take your places on the podium
there to the left of the Mayor, and.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Will be sitting just to your left.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Why do we have to be on stage?
Speaker 2 (36:15):
You'll find out all in good time.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Don't you standing to the bank of the stage, Just
find the mayor. They really not human?
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Rdy No, oh, Michael, I don't want one of those
things inside my mind.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
No, all right, let's come to order here, Sheriff Marcus.
Have these two been informed of the nature of the
night's proceedings? Not yet, Mayor, please have informed them.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Michael Duncan, Mary Duncan, you are hereby served. Notice that
you will this night have the honor of contributing your
bodies the remainder of your lives the advancement of the
great new civilization which is about.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
To be realized upon your earth. How can you do
a thing like that? You've already been told all you
need to know. I see.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Listen to me, you who are enslaved in your own
minds and bodies, hear me and think, think as yourselves.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
You can do it. If you try. One of your
number has done it.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
There is one of you who has been secretly free
the whole time we have we know and al all right,
all right, have.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Been out you Mayor Stebbens.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
I want to talk to you, Not to the arrogant
creature who has assumed command of your body, Arnie Stebbens,
but you, the Arnie Stebbens, who was once the mayor
of this town, the Stebbens who can hear me but
cannot act. I'm speaking to you, Arnie Stebbens. You can
act if you will it strongly enough. But you are
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once a strong man. That strength is all it takes
to set you free. Use it, resist, think yourself your
own man, and you will be your own man. Make
him top Fad doesn't want me to stop, not the
real Fad. He's like you, Arnie Stebbens and all the
rest of you.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
He wants to be free.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Also try Arnie, try now, make him stop. Look at
what Annie you can't No, No, Arnie Stevens has won.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Arnie Stevens is free, and what he has done you
can all do.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Try.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
He's stronger than may are.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Try, duncan help me from Sad Marcus, really Sad Marcus.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
I want out. Yes, you get out, you all will.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
You're all going to be free.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
It ain't quite twenty four hours yet, mister Duncan, and
more than half up and free already, and then that
ain't are harboring some mighty sick aliens.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
You think they'll all be able to free themselves, every.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Last one of them, no doubt in my mind, whatever where?
And yet I just wondering what happens to the aliens
when they're cast out?
Speaker 3 (39:20):
I don't know they're out.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
That's all I care about. We'll be all right here,
mister Duncan. You too, can go ahead with your trip now.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Yeah, you don't think we ought to stay until they're
all free.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
I don't think there's any need for it. We're all
right now or soon will be, all of us. The
only thing that worries me what there's still something there.
Speaker 4 (39:41):
I can't help wondering how many other towns they've got
the way they had colony.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
How many towns the size of colony in New Hampshire
do you suppose there are in this huge country of ours?
And what do you do if you see an unidentified
flying object taking off near one of them? Stop at
the sheriff's office and report it, or drives straight arms
through the town as if somebody or something were after you.
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I'll be back in a few minutes. Colony is just
another small New England town these days. The people go
about their commonplace affairs as though nothing more melodramatic than
a Sunday school picnic had ever happened there. But they
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remember Arnie Stebbins never meets for the town council without
wondering if they are all truly themselves. And Tad Marcus,
making his rounds in the Sheriff's official car, keeps a
weather eye out for unidentified flying objects. Our cast included
Tony Roberts, Morgan Fairchild, Francis Sternhagen, Jackson Beck, and Guy Sorell.
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The entire production was under the direction of Hymond Brown.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Radio.
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