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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Adventures in Time and Space, Total in Future Tents. The

(00:26):
National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers
of astounding science fiction, bring you Dimension X. It happened
during a routine skirmish in the Great War. Patrols advanced

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from the defense perimeter under jet cover and preceded by
napalm throwers. The enemy defended in depth and mopped up
with guided ninety eight inspired from forty miles to the rear.
The blast area was ten miles in circumference, and the
medics didn't find much to pick up over five hundred
yards in.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Hang it in here, back out of slowsy with but
o my name, poor.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Laugh? Whoa hold?

Speaker 4 (01:18):
They stretchers, a lot of drivers.

Speaker 5 (01:24):
Get those men out, yes, sir, let him move on.

Speaker 6 (01:27):
Line them up, Come on, easy, easy, you want to
kill him? Okay, take it away. I might have left
these charges where they was. Half of them won lasted.
The plane comes.

Speaker 5 (01:47):
As long as they're alive, they'll be treated.

Speaker 6 (01:49):
Get off the tags. Drivers talking names. Yes, this one
must have been a thousand yards. Get his dog hag out,
what a miss? Here hardly and Captain G five camera,
he said again, seventy three d number show two three
eight six, ninty four O three j Allan Hardley, Alan Hotley.

Speaker 5 (02:07):
I wonder if that could be the hunter that wrote
Children of the Mists and Conqueror His Road, never heard of.

Speaker 7 (02:13):
Major.

Speaker 6 (02:13):
I think maybe he's part conscious. Maybe you should give
an out of shout, go ahead. There's much else we
can do for him. It's a rock and shame and
it always okay, captain, give me your.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
There out down yew get up, Ellen, can'st him bed

(02:55):
all day?

Speaker 8 (02:57):
I remember that clear as.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
It were real, popping at him, hit the neck.

Speaker 8 (03:04):
Remarkably vivid, strange chellingy.

Speaker 5 (03:07):
All right, I'm all right?

Speaker 8 (03:11):
What's true? In my voice? It's too high?

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Ah?

Speaker 5 (03:17):
What are you doing practicing singing?

Speaker 8 (03:19):
My voice is cheaged?

Speaker 5 (03:22):
Is that all you're growing up? Happy birthday, son, Happy birthday? Hey?
Wake up, son, Wake up? I am awake, Come on
out of bed. I don't understand breakfast waiting, how the better?
I'll turn it over right, all right, it's a dream maybe,

(03:43):
but you're wide awake now. I am awake now, well,
half awake. Anyway.

Speaker 8 (03:50):
That's the bellowsy bon office, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (03:54):
What day? Is it?

Speaker 9 (03:55):
You kidding?

Speaker 5 (03:56):
You forget today's your birthday. No, no, I didn't forget,
neither did I. Here's a happy thirteenth birthday. You won't
guess what's in here?

Speaker 8 (04:08):
A rifle? A right twenty two rifle.

Speaker 5 (04:12):
How'd you know that?

Speaker 8 (04:14):
I remembered?

Speaker 5 (04:15):
Did I spill the bean? Sometimes? I could have sworn
i'd be a surprise. Well, it will go on, open
it like it?

Speaker 8 (04:26):
Yeah, yeah, it's perfect, Dad.

Speaker 5 (04:30):
I'll be shaving. Alan, come down to breakfast when you're ready.
It's a big day today. You're almost a man almost,
you're still groggy. Snap out of it, Alan, I will.

Speaker 8 (04:42):
He's a dream in it somewhere, but I'm not sure
which what. Never mind, Dad, I'll be right down for breakfast.

Speaker 5 (05:04):
Now for coffee. Missus Stoppa makes the best in town
black for me?

Speaker 8 (05:10):
What oh?

Speaker 2 (05:11):
I mean?

Speaker 5 (05:12):
You maybe thirteen, Alan, but they're still a little young
for coffee, especially black.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
Oh.

Speaker 8 (05:16):
I wasn't thinking.

Speaker 5 (05:17):
What are you gonna do? Today's done?

Speaker 8 (05:19):
I want to do some reading this morning.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
I guess that's always a good thing to do after breakfast.
Suppose you take a walk down to the station and
get me At times?

Speaker 8 (05:27):
Didn't it come?

Speaker 5 (05:28):
What the times? They don't deliver be a good idea, though.
Maybe I'll talk the same management about it. Here's a
half dollar Alan, get anything you want for yourself out
of the change.

Speaker 8 (05:38):
Thanks Dad.

Speaker 5 (05:39):
I finish your milk before you go. Oh sure, Dad,
and hurry back. I like to finish the crossword puzzle
before lunch.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
Here you are Adam one times. Tell your father the
puzzles a stinker.

Speaker 8 (06:06):
Thanks, mister Ashburn.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Look out for the trucks when you cross the highway.

Speaker 8 (06:11):
I'll go across Elton's lot.

Speaker 4 (06:13):
Shortcut Elton's. You'll have a hard time crossing there. Son.
There's four buildings on that block.

Speaker 8 (06:21):
I thought they burned down.

Speaker 4 (06:22):
Seen him this morning, big as life.

Speaker 8 (06:26):
Oh I guess that didn't happen yet.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
What do you say?

Speaker 8 (06:31):
Oh nothing, mister Ashburn. I was just muttering mm.

Speaker 4 (06:36):
In my days, youngsters talked up, yes.

Speaker 8 (06:39):
Sir, Oh bonest Rashburn. Monday, August sixth, nineteen forty five.
Okunaw won bum Japan.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
Hey.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Hey wait up, Larry Morton, Hey Larry, Hey, you wanna
have a catch or something?

Speaker 8 (07:06):
No, I have some things I wanna do at home.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
Wow, get him fancy pants? Talk things I wanna do
at home?

Speaker 3 (07:13):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (07:13):
Go chease yourself around in the block.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Oh, jump in a garbage can?

Speaker 8 (07:16):
Will you go take a flying jet to the moon.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Hey, that's a new one, a flying jet to the moon.
Hey you thought up a new one? Now?

Speaker 8 (07:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Hey, how about us going swimming at the canoe clubs?

Speaker 10 (07:28):
After?

Speaker 8 (07:29):
Gee? I wish I could. I gotta stay home.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
This is after you see the football movie at the
grand Boy?

Speaker 5 (07:37):
What a team?

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Notre Dame. I thought you like Cornell Cornell? Huh they
couldn't even be Vasser.

Speaker 8 (07:44):
You're going to Cornell? Aren't you me? Cornell?

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Fat chance, I'll bet you do. I wouldn't take your money.

Speaker 8 (07:52):
I know you wouldn't. You'll go to Cornell, all right?

Speaker 2 (07:55):
H Cornell far rabov Kai yugus waters.

Speaker 8 (07:59):
There's and all off all smell just the same. You'll
go to Cornell. I've got to hurry Larry for so long?

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Al see her? So long, Larry.

Speaker 5 (08:08):
See I'm stuck in this corner. A seven letter word
to mix in proportion they treat huh, Gee, alright, it fits.

(08:37):
How do you know that?

Speaker 3 (08:37):
Alan?

Speaker 5 (08:38):
What?

Speaker 4 (08:39):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (08:40):
I read it somewhere.

Speaker 5 (08:41):
I guess Oh what are you ready?

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Now?

Speaker 5 (08:44):
Tarzan again?

Speaker 8 (08:45):
No, not Tarzan.

Speaker 5 (08:47):
It's refreshing to see you with a book. Sometimes I
think I ought to forbid comic books in US. There
must be raising the devil with those bombing raids in Japan.

Speaker 8 (08:59):
How long do you think the war in Japan will last?

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Dad?

Speaker 5 (09:02):
Oh, I'll say the middle of nineteen forty six. I'll
have to invade those islands foot by foot.

Speaker 8 (09:09):
I wouldn't be surprised if the war was over very suddenly.

Speaker 5 (09:13):
Oh, by magic, there's nothing on earth or make those
Japanese surrenders. You expect somebody to make a pass and
it'll be all over by this afternoon.

Speaker 8 (09:22):
It's just about.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
It's hardly excuse me, permanent.

Speaker 5 (09:26):
Oh hell long, mister got y'all. Sure, that's Frank got y'all. Dad,
that's right, chuuse me.

Speaker 11 (09:33):
Didn't mean to a stadia, mister Hall.

Speaker 5 (09:35):
That's quite all right. It's a lovely day, hasn't, mister
got y'all.

Speaker 7 (09:38):
Lord's world is always beautiful, of course, mister got y'all. Eh,
mister Hartley, I wonder if you would lend me a.

Speaker 5 (09:45):
Gun and some bullets.

Speaker 7 (09:46):
My little dog's been hurt and it's been suffering something terrible.

Speaker 5 (09:51):
It's too bad. I want a gun, to put the
poor thing out of its pain. Of course, how would
a twenty gate shotgun do? You wouldn't want anything heavy.
I was hoping you'd let me have a little gun,
maybe so big a pistol, so I could put it
in my pocket.

Speaker 7 (10:06):
Wouldn't look right for a godly man to carry a
hunting gun through palm. I don't hold with killing innocent creatures.
People wouldn't understand that it was for a work of mercy.

Speaker 5 (10:16):
Course, I understand you're a very religious man.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
The whole world is evil, miss Darkley.

Speaker 5 (10:22):
Sometimes it certainly looks like it. Well, I have a
Colt thirty eight special from the auxidiary police out there.
That's fine, you'll have to bring it right back, mister Gotchall,
I might be called up dead dead.

Speaker 8 (10:32):
Wait a minute, I just remembered.

Speaker 5 (10:34):
Remember what's on? Ah?

Speaker 8 (10:36):
There some cartridges left for the luger. Then you wouldn't
be without a.

Speaker 5 (10:41):
Cult That's right, I've got a German automatic, mister Gotchall.
I canot you have that way I wouldn't get stuck.

Speaker 8 (10:46):
Wait, dad, I'll get it. I know where the cartridges are.

Speaker 5 (10:50):
The capel's on me. Well, miss Gotchall, it sure turned
out nights after all that rain.

Speaker 8 (11:11):
Oho Police headquarters.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (11:14):
This is Blake Hartley.

Speaker 5 (11:16):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (11:17):
Frank Gottschall lives on Campbell Street. Has just bollowed a
gun from me, ostensibly to shoot a dog. Right, No,
he has no dog. He and ten shooting his wife. Yes,
I'll take out the firing thing. He'll walk home, he'll harry.

(11:38):
You can get a man there in time.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Right.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
Oh there you are?

Speaker 5 (12:01):
What kept you, Allen?

Speaker 8 (12:02):
I couldn't find the cartridges at first. I'll show mister
gutt Sho how it works. It's all loaded, ready to shoot? Uh,
this is the safetyn't just push it forward and up?

Speaker 5 (12:13):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (12:14):
Dear eight shots?

Speaker 5 (12:15):
Did you load the chamber Allen?

Speaker 8 (12:17):
Oh sure it's unsafe. Now you understand how it works,
mister gut show.

Speaker 5 (12:22):
Yes, yes, I understand.

Speaker 7 (12:24):
Thank you, mister Hontley, Thank you, Sonny, goodbye.

Speaker 5 (12:27):
Goodbye, mist got you all return the gun when you're done. Yes,
I'll be done with it, so goodbye, Allen. You shouldn't
have loaded that gun.

Speaker 8 (12:37):
I guess it's all over now. I had to keep
you from fulling with it. Didn't want you to see.
I took out the firing pin. You what, Gutcho didn't
want that gun to shoot a dog. He's a fanatic.
He sees visions, hears voices. The voices probably put him
up to this. I'll submit that any man who holds

(12:58):
intimate conversations with disembodied spirits isn't to be trusted with
a gun. He wants to shoot his wife?

Speaker 5 (13:06):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 8 (13:07):
Well, I was upstairs. I called the police. I put
a handkerchief over my mouth and told them.

Speaker 5 (13:12):
I was you y, Why do you have to do that?

Speaker 8 (13:15):
I couldn't have told him this is little Allan Hartley,
thirteen years old.

Speaker 5 (13:19):
And suppose he really wants to shoot a dog. What
kind of a mess will I be in? Them?

Speaker 8 (13:23):
No mess because of night. But you'll have to fight
for me. They give me a lot of cheap boy
hero publicity, which I don't want.

Speaker 5 (13:32):
This is crazy, Allen, this is absolutely crazy.

Speaker 8 (13:36):
We'll have the complete returns in twenty minutes.

Speaker 11 (13:39):
O mister Hardley, mister Blake Hardley, that's right.

Speaker 10 (13:52):
I have to take the sash Koborski from homicide.

Speaker 5 (13:56):
It's your little girl, eh, thank you.

Speaker 10 (13:59):
I don't know highest spire of that guy, but when
we busted and he was pointing that gun and his
wife's wearing a blue streak cause it wouldn't go off.

Speaker 5 (14:05):
I'm glad I was able to help. They may have
some kind of citations hardly, Oh, I don't think that's necessary.

Speaker 10 (14:13):
Well, the department, we figure little publicity.

Speaker 5 (14:15):
Never hurt nobody, even a lawyer. Huh. I uh really,
per perd have it kept quiet? Well, whatever you.

Speaker 10 (14:23):
Say, we wanted you to drop around in the morning
for a statement. I'll be glad to well. Thanks mister Hartley,
good bye, goodbye, bye sounding Oh.

Speaker 8 (14:32):
Good bye, sergeant. Why don't you take the citation?

Speaker 12 (14:38):
Dad?

Speaker 5 (14:38):
Well, you were right. You saved that woman's life. Let's
uh see you put back the firing pin.

Speaker 12 (14:50):
Sure there, suppose we have a little talk, but I
explained it everything you did not yesterday.

Speaker 5 (15:02):
You wouldn't even have known how to take this pistol apart.
Today you've been using language and expressing ideas that are
outside of everything you've ever known before.

Speaker 8 (15:12):
Now I wanna know, I hope you're not toying with
a medieval notion of obsession. What you see 'em changed?
When did you first notice this?

Speaker 5 (15:25):
Last night? You were still my little boy this morning.
I don't know you you've been strange all day, Alan,
What's happened to you?

Speaker 8 (15:35):
I wish I could be sure myself. Dad. You see,
when I woke up this morning, all I could remember
was lying on a stretcher, injured by a bomb explosion.
I was forty three years old, and though here was
nineteen seventy five.

Speaker 5 (15:51):
Nineteen seventy five, I'm right, you'll be forty three in
nineteen seventy five. But but a bomb.

Speaker 8 (16:00):
Yes, During the Siege of Buffalo in the Third World War,
I was a captain in G five Scientific Warfare General
Staff Buffalo.

Speaker 5 (16:09):
You mean Buffalo, New York.

Speaker 8 (16:12):
Yes, it had been a transpolar invasion of Canada. I
was sent to the front to check on service failures
of a new lubricating oil. I got hit by a
bomb blast. I remember being picked up and getting a
narcotic injection. The next thing I knew, I was in
bed upstairs, and it was nineteen forty five again, and
I was back in my own thirteen year old body.

Speaker 5 (16:38):
Yeah, and you just had a nightmare to end all nightmare,
that's all.

Speaker 8 (16:43):
I thought it might be that at first, but I
rejected it. It wouldn't fit the facts.

Speaker 5 (16:48):
But it's ridiculous all this Battle of Buffalo stuff. You
picked it up listening to the radio. All accommodators have
been going on about another war after this one. You
just got an undigested chunk of HV. Coltenborn in your subconscious.

Speaker 8 (17:02):
That isn't everything. I remember four years of high school,
four years at Cornell, seven years as a reporter on
the Philadelphia Record, three novels, Children of the miss Rows
of Death and Conquers Road. I wrote detective stories under
a phony name. I worked in chemistry. You think a
thirteen year old can dream up all that stuff?

Speaker 5 (17:22):
Well, it's the only possible explanation.

Speaker 8 (17:25):
Maybe. But I can speak five languages today that I
couldn't yesterday, French, German, Chinese, Russian, and Spanish. Although I've
got a Mexican accent you could cut with a knife.

Speaker 5 (17:37):
But how d happen? I I can't believe it?

Speaker 8 (17:42):
All I know is here I am. I've been reading
up on time theories. Nobody seems to know much about them.
Evidently time exists parallel as another dimension, and I've got
kicked backwards and somehow, but how? It may have been
the radiations from bomb or the narcotic injection, or both

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together but the fact remains, I'm here with full knowledge
of of my future identity.

Speaker 5 (18:11):
This, this is quite a shock element.

Speaker 8 (18:15):
But you do believe me, don't you?

Speaker 5 (18:18):
Yes, I suppose I must. You seemed so strange as
as if you weren't my son.

Speaker 8 (18:24):
I'm your son, all right, the same body as yesterday.
I've just had an educational shortcut.

Speaker 5 (18:31):
M I'll wait a minute, if you can remember the
next thirty years, Suppose you tell me when the war
is going to end, this one against the Japs.

Speaker 8 (18:41):
I mean sure, the Japanese surrender will be announced at
exactly seven or one pm on August fourteenth, the week
from Tuesday. Better make sure we have plenty of rub
in the house by then. Everything will be closed up
tight till Thursday morning, eating the restaurants. I remember we
had nothing to eat in the house but.

Speaker 5 (19:00):
Some scrap Tuesday week. That's pretty sudden, isn't not?

Speaker 8 (19:04):
After today?

Speaker 5 (19:05):
What do you mean? What happened today?

Speaker 8 (19:07):
Twenty oh? What time is it?

Speaker 12 (19:09):
Dad?

Speaker 5 (19:10):
H eleven sixteen? Is your watch right to the second one?

Speaker 8 (19:14):
It'll come in exactly eleven seventeen forty? What'll come the
radio announcement?

Speaker 5 (19:21):
What are you getting at? Something important? On the radio.
We'll see.

Speaker 8 (19:24):
Don't bother dad, it won't work. I remember we had
a too burned out.

Speaker 5 (19:28):
There is something wrong. What is this announcement of yours?

Speaker 8 (19:33):
I memorized it in journalism school at Colombia nineteen fifty four.
What time is it?

Speaker 5 (19:39):
Uh? Eleven eighteen.

Speaker 8 (19:40):
They're breaking into the programs now. President Truman has just
announced that an atomic bomb has been dropped on me
in Japanese industrial city of Hiroshima. The bomb was dropped
sixteen hours ago, and the announcement was delayed to ascertain
the results of the explosion. Man named John Howard Peterson

(20:02):
read the announcement from the Washington newsroom of MBC.

Speaker 5 (20:05):
I I don't believe it.

Speaker 8 (20:08):
No, Listen, that's the burnt plate factory whistle, and the
bells at Saint Boniface, next the whistle at the Volunteer
fireous and.

Speaker 4 (20:19):
It's true, it is true.

Speaker 5 (20:21):
Sure.

Speaker 8 (20:22):
Then Larry Morton came by in his bicycle.

Speaker 12 (20:25):
Hey, hey, out and hear about the battle and boet ball.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yeah we ah boy, I callot ball.

Speaker 8 (20:33):
Oh boy, I gotta go buy my part.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
We gonna go for it, boy out.

Speaker 5 (20:37):
Why at the Hartway you knew you knew about it.

Speaker 8 (20:41):
The next bomb hit SNACKERSACKI.

Speaker 5 (20:43):
I thought that stuff about atomic energy was so much fantasy.
What was that? The kind of bomb that got you?

Speaker 8 (20:49):
That was a firecracker compared to the one that got me.
It was a guy in ninety eight exploded ten miles away.

Speaker 5 (20:56):
And that's going to happen in thirty years.

Speaker 8 (20:58):
I remember it.

Speaker 5 (21:00):
How about Well how about me? Oh wait, never mind,
I don't think I better know when I'm going to die.

Speaker 8 (21:07):
I couldn't tie you anyway. I had a letter from
you just before I left for the front. You were
seventy eight then, and you were still hunting and fishing
and flying your own plane.

Speaker 5 (21:17):
But another war and fought on American soil all and
I wish this hadn't happened to you.

Speaker 12 (21:24):
It happened.

Speaker 8 (21:25):
I remember it. But if I can help it, I'm
not gonna get killed in any Battle of Buffalo.

Speaker 5 (21:31):
But if you remember it, if time exists as a
parallel of dementia, and every kick, we're getting closer to
that Third World War.

Speaker 12 (21:38):
Dad.

Speaker 8 (21:39):
You know what I remember when Gutcho came to borrow
that gun.

Speaker 5 (21:42):
Oh I suppose that you suspected.

Speaker 8 (21:44):
Him and warn me, no, no, that wasn't it the
other time? The first time, when I was really thirteen,
I wasn't home. I'd been swimming at the Canoe Club
with Larry Morton. When I got home about half an
hour from now, I found a house full of cops.

Speaker 5 (21:58):
But if the gun didn't file, it.

Speaker 8 (22:00):
Makes you think it didn't got your talk. The thirty
eight out of you went home, shot his wife four
times in the body, once behind the ear and youth,
a six shot to blow his own brains out.

Speaker 5 (22:11):
That's what you remember, yes, But now.

Speaker 8 (22:15):
It hasn't happened because I warned you, Dad, I found
out the future can be changed.

Speaker 5 (22:21):
One man can change the whole future.

Speaker 8 (22:23):
I stopped the murder in the suicide.

Speaker 5 (22:25):
I know it's such, but thirty years to work.

Speaker 8 (22:28):
I can stop a world war. I'll have the means,
the means, unlimited wealth and influence. I've got a good memory.
Dad wrote a list out this afternoon.

Speaker 5 (22:38):
For a list assault jet pilot's citation ponder, middle ground counter.

Speaker 8 (22:45):
What is this?

Speaker 5 (22:45):
Code, Horses?

Speaker 8 (22:48):
That's a list of Kentucky Derby winners from nineteen forty
six to nineteen seventy You sure I learned that list
on a bet at the Officers Club in Cincinnati in
nineteen seventy one, assault eight eight to one, and you
figure out what we can take in.

Speaker 5 (23:03):
Well, but gambling, This isn't it gambling.

Speaker 8 (23:05):
It's a sure thing. When we get rolling, we'll make
the Rocker Fellas look like pikers.

Speaker 5 (23:11):
Hm, that's sold Tod eight to one. I suppose I
could scrape up five thousand dollars in ten years. That'll
make a a lot of money. Any uh other little
thing you have in mind?

Speaker 8 (23:27):
On Bry nineteen fifty two. We start building a political
organization here in Pennsylvania in nineteen sixty and I think
we can elect you president.

Speaker 5 (23:36):
Of course I president. Is isn't that going a little
too far?

Speaker 2 (23:42):
Why not?

Speaker 8 (23:42):
Who wouldn't vote for a politician who was always right? Besides,
that's one thing we've got to change. In nineteen sixty
we had a man in the White House who was
good to his wife and sang a nice tenor and
that's about all. And he fouled up socer completely. We
ended up at war. I think President Hartley might be

(24:04):
a little more trusted to take a strong line.

Speaker 5 (24:07):
But I don't know anything about international decisions.

Speaker 8 (24:10):
I do I know all the wrong ones. If we
can stop a murder with time, we can stop a war.

Speaker 5 (24:19):
How do I start?

Speaker 8 (24:20):
Well, as I remember, just after that bomb announcement, you
got a phone call from the City Fusion Party about
the next election.

Speaker 5 (24:28):
Well, there's a lot of talk about a reform ticket.

Speaker 8 (24:30):
That call is gonna be important, Dad. It's the turning
point you've got here.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
It is what.

Speaker 5 (24:40):
What do I do?

Speaker 8 (24:41):
Answer? Go ahead, but don't worry. I'll tell you what
to say.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
Go ahead.

Speaker 5 (24:49):
Hello, Yes, this is blake out. They Judge Crimins. Well er,
uh j just a moment, Allen. He's asking me to run. Oh,
oh my head, Allen, Allen. What's the matter, Allen? Oh pastime? Alan?

(25:11):
What do I do now? Allen? Listen to me? Allen Ellen?
What's the matter? Ellen? Happened? Hadley happen? Hopley appen Hotley?

Speaker 11 (25:37):
It was alright, Doctor.

Speaker 5 (25:38):
I gave him a shot and he was all right.

Speaker 8 (25:41):
He's dead.

Speaker 5 (25:43):
Alright, Sargeants met up the tag. Yes, Hardley Allen captain dead.
August eighth, nineteen seventy five. Allen Ellen, what happened? Allen? Allen?

Speaker 3 (26:08):
H Allen?

Speaker 5 (26:09):
Are you all right right?

Speaker 8 (26:12):
Dad?

Speaker 5 (26:12):
I got Judge Crimins on the phone. What do I
tell him? What? Allen? Are you alright? You passed out? Sure?

Speaker 3 (26:18):
All right? Hey?

Speaker 8 (26:20):
Today's my birthday, isn't it. What did you get me?

Speaker 5 (26:23):
Dad?

Speaker 8 (26:23):
What did you get me?

Speaker 7 (26:24):
Allen?

Speaker 2 (26:24):
Now you all right?

Speaker 5 (26:25):
Sure?

Speaker 8 (26:26):
Okay? But what did you get for my birthday?

Speaker 3 (26:28):
Huh?

Speaker 5 (26:28):
Don't you remember? The the Third World War?

Speaker 8 (26:31):
For a World war?

Speaker 5 (26:34):
Gee? Dad? What's the matter?

Speaker 8 (26:35):
You're looking at me?

Speaker 3 (26:36):
Funny?

Speaker 13 (26:37):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (26:38):
Judge Crimins, I'll uh, I'll have to call you back goodbye.
You don't remember you're back again? Aren't you back to
thirteen years old? Sure?

Speaker 8 (26:52):
I'm thirteen today? What corn? The sakes? Dad?

Speaker 5 (26:55):
You must have died up there. It was only a
mind transfer. That means now I'm on my own. I
have to do it myself without your help.

Speaker 8 (27:06):
Help for what? Oh if it's the grass or I say,
and I cut it tomorrow the.

Speaker 5 (27:13):
I've got to save your life. I can't let you
die that way in nineteen seventy five?

Speaker 8 (27:18):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 12 (27:19):
Dad?

Speaker 8 (27:20):
You sound goofy.

Speaker 5 (27:22):
I've got to change it all by myself. Change what
I never mind? Alan, you don't know yet. Come on,
let's have.

Speaker 8 (27:27):
Lunch, sure dad? Hey, how about my prisoner? What did
you get me from a Britain?

Speaker 12 (27:32):
Hey?

Speaker 5 (27:32):
In a minute? Time? Go on in hurry up there
all right? Hm?

Speaker 14 (27:40):
Now where'd I put that list of horses? You have
just heard another adventure into the unknown world of the future.

Speaker 5 (28:02):
The world of.

Speaker 9 (28:20):
Homecoming is a joyous word when the home you're returning
to is a burned out, radioactive planet, and when you
cannot even imagine what terrible changes you will find there,
the word then takes on a very different meaning. Next week,
Dimension X brings you a strange story called Dwellers in Silence.

Speaker 13 (28:53):
The Mansion Acts has brought to you each week by
the National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Street and Smith,
publishers of the magazine Astounding Science Fiction.

Speaker 5 (29:04):
Today.

Speaker 13 (29:04):
Dimension Acts has presented time and time again. Written for
radio by Ernest Connoy, the story by h Beam Pipers.
Leagured in the cast were David Anderson as Alan and
Joseph Curtin as his Dad. Your host was Norman Rose.
Music by Albert Berman. Dimension Acts is produced by William

(29:25):
Welch and directed by Fred Way.
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