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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are drastically older, and two people become losty Well,
you're here. They'll all come out as we go along.
Norma and Hell, he's Harold Glenford third, have inherited an
ancient brownstone on New York's East fifty eighth Street. Hell
hasn't seen the house or the uncles will let you
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to him since he was a little boy. He doesn't
know what to expect any more than Norma does. As
they inspect the old house now for the first time
since it became their own. Yeah, you need a machete
to get through these cobwebs.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Oh, nobody's lived here in ten or fifteen years, she said,
But it's going to be beautiful. A little doubt tightening, maybe,
but we can make it.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I don't advise tightening your belt, No kidding, Norma. The
babies do in April. You're going to have to stop
working pretty soon. It's not going to be easy on
my salary alone.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Oh nobody said it was going to be easy.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And there are the ghosts. Of course. Cut it out
well now, According to Uncle George, that's the reason nobody's
been living here. The ghosts drove Uncle George himself out
that's what he said, and he couldn't keep the place record,
so he just gave up.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Okay, how sexist needs a ghost.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Our mystery drama, The Fatal Connection, was written especially for
the mystery theater by Field and Farrington.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
And stars Jennifer Harmon and Nick Pryor.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
It is sponsored in part by True Value Hardware Stories.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
I'll be that shortly with that one.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Many scientists and philosophers see time as a road along
which we passed, or a river along which we drift,
the future waiting for us just around the bend ahead,
the past obscured but not obliterated by the turn we
just made. The rest of us ordinary mortals that we
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are find the moment in which we are currently trapped
just about all we can handle. Norma and Hal Glenford
had moved into their old house on East fifty eighth Street.
The furniture from the former three room apartment only half
fills the first floor. The second floor and the epic
like third floor will have to wait.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Except how we'll have to have a nursery, you know,
a baby's.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Bedroom where we stand there the living proof.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Of it, and there's no place for it on the
first floor. So we'll have to find a place on
the second floor.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Right logical.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Then our bedroom will have to be on the second
floor too, don't you see I mean we have to
sleep on the same floor as a baby.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
You're right, I hadn't thought of it before.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
The back room on this floor makes a very small bedroom. Anyway,
we could use it as a sort of I don't know,
music room or study or whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Do you make it sound very prosperous. We will be.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Lawyers are always rich when they get a little older.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I like the sound of that. Norman doesn't make any sense,
but I find this impensity of it comforting.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
So should we go upstairs and see what stairs for
a bedroom in a nursery?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Okay, I'll go first and clear away the conebs.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I will carpet to stairway later, of course.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
When we're rich. That's an old bedroom, as I recall,
one of the doors is a linen closet. There are
five doors, so that leaves just three rooms.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
One more than we need. Well, this would be all
right for our bedroom. It's much nicer than the little
room downstairs, don't you think.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Okay, bedroom here and that takes care of us. Now
about JR. Hey, this door is.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Locked, we'll just stop.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Probably, No, it's locked. Why would anybody lock an inside door?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
That's odd?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Where did I put that bunch of keys the lawyer gave.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Us in your jacket pocket? Gummy? You think maybe there's
a treasure hidden in that.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Room or ghosts. It's been locked for a while. It's
all furnished, son of a gun, right out of the
nineteenth century. It looks like what used to be an
upstairs sitting room or something of the kind.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Oh, how just look at that secretary. You must be
one hundred years old, and it looks just as solid.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Oh my gosh, a telephone, one of those.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Old wall phones. I've seen pictures of them. I shouldn't
have a crank. Oh. I'd like to finish the whole
house just like this, you know, everything to match the
house itself. I wouldn't change a thing here.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Well, I could live without the cobwebs in the dust.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah, I'll speak to the upstairs Nate about it. Good
health is so hard to come by lately, my dear.
How do you notice?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Oh I have? Indeed, it's the.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Chance I'm afraid of Everything seems to be going to
part Darling. What you been needed. The butcher today wanted
eighteen cents a pounds for steak. Just pan, Oh these
steak eighteen cents a.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Pounds, Well you might as well eat it.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Tell monocles, if it costs that kind of money to
cut it all, let's show this.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Evening, Well, why.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Not, I'll order a hat. Excuse me, my dear operator,
I'd like a handsome cab, said to six to one
East fifty eighth Street at once. At once, I understand
we'll be going to do monocoles. Let's go back downstairs
for the twentieth century is and see if there are
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any hot dogs in the refrigerator.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Actually, though, I guess eighteen cents was hard to come by,
and those day is two dollars if today.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, not for all Grandpa Glenford. It wasn't great Grandpa,
that would be he was filthy rich.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
Was he the one who built his house?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
No, I don't know that he built it. He was
the first Glenford to own it.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Whatever happened to all that morning, gave it away, gave
it away, That's what my father told me.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Maybe it was just a figure of speech.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
You know what we ought to have, We ought to
have a bottle of champagne to break over the bow
of the house, or the stern.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Or whatever they break it. His house has had them.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
No. Now, if you look in the refrigerator just to
the right of the meat drawing, you'll find a quart
of excellent domestic champagne cooling to be taken internally, though
not broken over anything.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Oh what a doll you are. Shall we have it now?
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Well?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I thought after dinner, But if you'd rather, What was that?
It sounded like somebody at the door.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Well, what's the matter with the door? Now?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I don't know. Maybe it's broken somebody likes then you
better I'll see who it is. Yes, what can I
do for it? Your handsome cabs or Delmonico's. I believe
it was a joke of some kind, Norma who pleased?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
If it was a choke, we who knew you made
that nutty pretend phone call upstairs. I don't see how
it could be a choke.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Well, then the coincidence there are handsome cabs still operating
over at Central Park.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Oh sure, and one of them just happened to drive
all the way across town as long as it was
in the neighborhood. The driver just started knock at our
door and tell us our cab was here to take
us to Delmonicode.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Oh come on, how okay you explained it?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I can't, that's what's bothering me.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Well, you don't think no, you you surely don't think no.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
No, of course I don't.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
What did the driver say when you send him away?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Well, something about it was a funny mistake for the
office to make if I didn't order a handsome he
was grumpy about losing a fair Did he look like.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
A real handsome cab driver? I mean, did he look
like somebody who's seen driving a handsOn around the park today?
Or was he, well, you know, dressed like the real
old timey one.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I didn't really notice. Look, now, why don't we just
forget him? Why don't we just have dinner and see
what's on TV and drink our champagne and go to bed.
I've got to go to work in the morning, even
if I do live in a mansion, especially since I do.
Speaker 7 (08:45):
He is too great grandfather glenses.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Look, take it easy with that stuff, will you, and
the bottles have gone already. You're a novice at this, remember,
And he used.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
To handsome cab drivers everywhere.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Maybe know what we ought to do?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
There is any more champagne if that's what you mean.
I only bought one bottle.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
No, No, what we ought to do is something about
that soul upstair.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Like have it taken out?
Speaker 7 (09:08):
I ordered something, a new dress, something like that.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I mean, if they send over chaps when you order.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Them, why not. You'd better let me finish this.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Bottle, bring it upstairs.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Come on, four years. It's taken me to find out
I married a lush.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
There it is our fairy godmother, compliments of the telephone company.
You want to go for it?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
No, you go ahead. I'm just along for the ride.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
What shall I ask for?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Well, look, I don't fool around with one dress. Ask
for a whole new wardrobe. As long as you're going
to be a kookie, you might as well be cookie
in the grand manner.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
You're a genius. Hello, I want a whole new wardrobe.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Oh no, no, two wardrobes.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
One for myself and one for my husband, everything in
the latest style, and everything must fit perfectly, and have
everything finished and delivered by the time I get home
from work tomorrow afternoon. That's I guess it's for now.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
You want to order something?
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Ow for sure?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Why not here? Give me that? Hello. I want the
house completely rejecorated, completely restored. I should say, exactly as
it was when the place was new, and I don't
mean just when you get around it. I want that
finished by tomorrow afternoon. Also by the end of the
working day.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Thank you, it's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Let's finish this bubble of water and get to bed. Hey,
where do you bet to have a headache in the morning?
You would have.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Lost that dead. No headache. All I want is a
cup of coffee though, me too.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
That's all we have time for anyway, pick me up
after work this afternoon. Sure, I maybe a little light thought.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
That's okay. A secretary's work is never done.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
So after I spend the better part of three weeks
working on this brief, and it's really ended, I do
say so myself. Who do you think is going to
take it into court? Mister Fuller, old jac and who else?
How is your day?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (11:25):
You know, once you tried one letter, you tried them all?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
You know something? We ought to walk home from my office?
Speaker 7 (11:32):
Head easy?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Oh, my brief is while I unlocked the door, what.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Are you.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I wonder if they finished, Who finished work?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Who decorated?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
You know you told them and how to be finished
by the end of the work.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
How yeh this is? This is too much? I mean,
what kind of a joke?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
He is house? Just then we decorated? Who restored just
like you?
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Old?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Oh harl Hey, where's the near television set? Now? That
is going too far? That that set costs calor TV.
That was a twenty one inch screen.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
How are they doing? Hold it? I mean, I can't
think it? How what so afrigerator's gone? Look at this thing?
What is it?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
It's an old ice box, which it's full of ice.
I don't think you can get ice like this anymore.
That there's something that this.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
Is all wrong?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Rman, It's not a joke, is it?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
How nobody makes this kind of a joke.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
A cold range an old coal range. My grandmother Scott
had one of those down in their summer kitchen. Nobody
used the things even then.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
A toast to the blender, everything, How it's all gone?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
That telephone, that damn telephone.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
For three, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
It really is real. You tell the telephone you want
something and you get it. It's like a like a
genie in a bottle. You just order it in it.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
I think I'm scared, all right, all right, if it
will work one way, it ought to work the other
two in reverse. What are you going to do? Come on,
I'm going up there and I'm going to tell that
lousy telephone to put our own self back in this
house and then leave us alone. That's what I'm going
to do. Well, listen to you, whoever you are. I
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want you to stop them. Please, Oh my god, how Norma, Norma,
let's get out of this place a telephone, redecorate and
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completely restore a nineteenth century house, and all in the
course of an our day. It seems impossible, doesn't it.
And yet there it is, and somebody did it for something.
We'll look into it further. When I returned shortly with
that two time. One of the many things we still
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don't understand about our universe. Now here in an old
house on New York east Side, Hall and Norma Glenford
have found an antiquated telephone. It seems to constitute some
kind of flaw in what we consider the natural passage
of time, at least in the incredibly short objective space
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of eight hours. The house has somehow become its original
nineteenth century self, the past. If Hell and Norma can
believe what they see and hear, has been trapped within
its walls.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
The eeriness of.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
It has sent the two of them frightened out on
to fifty eighth Street.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
It's so quiet out here, it's so dark.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
I don't remember seeing this dark before.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Well, we haven't been around this neighborhood much at night.
I guess east of First Avenue. The city just doesn't
waste money on bright lights.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Let's walk up that way out. I just, you know,
I don't want to go back into the house.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Okay, up toward Third Avenue or lets you know, I
don't think I ever heard New York this quiet before,
east side, west side, day or night. It's it's like
a tomb.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
How how do you hear it?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
I don't hear anything.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Just now do you hear it?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Well? Yeah, I hear something like a it's like a
It sounds to.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Me like an ail train.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
It's feed blocks away, like the Third Avenue.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Which was torn down when fifty years ago.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
We'll listen to it.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Hey this, I've got to see the house.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
It's the old three Avenue l And that means that
everything you listen.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
We don't know what it means. Some nostalgia freequ a recording,
probably something like that. Come on, let's go see now.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
If that isn't an L stopping, I've never heard an
L stopping.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
But you're having in a long time, but I've.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Heard plenty of them when I was a kid.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Wait a minute, lem, what are you here now? A horse?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Don't tell me that's not a horse.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
That's your service, like one mounted cop most likely, or
maybe that same nostalgia.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Ba especial recording. And it's some recording.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
I've never heard a record.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Wait wait, wait, wait, wait wait wait, That horse is
no recording. It's it's either a mounted policeman or.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
There's your nostalgia bus all four hoofs.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Well some comfort. These must still use horses, you know,
you know late at night, it's not that late anyway.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Look what's a new wagon?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I see them? Those big milk cans they used to well, look,
I don't know, maybe they.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Still use them.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I'm scared.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Well it's I admit that so still in no traffic
except that that horse and wagon well look normal. There's
got to be a logical explanation. I mean, if there's
not what's happened? Have we lost our minds?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
No?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
No, no, no, no, no, normal, don't get upset now,
that's not.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
What I mean.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
Look up, fair, up, work.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Have the light, the sheet light in the corner. It
looks like a it's a jas light, that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I think maybe we ought to get back to the
house and and see if we can't get organized.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
It's back there too, Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
But if everything, if everything's going back to the nineteenth
century or something, let's at least go back. I can
face it in our own home.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
If we still have a home.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
The key seems to turn easier.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
What if there's somebody in there? I mean, we didn't
live here, And.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
What do you think it is?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
How it's Oh lord, I'm so mixed up. How can
it be anything but nineteen seventy four. That's what it is,
or was or will be. No, we've got to stop
this foolishness. The first thing we need is some dinner.
Maybe with some good solid food inside us, we can
take a more reasonable view of this mess.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I don't know how to cook on a cold range.
I don't even know how to make it burn. Do
you well? We were lucky do with some stuff Andy,
I thought for already cooked. I wonder who cooked it?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Maybe my grandmother.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
What do you suppose happened to them? Your great grandmother
and grandfather. Are they supposed to be living here? How
are they going to come walking in?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Listen?
Speaker 6 (19:08):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
It's the phone upstairs out?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
You mean the one that.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Oh lord, let it ring, house, just let it ring.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
I can't if it's somebody from whatever year this is,
I've got to talk to it, Norma.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I've got to all right, but I'm going with you.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
I put carpet on the stairway, or I had it
on the.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Stairway, whichever.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Hurry up by, I don't want whoever it is to
hang up before we get there.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
It's actually a new house, now, isn't it. You don't
see the signs of age anymore. It doesn't look like
a thousand cons of paint on everything.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Hello, let's just be Harold. Where have you been all day? Well?
Speaker 5 (19:51):
I practically camp outside your office all afternoon and you never.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Didn't show up.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Who did you say? This is?
Speaker 7 (19:59):
Are you all right?
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Ha?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
It's Bill Bill Boyd, your partner.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Oh yes, yes, of course, I was Will gathering.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
I guess you were. Listen.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I've got to talk to you bright and early tomorrow morning.
You're in a jam, Harold, a jam? Well, can't you
tell me about it? Now?
Speaker 5 (20:17):
You better get in here tomorrow for your own good.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
It's nothing to do with me, but for your own good.
Oh well, if it's that important, it is, it's to you, Harold,
not to me. To you, all right, Thanks for calling Bill.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
What was that about a jam?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
He didn't say. But you want to know something weird.
He thought he was talking to my great grandfather. That
man called me Harold, and that was his name. I
can't remember anybody ever calling me Harold my whole life.
He thought he was talking to my great grandfather. I
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can't see how did they read by these silly gas lights? Anyway,
there's an oil.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Lamp right there on the desk. I simply used oil
lamps to read by at night. The gas pictures are
all up on the wall.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Well, do you know how to light one of these
things amid the lamps?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
We'll just take the chimney off of the last room.
Then you hold a match to the wick like a candle.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Because if this is my great grandfather's desk, I mean
the way he left it only yesterday. I want to
know what's in it. Is this what you mean by
the wick?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Yes, I think we'll ever get back out. I don't
know if I could stand it stuck here forever.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
There's no way of knowing, Norma. Everything's written in long hand.
This looks like a deed of some kind, most likely
for the house. No, my gosh, this is a deed
to an office building on Fifth Avenue Way downtown. But
that's where the action was in those days. These days, your.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Great grandfather only office building.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
I told you he was loaded. There goes that lousy
telephone again.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Don't answer it.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Hell, but you can come with me. It's no good
just letting it ring. It's gonna be somebody important. There
weren't many phones in those days. These days, damn it.
Only rich people could afford telephones.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
You just mix things up all the law. They'll answering you.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Look, it's our only contact. The way things are.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
I wish, I wish.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Oh, it's no good wishing.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Hello.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Hello, Yes, this is.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Norma. In just just just a minute, I'll see Norma.
Do you know a Maud Spencer.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
I don't know anybody here.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
She asked for Norma. Norma, maybe it's a link of
some kind. You better talk to her.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Oh well, I don't want to talk on that scene.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Look, this could be the breakthrough here, talk to her.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Hello, Norma, my dear, we were all expecting you. It's
Sarah older just pay this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
But you hope you're not sick?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Sarah who Oldridge, Sarah Ordbridge.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Well you were invited, weren't you, Sarah Si you were?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Oh, well, yes, I guess I was. I knew, yes,
of course I was. Well, I've been having these spells,
you know, headaches and that kind of change. Dear, No
trouble about your delicate condition. I hope will it's related.
I guess nothing to be concerned about. I'm just supposed
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to get a lot of rest, you know, stay at
home and take it easy.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
Oh dear, is there anything I can do.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I'll come and see you tomorrow afternoon. No, no, don't
do that. What I mean, Oh I'm sorry. I didn't
mean it the way it sounded. All I meant was
I'm perfectly all right. I really don't need a fascinat
over me or anything like that. It just isn't necessary,
that's all I meant.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Wow, I'm sure I have no wish to intrude where I'm.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Not look necessary.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I wish you wouldn't hello Hello, she hung up.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
It wasn't anyone, you know.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Oh, I was.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Supposed to have gone to set up somebody's tea this
afternoon and didn't show up.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Well, it could have been the breakthrough one thing.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Whoever was supposed to have answered this phone is called Norma,
and she's pregnant.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I'll tell you this. My great grandfather was not a
very popular man. Well like the anity friends, they sure
didn't write through them. These letters are all from people
who hated his guts, claim he stolen blind sto.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Do you think it's true?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I'm beginning to believe that old Harold Glenford Esquire was
mixed up in some pretty shady enterprises. What kind of
shady kickbacks, near extortion, character assassination, embezzlement or something very
like it. If a third of these letters are right,
you name it. An old great granddaddy Glenford was into
its shocking Listen, you want to hear one?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I'm not sure I do, Glenford.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
This guy signs himself James Blakely Glenford you are unfit
to breathe God pure air. The ways of God are
beyond understanding. But justice is inevitable, either in this world,
which you defoul, or in the next, where never fear
the punishment you deserve has been prepared for you. To
hasten you into that world would be an act of
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the highest nobility. If I do not do the deed,
myself rest assured that another bill in good time. Wow,
a sample, only a sample?
Speaker 6 (26:05):
How well, what is it?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Look at this?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
It's a this. This is a picture of you and me.
That's sure is what it looks like. But in those
clothes wall.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Where did you get this in this death store?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Now come a back mister and missus Harold W. Glenford
on the occasion of their wedding June eighteenth, eighteen ninety four.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
And look at those signatures except for a couple of
currently cues Vid yours a miner. I can't help it,
how I'm scared.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I don't see how it's possible, but it must be.
I have somehow become my own great grandfather. Not only that,
but you're you're my great grandmother. And that child you're
carrying you to be born next April is my grandfather paradoxicone? Well, yeah,
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the course you presuppose paradox the moment you start moving
about in time, how do you know you aren't your
own great grandfather or grandmother?
Speaker 3 (27:26):
If tomorrow you found.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
An old telephone and your attic, well, how do you know?
I'll return shortly with a three? If I had my
life to live over, that's not an uncommon expression, We've
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all heard it. But have you ever heard anyone say
if I had my great grandfather's life to live over?
That's exactly what has happened to hald Glenford. If his
conclusions are correct.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
He has not only gone back in time to his great.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Grandfather's day, but he has also taken on his great
grandfather's identity and the wife he loves is now as
he must believe his own great grandmother, a situation of
many complexities. Hell has broken open the strong box he
found in old Herold Glenford's desk and has gone quickly
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through its contents. Well, there's one comfort. If we actually
are my great grandfather and grandmother, we're very rich people.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
What difference does that mean?
Speaker 5 (28:40):
A lot?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
If we're stuck in this time?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
I want out rich or not.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Oh honey, so do I of course. But there are
securities and deeds in this strong box representing well over
one million dollars in assets, and a million dollars was
really worth something in eighteen ninety seven?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
When it is now mid November nine according to the
dates on those letters I read?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
How can't you do something about what?
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Invent a time machine? Look, I don't know. Maybe it'll
just happen like the other time, only in reverse. No, No,
I'm sorry. That's the best I have to offer, meanhim.
I think we ought to get some sleep.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Sleep in the middle of a thing like this, sleep.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Try to anyway. I wish we had that bottle of
champagne we drank last night. Oh lord, it wasn't last night.
The grapes that went into that champagne haven't even been
planted yet. Hello there, I'm sorry. I didn't realize you
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had someone in your office with your'm I was just leaving,
said down, Harold. You were wise to shave off your
beard by Oh yes, well, my wife never really liked it,
and I thought I had served you well. Blakely didn't
recognize you, was that? James Blakely? What are you talking
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about you know perfectly well it was James Blakey. I
don't know. I mean I had a letter from him yesterday.
I could have you know, I could have him in
court for some of the things he said. Let's get
that's rather funny, you know, you having James Blakeley in
court instead of the other way around. That's really very funny.
I don't think I know what you mean. Now, I
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seem to hear in her there I want to dissolve
our partnership, Harold as of this moment. Oh, do you
mind telling me? Why do you really think that's necessary?
I wish should tell me? All right, all right, i'd
had my feel of being a thief's associate. Now wait,
I took my share in the beginning. You're not the
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only fool in the room. But I'm true with it now,
and thank god I had no part of the Blakely thing.
All right. I was checking things over last night. I'm
thinking things over. Some of my business tactics have been
all right, shameful, I admit that. But I decided last
night to change things. I mean, no shady dealings of
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any kind. From now on, I see change things and
make restitution. Well where it's reasonable where it's possible without
costing you money. You mean, I don't believe you, Harold,
not for a minute. I don't. How are you going
to make restitution to Jim Blakeley?
Speaker 6 (31:31):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Would you mind refreshing my memory on the Blakelee thing, Paul, now? Really, no,
I've been lately lately, I've been reassessing. I've been reevaluating,
and there are just so many details. I'd just like
to hear the Blakely affair clearly stated objectively. You know,
Oh nonsense, Well, all right, if you want to hear
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it all over again, if you really want to wallow
in that miserable can of worms a second time, Bill,
it would help me. Blakeley came to you in the
first place looking for a handoff on the tape, gretit.
I'm sure you haven't forgotten that. No, you were still
under thirty at the time, but you were already under
under my guidance.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Dammit, that's what I hate.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
You were already a power in the construction industry.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Blakeley was sure you gave.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Kickbacks, and he wanted one. Then he was as much
to blame as I if he came to me at
the time. You managed it so that you had his
signature on a dozen damaging documents, and you never signed
so much as a letter to him. You remember that, Well,
you've always worked that way, and you gave him a
little bit on that job, and good value too.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
The State Parks commission.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Building wasn't I don't remember, and Blakely got a promotion
because of it, and another and another until he was
made State Highways and Buildings Commissioner. It wasn't until then
that you started blackmailing blackmail. Well, it's not an uncommon practice,
and you bled him white. No more kickbacks. But every
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contract out of Blakeley's office has gone to you for
what's it been two years?
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Now?
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Well, if I put him where he is in the
first place, they have caught him.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Harrold.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
He's going before a grand during next week in Dalen Night.
He's finished. There isn't a shred of evidence against you
except his word, which of course isn't worth a tinker's damn. Now,
you never signed the thing, did you? A man who
signed damning documents, there's nothing more than a fool like Blakelee.
Well does that refresh your memory? It puts things in perspective. Now,
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as I've told you, I'm very happy that I had
anything to do with the Blakeney business. Right now he's
thinking about killing you. No, seriously, that was just what
he was telling me. Oh God, what's the matter? Nothing,
I just remember it something. I'll have to leave now.
There's something I must do. But before you go about
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dissolving the partnership, I don't know how you feel about
it by anything you say. Anything you say, it doesn't matter.
We'll do it any way you like. It is important. Now.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Oh, I'm so glad you're home.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Listen. We have to get out of here.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
So being the place you're so terrified, I'm being even
more terrified of leaving you.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
I've never in my life, Norma, Norma, we have got
to get out of here. Oh here, I mean all together,
out of this time. We've got to get back to
the twentieth century.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
How something's happened, hasn't it.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
No, yes, Norma, there's no time. Now let's try the
telephone again.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
I want to know tell me how tell me.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Listen, I want you to get off the line. Do
you understand I want you to just unplug yourself or
whatever it is you do and just get off the line,
just for a minute or two. Will you do that? Please? Never? Oh,
for god sake, shut up. If you can't get off
the line all together, at least shut up. Don't talk.
All right, listen, you, whoever you are. We have had
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enough of this nonsense. We want to go back to
the twentieth century, and we want to go back now.
You're the one who got us into this mess. Now
get us out of it, do you hear me, Jumber?
Speaker 7 (35:20):
Yeah, pulling the wires.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Out of the wall. Can't you see I'm trying to
to ile't telephone fact the way.
Speaker 6 (35:28):
It was when they first moved in here?
Speaker 1 (35:31):
All right? Can you hear me? You in there and
your damn stupid telephone. I want you to put us back.
Do you hear me?
Speaker 6 (35:41):
We didn't ask to be brought here.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
We're not responsible for anything that happened before we got here.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
We want to go back.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
You can't punish me for something my great grandfather did.
Speaker 7 (35:51):
Do you hear me?
Speaker 1 (35:53):
All right, don't answer, you don't have to answer, Just
do it. I don't know what else I can do.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
How the phone isn't hooked up? He pulled the wires
out of the wall.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
It wasn't hooked up before when all this started. Maybe
it'll work, Maybe it'll get us out of here before.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Before what house?
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Okay, come on downstairs. I guess you'll have to know.
And he sent me to kill me? Blakely is that's
what my great grandfather's esteemed partner told me this morning.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Then what are we sitting here for? We have to
get out of this house.
Speaker 6 (36:33):
It won't do any good noise.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
There must be a thousand places to hide. You're just
sitting duck here.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
No, there's no hiding place but the twentieth century, back
where we're really hal and Norm mcglenford, there's no hiding
place at all in this century.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
I just don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
The thing is, I remember now, I remembered while I
was sitting there in boys often remember what I remembered
hearing my grandfather. Was he my grandfather or my son?
I remember when I was just a little boy, hearing
my grandfather telling my father about it?
Speaker 2 (37:10):
About what else?
Speaker 1 (37:11):
My great grandfather was shot to death by a business associate,
by a man he cheated, ruined. That's what my grandfather
told my father.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
All right, all right, that was your great grandfather.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
But it's already happened to whichever one of us was here.
Speaker 7 (37:29):
It's already happened.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
It can't be changed.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
I don't believe any of that. I don't I want
you to do.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
I've done. All I can do is up to that
telephone upstairs.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Maybe if we should sit here and think twentieth century,
it'll work. Close our eyes and just know we're in
the twentieth century. Listen for auto horns, think about the
Padam building. Try to decide what we'll watch on TV later.
Breathe a polluted air. Mightn't it work out?
Speaker 1 (38:06):
It couldn't hurt.
Speaker 6 (38:08):
Close your eyes, that'll be blakely.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
Don't answer it.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Do you think I'm crazy? Don't listen to me. If
he's got a gun, he can get at us through
the front window. I want you to head for the
coke closet as fast as you can and get in
there and stay in there until I tell you to
come out. Have you got that?
Speaker 6 (38:29):
Yes, Norma, get in the closet.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
No, not as long as just shut down. Norma gets
down on the house. How don't move, Norma. He may
just tell me out.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
There, how you you mouting?
Speaker 8 (38:48):
I am I don't see anything, but I can't see
you Alluvia's shirt.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
I'm going to call an ambulance. No, don't move, I'll.
Speaker 7 (38:57):
Be right back.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Don't move.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Care can't call Annis, but I told him wise, Remember,
I'll go out.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
How I'm gonna see a car or something.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
I'm going on. He's it wouldn't do any good. It's
already happened. Chances I might not be here when you
get back.
Speaker 8 (39:23):
I want I want to tell you something important, all right?
The kid next April, I don't call him.
Speaker 6 (39:36):
A house, no.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Anything with that anyway. His name was Edward, my grandfather.
Speaker 7 (39:48):
How do you think I don't know?
Speaker 1 (39:50):
No, tell Edward.
Speaker 8 (39:53):
Tell him when he's old enough and his dad tell him.
Get rid of money, Ohry Bilton, Surry Bundy.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Justice must be served. That goes without saying.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
But how many times? It's unlikely, of course, that anyone
listening to me at this moment will ever find himself
unexpectedly living in the nineteenth century.
Speaker 6 (40:34):
But just in case, how much.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
You really know about your great grandfather. I'll be with
you again in a few minutes. Young Edward Blenford normous
baby was born in April eighteen ninety eight. And lived
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alone and in some respects fruitful life.
Speaker 6 (41:05):
He never made much money, but he gave away several.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Millions of dollars according to the instructions left.
Speaker 5 (41:12):
By his father.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
But was it his father.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Or his grandson who gave him those instructions. I leave
you to puzzle it out for yourself. Our cast included
Jennifer Harmon, Nick Pryor, Robert Maxwell, and Joan Shay.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
The entire production was under the direction of Hymon.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Brown said a preview of our next tale, you know,
that's exactly what I've come to talk with you about,
either your niece, Oh, something important, Velly.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
I'd asked Amelia to marry me and she said she would.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Oh no, I'd never lie to you, Arthur. And there's
certainly no reason for you that it.
Speaker 6 (41:56):
Don't be a fool, Gerald, I didn't mean that the
media it turns you down.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
Of course, she accepted you.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
I know, and I'm reluctantly.
Speaker 6 (42:07):
Forced to explain when you hear.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
Why you won't want to marry Amlia.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
Impossible. There's nothing you can say about Amlia that would
make me love her any less. She's the perfect woman.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
She's not a woman what did you say? I said,
Amlia is not a woman, She's a robot.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
This is a G.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams
Speaker 2 (43:06):
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