September 5, 2024 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Adventures in time and faith told in future. The National
Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of
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astounding science fiction.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Bring you Dimension X.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
By the year nineteen hundred and ninety, we should see
many amazing technological advances, and yet in many ways life
will be very much the same. A husband will stop
off at a bar on his way home and perhaps
unburden himself a little to a friendly bartender Number one.
Mister Smith, what time is it, Sam?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Play almost ten o'clock Smith, one more, listen to the
old songs? Are still the best home the smiss.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yes, Sam, I remember singing that one back in nineteen
seventy four. That's where I met my wife Golden days.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Sam, here's your beer, mister Smith.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Thanks. Ah, that's good. Almost feels if I can go
home and face Neddie. Now wife troubled. Mister Smith's wife troubles,
Sam say, oh, never Neddie and I never fight. Neddie's
too mad about me. You ever to fight with me?
She adores me, worships the ground I walk on. Well,
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this is something new.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I remember only last year you was complaining she was.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Throwing some times of change. Only wish she was still
throwing things. At Least in those days I could walk
out and slam the door with a clear conscience. Now
she's so sweet and loving. I feel like a murderer
every time I stop in for beer. I'm away home too,
mister Smith. Tough, ever hear the express. Love will fly
if hell too lightly, Love will die if held too tightly.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Con'try, I ever did.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
It's only she'd relaxed a little bit. They brood on
my lip. She kisses me for an hour every night
when I come home.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Can you do anythofer?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I try? I remind her that she really wanted to
marry Harvey Tubman. I reminder how we used to have
those battles till the neighbors called the robot police. Nothing works.
I'm gone for an hour, she cries.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Well, me, I ain't got that kind of trouble. I
hang around so much. Your neighbor calls me a loofer
and hunts me up.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
It's a sad state. Can't figure him out. Well, I
guess I'll go home, feed myself to the lioness. I
tell you, Sam. When Needdy gets finished demonstrating how much
she's missed me, I feel like a man who's been
stuffed into an electronic washing machine with a dioset a
rinz dry? How much? Well ow you sixty cent? If
it isn't Henry Smith brailing? I live in breeze water brailing?
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What are you doing here? Having the night out? Is
Gloria enough about this? Things have changed, Henry? I thought
she kept to change the bedpost most of the time.
Not anymore, Henry, not anymore, or you aren't divorced you?
Oh no, Gloria's home. What'd you do? Put a sleeping
powder in your coffee? Oh? Goodness, snow, Henry, that would
be highly unethical. I can't believe you just walked out
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on it. Ten years of marriage, Henry, and I never
had a night to myself. But it'll be different from
now on. Oh, by the way, Henry, what kind of
it ten o'clock? Well, I yes, I'd better be going.
Skill don't want to crop my luck. Although really there's
no nothing to worry about. I sure like to know
how you do it, Walter. Would you really be all right? Henry?
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Since you've always been a friend of mine, I'll let
you win her. Come on, my car is outside. I'll
drive you home and let you see how it's done.
That's nice to view Waterer, Not at all, Henry. We
fellows have to stick together. I don't suppose you know
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how Gloria and I came to be married in the
first place. No, I don't. Well. One evening she threatened
to tear off her clothing and call the police unless
I married her.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
No.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Oh, yes, oh that's a bit extreme. And now Gloria
was always a nervous girl. I bet you've had a
pretty wretched timer.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yes, it didn't take long for me to become the
laughing stock of the hibbud handteck brailing, they used to
call me. I know, but things are changing now here.
You see this? What's that? A single ticket Torio on
the Morning Rocket. I have hotel reservations there for a month,
a whole month, Henry, to have a fling. Oh, won't
Gloria make trouble? Oh man, that's the amazing part of it, Henry.
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She won't even know I'm gone. I'll be back in
a month, and no one the wiser. You don't believe me,
do you exactly? No, that's how you're going to swing it, Walter.
That's the secret, Henry, I tell you. It's the most
wonderful thing ever invented, worth every cent I paid for it?
What is I'm going to show you? Here's my house.
Notice the lights are all out. Sh We'll wait up
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there on the front porch. Walter, you haven't gone off
your rocker.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
And.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Now I'll be out twice Yeah ah, no, Hemmy watched
the window in my bedroom.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Looks as if somebody, Hey, there's a man up there.
He's looking out hood. He sees me. He'll be down directly.
Isn't it a bit embarrassing for you? Or oh not
at all? You'll find out here he comes hello. B two, oh,
good evening with Brayley. Close the door. Either I'm going
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out of my mind or there too? Have you? He
never told me you had a twin brother. I don't.
But if this fellow weren't in pajamas, I couldn't tell
you a part that the secret Henry, Everything go all right?
B two? Oh just fine, missus Brailer. I suppose my
wife was in here usual good form this evening. As
a matter of fact, we spent the evening playing gin.
No screaming, no shouting, accusation, Oh no, circ it was
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very quiet evening where this is even better than I thought, well,
Marionettes Incorporated aims to satisfy sir. Did he say marionette incorporated?
That's right, Henry lock him over. Isn't he excellently fashioned?
You wouldn't dream he was a robot, a marionette. I
can't believe it. It's against the law, of course, that duplicated
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human like this, but it's well worth the opportunity. I
still don't believe it. You can't tell him from a
human only one way. Henry put you here next to
his chest.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Listen, that's it.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Machinery or row man. How I've just been going on.
I've had him on month, Henry. I keep him in
the cellar in my toolbox. Now tonight, I told Laura
I'd like to be excused for five minutes to run
down to the cigar store.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
She agreed.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I went down to the cellar, took out brailing too,
sent him back upstairs to sit with my wife until
I got home. Miraculous. Of course, it doesn't seem quite
ethical sometimes, Oh no, it's highly ethical. I've been home
all evening. I shall be home with her for the
next month. In the meantime, another gentleman named Walter Brayley
will be in Rio having the time of his wife. Well,
can he walk around without fuel for a month? Oh,
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he refueled himself and he's still to do everything. He's
brink sleep. You'll take good care of my wife, won't
you be too?
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Of course your wife is rather nice. I've grown quite
fond of her, you see, Walter.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Oh man, how long has this marionette's incorporated out?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
That's been in business secretly for two years?
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Now?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Why I wonder? Is there a possibility that I might
get in touch with him? You? But you love your Nettie?
Why I know? But even so it's a little rest
but nighty two once a month, and she loves you
dearly so much she can't better leave me with it
for half an hour. You know that.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Lately she's taken to calling me up at work ten
or twelve times a day.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Talk, baby talk, your Nettie, my natty.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Well you say, oh man, say ever no, buddy, fellow
lodge member, Well.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I I could put you in touch with a man
who makes him. Of course you'd be pledged to secrecy
once you learned where he's located. Oh, naturally, very well,
heavy here's his card.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Marion that's incorporated w Zig Propridor and owner New Humanoid
Plastic nineteen ninety models guaranteed against where our motto no
strings attached undress the Jumble Shop.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Forty three Southwesley Drive. Mister Zig will take good care
of you, Henry. He's a charming fellow, a real craftsman, wonderful.
I'll see him first thing tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Well, i'd better be getting home now, though Nattie's probably
splitting a gasket.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
See you are around, old man. After I get back
from you, and while I'm gone, you might drop around regularly,
just as you always have. Treat trailing two here as
if he were me. Otherwise Gloria might be suspicious. I
will and oh, before I go, these Marionettes are safe
unto oh absolutely or Kevin b too.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
We're guaranteed fine. Well, good night Walter, good night the two.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Night, missus Smith, good night Henry.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Well, I'm glad someone else will have a chance and
a little happiness and freedom. All right, brailing too, back
into the cellar box for you, come on down the steps.
Why it's very damped down here, mister Brayley. That well
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here we are brailing, Yes, before you put me back
into the toolbox. Could we have a word just the
old man? This toolbox? What about it? Well, I don't
like it, mister Brayling. Why not? It's cramped. Oh well,
I'll try to fix up something more comfortable when I
get back from Real. All right, now, before Glory gets
worried back Maryannis and made them move, let's keep still.
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How would you like to lie in the stuff the
old box? Most of the time, I didn't realize you
fellows would have sensitive if you wouldn't like it at all,
I keep running. There's no way to shut me off.
I have my feelings, you know. Hmmm, Well they have
to Tomorrow I'll be off to Real and you won't
have to stay in the box for a whole month.
You can move upstairs, but when you get back from Rio,
I'll go back in the box. Mister Zig didn't tell
me of Marrionett's Incorporated, that it was possible to get
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a difficult specimen. There's a lot he doesn't know about us.
We're pretty new now looking now look here be two.
This has gone far enough. I'll never get to Real.
I'm come on now up to the box. And another thing. Well,
your wife. What about my wife? Right, I've grown quite
fond of her. Well, I'm glad you enjoy your employment.
You'll have the whole month. Bak. You don't quite understand, Brailey,
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I've fallen in love with her. You want you just
don't appreciate her. Maybe if you hadn't always acted so
meek and apologetic about everything, she'd have a little more
respect for you as a manshe. Now you aren't supposed
to behave like this, you know you'll think you well anyway,
I could be very happy if I were married to Gloria.
Aren't you forgetting? You're nothing but a big overgrown puppet. Careful, Brailey,
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I'm sensitive, all right, all right, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
A look, you wouldn't mind waiting for a moment, would you?
I have to go upstairs and make a phone call
nobody important now yet, I have to call Henry Smith
box some for your lane. You're going to call Merry
and It's and corporate it and tell mister Zigg to
come and get hold on I on. Really, I'm not
I was two. Stay away and where you are brailing,
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I'll be two. Take your hand off my arm, no brailing?
What are you going to do nothing much. I'm just
going to put you in the toolbox, fluck it and
lose the key, and then I'll buy another ticket Toreo
and Floria and I can have a wonderful vacation. No
insane mind. Wait a minute, who don't be I'll gonna
be right. Let's talk this over by stop stop.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Ray stop there.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Water water, yes, Floria? What are you doing down here
at this town of nice?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Nothing, lover. The pipes were narking. I'm just making sure
the boiler hasn't exploded. You go back to bed. I'll
be up soon. We had had a nice evening. I'm
lonesome for you. You will never be lonesome again, Darling,
never again. Good morning, Naddie.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
How good morning, Darling? How are you have a nice
time last night?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I missed you so breakfast?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Ready you're going to kiss me?
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Good morning?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Oh? Yes, that's both.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Oh oh, you're so wonderful, Henry. I guess I'm the
luckiest person in the world. Here's your coffee, and how
would you like your egge?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Would I want to please you? Oh, Nattie, skip the
egg this morning?
Speaker 7 (12:51):
Would you have to eat to keep well? Darling?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I'm very healthy. I have an early business appointment. Oh,
i's a friend of Walter Brailings. I met Worler last
night and he yeah, well, I'd better be off now, Neddy.
Don't look as if I were on my way to
Rio or something. I'm only going to work.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
It's just that I miss you so I want to
be with you all the time.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I have to go through this every morning. I'll be
back at supper. There's no need to cry, now, is
there no dying?
Speaker 7 (13:22):
You aren't displeased with me, are you?
Speaker 8 (13:25):
I try so hard to do everything just as I
think you'll like you.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
No, No, I'm not displeased. Well, goodbye, dear Henry.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
Yes, you'll forgot to kiss me goodbye.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
No strings attached, No strings attached to a very nice
puffect with no strings attached. Let's see now the Jungle
Shop forty three South Wesley.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
That should be a bus ah here it is, Yes,
missus z Yees Water Brailing recommended me into your name,
Henry Smith, fifty five Evergreen.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Place, And what can we do for you, missus Smith?
Well Bramley showed.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Me his Marionette last night. I see I was intrigued
with the idea. And not that my wife is anything
like that female meet grandate that he's married to you understand,
But I don't have a man who enjoys mccason leaving
as boys.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
That complication naturally so at that I could duplicate you exactly.
I think it might be arranged if you understand the
need for secrecy. Of course, although an act is pending
in Congress to legalize marionettes Incorporated, is it still a
felony to use one of my creations? I understand. And
there is the matter of the payment. How much nine
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thousand dollars nine thousand? Will I have an inferior model
at seventy five?
Speaker 6 (14:53):
No?
Speaker 4 (14:54):
If I go through with this, nothing's too good for Nettie,
that's my wife. We've been putting money aside to buy
a summer house in Westport.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Some times we must choose.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Yeah, yep, I could just slip out nine thousand, and
says join the count.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
How can I have it? I could construct the mannequin
in about two months time? Shall I consider the order
of place I had one? Of course, we'd have to
report here for a body mold, color, index of your hair, lift, skin,
et cetera. And i'd have to do a complete electro
emotional calibration. You guarantee that these models are fool prol
has fool proof as I can make them, mister Smith.
And I've had years of training, no chance of detected,
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none whatsoever. I've never had a complaint water Braining seems
I've fidener. I assure you he's been taken care of
in high styles. There some way to be sure we
have our guarantee. Very well, mister Day, I get the
money from the bank, and Saturday time you'll be just
as delighted with yours as Walter Braining is with his
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oh teller.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Yes, mister Smith, I'd like to catch this draft on
my joint ac comp Yes, sir, nine thousand dollars sir,
that's right. Well, I'm afraid that's impossible, mister Smith.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Impossible. My wife and I have a good fifteen thousand
dollars now a comp You're a mistaken mister Smith, but
I know here's your card, sir.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
You see, mister Smith withdrew ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Recently, ten thousand dollars, not even telling me.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I remember it distinctly, mister Smith. She said it was
for a surprise for you.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Good lord.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
She bought that house in Connecticut. My birthday is next week. Well,
i'll have to borrow it somewhere. I've already contracted this, sir.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Quite a surprise for you, a mister Smith. Yes, oh, hello, Henry, Hello, Gloria.
Is wal at home. I'd like to speak to him. Well,
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come in, thank you? Is something wrong well, justin the
business mat of alone. Well, he went down to the
travel bureau, but he should be back soon. We're going
to Reel you know, both of you. Isn't it wonderful?
I don't know what's come over Walder lately. He's been
so romantic. Last night he came upstairs and said, Darling.
He hasn't called me darling in years. Darling, we're going
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to take a honeymoon to Reel. So we're leaving tomorrow.
Anything wrong in it? No, I've got a little surprised.
That's all.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Well, it should be back soon, will you wait?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yes, yes, i'd better say, as long as you're over here,
maybe you can help me with something.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
What Well, I went downstairs to get an old suitcase
a little while ago, and I heard.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
The strangest noises near that old tool chest of Walters
he mentioned that the boiler was acting up, and I'm
afraid to go down there again. I wonder if you
would take a look. What kind of noises like a
like a something sound? Maybe I'd better go down Gloria,
you stay up here? Did I call a plumber? Do
you think?
Speaker 6 (17:51):
No?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
No, I'll take care of it. I got a man.
I have a look, good lord, good lord? Hello? Hello?
In there in just a minute. Keep quiet, for goodness sake,
I have to smash a lot now, what God, you
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can't be quiet? I to be there, all right? I thought, suffocate?
Did you try to kill me?
Speaker 6 (18:19):
And me?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Do you try to murder? Which one are?
Speaker 6 (18:21):
You?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Don't be an idiot? I'm water What happened? Be too
to Marrionette. He stuffed me in the tool box and
left me to suffocate. Well, fortunately I found an old
fire on there and managed to get an air hole
through the wood. Good Lord, he's taking Gloria with him
to Rio. Have you look you No, he's gone downtown
for the ticket. Good We may just have time for
what to get down to marrions incorporate it and tell
zig to stop when you're in No can little worry
about me? We can't waste any time. Come on, but
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Glorious Niko, tell her, tell her you fix the plumbing,
tell her anything. I'll beat you outside all right. Oh,
what a fool, lie, what a fool eye almost was.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
I went down and ordered one of those things today, Gloria, Gloria.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Love, Yes, darling, did you get the tickets to rear
right here in my wallet? Honeymoon for two under the
Panthers move. Oh, water, it's so nice to have you
like this. You like the change.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
I don't know what did it, but whatever it is,
I'm in favor of it.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I hope it's permanent. Oh. I intend to see that
it is. Oh, by the way, darling, do you happen
to remember we're that old pistol of mine?
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Pistol?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Yes, I just thought since we're going to be traveling
in strange countries, it wouldn't hurt to bring it along.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Oh, well, I think it's here in the soft yes there.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Well, do you know how frightened I am of those things? Oh,
I'll be very careful of it. In fact, I think
I'll go down in the basement and practice and not
really shooting it, of course, just to make sure it's
in good working order. You be careful, darling, Oh I will.
If you should hear a shot there, don't be frightened.
I may fire it into a black of wood just
to test it. Perhaps all fire into that old tool
chest of mine. Yeah, that should have Oh, speaking of
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that tool chest, Yes, what about us? It reminds me
that Henry Smith was here?
Speaker 8 (20:04):
Oh yeah, I heard some noises downstairs here and he
went down to fix the plumbing.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Is here still down there?
Speaker 7 (20:11):
No, he left.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I really don't understand it. He seems so anxious to
see you before he went down to the cellar, and
then he just left. Did he stop the noise? Well,
he must have. I don't hear them.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I see what is he?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I have to go out for a while, Dolly, ware
have to pack. I really robbyback soon. There's something very
important I have to attend to. What is just some
personal business with the Henry Smith. Please excuse me, darling,
and don't worry. When I get back, everything will be
fixed once and for all, as we can enjoy the
rest of our lives, just as though the old walt
of railing never existed. Ah, mister Brayling and mister Smith. Yes,
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mister Zig come in, Come in, gentlemen, we certainly will
come in. What brings you to our good deal, mister Zig, Yes,
indeed our good deal. If I might know exactly you
seem to her to set Tell him Henry, you told
me your marionette were foolproof, mister Zigg. They are my
personal guarantee. Goes with the We know all about your
personal guarantee, except that mister Brayling's dummy knocked him out,
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stuffed him in a tool box to suffocate, and is
making plans to run away with his wife. Oh dear, well,
mister Zig, I really don't know what to say, gentlemen.
You see, I work alone. I make these marionettes myself
so that I can see to it personally that there
are no errors. However, even the finest craftsman can make
a mistake once in a while. But mister Brayling, and
I would like to know, mister Zig is, exactly what
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are you planning to do to stop this over ambitious robot. Well,
of course we should have to recover b too first,
and then I will simply dismantle. He doesn't seem to
want to be dismantle, mister Zigg. In fact, I think
you'll have t watching him. Maybe I can save you
the trouble. Gentlemen, see too, look out, he has a gun.
I thought i'd find you here when I discovered the
tool chest stamps. Now up, Vito, whatever you're planning to do,
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you won't get away with it, I think I will.
Can't you do something? I'm afraid I can't think of anything.
I will save you the trouble because I'm going to
kill the three of it. Oh, you won't get away
with all if I get that glory and I will
be on a plane to Rio in a few hours.
All right, mister z you first, Oh now she here,
This isn't fair. I created you. You can't quick that
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hand up. Well that's the end of brailing too, Thank Heaven, Henry, Henry.
He got digs right through that holy jumping catfish. So
we look at him, we can say nothing but a
massive clothes and springs, just like brailing too. Nothing but
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a marionnaie is no different from you know what this means.
It's incredible marionette building other marionettes someone must have built.
Mister Zig turned on whoever built him, the same way
that branding two turned on you. At any rate will
never know. I wonder how many of these things are
walking around among us. Oh, I shudder to think of it.
Some of our best friends might be Come on, we
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got to get out of here. What the police. Don't
be a fool. There's been no crime committed here. All
the police will find it. Two oversized puppets with the
springs coming out of them. But they seem so lifelike.
You're only machinery. You've got to remember that. Well, what
do I tell Gloria? If I were you brailing, I
wouldn't tell Gloria a thing. I'd simply pick up that
other ticket to Rio and take around a honeymoon. What
about you, Henry, what are you going to do with me?
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I'm going home and give Nettie a kiss. It'll send
your hair. I'll even forgive it for taking that ten
thousand dollars out of the back of that telling me.
You know, when I think of what might have happened
if I'd gone through with this Marionette thing. What makes
a fellow realize how lucky he is to be married
to a decent woman. Let's go Natty Natti? Where are you, sweetheart?
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I've missed you today?
Speaker 7 (24:20):
Come here, Oh, Henry, you look, darling. Can I do
something for you? Just tell me I'm yours to command.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
A man's a fool to jeopardize a nice home and
a loving wife like you. You do love me, don't you, Netty?
You know I do. Here. Let me get your slippers on.
Feel good to sit back on the sofa and relax.
You don't know what a trying day if.
Speaker 8 (24:48):
I can see you all ups it, it isn't anything
I've done, as it, dear well.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
In a way, something you've done is connected with it.
The money money.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
I know you want to surprise me with the house, darling,
but really, and they're taking that money out of the
bank without consulting.
Speaker 8 (25:02):
Man, Henry, I don't even know what you're talking about,
but I do. You're so upset, darling. If it's anything important,
let's talk about it later. Meanwhile, why don't you just
put your head on my shoulders rest.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I must admit that sounds enticing.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
Let me make you comfortable there now, you just close
your eyes.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
That Nettie, Yes, Darling, you hear something? No, Darling, you
sure like what? Like the like the ticking of a clock. No,
that's strange. I don't hear it now, But when I
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had my ear, get your chest? Oh no, oh, no,
what are you doing about all? I'll believe it. You
are my Nettie, aren't you. You're a real life pleasure.
But oh, if she couldn't have done that to me?
Not Nattie, I hear, and it's coming from you. It's
coming from you. You have just heard another adventure into
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the unknown world of the future, the world of.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
The next week, Dimension Next move to a new day
and time. It will originate in New.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
York on Saturdays from eight to eight thirty pm beginning
September eighth. Consult your local newspaper for the exact day
and time in your locality, and don't miss Mary Lynster's
story of deep space first Contact. Demention X is presented
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each week by the National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with
Street and Smith, publishers of the magazine Astounding Science Fiction. Today,
Dementia X has presented Marionette Incorporated, written for radio by
George Leffert from the story by Ray Bradbury. Featured in
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the cast were Kermit Murdoch as Henry Martin, Rudy as Brailing,
and Ross Martin as Brailing Too. Your host was Norman Rose.
Music by Albert Burman, Fred Collins speaking. Demention X is
produced by William Welsh and directed by fred Way Dragnett.
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The Story of Your Police Force is next on NBC
Adventures in time and faith told in future. The National
Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of
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astounding science fiction.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Bring you Dimension X.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
By the year nineteen hundred and ninety, we should see
many amazing technological advances, and yet in many ways life
will be very much the same. A husband will stop
off at a bar on his way home and perhaps
unburden himself a little to a friendly bartender Number one.
Mister Smith, what time is it, Sam?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Play almost ten o'clock Smith, one more, listen to the
old songs? Are still the best home the smiss.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yes, Sam, I remember singing that one back in nineteen
seventy four. That's where I met my wife Golden days.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Sam, here's your beer, mister Smith.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Thanks. Ah, that's good. Almost feels if I can go
home and face Neddie. Now wife troubled. Mister Smith's wife troubles,
Sam say, oh, never Neddie and I never fight. Neddie's
too mad about me. You ever to fight with me?
She adores me, worships the ground I walk on. Well,
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this is something new.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I remember only last year you was complaining she was.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Throwing some times of change. Only wish she was still
throwing things. At Least in those days I could walk
out and slam the door with a clear conscience. Now
she's so sweet and loving. I feel like a murderer
every time I stop in for beer. I'm away home too,
mister Smith. Tough, ever hear the express. Love will fly
if hell too lightly, Love will die if held too tightly.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Con'try, I ever did.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
It's only she'd relaxed a little bit. They brood on
my lip. She kisses me for an hour every night
when I come home.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Can you do anythofer?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I try? I remind her that she really wanted to
marry Harvey Tubman. I reminder how we used to have
those battles till the neighbors called the robot police. Nothing works.
I'm gone for an hour, she cries.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Well, me, I ain't got that kind of trouble. I
hang around so much. Your neighbor calls me a loofer
and hunts me up.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
It's a sad state. Can't figure him out. Well, I
guess I'll go home, feed myself to the lioness. I
tell you, Sam. When Needdy gets finished demonstrating how much
she's missed me, I feel like a man who's been
stuffed into an electronic washing machine with a dioset a
rinz dry? How much? Well ow you sixty cent? If
it isn't Henry Smith brailing? I live in breeze water brailing?
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What are you doing here? Having the night out? Is
Gloria enough about this? Things have changed, Henry? I thought
she kept to change the bedpost most of the time.
Not anymore, Henry, not anymore, or you aren't divorced you?
Oh no, Gloria's home. What'd you do? Put a sleeping
powder in your coffee? Oh? Goodness, snow, Henry, that would
be highly unethical. I can't believe you just walked out
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on it. Ten years of marriage, Henry, and I never
had a night to myself. But it'll be different from
now on. Oh, by the way, Henry, what kind of
it ten o'clock? Well, I yes, I'd better be going.
Skill don't want to crop my luck. Although really there's
no nothing to worry about. I sure like to know
how you do it, Walter. Would you really be all right? Henry?
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Since you've always been a friend of mine, I'll let
you win her. Come on, my car is outside. I'll
drive you home and let you see how it's done.
That's nice to view Waterer, Not at all, Henry. We
fellows have to stick together. I don't suppose you know
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how Gloria and I came to be married in the
first place. No, I don't. Well. One evening she threatened
to tear off her clothing and call the police unless
I married her.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
No.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Oh, yes, oh that's a bit extreme. And now Gloria
was always a nervous girl. I bet you've had a
pretty wretched timer.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yes, it didn't take long for me to become the
laughing stock of the hibbud handteck brailing, they used to
call me. I know, but things are changing now here.
You see this? What's that? A single ticket Torio on
the Morning Rocket. I have hotel reservations there for a month,
a whole month, Henry, to have a fling. Oh, won't
Gloria make trouble? Oh man, that's the amazing part of it, Henry.
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She won't even know I'm gone. I'll be back in
a month, and no one the wiser. You don't believe me,
do you exactly? No, that's how you're going to swing it, Walter.
That's the secret, Henry, I tell you. It's the most
wonderful thing ever invented, worth every cent I paid for it?
What is I'm going to show you? Here's my house.
Notice the lights are all out. Sh We'll wait up
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there on the front porch. Walter, you haven't gone off
your rocker.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
And.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Now I'll be out twice Yeah ah, no, Hemmy watched
the window in my bedroom.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Looks as if somebody, Hey, there's a man up there.
He's looking out hood. He sees me. He'll be down directly.
Isn't it a bit embarrassing for you? Or oh not
at all? You'll find out here he comes hello. B two, oh,
good evening with Brayley. Close the door. Either I'm going
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out of my mind or there too? Have you? He
never told me you had a twin brother. I don't.
But if this fellow weren't in pajamas, I couldn't tell
you a part that the secret Henry, Everything go all right?
B two? Oh just fine, missus Brailer. I suppose my
wife was in here usual good form this evening. As
a matter of fact, we spent the evening playing gin.
No screaming, no shouting, accusation, Oh no, circ it was
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very quiet evening where this is even better than I thought, well,
Marionettes Incorporated aims to satisfy sir. Did he say marionette incorporated?
That's right, Henry lock him over. Isn't he excellently fashioned?
You wouldn't dream he was a robot, a marionette. I
can't believe it. It's against the law, of course, that duplicated
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human like this, but it's well worth the opportunity. I
still don't believe it. You can't tell him from a
human only one way. Henry put you here next to
his chest.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Listen, that's it.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Machinery or row man. How I've just been going on.
I've had him on month, Henry. I keep him in
the cellar in my toolbox. Now tonight, I told Laura
I'd like to be excused for five minutes to run
down to the cigar store.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
She agreed.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I went down to the cellar, took out brailing too,
sent him back upstairs to sit with my wife until
I got home. Miraculous. Of course, it doesn't seem quite
ethical sometimes, Oh no, it's highly ethical. I've been home
all evening. I shall be home with her for the
next month. In the meantime, another gentleman named Walter Brayley
will be in Rio having the time of his wife. Well,
can he walk around without fuel for a month? Oh,
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he refueled himself and he's still to do everything. He's
brink sleep. You'll take good care of my wife, won't
you be too?
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Of course your wife is rather nice. I've grown quite
fond of her, you see, Walter.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Oh man, how long has this marionette's incorporated out?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
That's been in business secretly for two years?
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Now?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Why I wonder? Is there a possibility that I might
get in touch with him? You? But you love your Nettie?
Why I know? But even so it's a little rest
but nighty two once a month, and she loves you
dearly so much she can't better leave me with it
for half an hour. You know that.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Lately she's taken to calling me up at work ten
or twelve times a day.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Talk, baby talk, your Nettie, my natty.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Well you say, oh man, say ever no, buddy, fellow
lodge member, Well.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I I could put you in touch with a man
who makes him. Of course you'd be pledged to secrecy
once you learned where he's located. Oh, naturally, very well,
heavy here's his card.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Marion that's incorporated w Zig Propridor and owner New Humanoid
Plastic nineteen ninety models guaranteed against where our motto no
strings attached undress the Jumble Shop.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Forty three Southwesley Drive. Mister Zig will take good care
of you, Henry. He's a charming fellow, a real craftsman, wonderful.
I'll see him first thing tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Well, i'd better be getting home now, though Nattie's probably
splitting a gasket.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
See you are around, old man. After I get back
from you, and while I'm gone, you might drop around regularly,
just as you always have. Treat trailing two here as
if he were me. Otherwise Gloria might be suspicious. I
will and oh, before I go, these Marionettes are safe
unto oh absolutely or Kevin b too.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
We're guaranteed fine. Well, good night Walter, good night the two.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Night, missus Smith, good night Henry.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Well, I'm glad someone else will have a chance and
a little happiness and freedom. All right, brailing too, back
into the cellar box for you, come on down the steps.
Why it's very damped down here, mister Brayley. That well
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here we are brailing, Yes, before you put me back
into the toolbox. Could we have a word just the
old man? This toolbox? What about it? Well, I don't
like it, mister Brayling. Why not? It's cramped. Oh well,
I'll try to fix up something more comfortable when I
get back from Real. All right, now, before Glory gets
worried back Maryannis and made them move, let's keep still.
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How would you like to lie in the stuff the
old box? Most of the time, I didn't realize you
fellows would have sensitive if you wouldn't like it at all,
I keep running. There's no way to shut me off.
I have my feelings, you know. Hmmm, Well they have
to Tomorrow I'll be off to Real and you won't
have to stay in the box for a whole month.
You can move upstairs, but when you get back from Rio,
I'll go back in the box. Mister Zig didn't tell
me of Marrionett's Incorporated, that it was possible to get
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a difficult specimen. There's a lot he doesn't know about us.
We're pretty new now looking now look here be two.
This has gone far enough. I'll never get to Real.
I'm come on now up to the box. And another thing. Well,
your wife. What about my wife? Right, I've grown quite
fond of her. Well, I'm glad you enjoy your employment.
You'll have the whole month. Bak. You don't quite understand, Brailey,
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I've fallen in love with her. You want you just
don't appreciate her. Maybe if you hadn't always acted so
meek and apologetic about everything, she'd have a little more
respect for you as a manshe. Now you aren't supposed
to behave like this, you know you'll think you well anyway,
I could be very happy if I were married to Gloria.
Aren't you forgetting? You're nothing but a big overgrown puppet. Careful, Brailey,
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I'm sensitive, all right, all right, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
A look, you wouldn't mind waiting for a moment, would you?
I have to go upstairs and make a phone call
nobody important now yet, I have to call Henry Smith
box some for your lane. You're going to call Merry
and It's and corporate it and tell mister Zigg to
come and get hold on I on. Really, I'm not
I was two. Stay away and where you are brailing,
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I'll be two. Take your hand off my arm, no brailing?
What are you going to do nothing much. I'm just
going to put you in the toolbox, fluck it and
lose the key, and then I'll buy another ticket Toreo
and Floria and I can have a wonderful vacation. No
insane mind. Wait a minute, who don't be I'll gonna
be right. Let's talk this over by stop stop.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Ray stop there.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Water water, yes, Floria? What are you doing down here
at this town of nice?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Nothing, lover. The pipes were narking. I'm just making sure
the boiler hasn't exploded. You go back to bed. I'll
be up soon. We had had a nice evening. I'm
lonesome for you. You will never be lonesome again, Darling,
never again. Good morning, Naddie.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
How good morning, Darling? How are you have a nice
time last night?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I missed you so breakfast?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Ready you're going to kiss me?
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Good morning?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Oh? Yes, that's both.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Oh oh, you're so wonderful, Henry. I guess I'm the
luckiest person in the world. Here's your coffee, and how
would you like your egge?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Would I want to please you? Oh, Nattie, skip the
egg this morning?
Speaker 7 (12:51):
Would you have to eat to keep well? Darling?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I'm very healthy. I have an early business appointment. Oh,
i's a friend of Walter Brailings. I met Worler last
night and he yeah, well, I'd better be off now, Neddy.
Don't look as if I were on my way to
Rio or something. I'm only going to work.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
It's just that I miss you so I want to
be with you all the time.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I have to go through this every morning. I'll be
back at supper. There's no need to cry, now, is
there no dying?
Speaker 7 (13:22):
You aren't displeased with me, are you?
Speaker 8 (13:25):
I try so hard to do everything just as I
think you'll like you.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
No, No, I'm not displeased. Well, goodbye, dear Henry.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
Yes, you'll forgot to kiss me goodbye.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
No strings attached, No strings attached to a very nice
puffect with no strings attached. Let's see now the Jungle
Shop forty three South Wesley.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
That should be a bus ah here it is, Yes,
missus z Yees Water Brailing recommended me into your name,
Henry Smith, fifty five Evergreen.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Place, And what can we do for you, missus Smith?
Well Bramley showed.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Me his Marionette last night. I see I was intrigued
with the idea. And not that my wife is anything
like that female meet grandate that he's married to you understand,
But I don't have a man who enjoys mccason leaving
as boys.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
That complication naturally so at that I could duplicate you exactly.
I think it might be arranged if you understand the
need for secrecy. Of course, although an act is pending
in Congress to legalize marionettes Incorporated, is it still a
felony to use one of my creations? I understand. And
there is the matter of the payment. How much nine
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thousand dollars nine thousand? Will I have an inferior model
at seventy five?
Speaker 6 (14:53):
No?
Speaker 4 (14:54):
If I go through with this, nothing's too good for Nettie,
that's my wife. We've been putting money aside to buy
a summer house in Westport.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Some times we must choose.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Yeah, yep, I could just slip out nine thousand, and
says join the count.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
How can I have it? I could construct the mannequin
in about two months time? Shall I consider the order
of place I had one? Of course, we'd have to
report here for a body mold, color, index of your hair, lift, skin,
et cetera. And i'd have to do a complete electro
emotional calibration. You guarantee that these models are fool prol
has fool proof as I can make them, mister Smith.
And I've had years of training, no chance of detected,
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none whatsoever. I've never had a complaint water Braining seems
I've fidener. I assure you he's been taken care of
in high styles. There some way to be sure we
have our guarantee. Very well, mister Day, I get the
money from the bank, and Saturday time you'll be just
as delighted with yours as Walter Braining is with his
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oh teller.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Yes, mister Smith, I'd like to catch this draft on
my joint ac comp Yes, sir, nine thousand dollars sir,
that's right. Well, I'm afraid that's impossible, mister Smith.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Impossible. My wife and I have a good fifteen thousand
dollars now a comp You're a mistaken mister Smith, but
I know here's your card, sir.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
You see, mister Smith withdrew ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Recently, ten thousand dollars, not even telling me.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I remember it distinctly, mister Smith. She said it was
for a surprise for you.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Good lord.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
She bought that house in Connecticut. My birthday is next week. Well,
i'll have to borrow it somewhere. I've already contracted this, sir.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Quite a surprise for you, a mister Smith. Yes, oh, hello, Henry, Hello, Gloria.
Is wal at home. I'd like to speak to him. Well,
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come in, thank you? Is something wrong well, justin the
business mat of alone. Well, he went down to the
travel bureau, but he should be back soon. We're going
to Reel you know, both of you. Isn't it wonderful?
I don't know what's come over Walder lately. He's been
so romantic. Last night he came upstairs and said, Darling.
He hasn't called me darling in years. Darling, we're going
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to take a honeymoon to Reel. So we're leaving tomorrow.
Anything wrong in it? No, I've got a little surprised.
That's all.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Well, it should be back soon, will you wait?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yes, yes, i'd better say, as long as you're over here,
maybe you can help me with something.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
What Well, I went downstairs to get an old suitcase
a little while ago, and I heard.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
The strangest noises near that old tool chest of Walters
he mentioned that the boiler was acting up, and I'm
afraid to go down there again. I wonder if you
would take a look. What kind of noises like a
like a something sound? Maybe I'd better go down Gloria,
you stay up here? Did I call a plumber? Do
you think?
Speaker 6 (17:51):
No?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
No, I'll take care of it. I got a man.
I have a look, good lord, good lord? Hello? Hello?
In there in just a minute. Keep quiet, for goodness sake,
I have to smash a lot now, what God, you
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can't be quiet? I to be there, all right? I thought, suffocate?
Did you try to kill me?
Speaker 6 (18:19):
And me?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Do you try to murder? Which one are?
Speaker 6 (18:21):
You?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Don't be an idiot? I'm water What happened? Be too
to Marrionette. He stuffed me in the tool box and
left me to suffocate. Well, fortunately I found an old
fire on there and managed to get an air hole
through the wood. Good Lord, he's taking Gloria with him
to Rio. Have you look you No, he's gone downtown
for the ticket. Good We may just have time for
what to get down to marrions incorporate it and tell
zig to stop when you're in No can little worry
about me? We can't waste any time. Come on, but
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Glorious Niko, tell her, tell her you fix the plumbing,
tell her anything. I'll beat you outside all right. Oh,
what a fool, lie, what a fool eye almost was.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
I went down and ordered one of those things today, Gloria, Gloria.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Love, Yes, darling, did you get the tickets to rear
right here in my wallet? Honeymoon for two under the
Panthers move. Oh, water, it's so nice to have you
like this. You like the change.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
I don't know what did it, but whatever it is,
I'm in favor of it.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I hope it's permanent. Oh. I intend to see that
it is. Oh, by the way, darling, do you happen
to remember we're that old pistol of mine?
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Pistol?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Yes, I just thought since we're going to be traveling
in strange countries, it wouldn't hurt to bring it along.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Oh, well, I think it's here in the soft yes there.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Well, do you know how frightened I am of those things? Oh,
I'll be very careful of it. In fact, I think
I'll go down in the basement and practice and not
really shooting it, of course, just to make sure it's
in good working order. You be careful, darling, Oh I will.
If you should hear a shot there, don't be frightened.
I may fire it into a black of wood just
to test it. Perhaps all fire into that old tool
chest of mine. Yeah, that should have Oh, speaking of
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that tool chest, Yes, what about us? It reminds me
that Henry Smith was here?
Speaker 8 (20:04):
Oh yeah, I heard some noises downstairs here and he
went down to fix the plumbing.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Is here still down there?
Speaker 7 (20:11):
No, he left.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I really don't understand it. He seems so anxious to
see you before he went down to the cellar, and
then he just left. Did he stop the noise? Well,
he must have. I don't hear them.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I see what is he?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I have to go out for a while, Dolly, ware
have to pack. I really robbyback soon. There's something very
important I have to attend to. What is just some
personal business with the Henry Smith. Please excuse me, darling,
and don't worry. When I get back, everything will be
fixed once and for all, as we can enjoy the
rest of our lives, just as though the old walt
of railing never existed. Ah, mister Brayling and mister Smith. Yes,
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mister Zig come in, Come in, gentlemen, we certainly will
come in. What brings you to our good deal, mister Zig, Yes,
indeed our good deal. If I might know exactly you
seem to her to set Tell him Henry, you told
me your marionette were foolproof, mister Zigg. They are my
personal guarantee. Goes with the We know all about your
personal guarantee, except that mister Brayling's dummy knocked him out,
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stuffed him in a tool box to suffocate, and is
making plans to run away with his wife. Oh dear, well,
mister Zig, I really don't know what to say, gentlemen.
You see, I work alone. I make these marionettes myself
so that I can see to it personally that there
are no errors. However, even the finest craftsman can make
a mistake once in a while. But mister Brayling, and
I would like to know, mister Zig is, exactly what
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are you planning to do to stop this over ambitious robot. Well,
of course we should have to recover b too first,
and then I will simply dismantle. He doesn't seem to
want to be dismantle, mister Zigg. In fact, I think
you'll have t watching him. Maybe I can save you
the trouble. Gentlemen, see too, look out, he has a gun.
I thought i'd find you here when I discovered the
tool chest stamps. Now up, Vito, whatever you're planning to do,
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you won't get away with it, I think I will.
Can't you do something? I'm afraid I can't think of anything.
I will save you the trouble because I'm going to
kill the three of it. Oh, you won't get away
with all if I get that glory and I will
be on a plane to Rio in a few hours.
All right, mister z you first, Oh now she here,
This isn't fair. I created you. You can't quick that
(22:35):
hand up. Well that's the end of brailing too, Thank Heaven, Henry, Henry.
He got digs right through that holy jumping catfish. So
we look at him, we can say nothing but a
massive clothes and springs, just like brailing too. Nothing but
(22:57):
a marionnaie is no different from you know what this means.
It's incredible marionette building other marionettes someone must have built.
Mister Zig turned on whoever built him, the same way
that branding two turned on you. At any rate will
never know. I wonder how many of these things are
walking around among us. Oh, I shudder to think of it.
Some of our best friends might be Come on, we
(23:19):
got to get out of here. What the police. Don't
be a fool. There's been no crime committed here. All
the police will find it. Two oversized puppets with the
springs coming out of them. But they seem so lifelike.
You're only machinery. You've got to remember that. Well, what
do I tell Gloria? If I were you brailing, I
wouldn't tell Gloria a thing. I'd simply pick up that
other ticket to Rio and take around a honeymoon. What
about you, Henry, what are you going to do with me?
(23:40):
I'm going home and give Nettie a kiss. It'll send
your hair. I'll even forgive it for taking that ten
thousand dollars out of the back of that telling me.
You know, when I think of what might have happened
if I'd gone through with this Marionette thing. What makes
a fellow realize how lucky he is to be married
to a decent woman. Let's go Natty Natti? Where are you, sweetheart?
(24:18):
I've missed you today?
Speaker 7 (24:20):
Come here, Oh, Henry, you look, darling. Can I do
something for you? Just tell me I'm yours to command.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
A man's a fool to jeopardize a nice home and
a loving wife like you. You do love me, don't you, Netty?
You know I do. Here. Let me get your slippers on.
Feel good to sit back on the sofa and relax.
You don't know what a trying day if.
Speaker 8 (24:48):
I can see you all ups it, it isn't anything
I've done, as it, dear well.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
In a way, something you've done is connected with it.
The money money.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
I know you want to surprise me with the house, darling,
but really, and they're taking that money out of the
bank without consulting.
Speaker 8 (25:02):
Man, Henry, I don't even know what you're talking about,
but I do. You're so upset, darling. If it's anything important,
let's talk about it later. Meanwhile, why don't you just
put your head on my shoulders rest.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I must admit that sounds enticing.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
Let me make you comfortable there now, you just close
your eyes.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
That Nettie, Yes, Darling, you hear something? No, Darling, you
sure like what? Like the like the ticking of a clock. No,
that's strange. I don't hear it now, But when I
(25:54):
had my ear, get your chest? Oh no, oh, no,
what are you doing about all? I'll believe it. You
are my Nettie, aren't you. You're a real life pleasure.
But oh, if she couldn't have done that to me?
Not Nattie, I hear, and it's coming from you. It's
coming from you. You have just heard another adventure into
(26:23):
the unknown world of the future, the world of.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
The next week, Dimension Next move to a new day
and time. It will originate in New.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
York on Saturdays from eight to eight thirty pm beginning
September eighth. Consult your local newspaper for the exact day
and time in your locality, and don't miss Mary Lynster's
story of deep space first Contact. Demention X is presented
(27:07):
each week by the National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with
Street and Smith, publishers of the magazine Astounding Science Fiction. Today,
Dementia X has presented Marionette Incorporated, written for radio by
George Leffert from the story by Ray Bradbury. Featured in
(27:28):
the cast were Kermit Murdoch as Henry Martin, Rudy as Brailing,
and Ross Martin as Brailing Too. Your host was Norman Rose.
Music by Albert Burman, Fred Collins speaking. Demention X is
produced by William Welsh and directed by fred Way Dragnett.
(27:59):
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