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May 10, 2025 12 mins
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The Strange Dr. Weird was a sister series to The Mysterious Traveler, both in theme and its narrator, Maurice Tarplin. The 29 episodes were produced and directed by Jock MacGregor and written by Robert A. Arthur, who also scripted for The Mysterious Traveler.

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
The strange doctor weird.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Good evening, Come in on show, Where was the murder?

Speaker 3 (00:19):
You seem a bit pale? Have you been working too hard?

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Possibly a story might help relax you. A story saying
about a man who could read out a man's minds,
and who felt sure his strange power would make him
tremendously wealthy. I call his story the Man who Knew Everything.

(00:51):
My story, The Man who Knew Everything? Begins in the
Crystal Club, a lavish nightclub. A small man, very old,
clad in robes of yellow silk, moves from table to table.
He carries a small crystal ball, into which he peers
as he tells diners their most secret thoughts. He calls

(01:12):
himself rand Or the misty watching him from the doorway,
a free man. Nick Thompson, owner of the club, Rocky
brog In, his bodyguard, and Jerry Fenton, the press agent
who handles Randorp's affairs.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
That's really an act, Randor Jerry?

Speaker 3 (01:31):
When I'd like to know, is is it a gag?

Speaker 4 (01:33):
Or is it on the level.

Speaker 5 (01:34):
It's on the level, all right. You really can look
inside your mind, Nick, And I'm staying away from him.
I don't want anybody reading my mind.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
I know too much about myself already.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
If he's on a level, what's he doing working in
a nightclub?

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Ack? Why doesn't he use this little trick to clean
up big?

Speaker 5 (01:48):
He says, it's dangerous to you his powers like that
for yourself?

Speaker 4 (01:52):
Yes, me, I think he's bugs.

Speaker 6 (01:53):
I'll say, imagine being able to read the combination of
a bank boark from the cacious mind.

Speaker 5 (01:59):
Gee, it would be handy. Nick, I gotta do an
errand Randa asked for me. Tell him I'll be back
before the midnight show.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
Will you.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Slipping from the club.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Jerry Fenton, a few minutes later, let himself into the
small apartment with his employer Randall new alone, taking a
sheaf of papers from a desk.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
He's settled down to read.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
An hour passed, and then unexpectedly he heard the door open.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
Eh, Randall, Yes, my friend.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
I felt unwell.

Speaker 7 (02:38):
My hat pinned me, so I returned to my home
to find you're reading my secret document, ass or what
you have pried into my secrets. I can see it
clearly on your mind. This is not the first time.

Speaker 5 (02:48):
All right, then, I have unlessen your nightclub, swamy. I've
found out how you do your mind ridding stunt. That
crystal ball you carry has got nothing to do with it.
It's those cough drops you're always chewing.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
They doped throw They adopt with.

Speaker 7 (03:01):
A specialist Indian drug which keys up the brain so
that can receive the delicate thought waves from another mind.

Speaker 5 (03:07):
Yeah, and I know how to prepare those cough drots
of yours. It's a very neat trick, being able to
hear another man's thoughts right inside your own skull. I
can do it myself now. And you intend to use
your knowledge for evil? No, it must not be swad
to me.

Speaker 7 (03:20):
You will forget what you know, arel or else what else?

Speaker 3 (03:24):
You must die?

Speaker 4 (03:26):
So that's how it is. Huh, I'll too can play
that game. What are you doing? If one of us
has got to go, it won't be me.

Speaker 5 (03:32):
This cushion brand or if I hold it over your
face for a minute, when they find you, they'll think
your thicker gave out on you.

Speaker 7 (03:39):
Oh you know they're not. That's how you have stolen
it will turn on you. Men's thoughts are not to
be trusted.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
You are.

Speaker 5 (03:51):
Sorry, Mandor, But nothing stopping me?

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Now?

Speaker 4 (03:54):
Nothing do you hear?

Speaker 2 (04:03):
As Jerry Fenton had foretold the death of Randor the
Misty was ascribed to nettural causes.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
But for several days.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Fenton stayed in seclusion, studying the notes he had stolen
from the dead man. Then one evening, he dropped in
on Nick Thompson and his bodyguard Rocky Brogan in Thompson's office.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
Oh Jerry, no, thanks, neck guy.

Speaker 5 (04:28):
I've decided to take over the Crystal Club and your
little numbers racket.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Ye. Hey, what kind of a gig is it?

Speaker 5 (04:34):
It's no gag, you see, Nick, guy, happen to know
you're wanted for murder in California.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
How do you know that? I know that's why you're
turning the club in your organization over to me.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
Rocky, Yeah, Boss, get at your gun. We're taking care
of this rat.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Now.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
I hate to tell you this, boss, but I'm working
for Jerry. Now what.

Speaker 5 (04:55):
Yeah, you see, I know things about Rocky too. He's
decided it's smart to stick by me.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
That's right, boss, he knows too much about me.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
In that case, all right, boss, Now, well let's take
care of him here.

Speaker 5 (05:11):
Now. I'm forse around here, understand, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, boy,
And Rocky I'm on my way in a year, I'll
own this town.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Doctor Weird.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
The first part of your story about Jerry makes me
wonder do you know anything about reading mind a little?

Speaker 2 (05:31):
A little? For instance? Right now I can see you
have something on your mind about hats. Adam hats, Doctor,
how did you guess?

Speaker 1 (05:40):
And I was just thinking that Jerry, or any man
for that matter, would feel as if he owned the
town if he owned an Adam And it doesn't take
mine reading to see why. One look at the flare
and dash of Adam hats will make any man glow
with enthusiasm. A man who knows quality appreciates such atom
features as the fine, the lustrous, all furfelt, the distinctive styles,

(06:04):
and the softly harmonized shades.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
And there's more to an atom than.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
Just meets the eye. Put one on and feel how
comfortably it fits, as if it were made expressly for you.
What's more, and Adam keeps its fine shape. You'll always
feel confident of your appearance when you wear an Adam hat.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
Now our mastermind, doctor Weird.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
And now to continue my story, the man who knew Everything.
It is a day or so later, and Jerry Fenton
confident now his ability to accomplish anything he desires by
being able to read minds. He is closeted with Rocky broken.

Speaker 5 (06:49):
All right, now, Rockey, we're ready to get on the way.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
What are you figuring on? Boys?

Speaker 5 (06:53):
I want to get a bank roll again, a big
bank roll. So I'm going to start planning a few
ready big jobs to get quick money. If I can
make a suggestion, boys, there's a job I've been kind
of thinking about for.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
A long time.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
All right, what is it?

Speaker 3 (07:08):
It's a payroll job. The S and J Company across
the river.

Speaker 6 (07:12):
Now, every Friday they send an armored truck to the
bank here in town, pick up a hundred grand and
caught it back. Now, if we could pick off that
truck's a nice.

Speaker 5 (07:23):
Safe way one hundred thousand dollars. Yeah, that'd be a
swell beginning. And Tomorrow's Friday, Tomorrow night, that payroll is
going to be ours.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
The next morning.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Fenton, on a pretext, interviewed the treasurer of the S
and J manufacturing company, and as they talked of harmless matters,
Fenton's keyed up senses plucked from the other's mind, fact
so astounding that Fenton was still laughing to himself when
he returned to the Crystal Glock.

Speaker 5 (08:03):
Well, Rocky, it's all said, we're gonna pick up that
payroll this afternoon.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
It's fairst works. Boys, Well we not go off the
armored car.

Speaker 5 (08:10):
Well, not even got a bottle with that armored car.
It's just a bluff. The payroll is really delivered in
an old truck marked Tropical Towel Supply Company.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Your kidding.

Speaker 5 (08:20):
An hour after the armored car leaves, the laundry truck
drives up at the rear of the bank. The driver
carries in a bundle of clean towels and comes out
with a bag of dirty ones. The payroll is hidden
among the dirty towels. Well, there'll be a monkey suncle.
Follow that truck and pick it up when it reaches
the warehouse district. Take it to our own garage, get
the payroll, and get rid of the truck and a driver.

Speaker 4 (08:43):
After that, report back to me.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
It'll be like taking candy from a baby.

Speaker 6 (08:46):
Okay, boys, I'm on my way.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
That afternoon, as Fenton waited for Rocky Brogan's return, he
let himself daydream a little.

Speaker 5 (09:00):
A hundred thousand dollars delivered in a bank of dirty towels,
and I learned about it as easily as if that
fool treasurer had told me in so many words, I
will own this town and a year.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
Why not? There's no one has stopped.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
Who is it?

Speaker 4 (09:20):
A man?

Speaker 5 (09:20):
Rocky bos it's the driver the towels supplied for gran
What you bring him here for?

Speaker 3 (09:27):
I tell you you're making a mistake. How bad mistake?

Speaker 5 (09:29):
Here?

Speaker 3 (09:29):
We took the laundry, took smooth as ice cream boards.
We got it in the garage. But we can't find
a payroll can't. Why not because there isn't any payroll.
That's why I hit a boss.

Speaker 6 (09:37):
You know, the boys are wondering, maybe if you didn't
make a mistake.

Speaker 5 (09:40):
Boys, I haven't made a mistake. Hockey, step outside. I'll
find out what that payroll is.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
Okay, boys, call me when you made him for? I
don't know what your game is, but you're making a
terrible mistake, mister.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
Really, I can't be wrong. I know it. Pardon me,
I need a cough drop. Here we are now. I
will get the truth.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
But I told you the truth already. Quiet.

Speaker 5 (10:10):
So the bag with a payroll and it is hidden
in a secret compartment under the truck body.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
No you can't know that. Nobody in the world knows that.
But no I don't know it. No, No, you won't
get away with it. I'll stop you. I'll stop you
with it.

Speaker 7 (10:25):
A gun, yeah, and you're gonna let me go.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
I'll shoot, I'll shoot the kill then shoot.

Speaker 5 (10:29):
Why don't you I'll tell you why you don't shoot?
Because the gun's empty and you know it.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
It's not true. Stay away from me. I'll pull a trigger.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
I will go ahead and pull it. Yet, See the
bluff is no good.

Speaker 5 (10:45):
I know the gun is empty just as well as
you do. In fact, I know it's empty because you do.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
I give it to me. No, stay away, I'll choke.
Are you you shot me? The gun wasn'ty, But I
I thought you thought he's dead, I'd kill him. The
gun was loaded, I thought it was empty. I would

(11:15):
just bluffer all a long. I thought it was empty.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
So that was what Granddaughteristic meant when he said men's
thoughts couldn't be trusted.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
When a man doesn't even know his own.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Gun is loaded, and what good is it going to
do to read his mind?

Speaker 4 (11:41):
Poor Jerry.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Perhaps his fate would be a lesson to you don't
depend on anyone else to do your thinking for you,
because sometime, oh, you have to go. Perhaps, sir, perhaps
you'll drop in again soon. Just look for the house
on the other side of the cemetery, the house of

(12:03):
doctor Weirs.
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