Mystery Theater - Lost Dog

A suspense series featuring mysterious tales with a twist, ranging from psychological thrillers to eerie supernatural encounters. Each episode is crafted for maximum tension.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Come in. Welcome, I'm e. G. Marshall.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Welcome to the world of mystery, to the world of
terrifying imagination. The story you are about to hear is
called Lost Dog. Yes, a dog story, but please don't
expect a charming family tale about man's best friend. In fact,

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you may even decide that the dog in this story
is man's worst enemy.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
It all depends on whether or not.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
You share the particular terror of our heroine, Miss Julius Smollett.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Please please, George stay, give away.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
Harrier John for big Shakes, George.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Our mystery drama Lost Dog was written especially for the
Mystery Theater by Henry Slesser and stars Kim Hunter. It
is sponsored in part by the Kellogg Company, makers of
Kellogg's special k Cereal.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
I'll return shortly with that one.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
I'm Cliff Robertson and I made a picture not long
ago called Charlie, where I played the part of a
man who was mentally retarded. I'd like to tell you
a little of what I learned. Thousands and thousands of
mentally retarded children are born each year. It can happen
to any family. Rich or poor. It makes no difference

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except some children are luckier than others. Some kids can
be just a little slow in learning, but some will
never learn much of anything at all.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
But every one of them can be helped, and.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
That perhaps is the most important thing that I found out.
These kids have a right to a chance to learn
as much about how to live a normal life as
they can. The National Association for Retarded Children, and it's
nearly fifteen hundred local associations are helping to give them
that chance. Will you help too by supporting the work

(02:39):
of your local Association for Retarded Children?

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (02:46):
For children growing up in homes without books, there's a
special emptiness, a deep down hunger for the world beyond
the street corner or playground, a world where they could
grow up to become whatever they want to be. The
millions of these children will never find out about that world,
because they'll never know what they.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Can learn in books unless you help.

Speaker 5 (03:09):
Riff Meeting is fundamental is helping to get millions of
books into the hands of these boys and girls. Books
they can choose themselves for keeps. And once a child
gets into books, there's.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
No stopping him.

Speaker 5 (03:24):
More than one hundred fifty local rift programs, approving it
in communities like yours. Won't you help RIFF help the
children in your community? Right to RIFF Incorporated. That's RIF
Care of Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, two O five six oh.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Our story begins in the quiet parlor of a small
suburban house at the end of Elm Street. Well not
completely quiet, since young Ronnie Hughes is once again practicing
his scales under the gentle, watchful eyes of his piano teacher,
Missus Julia Smollett.

Speaker 6 (04:20):
Well that was very good, Ronnie. It was much better
than last time.

Speaker 7 (04:25):
I still wish we could skip this scale stuff, Missus Smollett.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
I mean, I'm not saying that I'm ready to play
concertos yet, but just the.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Same he said, he's a munch of money.

Speaker 7 (04:35):
Well, playing scales makes me feel like a little kid.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
I guess they're silly.

Speaker 6 (04:41):
All the finest pianists had to learn their scales before
they could play any compositions.

Speaker 7 (04:46):
H I guess it's mork fault for starting to learn
to play so late in life.

Speaker 6 (04:51):
At Ronnie nineteen years old isn't very late in life.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
I'm twenty, missus Smollett.

Speaker 6 (04:57):
Are you already.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Nah, I don't tell me. You've been coming here for
a year, No.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Just about four months.

Speaker 7 (05:08):
But my birthday was last week. It was on Thursday.
You weren't well last Thursday. Oh h yes, that's right,
you y You still don't look well.

Speaker 6 (05:22):
Listen, why don't we see how well you know the
chromatics your cheek.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
It's swollen, it's still swollen. Does it hurt?

Speaker 6 (05:29):
And no, no, no, it doesn't hurt at all. It
was I'm silly of me to stumble and fall that way.

Speaker 7 (05:35):
I know that your husband hit you, missus small lit.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
Now, that's a very silly thing to say.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
You can't tell me it isn't the truth.

Speaker 7 (05:46):
I remember the first time he did it, at least
the first time I knew anything about it.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Now I'm gonna have to put a stop to this.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yes, I wish you would. I wish you'd call the
police or something the next time it happens.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
Now, listen to me. You've been listening to a lot
of foolish town.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Gossips, and tell me it isn't true.

Speaker 6 (06:04):
What I'm telling you is that it isn't any of
your business.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, yeah, I I guess that's right. It's none of
my business. I I should never open my big mouth.
I'll I'll just keep it shut from now on.

Speaker 6 (06:19):
Ronny Yep, alright, alright, my husband and I had a quarrel.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
He was drunk, wasn't he.

Speaker 6 (06:27):
George is in a very difficult occupation. The competition is
very keen and well.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
The people he has to deal with. I'm always very gentle.

Speaker 7 (06:37):
I don't know anything about the trucking business, missus Smolly.
I just hate the idea of anybody hurting.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
You, that's all I I just can't understand why.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
He'd do such a thing.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
What did you do to him? Well, if you must know.

Speaker 6 (06:56):
I mean I I won't allow him to have a dog.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
What That sounds silly, doesn't it? And you're right it is.
It's silly on my part.

Speaker 6 (07:07):
But I'm absolutely terrified of dogs, and unfortunately my husband
wants one.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
He wants one very much.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
And that's why he hit you.

Speaker 6 (07:16):
Well, the argument goes back a very long ways, almost
almost since George and I were married seven years ago. Well,
it wasn't much of a problem when we lived in
the city. George didn't have his trucking company then, he
was just a driver. But when he got the chance
to buy into a firm out here who we bought
this house. And I guess having a house in the

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country made George think about dogs and things.

Speaker 7 (07:42):
But I just don't see what's so important about it.

Speaker 6 (07:47):
But some things become important in marriage. Oh now, just
look what all this talk has done to the time.
It's after six thirty. My husband's going to be home
in half an hour and I haven't even stickd god
a dinner.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Well he beat you for that too, Ronnie.

Speaker 6 (08:02):
If you keep talking this way, well, I just don't
think it would be wise to continue giving you lessons.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
You don't mean that.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
I'll see you on Thursday, Ronnie.

Speaker 7 (08:17):
Yeah, sure, Filen's are smaller.

Speaker 6 (08:25):
Goodbye, Ronnie, and happy birthday, Ronnie.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
I don't know what else could I tell a guy
I had two semis inter o passhop if I wanted
the job, I had to use his equipment. Oh fine,
only nobody was gonna hook me for a five hundred
buck premium.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Hey are you listening, Julia?

Speaker 3 (08:54):
Uh, yes, yes, I'm listening. Georgia.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
What's the matter with you tonight?

Speaker 3 (09:00):
I'm a little tired, I suppose get.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Tired you from what lifting the piano cover yeah, you
make me sick.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
You know that you weren't listening to a word I said.
You don't care about what happens in my business. You
never cared.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
I never understood much about it. Do you always talk
to me as if I'm one of your associates.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
I know what's eating on you think I don't know.
You're sitting there, like the last judgment. You're sitting there
blaming me for taking that smite by your last week.
You know you're wrong. Look at yourself. You didn't even
bother putting makeup on her cheeky Yours makeup wouldn't cover
the swillingh You wanna remind.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Me how much you suffer? Well, I got a hot
flash for your kid.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
The one who suffers around this house is me. I
get enjoyed his house plenty. I could have a great
time if you weren't so sick in the head.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
You're talking about the dog again.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Why not you think I forgot?

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Surely that can't mean that much to you.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
And I've had dogs ever since I was six years old.

Speaker 8 (10:06):
You never talked about it. When we were living in
the city, it was different. We'll put a dog in
that air conditioned chicken coop. But now we've got a house,
a real, honest to god house, Julia.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
A house needs a dog.

Speaker 6 (10:20):
Oh, George, you know I feel terrible about saying no,
but I can't help myself.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
It's just something in me. It's a phobia, I guess.

Speaker 6 (10:29):
But dogs terrify me, even small dogs, tiny harmless little dogs.
I I go to pieces when one comes near me.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
It's a all in your mind.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yes, but isn't that enough?

Speaker 2 (10:42):
No, not for me, It isn't.

Speaker 6 (10:45):
Can't you understand that it it's like a sickness, like
a disease.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
Okay, So if it's like a disease, how come you
never got cured? How come you never saw a.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Doctor ra about it?

Speaker 3 (10:57):
A doctor?

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah, that's right. You tell me you're sick. We'll just
find out. Well, where where are you going?

Speaker 1 (11:04):
I'm gonna get you an appointment, a doctor's appointment.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
I'm calling doctor mccainn right now.

Speaker 6 (11:11):
At this hour.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
I'll call 'em at home and make an appointment for tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
We're gonna settle this thing once sent for.

Speaker 9 (11:18):
Uh, well, Julia, maybe maybe I'm the wrong kind of doctor.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
What do you mean what a if you're serious about
getting rid of this phobia that would take a specialist.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
You mean a s, A psychiatrist, O some kind of
head doctor.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
I'm sure you realize that people who are afraid of
certain things, well, they've usually had something happen to them
in their childhoods, some traumatic experience or other that gets
stuck in their mind like a burr and won't come out.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Doctor.

Speaker 6 (12:03):
You know, we couldn't possibly afford going through analysis. George's
company isn't doing that well, he'd never stand for paying
all that money week after week.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Well, maybe he don't need all that couch stuff.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
Maybe there's something else you.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
Might try, like what you're a here of hypnotherapy.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
You mean getting hypnotized by someone.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
Not just by someone, I mean someone who can put
you under and maybe help kill you of this thing.
I'm not saying it always works, but it does sometimes.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
M I I. I don't know. The thoughts would have
frightens me.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Nothing frightening about it.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
It might be just.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
The way to find out why you're really afraid of docs.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
Why a minute? Ah, where'd your do forget you? Key?

Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yes, George, I'm sorry we are.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Your bunt so late. It's almost a quarter after seven.

Speaker 6 (13:15):
I went to a movie after I saw Doctor McCann
I I was I was just so nervous. I had
to get out of myself. So I went to this
movie and it lasted longer than I thought it would.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
That's great, just great. Now, what happens to my dinner?

Speaker 3 (13:30):
Huh, dinner's already. All I have to do is shoot it.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
That's a fine thing. I come home orally to surprise you.
You're not even here.

Speaker 6 (13:40):
I'm sorry, George. Oh do you think you should have
more to drink now? I mean, it won't take me
more than ten minutes to get dinner on the table.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
I have in mind how much I drink. Besides, I'm
in no hurry for dinner. I wanna know what? Uh
doctor said?

Speaker 6 (13:56):
Well, it's just as I told you, George, there's nothing
doctor mca town can do for me. It's not something
that can be cured with a pillar.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
As God, there'd be some way.

Speaker 6 (14:07):
Well, he suggested that maybe a different kind of doctor
of a hypnotherapist.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Uh why, someone.

Speaker 6 (14:15):
Who hypnotizes you, who tries to make you go back
into your past.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yes, it sounds like a lot of jump to me.

Speaker 6 (14:22):
It might do some good. I I really don't know.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
I'll tell you what would do some good. A little
direct action. That's what you'll need.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
What are you talking about, George?

Speaker 2 (14:34):
The only way to learne how to swim is to
jump in the water.

Speaker 10 (14:38):
Right.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
Well, that's what you'll need, Julia.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
I simply can't make you understand cow.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Maybe I can make you understand that I forget it.
You wanna get that dinner ready? I'm hungry?

Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yes, yes, I'm going now.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
Uh look, Uh why don't you change first?

Speaker 3 (14:58):
Change?

Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yeah? Yeah, your clothes give more comfortable?

Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yes, I think I'd like to do that, George, I.

Speaker 6 (15:05):
Won't be long, there's no matter.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Mad dog, take it easy, that's my surprise. That's please, George,
take him away. It's only a dog. For George.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
It only goes to prove that there are more terrors
in this world of ours than anyone imagines. But the
question in the Smalllett house is which one is the
real terror?

Speaker 3 (15:45):
At timor the.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Dog or George the husband. We will learn more about
both of them when we return shortly with that too.

Speaker 10 (15:54):
Hi son, my mom, hid Hi jog special case for
the junior kids.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Junior, why aren't eating your special k it's your favorite cereal?

Speaker 4 (16:04):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (16:04):
Just because just because why, I mean, just because Garlas
said some evil things about it.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
That's just because why Hi Mom? Hi?

Speaker 3 (16:11):
Yeahs Hi King Darla.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
What did you tell Junior about his special case? Daddy?
All I told him was that Special K is good
for you. Yeah, and anything that's good for me never
seems to taste good. Junior, you already know the Special
K tastes good? Or do I believe, Darla or my
taste puts? What's that? Son? Oh? Nothing, Dad, Son. Special
K is America's favorite high protein cereal.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
It's got minerals, vitamins, iron and all those good nutritious things.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
But it's got to be so popular over the years
because it tastes good too. You mean, it's good for
me and tastes good too, right, So right, Dad, Right, Junior?

Speaker 10 (16:46):
Indeed, start your balance breakfast with Kellogg's Special K.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
It's nutritious and delicious. Nice.

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Speaker 1 (18:02):
Now let's return to the plight of missus Junior Smollett,
the woman whose nightmares take the shape of a barking dog.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
How long do you want me to board? The animal
is smart? I don't know until that wife or mine
gets her head on straight.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
I guess I beg a pardon. My wife doesn't like dogs.
Took one look at a tillowed screener house down.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Now, some women get scared of governments.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
It's dog's only six months old, for Pete's sakes, practically
a puppy. Can you board my dog until my wife
gets through their treatment treatment?

Speaker 2 (18:39):
I don't think I understand.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yes, gimme is straight, he said, Oh, yes, sir, certainly,
I will take the dog for as long as you like.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
We'll see how long that is.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Please sit down, missus smartt thank you. Uh right here,
mister Smollett, Yeah, NICs. You both seem a little nervous.

Speaker 6 (19:07):
M I'm sorry, doctor Pholic, but I I suppose I am.
I know, uh, Doctor McCain explained to me. He said
that hypnotherapy was was an accepted kind of treatment for.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
Some cases, yes, not all of them. All I wanna
know is Willard wake Well. Frankly, I don't know much
about your wife or her problem.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
I'm not going to say I can help her get
over this particular phobia until I do.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
Please, George, uh, let me tell the doctor about it.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
I can tell 'em in one sentence.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
My wife's afraid of dogs, all dogs, big ones, little ones,
falls apart once she just looks it.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
Now, n No, that isn't true.

Speaker 6 (19:49):
I I don't fall apart, as my husband said, unless
unless I'm close to them.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
Animal phobias are one of the most common types I
deal with, Missus Smollett, and I might saying that I
have a great deal of success with them.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
But but how do you do it?

Speaker 1 (20:04):
I use a technique called hyper amnesia amnesia.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Actually it's the opposite of amnesia.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
After placing the subject in a trance state and making
her completely willing to free herself from critical judgments about
her past.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
Well, we'll wait a minute. I uh, I'm not following you.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
What we do is get the subject to remember long forgotten,
very very deeply repressed experiences. Sometimes they remember them in
great detail, even though they still maintain amnesia at the
conscious level.

Speaker 6 (20:41):
And you see, I'm not sure I do. Do you
mean you can find something in my mind that I
don't even know it is there?

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Possibly? Make me take some time.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
We might need several visits to establish a rapport between us,
but if all goes well, we should soon be.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
Able to find out if anything in your.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
Past is causing this problem, and of course that's something
we're most likely concerning a dog.

Speaker 10 (21:20):
That wasn't what I hang flog about them, but it
was a bullet right at Joe blocks step an enemy territory.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
Joe in the high already and they're operating. Try to
go all the way on what happened? How to go
at Felicks. It was all very strange, and let's hear it.
Did he get you hypnotized or didn't he?

Speaker 6 (21:39):
Look, I just want to hang my coat up work.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
I'm missing a big game just because I want to
hear it.

Speaker 6 (21:44):
You might as well turn it on again, George, because
all that doctor Frod did was what he called the
first stages.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
What does that mean?

Speaker 6 (21:52):
I mean, well, he put me under, all right. There
wasn't any problem about that.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
I figured that only what he said about the door.

Speaker 6 (22:03):
He didn't say anything, George, or what do you mean?
Just that he didn't start talking about my problem. That's
gonna have to wait until I'm more receptive.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Let's he trying to do? Keep stringing you along until
he bleeds me dry.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
Those visits cost fiftdaybucks eight, you know, all right?

Speaker 6 (22:21):
I know it's expensive, but you're the one who insisted.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
That I go fifty bucks a week. Plus Kennel charges
a couple of months at that, and I'll be h
hock in half of my trucks.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Look, you'll tell that guy to get down to business.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
It's oh my second visit, George.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Well, we better start seeing some results on number three. Understand,
I'm not waiting any longer.

Speaker 6 (22:48):
There doesn't have to be a number three as far
as I'm concerned. We can stop right now.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
What are you talking about, George?

Speaker 6 (22:54):
I don't want to do this thing. I I hate
being put under. I hate anybody poking around in my
subconscious for something that isn't even important to me.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
You mean you wanna be sick?

Speaker 6 (23:08):
I think I'll lie down for a while.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
Don't you walk out on me.

Speaker 6 (23:12):
I'm sure you'd rather watch a football game.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
I don't tell me what to do.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
I know you think mister lowbrow, but let me tell
you something, kid, You're no fairy princess anymore.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Maybe that's what you used to think you were back
in the old days. But the only fairy around this
house is that piano student of yours.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
I don't wait to talk to you when you're like this.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
That's what you always say.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
When I'm drinking. Well, I'm not drinking now, and you
better listen to what I'm saying. If please, George, don't
touch you.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
I know that was coming next.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Don't touch that's your favorite phrase, night and day. Don
touch George.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
You're hurting. It's the only thing you.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Will understand, the only touch that means a thing to you.
Oh of me?

Speaker 6 (23:58):
Stop being such an Are you what animals?

Speaker 5 (24:01):
Don't?

Speaker 3 (24:02):
No, George, please don't don't show you what kind of
I shure you? George, Please don't please?

Speaker 2 (24:22):
Well, I guess that wasn't much better, was it? Hum?
You didn't think much of the performance?

Speaker 9 (24:30):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (24:30):
I mean, it wasn't exactly horrible it's was it? Uh?

Speaker 9 (24:34):
No?

Speaker 3 (24:35):
I it w it was perfectly alright? Money?

Speaker 2 (24:37):
Really, but you're not all right, are you?

Speaker 1 (24:42):
Oh? Yes?

Speaker 2 (24:43):
And fine? You look awful?

Speaker 9 (24:45):
N Well.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
I I didn't mean that. You never look awful. But hm,
you're acting so funny today.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
I'm sorry. I I guess I have something on my mind.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Can I take a guess?

Speaker 3 (25:01):
No, what you can take is the next page of
this lesson.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Listen, missus smoke. What can I call you? Julia.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
Really, Ronnie, I'm not.

Speaker 7 (25:18):
I know you're gonna give me all that stuff about
teacher student relationship. Only I'm sick of calling you missus smaller.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
I I hate it. I hate it because it's his name.

Speaker 6 (25:36):
Rodney. No, you're the most important thing in my whole life. Please, Ronnie,
I don't want you to say things like that. They're
not true and they're just making it impossible for me
to teach you.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
You know how I feel about you.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
I'm sure you do.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
You're just too smart not to have seen it.

Speaker 3 (25:59):
I know that you they're twenty years old. It's that one.

Speaker 7 (26:03):
You don't want me to talk about it because I'm
younger than you are.

Speaker 6 (26:07):
It's flattering that you feel that way of money, but
I know it's just a little crush.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
You have.

Speaker 6 (26:14):
Boys go through that sort of thing.

Speaker 7 (26:15):
All the time, boys crush. Look, you're treating me like
a kid, if you ask me.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
That's more.

Speaker 7 (26:27):
You keep me on those damn scale exercises all the
time so you won't have to think that I'm any
more of a man than those ten year old kids
that you teach all the time.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
And no money.

Speaker 12 (26:39):
I knew you're a man, of course, I do w
and if you think that, uh, treat me like one,
just one, so please.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
Please m m m mmm constitute just once, Ronnie, it's truelie. Okay,
what is it?

Speaker 2 (27:06):
But what's the matter?

Speaker 11 (27:06):
What it's?

Speaker 3 (27:08):
It's nothing, I j I.

Speaker 6 (27:10):
I just bruise my neck a little and and when
you touched it neck, Yes, it's nothing.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
It's what are you wearing a scarf today? Won't see?

Speaker 6 (27:19):
No, Ronnie, don't.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
Oh my god, it was an it was just an accident.
Nothing but an accident.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
You were bruised, y you long neck. Look at it.
I can see all bruises, dumb shoulder. What did he
do to you? Please?

Speaker 6 (27:42):
Please don't talk about it. I can't bear to talk
about it.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
You don't have to, Drew, you don't have to.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
But he's going to talk about it with me. And
I said to that, will you? Doesn't I bring back memories?

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Hy Joia? Well that Sean. We used to dance to it,
remember in a girl room. First year we will marry. Hey,
you want to drink.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
He thinks you're drinking enough for both of us.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
It makes me feel good, yes, yes, I said. Thing
of our wives they order to do what their husbands do.
A man needs a pound, not just a wife. I'm
sorry that I'm not a pound, and that's.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
Why I need a dog.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
You understand, a man's gotta have a friend, somebody who
understands him.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
You see, you really think.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
That dog what's his name? Would understand?

Speaker 2 (28:50):
His name's a teller? A teller.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
That's an awful name for a dog, a frightening name.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Everything's scarce your even names? Who the heck is Zach?
I don't know glow, mister Smollett? And what is this? Since?
Why do you get piano lessons at night? You are
you money?

Speaker 3 (29:14):
What are you doing here?

Speaker 7 (29:15):
Why didn't come for a lesson? I came to to
talk to mister Smollett. You want to talk to me
about what I mean?

Speaker 12 (29:24):
I please come in, sir, yay, yeah, sure, come on, Sonny, Honey,
you shouldn't have come here.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
I won't stay long.

Speaker 7 (29:33):
I just want to say something to your husband. Sure, kid,
go ahead. I wanted to say that I know what
you're doing to Julia. I know how you've been hurting her,
and I will won't let you get away with it.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Well we zannie No, okay?

Speaker 7 (29:54):
If she doesn't want to say anything about it, I
will you touch her again?

Speaker 2 (30:00):
M I'll go to the police. I mean you have
it's the laws of this country. Think maybe and hear it,
think swaves to smaller. You're ever a voice more. You're
going to go to jailch So I'm going to jailer
and you're gonna put me there.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
Ronnie, I begged you not to do this.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
Oh no, no, no, it's your killed Julie. I ain't
kiming this. I mean, I wanna know what the younger
generation is thinking. You don't want me to hit my
wife anymore? He see he that's it?

Speaker 1 (30:35):
You're sure you know a difference between hitting and just
giving little love tap?

Speaker 3 (30:41):
Please, Ronnie, go go right now.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
I mean maybe you made a mistake.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
Kid.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
For instance, this is a love cap George. Now that's
a love tap, Ronnie, Baby, this is George.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
Tell me, don't you see it? Prince Kna you better
be sure you are a deference before you're talking a child. Chid.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
Yes, it's sad to realize that all men who love
dogs aren't necessarily lovable themselves, But obviously, George Smollett is
a man who believes that brute force trains people as
well as animals.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
Who may be right in some respects, but perhaps he
should be aware of the old saying that every dog
has his day. I'll be back shortly with Act three.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
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you may imagine, I'm excited about this new adventure in
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Speaker 10 (32:00):
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offer good everywhere, unless locally prohibited. You know you you

(32:41):
hack it through life, and you struggle to get a
lot of things, but the one thing you really want
is for someone to say, hey, you did a good job,
or to really care how you feel.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
Wo, wo look up to you. Ain't it funny? Those
little things? And so you'll fake it a lot.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
You pretend you're aware, You pretend you're something special and
and that you're worth loving.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
But a don't worry and that every day kind of love.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
It didn't happen, So I I just got tired of
thinking it, trying to be somebody else.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
And then I I can remember saying.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
Look, I'm sorry, but I don't know everything, and I
can't do everything, and you know, I make mistakes, you know,
like that's when they started to say they loved me.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
Ain't that funny?

Speaker 3 (33:36):
So forth is cause Who's love?

Speaker 1 (33:49):
An important day has arrived in the life of Julius
Mullett and her husband George, because Julie is on our
way to the offices of doctor Fullick, where it's promised
that this is the day which may bring her back
to the forgotten days of her past.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
Mm, perhaps to the very day when she waited the
word terror with a ringy.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
Eyes and wagging to you a man's best friend. Uh,
it's better be the payoff. That's all I've gotta say.

Speaker 3 (34:19):
I hope you're not disappointed, George.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
H at least you're talking to me. That's the first
word you've said to me in two days.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
I haven't had much to see but the kid, Ronnie's alright.
I didn't mark him up. He's still as pretty as ever.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
That worries you, doesn't it.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
Nobody's gotta right to walk into my own house and
say those things to me.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
You have nothing to worry about, George.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
Yeah, that's what you say.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
Fifty bucks a visitor something to worry me, and forty
a week for the dog, and a lot of other things.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
We've also lost a piano pupil. I suppose you realize that.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
Uh, who cares about that?

Speaker 6 (35:00):
Donnie paid twenty dollars a week for his lessons charge.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
I won't miss it, not as much as you'll miss
your little prince charming. Well, what about it about what
you're gonna miss him? Right, you're not gonna have any
shoulder to cry on, ah you. I think i'd better

(35:24):
explain exactly what I plan, missus Smollett. And we're going
to try something called age regression. Age regression. It sounds
as if you're going to make me younger.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
That's almost exactly what we'll try to do.

Speaker 6 (35:40):
If you can, doctor, you'll have every woman in America
on your doorstop.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
All I'm going to do is attempt to take your
mind back into your own past. I want to see
if you can relive some of your early years. You
knew that I I might actually remember things from from
my early time. I'll do it, and I'm hoping that
you recall one particular thing, the thing that you've been

(36:06):
concealing from your a built self for a very long time.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
It's a It's rather frightening, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
No, No, you mustn't fear knowledge, especially self knowledge. Now,
I will just draw the window shade and we'll get started.

(36:34):
And missus Smollett, would you like to come inside?

Speaker 2 (36:37):
May you? May you well through? And so first no, no, no,
we're not through.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
But your wife is in a deep trance, and I
thought you might wanna be here when we begin the
age regression attempt.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
Well, sure if you want me in there. Hey, she
looks like she's asleep, but she isn't.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
Hypnosis only resembles the sleep stage, but it's not the
Missus Smollett is very much awake.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
Yeah, missus Smollett, Julia, you may open your eyes now. Hah,
that's fine. Now tell me. Do you know what day
it is today? Uh?

Speaker 3 (37:17):
Yes, Wednesday?

Speaker 2 (37:20):
No, we are wrong, it's Friday, Julia? Is that right? Yes? Friday? No, Julia,
it isn't Friday either. Do you know what day it
is now? No?

Speaker 3 (37:38):
I don't know what day it is.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
In fact, right now, you don't know the day, or
the month or even mean year. Julia, do you no, you.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
Seem mister Smollett, I'm purposely doing this to dislocate your
wife in time. M Y I understand, jul Yeah, You're
going to be a child all over again. You're going
to see and hear and feel everything you did since
you were a baby, and you're going to tell me

(38:09):
everything I want to know about what you see, hear
and feel. You're going to answer all my questions starting
right now. You understand, Yes, Jumia, you.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
Are a one year old? Do you hear me?

Speaker 1 (38:29):
You're an infant? Only one year old? Tell me what
you know, Julia. Tell me if you're afraid of dogs?

Speaker 2 (38:41):
Yeah, yeah, Juliet, Oh my god, you sell them like
a happy baby to meet Julia. I don't think you
had any fear of animals when you were a little baby?

Speaker 6 (38:55):
Oh did you do?

Speaker 1 (39:01):
Now you're two years old, Julia, you can probably say
a few woulds Now?

Speaker 2 (39:07):
Are you afraid of dogs? Who?

Speaker 1 (39:13):
And now you're three, Julia, you're growing up pretty quickly.
Now you're a big three year old girl.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
And are you afraid of dogs? Now?

Speaker 3 (39:24):
Julia? No, not afraid of fout out?

Speaker 1 (39:30):
You're four years old. Now, Julia, tell me if you're
afraid of dogs now?

Speaker 2 (39:36):
Oh m m m hay it It's alright to shake
your head as long as you tell me. Julia. Now
you're five, five years old?

Speaker 3 (39:50):
What Still I'm afraid of dogs?

Speaker 2 (39:52):
You know?

Speaker 1 (39:54):
We're not afraid. I'm not afraid. Now you're six, Julia
six six, key goer forever he is ms smarter, not
afraid at six, Junior. And then let's be seven years old.
He was seven years old? Still not afraid, are you?

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Now? What about eight? You're an eight year old girl?

Speaker 6 (40:21):
Now, Copper.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
Coper? What was that.

Speaker 6 (40:27):
Dupper for?

Speaker 1 (40:30):
Duperchie, said Junior? Who is Toper? Is Toper a dog?

Speaker 2 (40:36):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (40:37):
Dupper is my dog?

Speaker 2 (40:39):
Where is Taper now, Julia?

Speaker 3 (40:42):
Doctor's dead.

Speaker 6 (40:44):
They put Dupper away didn't they kill him? And it's
all my fall.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
Into all my falls. What's your fault? What did you kill?

Speaker 10 (40:54):
Julia?

Speaker 3 (40:55):
No, it's it's fault.

Speaker 6 (40:59):
It's Bobby's fault.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
Who's he? Julia? Is Bobby a friend of yours?

Speaker 3 (41:05):
I hate him, he teases me, he teases me all
the time.

Speaker 6 (41:10):
I'm glad I did it.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
I'm glad.

Speaker 6 (41:12):
Only only don't kill Toper. Please, please don't kill my dog.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
This all this means something?

Speaker 1 (41:19):
Is it means a great deal? Missus Follett? Hey, Julia,
and I'm please listener. I want you to tell me
all about Bobby and Topper. Bobby lives next door.

Speaker 13 (41:29):
He's ten, he teases me, pulls my hair, he draw
my dress, put mud in my shoes, and he hit
hit Topper with a rock.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
Mommy, Molly, what happened Julia? Why are you calling her brother?
What's happened to Bobby?

Speaker 6 (41:48):
He's killed him, he's killing him.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
I want him.

Speaker 6 (41:55):
I told him what I would do.

Speaker 10 (41:57):
I told him.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
Was it Bobby wore on? Sick him sick?

Speaker 3 (42:03):
And Topper kill him, kill him?

Speaker 2 (42:08):
Kill him? My girl?

Speaker 3 (42:10):
What and Julia, listen to me.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
I want you to explain everything to me very clearly,
did you tell your dog to hurt Bobby?

Speaker 2 (42:23):
Yes, did he hurt Bobby? Did Topper killed whom? Whom? Whom?

Speaker 3 (42:30):
He hurt Bobby? He he didn't kill him.

Speaker 6 (42:33):
He hurt Bobby in the neck.

Speaker 3 (42:35):
But they killed Topper.

Speaker 6 (42:37):
They killed my dog.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
And it was knife fall, this NiFe.

Speaker 3 (42:43):
Fall right, and I think we found the lost dog.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
And so now you know, missus Smutt, Now you may
be able to understand it was this one incident in
you were childhood, this one tragedy of your past innocence,

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which is responsible for your phobia. More than anything. You
have a strong feeling of guilt. You blame yourself for
what happened to.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
Little Bobby, when in all likelihood you are wanting anyway
at fault, No.

Speaker 6 (43:29):
Doctor Phillip, You're wrong about that part.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
It was my fault. I remember alone.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
Now, you probably just wish that Tappa would turn on
the little boy, and you saw your wish become a reality.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
So when you accused yourself of a crime, I.

Speaker 3 (43:48):
Didn't wish it. I told Topper what to do. I
hate it, uh be so much. I wanted him to
sink his teeth in that little boy's throat.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
Well, at least you brought it up all into the
life missus Wallett. And something tells me that it won't
be wrong before you really accept the long fed friendship
with the dog again.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
I've saw in mind. Hello, money, how are you? I'm okay?
I guess it looks like a brand new carrier driving. Well,
yeah it is. My parents gave it to me for
my birthday.

Speaker 7 (44:32):
But well, it took a couple of months to get
it here from a factory. We see, I mean I
wanted a couple of special.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
Things done to it.

Speaker 6 (44:41):
It's very handsome and I'm sure you're enjoying it.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
Yeah, it's a great Uh. I guess you've been shopping him.

Speaker 6 (44:48):
Ah, here's he's been.

Speaker 3 (44:50):
How funny? Maybe you'd like to come inside for a
few minutes for some tea or something.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
I uh, I'm afraid I can't write now. I mean see,
I'm supposed to pick up Lisa at her house.

Speaker 7 (45:02):
Lisa, now Lisa Brownan we you know, sort of going
study now who who is is?

Speaker 6 (45:11):
And of course, well it's very nice running into your Runnie,
Yes it was.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
Uh. Hey, by the word, you're looking well, I mean
you see real far in these days. Its smaller.

Speaker 6 (45:26):
Yes, running, I'm really very fine. Now I've got to
go inside. It's time to feed the tiller. Ooh, goodbye, Ronnie.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
A killer. Where are you a tilla here?

Speaker 7 (45:47):
Boy?

Speaker 11 (45:48):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (45:49):
Where's that animal?

Speaker 2 (45:51):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (45:52):
I of course he's playing in the yard or something. Ooh,
maybe he's in the bedroom, a.

Speaker 6 (45:58):
Tilla, No, not in there.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (46:02):
I see George's jackets back from the pens. I hope
they haven't taken all the smell out of 'e. No,
they couldn't do that. Nothing will ever take the smell
of George out of anything. Now to find that animal. Attila?
Where are you, Attila?

Speaker 2 (46:25):
Are you here? There? You are?

Speaker 3 (46:32):
Oh, for heaven's sake.

Speaker 6 (46:33):
Are you still tied up the little thing?

Speaker 3 (46:37):
Oh well, don't worry.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
Have you out of that in a minute.

Speaker 3 (46:41):
We can't have you tied or can't we board?

Speaker 6 (46:44):
We can't play our little game. You're tied up three years.

Speaker 13 (46:49):
Yes, that's a good dog, good, good boy, Attila.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
No, now, now let's play our little game.

Speaker 6 (47:00):
See the jacket, a teller, See smell the jacket, dog,
go on, smell it.

Speaker 3 (47:08):
That's a good boy, good boy. Now sick of the tiller?

Speaker 2 (47:15):
That my god?

Speaker 1 (47:26):
Who said a dog has to be man's best friend,
why not woman's best friend, especially a woman like Julia,
who was just learning how really helpful her dog can be,
or rather she's remembering how helpful and one day since
George Smollett will come home to a very surprising greeting

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from his old pet.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
I'll be back shortly.

Speaker 3 (47:53):
Do you say, Buddy, you've said aloud? Thinks nobody else.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
Can say when you said that, you've got as far
as you can go to get there with us?

Speaker 2 (48:08):
What does some people think, bud? It is sort of special?
Go ahead and find out why brewing beer right does
make a difference. You say way, when you say that,

(48:30):
you say carry.

Speaker 3 (48:44):
You said, I said, You've.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
Said it, oh, Annaly, said Bush Saint Louis. We hope
we haven't given you any impression that we don't love dogs.
We love them very much, especially since dogs are descended

(49:09):
from wolves, and the wolf is not only a fascinating creature,
he also does something wonderful for all lovers.

Speaker 2 (49:17):
Of mystery stories. He made just this chilling sound.

Speaker 10 (49:21):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (49:25):
Our cast included Kim Hunter, George Matthews, Robert Dryden, Gill Mack,
and Mandy Petimkin. The entire production was under the direction
of Hyman Brown and down a praegy over our mixed table.
They'll never be satisfied.

Speaker 3 (49:43):
He got him out of the count yets to keep
him from.

Speaker 14 (49:45):
Coming back when he's broke or eating threatening less from abroad.
I gave him a thousand dollars in cash only a
few days ago. When he was picked up in the bar,
he had only about two hundred and suddenly some dollars left.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
In a matter of two days. It squandered over sudden country.

Speaker 3 (50:00):
But if if we need to understand what the something
breedom was on.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
He was going to do what I make you understand.
We're not dealing with a rational, honest man. What can
you do?

Speaker 1 (50:10):
Only two things one can do about a black man,
keep on pay and paying.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
Forever and the un and the other to radio.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Anhuser Bush Incorporated
Bowers of Budweiser.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
This is E. G.

Speaker 1 (50:30):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre until next time, doesn't dreams

Speaker 2 (51:21):
W D A