December 16, 2024 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
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Speaker 2 (01:29):
All mild mile lilew mile Can a cigarette?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Me?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Make the camel thirty day test and you see.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Smoke camels and see here transcribed is Richard Diamond Private
Detective starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Diamond Detective agency.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
We deal in crime, but we're closed. Now it's Christmas time.
Hello there, this is Diamonds. Every year about this time
my business takes a big nose nive. People usually pack
up their troubles and start unpacking colored lights and Christmas
tree ornaments.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
So tonight I'm going to tell you my favorite.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Christmas story, one I always like to tell, a Christmas
Carol by mister Charles Dickens.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Now I'd better explain something first.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
This version isn't exactly the way you've always heard it
because of the particular type of characters I usually get
mixed up with. This story is written to fit their
talents and characteristics. Different from the Dickens originals, certainly, but
we feel that this story could easily happen today anywhere,
like right here in New York on a little side
street just off the Bowery.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
So now I'd like to introduce our characters.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Mister Eberdez's Scrooge will be played by my good friend
and guy adding hand of the Fifth Precinct Homicide Division.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Lieutenant Walter Levinson. Walter ODIs.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
The character of Jacob Marley will be played by one
of Lieutenant Levinson's most trusted henchmen.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Otis that's you?
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Huh oh way a sergeant Otis love loon love loon.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh oh sorry.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Tiny Tam will be played by our corner.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Newsboy Huh, I'm Johnny Rollins.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Tiny Tim's mother will be played by my red headed
gal friend Helen. The rest of the characters will be
played by members of the Fifth Precinct Police Station of Sorry,
Officer Leskowitz Sergeant Miller. The music will be furnished by
the Fifth Precinct Police Band, directed by Patrolman Worth Hi
and now our version of the Christmas classic Charles.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Dickens a Christmas Carol.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Once upon a time there was a nasty old guy
named Ebenezer Scrooge. He was nasty, all right. He didn't
like anything except maybe all the dough he could get.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
His hands on.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Scrooge had a little business that he started with his partner,
Jacob Marley. The outfit was known as Scrooge and Marley
Loan Company. But one day poor old Mirley just up
and keeled over. So the boys along the Big Street
gave him a.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Nice funeral, and old man Scrooge took over the business. Well.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Marley had been dead for seven years and Scrooge lived
alone in his little room over the office and for
a hobby he hated everybody. He had a young guy
working for him named Bob Cratchit. Bob had a wife
and four kids and made just enough to make hands
of meat.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Scrooge used to.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Ride him all the time.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
When he got the cold, the polar bears complained, Cratchit
would turn on the little heater and Scrooge would say.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Cratch It, what do you think you're doing?
Speaker 7 (04:59):
Turn it on a That's what I'm doing. My fingers
look like popsicles.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
I don't care if they come in six delicious flavors.
Every time you turn on that heter it costs me money.
Business is not good, So get back to your work
and tight off me heat.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
On our Look, mister Scrooge, I'm freezing this pen. Ain't
guaranteed the right on the rice.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I'm telling you once more. I get back to your work.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Okay, But I don't know why you worry about business.
Why not just put up a sign and turn the
joint into a skating rink. Merry Christmas, mister Scrooge, Oh swell,
Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Humbug humbug. Yes, humbug. My old man didn't like Christmas,
and that's what he used to say. Humbug.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Okay, humbug, it's still Christmas, and I don't see where
you get off not liking it. This is supposed to
be the time everybody gets with it. Everything stops, it
ain't much good and you put your arm around the
next guy and you're telling them Merry Christmas.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
I'm gonna put my arm around you with a hammer
on the if you don't lay off this good wheel stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Look what's with you? What if you got against Christmas?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
You showed me a way to make one hundred bucks
every Christmas, so I'll fall in love with it.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You want me to be married, for sure. They'd go
get some.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Of those joyous clients somebody to pay.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Off their loans. Merry Christmas. Humbug.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Okay, then humbug.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
But it's still cold in here.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
Have some icicles, but give them back after the holidays,
and my fingers.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Late that evening, Scrooge went upstairs for his room, the
room where Jacob Marley used to stay. It was dark
in the little hall, and when Scrooge reached the door,
he looked up at the big brass knocker and saw.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Holy cal could swall it was old Jake's fish the locker.
They must be working too hard.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
So and he went a little shaky after seeing Jake
Marley's face, but he just passed it off his nerves.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
He closed the.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Door and locked it.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Then got a fire going and started to relax, But
every tile around the fireplace started looking Jake Miley's face.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Oh now, come on, the old boy.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
You gotta get hold of yourself. It's ridiculous. I haven't
touched the drop in weeks.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
He got up and walked around the room a few times,
then went back and sat on again.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
He stretched, rested his head on the back of the chair.
From somewhere, a bell started shoing. The screwge sat straight
up in his chair.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
He heard something else too, something from downstairs.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Fuck that? Oh now, what is that? What's going on here?
Who's that? Come on? Who's out there?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
And all of a sudden it came right out through
the walls.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Else Molly Jake Morley.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Oh no, no, I gotta stop eating lobsters.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It couldn't be. What's with you? Who are you? Jake May?
You're dead?
Speaker 6 (08:01):
The deadis. But nevertheless, Jack Molly, this ghost. Oh you
are very sharp. Today's spoiled your boy.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 8 (08:13):
You got eyes, ain't you?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah? And I got a bad stomach, so that's who
you are. I'm not. I'm got a bad case of indigestion.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
I don't think I'm a ghost. Okay, maybe a.
Speaker 8 (08:24):
Good scale change your.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Mind, stay away from me, all right? All right, I
believe you.
Speaker 8 (08:33):
You're sold on the idea.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Yeah yeah, But but but why did you come to
see me?
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Regulations, every man's supposed to live his life and help
his buddies. If they don't do it while he's alive,
then he gotta do that.
Speaker 8 (08:49):
He digs on, cut it out.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Why come to me?
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Because you're gonna end up just like me unless we
do something and hurry.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
I haven't got much time, so you better listen.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Oh oh, I don't want to be like you. Oh,
I'll listen.
Speaker 8 (09:09):
Okay. You are gonna have three visitors.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
You are gonna be haunted by three spirits. Oh no,
it is the only way you can keep from being
like me.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
When you hear the bell strike one the face one
will be here.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Well I gotta be going. You won't see me again
for you remember what I told you.
Speaker 8 (09:39):
So, Screwge.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Oh boy, your goosebumps can relax now.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
You know, after the ghosts took off, screws, just refuse
to believe it.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Let's it's ridiculous, humbug.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Then he climbed into the sack and was soon snoring
up a storm. When Scrooge awoke, it was still dark
and the bell from the church on fifty third Street.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Was striking twelve. He lay awake, listening and thinking to himself.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Just a dream.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Ghosts.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Finally, he dropped off again and slept for about an hour.
Then the bell struck one one.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
O'clock. I don't see no ghosts. I knew it was
something I ate.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
All of a sudden, a big light flashed in the room,
and the first of.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
The spirits stood before him.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Jake was right. Are you the first spirit that Jake
said had come to haunt me?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
You know it? Well, who are me?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I'm the ghost of Christmas Past?
Speaker 8 (11:13):
Yeah? How long passed you're past?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Come on, we're gonna take a little ride.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Well where are we going? Just relax, I'm running this tour. Well,
let me get my pants.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
You got him?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
They're on me with that.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
The ghost of Christmas past grabbed Scrooge of the hand,
or they both flew out of the window. Scrooge nearly
lost his upper plate, but before he could yell for help,
he was standing in front of a dirty, ramshackle old
tenement building.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
You know where you are?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Sure I know where I am. This is where I
was brought up. Even the garbage cans the same.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
You had a pretty tough time when you were a kid,
didn't you the toughest.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
I was a very big The rest of the kids
in the neighborhood were I had more black eyes than
a crow.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
You want to go in what for?
Speaker 8 (12:16):
To see your folks?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
My folks died a long long time ago?
Speaker 4 (12:21):
There there, Now, come on, while the ghost took old
Scrooge into the building and showed him a Christmas years
past when he was a child with his family.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Sure it was tough.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Living in two little rooms like that, but Scrooge remembered
how wonderful it really was.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
What's the matter, Scrooge, I, oh, I've got.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Something with my eye.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
You were pretty lonely when your folks when they Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
You know, there was a young kid that came around
earlier this evening and sank some carols.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
See I wish?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah, what do you wish?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Oh? Hear lessing? Come on, I want to show you
another Christmas.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
The spirit showed him another Christmas, and still another, And
you know, no matter how tough Scrooge remembered his child
that had been, it always seemed that Christmas was wonderful.
Then before he knew it, Scrooge was back in his
little room and the spirit was gone.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Scrooge was pretty beat.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
He climbed into bed and dropped into a heavy sleep.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Very huh, what's that? It's two o'clock? Hey, head light
in the other room? I got burkless?
Speaker 8 (14:10):
Hey, school, Come.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
On, who's that? What are you doing in the other room?
Come take a walk?
Speaker 8 (14:19):
It's pretty nifty?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Hey, what is this?
Speaker 6 (14:25):
What have you done of the room? Looks like Basie's window?
Where'd you get all the holly in the mistletoe? And
how did you get in here?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Do you wike it? Oh? For Pete's sake? A Christmas tree?
Who are you the ghost of Christmas? Pleasant?
Speaker 9 (14:41):
Now, don't tell me you don't wipe the way I
fixed things up? I work pretty hard, Oh.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
Second ghost, Okay, take me wherever you want to go,
But believe me next time I try the train.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Let's go. Now, what do you see?
Speaker 6 (15:02):
I see bright colored lights, people having a lot of fun.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
Kids and slaves have building over there, the one with
the big waf on the pet doors.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, that's where Bob cratchits. He works for me.
Speaker 9 (15:13):
Hey, look there, Bob, you're going into the house up
all those stairs to the fifth floor.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
He's got his little boy on his bike, tiny Tim.
Speaker 9 (15:23):
Yeah he got polio were summer, but he's sick with
a boy.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I know.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Bob said he'd need a lot of care if he
was never never gonna walk again.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Come on, let's take a peek, hie.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Hello, honey, You and Tim have a good time the best,
didn't a wait?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Tim?
Speaker 10 (15:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Dare we watched all the kids in the block on
their slips? Mom?
Speaker 8 (15:52):
Will I ever be.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
Able to ride a slip?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Of course, Tim, oonly, dear.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Sure thing rough Nick.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
Next Christmas she'll be out there doing belly whoppers with
the rest of them.
Speaker 8 (16:02):
That what's the matter your eyes?
Speaker 7 (16:05):
You're all with uh nothing till I just got some
snow on.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
You want some chicken? Tim? No turkey, No, but lots
of cranberries.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Nice it next to you Dad, you just bet Bob?
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Would you say?
Speaker 8 (16:22):
Grace?
Speaker 11 (16:23):
Dear?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Can I say something first?
Speaker 8 (16:26):
Mom?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Of course? Him? What would you like to say?
Speaker 11 (16:31):
God?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Bless us everyone? What's a matter of school? Joe Boy?
Got some snow in your eyes too? Tell me something?
Sure if I can. What about tiny Tim? Well, can't
say for sure.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
If his old man makes enough money next year to
get the white doctor, little Tim will get along.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Just fun. The times that tough, aren't they, Scrooge? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Now, the Spirit of Christmas present took Scrooge to many
places and showed him a lot of happiness and a
lot of misery.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
And finally back to his little room, and the spirit
was gone.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Oh, I don't know whether I can take much more
of this.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Then a new ghost drifted in. This was the worse yet.
He was really done up for hunting. He was all
dressed in black, with one arm sticking out and pointing.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Righted, Poor old Scrooge. This was the last one of
the spirits.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Scrooge's knees sounded like casting net's on a reducing machine.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Okay, okay, you don't have to tell me you're the
ghost of the Christmas hasn't come yet, you, I'm really
scared of.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
The girls took off at Scrooge right after him.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
The city disappeared, and Scrooge found himself on the outskirts
of town, standing.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
In the graveyard.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
The night was howling like it was mad, and as
Scrooge looked down, he saw.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Hey, what's this? What's this stone?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
The black spirit stood still and pointed, so Scrooge leaned down,
pulled away the.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Bushes and saw it was a tombstone.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
There's a name here, heh the Nisa Scrooge. Oh no, no,
look at this. Willieve me. I don't want this.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
I know I've done wrong, but I'm not kidnaped. I
really know what Christmas means. It doesn't mean yes today
or tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
It's every day, every day of your life. I swear
I'll do better.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Only take me away from this, Let me try, Let
me try to make Christmas right for me and for
everybody else.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Please, please, don't let this happen. Give me another chance.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
Well, don't just stand there, put your arm back and
you'll catch cold.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Well say something.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Suddenly Scrooge dropped to his knees and reached out for
the spirit, but something happened.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
The spirit started to shrink, then it collapsed.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
And when Scrooge looked up, what.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
My bed post? My own bed post. I'm home. Oh
thank goodness. I lived the past, the present, in the future,
and now I'm home.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
Hellujah Spirit wherever you are, Believe me.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
From now on things are going to be different.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
Oh yeah, and thanks paper yet your morning paper?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Hey boy boy? What day is this Christmas?
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Boil boil boy. I haven't missed it. The spooks did
it all in one night.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Oh it's you, mister Screws. How many papers you got?
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Well, here's five bucks five bucks throw away.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Then go have yourself for Merry Christmas. See, thanks Screws.
The merry Christmas to you?
Speaker 8 (20:14):
Oh boy, say that again?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Thanks? No, no the other Oh you mean merry Christmas. Yeah,
that's it. Merry Christmas. Okay, okay, I'm coming. What's the
matter with you can't just see?
Speaker 8 (20:35):
The store is closed? Look, mister, the store is it?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Heaven? He's a screwed very Christmas party. You've been drinking
not a drop. But what's the man there? It's gonna
wish me to merry Christmas?
Speaker 9 (20:48):
Oh sure, merry, sure, Come on in the wife's upstairs
with a mother, but I got a bottle in the
back look party.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
I know your grocery store is closed, but you could
still sell me a turkey, couldn't you.
Speaker 8 (21:02):
What do you want a turkey for?
Speaker 9 (21:03):
You've been eating at the automat every Christmas for the
last seven years?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Is that for me?
Speaker 8 (21:09):
And then who's the void.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
For Bobby Cratchit? You know the young guy that works
for me? Oh yeah, how much you're gonna charge him?
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Here, here's twenty bucks. Here's the address unlessen don't tell
Cratchit who sent us me? Okay, okay, Merry Christmas party.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Yeah, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Well, Old Screwge went back to his rooms and took an.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Old blue suit out of the mothballs. He shook it out,
put a few creases in it, and went out on
the street.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
The old boy was really with it.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Everybody he passed he greeted them with.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
He went to church and gave a large donation. Father
Macarthy in the litter got his sermon. Yes, for the
first time in his life. Scrooge was having him Merry
Christmas and arrived early at his office.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
If he could just catch cratch it coming in late,
and he did.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Bob was a good twenty one minutes.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Late cratch it. Oh no, you are twenty one minutes late.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, mister Scrooge.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I had a big evening.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Oh you did you know what I told you if
I caught you fancy footing it.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
In here late again?
Speaker 7 (22:24):
Okay, so I'm canned. You think you got it coming.
I'm too tired to argue. Jobs are tough enough, and
I hate to lose this one, but I'm.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Just too tired.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I raise would help him.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
That's the silliest question of the year. Then you got it?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
It's Indney envelope. Why uh huh.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
Maybe after we see how the funds are we we
might be able to do something about tiny Tim.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
I don't get it a raise. You want to do
something about Tim? I don't get sure you do, Bob.
Haven't you heard?
Speaker 2 (22:52):
It's Christmas?
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Now go on home, take the day off, take the
week off, come back with you feel like it.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Merry Christmas, mister Scrooge.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
And Scrooge really did it. He was as good as
his word, better even he made it the merriest Christmas ever.
And later things got better and he took care of
Tiny Tim, and sure enough Tim was out on his
sledge the next Christmas doing belly whoppers were the best of.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Them every Christmas thereafter.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
All along the Big Street, it was said, if anyone
knew how to make Christmas merry, Old Eboneze Scrooge was
that one.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
And I hope that can really be said about all
of us, just like Tiny Tim.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Said, God bless us everyone.
Speaker 10 (23:47):
That's it, Tim, God bless us everyone.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Oh, Rick, that was a wonderful story, not quite the
way Dickens wrote it, but it meant the same thing.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Oh thanks, Ellen, dear. I thought you were good as
Tiny Tim's mother too, didn't you want?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I sure did. And that's no humbug.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
What in the world was that at Sergeant Otis, He's
still playing Marley Otis.
Speaker 8 (24:24):
Yeah happens.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Oh cut it out, Otis plays over God call officers,
Riley Lundon Miller all. I'm telling them to leave the
punch bowl from over here. We're gonna sing, Oh boy,
I'll lead off jingle bow.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
No, no, Otis, Rick will lead. We can join in later.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Oh turn it go, Rick, ODIs, stop breathing down my neck.
Speaker 8 (24:46):
I'm just waiting to come in.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
ODIs heaven snow falling down from heaven.
Speaker 11 (24:56):
Making a manattle of war. Sleigh bells are ringing, wonderful
Christmas night, dingle.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Bolt you know, not not yet, hous.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Voices that sing, Hosanna bathe in.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
A heavenly lie.
Speaker 11 (25:21):
Everyone, happy, wonderful Christmas night. Odors pees, honor, good.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Will toward men, hodess not crying, lie, Honor.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Begins again.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
Joy in the hearts of children.
Speaker 11 (25:53):
They're in the trees, candlelight, all making merry one little
Christmas night.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
Now let him sing well, come on everybody, Oh boy,
jingle bells, jingle bells, single a.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Is to ride on horself.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
Instead jingle bell single bells, jingle a way, oh my God,
riding horse.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
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Speaker 3 (26:49):
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Speaker 1 (26:51):
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Speaker 2 (27:26):
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Speaker 8 (27:30):
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Speaker 1 (27:35):
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Speaker 3 (27:37):
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Speaker 4 (27:38):
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Speaker 3 (28:02):
Now until next week, enjoy camels. I always do.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Dick Powell can now be seen starring in the Universal
International film You Never Can Tell. Tonight's transcribed adventure of
Richard Diamond was written by Blake Edwards with music by
Frank Worth. Our director was Nat Bolt for Jinda Greig
played the part of Helen Asher, and Alan Reid was
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Jack Krusian, Joel Samuels and Jeffrey Silver.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
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The bite is out and the pleasures and when you
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Especially treated not to bite your tongue, to bite out
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adventure of Richard Diamond, starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
This is your FBI.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
The official broadcast from the files of the FBI follows
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Speaker 2 (01:29):
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Speaker 1 (01:34):
Me?
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Make the camel thirty day test and you see.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Smoke camels and see here transcribed is Richard Diamond Private
Detective starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Diamond Detective agency.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
We deal in crime, but we're closed. Now it's Christmas time.
Hello there, this is Diamonds. Every year about this time
my business takes a big nose nive. People usually pack
up their troubles and start unpacking colored lights and Christmas
tree ornaments.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
So tonight I'm going to tell you my favorite.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Christmas story, one I always like to tell, a Christmas
Carol by mister Charles Dickens.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Now I'd better explain something first.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
This version isn't exactly the way you've always heard it
because of the particular type of characters I usually get
mixed up with. This story is written to fit their
talents and characteristics. Different from the Dickens originals, certainly, but
we feel that this story could easily happen today anywhere,
like right here in New York on a little side
street just off the Bowery.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
So now I'd like to introduce our characters.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Mister Eberdez's Scrooge will be played by my good friend
and guy adding hand of the Fifth Precinct Homicide Division.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Lieutenant Walter Levinson. Walter ODIs.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
The character of Jacob Marley will be played by one
of Lieutenant Levinson's most trusted henchmen.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Otis that's you?
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Huh oh way a sergeant Otis love loon love loon.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh oh sorry.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Tiny Tam will be played by our corner.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Newsboy Huh, I'm Johnny Rollins.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Tiny Tim's mother will be played by my red headed
gal friend Helen. The rest of the characters will be
played by members of the Fifth Precinct Police Station of Sorry,
Officer Leskowitz Sergeant Miller. The music will be furnished by
the Fifth Precinct Police Band, directed by Patrolman Worth Hi
and now our version of the Christmas classic Charles.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Dickens a Christmas Carol.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Once upon a time there was a nasty old guy
named Ebenezer Scrooge. He was nasty, all right. He didn't
like anything except maybe all the dough he could get.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
His hands on.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Scrooge had a little business that he started with his partner,
Jacob Marley. The outfit was known as Scrooge and Marley
Loan Company. But one day poor old Mirley just up
and keeled over. So the boys along the Big Street
gave him a.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Nice funeral, and old man Scrooge took over the business. Well.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Marley had been dead for seven years and Scrooge lived
alone in his little room over the office and for
a hobby he hated everybody. He had a young guy
working for him named Bob Cratchit. Bob had a wife
and four kids and made just enough to make hands
of meat.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Scrooge used to.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Ride him all the time.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
When he got the cold, the polar bears complained, Cratchit
would turn on the little heater and Scrooge would say.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Cratch It, what do you think you're doing?
Speaker 7 (04:59):
Turn it on a That's what I'm doing. My fingers
look like popsicles.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
I don't care if they come in six delicious flavors.
Every time you turn on that heter it costs me money.
Business is not good, So get back to your work
and tight off me heat.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
On our Look, mister Scrooge, I'm freezing this pen. Ain't
guaranteed the right on the rice.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I'm telling you once more. I get back to your work.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Okay, But I don't know why you worry about business.
Why not just put up a sign and turn the
joint into a skating rink. Merry Christmas, mister Scrooge, Oh swell,
Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Humbug humbug. Yes, humbug. My old man didn't like Christmas,
and that's what he used to say. Humbug.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Okay, humbug, it's still Christmas, and I don't see where
you get off not liking it. This is supposed to
be the time everybody gets with it. Everything stops, it
ain't much good and you put your arm around the
next guy and you're telling them Merry Christmas.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
I'm gonna put my arm around you with a hammer
on the if you don't lay off this good wheel stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Look what's with you? What if you got against Christmas?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
You showed me a way to make one hundred bucks
every Christmas, so I'll fall in love with it.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You want me to be married, for sure. They'd go
get some.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Of those joyous clients somebody to pay.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Off their loans. Merry Christmas. Humbug.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Okay, then humbug.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
But it's still cold in here.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
Have some icicles, but give them back after the holidays,
and my fingers.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Late that evening, Scrooge went upstairs for his room, the
room where Jacob Marley used to stay. It was dark
in the little hall, and when Scrooge reached the door,
he looked up at the big brass knocker and saw.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Holy cal could swall it was old Jake's fish the locker.
They must be working too hard.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
So and he went a little shaky after seeing Jake
Marley's face, but he just passed it off his nerves.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
He closed the.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Door and locked it.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Then got a fire going and started to relax, But
every tile around the fireplace started looking Jake Miley's face.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Oh now, come on, the old boy.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
You gotta get hold of yourself. It's ridiculous. I haven't
touched the drop in weeks.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
He got up and walked around the room a few times,
then went back and sat on again.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
He stretched, rested his head on the back of the chair.
From somewhere, a bell started shoing. The screwge sat straight
up in his chair.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
He heard something else too, something from downstairs.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Fuck that? Oh now, what is that? What's going on here?
Who's that? Come on? Who's out there?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
And all of a sudden it came right out through
the walls.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Else Molly Jake Morley.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Oh no, no, I gotta stop eating lobsters.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It couldn't be. What's with you? Who are you? Jake May?
You're dead?
Speaker 6 (08:01):
The deadis. But nevertheless, Jack Molly, this ghost. Oh you
are very sharp. Today's spoiled your boy.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 8 (08:13):
You got eyes, ain't you?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah? And I got a bad stomach, so that's who
you are. I'm not. I'm got a bad case of indigestion.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
I don't think I'm a ghost. Okay, maybe a.
Speaker 8 (08:24):
Good scale change your.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Mind, stay away from me, all right? All right, I
believe you.
Speaker 8 (08:33):
You're sold on the idea.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Yeah yeah, But but but why did you come to
see me?
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Regulations, every man's supposed to live his life and help
his buddies. If they don't do it while he's alive,
then he gotta do that.
Speaker 8 (08:49):
He digs on, cut it out.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Why come to me?
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Because you're gonna end up just like me unless we
do something and hurry.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
I haven't got much time, so you better listen.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Oh oh, I don't want to be like you. Oh,
I'll listen.
Speaker 8 (09:09):
Okay. You are gonna have three visitors.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
You are gonna be haunted by three spirits. Oh no,
it is the only way you can keep from being
like me.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
When you hear the bell strike one the face one
will be here.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Well I gotta be going. You won't see me again
for you remember what I told you.
Speaker 8 (09:39):
So, Screwge.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Oh boy, your goosebumps can relax now.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
You know, after the ghosts took off, screws, just refuse
to believe it.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Let's it's ridiculous, humbug.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Then he climbed into the sack and was soon snoring
up a storm. When Scrooge awoke, it was still dark
and the bell from the church on fifty third Street.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Was striking twelve. He lay awake, listening and thinking to himself.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Just a dream.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Ghosts.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Finally, he dropped off again and slept for about an hour.
Then the bell struck one one.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
O'clock. I don't see no ghosts. I knew it was
something I ate.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
All of a sudden, a big light flashed in the room,
and the first of.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
The spirits stood before him.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Jake was right. Are you the first spirit that Jake
said had come to haunt me?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
You know it? Well, who are me?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I'm the ghost of Christmas Past?
Speaker 8 (11:13):
Yeah? How long passed you're past?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Come on, we're gonna take a little ride.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Well where are we going? Just relax, I'm running this tour. Well,
let me get my pants.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
You got him?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
They're on me with that.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
The ghost of Christmas past grabbed Scrooge of the hand,
or they both flew out of the window. Scrooge nearly
lost his upper plate, but before he could yell for help,
he was standing in front of a dirty, ramshackle old
tenement building.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
You know where you are?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Sure I know where I am. This is where I
was brought up. Even the garbage cans the same.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
You had a pretty tough time when you were a kid,
didn't you the toughest.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
I was a very big The rest of the kids
in the neighborhood were I had more black eyes than
a crow.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
You want to go in what for?
Speaker 8 (12:16):
To see your folks?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
My folks died a long long time ago?
Speaker 4 (12:21):
There there, Now, come on, while the ghost took old
Scrooge into the building and showed him a Christmas years
past when he was a child with his family.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Sure it was tough.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Living in two little rooms like that, but Scrooge remembered
how wonderful it really was.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
What's the matter, Scrooge, I, oh, I've got.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Something with my eye.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
You were pretty lonely when your folks when they Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
You know, there was a young kid that came around
earlier this evening and sank some carols.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
See I wish?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah, what do you wish?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Oh? Hear lessing? Come on, I want to show you
another Christmas.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
The spirit showed him another Christmas, and still another, And
you know, no matter how tough Scrooge remembered his child
that had been, it always seemed that Christmas was wonderful.
Then before he knew it, Scrooge was back in his
little room and the spirit was gone.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Scrooge was pretty beat.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
He climbed into bed and dropped into a heavy sleep.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Very huh, what's that? It's two o'clock? Hey, head light
in the other room? I got burkless?
Speaker 8 (14:10):
Hey, school, Come.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
On, who's that? What are you doing in the other room?
Come take a walk?
Speaker 8 (14:19):
It's pretty nifty?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Hey, what is this?
Speaker 6 (14:25):
What have you done of the room? Looks like Basie's window?
Where'd you get all the holly in the mistletoe? And
how did you get in here?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Do you wike it? Oh? For Pete's sake? A Christmas tree?
Who are you the ghost of Christmas? Pleasant?
Speaker 9 (14:41):
Now, don't tell me you don't wipe the way I
fixed things up? I work pretty hard, Oh.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
Second ghost, Okay, take me wherever you want to go,
But believe me next time I try the train.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Let's go. Now, what do you see?
Speaker 6 (15:02):
I see bright colored lights, people having a lot of fun.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
Kids and slaves have building over there, the one with
the big waf on the pet doors.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, that's where Bob cratchits. He works for me.
Speaker 9 (15:13):
Hey, look there, Bob, you're going into the house up
all those stairs to the fifth floor.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
He's got his little boy on his bike, tiny Tim.
Speaker 9 (15:23):
Yeah he got polio were summer, but he's sick with
a boy.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I know.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Bob said he'd need a lot of care if he
was never never gonna walk again.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Come on, let's take a peek, hie.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Hello, honey, You and Tim have a good time the best,
didn't a wait?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Tim?
Speaker 10 (15:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Dare we watched all the kids in the block on
their slips? Mom?
Speaker 8 (15:52):
Will I ever be.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
Able to ride a slip?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Of course, Tim, oonly, dear.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Sure thing rough Nick.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
Next Christmas she'll be out there doing belly whoppers with
the rest of them.
Speaker 8 (16:02):
That what's the matter your eyes?
Speaker 7 (16:05):
You're all with uh nothing till I just got some
snow on.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
You want some chicken? Tim? No turkey, No, but lots
of cranberries.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Nice it next to you Dad, you just bet Bob?
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Would you say?
Speaker 8 (16:22):
Grace?
Speaker 11 (16:23):
Dear?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Can I say something first?
Speaker 8 (16:26):
Mom?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Of course? Him? What would you like to say?
Speaker 11 (16:31):
God?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Bless us everyone? What's a matter of school? Joe Boy?
Got some snow in your eyes too? Tell me something?
Sure if I can. What about tiny Tim? Well, can't
say for sure.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
If his old man makes enough money next year to
get the white doctor, little Tim will get along.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Just fun. The times that tough, aren't they, Scrooge? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Now, the Spirit of Christmas present took Scrooge to many
places and showed him a lot of happiness and a
lot of misery.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
And finally back to his little room, and the spirit
was gone.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Oh, I don't know whether I can take much more
of this.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Then a new ghost drifted in. This was the worse yet.
He was really done up for hunting. He was all
dressed in black, with one arm sticking out and pointing.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Righted, Poor old Scrooge. This was the last one of
the spirits.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Scrooge's knees sounded like casting net's on a reducing machine.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Okay, okay, you don't have to tell me you're the
ghost of the Christmas hasn't come yet, you, I'm really
scared of.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
The girls took off at Scrooge right after him.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
The city disappeared, and Scrooge found himself on the outskirts
of town, standing.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
In the graveyard.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
The night was howling like it was mad, and as
Scrooge looked down, he saw.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Hey, what's this? What's this stone?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
The black spirit stood still and pointed, so Scrooge leaned down,
pulled away the.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Bushes and saw it was a tombstone.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
There's a name here, heh the Nisa Scrooge. Oh no, no,
look at this. Willieve me. I don't want this.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
I know I've done wrong, but I'm not kidnaped. I
really know what Christmas means. It doesn't mean yes today
or tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
It's every day, every day of your life. I swear
I'll do better.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Only take me away from this, Let me try, Let
me try to make Christmas right for me and for
everybody else.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Please, please, don't let this happen. Give me another chance.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
Well, don't just stand there, put your arm back and
you'll catch cold.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Well say something.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Suddenly Scrooge dropped to his knees and reached out for
the spirit, but something happened.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
The spirit started to shrink, then it collapsed.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
And when Scrooge looked up, what.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
My bed post? My own bed post. I'm home. Oh
thank goodness. I lived the past, the present, in the future,
and now I'm home.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
Hellujah Spirit wherever you are, Believe me.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
From now on things are going to be different.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
Oh yeah, and thanks paper yet your morning paper?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Hey boy boy? What day is this Christmas?
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Boil boil boy. I haven't missed it. The spooks did
it all in one night.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Oh it's you, mister Screws. How many papers you got?
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Well, here's five bucks five bucks throw away.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Then go have yourself for Merry Christmas. See, thanks Screws.
The merry Christmas to you?
Speaker 8 (20:14):
Oh boy, say that again?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Thanks? No, no the other Oh you mean merry Christmas. Yeah,
that's it. Merry Christmas. Okay, okay, I'm coming. What's the
matter with you can't just see?
Speaker 8 (20:35):
The store is closed? Look, mister, the store is it?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Heaven? He's a screwed very Christmas party. You've been drinking
not a drop. But what's the man there? It's gonna
wish me to merry Christmas?
Speaker 9 (20:48):
Oh sure, merry, sure, Come on in the wife's upstairs
with a mother, but I got a bottle in the
back look party.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
I know your grocery store is closed, but you could
still sell me a turkey, couldn't you.
Speaker 8 (21:02):
What do you want a turkey for?
Speaker 9 (21:03):
You've been eating at the automat every Christmas for the
last seven years?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Is that for me?
Speaker 8 (21:09):
And then who's the void.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
For Bobby Cratchit? You know the young guy that works
for me? Oh yeah, how much you're gonna charge him?
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Here, here's twenty bucks. Here's the address unlessen don't tell
Cratchit who sent us me? Okay, okay, Merry Christmas party.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Yeah, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Well, Old Screwge went back to his rooms and took an.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Old blue suit out of the mothballs. He shook it out,
put a few creases in it, and went out on
the street.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
The old boy was really with it.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Everybody he passed he greeted them with.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
He went to church and gave a large donation. Father
Macarthy in the litter got his sermon. Yes, for the
first time in his life. Scrooge was having him Merry
Christmas and arrived early at his office.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
If he could just catch cratch it coming in late,
and he did.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Bob was a good twenty one minutes.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Late cratch it. Oh no, you are twenty one minutes late.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, mister Scrooge.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I had a big evening.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Oh you did you know what I told you if
I caught you fancy footing it.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
In here late again?
Speaker 7 (22:24):
Okay, so I'm canned. You think you got it coming.
I'm too tired to argue. Jobs are tough enough, and
I hate to lose this one, but I'm.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Just too tired.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I raise would help him.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
That's the silliest question of the year. Then you got it?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
It's Indney envelope. Why uh huh.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
Maybe after we see how the funds are we we
might be able to do something about tiny Tim.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
I don't get it a raise. You want to do
something about Tim? I don't get sure you do, Bob.
Haven't you heard?
Speaker 2 (22:52):
It's Christmas?
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Now go on home, take the day off, take the
week off, come back with you feel like it.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Merry Christmas, mister Scrooge.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
And Scrooge really did it. He was as good as
his word, better even he made it the merriest Christmas ever.
And later things got better and he took care of
Tiny Tim, and sure enough Tim was out on his
sledge the next Christmas doing belly whoppers were the best of.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Them every Christmas thereafter.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
All along the Big Street, it was said, if anyone
knew how to make Christmas merry, Old Eboneze Scrooge was
that one.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
And I hope that can really be said about all
of us, just like Tiny Tim.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Said, God bless us everyone.
Speaker 10 (23:47):
That's it, Tim, God bless us everyone.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Oh, Rick, that was a wonderful story, not quite the
way Dickens wrote it, but it meant the same thing.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Oh thanks, Ellen, dear. I thought you were good as
Tiny Tim's mother too, didn't you want?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I sure did. And that's no humbug.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
What in the world was that at Sergeant Otis, He's
still playing Marley Otis.
Speaker 8 (24:24):
Yeah happens.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Oh cut it out, Otis plays over God call officers,
Riley Lundon Miller all. I'm telling them to leave the
punch bowl from over here. We're gonna sing, Oh boy,
I'll lead off jingle bow.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
No, no, Otis, Rick will lead. We can join in later.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Oh turn it go, Rick, ODIs, stop breathing down my neck.
Speaker 8 (24:46):
I'm just waiting to come in.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
ODIs heaven snow falling down from heaven.
Speaker 11 (24:56):
Making a manattle of war. Sleigh bells are ringing, wonderful
Christmas night, dingle.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Bolt you know, not not yet, hous.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Voices that sing, Hosanna bathe in.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
A heavenly lie.
Speaker 11 (25:21):
Everyone, happy, wonderful Christmas night. Odors pees, honor, good.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Will toward men, hodess not crying, lie, Honor.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Begins again.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
Joy in the hearts of children.
Speaker 11 (25:53):
They're in the trees, candlelight, all making merry one little
Christmas night.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
Now let him sing well, come on everybody, Oh boy,
jingle bells, jingle bells, single a.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Is to ride on horself.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
Instead jingle bell single bells, jingle a way, oh my God,
riding horse.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Right here is where all the men and women who
make the camels you smoke would like to wish each
and every one of you the happiest of holiday seasons.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
And right now might also.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Be a good time to remind you that there's still
plenty of time to add camels to your Christmas shopping list.
Camels by the cartners, so easy to give. Camels come
beautifully decorated holiday package, so handsomely designed that you don't
even have to wrap it. Just write your personal greetings
on the card that's on the top of every special camel.
Christmas Cotton and camels are such a pleasure to receive.
(27:12):
It's the cigarette enjoyed most in America, the cigarette that
leads all other brands in popularity by billions of cigarettes
per year. So you can't go wrong by giving mild
flavorful camels.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Oh mile mile.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
Canigatb small calgency.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Here's Dick Powell with another special message.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Every week, the makers of camels send thousands of packs
of camels to service hospitals. That's to help show hospitalized
men and women of the Armed forces that those at
home haven't forgotten them. This week's free camels go to
veterans Hospitals Wilkesbury, Pennsylvanian and Amorala, Texas, Nellis Air Force Hospital,
Las Vegas, Nevada, US Naval Hospital, Naval Medical Center, Guam,
(28:01):
Marianna's Islands.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Now until next week, enjoy camels. I always do.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Dick Powell can now be seen starring in the Universal
International film You Never Can Tell. Tonight's transcribed adventure of
Richard Diamond was written by Blake Edwards with music by
Frank Worth. Our director was Nat Bolt for Jinda Greig
played the part of Helen Asher, and Alan Reid was
Lieutenant Levinson. Others in the cast were Barney Phillips, Arthur Q. Bryant,
Jack Krusian, Joel Samuels and Jeffrey Silver.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Are there pipe smokers on your Christmas list?
Speaker 4 (28:41):
There's still time to make him a present of pipe
full after pipe full of the National joy smoke. Prince Albert,
the Prince Albert one pound ten comes in a special
Christmas box ready to give. There's a space right on
it for your personal greeting. Give Prince Albert.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
The bite is out and the pleasures and when you
small France Albert.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Especially treated not to bite your tongue, to bite out
and the pleasures in. Listen next week for another exciting
adventure of Richard Diamond, starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
This is your FBI.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
The official broadcast from the files of the FBI follows
immediately Stay tuned. This program came to you from Hollywood.
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