September 7, 2025 • 44 mins
CBS Radio Mystery Theater - Through the Looking Glass
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
Come in welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
This is going to be a story that's almost unbelievable.
Almost a thing will happen which people scientists included, will
tell you cannot possibly happen, as your parents or grandparents
were told that radio could not happen, television heavier than
air flight, and space travel could not happen. The thing
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is almost impossible. However, Kathy and Doug Sellers live in
a middle class suburb. Their neighbors are people to whom
they say good morning with whom and they discussed the
weather and the crab grass. That's about the extent of
the neighborloodiness. So that Doug is surprised this evening when
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Cathy says.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Early dinner tonight, We've been invited next door to spend
the evening the Carters.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
They invited us over.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
No, not the Carters, No next door the other way
in the Toneses.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Well, they just moved in yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I know, you wouldn't think they'd be ready for guests
so soon, but they're completely settled in. I never saw
anything like it.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
How come you saw it in the first place?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Well, I went over there. She's such a little thing
I just thought i'd go over and see if I
could help you well, but there wasn't anything to help with.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
You. You like her?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
She's nice. Yes, her name's Tooty. Tooty, I said we'd come. Okay, Oh, sure.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Of course. He's kind of funny looking.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Well, quite small, both of them, but.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
He's got a big head. I know they can't help it,
but somehow small people with big heads put me off.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Our mystery drama Through the Looking Glass was written especially
for the mystery Theater by Field and Farrington and stars
Anne Shepherd. There is a certain excitement in meeting new
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people who may or may not turn out to be friends.
Friendship not to be confused with Acquaintanceship requires so many
parallels of taste, viewpoints, needs, backgrounds, and the like that
it's quite remarkable we see as much of it as
we do. Kathy and Doug Sellers are calling to to
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spend an evening with two strangers who obviously would like
to become friends.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Hello, Kathy, Oh, I'm so glad you could both come. Hi,
toot This is my husband Doug.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
How do you do well?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Please come in. I want you to meet Sid see it.
He's upstairs. Sometimes he's so slow getting ready for anything. Well,
won't you sit down? You really are settled in, aren't you.
It's very nice too, everything looks brand new. Oh, yes
it is. Well, can I get you a cup of coffee?
(03:39):
Or Oh? Dear, I don't think we have anything to drink.
I mean, like coffee's fine?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Hello, down there, I'll be right with you.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Sid do we have any You didn't get any whiskey
or anything, did you?
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Oh? I'm sorry, I am sorry. I should have thought
of that.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
We don't drink at all, you see, and it's just
easy to forget that. It's no excuse I should that's
all right. We don't drink either, not really hardly ever.
See where we come from, people just don't drink.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
You must come from a far distance, trying to think
of a place where nobody drinks.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Well, things are very different here. We're really very Oh
what is that woods seed?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Backwoodsy? We're very backwoods. Ee?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yes, you're putting us on right, what you're putting us
on kidding?
Speaker 6 (04:33):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Well, I mean this furniture looks as if it had
been designed for twenty years from now back Woodsy.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Well, the furniture is all new, you know, and you've
got it all arranged so quickly. As I told Doug earlier,
it looks as though you've been living here for years.
And he's right. You know it's re advanced, is it?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Well?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Is it too?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
It's all right.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
She's so afraid we're going to seem you know what different, Douc.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Did you hear what Tuty just told me? Sits in
the same business?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Urre in no kidding? Are you an inventor, doc?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
No, I'm more like a designer actually, internal combustion engines.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Oh, we're not too far apart.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
As a matter of fact, I'm working on something right
now that may put.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
You out of business. Oh what would that be.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
I've got a motor that's powered by solar energy by sunlight,
just sunlight, yes, well not the light itself, of course,
by the emanations.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Does it work? Oh? Yes? Would you like to see it?
See it?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
I've got a working model down in the basement, a
solar energy motor in the basement.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Oh I see, it doesn't need the direct lights. And
besides its stores Do you want to see it? Aren't
you afraid I'll steal it?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I mean, if you've got a solar energy engine that
really works.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
No, I'm not afraid, and now please don't be offended.
I've had to work out some pretty radical new mathematical
concepts that well, you wouldn't understand them just looking at
the model.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Nobody would. Okay, I'd love to see it. Good, come along.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
The good thing about it is you don't even need
a sunny day. All you need is the sun on
your side of the earth.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Would you like more coffee? If dougs anything like Sid,
they'll be down there for hours. No, I don't think
I could handle any more coffee. Thank you. You're right
about Doug. Though, Where did Sid work before you came here?
I mean maybe he worked for somebody. Doug knows well,
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he didn't actually work for anyone. He's always been just
an inventor. Well, Doug know so many people in the
business moved around so much before we went to work
for Briscal Motors. I just thought we might have some
mutual friends. No, I mean it doesn't seem likely. We
haven't lived anywhere, but you know there and now here.
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Where did you live before? It was just well, like
a different world almost. That's why I'm so pleased about tonight.
We're the kind of people who just can't live without friends.
You know, we were afraid there wouldn't be anyone we
could well be friends with. So that makes tonight so good. Oh, Tuty,
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you don't have to worry. We have a lot of
friends you'll probably meet. Where we used to live, we
knew everyone, just everyone. Oh that must have been nice
wherever it was. Oh yes, it was all we knew,
of course, in many ways, it's better here, much better.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
It's so quiet.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
How can a motor with any guts to it be
so quietly? I've heard cats per louder.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Well, there's nothing to make noise, actually except the friction,
and it's very little of that.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
How big would it have to be to power, say,
an automobile?
Speaker 5 (08:27):
How big this engine itself would pull of freight train
to twelve maybe fifteen cars?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
That little thing.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Energy doesn't come in size as Doug with refinements, I'm
not tooled for here. A motor like this could supply
all the electricity a medium sized city would need.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
You're kidding.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
It has implications as a matter of fact, that could
lead to the obsolescence of electricity itself.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Man, you are talking revolution. You know that it.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Would be a tremendous step. It would almost certainly entail
some dislocation, dication, It would.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Bomb out just about everything our society is based on.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Well, the short term adjustment would be severe. I don't
deny that, temporary chaos. The gain would be long range,
not immediate. Ooh scares me, No kidding.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
You don't know what you've got here.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Oh yes, I know what I have Here is a device,
so ridiculously simple, little device which would make the air
we breathe sweet and pure again, make the oceans, the lakes,
and the rivers habitable for marine creatures, put an end
to nervous breakdowns from the sheer clamor of civilization. As
you say, destroy everything today's society is based on.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Well, today's society isn't exactly utopia, I know that, but
say it's the only society we've got. Would you like
to see the design on paper? Talk about the math involved?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Well, you said I couldn't understand the math anyway.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
No, No, I said you couldn't understand it simply from
looking at the motor. Actually, like the motor, the math
is quite simple.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I can't tell you how glad I am that you
could come over and just you know, visit.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I'm afraid i've talked.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Too much shop to Doug though, hm hm oh oh no,
not at all.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I'm sorry. I guess I'm sort of preoccupied.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Dinner next time, all right, Okay, I'd love to watch
that gadget of yours turn out a whole dinner.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Let's go, Kathy. I mean, I have to get to
work early tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I'll be and touch it.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Good night, nine night, and thanks again. Did that prove neighbors?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
What did you say to it?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I say, did that prove? I'm sorry?
Speaker 5 (10:51):
We agreed not to speak that way, not even when
we're alone.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Oh, I keep forgetting. Did you approve of the neighbors?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yes, on the whole, yes, I think.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
So.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
What did you think of her?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Well, it's hard to get used to these big, clumsy people,
you know, but I ever liked her. She's a little inquisitive,
but I guess that's natural. It's nothing I can't handle.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
He's a good man. He does have that stupid shortsightedness
they all have, but I think he'll do.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Well.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
I don't care what you told them about us. Hardly drinking.
I want a good, solid slug of bourbon.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Okay, something happened. Did you tell you where they're from?
Where they moved here from?
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Well, she's a pretty close mouth one. Aren't you even
going to put any water or.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Anything with it?
Speaker 4 (11:57):
He's quite a guy, that's sid mean. But when Tudy,
what kind of a name is that? Anyway? But anyway,
when she called him an a vendor, she sure wasn't kidding.
Did she say anything about where they came from?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I told you, I spent the whole evening trying to
find out where they're from, But she slipperys and the eel.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
I didn't get to first base. People don't give things away.
You have to be suspicious when a man wants to
give something away. And I think he was completely cracked,
except that crazy math of his works.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
So does his engine.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
I don't know any idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
He wants to give it to me. Now, you can't
tell me there isn't a catch in that somewhere. He
just wants to give it to me, the whole thing.
Those strings attached give you what he's got, this machine,
this motor engine, designed it, built it himself, he says,
invented it draws its power from sunlight, some rays that
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there's a different and it's just gonna it's gonna blow
the whole world up.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
That's that's all a.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Bo oh no, no, no, just the opposite. I guess
you could say, only good Lord, the mess it could make.
It It's like we made a wrong turn one hundred
years ago or so, all of us, our whole society,
And what he wants to do is to back up
and make the proper turn. But it just can't wipe out.
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It's a very scary thing. Kathy, Hmmm, what am I
gonna do?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Well? I don't really understand the problem yet, don Okay, Okay.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
He's got a machine that takes its power from the sun, okay, okay.
And that's about the size of a small vacuum cleaner,
and it could power a city.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
It could. I've seen it. I've seen the blueprints. I've
learned the math.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Learned it, mind you, in half an hour, And all
our old math, everything I spent my life learning, it's
all just silly kid stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
He wants did you say he wants to give all
this to you?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Figure what it means?
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Everything we know is down the drain, not to just
think about oil. You've got fifty billionaires of barrels of
oil tucked away, and you're using it to make the
world market go where you wanted to go. All of
a sudden, your fifty billion barrels of oil aren't worth
a price of half a dozen loaves of yesterday's bread.
It's not gonna make you happy. It's gonna make you
feel very, very restless and insecure. Or your manufacture or
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all your money is in something or other power and
light company, or you work in a gas station, or
you're a coal miner, or I don't care, you're anything.
Whatever you do for a living, it's dead and Sid
wants to give the damn thing to me. H. Maybe
I don't blame him.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Wouldn't wouldn't that be a lot of money in it
for us?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Millions? Hell more like billions take it.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
I'm not even sure money would have much value anymore.
Apart from everything else, I've got this feeling I'm being used.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
There's a very good chance that Doug is being used
in a good cause, perhaps, but used all the same.
There's a worn out old cliche that says you can't
make an omelet without breaking an egg. All well and good,
But what if the egg that's getting broken is the
world you've grown.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Up in, the only world you know. It could make
you feel pretty uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I'll be back shortly with that too. Doug Cellars didn't
have a very good night's sleep. He and Kathy spent
most of what was left of the night talking about
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their new next door neighbors, Sid and Tooty Jones. That
is an odd name, Tooty, isn't it. At any rate,
Doug's mood isn't the best this morning.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
I'm going to have a talk with old Driscoll today.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
About Sid's gadget, the solar thing.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
But how hard the guy's working trying to give it away.
I here's someone spooky about that. I don't like being spooked.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
You said Sid's crazy to give the thing away. Aren't
you doing the same thing? If you tell mister Driscoll.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
If I decide to take that nutty engine from Sid.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
And I haven't made my mind of yet, I couldn't
possibly handle it on my own. It's gonna take a
lot of money to get a solar powered motor in production.
I'm not even sure Driscoll Motors is big enough.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
But won't you have to give some of it to
mister Driscoll if you bring.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Him into it, only if I decide to accept from
Sid and if I do, the whole thing was a
gift to me in the first place.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Well, I just thought, oh, well, you know best.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
If you want the truth.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
I don't know a damn thing except that I'm sitting
on a keke, a very high explosive and it's making
me very uneasy.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
So that's it, mister Driscoll. The motor works.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
I saw it work, and it's just you wouldn't believe
it without seeing it. I studied the engine too, and
it would be simpler to make the most of what
we're doing now, simplest thing you ever saw, really, except
it's based on a completely new concept.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
My first reaction, Doug, is nonsense.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Sure that would be anybody's first reaction, but not yours mine.
At first, Yes, but then I saw the damn thing,
mister Driscoll.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
I saw it, no doubt in your mind.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Now, I'm as skeptical at by nature as you are.
But the thing works, and it's gonna knock everything we
know right out the window.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
That won't be permitted, of course, what I'm interested. Now.
Is he offered you all rights? Yes, you sign any papers,
either of you?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
No, I said, I wanted time to think it over.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
You say this thing works, and I'm prepared to take
your word for it. I want fifty percent of the rights,
straight down the middle. You agree to that? Well, sure,
I put that Paul al Dobson. He can get the
ball rolling faster than anybody I know. I'll get it
Khill moving on it too, And well when can you
get this? What's his name? The inventor in here?
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Look, mister Disco, all I wanted to do was to
tell you about this thing and ask your advice.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Now as you've told me, and I'm advising you. You
passed the ball to me, and I run with it.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Right, mister Disco, I don't have a ball to pass.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
I just if you don't have a ball, we know
where it is. Your inventor is fumbled, and we'll take
it over. He's no businessman, said, what do you have
offered to give you a thing like solar energy? If
you were a businessman the thing? Maybe we don't actually
have the ball yet.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
But look, mister Disco, you said, But what was it
you said? I told you it was gonna knock everything
we know right out the window. And you said that
wouldn't be permitted. Now you talk as if you want
to go ahead with.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
It, it'll be suppressed. Don't you worry about that, Doug boy.
They'll buy us out. Oh you think the oil industry
would let a gadget like this go on the market.
Not the minsioneers and the auto manufacturers. Cood lord, think
what it would mean to him, just the retooling alone.
Don't you worry about it, Doug. They'll buy us out.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I don't think Sid Jones will go along with it.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
He'll go along. I told you he's fumbled. When you're fumbled,
you'll lose the ball.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Ah lock cat? Why I washed the breakfast dishes, did
two loads of laundry, and vacuum the living room. I
figured it was time to take a break. You mind,
Oh mind, No, I'm delighted. Come on in. Let's go
in the sitting room a living room? Which do you
call it? Living room? Doesn't matter? Well anyway, come on
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in and sit down. I didn't have anything to do either.
I was just Oh, I forgot to turn off the
the television. That's a television set Oh you're not, said
it's one of his inventions. You'd bring me crazy with
his inventions one of these days. But the screen's the
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wrong shape. It's so big it looks what it looks
like when you when you turn it off as a
full length mirror. Well that's the idea. I guess people
would rather have a mirror in their sitting room than
a box with that big, blank screen staring at them. Oh,
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I don't know. I don't try to keep up with
Sid's inventions. Doug says he's very good. Oh, yes, he's good.
Doug says he's way ahead of his time. Ahead of
his time. Yeah, you know, inventing things in the world
just isn't ready for yet, like that solar energy thing. Well,
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he is very advanced and his thinking, Yes, Sid is
very advanced, and he's worried about the oh what do
you call it? The U the ecology? Yeah, a tout.
Doug was very upset last night. Oh, Sid wanted to
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give him that solar energy thing. I mean, you're just
hand it over to him, Let him take out the
patents and take all the credit and make all the money. Oh.
Sid didn't tell me he'd gone that far. Why would
anybody want to do a thing like that to d
You know, it looks funny. Actually, how it looks to
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Doug is suspicious. Why doesn't Sid apply for the patents himself?
That's what anybody else will do. He can't. He can't.
We're not We aren't American citizens. Will I can't see
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what difference that would make. Really, there are plenty of
American patents held by people who are citizens of other countries.
Doesn't Sid know that? Well? We're Kathy. I don't know
exactly what they'd call us, unregistered aliens, something like that.
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We're actually not in the country legally. We don't have
any papers or any of that. I see. Where are
you from? I can't tell you. Maybe Sid, we'll want
to later, Anna. I expect he will, but I'm afraid
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I've already told you more than he'd want me to
right now.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Damn it, Doug, what is this thing you've dumped in
my lap?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (23:23):
There's something mighty queer going on? I called Al Dobson
and told him to get the ball rolling. Didn't tell
him a damn thing except it was a solar powered motor,
and he had me back on the phone twenty minutes later,
twenty minutes saying the thing was already out of hand
and he had to know more. Out of hand they
wanted everybody wants it.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Ed Cale said, ed patent.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
They called him, the patent office called him. Now, you
can believe that or not, but that's what ed ca
Hill told me. They've been hearing talk about solar energy
down there, they said, and they called him.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Well, it looks like.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Somebody's pushing this thing. That's what it looks like to me, somebody.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Very big after all solar power.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
I want you to see this, whatever his name is,
this kook that's trying to give the rights away. I
want you to get this paper side.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Don't waste time reading it. It's a simple release. Later
on there'll be reams of paperwork. But right now I
want that release sign, all right, mister Doug.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
If you don't get that release side, or if this
nutty Sola thing turns out to be phony, I'm gonna
bury you so deep they'll never dig you out.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I should never have talked at Driscoll about Sid's invention.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Oh hell, broke lose as nearly as I can figure.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Driscoll's committed himself in two or three places without having
a damn thing to deliver. Everything's moving so fast, it's
it's a mess, that's all. Dear.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
I talk to Tooty this morning, Like you.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Said, you find out anything.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
They're a there were she called unregistered aliens. She said
that herself. They're in the country illegally. Oh good dog,
what does it mean?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I don't know what it means. Trouble, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
That was why he wanted to turn the invention over
to you too. He said he doesn't have any papers
or anything. I mean, you know, no ID, no social security, nothing,
And he knew he'd get into trouble. I guess if
he started messing around with patents and.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
All that, he's in trouble. All right, Why.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
You're going to do something about it.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I'm going to call Driscoll and tell him, Oh.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Doug, do you think you ought to? Couldn't you just
poor Sid? What about him? Dog?
Speaker 4 (25:43):
I'm afraid that'll just have to be his problem. I've
got a couple of my own.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Well, but do you have to tell mister Driscoll.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Look, I've been working for Driscoll for over eight years.
I'm one of the top men in the company. I
met Sid for the first time last night, and which
one am.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I supposed to be loyal to?
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Fiscal here?
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Uh, mister driscoll, this is Doud Cellars that release sign.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Uh not yet.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
I just found out something I think you ought to know.
The inventor, Sid Jones. The guy's not an American citizen.
He's in the country illegally.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Say that again.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
He's in this country illegally a spy. Uh No, No,
I'm sure it's nothing like that. He's uh I know him,
mister Driscoll. I don't think he's a spy.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
I m solar energy my foot. He's a lousy spy.
That thing is is probably some kind of bomb or
something he's made.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
You believe.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Come on, mister driscoll, I'm not that stupid. That engine
that I saw last night was all right.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
I'll fix his wagon, you watch me. Thinks he can
make a fool of Thomas F. Driscoll.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Does he What are you gonna do?
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Never you mind?
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Oh boy, what do you say he's decided Sid's a spy?
I guess he means to blow the whistle on him.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
You don't think he is do you see a spye?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
No, Died, I don't know. I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Shouldn't we go over and tell them? I mean, after all,
if they're in trouble, it's our fault too, isn't well,
at least it's partly our fault.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Yes, things seem to be moving alonger and nicely.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Nicely Sid he thinks you're a spy.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Two d I'm sorry, but well I always tell Doug everything.
You know.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
It's all right, Cathy, Please don't feel badly about it,
either of you.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It's all right. Yeah, Patent office was interested. You say
that sounds very good? Don't you think you ought to? Look?
Speaker 4 (27:47):
I mean old Driscoll is going to do something, and.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
That's for sure.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
And if you're not in this country legally, it's all right.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Doug, really it is. Did you say this? Mister Driscoll
gave you a paper he wanted me to sign? Well, yes,
do you have with you? Yes? See it?
Speaker 4 (28:05):
There is something very odd about all this. I mean
you're giving away of Do you realize what you're giving away?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (28:15):
What tell them see it? Don't you think they have
a right to know after all that's happened?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yes, I want to show you something, Doug, You and Kathy.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Oh, the TV. It's another of his inventions, Dog the television.
Do I tell you about that?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I don't think so. I don't remember.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Actually, it isn't a television set at all, except as
you break the word down tell for distant, distant seeing.
Even so, it isn't that kind of distance.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
And I get only one.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Picture on it, always the same picture, only one picture.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Yes, I'll show you that's the picture.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
It's not very pretty.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
It looks more like a moonscape than anything else. Tipt
for those mounds or domes or whatever they are scattered around.
How come it's black and white? There isn't any color there, Doug.
In the scene we're watching, you'd see it if it were.
It's just gray.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
There's no color at all.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Is it a movie, science fiction movie or something like that.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Oh, no, it's quite real. Well, there can't be the
moon unless.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Unless the other side has put domes up there and
we don't know about it.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
No, it isn't the moon.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Tell them see it.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
It's our home to it is in mind.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
That's where we came from.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
That's where we've always lived.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
An alien world, old enough and weathered enough to look
like our moon. Well, we've all heard or red stories
about such places. That was fiction, of course, but it
hasn't been so very long since. It was only in
fiction that men put on spacesuits and blasted off from
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Earth and later.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Walked on the Moon.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Today's science fiction has an unsettling way of becoming tomorrow's fact.
I'll return shortly with a three. Doug and Kathy Cellars
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are watching Spellbound, but more than a little repelled a
television picture. Something like a television picture, at least on
a screen that becomes a full length mirror when it's
turned off. The picture is a dismal one, a bleak landscape, gray,
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rocky and barren as the Moon's surface, except for several
dome like structures placed here and there at apparent random
This Sid in Tuty Jones claim is their home.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
There's no place like that on this planet, Sid, no
place that I ever saw or heard of.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
It's on this Earth. We're not space travelers.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
I don't blame you for wanting to leave it wherever
it is.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Well, if you're not space travelers, then what kind of
travelers are you.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Let's all sit down. It's a long story.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Shall I turn it off.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
SI, no, no, no, leave it on. Somebody might come
out of one of the domes. They'd be interested in that.
What kind of travelers, said, you've already guessed it. I think, yes,
where time travelers?
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Time travelers?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Then where?
Speaker 5 (31:50):
I mean, when is that that picture you've got on
the screen? Two questions they are, really where?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
And when?
Speaker 3 (31:59):
To answer the first, it's right here.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Doug, right in this very neighborhood, on this very spot. Well,
then when the year you're looking at is thirty nine
eighty seven, a little over two thousand years from now.
And that's that's what this neighborhood looks like.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
That's what the whole world looks like, Doug. Worse, this
is a garden spot.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Oh, it's some kind of trick, isn't it. I mean,
it's just something you invented.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
More like something you invented you, all of you in
the next few generations. That's misuse of the Earth's resources,
all of your mistakes carried out to their final inevitable conclusion.
You're looking at the end product of your era shortsightedness.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
I I just don't believe it. Well, there it is,
you can see it.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Then it wasn't the It wasn't bombed out.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
The A bomb, the H bomb, all the alphabetical bombs
that came after. They were never used except to waste
the Earth's substance and terrify its people.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
There on the screen, somebody's coming out of the B seven,
don't can you see who it is? It? Not to
be sure four x most.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Likely I think it was his turn at be seven.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
What's he wearing that thing for? Looks like a spacesuit.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Well, that's what it is. We call them atmost suits.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
There's no atmosphere now, not at least that's breathable, except
underground where we convert it. Good lord, Yes, we live underground.
We come out now only to run tests. The toxicity
of what's left of the atmosphere isn't very stable. We
have to draw it in and purify it. So we
need to keep abreast of what we're up against.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
And pump the impurities back ound. Yes, and that increases
the toxicity. Yes, the problem isn't solved. We're living by
stopgap measures.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
We have some time. Though.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
There's a lot of air out there, No, most of
it is poison, and there aren't very many people to breathe.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
What we salvage? How many? Well and b seven?
Speaker 5 (34:08):
Oh, you mean worldwide? Around seven hundred thoud? Between seven
and eight in the whole world. Actually that's a lot.
It was down close to one hundred thousand when we
finally got the underground communities established.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
We went that close to extinction. We are the only survivors.
Anything else is gone.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
We're here on a mission. You must have realized that.
What kind of a mission? A very simple one. We're
here to save the world.
Speaker 6 (34:52):
I want to talk to the chief of police to
what can I do for you? Listen, I'm Thomas Pete
Briscoll of Briscal Motors. I want to report spy. Than
to give me the details. I can only give the
chief the details.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Oh way, mister Drisco.
Speaker 6 (35:08):
I offer you a spy, a genuine spy, and you
won't put me up. All right, all right, I'm coming
over there. By God, I pay my taxes and i'm
a title. I'll be over there in ten minutes. Did
you say save the world?
Speaker 4 (35:25):
You're here to save that world two thousand years from now.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
That world, which of course is simply this one grown
old that's a dead world. It's beyond saving in our time.
We have a few hundred thousand people living inside it,
like people on one of your life rafts. If the
people on the raft aren't rescued, they'll die, the same
with our people. They'll die, or their grandchildren will or
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their grandchildren. We few have survived the catastrophe temporarily, and
so you've come back here, back to our time with
the only treatment that can possibly save the world. We
have a cure for its sickness, and we mean to
administer it.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
To call me one of the doctors. There are many of.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Us, many of you.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
Oh yes, one man could never do it. Your mister
Driscoll was very right about that, Doug. We have many
people in this time, some of them in very high
places where pressure can be applied, where red tape can
be bypassed.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Speaking of Driscoll, Sid, I think you ought to.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
It isn't important. Now. Will you let me sign that
paper he gave you? All right?
Speaker 5 (36:38):
I've read that the people of your time set great
store by pieces of paper with signatures on them.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
What are these numbers you put under the signature?
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Oh, that's just to make it thoroughly legal.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
That's my designation in my own time six D forty
eight M. We have numbers instead of names, although we
still use nicknames. Mine actually is sid from six DY.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
My designation is two T ninety three K two D
to T. That's kind of a cute name, though, once
you get used to it.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
Well, if you had time travel, I mean, why did
you wait until the world got into such a state?
Speaker 5 (37:17):
Time translation is a relatively recent discovery.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
But why this particular time? I mean, why not earlier
or later?
Speaker 5 (37:24):
No irreversible damage has been done at this time. As
a matter of fact, it was at this time and
point that the depletion of resources began accelerating so rapidly
that it got out of.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Control, and he later would have been too late.
Speaker 5 (37:37):
Well, much earlier, you wouldn't have had the technology needed
to use what we wanted to give you. I hope
I haven't spoiled it for you, for all of us. No,
if it doesn't work, it's nobody's fault, but my own.
I made the decisions. It was my assignment.
Speaker 6 (37:59):
I told you i'd get to the chief and you
said he was out of town orders.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
Mister driscoll I still don't know why he took me
off the desk and handed me the job.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
It's FBI Will.
Speaker 6 (38:09):
Don't you worry about that, Wilson. You think the two
of us will be enough. I mean if he should
decide to shoot his way out or something like that.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
There are two carloads a good man following as the
house will be surrounded when.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
We go in, and there won't be a chance. And
he's getting a weed.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
Yes, there's a cross stopping out in front. Now Toori,
will you turn the screen off?
Speaker 3 (38:34):
I already did.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
Oh lord, it's old Thomas p himself, mister Driscoll, and
the cop odd.
Speaker 5 (38:41):
I thought it would be your FBI. Oh, mister Drisco
looks very determined.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Mad is a wet hen. That's how he looks. Well,
he shouldn't be angry.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
He may make a great deal of the money you
people prize so highly, or you will too, of course,
if things work out.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
How can things work out if they're coming to pick
you up? There are men and the others.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
As I told you, my being found out shouldn't affect anything.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
Maybe you could still get out the back way.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Sit.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
Oh, I'm sure we're surrounded. People are very impatient. In
nineteen seventy five, I'll let them in. It's your name,
Sid Jones, that's.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
What I'm called. Yes, won't you come in?
Speaker 6 (39:21):
Put the cuffs on him? Why don't you? He's your spy.
What are you waiting for?
Speaker 5 (39:26):
Jones?
Speaker 4 (39:27):
Is it true that you showed them, mister Sellers, that
you showed him an invention of yours last night?
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (39:34):
Yes, it's still down in the basement. If you'd like
to take a look at it.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
Sergeant, you'll be making a great mistake if you arrest
this man.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
Have you lost your mind?
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Sergeant?
Speaker 5 (39:42):
I can prove beyond any question that I am not
a spy.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Will you allow me.
Speaker 6 (39:47):
To show you the proof? Watch him, Wilson, he's up
to something.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
We got only your word, mister Driscook. Go ahead, Jones,
thank you, Terdy. Will you help me with this?
Speaker 6 (39:57):
Wilson? Are you out of your head?
Speaker 1 (40:00):
What's back of that looking glass? Johns? What's the glass
got to do with this? Well, that's what I'd like
to assure you. There's no danger. I assure you.
Speaker 5 (40:08):
No danger, he says, Just don't try anything, Tuty.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
The thick button.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Yes, the third button. What's happening?
Speaker 5 (40:21):
That's no mirror?
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Look at that thing?
Speaker 3 (40:25):
It was turning all milky foggy.
Speaker 6 (40:28):
Will Son, Why don't you do something?
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Can't get away? Give the guy a chance.
Speaker 5 (40:33):
I think it's ready now. Touty stop her, for God's.
Speaker 6 (40:37):
Say, somebody stop her. She's disappearing into that looking glass thing.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Bye Doug, good bye, Kathy.
Speaker 5 (40:45):
Thank you very much, both of you for all you've done.
Speaker 6 (40:48):
Stop right there, Jones, stop arrive or you what peace gone?
You idiots? You'll let him walk right through that working glass.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
It's changing again.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
It's look, Kathy, it's making a picture.
Speaker 6 (41:02):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
Hawk, it's a beautiful park with trees and flowers and
people walking around, and not.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
In those miserable spacesuits either.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
No, it's bright, pretty clothes and children. Oh dogg it,
it must look there's a dog, a little poodle.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
For God's sake, what kind of mirror is that to break?
Speaker 6 (41:25):
For it, you fool, smash it. I don't care what
it is.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Smash it.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
I guess you're right now.
Speaker 4 (41:31):
Please stand aside all of it.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
Yeah, you're gonna do with that gun.
Speaker 4 (41:35):
Just use the butt of it to break the glass.
Speaker 6 (41:37):
Ma'am.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
No, please stand clear.
Speaker 6 (41:43):
There's nothing back there but the wall, just a plain,
blank wall.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
Oh, I almost forgot. Here's that the least you wanted
to say to sign mister driscoll.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
I don't want the damn thing.
Speaker 6 (41:58):
I don't want anything to do with him, his magic mirrors.
I don't want any part of any of it.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
I don't think you really have a choice, mister Gisco.
That was a park we saw through the looking glass
before the sergeant here smashed it.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
And if they have a park, we have solar energy.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
We couldn't change it if we wanted to.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
A park where there was a desolate wasteland only a
few minutes ago. But wait, it wasn't a few minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
At all, was it?
Speaker 2 (42:37):
It was over two thousand years in the future. And
what this implies is that there are at least two
quite different futures, both possible, which in turn implies that
we have, at this exact point in world history, reached
a crossroad.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised if one day before too
terribly long, we hear that solar energy is in the
process of being harnessed. In any case, I believe that
sixty forty eight m Alias sid Jones has given us
something to think about let's hope the right people do
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the right kind of thinking. Our cast included Anne Shepard,
Jack Grimes, E. V Justter, Russell Horton and Ken Harvey.
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
This is E. G.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant Dreams five.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
It
Come in welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
This is going to be a story that's almost unbelievable.
Almost a thing will happen which people scientists included, will
tell you cannot possibly happen, as your parents or grandparents
were told that radio could not happen, television heavier than
air flight, and space travel could not happen. The thing
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is almost impossible. However, Kathy and Doug Sellers live in
a middle class suburb. Their neighbors are people to whom
they say good morning with whom and they discussed the
weather and the crab grass. That's about the extent of
the neighborloodiness. So that Doug is surprised this evening when
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Cathy says.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Early dinner tonight, We've been invited next door to spend
the evening the Carters.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
They invited us over.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
No, not the Carters, No next door the other way
in the Toneses.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Well, they just moved in yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I know, you wouldn't think they'd be ready for guests
so soon, but they're completely settled in. I never saw
anything like it.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
How come you saw it in the first place?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Well, I went over there. She's such a little thing
I just thought i'd go over and see if I
could help you well, but there wasn't anything to help with.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
You. You like her?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
She's nice. Yes, her name's Tooty. Tooty, I said we'd come. Okay, Oh, sure.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Of course. He's kind of funny looking.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Well, quite small, both of them, but.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
He's got a big head. I know they can't help it,
but somehow small people with big heads put me off.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Our mystery drama Through the Looking Glass was written especially
for the mystery Theater by Field and Farrington and stars
Anne Shepherd. There is a certain excitement in meeting new
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people who may or may not turn out to be friends.
Friendship not to be confused with Acquaintanceship requires so many
parallels of taste, viewpoints, needs, backgrounds, and the like that
it's quite remarkable we see as much of it as
we do. Kathy and Doug Sellers are calling to to
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spend an evening with two strangers who obviously would like
to become friends.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Hello, Kathy, Oh, I'm so glad you could both come. Hi,
toot This is my husband Doug.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
How do you do well?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Please come in. I want you to meet Sid see it.
He's upstairs. Sometimes he's so slow getting ready for anything. Well,
won't you sit down? You really are settled in, aren't you.
It's very nice too, everything looks brand new. Oh, yes
it is. Well, can I get you a cup of coffee?
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Or Oh? Dear, I don't think we have anything to drink.
I mean, like coffee's fine?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Hello, down there, I'll be right with you.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Sid do we have any You didn't get any whiskey
or anything, did you?
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Oh? I'm sorry, I am sorry. I should have thought
of that.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
We don't drink at all, you see, and it's just
easy to forget that. It's no excuse I should that's
all right. We don't drink either, not really hardly ever.
See where we come from, people just don't drink.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
You must come from a far distance, trying to think
of a place where nobody drinks.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Well, things are very different here. We're really very Oh
what is that woods seed?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Backwoodsy? We're very backwoods. Ee?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yes, you're putting us on right, what you're putting us
on kidding?
Speaker 6 (04:33):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Well, I mean this furniture looks as if it had
been designed for twenty years from now back Woodsy.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Well, the furniture is all new, you know, and you've
got it all arranged so quickly. As I told Doug earlier,
it looks as though you've been living here for years.
And he's right. You know it's re advanced, is it?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Well?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Is it too?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
It's all right.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
She's so afraid we're going to seem you know what different, Douc.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Did you hear what Tuty just told me? Sits in
the same business?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Urre in no kidding? Are you an inventor, doc?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
No, I'm more like a designer actually, internal combustion engines.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Oh, we're not too far apart.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
As a matter of fact, I'm working on something right
now that may put.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
You out of business. Oh what would that be.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
I've got a motor that's powered by solar energy by sunlight,
just sunlight, yes, well not the light itself, of course,
by the emanations.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Does it work? Oh? Yes? Would you like to see it?
See it?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
I've got a working model down in the basement, a
solar energy motor in the basement.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Oh I see, it doesn't need the direct lights. And
besides its stores Do you want to see it? Aren't
you afraid I'll steal it?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I mean, if you've got a solar energy engine that
really works.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
No, I'm not afraid, and now please don't be offended.
I've had to work out some pretty radical new mathematical
concepts that well, you wouldn't understand them just looking at
the model.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Nobody would. Okay, I'd love to see it. Good, come along.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
The good thing about it is you don't even need
a sunny day. All you need is the sun on
your side of the earth.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Would you like more coffee? If dougs anything like Sid,
they'll be down there for hours. No, I don't think
I could handle any more coffee. Thank you. You're right
about Doug. Though, Where did Sid work before you came here?
I mean maybe he worked for somebody. Doug knows well,
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he didn't actually work for anyone. He's always been just
an inventor. Well, Doug know so many people in the
business moved around so much before we went to work
for Briscal Motors. I just thought we might have some
mutual friends. No, I mean it doesn't seem likely. We
haven't lived anywhere, but you know there and now here.
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Where did you live before? It was just well, like
a different world almost. That's why I'm so pleased about tonight.
We're the kind of people who just can't live without friends.
You know, we were afraid there wouldn't be anyone we
could well be friends with. So that makes tonight so good. Oh, Tuty,
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you don't have to worry. We have a lot of
friends you'll probably meet. Where we used to live, we
knew everyone, just everyone. Oh that must have been nice
wherever it was. Oh yes, it was all we knew,
of course, in many ways, it's better here, much better.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
It's so quiet.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
How can a motor with any guts to it be
so quietly? I've heard cats per louder.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Well, there's nothing to make noise, actually except the friction,
and it's very little of that.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
How big would it have to be to power, say,
an automobile?
Speaker 5 (08:27):
How big this engine itself would pull of freight train
to twelve maybe fifteen cars?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
That little thing.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Energy doesn't come in size as Doug with refinements, I'm
not tooled for here. A motor like this could supply
all the electricity a medium sized city would need.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
You're kidding.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
It has implications as a matter of fact, that could
lead to the obsolescence of electricity itself.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Man, you are talking revolution. You know that it.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Would be a tremendous step. It would almost certainly entail
some dislocation, dication, It would.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Bomb out just about everything our society is based on.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Well, the short term adjustment would be severe. I don't
deny that, temporary chaos. The gain would be long range,
not immediate. Ooh scares me, No kidding.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
You don't know what you've got here.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Oh yes, I know what I have Here is a device,
so ridiculously simple, little device which would make the air
we breathe sweet and pure again, make the oceans, the lakes,
and the rivers habitable for marine creatures, put an end
to nervous breakdowns from the sheer clamor of civilization. As
you say, destroy everything today's society is based on.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Well, today's society isn't exactly utopia, I know that, but
say it's the only society we've got. Would you like
to see the design on paper? Talk about the math involved?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Well, you said I couldn't understand the math anyway.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
No, No, I said you couldn't understand it simply from
looking at the motor. Actually, like the motor, the math
is quite simple.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I can't tell you how glad I am that you
could come over and just you know, visit.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I'm afraid i've talked.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Too much shop to Doug though, hm hm oh oh no,
not at all.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I'm sorry. I guess I'm sort of preoccupied.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Dinner next time, all right, Okay, I'd love to watch
that gadget of yours turn out a whole dinner.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Let's go, Kathy. I mean, I have to get to
work early tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I'll be and touch it.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Good night, nine night, and thanks again. Did that prove neighbors?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
What did you say to it?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I say, did that prove? I'm sorry?
Speaker 5 (10:51):
We agreed not to speak that way, not even when
we're alone.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Oh, I keep forgetting. Did you approve of the neighbors?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yes, on the whole, yes, I think.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
So.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
What did you think of her?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Well, it's hard to get used to these big, clumsy people,
you know, but I ever liked her. She's a little inquisitive,
but I guess that's natural. It's nothing I can't handle.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
He's a good man. He does have that stupid shortsightedness
they all have, but I think he'll do.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Well.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
I don't care what you told them about us. Hardly drinking.
I want a good, solid slug of bourbon.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Okay, something happened. Did you tell you where they're from?
Where they moved here from?
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Well, she's a pretty close mouth one. Aren't you even
going to put any water or.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Anything with it?
Speaker 4 (11:57):
He's quite a guy, that's sid mean. But when Tudy,
what kind of a name is that? Anyway? But anyway,
when she called him an a vendor, she sure wasn't kidding.
Did she say anything about where they came from?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I told you, I spent the whole evening trying to
find out where they're from, But she slipperys and the eel.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
I didn't get to first base. People don't give things away.
You have to be suspicious when a man wants to
give something away. And I think he was completely cracked,
except that crazy math of his works.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
So does his engine.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
I don't know any idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
He wants to give it to me. Now, you can't
tell me there isn't a catch in that somewhere. He
just wants to give it to me, the whole thing.
Those strings attached give you what he's got, this machine,
this motor engine, designed it, built it himself, he says,
invented it draws its power from sunlight, some rays that
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there's a different and it's just gonna it's gonna blow
the whole world up.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
That's that's all a.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Bo oh no, no, no, just the opposite. I guess
you could say, only good Lord, the mess it could make.
It It's like we made a wrong turn one hundred
years ago or so, all of us, our whole society,
And what he wants to do is to back up
and make the proper turn. But it just can't wipe out.
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It's a very scary thing. Kathy, Hmmm, what am I
gonna do?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Well? I don't really understand the problem yet, don Okay, Okay.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
He's got a machine that takes its power from the sun, okay, okay.
And that's about the size of a small vacuum cleaner,
and it could power a city.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
It could. I've seen it. I've seen the blueprints. I've
learned the math.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Learned it, mind you, in half an hour, And all
our old math, everything I spent my life learning, it's
all just silly kid stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
He wants did you say he wants to give all
this to you?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Figure what it means?
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Everything we know is down the drain, not to just
think about oil. You've got fifty billionaires of barrels of
oil tucked away, and you're using it to make the
world market go where you wanted to go. All of
a sudden, your fifty billion barrels of oil aren't worth
a price of half a dozen loaves of yesterday's bread.
It's not gonna make you happy. It's gonna make you
feel very, very restless and insecure. Or your manufacture or
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all your money is in something or other power and
light company, or you work in a gas station, or
you're a coal miner, or I don't care, you're anything.
Whatever you do for a living, it's dead and Sid
wants to give the damn thing to me. H. Maybe
I don't blame him.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Wouldn't wouldn't that be a lot of money in it
for us?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Millions? Hell more like billions take it.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
I'm not even sure money would have much value anymore.
Apart from everything else, I've got this feeling I'm being used.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
There's a very good chance that Doug is being used
in a good cause, perhaps, but used all the same.
There's a worn out old cliche that says you can't
make an omelet without breaking an egg. All well and good,
But what if the egg that's getting broken is the
world you've grown.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Up in, the only world you know. It could make
you feel pretty uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I'll be back shortly with that too. Doug Cellars didn't
have a very good night's sleep. He and Kathy spent
most of what was left of the night talking about
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their new next door neighbors, Sid and Tooty Jones. That
is an odd name, Tooty, isn't it. At any rate,
Doug's mood isn't the best this morning.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
I'm going to have a talk with old Driscoll today.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
About Sid's gadget, the solar thing.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
But how hard the guy's working trying to give it away.
I here's someone spooky about that. I don't like being spooked.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
You said Sid's crazy to give the thing away. Aren't
you doing the same thing? If you tell mister Driscoll.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
If I decide to take that nutty engine from Sid.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
And I haven't made my mind of yet, I couldn't
possibly handle it on my own. It's gonna take a
lot of money to get a solar powered motor in production.
I'm not even sure Driscoll Motors is big enough.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
But won't you have to give some of it to
mister Driscoll if you bring.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Him into it, only if I decide to accept from
Sid and if I do, the whole thing was a
gift to me in the first place.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Well, I just thought, oh, well, you know best.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
If you want the truth.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
I don't know a damn thing except that I'm sitting
on a keke, a very high explosive and it's making
me very uneasy.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
So that's it, mister Driscoll. The motor works.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
I saw it work, and it's just you wouldn't believe
it without seeing it. I studied the engine too, and
it would be simpler to make the most of what
we're doing now, simplest thing you ever saw, really, except
it's based on a completely new concept.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
My first reaction, Doug, is nonsense.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Sure that would be anybody's first reaction, but not yours mine.
At first, Yes, but then I saw the damn thing,
mister Driscoll.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
I saw it, no doubt in your mind.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Now, I'm as skeptical at by nature as you are.
But the thing works, and it's gonna knock everything we
know right out the window.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
That won't be permitted, of course, what I'm interested. Now.
Is he offered you all rights? Yes, you sign any papers,
either of you?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
No, I said, I wanted time to think it over.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
You say this thing works, and I'm prepared to take
your word for it. I want fifty percent of the rights,
straight down the middle. You agree to that? Well, sure,
I put that Paul al Dobson. He can get the
ball rolling faster than anybody I know. I'll get it
Khill moving on it too, And well when can you
get this? What's his name? The inventor in here?
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Look, mister Disco, all I wanted to do was to
tell you about this thing and ask your advice.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Now as you've told me, and I'm advising you. You
passed the ball to me, and I run with it.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Right, mister Disco, I don't have a ball to pass.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
I just if you don't have a ball, we know
where it is. Your inventor is fumbled, and we'll take
it over. He's no businessman, said, what do you have
offered to give you a thing like solar energy? If
you were a businessman the thing? Maybe we don't actually
have the ball yet.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
But look, mister Disco, you said, But what was it
you said? I told you it was gonna knock everything
we know right out the window. And you said that
wouldn't be permitted. Now you talk as if you want
to go ahead with.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
It, it'll be suppressed. Don't you worry about that, Doug boy.
They'll buy us out. Oh you think the oil industry
would let a gadget like this go on the market.
Not the minsioneers and the auto manufacturers. Cood lord, think
what it would mean to him, just the retooling alone.
Don't you worry about it, Doug. They'll buy us out.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I don't think Sid Jones will go along with it.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
He'll go along. I told you he's fumbled. When you're fumbled,
you'll lose the ball.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Ah lock cat? Why I washed the breakfast dishes, did
two loads of laundry, and vacuum the living room. I
figured it was time to take a break. You mind,
Oh mind, No, I'm delighted. Come on in. Let's go
in the sitting room a living room? Which do you
call it? Living room? Doesn't matter? Well anyway, come on
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in and sit down. I didn't have anything to do either.
I was just Oh, I forgot to turn off the
the television. That's a television set Oh you're not, said
it's one of his inventions. You'd bring me crazy with
his inventions one of these days. But the screen's the
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wrong shape. It's so big it looks what it looks
like when you when you turn it off as a
full length mirror. Well that's the idea. I guess people
would rather have a mirror in their sitting room than
a box with that big, blank screen staring at them. Oh,
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I don't know. I don't try to keep up with
Sid's inventions. Doug says he's very good. Oh, yes, he's good.
Doug says he's way ahead of his time. Ahead of
his time. Yeah, you know, inventing things in the world
just isn't ready for yet, like that solar energy thing. Well,
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he is very advanced and his thinking, Yes, Sid is
very advanced, and he's worried about the oh what do
you call it? The U the ecology? Yeah, a tout.
Doug was very upset last night. Oh, Sid wanted to
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give him that solar energy thing. I mean, you're just
hand it over to him, Let him take out the
patents and take all the credit and make all the money. Oh.
Sid didn't tell me he'd gone that far. Why would
anybody want to do a thing like that to d
You know, it looks funny. Actually, how it looks to
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Doug is suspicious. Why doesn't Sid apply for the patents himself?
That's what anybody else will do. He can't. He can't.
We're not We aren't American citizens. Will I can't see
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what difference that would make. Really, there are plenty of
American patents held by people who are citizens of other countries.
Doesn't Sid know that? Well? We're Kathy. I don't know
exactly what they'd call us, unregistered aliens, something like that.
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We're actually not in the country legally. We don't have
any papers or any of that. I see. Where are
you from? I can't tell you. Maybe Sid, we'll want
to later, Anna. I expect he will, but I'm afraid
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I've already told you more than he'd want me to
right now.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Damn it, Doug, what is this thing you've dumped in
my lap?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (23:23):
There's something mighty queer going on? I called Al Dobson
and told him to get the ball rolling. Didn't tell
him a damn thing except it was a solar powered motor,
and he had me back on the phone twenty minutes later,
twenty minutes saying the thing was already out of hand
and he had to know more. Out of hand they
wanted everybody wants it.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Ed Cale said, ed patent.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
They called him, the patent office called him. Now, you
can believe that or not, but that's what ed ca
Hill told me. They've been hearing talk about solar energy
down there, they said, and they called him.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Well, it looks like.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Somebody's pushing this thing. That's what it looks like to me, somebody.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Very big after all solar power.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
I want you to see this, whatever his name is,
this kook that's trying to give the rights away. I
want you to get this paper side.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Don't waste time reading it. It's a simple release. Later
on there'll be reams of paperwork. But right now I
want that release sign, all right, mister Doug.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
If you don't get that release side, or if this
nutty Sola thing turns out to be phony, I'm gonna
bury you so deep they'll never dig you out.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I should never have talked at Driscoll about Sid's invention.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Oh hell, broke lose as nearly as I can figure.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Driscoll's committed himself in two or three places without having
a damn thing to deliver. Everything's moving so fast, it's
it's a mess, that's all. Dear.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
I talk to Tooty this morning, Like you.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Said, you find out anything.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
They're a there were she called unregistered aliens. She said
that herself. They're in the country illegally. Oh good dog,
what does it mean?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I don't know what it means. Trouble, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
That was why he wanted to turn the invention over
to you too. He said he doesn't have any papers
or anything. I mean, you know, no ID, no social security, nothing,
And he knew he'd get into trouble. I guess if
he started messing around with patents and.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
All that, he's in trouble. All right, Why.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
You're going to do something about it.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I'm going to call Driscoll and tell him, Oh.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Doug, do you think you ought to? Couldn't you just
poor Sid? What about him? Dog?
Speaker 4 (25:43):
I'm afraid that'll just have to be his problem. I've
got a couple of my own.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Well, but do you have to tell mister Driscoll.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Look, I've been working for Driscoll for over eight years.
I'm one of the top men in the company. I
met Sid for the first time last night, and which
one am.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I supposed to be loyal to?
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Fiscal here?
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Uh, mister driscoll, this is Doud Cellars that release sign.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Uh not yet.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
I just found out something I think you ought to know.
The inventor, Sid Jones. The guy's not an American citizen.
He's in the country illegally.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Say that again.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
He's in this country illegally a spy. Uh No, No,
I'm sure it's nothing like that. He's uh I know him,
mister Driscoll. I don't think he's a spy.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
I m solar energy my foot. He's a lousy spy.
That thing is is probably some kind of bomb or
something he's made.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
You believe.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Come on, mister driscoll, I'm not that stupid. That engine
that I saw last night was all right.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
I'll fix his wagon, you watch me. Thinks he can
make a fool of Thomas F. Driscoll.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Does he What are you gonna do?
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Never you mind?
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Oh boy, what do you say he's decided Sid's a spy?
I guess he means to blow the whistle on him.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
You don't think he is do you see a spye?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
No, Died, I don't know. I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Shouldn't we go over and tell them? I mean, after all,
if they're in trouble, it's our fault too, isn't well,
at least it's partly our fault.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Yes, things seem to be moving alonger and nicely.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Nicely Sid he thinks you're a spy.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Two d I'm sorry, but well I always tell Doug everything.
You know.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
It's all right, Cathy, Please don't feel badly about it,
either of you.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It's all right. Yeah, Patent office was interested. You say
that sounds very good? Don't you think you ought to? Look?
Speaker 4 (27:47):
I mean old Driscoll is going to do something, and.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
That's for sure.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
And if you're not in this country legally, it's all right.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Doug, really it is. Did you say this? Mister Driscoll
gave you a paper he wanted me to sign? Well, yes,
do you have with you? Yes? See it?
Speaker 4 (28:05):
There is something very odd about all this. I mean
you're giving away of Do you realize what you're giving away?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (28:15):
What tell them see it? Don't you think they have
a right to know after all that's happened?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yes, I want to show you something, Doug, You and Kathy.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Oh, the TV. It's another of his inventions, Dog the television.
Do I tell you about that?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I don't think so. I don't remember.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Actually, it isn't a television set at all, except as
you break the word down tell for distant, distant seeing.
Even so, it isn't that kind of distance.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
And I get only one.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Picture on it, always the same picture, only one picture.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Yes, I'll show you that's the picture.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
It's not very pretty.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
It looks more like a moonscape than anything else. Tipt
for those mounds or domes or whatever they are scattered around.
How come it's black and white? There isn't any color there, Doug.
In the scene we're watching, you'd see it if it were.
It's just gray.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
There's no color at all.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Is it a movie, science fiction movie or something like that.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Oh, no, it's quite real. Well, there can't be the
moon unless.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Unless the other side has put domes up there and
we don't know about it.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
No, it isn't the moon.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Tell them see it.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
It's our home to it is in mind.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
That's where we came from.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
That's where we've always lived.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
An alien world, old enough and weathered enough to look
like our moon. Well, we've all heard or red stories
about such places. That was fiction, of course, but it
hasn't been so very long since. It was only in
fiction that men put on spacesuits and blasted off from
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Earth and later.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Walked on the Moon.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Today's science fiction has an unsettling way of becoming tomorrow's fact.
I'll return shortly with a three. Doug and Kathy Cellars
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are watching Spellbound, but more than a little repelled a
television picture. Something like a television picture, at least on
a screen that becomes a full length mirror when it's
turned off. The picture is a dismal one, a bleak landscape, gray,
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rocky and barren as the Moon's surface, except for several
dome like structures placed here and there at apparent random
This Sid in Tuty Jones claim is their home.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
There's no place like that on this planet, Sid, no
place that I ever saw or heard of.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
It's on this Earth. We're not space travelers.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
I don't blame you for wanting to leave it wherever
it is.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Well, if you're not space travelers, then what kind of
travelers are you.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Let's all sit down. It's a long story.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Shall I turn it off.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
SI, no, no, no, leave it on. Somebody might come
out of one of the domes. They'd be interested in that.
What kind of travelers, said, you've already guessed it. I think, yes,
where time travelers?
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Time travelers?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Then where?
Speaker 5 (31:50):
I mean, when is that that picture you've got on
the screen? Two questions they are, really where?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
And when?
Speaker 3 (31:59):
To answer the first, it's right here.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Doug, right in this very neighborhood, on this very spot. Well,
then when the year you're looking at is thirty nine
eighty seven, a little over two thousand years from now.
And that's that's what this neighborhood looks like.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
That's what the whole world looks like, Doug. Worse, this
is a garden spot.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Oh, it's some kind of trick, isn't it. I mean,
it's just something you invented.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
More like something you invented you, all of you in
the next few generations. That's misuse of the Earth's resources,
all of your mistakes carried out to their final inevitable conclusion.
You're looking at the end product of your era shortsightedness.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
I I just don't believe it. Well, there it is,
you can see it.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Then it wasn't the It wasn't bombed out.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
The A bomb, the H bomb, all the alphabetical bombs
that came after. They were never used except to waste
the Earth's substance and terrify its people.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
There on the screen, somebody's coming out of the B seven,
don't can you see who it is? It? Not to
be sure four x most.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Likely I think it was his turn at be seven.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
What's he wearing that thing for? Looks like a spacesuit.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Well, that's what it is. We call them atmost suits.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
There's no atmosphere now, not at least that's breathable, except
underground where we convert it. Good lord, Yes, we live underground.
We come out now only to run tests. The toxicity
of what's left of the atmosphere isn't very stable. We
have to draw it in and purify it. So we
need to keep abreast of what we're up against.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
And pump the impurities back ound. Yes, and that increases
the toxicity. Yes, the problem isn't solved. We're living by
stopgap measures.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
We have some time. Though.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
There's a lot of air out there, No, most of
it is poison, and there aren't very many people to breathe.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
What we salvage? How many? Well and b seven?
Speaker 5 (34:08):
Oh, you mean worldwide? Around seven hundred thoud? Between seven
and eight in the whole world. Actually that's a lot.
It was down close to one hundred thousand when we
finally got the underground communities established.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
We went that close to extinction. We are the only survivors.
Anything else is gone.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
We're here on a mission. You must have realized that.
What kind of a mission? A very simple one. We're
here to save the world.
Speaker 6 (34:52):
I want to talk to the chief of police to
what can I do for you? Listen, I'm Thomas Pete
Briscoll of Briscal Motors. I want to report spy. Than
to give me the details. I can only give the
chief the details.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Oh way, mister Drisco.
Speaker 6 (35:08):
I offer you a spy, a genuine spy, and you
won't put me up. All right, all right, I'm coming
over there. By God, I pay my taxes and i'm
a title. I'll be over there in ten minutes. Did
you say save the world?
Speaker 4 (35:25):
You're here to save that world two thousand years from now.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
That world, which of course is simply this one grown
old that's a dead world. It's beyond saving in our time.
We have a few hundred thousand people living inside it,
like people on one of your life rafts. If the
people on the raft aren't rescued, they'll die, the same
with our people. They'll die, or their grandchildren will or
(35:51):
their grandchildren. We few have survived the catastrophe temporarily, and
so you've come back here, back to our time with
the only treatment that can possibly save the world. We
have a cure for its sickness, and we mean to
administer it.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
To call me one of the doctors. There are many of.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Us, many of you.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
Oh yes, one man could never do it. Your mister
Driscoll was very right about that, Doug. We have many
people in this time, some of them in very high
places where pressure can be applied, where red tape can
be bypassed.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Speaking of Driscoll, Sid, I think you ought to.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
It isn't important. Now. Will you let me sign that
paper he gave you? All right?
Speaker 5 (36:38):
I've read that the people of your time set great
store by pieces of paper with signatures on them.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
What are these numbers you put under the signature?
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Oh, that's just to make it thoroughly legal.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
That's my designation in my own time six D forty
eight M. We have numbers instead of names, although we
still use nicknames. Mine actually is sid from six DY.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
My designation is two T ninety three K two D
to T. That's kind of a cute name, though, once
you get used to it.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
Well, if you had time travel, I mean, why did
you wait until the world got into such a state?
Speaker 5 (37:17):
Time translation is a relatively recent discovery.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
But why this particular time? I mean, why not earlier
or later?
Speaker 5 (37:24):
No irreversible damage has been done at this time. As
a matter of fact, it was at this time and
point that the depletion of resources began accelerating so rapidly
that it got out of.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Control, and he later would have been too late.
Speaker 5 (37:37):
Well, much earlier, you wouldn't have had the technology needed
to use what we wanted to give you. I hope
I haven't spoiled it for you, for all of us. No,
if it doesn't work, it's nobody's fault, but my own.
I made the decisions. It was my assignment.
Speaker 6 (37:59):
I told you i'd get to the chief and you
said he was out of town orders.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
Mister driscoll I still don't know why he took me
off the desk and handed me the job.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
It's FBI Will.
Speaker 6 (38:09):
Don't you worry about that, Wilson. You think the two
of us will be enough. I mean if he should
decide to shoot his way out or something like that.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
There are two carloads a good man following as the
house will be surrounded when.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
We go in, and there won't be a chance. And
he's getting a weed.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
Yes, there's a cross stopping out in front. Now Toori,
will you turn the screen off?
Speaker 3 (38:34):
I already did.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
Oh lord, it's old Thomas p himself, mister Driscoll, and
the cop odd.
Speaker 5 (38:41):
I thought it would be your FBI. Oh, mister Drisco
looks very determined.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Mad is a wet hen. That's how he looks. Well,
he shouldn't be angry.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
He may make a great deal of the money you
people prize so highly, or you will too, of course,
if things work out.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
How can things work out if they're coming to pick
you up? There are men and the others.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
As I told you, my being found out shouldn't affect anything.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
Maybe you could still get out the back way.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Sit.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
Oh, I'm sure we're surrounded. People are very impatient. In
nineteen seventy five, I'll let them in. It's your name,
Sid Jones, that's.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
What I'm called. Yes, won't you come in?
Speaker 6 (39:21):
Put the cuffs on him? Why don't you? He's your spy.
What are you waiting for?
Speaker 5 (39:26):
Jones?
Speaker 4 (39:27):
Is it true that you showed them, mister Sellers, that
you showed him an invention of yours last night?
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (39:34):
Yes, it's still down in the basement. If you'd like
to take a look at it.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
Sergeant, you'll be making a great mistake if you arrest
this man.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
Have you lost your mind?
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Sergeant?
Speaker 5 (39:42):
I can prove beyond any question that I am not
a spy.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Will you allow me.
Speaker 6 (39:47):
To show you the proof? Watch him, Wilson, he's up
to something.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
We got only your word, mister Driscook. Go ahead, Jones,
thank you, Terdy. Will you help me with this?
Speaker 6 (39:57):
Wilson? Are you out of your head?
Speaker 1 (40:00):
What's back of that looking glass? Johns? What's the glass
got to do with this? Well, that's what I'd like
to assure you. There's no danger. I assure you.
Speaker 5 (40:08):
No danger, he says, Just don't try anything, Tuty.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
The thick button.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Yes, the third button. What's happening?
Speaker 5 (40:21):
That's no mirror?
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Look at that thing?
Speaker 3 (40:25):
It was turning all milky foggy.
Speaker 6 (40:28):
Will Son, Why don't you do something?
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Can't get away? Give the guy a chance.
Speaker 5 (40:33):
I think it's ready now. Touty stop her, for God's.
Speaker 6 (40:37):
Say, somebody stop her. She's disappearing into that looking glass thing.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Bye Doug, good bye, Kathy.
Speaker 5 (40:45):
Thank you very much, both of you for all you've done.
Speaker 6 (40:48):
Stop right there, Jones, stop arrive or you what peace gone?
You idiots? You'll let him walk right through that working glass.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
It's changing again.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
It's look, Kathy, it's making a picture.
Speaker 6 (41:02):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
Hawk, it's a beautiful park with trees and flowers and
people walking around, and not.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
In those miserable spacesuits either.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
No, it's bright, pretty clothes and children. Oh dogg it,
it must look there's a dog, a little poodle.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
For God's sake, what kind of mirror is that to break?
Speaker 6 (41:25):
For it, you fool, smash it. I don't care what
it is.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Smash it.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
I guess you're right now.
Speaker 4 (41:31):
Please stand aside all of it.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
Yeah, you're gonna do with that gun.
Speaker 4 (41:35):
Just use the butt of it to break the glass.
Speaker 6 (41:37):
Ma'am.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
No, please stand clear.
Speaker 6 (41:43):
There's nothing back there but the wall, just a plain,
blank wall.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
Oh, I almost forgot. Here's that the least you wanted
to say to sign mister driscoll.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
I don't want the damn thing.
Speaker 6 (41:58):
I don't want anything to do with him, his magic mirrors.
I don't want any part of any of it.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
I don't think you really have a choice, mister Gisco.
That was a park we saw through the looking glass
before the sergeant here smashed it.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
And if they have a park, we have solar energy.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
We couldn't change it if we wanted to.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
A park where there was a desolate wasteland only a
few minutes ago. But wait, it wasn't a few minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
At all, was it?
Speaker 2 (42:37):
It was over two thousand years in the future. And
what this implies is that there are at least two
quite different futures, both possible, which in turn implies that
we have, at this exact point in world history, reached
a crossroad.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised if one day before too
terribly long, we hear that solar energy is in the
process of being harnessed. In any case, I believe that
sixty forty eight m Alias sid Jones has given us
something to think about let's hope the right people do
(43:32):
the right kind of thinking. Our cast included Anne Shepard,
Jack Grimes, E. V Justter, Russell Horton and Ken Harvey.
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
This is E. G.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant Dreams five.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
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