September 24, 2025 • 12 mins
The Strange Dr. Weird was a sister series to The Mysterious Traveler, both in theme and its narrator, Maurice Tarplin. The 29 episodes were produced and directed by Jock MacGregor and written by Robert A. Arthur, who also scripted for The Mysterious Traveler.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
The strange doctor weird.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Good evening, Come in, won't you?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Why?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
What's the murder?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
You seem a bit nervous.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Perhaps the cemetery outside this house is upset you. But
there are things far worse than cemeteries, for instance, knowing
that you are cut off from the world, and the
death await you inevitably is in the story I wanna
tell you tonight, the story I call the Secret Room.
(00:57):
My story begins late one night in a lonely section
of the Hudson Valley, a few yards away from the
huge Old Baxter mansion. Two men hide behind a large
elm tree, studying the mansion closely by the half flight
of the moon. Initials can be seen on the backs
of their blouses, the initials p W standing for prisoner.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Of war Carl. Why are you wasting time watching that house?
Any minute now they discover back at the poison camp
that be killed that guard and escape.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I'm not wasting my time.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
See their little gray haired man there in the house
talking to the big fat man.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah, sure, what about him? He's going to supply us
with money and clothes and food. Ah.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
One of our secret agent now is my father j father?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yes, brought me into this country as a child. He's
caretaking the house. For fifteen years I lived in the house.
If I was old enough to run away and join
the army. The third ries.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Oh, fifteen years in America. That's why you speak such
perfect English. Yes, Carl, that's your father. He's a Nazi.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
No, the old man's one of those stupid fools who
believes in democracy.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
And the other man in there, who's he?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I'm Baxter, the owner of the house.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
The man.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
What are we going to do.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
We're gonna get food, money and the cause from him.
He'll give it to us. Because I had this gun.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Well hands, i'd better start back for the city. You're
sure you won't come with me?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
No, sayank you, mister bister.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
I don't like leaving you all alone in this house
now that you're real.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
But mister Bixter, I don't mind. There's a telephone here. Really,
I'll be queening gentlemen, Carl.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
No, it can't be father, Carl.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I thought you were in Germany.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
What are you doing here? And now you understand? Look
at our uniforms. They're escaped prisoners of war. So God,
you fought with the Nazists. Come against humanity.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
You have another scoundrels who.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Will teach you to speak with more respect to a
soldier the third right.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Why you dirty coward striking your own father?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
You you get the same thing.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
I listen to me, both of you, my friend, and
any food, clothes, money either of you gives us the
slightest bit of trouble, I'll kill you.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Mother.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
You stand god over these two men with his gun
while I get some food in the kitchen, a hair light.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
None so, old man, you actually believe that the United
States can defeat the armies of the third rish Ha
ha ha. Where that fool you are?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
There's some food for you I've got, But what's back
to the facts.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
There he's sitting, he's gone.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
You fully escape, Give me that.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I'm sitting light in that chairman.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
They've got to find him if he listen.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
She two escape war prisoners. One of them has a gun.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
You better hurry over here.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Now here, you put that down. Put the phone down
on earth they call it. Teach you, you swine.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Mister, you killed pass front, hang up the receiver board?
Can but do the sheriff knows the here now, you fool,
If you'd watch Baxter closely. This never would have happened.
I only turned my back to him for a moment.
I had no terror.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Will be here in a few minutes. There's no use
o running for it. They'd have every roadblocked.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
We can't stay here.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Wait a minute, we can stay here. There's a secret
room in the cellar of this house. A secret room
into cellar. I remember when I was a boy there.
The high and mighty Baxter family had an uncle who
wasn't right in the head.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
They were ashamed to let the world know about it,
so they kept him a prisoner in a secret room.
My father can show us where that is. Where is it? Father? Hey,
I'll never show you, Yes, you will. I'll kill you,
just as I killed BACKSTA didn't go ahead? Shoot?
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Oh no, no, no, that would be quick easy. I
believe in putting a man to death slowly like this.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
You see this way?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
It takes hours.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
No, you know you show us that the single robe? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Are you being sensible? Hurry, stupid sheriff and his men
will soon be here.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
While doctor Weird looks for skeletons in the closet, let's
take a quick look into your wardrobe. If there's an
Adam hat in there, that's fine. If there's more than
one Adam hat, that's even better, because it takes more
than one good hat to make a man's wardrobe complete.
Every well dressed man knows this, and well dressed men
also know that you can't go wrong with Adam hats,
(06:02):
for there's no better hat value anywhere in America. Adam
hats are made of fine purfel, smartly fashioned, smartly black.
You can choose from a wide variety of shades, and
a complete assortment of all the latest styles. You can
easily afford more than one Adam because they are sensibly prized.
(06:22):
You're welcome to stop in and look at the latest
Adam hats in your nearest Adam hat shot now, doctor Weirs.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And now to continue my story the secret room. It
is a few minutes later. Holding a flashlight in one hand,
Hans Rainer leads the two escape Nazis through the huge
mustel Seller Karl, his gun in his hand, cautiously follows
a few feet behind his father in France, staggering under
(06:57):
the weight of John Bexter's body.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Brings up the rear.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
At last, I just comes to a stop.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Here ye are uh, very clever.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
One would never suspect there's a sacred room behind that
solid stone wall. How do you make the section of
the wall open?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Oh? Man, I first, it's concealed.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Butstom here. Hello, the water has opened.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Yes, oh man, shine your flash flight into the room.
It's rather small, but it'll do for a few hours. Alright,
Frands going, and you too, father?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Anyway? Alright, alright on that close the door away.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
No, it cannot be opened from the outside and left
you no where the.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Bustom you good?
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Now, all we have to do is stay in here
until the sheriff and his men have starts the house
when they find it empty, and they'll.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Leave, and you and I I'll be able to make plans. Plans.
It will take us back to the fatherland once again.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
We shall have proven the superiority of the master rate.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
They've been gone for over an hour. Surely it's safe
to leave now, Yes, and then it's safe.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
All right, old man, opened the door?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Open the door? I'm afraid I cant. You can't, But
you mean this door only opens from the outside, only
opens from the outside. No, No, I force it open.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Plans Your fool stops throwing yourself against the door, sad
I said, But he said.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
The door only opens from the outside. That means we're
trying what kind of.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
A nutsy are you going to pieces like that?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Can't you see he's lying? Would he be here if
there weren't any way to open the door on the inside? Yeah? Yeah,
you're right. He would not have allowed himself to be
trapped in here too. How are you signed? Your lightless?
What you take this? Now? That door? Correctly? Did I
hit you again? I told you the door can only
(09:13):
be opened from the outside.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Are going to be difficult? Uh? Well, we're quite experienced
in making men talk. Franz hold his arms back before
I'm through with you.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
You wish that you would open that door when I first
asked you to.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Carly sorry, gaining consciousness.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
We'll have to get it out of him. This time
can't last much longer. Yeah, he's already half well. Are
you ready to show us how to open the door?
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Until you can't be opened from in here?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Lying?
Speaker 5 (09:51):
I tell you that were true, you wouldn't have allowed
yourself to be trapped in here with us?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Do you think I mind dying here?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
But do you mean.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
The doctors gave me only a few months to live.
But that, yes, that is why I was willing to
show you this secret room. I don't mind dying as
long as you to die with me.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
You deliberately let us into the strap.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
I can think of no better way to die than
thinking you.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Do not see that's with me now.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
You never get out of him, No, never, Someday.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
He'll find a still here for why.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Why he's there? Yes, card of it, trapped tramp. You
understand he wasn't lying. He can't get out if they're
going to die, and here a kind of gone and die.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Too bad about Karl and France, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Imagine being trapped in a small room with solid stone walls,
hour after our day after day, growing weaker all the
time until finally, But perhaps they both took the easy
way out and use the gun they had. By the way,
(11:26):
if you're thinking of buying an old mansion in the Hudson,
Valiant and I'd look very carefully in the cellar for
a secret room if I were you. Well, after all,
you wouldn't wanna live in a house that was haunted
by the ghosts of two Oh, you have to go now,
or perhaps you'll drop in on me again soon. Just
(11:49):
look for the house on the other side of the cemetery,
the house of doctor Weir.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
No, no, no,
The strange doctor weird.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Good evening, Come in, won't you?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Why?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
What's the murder?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
You seem a bit nervous.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Perhaps the cemetery outside this house is upset you. But
there are things far worse than cemeteries, for instance, knowing
that you are cut off from the world, and the
death await you inevitably is in the story I wanna
tell you tonight, the story I call the Secret Room.
(00:57):
My story begins late one night in a lonely section
of the Hudson Valley, a few yards away from the
huge Old Baxter mansion. Two men hide behind a large
elm tree, studying the mansion closely by the half flight
of the moon. Initials can be seen on the backs
of their blouses, the initials p W standing for prisoner.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Of war Carl. Why are you wasting time watching that house?
Any minute now they discover back at the poison camp
that be killed that guard and escape.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I'm not wasting my time.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
See their little gray haired man there in the house
talking to the big fat man.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah, sure, what about him? He's going to supply us
with money and clothes and food. Ah.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
One of our secret agent now is my father j father?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yes, brought me into this country as a child. He's
caretaking the house. For fifteen years I lived in the house.
If I was old enough to run away and join
the army. The third ries.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Oh, fifteen years in America. That's why you speak such
perfect English. Yes, Carl, that's your father. He's a Nazi.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
No, the old man's one of those stupid fools who
believes in democracy.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
And the other man in there, who's he?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I'm Baxter, the owner of the house.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
The man.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
What are we going to do.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
We're gonna get food, money and the cause from him.
He'll give it to us. Because I had this gun.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Well hands, i'd better start back for the city. You're
sure you won't come with me?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
No, sayank you, mister bister.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
I don't like leaving you all alone in this house
now that you're real.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
But mister Bixter, I don't mind. There's a telephone here. Really,
I'll be queening gentlemen, Carl.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
No, it can't be father, Carl.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I thought you were in Germany.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
What are you doing here? And now you understand? Look
at our uniforms. They're escaped prisoners of war. So God,
you fought with the Nazists. Come against humanity.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
You have another scoundrels who.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Will teach you to speak with more respect to a
soldier the third right.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Why you dirty coward striking your own father?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
You you get the same thing.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
I listen to me, both of you, my friend, and
any food, clothes, money either of you gives us the
slightest bit of trouble, I'll kill you.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Mother.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
You stand god over these two men with his gun
while I get some food in the kitchen, a hair light.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
None so, old man, you actually believe that the United
States can defeat the armies of the third rish Ha
ha ha. Where that fool you are?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
There's some food for you I've got, But what's back
to the facts.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
There he's sitting, he's gone.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
You fully escape, Give me that.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I'm sitting light in that chairman.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
They've got to find him if he listen.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
She two escape war prisoners. One of them has a gun.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
You better hurry over here.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Now here, you put that down. Put the phone down
on earth they call it. Teach you, you swine.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Mister, you killed pass front, hang up the receiver board?
Can but do the sheriff knows the here now, you fool,
If you'd watch Baxter closely. This never would have happened.
I only turned my back to him for a moment.
I had no terror.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Will be here in a few minutes. There's no use
o running for it. They'd have every roadblocked.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
We can't stay here.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Wait a minute, we can stay here. There's a secret
room in the cellar of this house. A secret room
into cellar. I remember when I was a boy there.
The high and mighty Baxter family had an uncle who
wasn't right in the head.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
They were ashamed to let the world know about it,
so they kept him a prisoner in a secret room.
My father can show us where that is. Where is it? Father? Hey,
I'll never show you, Yes, you will. I'll kill you,
just as I killed BACKSTA didn't go ahead? Shoot?
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Oh no, no, no, that would be quick easy. I
believe in putting a man to death slowly like this.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
You see this way?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
It takes hours.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
No, you know you show us that the single robe? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Are you being sensible? Hurry, stupid sheriff and his men
will soon be here.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
While doctor Weird looks for skeletons in the closet, let's
take a quick look into your wardrobe. If there's an
Adam hat in there, that's fine. If there's more than
one Adam hat, that's even better, because it takes more
than one good hat to make a man's wardrobe complete.
Every well dressed man knows this, and well dressed men
also know that you can't go wrong with Adam hats,
(06:02):
for there's no better hat value anywhere in America. Adam
hats are made of fine purfel, smartly fashioned, smartly black.
You can choose from a wide variety of shades, and
a complete assortment of all the latest styles. You can
easily afford more than one Adam because they are sensibly prized.
(06:22):
You're welcome to stop in and look at the latest
Adam hats in your nearest Adam hat shot now, doctor Weirs.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And now to continue my story the secret room. It
is a few minutes later. Holding a flashlight in one hand,
Hans Rainer leads the two escape Nazis through the huge
mustel Seller Karl, his gun in his hand, cautiously follows
a few feet behind his father in France, staggering under
(06:57):
the weight of John Bexter's body.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Brings up the rear.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
At last, I just comes to a stop.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Here ye are uh, very clever.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
One would never suspect there's a sacred room behind that
solid stone wall. How do you make the section of
the wall open?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Oh? Man, I first, it's concealed.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Butstom here. Hello, the water has opened.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Yes, oh man, shine your flash flight into the room.
It's rather small, but it'll do for a few hours. Alright,
Frands going, and you too, father?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Anyway? Alright, alright on that close the door away.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
No, it cannot be opened from the outside and left
you no where the.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Bustom you good?
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Now, all we have to do is stay in here
until the sheriff and his men have starts the house
when they find it empty, and they'll.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Leave, and you and I I'll be able to make plans. Plans.
It will take us back to the fatherland once again.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
We shall have proven the superiority of the master rate.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
They've been gone for over an hour. Surely it's safe
to leave now, Yes, and then it's safe.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
All right, old man, opened the door?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Open the door? I'm afraid I cant. You can't, But
you mean this door only opens from the outside, only
opens from the outside. No, No, I force it open.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Plans Your fool stops throwing yourself against the door, sad
I said, But he said.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
The door only opens from the outside. That means we're
trying what kind of.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
A nutsy are you going to pieces like that?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Can't you see he's lying? Would he be here if
there weren't any way to open the door on the inside? Yeah? Yeah,
you're right. He would not have allowed himself to be
trapped in here too. How are you signed? Your lightless?
What you take this? Now? That door? Correctly? Did I
hit you again? I told you the door can only
(09:13):
be opened from the outside.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Are going to be difficult? Uh? Well, we're quite experienced
in making men talk. Franz hold his arms back before
I'm through with you.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
You wish that you would open that door when I first
asked you to.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Carly sorry, gaining consciousness.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
We'll have to get it out of him. This time
can't last much longer. Yeah, he's already half well. Are
you ready to show us how to open the door?
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Until you can't be opened from in here?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Lying?
Speaker 5 (09:51):
I tell you that were true, you wouldn't have allowed
yourself to be trapped in here with us?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Do you think I mind dying here?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
But do you mean.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
The doctors gave me only a few months to live.
But that, yes, that is why I was willing to
show you this secret room. I don't mind dying as
long as you to die with me.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
You deliberately let us into the strap.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
I can think of no better way to die than
thinking you.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Do not see that's with me now.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
You never get out of him, No, never, Someday.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
He'll find a still here for why.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Why he's there? Yes, card of it, trapped tramp. You
understand he wasn't lying. He can't get out if they're
going to die, and here a kind of gone and die.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Too bad about Karl and France, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Imagine being trapped in a small room with solid stone walls,
hour after our day after day, growing weaker all the
time until finally, But perhaps they both took the easy
way out and use the gun they had. By the way,
(11:26):
if you're thinking of buying an old mansion in the Hudson,
Valiant and I'd look very carefully in the cellar for
a secret room if I were you. Well, after all,
you wouldn't wanna live in a house that was haunted
by the ghosts of two Oh, you have to go now,
or perhaps you'll drop in on me again soon. Just
(11:49):
look for the house on the other side of the cemetery,
the house of doctor Weir.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
No, no, no,
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