Speaker 1: Instead than a feeding bullet, more powerful than a Hey,
those elite Paul buildings.
Speaker 2: At a single bound.
Speaker 1: Up on the sky. It's a bird, it's a plane.
That's Cooperman.
Speaker 2: He has met yourself, Superman.
Speaker 1: When the planet krypt On, home of a race of Superman,
exploded into dust, the soul survivor was an infant boy
who had been shut to worth in a siled rocket.
To day, that boy grown manhood is known as Superman.
Sworn enemy of the forces of evil. To wighe him
and his never ending fight for truth and justice, he
masquerades as Clark Kent, crime reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper.
His secret is carefully guarded. No one is aware that
Kent is Superman. No one but you. Jine with us
now on ABC as Superman saves an innocent boy from
the electric care and an exciting transcribed story of crime
and courage entitled One Minute to Death. The night was
clear but darn. There were stars in the black canopy
of the sky, but a waning moon had long since
dipped beneath the horizon. When young Johnny Webber circled the
modest shingled house on Pine Street in the suburbs of Metropolis.
Moving siquently across the soft cushion of the lawn, he
stationed himself beneath the second story window. Looking up, he
whistled softly. A long moment of silence, broken only by
the chirping of crickets and the hum of insects. Then,
almost like a delayed echo, there was an answering whistle.
Moving to the rear of the house, Johnny waited in
a protective darkness. He saw a light go on in
the kitchen and then go off. The key turned in
a lock, The rear door opened, and a young girl
tiptoed down the four steps.
Speaker 3: Oh, I thought you never come.
Speaker 1: I'd trouble get in a car. Why did you get
w Yeah, but I gotta go pick it up now.
That'll take me about twenty minutes.
Speaker 4: Whose car is Johnny?
Speaker 5: One of the boys?
Speaker 1: And look, honey, you go get ready and it meet
me out front.
Speaker 3: Whose car is it?
Speaker 4: Johnny?
Speaker 1: What's the difference? Whose car it is? What we're gonna
do is drive it up to Glen Oaks, get married,
drive back. I want to know who's car you're borrowing.
I told you one of the boys. Laura, how you
will kill on time.
Speaker 3: Promised me that you wouldn't have anything more to do
with that, Yet.
Speaker 1: You used to hang around with the baby. I'm not
I spent two hours calling up people trying to get
a car. Nobody was home.
Speaker 4: Oh wait, wait, we don't have to do it tonight.
Speaker 1: If we've been waiting six months. If we don't do
it tonight, we'll never do it. Baby. Please don't make
it tougher than it is.
Speaker 3: You still haven't told me whose car it is.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't know if I did tell you.
Speaker 2: It's just the guy.
Speaker 1: And anyway, maybe we're only taking it for the night,
that's all after we give it back in the morning.
Was through with the car and we're through with him.
Speaker 3: I don't like you getting mixed up with him. His
hood limits again.
Speaker 1: I'm not getting mixed up, baby, believe me. You go,
get ready, I'll be back in twenty minutes.
Speaker 3: Johnny, Wait, you've got to promise something. What that you'll
return the car in the morning and never have anything
more to do with whoever you're borrowing is from.
Speaker 5: Baby?
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 3: I'm your word of hona chat on my word of a.
Speaker 1: Fine time to get us being sick.
Speaker 2: You in a hurry son. Yeah, matter of fact, I
am opposite.
Speaker 1: Alight.
Speaker 2: Let's see the driver's license. Sure, I'm going to pick
up my girl.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll get married in Glenols. And I guess I'm
so happy.
Speaker 2: Bad I forgot I was going so fast. Registration, huh,
car registration, the owner's license, let's it.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, you got to get it.
Speaker 2: You see, I just borrowed.
Speaker 1: This carf at the night who owns a friend of mine.
Speaker 2: What's his name name? Tony? Tony what? I don't know.
Speaker 5: His last name.
Speaker 2: That's a real good friend.
Speaker 1: Wells this way yet? Yeah, just borrowed the coffin night
and kind of me and my girl.
Speaker 2: Yeah you said that before?
Speaker 1: How did I? Yeah, I guess I did.
Speaker 5: You got my back?
Speaker 1: Oh nothing, turn your motor off? Well, look all of
a sudden, my girls, wait.
Speaker 2: Turn it off.
Speaker 5: Okay, I have the key.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, what are you looking for?
Speaker 5: Anything?
Speaker 2: I can find?
Speaker 5: Sit tight, I open the trunk.
Speaker 2: Well, why don't you just give me a ticket for
speed and let me go. You're gonna get a lot
more than a ticket for speeding. Get your hands up,
get out, hi the idea? Come on, keep me up.
I don't get this much. Shoot, don't where'd you get
the radios? What the ten portable radios in the trunk?
Speaker 5: What's talking about?
Speaker 2: I'm clean, Johnny? Would you get them? I tell you,
this isn't my car.
Speaker 1: I borrowed it.
Speaker 2: I don't know nothing about no radios. How about the
name of the man you borrowed the car from? You
remember it now? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: If I do, it's Dannelly totally.
Speaker 2: Where does he live?
Speaker 1: I don't know, honest, I don't.
Speaker 2: How'd you got the car?
Speaker 1: I set up at the Turnpike Tavernet's kind of a roadhouse.
Speaker 5: On the TURNPI.
Speaker 2: Don't know where it is? Is Dannelly there?
Speaker 1: I guess?
Speaker 2: So he was there when he gave you the car,
wasn't he?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: But I don't want to get mixed up with why not?
Speaker 1: I just don't want it, That's.
Speaker 2: All You're gonna have to get mixed up with him, Johnny.
You say he owns this car?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: There are ten new radios in the trunk that could
have been stolen. No, we're taking a ride over to
the Turnpike tavern and you're going to pick out Tony
Dannelly for me and I am going to have a
little talk with him, all right, Johnny, pick him up.
I'm not saying that.
Speaker 1: Sitting over there and last booth of this girl, you'd
better find him.
Speaker 2: Son, that's that guy with the ball head.
Speaker 1: No, and he runs the slices.
Speaker 5: You're coming over. You're looking for someone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, where's Tony Tony who Danelly?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: No Tony Dannelly.
Speaker 2: Oh you know he comes in here all the time.
He was sitting over there and the booth of the girl.
Speaker 1: Kick he listened twenty minutes ago. No, Boddy was sitting
in that boot all night.
Speaker 2: You got a fron kid. You're lieing.
Speaker 1: You're covering for you a little all right, that's gonna
we run a straight giant here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, okay, Johnny, let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 6: Andagan State Patrol Car seventeen reporting have a Burton Ray suspect,
request ownership check on black Chevrolets dan licensed four y six.
Speaker 2: Seven eighty two.
Speaker 1: That is all.
Speaker 2: You better give it to me straight, Johnny. You heard
the ownership report. The car belongs to a man named
Walter Silsby on Cox's Lane, not to Tony Danelly.
Speaker 1: You get the car from the Nelly, I swear right,
and you.
Speaker 2: Didn't know the radios were in the trunk.
Speaker 1: Oh, call my girl, ask her what I was doing.
Speaker 2: And we'll ask her later. Right now, we're going over
to Cox's Lane to ask mister Silsby. That must be
his place at check. All right, keep walking in front
of me, Johnny. Don't try anything.
Speaker 1: Shouldt's try anything I didn't do?
Speaker 7: Not?
Speaker 2: Keep walking?
Speaker 1: Okay? Told them Knock on the door, maybe he's not home.
Speaker 2: The light on a right, Try the door, see if
it's open. Step inside. Remember, Johnny, I've got a gun
in your back.
Speaker 4: It I swear I didn't do it.
Speaker 2: Three bullets in his chest and one in his hand.
Speaker 1: I saw the guy before.
Speaker 2: You gotta believe, but you got it. It's not up
to me, Johnny. I'm taking you in for murder.
Speaker 1: Arrested for murder, indicted, found guilty by a jury of
his peers, and sentenced to die in the electric chair.
Young Johnny Webber, caught in a mash of circumstantial evidence,
now waits forgotten in a death house cell forgotten. Saved
by two people, one Laura Williams, the girl he was
about to marry. The other Clark Kent, who as crime
reporter for the Metropolis Daily Planet, spent many hours at
the trial and is convinced of Johnny's innocence. We find
them both in can't office.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's got left a week, mister Kitty. Isn't there
some way of getting more time?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: The governor won't grant a stay of execution unless we
present new evidence and we have him enabled to get any.
Speaker 3: Yes, but how can we say, won't even let us
talk to Johnny?
Speaker 1: Well, I'm expecting a call from the warden in any
minute now. I spend all morning at the DA's office,
and he finally agreed to recommend that one of us
be permitted to see Johnny. Really up to the warden.
But I'm pretty sure you don't worry about that. Maybe
see now, keep your things crossed, park, can't speaking? Oh
hello Wharton, Yes, he said he was going to call you.
I see, Well, thanks a lot, Yes, sir, I will
thank you. Yes, yes, one of us can see him
at see this afternoon.
Speaker 3: You'd better go, mister Kent, I get all tied up
inside now, wouldn't ask the right question? Then it might
be better too, if Johnny didn't see me.
Speaker 1: I think maybe you're right now what do we want
to know?
Speaker 3: How to find Tony? Dennellers said, there must be a way.
Tell Johnny he's got to give you the names of
Dennelly's friends. The place is he usually hangs out anything
he can.
Speaker 2: Tell you that here, Okay, And.
Speaker 3: Tell Johnny not to give up Hope. Tell him I hevn't,
And tell him I I love him as.
Speaker 1: Much as I have it. Hello Johnny.
Speaker 5: Hello.
Speaker 1: They'd only give me two minutes, Johnny, so I'll have
to talk fast. First of all, Laura wanted me to
tell you not to give up Hope. She hasn't, and
she says she loves you as much as she ever did.
Thanks now about Tony Donnelly. Our only chance to get
you out of this mess is to locate Dannelly. He
blew out of town a long time ago. You can
count on. The chances are you're right. But someone must
know where he is. Well left they do it, won't talk.
I know what happened. I know it like I was
written in a book. What do you mean? Tony and
soils they pulled that radio still a job together. When
Tony went to Silsby's house the next night, they get
his cut. They got into an argument. Tony maybe had
a few drinks. He pulled his gun and placed away,
and he took the old man's car. Well, he sold
it up. He realized the car was hot. That's when
I came along. But Johnny knowing how it happened doesn't help.
We've got to prove it, and we can't do it
unless we lay our hands on Donnelly. Forget it, mister can't.
Tony's gone. He won't come back till I But we'll
find him if we can get a lead. What about
his friends, but don't cover for him. I don't worry
about their covering, Johnny, let me handle that. Just tell
me who they are. For instance, you testify Donnelly was
sitting in a booth at the Turnpike tavern with a
girl Chicky. Do you know her last name? No? What
was she Donnelly's girl? I guess so one of them. Anyway,
describe her for me. She's a platinum blann about five
three or four, kind of flashy, talks, tough girl. He
used to be a cigarette girl on the joint before
Tony picked her up. Go on about Oh if you
said sheep hard drinking dame like one hundred other and
that doesn't help much, Johnny. Nothing to think of about her,
nothing different. The clothes she wears, a jewelry oil a minute.
Tony gave her a ring with a great big green
stone and emerald em real color, but it was too
big to be real. The girando's a quarter, she would
on the left hand. Now we're getting somewhere. She sounds
like a good best How you've got to find the
first We'll find her. Where does she hang out any
one of a dozen jins on the south side. Okay,
my time's up, Johnny. I think I've got enough. Don't
give up. Hope now, and remember that Laura and I
are plunking for you. Any message, Laura, yes, tell us
forget about me. You sure you want me to tell that? John? Yeah,
I'm sure. Okay, No, no, I'm kid. Wait, don't tell
her that, tell right, tell him no matter what happens
all over?
Speaker 4: How why is he, mister Kent?
Speaker 1: How did he look fine? Laura? Fine?
Speaker 3: Did you give him?
Speaker 1: I certainly did, And he said to tell you he
loved you more than ever?
Speaker 5: John?
Speaker 1: Oh, No, look kid, lady, no tears. We've got work
to do.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: We've got six nights to camb every bar, gin Mill
and Honkey Tonk on the south side.
Speaker 2: You think you can take it.
Speaker 1: I can take anything. It might mean staying out at
all hours of the morning. What about your folks there?
Speaker 4: Practically just selling me now? It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: When do we start tonight? I think you've got to
call it quick side. How many places did we cover? Seven?
And at least five to go tomorrow night?
Speaker 3: Yes, but what if she shows up tomorrow one of
the places we covered tonight?
Speaker 1: You just got to keep rotating and truss the luck. Oh,
we know she may be homesick or even dead for
ten weeks, Johnny, last door hit? You tell you no,
maybe not. I'll get a check and week what matter?
Don't look now, but two couples just came in. One
of the girls is a platinum blonde and she's working
a ring with a huge green stone. Oh, she's about
the right height too, I hope, I hope, Yes, what
I captain's bringing them to the table next to us. Easy, No,
don't look too Interestory, it's got a left hand on
the table. Take a look at the ring.
Speaker 5: Oh do you drinking chick?
Speaker 1: Chick? I'll listen carefully, Laura, You've got to get acquainted
with her.
Speaker 4: Huh.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you. We'll try pulling a fast woman. I'll
start an argument with you. I'll say let's go home.
You say no, you want to stay. I'll grab you
alarm and you slap my face and then what that, Bikers,
I'm going to beat you up. That's your cue to screen.
You understand. One of those gorillas at her table is
bound to come to your restless me. I'll take a
poke at him. He'll hit me, and I'll let him.
Speaker 4: Knock me out.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, I won't.
Speaker 1: Let you worry. He can't hurt me. Carry me out
of here. But don't you follow him. Stay behind. Thank
the gorilla who saved you. Try to join their parties.
Tell them, tell them Joe got him from out of town.
You have no money, no place to sleep. Maybe maybe one.
Speaker 5: Of them, chicky.
Speaker 1: I hope I'll have to take your hand. Well.
Speaker 3: I don't know whether I'm not good an actor.
Speaker 1: You've got to be for Joy's sake, I'll do my best. Okay,
here we go.
Speaker 2: I come on here. I'm sick of this joint.
Speaker 5: Let's go home.
Speaker 1: No, I like it here I want to stay, I said,
but going home not Come on, let go in my arm.
Go when I gets out of here.
Speaker 2: You let go?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: Why you h.
Speaker 5: I said, I'll take care.
Speaker 2: Of her and you too, So that's it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, you hun.
Speaker 2: Clark can't speaking, Laura. I've been waiting all morning to
hear from you.
Speaker 1: Yes, I know you went home with Chickie. I waited
outside the nightclub just to make sure. I followed you
to her place, two seventy four Green Street. Where are
you now? She's got to hang over, and I don't
suppose you've had a chance to learn anything.
Speaker 5: We got home at five o'clock.
Speaker 1: Well, don't rush it, Laura, take it easy. Gain her
confidence before you start pumping her. You might start by
admiring that ring Donnelly gave her, you know, the usual stuff.
Did your boyfriend give it a tin?
Speaker 2: Sof and so on?
Speaker 1: If she opens up and talks, fine, but it's not
Let it drop for a while. I know, I know,
But don't worry about that. If you've been learn where
Donnelly's hiding out, the rest is easy and Laura, chances
are she's got a picture of Dannelly somewhere in her room,
maybe even in her pocketbook. Get hold of it.
Speaker 4: If you can't.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll be here if you need me. Good luck, Laura.
Speaker 3: Kill any better not Chicky?
Speaker 4: Yeah, an assprint in the coffee?
Speaker 5: Did the trick? Oh? Brother?
Speaker 4: Did I have a head? He sure did? What time
do we get in?
Speaker 1: Five o'clock?
Speaker 4: Bobo Loog wanted to come up, didn't he?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I talked him out of it. Thanks, kid. Oh he's
all right, but he's got paws on him like an ape.
But he sure flapped that punk who was trying to
rough you up, didn't he? He sure did. One punch
in the punk was out like a light. Oh you're
feeling all right, kid?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Sure, I'm fine.
Speaker 2: Chicky.
Speaker 3: You did a nice thing bringing me home last night.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Oh, forget it. You're a good kid. A matter of fact,
you're gonna stay with me till you find a place
of your own.
Speaker 2: You really mean? I'm not?
Speaker 4: I at plenty of room here.
Speaker 5: What's today?
Speaker 3: Monday?
Speaker 1: What day?
Speaker 3: Sixteen?
Speaker 4: You can stay with me until the twenty second. That's
when my boyfriend will be back.
Speaker 3: Where is he?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: He had to take it on the link. I mean
he had to go away on kind of a trip.
Speaker 3: He's here traveling salesman, Tony.
Speaker 4: He sill get a boot out of that. No, you
see he he kind of got into a little dam
so he had a blow for a while. But he'll
be back Sunday the twenty second on a kind of
on Saturday, something's happened and that'll put him in the clear.
What's the mate, kid not got green around the gills.
Speaker 3: I was just thinking, how niceness must beat him. Have
a regular boyfriend?
Speaker 4: Yeh, sure is? How about that's rushing up some breakfast?
Speaker 3: Hunh and no I'm not very hungry.
Speaker 4: I come on, snap out of a kid, We'll find
your boyfriend. And I almost see myself.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, that's what she said.
Speaker 4: Nelly was coming back on Sunday because on Saturday something
was going to happen.
Speaker 1: You know what she is, Yes, but it's not going
to happen. Keep plugging, Laura, You're doing fine.
Speaker 4: Day is gone.
Speaker 1: Don't think about that. Just keep plugging.
Speaker 3: She talked about Tony for an hour last I said,
you can't, but I couldn't get her to tell me
where he's hiding out.
Speaker 4: I'm getting worried.
Speaker 1: Don't worry, Laura, don't be too anxious. What about the picture?
Have you had a chance to look around?
Speaker 3: No, she's been with me every minute.
Speaker 4: Why can't we have a police question to.
Speaker 1: Tell us where he is? No, No, you can't force her,
Laura anyway, that would be a tip off to Dannelly.
This is the best way to believe me. Just don't
get panicky. Something's bound to break.
Speaker 2: Ken.
Speaker 3: I saw a picture on two letters from Tony buried
under some clothes.
Speaker 1: And one of the girl draws, what girl, where are
the letters from base Mo?
Speaker 4: N A U G A N K.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. It's a coal mining town here Scratton. No,
where are you now? You've got to verify the location
if you can. He may have mailed the letters from
another town Saturday. It's a lot I know. I know, Hey,
where you are? I'll come over.
Speaker 5: No, No, I can't do that.
Speaker 4: She only went out for a few minutes to pay
her electric I've got.
Speaker 6: To pull out all together.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what you do. Borrow an envelope from
the druggist, put the letters in the picture in it,
seal it, write my name on it and leave it
there for me. I'll pick it up, all right, but
then talk to her when she gets back. Somehow mentioned
Pennsylvania the coal mines. You know. You might even tell
you've got a friend in Morganac she's found to react.
Maybe even tell you that's where Danelly is. I can't
be very far wrong. You better go now.
Speaker 2: Oh hello, Shaggy, A.
Speaker 4: Box of Kleenex, an orange stick, and the pine of
rubin alcohol.
Speaker 1: Even keep yourself.
Speaker 2: I see your girlfriend a lot, but I don't see
what to you that was the rubin alcohol?
Speaker 4: Right? Yeah, Hi, what girlfriend?
Speaker 2: Oh one's living with your dark hair, kind of nice looking.
Comes in almost every day to use a pay telephone.
Oh yeah, matter of fact, she was in a few
minutes ago. Men rope some fella to pick up. Yeah,
this one, let's see it, dog, Sure.
Speaker 4: Sure, Clark and oh yeah, I know this guy. Only
you shouldn't left it here, for I'm coming by the house.
Speaker 2: I'll I'll take it with me.
Speaker 4: You finished wapping that package? Dog, I gotta make a
phone ball thurday, No good sneak, b this is cheap.
I need in a hurry, Bobo, tell you when I
see you pick me up at the corner. Of green
and have a iron make it fast. Oh that's so soon. Yeah,
I'm black. Come on in, Bobo. I don't remember Bobo.
He's the one paste of that guy with the night
we met. Of course, it's nice to see you again.
Speaker 5: Give the glad hands. Sister like to do a chick?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: What's the matter?
Speaker 1: Is something wrong with us?
Speaker 5: Sister? How about you? Chicky?
Speaker 4: What's he talking about?
Speaker 2: Get off it?
Speaker 4: Who are you stealing?
Speaker 7: For?
Speaker 2: You?
Speaker 1: A little? Right?
Speaker 3: I don't know what you mean.
Speaker 1: Maybe this will help you to get these lights on
his picture?
Speaker 4: And I never saw them before. You've got no no, I.
Speaker 2: Didn't I get doing for the cops.
Speaker 4: Come on, answer me, stop it stop answer me, or
I'll pull out every here in your head. Oh no, no?
Speaker 1: What? Please?
Speaker 7: Please?
Speaker 5: She passed out? Hey, look, what are you wasting time
with her foot? Let's load in the car and take
her for one way, right.
Speaker 4: I gotta find out who she's doing for the cops?
Speaker 5: Who do you think? Don't make no difference. You got
the letters in the pictures.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I don't know how much you already told them.
Speaker 5: Who cares?
Speaker 7: That kid gets burned up in the big house a night,
but tomorrow Tony is clear. Okay, that's the way you
want it.
Speaker 4: Quick, stall on your right way? You where and you're
gonna stay here? Tell your thing?
Speaker 1: Whose claw?
Speaker 2: Can?
Speaker 4: I don't all of a sudden you don't know nothing?
Speaker 1: Do you?
Speaker 2: Please?
Speaker 4: You know enough to step into the drug store every
day and call a cop?
Speaker 1: Didn't?
Speaker 5: Please?
Speaker 2: I can't then talk? I do know it?
Speaker 4: Let me we're she'll just black out again.
Speaker 1: I just said before with the right pitch. Where can
we do it?
Speaker 5: I know? Please?
Speaker 4: Okay we'll stick so then we'll blow until tomorrow. Get
a coat out of the closet. Come on, sure you're
going to do rode over shoulders. I'll go down first
and get the car door over you fall burn? Can
your gun in the bash? Where are you taking me
out for a little fresh air?
Speaker 1: Sweetheart?
Speaker 5: You say?
Speaker 1: The dark haired skir left the envelope for me, and
then the blonde girl picked it up.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's right, mischief Kicky, she's the blonde said you
were coming by the house. There was no sense of
leaving it here. I see how long ago was this? Oh?
Speaker 1: I say fifteen minutes. Thanks? Thanks a lot, Hey, you
the Clark can't write for the Daily Plan Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 5: Oh what do you know?
Speaker 2: You know, I'd like to ask you something, mister can sorry,
but I haven't time.
Speaker 1: Now, some other time maybe, Oh.
Speaker 2: Okay, well drop by day.
Speaker 1: Sure thing?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 1: It looks like a limp blown off this thing And
just when we were great Scott stucking into an alley.
Clark Kent looks on intense amazement as he watches Laura
forced into the back of a dark Glean sedan, obviously
at gunpoint. His first instinct is to go to her rescue,
but he restrains himself. Can't start any trouble on the street.
It would need police cars, reporter as a front page story,
and a tip off to Deli. I'd like to follow
them wherever they go as Superman. Almost before the Sadan
has pulled away from the curb, Kent has made the
transformation from the conservative business suit of a newspaper crime
reporter for the brig red and blue costume of Superman,
sting high into the Yeah, the only human being on
earth who numbers, among his other amazing powers, the power
of flight, follows the dark Queen Sedana. It turns the
corner and heads for the outskirts.
Speaker 2: Of the city.
Speaker 1: Twenty minutes later, in the darkening dusk of early evenings,
the car pulled into a narrow sidon road and comes
to a stuff.
Speaker 5: Okay, this is it.
Speaker 3: Get out, no no, please, please don't kill me.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you everything.
Speaker 4: It's too now, get.
Speaker 5: Out please please, no, no, go you staying to cut nice?
Speaker 1: Make it go all right?
Speaker 5: Just to say your pray. Gonna say yours first, He says,
where did you come.
Speaker 1: Out of the blue domo? Laura, try it again, Bobo
doesn't happen. Watch what happens now, So let you get away.
She got her hand off so fast, Laura, hold on minute.
Just after the main road, Laura flag the first car
comes along. Tell him to send the police back here
in a hurry.
Speaker 2: Okay, you've got to race to do this.
Speaker 1: Not discuss right the wrong Chicky. Just tell me one thing.
Where's Tony Dnnelly? If you don't, who does? And you
better tell me before the police get here, because when
they do, it'll be too late. I didn't do nothing, Danelly,
murdered a man and you shielded him. You're an accessory.
Would you like to spend ten years behind bars? Oh?
What a cheap punk would turn his mother in to
save his own skin. Take it over, Chicky. I can
make it easier for you if you play along.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, I can believe it.
Speaker 2: You can believe it.
Speaker 1: Well, you know where I is.
Speaker 4: She saw the letters, Morgan, I'm not saying anymore.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's enough. There's two miles down the road.
Speaker 4: The man said he'd notified them.
Speaker 5: Good girl.
Speaker 4: But what's the use of all this now?
Speaker 1: It's too late, too late for lunch, so much six o'clock.
We can't get to Pennsylvanian back in time. We can't,
but I can. Oh, your man must have passed the
patrol far on the road. Can they come? He give
me those letters in the picture? Hurry, I don't want
to waste time with explanations. You'll have to tell him
what happened, do you really think?
Speaker 5: Don't worry?
Speaker 1: Pick up, I got her gorilla friend dropped and hold
it on Chicken until the police.
Speaker 2: Yeah, have you got us? Yeah, okay, they're here.
Speaker 1: It's along and keep your chin up. Leaping into the
now darkened sky, the Man of Steel hobbits for a
moment above the narrow side road until he is certain
the police are on the scene, then turning in mid air,
he heads north, almost with the speed of light, racing
against the grim specter of death. Hours later, in his
Guy's a clock can't he picks up Tony Dannelly's trail
at the Bar and Grill in the coal mining town
of Morgant. But now time is precious. It is ten thirty.
It's Johnny Webber's execution is scheduled for eleven. Every minute counts.
The trail finally leads to a cheap rooming house at
the edge of town. Once more in his true role,
Superman knocks at Tony Dannelly's door.
Speaker 2: Open up, Dannelly, I know you're in there. Open up there,
Come in and get you all right, if that's the
way you want it. Here going.
Speaker 1: No time for horse playing anyway. I want that gun,
probably the one you used to murder. Waller tells me,
get to make sure you don't get me any trouble
on the.
Speaker 2: Trip back on Metropolis. Here's a little sleeping till now
to the state prisons.
Speaker 1: But fat.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Superman, but there's nothing.
Speaker 1: I can do with that. But they've got an innocent
man in that execution room. This man is the murderer that.
Speaker 5: May be but the only one who can stop it
now is the governor. And there's no turn, I tell you,
scrapping him into the chair right now, they'll be pulling
the switch.
Speaker 1: The eleven chops. Just one minute. It must be away,
that's got to be Wait a minute, Yes, there is here.
Watch this pump for me. I'll be back racing into
the prison yard. Superman, sharp eyes penetrate the darkness in
a split second, find what they want. The power lines
running from the prisons electric generators sleeping off the ground.
He gits the heavily insulated wires in his hands, drits
them apart, as though they were caught in thread. There's
the shower of parts in the grat, kissing and crackling.
As the severed wires writhe and flips like portied snakes.
The entire prisoner is plunged into merciful, life giving darkness.
Speaker 2: Well, Laura, Johnny, how does it feel to be married?
Speaker 5: People?
Speaker 7: It?
Speaker 3: Here's one, mister Ken And it never would have happened
if not for you and Superman.
Speaker 1: Yes, don't forget Superman. You know, I was a little
worried that the warden and the governor would be furious
about those power lines being ripped apart, but they weren't.
Speaker 2: It too bad?
Speaker 1: Superman isn't here, so we can thank him personally. Well, Johnny,
I'll seizure he really is here? Is he where?
Speaker 2: Or shall we say?
Speaker 1: In spirit? And so ends one Minute to Death on
the adventures of Superman, which come to you now each
week at the same time over many of these ABC stations.
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