August 29, 2024 • 25 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Adventures in time and space transcribed in future tense. When
the first space rocket lands on Mars, what will we find?
(00:30):
Will we be welcomed with open arms or will the
Martians treat us as invaders?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Only one thing is certain.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Someday a giant metal ship will take off from Earth
to travel through the black velocities the silent gulfs of space,
to descend at last into the darkness of the upper
Martian atmospheres. And on that day man will finally know
the answers the day we first land on Mars.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Now hear this, Now hear this?
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Approaching pretty too, deceleration, fasten the gravity suits, stand by
the lion Doylistic.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
What do you make of the terrain?
Speaker 6 (01:15):
There seems to be a heavy ground this, Captain, we
won't be able to use.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Our in for red lights and we'll have to come
in on radar.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
Wasn't that a little risky, sir, landing in the dark.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I'd rather run the danger of a blind landing, Lieutenant,
than come in without the cover of darkness. Remember, we
don't know what kind of reception is waiting for us
down there.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Yes, speed five hundred altitude, now four thousand.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Bridge to engine rooms, stand by for deceleration at general.
I fire forward tubes one and three. Hi sketch down.
Speaker 7 (01:45):
Stats check altitude five hundred four three fifty three upper point.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Now all right, let's set her down.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Look out.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Cut the power master's pipe, battle stations, I said, off
the cut, sir. Well, we're on Mars, April twentieth, nineteen
eighty seven, four thirty three Greenwich. Time. Enter that in
the log, masters, I said, God, gentlemen, it's less than
two hours till dawn. As soon as it's light, we'll
(02:25):
send out a landing party. Masters, get me an all
over hook up, oh, said captain. Now hear this, now,
hear this? All right, man, The smoking lamp is lit.
We're seventeen men on an alien world, and it's up
to us whether we ever get home again. Next few
(02:48):
hours should tell the story. And I want instant obedience
to all commands. I'll court marshal the first man who
doesn't jump to when he's ordered. And one other thing.
We may be on Mars, but this still a United
States Naval vessels. Officers will conduct a personal and weapons
inspection in one hour. That's also inspection, Captain. Now, mister
(03:09):
Lustig We've got an hour and a half to sweat
out before we find out what's outside that airlock. I'd
rather have a man worried about his stripes about what's
waiting outside on Mars.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Now hear this landing party report to forward air lock.
Captain Black, Lieutenant Hinkston, Lieutenant Lustig, and doctor Horst report
immediately to forward air lock.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It is now landing time minus five.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Sounds like they're paging as Hangston. You ready, Doctor Horst.
Speaker 8 (03:51):
Yes, ready as I eleventh be.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Come on, let's.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Report to the airline. Four hours to go.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Where's the captain?
Speaker 8 (04:06):
Who knows? What difference does it make?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Just want to get it over with, That's all.
Speaker 8 (04:14):
Is.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Anybody got a cigarette.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
And I think you're smoking too much? Lieutenant Plastic are
you're nervously off with your horse wondering what's sitting outside
underneath the ground. Missed very unusual planet Mars. Why there's
an atmosphere? Wonderful thing in the atmosphere, Well you find one,
you'll find life. You mean, martians, What do you think
they'll look like? Who knows? Intelligent life can take many forms.
Speaker 9 (04:38):
I mean they may have green skins and knives and stalks.
Speaker 8 (04:41):
Or something a comic book conception is possible. Or they
may have developed to a point that is far beyond us.
Perhaps they have a science that can produce weapons far
more dangerous than our atomic missiles.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Do you think we may have to fight our way out?
Speaker 8 (04:56):
After all? We are invaders?
Speaker 5 (05:00):
This landing time minus two?
Speaker 9 (05:02):
Oh, alright, we heard this. I know what I'd like
to find outside that air luck.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Good old Illinois. You ever been there?
Speaker 9 (05:13):
Lasting only Chicago? You want to see my hometown? Green lawns,
big white houses.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Sounds like my hometown.
Speaker 9 (05:22):
My grandmother used to have one of those iron deers
on the lawn.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Every Halloween.
Speaker 9 (05:27):
We painted another color. One time we painted black and white,
like a whole steam cow.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
What does your family live, horse?
Speaker 8 (05:36):
I have no family. When I was a child, they
were gas to death in the Dacha concentration camp.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
That's tough.
Speaker 8 (05:44):
Oh, it has its advantages. I have no ties on earth,
nothing to lose. Now, I imagine I'm the only one on
board who is free to enjoy a present peculiar position.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Alright, button up now, I, sir, gentlemen, in one minute,
will be the first man to set foot on Mars.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Quite an honor, eh, as long as the metals an
not of water. Posthumously.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Still uneasy, Doctor.
Speaker 8 (06:15):
Horset, Captain Black, I have been uneasy ever since I
can remember, on Earth and on Mars.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Well, thirty seconds. Give me the intercom phone, lsting Masters.
Battle stations will be manned till we return. If we're
not back in two hours, I want no rescue parties
sent out. Blast off and save the ship. You understand,
all right, gentlemen. Five seconds four three two one lust
(06:53):
to open the outer air lock, fresh air. Let's go
hold it, man, it's too dark to move fast. Quiet.
Isn't it not even a wind? And you can't see
(07:13):
anything through this grounds? Quiet? You don't know what's out here?
Come on? What the quiet? Captain?
Speaker 6 (07:26):
I could?
Speaker 4 (07:26):
I could swear that.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Sound like a rooster. I don't hear it anymore.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
A very unlikely song, rooster crowing.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
On ma Singston. I set that machine gun twenty five
yards to the flank. We'll stay here til the ground
mist lifts. What do you make of the ground horse.
Speaker 8 (07:47):
Grass plain grass? I could see some large foliage there
with the mists. Then on.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
A cat what some kind of weld animal?
Speaker 8 (08:01):
I hit it.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
I could see the traces.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
But it's still standing. Doctor, doctor, where are you up ahead?
Admiring the wild animal? Careful hearst wait for us.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I'm worry happen?
Speaker 8 (08:12):
Huh? It's an iron deer a lawn on them.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
That's impossible.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
It's hollow. Interesting, isn't it a whitewashed Victorian iron beer
sitting on a lawn in the middle of Mars.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I don't understand.
Speaker 8 (08:31):
I look around the mists, lifting the captain.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Look there a house, a regular, old fashioned house.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Good lord, I haven't seen carved scrolls and gingerbread like
that in years. Look at that port swing, the geraniums.
I told you was a rooster, captain, give me the
glasses lasting. I want to take a look through that
front window. But there's an upright piano, some sheet music
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on it, rustic. It's beautiful Ohio, beautiful Ohio. That can't
be Look here, horse. Do you think that civilizations of
two planets could be identical? I don't know.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
That specific variety of geraniums is only fifty years old
on Us.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Is it logical they should develop in Mars? How about
that port swing, that piano and beautiful Ohio. No, it's impossible.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Nothing black This looks like the town I was born in.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
It looks like my hometown too. I've thought of something, sir,
it's the only solution.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Maybe we're not the first ship to reach Mars from Earth.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
That's the only answer. That's impossibilistic. There have been space travel.
It couldn't be secret. Do you have any idea what
ships cost, what industrial power is needed.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
There's got to be some logical reason happened. I think
perhaps we might find out. The light just went on
in that house.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Kingston covered that door with the machine gun. I say,
come on, horse, you can ring that doorbell to be
a scientific answer to all this.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
There's something moving in there.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Stand back, Horse, give me a clear shot. Maybe a martian.
Speaker 10 (10:13):
Can I help you?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
We we were looking.
Speaker 10 (10:18):
Well, if you're selling anything, it's much to it.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
No, no, wait, wait a minute, but what town is it?
Speaker 10 (10:27):
What do you mean are you sent to staking?
Speaker 8 (10:30):
No, it's strangers here. We want to know how this
town got here.
Speaker 11 (10:35):
Is this a game?
Speaker 8 (10:36):
No? No, it's not a game. We are from Earth.
From where from Earth?
Speaker 10 (10:42):
Do you mean? Out of the ground? Are you sure
you're feeling.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Weir, madam? We came in a flying ship across space.
We're from the third planet. This is this is Mars.
Now do you understand Mars?
Speaker 6 (10:56):
You go away?
Speaker 10 (10:57):
Now you're here. I'll call my husband from my stairs and.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
Hutation as is Mars. Isn't that?
Speaker 10 (11:04):
This is Green Lake, Wisconsin in the United States of America,
bounded on the east bide at Landing and on the
west bide the Pacific.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
No, not, now, go away?
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Goodbye?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Of course. Do you suppose it's really possible. I've got
to find out more about this.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
For the last time.
Speaker 10 (11:23):
Now go away.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Pardon me, madam? What year is this? Year?
Speaker 10 (11:29):
Nineteen twenty eight?
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Occurse?
Speaker 10 (11:31):
Who foresee you.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Hear that horse? And we know it's nineteen eighty seven,
and we know it's Mars. Is it possible we got
fouled up, made some tremendous blunder and circled around.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
And landed back on Earth in nineteen twenty eight?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Maybe some switch in time or dimension? Could we have
shifted somehow and gone backward in time? Horst, It won't
hold water. It's not logical. We've checked every mile we
went past the Moon and out into space. We're on Mars.
Find out anything, Captain, No, we're going back to the ship.
Till I figure out some logical explanation for all this.
Lustig out a point ier Hankston in the rear. Keep
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that gun on half love. Of course, there's gotta be
some cold logical solution.
Speaker 12 (12:12):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
What that house down the street, the white one with
a green shutters letstick?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
What's the matter?
Speaker 6 (12:18):
I never thought?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Thank God, Lustig stick come back here.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
He's running for the house.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Crazy fool.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Lefterim quick.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Plus it stop, come down off that part, Grandma, Grandpa
Lustig what the devil?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
You will be your truck? Grandma and Grandpa?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
It is you? What's going on? Help?
Speaker 4 (12:40):
It's been so many years?
Speaker 11 (12:42):
How you've grown by?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
What's goods?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
See? Oh, captain, Grandma, I want you to meet my friend.
This is Captain Black. Captain, I want you to meet
my grandfa.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
How any friends who helped? Friend? Of all?
Speaker 6 (12:55):
How long you've been here, grandma?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (12:58):
Good?
Speaker 11 (12:58):
Many years? Ever since we died?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Ever since you what? Yes, sir, they've been dead thirty years.
What you mean to tell me that Mars is heaven?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Nungence?
Speaker 6 (13:09):
No, all we know is here.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
We're alive again, And who are we to question God's
infinite ways?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Must going back to the ship.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
But Captain, I want to talk to my griffriend at last.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I don't like any part of this. You'll come back
with us. I have to club you and carry you.
But heaven only knows what they've run up against the
back of the ship, parst. Look at that crowd around
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the ship.
Speaker 8 (13:59):
Looks like they're being come with a celebration.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Celebration. They've abandoned ship. Every reporter is opened. No guard
said you your master.
Speaker 10 (14:06):
Hi, your captain?
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Read my old dad, Dad.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
That's Captain Black and he's not a bad guy for
all the Kingston. What's it? Bring that man back? Use force?
Speaker 4 (14:14):
If you'll have to excuse me, sir, there's my uncle,
George Eickston. I'll be right back, Captain, Uncle George. What
the devil, sir? They've all found friends and relatives.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
They're all here.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
He's right, Captain.
Speaker 8 (14:25):
I've counted the whole truth out.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
On the crop.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
But I gave orders, definite orders, understand, Captain, I understand mutiny.
I don't care how many relatives show up. I'll have Disciplinae.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Johnny, Johnny, you old son of a god.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Edward Edward Pits. It can't be, of course it is Johny,
you old son of aad Edward, Doctor Horst. This is
my my brother, Edward. How are you doing. Oh, it's
it's wonderful to see you, Edward. Look, I've got to
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get back.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
To my ship. Hey, I almost forgot.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
Mom's waiting at home.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Mom and dad too.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
Mom, Dad are alive.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Excuse me, Horset.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Then you're real in Jude, I feel real.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
How's that?
Speaker 8 (15:19):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (15:20):
And we've got lunch for you, Johnny. Mom's making corn fritters.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Corn, Doctor Horst. Haven't you found anybody.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
No, Captain, I have nobody.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Then you come on home with me right and assure
you that Horst, you wouldn't believe it. But it's been
thirty five years since I had mom's corn printers by
George thirty five yets.
Speaker 11 (15:58):
And there's plenty more in the kitten, So don't hold back,
Johnny YouTube Doctor Horst.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Well, Johnny, you're still in the Navy. Euh, that's right
that I'm in command of the show.
Speaker 12 (16:08):
We're an old Navy family, doctor Horst. All three of
our boys in the surface.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Ed was the best pilot in the Pacific roop. What
didn't happen? Oh, it's the difference.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I'm here now, you know.
Speaker 11 (16:19):
It's almost perfect. All we're missing is your brother Will.
Then the whole family could be together.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Well, it won't be long.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Mom.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Will's in charge of the XR fifty four. That's the
next rocket coming out tomorrows.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Well, little Will.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
When does he leave? Johnny take off schedule for September.
But it depends on what we report. There's no question
about that. Now Chris was together again, that'll be something.
Speaker 12 (16:42):
Yes, sirry well, this calls for celebration. How about a
little of the old dandelion lione it Johnny?
Speaker 11 (16:48):
Now, fa don't you go giving Johnny too much?
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Why he's a big boy?
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Now, Well, sir, isn't everything just fine?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Getrify ugly me all the fame away? Play another song?
Speaker 11 (17:27):
You are well, doctor Horace, What do you think of
my little family?
Speaker 8 (17:35):
Very nice?
Speaker 11 (17:36):
You know, I can't understand why you didn't find any
folks here, doctor Horse. It's just a shame. Everybody else
is so unhappy.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
I never remembered my family, Missus Drake. All I know
is they were gasped Daha during the Second World War.
When I was liberated, I was a delirium three months.
I cannot remember anything before then a psychiatric phenomenon.
Speaker 11 (18:04):
That's terrible. Isn't there anything anybody can do?
Speaker 8 (18:08):
I don't want to remember. Oh, I haven't had a
pleasant life. I prefer to be free of emotional entanglements.
They interfere with a scientific approach.
Speaker 11 (18:24):
I'm sorry, doctor Horace.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I'll get it. Hey, that's our ring long as three shorts.
I remember that.
Speaker 11 (18:31):
Well, maybe we'd better call it a night. You must
be getting tired, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
I'd better be going back to the ship. Oh nonsense,
you stay the night.
Speaker 11 (18:39):
I just couldn't rest thinking of you all alone on
that ship.
Speaker 8 (18:42):
I'd be all right.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Well, good night. That phone message was for you me,
that's right, a message from Anna Anna.
Speaker 8 (18:55):
I don't remember any Anna.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
She asked if you were better.
Speaker 11 (19:00):
Perhaps she's someone you knew at Daho.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
She said, she's coming over here first thing in the morning,
so you'll have to stay over that.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
You stay here, Horse, you can bump with me in
my old room. Oh but Johnny, we.
Speaker 11 (19:13):
Thought you'd like to be with ed so you could
talk the way you're used to.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Well, we can't put doctor Horst on the day bed.
I think we better share the room tonight. There'll be
plenty of time for talking.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
Ed.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I guess so, well, I suppose I better drop back
the ship. You know, ed security check.
Speaker 11 (19:27):
Why do you have to do that here?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Well, I don't know. There's no good reason. I guess. Well,
I suppose we skip it tonight. Oh sure, good night everybody.
Speaker 11 (19:37):
Oh it's good to have your home, Johnny, It's good
to be home.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Gotten back you sleep. No, no, I just been thinking
about what we were expecting, cream skin martians with eyes
on the stalks. All the time, there was only mom
and Dad and Edward waiting. That's funny. What tricks your
imagination can play on you?
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
I guess Mars is heaven hearst Mmm. I've been thinking
about martians too, Yeah, Captain. Just suppose suppose there were
Martians and they saw us land. Suppose they thought of
us as invaders. What would be the best weapon they
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could use against our atom bombs?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I don't see what you're getting at.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
They would want to disarm us first, to wipe out
all suspicions, to make us heal it home. But suppose
this house isn't real. The people are just images stolen
from our own memories by Martians, created for us by telepathy, hypnotism.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
That's the craziest theory I ever heard.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
Maybe that's why there was no one for me, because
in all my life there is no happy memory, no
real love person.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
How about that phone call for manner?
Speaker 8 (21:20):
Yes, Anna, I don't remember who she was, but I
do now. I just remembered. When I was freed from
the hull, sick, delirious, I raved about a wonderful kind
nurse named Anna that took care of me.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
You are, it's logic, she's coming to see you to morrow.
Speaker 8 (21:34):
But there was no Anna. I'd be nursed by a man.
What Anna, There's only a dream, and there's only one
way they could have learned about her by reading my
subconscious mind.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
But that's impossible.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
Why the whole crew was thinking of home. Suppose the
Martians read our minds. But there are Martians there are
They have a separated each man in a different house, sleeping,
trusting no one. It beguns. I let my pistol anouncedtairs.
Do you think there's something to this horse? It's a
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who would suspect his own mother, his grandparents?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
How easy?
Speaker 8 (22:18):
Just a knife in the heart of each sleeping man.
It's impossible. We've got to get back to the ship. Listen,
the crickets are stopped. Come on, we don't know when
they change back to him whatever, they really are here?
Speaker 9 (22:45):
Where are you going?
Speaker 8 (22:46):
John?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
And well we we wanted to drink of water, that's
all Edwin. You're not Thursday. John. You don't want to drink.
You don't want to drink.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
It's fright.
Speaker 11 (23:00):
It's changing and his hands.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
He's a Mars. Run horse, run my horse?
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Why hello? Hello?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Can you hear me, Earth? This is Captain John Black,
the XR fifty three calling from Mars. I've locked myself
in the ship, but they've crippled it. I can't take
off or fire the guns, and they're coming for me now,
the Martians. I'm all alone here. All the rest are dead,
hangst and lustic. Doctor horse, poor horse, he didn't even
reach the door. Listen, listen. They're trying to break through
the hall now, Edward and mom and dad and all
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the folks.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
But they're changing now, melting and changing brackets. They're Martians.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Can you understand me?
Speaker 9 (23:49):
Martians, not men.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
They made us think that Mars was heaven and we
fell into the trap.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Can you hear me, Earth?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
You've got to stop the next rocket. Hell, tell my brother,
will tell my brother will not to come.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
You'll tap him too, They'll kill them all.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Hello.
Speaker 11 (24:03):
Hello, can you.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Hear me Earth?
Speaker 8 (24:04):
This is John Black on Mark.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Hello, This is Gone Black on Mard.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
Tonight, Dimansion X has presented and transcribed the Ray Bradbury
story Mars Is Heaven, adapted for radio by Ernest Cannoy.
Featured players were Wendell Holmes as Captain Black and Peter
Capell as Doctor Horse. Your narrator Norman Rose. Music by
Albert Berman engineer Bill Chambers. Dimansion X is produced by
(24:38):
Van Woodward and directed by Edward King. Robert Warren speaking
in a moment
Speaker 2 (25:02):
This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company,
Adventures in time and space transcribed in future tense. When
the first space rocket lands on Mars, what will we find?
(00:30):
Will we be welcomed with open arms or will the
Martians treat us as invaders?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Only one thing is certain.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Someday a giant metal ship will take off from Earth
to travel through the black velocities the silent gulfs of space,
to descend at last into the darkness of the upper
Martian atmospheres. And on that day man will finally know
the answers the day we first land on Mars.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Now hear this, Now hear this?
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Approaching pretty too, deceleration, fasten the gravity suits, stand by
the lion Doylistic.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
What do you make of the terrain?
Speaker 6 (01:15):
There seems to be a heavy ground this, Captain, we
won't be able to use.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Our in for red lights and we'll have to come
in on radar.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
Wasn't that a little risky, sir, landing in the dark.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I'd rather run the danger of a blind landing, Lieutenant,
than come in without the cover of darkness. Remember, we
don't know what kind of reception is waiting for us
down there.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Yes, speed five hundred altitude, now four thousand.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Bridge to engine rooms, stand by for deceleration at general.
I fire forward tubes one and three. Hi sketch down.
Speaker 7 (01:45):
Stats check altitude five hundred four three fifty three upper point.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Now all right, let's set her down.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Look out.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Cut the power master's pipe, battle stations, I said, off
the cut, sir. Well, we're on Mars, April twentieth, nineteen
eighty seven, four thirty three Greenwich. Time. Enter that in
the log, masters, I said, God, gentlemen, it's less than
two hours till dawn. As soon as it's light, we'll
(02:25):
send out a landing party. Masters, get me an all
over hook up, oh, said captain. Now hear this, now,
hear this? All right, man, The smoking lamp is lit.
We're seventeen men on an alien world, and it's up
to us whether we ever get home again. Next few
(02:48):
hours should tell the story. And I want instant obedience
to all commands. I'll court marshal the first man who
doesn't jump to when he's ordered. And one other thing.
We may be on Mars, but this still a United
States Naval vessels. Officers will conduct a personal and weapons
inspection in one hour. That's also inspection, Captain. Now, mister
(03:09):
Lustig We've got an hour and a half to sweat
out before we find out what's outside that airlock. I'd
rather have a man worried about his stripes about what's
waiting outside on Mars.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Now hear this landing party report to forward air lock.
Captain Black, Lieutenant Hinkston, Lieutenant Lustig, and doctor Horst report
immediately to forward air lock.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It is now landing time minus five.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Sounds like they're paging as Hangston. You ready, Doctor Horst.
Speaker 8 (03:51):
Yes, ready as I eleventh be.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Come on, let's.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Report to the airline. Four hours to go.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Where's the captain?
Speaker 8 (04:06):
Who knows? What difference does it make?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Just want to get it over with, That's all.
Speaker 8 (04:14):
Is.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Anybody got a cigarette.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
And I think you're smoking too much? Lieutenant Plastic are
you're nervously off with your horse wondering what's sitting outside
underneath the ground. Missed very unusual planet Mars. Why there's
an atmosphere? Wonderful thing in the atmosphere, Well you find one,
you'll find life. You mean, martians, What do you think
they'll look like? Who knows? Intelligent life can take many forms.
Speaker 9 (04:38):
I mean they may have green skins and knives and stalks.
Speaker 8 (04:41):
Or something a comic book conception is possible. Or they
may have developed to a point that is far beyond us.
Perhaps they have a science that can produce weapons far
more dangerous than our atomic missiles.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Do you think we may have to fight our way out?
Speaker 8 (04:56):
After all? We are invaders?
Speaker 5 (05:00):
This landing time minus two?
Speaker 9 (05:02):
Oh, alright, we heard this. I know what I'd like
to find outside that air luck.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Good old Illinois. You ever been there?
Speaker 9 (05:13):
Lasting only Chicago? You want to see my hometown? Green lawns,
big white houses.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Sounds like my hometown.
Speaker 9 (05:22):
My grandmother used to have one of those iron deers
on the lawn.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Every Halloween.
Speaker 9 (05:27):
We painted another color. One time we painted black and white,
like a whole steam cow.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
What does your family live, horse?
Speaker 8 (05:36):
I have no family. When I was a child, they
were gas to death in the Dacha concentration camp.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
That's tough.
Speaker 8 (05:44):
Oh, it has its advantages. I have no ties on earth,
nothing to lose. Now, I imagine I'm the only one on
board who is free to enjoy a present peculiar position.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Alright, button up now, I, sir, gentlemen, in one minute,
will be the first man to set foot on Mars.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Quite an honor, eh, as long as the metals an
not of water. Posthumously.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Still uneasy, Doctor.
Speaker 8 (06:15):
Horset, Captain Black, I have been uneasy ever since I
can remember, on Earth and on Mars.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Well, thirty seconds. Give me the intercom phone, lsting Masters.
Battle stations will be manned till we return. If we're
not back in two hours, I want no rescue parties
sent out. Blast off and save the ship. You understand,
all right, gentlemen. Five seconds four three two one lust
(06:53):
to open the outer air lock, fresh air. Let's go
hold it, man, it's too dark to move fast. Quiet.
Isn't it not even a wind? And you can't see
(07:13):
anything through this grounds? Quiet? You don't know what's out here?
Come on? What the quiet? Captain?
Speaker 6 (07:26):
I could?
Speaker 4 (07:26):
I could swear that.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Sound like a rooster. I don't hear it anymore.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
A very unlikely song, rooster crowing.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
On ma Singston. I set that machine gun twenty five
yards to the flank. We'll stay here til the ground
mist lifts. What do you make of the ground horse.
Speaker 8 (07:47):
Grass plain grass? I could see some large foliage there
with the mists. Then on.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
A cat what some kind of weld animal?
Speaker 8 (08:01):
I hit it.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
I could see the traces.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
But it's still standing. Doctor, doctor, where are you up ahead?
Admiring the wild animal? Careful hearst wait for us.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I'm worry happen?
Speaker 8 (08:12):
Huh? It's an iron deer a lawn on them.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
That's impossible.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
It's hollow. Interesting, isn't it a whitewashed Victorian iron beer
sitting on a lawn in the middle of Mars.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I don't understand.
Speaker 8 (08:31):
I look around the mists, lifting the captain.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Look there a house, a regular, old fashioned house.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Good lord, I haven't seen carved scrolls and gingerbread like
that in years. Look at that port swing, the geraniums.
I told you was a rooster, captain, give me the
glasses lasting. I want to take a look through that
front window. But there's an upright piano, some sheet music
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on it, rustic. It's beautiful Ohio, beautiful Ohio. That can't
be Look here, horse. Do you think that civilizations of
two planets could be identical? I don't know.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
That specific variety of geraniums is only fifty years old
on Us.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Is it logical they should develop in Mars? How about
that port swing, that piano and beautiful Ohio. No, it's impossible.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Nothing black This looks like the town I was born in.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
It looks like my hometown too. I've thought of something, sir,
it's the only solution.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Maybe we're not the first ship to reach Mars from Earth.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
That's the only answer. That's impossibilistic. There have been space travel.
It couldn't be secret. Do you have any idea what
ships cost, what industrial power is needed.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
There's got to be some logical reason happened. I think
perhaps we might find out. The light just went on
in that house.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Kingston covered that door with the machine gun. I say,
come on, horse, you can ring that doorbell to be
a scientific answer to all this.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
There's something moving in there.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Stand back, Horse, give me a clear shot. Maybe a martian.
Speaker 10 (10:13):
Can I help you?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
We we were looking.
Speaker 10 (10:18):
Well, if you're selling anything, it's much to it.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
No, no, wait, wait a minute, but what town is it?
Speaker 10 (10:27):
What do you mean are you sent to staking?
Speaker 8 (10:30):
No, it's strangers here. We want to know how this
town got here.
Speaker 11 (10:35):
Is this a game?
Speaker 8 (10:36):
No? No, it's not a game. We are from Earth.
From where from Earth?
Speaker 10 (10:42):
Do you mean? Out of the ground? Are you sure
you're feeling.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Weir, madam? We came in a flying ship across space.
We're from the third planet. This is this is Mars.
Now do you understand Mars?
Speaker 6 (10:56):
You go away?
Speaker 10 (10:57):
Now you're here. I'll call my husband from my stairs and.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
Hutation as is Mars. Isn't that?
Speaker 10 (11:04):
This is Green Lake, Wisconsin in the United States of America,
bounded on the east bide at Landing and on the
west bide the Pacific.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
No, not, now, go away?
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Goodbye?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Of course. Do you suppose it's really possible. I've got
to find out more about this.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
For the last time.
Speaker 10 (11:23):
Now go away.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Pardon me, madam? What year is this? Year?
Speaker 10 (11:29):
Nineteen twenty eight?
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Occurse?
Speaker 10 (11:31):
Who foresee you.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Hear that horse? And we know it's nineteen eighty seven,
and we know it's Mars. Is it possible we got
fouled up, made some tremendous blunder and circled around.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
And landed back on Earth in nineteen twenty eight?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Maybe some switch in time or dimension? Could we have
shifted somehow and gone backward in time? Horst, It won't
hold water. It's not logical. We've checked every mile we
went past the Moon and out into space. We're on Mars.
Find out anything, Captain, No, we're going back to the ship.
Till I figure out some logical explanation for all this.
Lustig out a point ier Hankston in the rear. Keep
(12:06):
that gun on half love. Of course, there's gotta be
some cold logical solution.
Speaker 12 (12:12):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
What that house down the street, the white one with
a green shutters letstick?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
What's the matter?
Speaker 6 (12:18):
I never thought?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Thank God, Lustig stick come back here.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
He's running for the house.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Crazy fool.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Lefterim quick.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Plus it stop, come down off that part, Grandma, Grandpa
Lustig what the devil?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
You will be your truck? Grandma and Grandpa?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
It is you? What's going on? Help?
Speaker 4 (12:40):
It's been so many years?
Speaker 11 (12:42):
How you've grown by?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
What's goods?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
See? Oh, captain, Grandma, I want you to meet my friend.
This is Captain Black. Captain, I want you to meet
my grandfa.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
How any friends who helped? Friend? Of all?
Speaker 6 (12:55):
How long you've been here, grandma?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (12:58):
Good?
Speaker 11 (12:58):
Many years? Ever since we died?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Ever since you what? Yes, sir, they've been dead thirty years.
What you mean to tell me that Mars is heaven?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Nungence?
Speaker 6 (13:09):
No, all we know is here.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
We're alive again, And who are we to question God's
infinite ways?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Must going back to the ship.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
But Captain, I want to talk to my griffriend at last.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I don't like any part of this. You'll come back
with us. I have to club you and carry you.
But heaven only knows what they've run up against the
back of the ship, parst. Look at that crowd around
(13:58):
the ship.
Speaker 8 (13:59):
Looks like they're being come with a celebration.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Celebration. They've abandoned ship. Every reporter is opened. No guard
said you your master.
Speaker 10 (14:06):
Hi, your captain?
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Read my old dad, Dad.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
That's Captain Black and he's not a bad guy for
all the Kingston. What's it? Bring that man back? Use force?
Speaker 4 (14:14):
If you'll have to excuse me, sir, there's my uncle,
George Eickston. I'll be right back, Captain, Uncle George. What
the devil, sir? They've all found friends and relatives.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
They're all here.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
He's right, Captain.
Speaker 8 (14:25):
I've counted the whole truth out.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
On the crop.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
But I gave orders, definite orders, understand, Captain, I understand mutiny.
I don't care how many relatives show up. I'll have Disciplinae.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Johnny, Johnny, you old son of a god.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Edward Edward Pits. It can't be, of course it is Johny,
you old son of aad Edward, Doctor Horst. This is
my my brother, Edward. How are you doing. Oh, it's
it's wonderful to see you, Edward. Look, I've got to
(14:59):
get back.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
To my ship. Hey, I almost forgot.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
Mom's waiting at home.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Mom and dad too.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
Mom, Dad are alive.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Excuse me, Horset.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Then you're real in Jude, I feel real.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
How's that?
Speaker 8 (15:19):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (15:20):
And we've got lunch for you, Johnny. Mom's making corn fritters.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Corn, Doctor Horst. Haven't you found anybody.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
No, Captain, I have nobody.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Then you come on home with me right and assure
you that Horst, you wouldn't believe it. But it's been
thirty five years since I had mom's corn printers by
George thirty five yets.
Speaker 11 (15:58):
And there's plenty more in the kitten, So don't hold back,
Johnny YouTube Doctor Horst.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Well, Johnny, you're still in the Navy. Euh, that's right
that I'm in command of the show.
Speaker 12 (16:08):
We're an old Navy family, doctor Horst. All three of
our boys in the surface.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Ed was the best pilot in the Pacific roop. What
didn't happen? Oh, it's the difference.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I'm here now, you know.
Speaker 11 (16:19):
It's almost perfect. All we're missing is your brother Will.
Then the whole family could be together.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Well, it won't be long.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Mom.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Will's in charge of the XR fifty four. That's the
next rocket coming out tomorrows.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Well, little Will.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
When does he leave? Johnny take off schedule for September.
But it depends on what we report. There's no question
about that. Now Chris was together again, that'll be something.
Speaker 12 (16:42):
Yes, sirry well, this calls for celebration. How about a
little of the old dandelion lione it Johnny?
Speaker 11 (16:48):
Now, fa don't you go giving Johnny too much?
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Why he's a big boy?
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Now, Well, sir, isn't everything just fine?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Getrify ugly me all the fame away? Play another song?
Speaker 11 (17:27):
You are well, doctor Horace, What do you think of
my little family?
Speaker 8 (17:35):
Very nice?
Speaker 11 (17:36):
You know, I can't understand why you didn't find any
folks here, doctor Horse. It's just a shame. Everybody else
is so unhappy.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
I never remembered my family, Missus Drake. All I know
is they were gasped Daha during the Second World War.
When I was liberated, I was a delirium three months.
I cannot remember anything before then a psychiatric phenomenon.
Speaker 11 (18:04):
That's terrible. Isn't there anything anybody can do?
Speaker 8 (18:08):
I don't want to remember. Oh, I haven't had a
pleasant life. I prefer to be free of emotional entanglements.
They interfere with a scientific approach.
Speaker 11 (18:24):
I'm sorry, doctor Horace.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I'll get it. Hey, that's our ring long as three shorts.
I remember that.
Speaker 11 (18:31):
Well, maybe we'd better call it a night. You must
be getting tired, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
I'd better be going back to the ship. Oh nonsense,
you stay the night.
Speaker 11 (18:39):
I just couldn't rest thinking of you all alone on
that ship.
Speaker 8 (18:42):
I'd be all right.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Well, good night. That phone message was for you me,
that's right, a message from Anna Anna.
Speaker 8 (18:55):
I don't remember any Anna.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
She asked if you were better.
Speaker 11 (19:00):
Perhaps she's someone you knew at Daho.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
She said, she's coming over here first thing in the morning,
so you'll have to stay over that.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
You stay here, Horse, you can bump with me in
my old room. Oh but Johnny, we.
Speaker 11 (19:13):
Thought you'd like to be with ed so you could
talk the way you're used to.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Well, we can't put doctor Horst on the day bed.
I think we better share the room tonight. There'll be
plenty of time for talking.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
Ed.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I guess so, well, I suppose I better drop back
the ship. You know, ed security check.
Speaker 11 (19:27):
Why do you have to do that here?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Well, I don't know. There's no good reason. I guess. Well,
I suppose we skip it tonight. Oh sure, good night everybody.
Speaker 11 (19:37):
Oh it's good to have your home, Johnny, It's good
to be home.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Gotten back you sleep. No, no, I just been thinking
about what we were expecting, cream skin martians with eyes
on the stalks. All the time, there was only mom
and Dad and Edward waiting. That's funny. What tricks your
imagination can play on you?
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
I guess Mars is heaven hearst Mmm. I've been thinking
about martians too, Yeah, Captain. Just suppose suppose there were
Martians and they saw us land. Suppose they thought of
us as invaders. What would be the best weapon they
(20:44):
could use against our atom bombs?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I don't see what you're getting at.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
They would want to disarm us first, to wipe out
all suspicions, to make us heal it home. But suppose
this house isn't real. The people are just images stolen
from our own memories by Martians, created for us by telepathy, hypnotism.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
That's the craziest theory I ever heard.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
Maybe that's why there was no one for me, because
in all my life there is no happy memory, no
real love person.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
How about that phone call for manner?
Speaker 8 (21:20):
Yes, Anna, I don't remember who she was, but I
do now. I just remembered. When I was freed from
the hull, sick, delirious, I raved about a wonderful kind
nurse named Anna that took care of me.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
You are, it's logic, she's coming to see you to morrow.
Speaker 8 (21:34):
But there was no Anna. I'd be nursed by a man.
What Anna, There's only a dream, and there's only one
way they could have learned about her by reading my
subconscious mind.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
But that's impossible.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
Why the whole crew was thinking of home. Suppose the
Martians read our minds. But there are Martians there are
They have a separated each man in a different house, sleeping,
trusting no one. It beguns. I let my pistol anouncedtairs.
Do you think there's something to this horse? It's a
(22:12):
who would suspect his own mother, his grandparents?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
How easy?
Speaker 8 (22:18):
Just a knife in the heart of each sleeping man.
It's impossible. We've got to get back to the ship. Listen,
the crickets are stopped. Come on, we don't know when
they change back to him whatever, they really are here?
Speaker 9 (22:45):
Where are you going?
Speaker 8 (22:46):
John?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
And well we we wanted to drink of water, that's
all Edwin. You're not Thursday. John. You don't want to drink.
You don't want to drink.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
It's fright.
Speaker 11 (23:00):
It's changing and his hands.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
He's a Mars. Run horse, run my horse?
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Why hello? Hello?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Can you hear me, Earth? This is Captain John Black,
the XR fifty three calling from Mars. I've locked myself
in the ship, but they've crippled it. I can't take
off or fire the guns, and they're coming for me now,
the Martians. I'm all alone here. All the rest are dead,
hangst and lustic. Doctor horse, poor horse, he didn't even
reach the door. Listen, listen. They're trying to break through
the hall now, Edward and mom and dad and all
(23:43):
the folks.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
But they're changing now, melting and changing brackets. They're Martians.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Can you understand me?
Speaker 9 (23:49):
Martians, not men.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
They made us think that Mars was heaven and we
fell into the trap.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Can you hear me, Earth?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
You've got to stop the next rocket. Hell, tell my brother,
will tell my brother will not to come.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
You'll tap him too, They'll kill them all.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Hello.
Speaker 11 (24:03):
Hello, can you.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Hear me Earth?
Speaker 8 (24:04):
This is John Black on Mark.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Hello, This is Gone Black on Mard.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
Tonight, Dimansion X has presented and transcribed the Ray Bradbury
story Mars Is Heaven, adapted for radio by Ernest Cannoy.
Featured players were Wendell Holmes as Captain Black and Peter
Capell as Doctor Horse. Your narrator Norman Rose. Music by
Albert Berman engineer Bill Chambers. Dimansion X is produced by
(24:38):
Van Woodward and directed by Edward King. Robert Warren speaking
in a moment
Speaker 2 (25:02):
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