Speaker 1: In an Imagine two thousand and six, Colonel Bradbury is
Speaker 1: central to the Western effort to reach the Moon until
Speaker 1: an experimental X ninety three rocket jet suffers a stabilizer failure.
Speaker 1: After the crash leaves him gravely injured, doctors undertake an
Speaker 1: experimental repair while pressure mounts from the rival Eastern Alliance.
Speaker 1: From Mutual Science Fiction Anthology two thousand plus. This is
Speaker 1: episode seventy seven, The Rocket and the Skull, first broadcast
Speaker 1: October tenth, nineteen fifty one. Nat Poland portrays Colonel Bradbury,
Speaker 1: with Arnold Robertson as General Hilton and Merril Joels as
Speaker 1: doctor Keys, ladies and gentlemen. Here is the original broadcast.
Speaker 2: The Night the Rocket, under Mind, Knife, the Skull.
Speaker 3: Two thousand plus Adventures from the World of Tomorrow The
Speaker 3: Years beyond two thousand had two thousand plus for that
Speaker 3: The Rockets and the Skull.
Speaker 2: So, jens, have you heard some Colonel Bradbury yet, No, sir,
Speaker 2: I've been trying to pretend.
Speaker 4: Minutes.
Speaker 2: He'll try again, Yes, sir, be for base to R
Speaker 2: for rocket.
Speaker 5: Be for base to R for rocket. Come in R
Speaker 5: for rocket.
Speaker 2: Every time, bad boys. More than five minutes later I
Speaker 2: get the jitters. He's too important for this project not
Speaker 2: to know where he is every moment.
Speaker 5: Yester, be for base, to R for rocket, Come in
Speaker 5: R for rocket.
Speaker 2: Hires canavy, and he should be on the field level of.
Speaker 5: Yes, B for base, who are for rocket? Come in
Speaker 5: R for rocket.
Speaker 2: He dint of what anything happened to him. The first
Speaker 2: experiment is being conducted tomorrow morning. Bradbury is the only
Speaker 2: man who knows.
Speaker 5: Every step of the route for base, who are for rocket?
Speaker 5: Come in R for rocket.
Speaker 2: You're not getting him. Cut the scannon returned the standard beam. Yes, that.
Speaker 5: Come in R for a rocket.
Speaker 2: He should have left an hour earlier, and he should
Speaker 2: have taken a schedule flight. But no, he has to
Speaker 2: work up for the last minute and then fly his
Speaker 2: own plane to get you in time.
Speaker 5: Be for base too, R for rocket, R for rocket,
Speaker 5: be for base. This is an R for rocket.
Speaker 2: Where he is He in contact at fourteen over six,
Speaker 2: about eighty miles out of Detroit. Give me that night,
Speaker 2: brad This is General Hilton. Are you receiving me?
Speaker 5: Go ahead?
Speaker 2: General? What happened we couldn't contact you.
Speaker 5: I'll have some trouble with my stabilizer, thought I might
Speaker 5: have to land. That's okay.
Speaker 2: Now, are you sure we can't have any heavenue worries?
Speaker 6: Sir?
Speaker 2: The first experiment is being conducted tomorrow morning. Everything is
Speaker 2: ready for you, right The entire General staff will be there,
Speaker 2: maybe the President himself. Is there anything you want me
Speaker 2: to have done before you come in?
Speaker 7: Brad?
Speaker 2: Anything you want done?
Speaker 5: Hello? A for rocket.
Speaker 2: I'm not getting a response, B for grace to R
Speaker 2: for rocket. Come in R for rocket, I said he
Speaker 2: was receiving, clear as a bell, Come.
Speaker 5: In R for a rocket.
Speaker 2: He said the stabilizer had been acting up. I mean
Speaker 2: a lot of trouble at seven hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 5: What's that?
Speaker 2: Automatic stress signals are coming from Colonel Badbery's plane.
Speaker 5: Hello, crash Central.
Speaker 4: This is B for base automatic distress signal coming here
Speaker 4: on channel four two. Oh, Colonel bad Bery playing a
Speaker 4: rocket DEBT ninety three, Hey stopped B for base. Crash
Speaker 4: Central automatic signals cease to register at bean contact sixteen
Speaker 4: over eight.
Speaker 5: Carry out emergency crash procedures. Repeat.
Speaker 2: Colonel Bradberries rocket jest X ninety three has crashed on
Speaker 2: bean position sixteen over eight.
Speaker 5: Check out. I'm glad you were able to get here.
Speaker 8: General, we're going to operate very shortly.
Speaker 2: Guys here, it's a miracle he's alive. This will be
Speaker 2: more of a miracle. If he's a live one hour
Speaker 2: from me. You've got to save him. He's an important man.
Speaker 8: Yes, the White House called in of the Pentagon.
Speaker 2: We know Colonel Bradbury is important, but a shattered skull
Speaker 2: is very difficult. I know you'll do all you can.
Speaker 8: The General really keep you informed.
Speaker 2: Where is out of our hands? I have a report
Speaker 2: from crash central, sir man. Apparently Colonel Bradberry. He was
Speaker 2: the catapult parachute just before the plane crashed. Otherwise he
Speaker 2: would have been killed instantly. When he was catapults up,
Speaker 2: his chute didn't open. He fell into a group of
Speaker 2: trees for a bread. It might have been better if
Speaker 2: he'd stayed in the ship. You heard what the doctor said, Yes,
Speaker 2: a shattered skull the one brain. We need to.
Speaker 8: Carry out the experiment tomorrow and.
Speaker 5: Who lam.
Speaker 8: Son calculback time brown.
Speaker 2: Plas ca stalic eighty over forty the patients thinking that
Speaker 2: more oxygen?
Speaker 5: Yes, he should.
Speaker 7: Responding good.
Speaker 8: Careful from play?
Speaker 2: Have you a cigarette? Yes, sir, here you are, thanks?
Speaker 2: Oh this waiting waiting in more than an hour. Brain
Speaker 2: surgery is very delicate, sir, may take another hour or
Speaker 2: even more. You'll carry out my orders to postpone the experiments, yes, sir,
Speaker 2: until other of us Brad doesn't live, we'll have to
Speaker 2: start another man all over. May set the project back
Speaker 2: a year, and the year could be dangerous. No, you
Speaker 2: look surprised, Lieutenant. You don't know what this experiment's all about,
Speaker 2: do you? When I see the code name part on
Speaker 2: the paper, sell but it never has a prescription. After all,
Speaker 2: it's Mark top secret. Maybe it's about time you were told.
Speaker 2: With Brad upstairs hanging on the life by a thread,
Speaker 2: I'm going to need a bright young man to give
Speaker 2: me some important decisions. You've come through with pretty good
Speaker 2: clergies last minute or as thank yourself. Well, we'll talk
Speaker 2: more about it in a little while. Right now, I'm
Speaker 2: going to stretch out and try to rest. I'm about
Speaker 2: done in. If I hear anything, I'll awakeness. I don't
Speaker 2: expect he sleep, not with the fate of the world
Speaker 2: depending on a curtain's night.
Speaker 8: Yeah, just the lightness screful so yeah, quite a bone fragment.
Speaker 8: Fund the stallic seventy over forty. Oxygen again, it's your oxygen,
Speaker 8: MOUs nurse prepare for transfusion sixty over forty patients thinking,
Speaker 8: so that's right now, I'm going back to hurry condition saying,
Speaker 8: doctors getting the transcusion, let me help you do the
Speaker 8: bon there. Well the stalic eighty over forty. Word is
Speaker 8: responding all right, scalful.
Speaker 5: Bro. Yeah there was even the rest.
Speaker 2: How long has it been? Almost two hours? Two hours?
Speaker 2: Just about now the general staff would be arriving and
Speaker 2: bread would be checking everything for the experiment in the
Speaker 2: morning and heavy you any guess about that experiment, about
Speaker 2: what it is? But my guess is it's about a
Speaker 2: new kind of aircraft. You know. Why do you say that?
Speaker 2: Because it's an Air Force project? Well, I wouldn't say
Speaker 2: you were wrong, but you aren't code either. The experiment
Speaker 2: and the reason it's so important concerns a rocket to
Speaker 2: the moon.
Speaker 5: A rocket to the moon.
Speaker 2: But why, sir, why send one there? Who controls the
Speaker 2: moon controls the world? If we had rockets on the moon,
Speaker 2: we could compel peace on Earth. The United Nations would
Speaker 2: press a button and wipe any aggressor off the face
Speaker 2: of the Earth. That means space travel. You don't mean
Speaker 2: that we're all tenant.
Speaker 1: We haven't found a.
Speaker 2: Way to send rocket ships with human beings through space,
Speaker 2: not yet anyway. But the rocket we're experimenting with is
Speaker 2: a two way rocket. It can land on the Moon
Speaker 2: and returns from the Moon, all electronically controlled.
Speaker 5: From the Earth.
Speaker 2: Sounds fantastic. No, that's quite feasible, I assure you. But
Speaker 2: we have reason to believe that we're not the only
Speaker 2: nation thinking of this time. Is of the essence. Colonel
Speaker 2: Bradbury knows more about operating these rocks than any man
Speaker 2: of lives. Just on the verge of the experiment.
Speaker 8: This has to happen, HM, Quiet, General Hilton. Yes, Doctor
Speaker 8: Rigel taking message down to you from the operating room.
Speaker 8: But he's there is no General, He's still Doctor Rizio
Speaker 8: says that he now has a thirty percent chance.
Speaker 5: Of surviving.
Speaker 9: Part of Colonel Bravery's colors and fragments.
Speaker 8: A head flag will have to put on because of
Speaker 8: the size of the area. A new metal allophi will
Speaker 8: be used to take these five six more hours. Doctor
Speaker 8: Rizuel suggests you go home, General, where you'll be more comfortable.
Speaker 8: Positive phone you if anything happens.
Speaker 7: H.
Speaker 5: H h.
Speaker 8: He's coming out of it. Dannel Bread break, can you
Speaker 8: hear me not? Stirty Junes was on the blinds a
Speaker 8: little hm, okay, good, how easy is back still? I'll
Speaker 8: hold him, thank you ten days since the operation is
Speaker 8: just not coming out of it.
Speaker 5: He's a strong man.
Speaker 8: Almost any other person would have died.
Speaker 2: Daniel Bread Break, Channel, Brad break, can you hear me?
Speaker 2: The they rocket?
Speaker 9: All right, the rockets beginning to talk.
Speaker 2: I have doctor Keys come in at once. The advice
Speaker 2: atop a rockets General, Well, all right.
Speaker 9: Channel, you call me the less that he's coming out
Speaker 9: of it. Don't euretically typical stars, but back.
Speaker 2: At big base, and that's sort of same way it's pical.
Speaker 2: Jagon Airport window, Marcians, Ma, Marsians. They use all sorts
Speaker 2: of code names. March is probably one of them. I
Speaker 2: think at about forty.
Speaker 8: Eight hours you have to be able to track completely.
Speaker 8: We can call General hidden, tell them to come over
Speaker 8: there after tomorrow. Can't take it easily, Ternel, six months,
Speaker 8: you ought to be in pretty good shape. Nose, keep
Speaker 8: them comfortable. That's the Keys and I will leave now.
Speaker 7: Rock vilize Well, something wrong.
Speaker 2: M's called generally called the health r Marsian. Uh, how
Speaker 2: is that vac Memorandum to General Staff one. A new
Speaker 2: experiment is tentatively planned for April third.
Speaker 5: Two thousand plus six two.
Speaker 2: All security man who's have been taken three. Although severely
Speaker 2: handicapped by Colonel Bradbury's absence, uly trained specialist will endeavor
Speaker 2: to fill the gap. Anything more, General, No, no, Lieutenant Larry,
Speaker 2: I should say no. Captain you like that extra bron
Speaker 2: Certainly you've learned it, Bob, You've been a great help
Speaker 2: to me. Okay. Note the memo was trapped secret and
Speaker 2: send it back similarly to the pentagram.
Speaker 9: I'll take it.
Speaker 2: You know, Hunton, who the president? Oh, here's mister President.
Speaker 2: Of course her. Well, I've just prepared a memorandum. But
Speaker 2: that's only two weeks, mister President. We assumed about sixty days.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, sir, her work day and night to do it.
Speaker 2: Thank you, mister President. Captain change the date in the
Speaker 2: first paragraph of the memo. The new experiment is to
Speaker 2: take place in two weeks. General, that's almost impossible. I
Speaker 2: know it, and you know it. But there's one man
Speaker 2: who doesn't know it. He says it's got to be done.
Speaker 2: I'm that's disposed to argue with the President of the
Speaker 2: United States. I'd like to double check some of my
Speaker 2: notes on Genel Bradbury with you. Of course, on this afternoon,
Speaker 2: the General is coming to see him.
Speaker 9: But Colonel Bradbury is.
Speaker 8: He loves convalescence, and he's not too lucid. Now that's
Speaker 8: the point.
Speaker 2: He's not too lucid.
Speaker 10: But as he is, he talks normally for a while,
Speaker 10: makes sense, and then that tre reaction set. I have
Speaker 10: observed it myself three times.
Speaker 2: Head injury cases are quite unforgeted, perhaps, but according to
Speaker 2: my note, Colonel Bradbury's strange reaction is taking place.
Speaker 7: Always either a ten AM or five PM.
Speaker 8: Of the many instances I've observed, two have been at ten,
Speaker 8: one at five. That is on you, and in each instance, well,
Speaker 8: I can see now in my.
Speaker 2: Mind's eyes, sitting a long bed, talking quite sensibly, although
Speaker 2: in a big voice, suddenly becomes tense, grimnesses. If his
Speaker 2: head were in peat, even touches the bed clothes with
Speaker 2: tight kiss it appears to be rigid. Then, as for
Speaker 2: a few minutes, invariably from the flood of disjoint the
Speaker 2: disconnected sentence about messages, the emergency crisis, state of the
Speaker 2: world and mars.
Speaker 8: Our General is going to visit the kernel assessment. It's
Speaker 8: about five o'clock.
Speaker 9: And you expect the kernel to have another stranger.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 9: Surely, General realize that a man who's at the here surgery.
Speaker 8: Kay, you can't tell what the General we'll realize.
Speaker 2: But my fear is that you don't see that returning
Speaker 2: is not improving as well as he might. And you
Speaker 2: may call in other doctors, but we're doing everything humanly possible.
Speaker 2: That is the irony of the situation. I could have
Speaker 2: the colonel, and surgery would have been very easy, but
Speaker 2: more important, government officials that concerned. I get worried if we,
Speaker 2: as I were investigated carefully, they might find out who
Speaker 2: you and I really are, and that would be dangerous,
Speaker 2: very dangerous. Indeed, in here, thank you, nurse. Hello, Bred,
Speaker 2: understand you wanted to see me. I can as soon
Speaker 2: as I couldn't. But sure, Bread, don't worry about me. Bread.
Speaker 7: We're scheduling the experiment.
Speaker 2: If you're up to answering a few questions about.
Speaker 7: Experiments to tell you, sure bad, Sure, I know there's
Speaker 7: a lot you want to tell me, but when you're
Speaker 7: still a sick guy. So I suppose I just asked
Speaker 7: you a few questions.
Speaker 8: And you answer them yes or no, and it'll save
Speaker 8: your energy.
Speaker 5: What time is it?
Speaker 8: Why it's a few seconds.
Speaker 7: Before five o'clock?
Speaker 8: Message coming, message coming?
Speaker 5: What message?
Speaker 2: Trying to tell you?
Speaker 11: I couldn't tell anyone else by rush smiles, martians kind
Speaker 11: to tell me what bed Go ahead and see what's
Speaker 11: the matter.
Speaker 9: Bade, Doctor.
Speaker 2: Something's happening to kind of bad?
Speaker 9: Hey, hey, uh, doctor Rigel, and you hear me.
Speaker 2: That General, you'll miss here too.
Speaker 9: You remember and parlor General say.
Speaker 2: Things human mind fellas a never place are.
Speaker 5: Mostly like you are?
Speaker 9: You m me none about the klonel that's what tire
Speaker 9: hyper definite.
Speaker 7: Experiment.
Speaker 2: Well enough now I'm inject h tria next to the
Speaker 2: moment very.
Speaker 5: Experiment.
Speaker 7: Yeah, um, Sam, that has released his temps.
Speaker 2: You sleep now?
Speaker 8: The all that and your way if the world happened
Speaker 8: to him? Doctor, I'm not certain, General.
Speaker 9: But in a few days you may be able to
Speaker 9: tell more.
Speaker 2: I know you're doing everything possible, doctor, and we're grateful
Speaker 2: for your saving Brad's life. But mightn't it be wise
Speaker 2: to call him some specialists, some other doctors, the consultation.
Speaker 2: There's so much information and advice we need from Colonel Badbury.
Speaker 2: Call him other doctor. Well, General, I don't know that
Speaker 2: that's necessary. So strange watching him, almost as if you
Speaker 2: were listening to something. You know, now that I think
Speaker 2: of it, he did say something about a message. Do
Speaker 2: you think there's any connection? I hardly think so, General,
Speaker 2: And after all we didn't hear anything. No, No, I'm
Speaker 2: afraid it was just the erratic talk of a sick
Speaker 2: and injured brain.
Speaker 12: Wow, General, you really want your.
Speaker 2: Own experience watching the chlnel like that. I think he
Speaker 2: was almost in a shit, had some crazy idea he
Speaker 2: was getting messages, message hallucinations.
Speaker 9: He was off his rapper for a while.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid I was a little boss with doctor Riggio.
Speaker 2: He's a fine man, but I feel better as some
Speaker 2: other medicals looked to Bred. Too arrange for some specialists
Speaker 2: from Army Medical to examine him. Will your Captain, yes,
Speaker 2: Look Trumpet, I want to think more. I'm the experiment.
Speaker 5: Fire you'll fare.
Speaker 2: General Hilton's office at one moment, please for you, sir,
Speaker 2: Pentagon Intelligence Section Intelligence. Hello, you know, yes, yes, are
Speaker 2: you certain for the President and the Chief of Staff
Speaker 2: and inform good it's out there in fifteen minutes right
Speaker 2: one of my car Captain. Things are happening, Yes.
Speaker 12: Sir, was cars down by at worst entrant what things?
Speaker 2: Intelligence reports that the Eastern Alliance is definitely planning the
Speaker 2: Moon rocket for breast off in six days. You know
Speaker 2: what that means if they get there before the United
Speaker 2: Nations six days and we will be ready for fourteen days.
Speaker 2: We really wanted dream on.
Speaker 12: That's right.
Speaker 2: But how somehow I must have found not about our
Speaker 2: experiment and have agents that feel for some of our
Speaker 2: vital data. That's what the emergency meeting is about?
Speaker 5: Or your cause?
Speaker 2: Very general, good luck, we're going to need it. Cheese, doctor, cheese?
Speaker 5: Have you heard?
Speaker 2: What is it? Some other doctors are examining Colonel Bradbury.
Speaker 2: If I just missed them?
Speaker 12: What of course I gave them permission.
Speaker 7: I had no choice.
Speaker 2: General Hilton requested it yesterday?
Speaker 12: Or are they?
Speaker 2: That's just it?
Speaker 12: Army, medical Army.
Speaker 2: How you can be so cold and calculating in surgery?
Speaker 2: So nervous?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 2: I cannot understand your record here is flawless. Your operational
Speaker 2: Bradbury superb. No suspicion was attached to you or to me.
Speaker 2: If we conduct ourselves in a normal professional manner. What
Speaker 2: is the rations that they are the Army about news
Speaker 2: an intelligence section. They have routines about these things. We
Speaker 2: have no choice but to keep up up here. And
Speaker 2: I know, I know.
Speaker 8: But if they ever find out.
Speaker 2: That we are the agents of the Eastern a Lands,
Speaker 2: that we have masterminded the sect of certain rocket data,
Speaker 2: they wouldn't be ruthless, Doctor Cheese, ruthless.
Speaker 5: Others.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, General isn't here.
Speaker 5: This is his aid.
Speaker 2: No, sir, I don't know. When you return, I suggest
Speaker 2: you place the information on our private fact simile line
Speaker 2: in code. Our extension is eight three. I'll then gets
Speaker 2: the papers to the General when he arrives. Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: I'll turn the fact simory line on mass we can
Speaker 2: receive it.
Speaker 6: What yep.
Speaker 13: Ah, I mean now, report regarding Colonel Bradbury Item one.
Speaker 2: Heavens doctor Regio Item two the.
Speaker 13: Metal plate surgical applied to Colonel Bradbury's skull.
Speaker 2: The metal store plate arm voices. So that's what the
Speaker 2: Colonel's hallucinations are. It's fantastic. Message is ended quickly, very
Speaker 2: quickly news very please General Hutton's office at Central Hospital.
Speaker 2: There are two staff doctors, Doctor Joe and doctor Keys
Speaker 2: right place them under arrested one a message as please,
Speaker 2: this is General Hilton's aide. When the General retire to
Speaker 2: tell him, I'll be at Central Hospital talking to Colonel Bradbury. Colonel,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm the General's aide. You can describe the voice
Speaker 2: to me.
Speaker 5: Now, what happened?
Speaker 7: My whole head vibrates, It's painful.
Speaker 2: Then I hear voices that they say that's talking to
Speaker 2: Mars Martians.
Speaker 5: Rush.
Speaker 2: Apparently the metal plate on your head somehow picks up
Speaker 2: a certain high frequency radio waves. At least that's the
Speaker 2: theory of the Army medical except the Martians. They want
Speaker 2: to stop the rocket enemies from an out the world. No, colonel,
Speaker 2: you can't really believe that. You You must have misunderstood.
Speaker 2: The real enemies are the Eastern of Linds.
Speaker 7: Our agents have been caught.
Speaker 2: The mean projects won't take place for a long time
Speaker 2: as a result, and you just take it easy. So
Speaker 2: the Army is going to track down that wavelength of
Speaker 2: bottles your head, the new recouperate piece of what can't true?
Speaker 2: Excuse me, sir, it's almost five o'clock.
Speaker 9: I've got to be going to say.
Speaker 6: Just take it easy, please, yes, eight three three eight
Speaker 6: nine one.
Speaker 2: What life.
Speaker 7: Chronos is six four three?
Speaker 12: Your code is correct.
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 13: Do not send the message to Mars on the regular wavelength,
Speaker 13: but Father O plot here after use the alternate wavelength.
Speaker 2: I will submit a report explaining how our communications were discovered.
Speaker 7: You can report this.
Speaker 13: The Eastern Alliance agents have been captured by the Americans.
Speaker 13: This reduces the chances of the Earth sending a Moon
Speaker 13: rocket from.
Speaker 2: Two to only one. I will see to it that
Speaker 2: that one does not succeed.
Speaker 12: Are you, Fathertive?
Speaker 13: You can execute this plan without question. On you may
Speaker 13: report to my superiors on Mars that the observation base
Speaker 13: on the Moon is safe from discovery. Mars will continue
Speaker 13: to be the only planet controlling out of space.
Speaker 2: That is all it shall be reported. I just said
Speaker 2: that fac similar message in my office and as quickly.
Speaker 12: As I could.
Speaker 2: Now what I know is happening, and nothing on Earth
Speaker 2: is happening in general. What are you talking about?
Speaker 7: Well, I mean, everything's all.
Speaker 5: Right now, sir, isn't it.
Speaker 2: The Eastern Alliance has been taken care of and there's
Speaker 2: reason to believe Colonel Bradbury's weird hallucinations won't recur anymore.
Speaker 2: And those are the two best pieces of mus.
Speaker 12: I've heard all day.
Speaker 2: Captain, I don't know what I'd do without you, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2: I just try to do the best I can for
Speaker 2: my country.
Speaker 3: Next week, another exciting adventure for the world of tomorrow
Speaker 3: from the years beyond two thousand ab.
Speaker 2: Be sure to listen. Two thousand trust is but it's
Speaker 2: by driver and when, as in productions and propert in
Speaker 2: today's past, I'll rap it General Heaven with us. This
Speaker 2: is a tenman Leslie. Marking was Doctor Viggio, that program
Speaker 2: was Doctor Brian Bell Joes, Doctor Keeth. The orchestra was
Speaker 2: by Emerson Buckley.
Speaker 5: Music composed by Elliot Riccoby.
Speaker 2: Down Wild Chamber and Adrian Tenner Engineer Barb. All right,
Speaker 2: this is Ken Marvin speaking.
Speaker 5: Return on Time. God.
Speaker 1: That was two thousand plus with the Rocket and the Skull.
Speaker 1: Good evening and thank you for sharing this broadcast.