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August 10, 2025 41 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 (00:15):
Come in, welcome, I'm e. G.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Marshall. And at midnight, according to the old chronicles, there
would be a convocation of sorcerers, devils, demons, goblins and ghouls,
and they would thereupon proceed to hold an orgy in
a manner and fashion too sinful even to contemplate, and
wall to the unfortunate mortals who would be compelled to

(00:43):
participate in these hellish rituals that were profanely called a
witch's sabbath. A witch's sabbath, you say it's superstition, an
old wives tale, or throwback to a more innocent era.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Don't be too sure.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
The era you live in today isn't the most innocent
era in all history. W What we were a part.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Where you always wanted to be. Babies, You're at a party,
tid you want a party, look beatiful, living all for you.
I'm sagging it fool that fountain. It's champagne, all yours, babies,
It's what you always dreamed of, Tiger.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Oh, I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming. I'm dreaming.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Aga, Not this time, it's weel now, it's weird.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
But war what are you doing this for me?

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Because we love you?

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:43):
How we love you, We would even die for you, babies,
that this ing might even die for fu.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Our mystery drama, which is The Sabbath, was written especially
for the mysterrepared by Sam Dan and stars Larry Haynes
a kind of amused contempt for the superstitions of our ancestors.
We civilized people, we know everything, except perhaps that civilization
is only skin deep. For a highly reliable estimate of

(02:25):
the human condition, we refer you now to Francis Aloisious Oboiled,
whose knowledge of mankind was acquired during thirty five years
of faithful service behind a bar in a place like this,
Seger all kindness. We hear everything. The rich man has

(02:47):
his psychiatrist, the religious man has his priests, and a
drinking man as his publicans. All their words is a coincidence.
They will begin with peay. Here. I spent my whole
life thinking I was just a bartender. But this professor
comes in here one night. There's a smart where that

(03:08):
begins with a pee, and he calls me public and
that's the traditional English word for saloon keeper. I think
it sounds kind of dignified, don't you know. Well, anyway,
like I started to tell you, you get all kinds.
It's a pretty good evening. All the regulars are here,
and just about midnight, this guy comes through the door.

(03:31):
His clothes not too expensive, not too cheap, just middle,
you know what I mean. The only thing is he's
got a very scared look on his face. So I
say to him, well do you have? And he answers,
what do you got me? I got everything? Pal name it? Well?

(03:52):
I want to drink? Sure, what kind of drinks? Go? Please?

Speaker 3 (03:54):
I didn't come in here for an inquisition. I want
to drink just poor what you wanted to go?

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Right? So I reach for the nearest bottle and poured
my glass. He made a very very sour face as
he dragged it down. You could tell he didn't like it.
He hint for a guy who didn't like it. He
kept putting her away, so I said, uh, don't you
think you had enough? No, well, he still seemed perfectly sober.

(04:23):
It was just that he appeared to be more scared
than ever. Now. In my business, you make it a
rule never start up with a customer. But this guy
was so frightened that I thought I just had to
break that rule just this once, and I did. I
you you okay yo, Yeah, I'm frying wellas I'm asking.

(04:45):
You don't look too good. You know something you should
bind your own business? You know something? I think you're right? Well,
I forgot all about it him til about a quarter
to one, when I give everybody in the place the
usual I last call, last call for what. I don't
need a comedian and a joint this hour, and then

(05:06):
I it's a last call for what you think?

Speaker 3 (05:08):
But I'm not sure, you see, I don't frequent places
like this as a ruler.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Oh what are you doing tonight? Swimming? No? Please? I
I didn't mean at the time that way. They decide
you wanna grub shoulders with a peasants? No, no, I
are you know? You've been pouring down that juice? Well
usually go for well, you see, I'm a I'm not
really a drinker. That is out of fact or the
reason I.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
The reason I came in here is because I'm I'm
so upset. I'm so frightened, you see, And it's so
light in here, and it seems so safe.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Like I said, last call, if you wanna have another drink,
one more is all you can buy. But what do
you mean? I may one o'clock. I closed the joint
and go home. Cl close. Oh no, no, no, you
can't close. You can't. You can't do that. You have
to stay open as it is. I stay open sixteen
hours a day.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
It say not just tonight, Please stay open a little longer.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Now, Look, we gotta stay. Go, it says, lock the
giant one. But I don't wanna leave here. I I don't.
I'm afraid. I'm afraid to be out in the street.
They'll call a care if that won't help, call a cop. No,
you'll don't find me. They'll find me. Who's gonna find you? They? They,
they will. Well, that's what we're trying to establish. Who
is they? The witches? Oh, the witches? Ye are? I

(06:21):
see the witches. Every kind of guy who gets this
road on then he sees witches. No, no, no, I
saw him.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
I thought him even before I had my twist drink.
I actually I've been drinking to see if I could
get rid of 'em.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Oh that's a switch. Please please don't heal from me.
I wouldn't think of it. You don't believe me, Sure
I believe you don't. Don't tell me.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
The customer is always right either, you've got to listen
to what happened to me tonight.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
If you can tell up before one o'clock. You got
that ten mins right, Look.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
Everywhere, I'll tell you it's true. My m My name
is Erry Harness Baker. I'm a I'm a computer engineer.
I design computers.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Oh yeah, huh, said, tell me something. Why them computers
always keep filing up? Oh they don't, They don't, they can't.
It's it's the people who use'em. Yeah, now come, I
keep getting a bill. Forget about it. No, no, if
forget about it, these clowns want to take me to
court because I didn't pay him for a piano. I
never even bought it. I used it if I got
about it. Look.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
Look, the reason the reason I told you I was
a computer engineer.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Was to impress you that down impressed.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
With it with the fact that I'm a reasonable, saying
and practical man.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
If I'd known who you was, i'd drawn you out
at a joint hill. A man like like me.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
I should be the last person in the world to
be upset by my primitive superstition.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
So you must pay me out it. I want you better.
I'd take more than nine minutes.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Okay, you see, I uh, I had left my office
at the usual hour of five piano. I was walking
to the bus stop like I commute. See from Blairville.
We own a house there. It's a split level and
we w W we will people to buy it.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Very the house important to this story. I'm saying it
for your own good because all you got left is
eight and a half minutes. Is it important to the story?
I don't know. I listened to thousands of these stories.
Stick to the point.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
Okay, I left the office. I was walking to the
bus stop when.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
You already established the bus stop. Please, you only got
eight minutes. I stopped to wait for the light.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
To change, and and and suddenly I heard a voice say.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
Hi, your baby, you wanna have a little fun.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Oh, I see where this is gone.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
I know you know, you don't you don't believe me,
you don't well I uh I looked, and and there
at the curve with a brand new sports car.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
Important it was in Aricotta. Uh huh.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
And in it what two of the most beautiful women
I'd ever seen in my whole life that never happened
to me. One was blonde and one was brunette, and
each had creamy white skin and sparkling red lips, and
and the blond had sea green eyes. The brunette her
eyes for a flashing black You know the kind and

(09:09):
I know the kind?

Speaker 2 (09:11):
How would it build for all?

Speaker 3 (09:12):
Like the goddesses of ancient Greece, but much more slender?

Speaker 2 (09:15):
U uh as a promising star and I get to
the action. He had seven minutes. Okay, it was the
blonde who had asked if I wanted to have some fun.
I mean, you say no, You've done the right thing.
You could have gone along with him. And there been
a guy waiting with a gun, and he lifts your

(09:35):
bank robe. They don't murky, game. You done the right thing.
You always gotta think of that, you know.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
I I I was thinking of the fact that I
had taken a solemn valve to be faithful to my wife.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
I usually got a gool STARp for ey. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
But then the brunette said, come on, tied there, they're
getting to a party.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
What did you say, I, I said I I. I said, well,
come on, he got text me. I can not believe me.
You must believe me.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
There was a a confusion of signals between my brain
and my voice hey, uh yeah, yeah, now consider consider
the mind as a computer.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
You say that way one more time, and you'll be
bothered for this joy for a lot. But it's true.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
The answer that my brain said to my voice was no, thanks.
But the answer that came out.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Was what w was?

Speaker 3 (10:21):
Uh hey, yeah, hey, honey, what are we waiting for?
And before I knew it, I was in the sports
car and and and uh uh.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Uh well you other sly ones to eye? No, yeah, no,
where those words came from, I'll never know why I
said them. I'll never know. I didn't wanna get into
the car with those women. No, of course not, you know.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
And anyway, the brunette turned with the blonde and asked.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
Where'd he do?

Speaker 2 (10:44):
And the blonde winked at me and said.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
How about it? Baby?

Speaker 2 (10:49):
And he said, I said, I mean, I wanted to say,
please let me have it here. I'm a most happily
married man.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
I wanted to say that, but the words that came
out said, let's go girls.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Oh why ain't just helping my car? Don't jump off
cause I couldn't. I want your pile. I couldn't even
so look, you got four men and you hadn't even
got there a good part.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
Yes, well, we were going down Main Street and and
the blonde placed her arms.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
Around me and and she kissed me.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
Na, Now we're getting there, and I think, I, I'm
must have passed up.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
I was there being some kids.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
Oh yeah, yeah, it was that. There was fire in
it and ice and and champagne bubbles and and oh,
I I just don't know how to describe it.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Oh, you don't have to describe it.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
And then everything sort of disappeared, you see, or I
I mighta passed out.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
It was like that, huh. I.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
I don't know how long it lasted. But when I
when I woke.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
I was in a kind of a room and there
was a kind of music and there was a prior
of burning in the middle of the room. And I
thought that was kind of strange because the cause there
was no fireplace. And I I shout at far A
farre get.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
Excited, baby, nothing to be scared of that tiger.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
And they were there in the room.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
It's this crazy looking room with wild kind of pictures
on the walls.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
The blonde and the brunette, and.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Each was wearing a long robe. And I looked at
myself and I was wearing a long rope too.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
You were where am I? What's the meaning of this? Oh?

Speaker 1 (12:28):
We asked you to come to a party, baby. Oh yes,
indeed out Friday with my clothes.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
What what happened to my clothes? Oh?

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Oh, it's a formal party. Now you're dressed right? Party?

Speaker 2 (12:41):
What party are you talking about? It?

Speaker 1 (12:43):
The kind of party you've been dreaming about all your life?
Wild crazy, the most beautiful woman.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
In the world.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
And here we are with a fountain of hand Babe,
Look blady, there it is water.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
The fire? What did what did you do to the fire?
How did the fire turn into a faultin the fart
of campaigne? Well?

Speaker 1 (13:06):
Would you have it a water fire?

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Oh? Are you like you wanted to women?

Speaker 1 (13:11):
A champagne fountain?

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Who are you talking about? You?

Speaker 1 (13:15):
Perry harnessed begging a junior? Haven't you always dreamed about him?

Speaker 2 (13:19):
I have never told anyone beautiful.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
Women a champagne sound music?

Speaker 2 (13:24):
A wait?

Speaker 1 (13:25):
Waitness you're a king, tiger, a king. It's what you
always wanted? Baby?

Speaker 2 (13:34):
Oh no, it's not what I always wanted?

Speaker 1 (13:36):
Who are you kidding?

Speaker 2 (13:37):
You?

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Secret dreams? His Majesty, King Perry horney. Save got hail
his majesty, King Perry Hornish Figar. Hey, hey, King Harry
Hier your lawyers, that gets your wait here till that.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
Look look, please please tell me what this says? How
did I get here? Oh?

Speaker 1 (13:58):
We invited you to a party.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
This is a party that put the fire that turns
into a champagne feut in this, this table with the
most fantastic food, and the people. All these people, who
are they?

Speaker 1 (14:10):
Well, they're your loyal subject. You always wanted to be
a king, your secret desire. Everyone comes here tonight. Just
but why.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
My my wife? My wife is expecting me home. She'll worry.
What do you care? Do you wonder to worry? No,
that isn't true. That this is.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
You made him angry?

Speaker 2 (14:30):
He? Who is he?

Speaker 1 (14:31):
But don't do it again?

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Who did I make angry?

Speaker 1 (14:33):
The Prince?

Speaker 2 (14:34):
The prince? Who was he?

Speaker 1 (14:36):
The Prince of darkness?

Speaker 2 (14:38):
The prince of darkness? He stoke my name? Where does
he come from? Oh? Is this?

Speaker 1 (14:45):
This is the tiger plain You are the guest of
honor for the party.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
And he doesn't look like much to me? That's true,
a meek, little, watery blooded clerk. If you are mean
that's what he looks like.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
But he's a tiger inside, a lover, killer, useless, reckless
to be the guest of honor.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
Then let the party begin.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Let the body begin, the light.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
What's what's happening to the lights? That's getting dark in here?
Who shall speak the invocation?

Speaker 1 (15:19):
That's your baby, we say the prayer?

Speaker 2 (15:21):
Tiger? What what prayer? The Sabbath prayer? Let the Sabbath begin? Sabbath?

Speaker 1 (15:27):
I thought this was a party, Well it is, baby,
say the Sabbath prayer.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
What kind of sabbath?

Speaker 1 (15:32):
A witch is sabbath? O witches sabbath?

Speaker 2 (15:35):
The Sabbath? No witch is.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
A witches Sabbath.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Well, you must admit you don't get invited to one
of those every day. And the question you might be
asking yourself is, how did I rather prosaic perry harnish
figure get invited to this one in the first place? Well,
by this time you know perfectly well you don't get
any of the answers in the first act. Now is

(16:18):
the time for all good men to come to the
aid of the party.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
Two very pretty.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
Ladies, one a blonde and one a brunette, were driving
about in an expensive sports car looking for a gentleman
to escort them to a party, and gallant Perry Harnish
figure volunteered. Well. When he arrived, he discovered that the
party had a kind of indefinable religious tinge to it.

(16:46):
It was a sabbath of sorts, or, to be exact,
a witch's saventh, a witches sabbath. Oh, yes, these ladies
are witches. Witches. But witches are Salva's so grown? Why
I am the prince, These are my handmaidens. Why shouldn't
they be? Beautiful? Place? But where am i? What's happening

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to him? This is a religious assembly? I I wanna
go home? Why? Why?

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Well, answer the prince, baby, And to the paint of darkness?

Speaker 2 (17:16):
Why do you want to go home? You would hate
your home? No, no, no, that's not true.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
What oh we told you not to do that. You
mustn't lie to the paint of darkness.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
You hate your home, you hate your wine? All that is.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Don't stay true, You'll get him mad again. The last
tiger a lot, and let it happen.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Let look what happened?

Speaker 1 (17:41):
What you came here for? What you've been dreaming of?

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Oh? The bell once twice? Right?

Speaker 1 (17:50):
Say three babies?

Speaker 2 (17:52):
What what's for?

Speaker 1 (17:53):
It's a magic number? Say three, tiger, three.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
Three, weave a circle round.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
Him three time? Three times to.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
Now three times? You will do it three times? Do what?
He doesn't know? Why tell him? Tell him three times?
Kill kill kill kill kill. We do mean kill. You

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know what we mean? You'll kill your bow, your wife? Hellover, no, no, no, no,
Let me out of here? Do you want to stand?
Let me use go?

Speaker 1 (18:39):
What are you waiting for?

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Your love? Tagger? Well, why don't you leave? What? Not?
My clothes?

Speaker 3 (18:48):
I don't even know how I got into this robe?
But what did you do with my clothes?

Speaker 2 (18:51):
You're wearing them? What how did you do that?

Speaker 3 (18:57):
I can do anything times the Prince of darkness? But look,
look please, I'm I'm just a very quiet, ordinary type
of person.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
Still talk like that the baby. You know what happens
when you lie?

Speaker 2 (19:08):
You're a machine. You make computers and you become one yourself.
Your boss steals your ideas, your best friend steals your wife.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
Mm, they laugh at you. Three people laugh at you, Tiger,
your boss, your best friend, your wife.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Now kneel and pray with a Faubert, but mean pray
speak that same prayer? What same prayer. Why had it
was in your heart when you were walking to the
bus station. I was a praying a lie, but I wasn't.
Look look out there where.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
See baby, that's the street, that's you walking to the
bus station. Listen, Listen to what you're saying to yourself. Listen, tiger,
oh pure he thinking is that's you.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
I decided that they could suy alone work out every
production problem. It's mine. He's stole truth. He made really
not kill him. One day you'll killed in battle, You'll
tell ready.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
Now you see us in the calm, and we hear
what you're saying loud and clearly.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
It's a prayer. But I couldn't mean what I was saying.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
You didn't know.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
It wasn't even true. A man says a lot of
things he doesn't mean. A man means every word he says.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
But that's not why we picked you up. The streets
are filled with human beings who wanted to kill one,
but who wanted to kill three time.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
No, that's not true.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
And look at yourself walking down the street listening to yourself,
talking to yourself.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
I'm not blind, I'm not stupid, ideal. In fact, fact,
if he fatted into a computer, you get answered.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
What answers? Were you getting? Ready? Help? How did you
know what I was thinking? I know everything? Why do
you want to kill your wine? Because because I say, now,
what do you see now?

Speaker 3 (21:03):
My wife? I I see now she she must have
always had a roasing eyes. But why with with Joe?
Why with my best friends?

Speaker 1 (21:13):
Well you know why, Davie, because she was there Tiger,
and you weren't. The French they have a saying the
one who is absent is always in the wrong. Listen
to the French. They know all.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
About love, Smon, the demons, sven, the devils, the ghosts,
the specters, the phantasmagic spirits of murder and death, summon,
the incubisc of revenge, the evil genius of retribution. Come all, pray,
this is the witch's sabbath. Greet eat us to be

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death and the fires of hell.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
All I'm anew.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
To the unholy tree to go.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
Two, all three, Hold the bell three.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
Times and now any hornish failures? Do you shed the
blood tonight?

Speaker 3 (22:19):
Do you want to kill them?

Speaker 2 (22:22):
Your boss, your.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
Wife, her lover?

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Do you want to kill them? It's wrong, it's walse
not for the answers. Do you want to kill them?
Such your mind.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
That's your heart? You're sure?

Speaker 3 (22:37):
Do you want to kill them?

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Answer? Yes? Rejoice, my children, rejet.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
Now he is one of us.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
You will kill them, kill yes, tonight, this is the
knight of the Witch's sabbath. The service needs one thing
to be complete. Blood, my children, How wonderful are our prayers?
Tonight there will not be one victim but free. I

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can't kill. I don't how I shall keep I I
I don't have a nerve.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
I will steady your hand, I will harden your heart.
You will kill, and then you will be free, free,
free of the hate that poisons your mind.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
But I'll be a murderer. You will only murder those
who murdered you. Haven't you been cheated and disgraced? Your
life is empty, your world is dead.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
Oh you have to kill baby three times?

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Tiger, my son, I know the anguish of your soul before.
I have also been cast out. My rightful place is
now held by others. My patrimony has been stun And yeah,
here is the ribold No, no, no, non't would.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
You rather use a knye? The gun is cricker, Tiger?
Sure a better The gun is in your pocket.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
Now close your eyes.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
When you open them, you should be in a room,
the room where your boss sits in his palatial home,
the comfortable room there he counts his money, your money.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
We would kill it. Oh you must. It is a
ritual that must be performed on the holiest of all nuts. Now,
when I say open your eyes, you will be with
your boss. Open your eyes. Oh, I open my eyes,

(24:58):
and I was, Oh, in the den of his home,
my court, his home.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
He he was listening to that high five of his,
which must have constant small fortune, listening to that classical music.
She pretends to love. I say, pretends, because oh, he
loves his money.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
Hoorry, I didn't hear anyone announce you. Do you like motar?
Excellent recording it? Ah? But you done go into the
classical when he was he did? I remember? Uh? But
why did I send him for you? You didn't send
him for me? Now? But what are you doing here?
But dont I have the right to visit you? Perry?

(25:42):
I see enough of you all day, too much.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
Well, you won't see me anymore.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
Why are you quitting? No, No, but you are, You're
quitting this world. It's light? Oh? Really, I I can't
give her that much thought. Yeah, I know, but I have.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
I came here to kill you.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
You what ah? No? Not you not Perry on his
way with this? Erry, you're a comedian. Put that cat
pislow or you think I won't do it? Why should
you kill the goose that lays the gold mag Who
else would give you a job but me? I could
work anywhere on top man in my field. Sure, sure,

(26:23):
but you haven't had a new idea in five years.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
By that, you mean you haven't stolen one of my
ideas in five years?

Speaker 2 (26:30):
When did I ever steal one of your ideas?

Speaker 3 (26:32):
Our new a line computer that wasn't mine go ahead idea?

Speaker 2 (26:36):
You say it wasn't my circuit, but made it possible.
The truth is, Perry, your circuits made it impossible. It's
only half to wait. Throw them out alive. Come on, Perry,
haven't drink you'll feel better. Who else could you ever
work for? Who else would put up with your tantrum,
your delusions of grandeur? Sometimes I wonder why I do

(26:56):
it myself.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
You know why, because you're waiting to steal my next design.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
And that's why. Now, now, that's not why. It was
for your mother's safe. Or to mention my mother's name,
I guess I must have been in love with your
mother life. I don't mention her name. She was a
a bit a fatful woman. She was the most beautiful

(27:20):
woman I ever met your mother. I won't you very well?
What you do? Well? What has he done? He went

(27:40):
from that h witch's sabbath or whatever it was, straight
to his boss's home, and very quickly before we could
even get to know that gentleman, Perry shot him dead.
Now you're probably saying, is this really happening to Perry
or is it a dream? Well, it could be one,
it could be the other, or it could be both.

(28:02):
As usual, we need the third act, and I shall
bring it to you in just a very few moments. Perry,
harnessed figure is telling a story to a rather cynical
bartender in a saloon. Perry is almost milk toast in appearance, speech,

(28:26):
and manner. But that's on the outside. Inside he sees
and boils and seems to be a potential volcano. It's
the old story about books, covers and judgments. So before
you form yours, listen now what you tell me. He's
to dance, pitch you up to a kid to this

(28:47):
hotel room. I don't know. I don't know if it
was a hotel room. It was more more like a cavern.
And he had this dream of all this stuff like
the Devil's in which no, no, no, it wasn't a dream.
And once they fed. You want to have things like
poison mushrooms, this sumven it gives you the wild nightmare.
It wasn't a dream. You mean you actually killed your boys? No?

Speaker 3 (29:11):
No, no, I had a vision of killing my boss.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
No. Uh. The only reason I'm listening to this is
for those two dames, the blonde and a brunetque. What
happened with them? If they don't come back, then, as
far as I'm concerned, the story's over.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
I don't think they never let me, you see, they
they were with me all the time, even when I
had the vision of killing my boss.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah, so what happens are you?

Speaker 3 (29:36):
I stood there looking at this body on the floor,
I in this in this vision that I had, and
I was holding the revolver, and the blonde step forward
and removed the gun from my hair.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
I'll take that, baby, we have to reload it. The
Prince is very proud of you. The service can now continue.
Who brought us blood? Are you ready to go home?

Speaker 2 (29:59):
No? No, I don't wanna go home.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
I don't feel it's my home any longer.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
It's because she shuts you out of it. She's still
your home. A man's home is his castle. What right
does another man has to live in your castle?

Speaker 2 (30:12):
Tiger? What wrong?

Speaker 1 (30:13):
Get your home back?

Speaker 2 (30:15):
Kill them?

Speaker 1 (30:15):
But look at him now on the floor. The man
who robbed you of your standing as a scientist, the
man who used to be your boss. You killed him.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
So now for those who.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
Rob you of your standing as a man, kill them also.
The pistol is in your pocket when you speak the
word to.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
Him, Prince, close your eyes.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
When I say open your eyes, you will be in
your own home. At least it's the place you pay for.
But another man in joys When I say, open your eyes,
you will be home.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Kill them both. Open your eyes.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Kill Perry. I see you finally.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Got home, and I see you're here as usual, Joe usual.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
Come on off, Oh you do why dating alone?

Speaker 2 (31:06):
Said Joe. Why don't you get yourself a wife of
your own?

Speaker 1 (31:09):
Why don't you mind your business, Paris?

Speaker 3 (31:11):
But this is my business it's very much my business,
because very well be that Joe feels he doesn't need
a wife of the doll as long as he has mine.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
And just what is that supposed to me?

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Perry?

Speaker 1 (31:20):
I don't say anything, Joe. Don't even dignify that kind
of slander with a reply.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
Do you think I'm blind?

Speaker 1 (31:27):
Yes, you're also deaf in down?

Speaker 2 (31:29):
I know what's going on here? Well, then tell me
are you kidding? Look, Terry, you have to work late,
as the plan doesn't have to He was, Yes, that's right.
And the next time I design a new circuit, it's
worth a fortune. I won't say a word about it
out to walk out and sell it.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
When did you ever design it?

Speaker 2 (31:46):
Are you saying I did not design the A line computer? Harry?

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Please, you need help?

Speaker 3 (31:54):
Yes, I know, I said, I know I need help?

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Well you would you ever said that before?

Speaker 2 (32:05):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Hey, do don't you see that that has to battle
to pace yourself squarely to admit you need help? But
don't you agree to you?

Speaker 2 (32:12):
Yes, it's really true.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
We will find you the best.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
I don't need a pia that you need help. I
have the best help, the truest help actory, the only
real help. There is religion.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
Oh sure, why not? It's the they need help you.
It's well, it's the most wonderful things.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
Of the world. See, did you have a religious experience? Peria, Yes,
I'm I'm.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
I'm sorry for you and I you look so so peaceful.
What do you.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
Pray for death? Why did you say death? No?

Speaker 1 (32:55):
You you mustn't pay for your death.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
I'm not praying for my death. I'm praying for you.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
Wries and tears?

Speaker 1 (33:04):
What are you doing, Terry?

Speaker 3 (33:05):
That's a gun, A thirty eight caliber Valentine Porto Revolver
highly accurate weapon noun.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
Terry, don't do anything for Donald you. I intend to
do something smart, very smart. You don't want to kill me?
I do jo I do? Why you know why I don't?
For two of you?

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Erry, we never did anything.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
We never even thought of it. Go ahead tell me that.
I bet you never even thought of it. Well, Verry,
we now, jennything.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
We thought of it, but we decided we couldn't do it.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
And that's a lie. Were not made that way, Terry.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
We don't love me anymore and I don't believe in
divorceo oh, three of us will have to go on
being miserable forever.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
Oh no, no, not all three of us, not all
three of us.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
Two of us will be dead dead as far as
I know. If I'm not miserable, Perry, please stop think
and I won't be miserable, but you will care. Oh no,
I've been commanded to do they commanded. The only command
there is for a thing like this is thou shalt
not killed.

Speaker 3 (34:02):
That's not my command. Oh yet I can, because he
he has darkened my soul, he has hardened my heart,
he has steadied my hand.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
It was the love of heaven. They're not heaven. So
they were on the floor dead, my wife and her lover,
who had also been my best friend. I closed my

(34:36):
eyes for a moment, as if I couldn't believe what
had happened. And when I opened them.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
Again, oh, I was back back in that other place.
And he was there, the one who was called the
Prince of darkness. And they were there, the two who
called themselves witches.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
You this baby, you're a terrific tiger.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
You're my best loved child. Daddy. I want to go
home now. No, no, you have a place here.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
You have two eyes, he means me, Oh me too.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
Look at them, aren't debuty. No, please, you have a job, dude,
keeper of the flame.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
Hey, baby, that's the best job there is, you right,
The sires for the Wicked said.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
Now at the service continue Let me out of here, please,
please'm I'm frightened. I'm leaving. Did you hear that?

Speaker 3 (35:41):
I ran from that place and from the sound of
the laughter, that terrible laughter, and I ran ran through
the dark and deserted streets of the city. I didn't
stop running until until I saw a light. It was
safe here with the bright lights and the soft music
and the friendly faces.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
Here, I'm saying, So, what happened? You mean you killed
your wife and your friend in addition to your boy. No, no, no,
I didn't kill anybody. But the terrible thing is light.
I wanted to and it dominated my mind, which is
why they came after me. Don't you understand? All I

(36:18):
understand is I stayed open past one o'clock because I
thought you were gonna tell me about those two dames.
What happened to that? They're after me? Yeah, I'm one
of them, now, won't you see? They'll be after me
as long as I live, Okay, And I said, this
is this clouse and die, please, Please don't send me
up to the street. Please, they're looking for me. A
man and a white coach are looking for you. They

(36:39):
reach your mind, They they reach your heart. Two beautiful
dames in a sports car. Why don't I run and
do things like that?

Speaker 3 (36:46):
You will if you will, if it's evil in your mind,
if it's murder in your heart, they'll find you.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
I'll for crying out loud that I say. Guys in
white coach are looking for you. Two guys in blue
coats are looking for me on account of you. I
broke the law. I'm but lock offices. Uh, my watch
must have been wrong. I'm not serving you know you're
the boer Rdam. Jack, don't try anything. Look, there's nothing
going on here. Apple. Jackie's the killer.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
He's a hand over the gout mister, easy, I did.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
I've got him. Jack. Your name is Perry Harney Stager. Yes,
it's your gun. It's thirty eight caliber Valentine Borter. Yes,
and wait a second, I'm not dreaming. This is for real.
You mean he killed somebody?

Speaker 3 (37:28):
Three people on Holy three.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Let's go opposite. Wait, but let me tell you why
I did it. Mister. You better tell that to a
judge and a jury. So, like I was saying, standing
here behind a bar, he did all kinds any of
the stories I hear Anyhow. The reason I bring it

(37:51):
up is because I was reading the paper to day
and you might have seen on a late news on
a TV Perry Harness fig who was found guilty of murder,
triple murder, his boy, his wife, his best friend. Yeah,
he's gonna spend the rest of his life in jail.
Why is that? Oh the Witch's seventh? I said, no,

(38:15):
how could I think like that? Be with yet? I
mean good, here is the twentieth century in it. Hey,
where'd the time go? It's a quarter to one. Excuse me, friend,
that couple of days just walked in down the other
end of the bar. Hey's not bad looking, hunh. And
I'll be right bank. Well maybe he got time for
one more before courses.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
Well he'll be Hi, your baby, I let a tiger.
You wanna have a little fun.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
I'm a married man.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
That's why they act. Why don't you close the place
and we'll take you to a body.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Oh well, I uh look guy, Uh, I told you
he got I'm a married man. Yes, we know.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
Uh, that's what you have to say, baby, But what
do you want to say.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
Tiger Ah? I want to say, Oh, what are we
waiting for? Well? What are you waiting for? More? The
story's over, isn't it? Or is it? Isn't This a

(39:24):
story that has been going since the beginning of the
human race, the longest continued story in the world.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
And if you think about it, between all our characters,
we have seen.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Practically every one of the ten commandments violated. When we
tell you a story about wrongdoing, we present wrongdoer's wholesale.
I'll be back shortly. The wish is father to the thought?
Who said that? Shakespeare? Who else to which we may
add the thought is father to the deed or a

(40:00):
you think about doing something, it's because you really want
to do it, no matter how strange or violent it
may be. And if you think long enough and strong enough,
who knows, you may wind up as a guest of
honor at a witch's sabbath. Of course, you can prevent
that by listening to mystery theater and leave all thoughts

(40:21):
of violence here with us. After all, we do it
so much better and neater, and you pay nothing. In
the end, our cast included Larry Haynes, Leon, Jenny Marion Haley,
E V. Justter and Robert Dryden. The entire production was
under the direction of Hyman Brown. This is EG Marshall

(40:42):
inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for another
adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dream, Bye

(41:17):
bye
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