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per month at Patreon dot Great Detectives dot nit. Well,

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we're going to do another one of our twice told

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Tale specials, but it's gonna be kind of twice told

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tale plus. This was inspired by John Abbott, who I've

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frequently referenced as the author of the who Is Johnny

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Dollar matter. He noticed that the TV series Peter Gunn

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recycled some Johnny Dollar scripts, and he worked through the

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series and he found a lot of cases of recycled

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scripts by Blake Edwards, and he identified twenty three episodes

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of Richard Diamond, fourteen episodes of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar,

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and twenty episodes of Peter Gunn that were part of

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a sort of recycling chain, and that was based on

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not only the circulating episodes of Richard Diamond and Johnny Doller,

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but also the scripts as well, and he made some

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interesting discoveries, including noting that there were five that were

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actually recycled across all three series. And I thought it

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would be fun to go ahead into a twice told

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tale with one of these stories and play the radio

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versions and then watch the TV episode and review that

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as well. Now, unfortunately, of the five, for one, the

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Johnny Dollar episode is missing, and for two more, the

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Richard Domon episode is missing, So that just left me

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two to choose from. So we're going to start out

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with the Richard Dimond episode that aired January eighteenth, nineteen

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fifty two, and this one is the Simpson case.

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Speaker 2: The Makers of Camel's Cigarettes present Dick Powell as Richard

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Diamond Private Detective. Here transcribed is Richard Diamond Private Detective,

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starring Dick Powell.

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Speaker 3: I'm a detective agency. We make crime pay for one

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hundred a day plus expenses. I have them.

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Speaker 4: I'd like, are you no.

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Speaker 3: Cut rates for attractive redheads?

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Speaker 4: But I'm a working girl.

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Speaker 5: I only make twelve dollars and forty cents a week

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doing what running an elevator in the automat.

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Speaker 3: My dear girl, there are no elevators in.

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Speaker 4: The automat, and I wonder they wouldn't give me a raise.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's funny.

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Speaker 6: I want to hire you to protect me from a man.

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Speaker 4: He's been bothering me.

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Speaker 3: And just who is this man?

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Speaker 4: His name's Richard Diamond.

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Speaker 3: Well, no, wonder he's been bothering you. You've been bothering him.

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Speaker 7: You take my case.

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Speaker 3: Just as far as my apartment, we'll open it up

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and have a party. A ridiculous only when I try hard.

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Speaker 4: I miss you.

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Speaker 3: I saw you last night. You're just bored and I

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miss you. I'm broke. I gotta hang around and pray

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for a client.

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Speaker 4: Well, I've got a wonderful suggestion. Why don't you?

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Speaker 8: Oh what?

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Speaker 3: Why? Yes? Come in?

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Speaker 4: Who is it?

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Speaker 3: No, but I'm making plans for some extensive research.

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Speaker 9: I didn't mean to disturb you.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how you could help it.

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Speaker 4: Rick, Who is that?

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Speaker 3: I'll call you back when I find out that's a girl.

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It certainly is not wrecked.

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Speaker 9: Your girl on the phone.

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Speaker 3: Oh oh h, just an old wealthy aunt she's leaving

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me her lumber fortune. Yes, sit down, Sit down.

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Speaker 10: Mis Simpson.

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Speaker 9: Missus. Oh now so you have an aunt in lumber.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, broke one day, made a million the next

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discovered trees on her property. Tree's on her property? What

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are you going to do?

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Speaker 9: I came in to hire mister.

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Speaker 3: You have a kind heart and plenty of money. I

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hope my husband need protection. Yeah, I beg your pardon.

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Nothing nothing, just snapping at judgments. Occupational hazard.

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Speaker 9: My husband is John Simpson.

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Speaker 3: Have you heard of him, the John Simpson.

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Speaker 9: Yes, no, he's your tired. He discovered oil on his property.

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Speaker 3: Ooh that one. Oh sure. He was responsible for my

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bearings burning out at seven hundred thousand miles.

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Speaker 9: He's walking in the garden the other day.

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Speaker 3: To drill in a daisy bed.

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Speaker 9: Someone shot at him. Oh he's all right. They didn't

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hit him. But I've been terribly worried ever since.

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Speaker 3: Not to mention how your husband feels.

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Speaker 9: He wouldn't call the police and wouldn't give me a reason.

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Speaker 3: But he wants me to protect him.

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Speaker 9: He doesn't need to know I've come.

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Speaker 3: To see you. Well, what's he going to say?

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Speaker 9: I'm hiring you and I hope you'll understand.

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Speaker 3: Well, I hope so too. I charge one hundred a

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day at expenses.

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Speaker 9: I had my own bank account.

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Speaker 3: Hannah did whoa Aunt Hannah?

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Speaker 10: What?

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Speaker 3: Oh that's nice, Aunt Hannah. I think spruce is just

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Speaker 11: Aunt Hannah spouce Richard Diamond, Because Aunt Hannah, I'll talk

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to you like her.

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Speaker 3: I knew what.

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Speaker 7: She's a blonde.

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Speaker 3: She sure is, Aunt Hannah. Aunt Hannah the one with

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the trees, thinking of buying a Carlo to spruce. Nice

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am I hired? Of course, Then let's get out of here.

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Aunt Hannah might be over with a bat spruce of course.

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Well that's how it started. A lovely blonde named Simpson

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with a wealthy husband. The husband a doctor bullet in

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his garden, and now the lovely blond wanted protection for him.

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A few casual jokes, the fat retainer, and Richard Diamond

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was once more in the ranks of the employer. We

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left the office and climbed in a station wagon. Forty

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minutes later we were pulling up in front of the

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Simpson house on Long Island. Ah. Quite a place.

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Speaker 9: It's beautiful, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if you like money.

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Speaker 9: John's probably in the study. May I take your hat?

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Speaker 3: Well, I'll just keep it with me. Your husband might

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not want a body guard.

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Speaker 12: Well you're a hurry.

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Speaker 9: Well, this is mister Diamond.

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Speaker 10: Glad to meet you, mister Diamond.

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Speaker 9: Hello, missus Ralph Simpson, mister Diamond, my stepson.

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Speaker 3: People am more inclined to think where brother and sister.

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Speaker 9: I can understand Ralph was the one who suggested you.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I mean even reputation looks like everyone knows about me.

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But the man I'm supposed to protect, and he won't

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like it much at first. I've already been brief. But

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whether he understands or not, it's most necessary he has protection. Well,

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let's get it over with.

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Speaker 12: Hello, dear, what is this a convention?

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Speaker 3: Hello Jane, Professor?

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Speaker 12: Whoere is this man? This person with the hat?

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Speaker 9: This is mister Diamond, John, mister Diamond, This is my husband,

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mister Simpson, Yeah, charmed, And this is Professor Fisher.

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Speaker 3: How do you do, mister Diamond, I love, Professor.

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Speaker 12: Where do you do? Young man?

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Speaker 9: Do Mister Diamond is a private detective?

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Speaker 3: Dear? What now?

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Speaker 13: Dear?

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Speaker 3: It was my idea a private detect Now just relax.

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Oh boy, I've been relaxing enough.

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Speaker 12: I can't think straight anymore. You've been making me relax

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so much.

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Speaker 3: If you're not carefull.

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Speaker 14: I told you I didn't want anyone, but after being

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shot at, you pay your retainer.

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Speaker 12: Diamond.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, did she explain my feeling on this subject. Well, yeah,

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and you still took the money.

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Speaker 3: I've been poor.

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Speaker 12: I told every one of you I can take care

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of myself.

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Speaker 3: You know, I think he's right. Here's your retainer, mister Diamond.

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Speaker 7: Please, where do.

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Speaker 3: You think you're going. I have to find the guy

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who took a shot at you and give him some

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target practice.

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Speaker 12: You've been paid a retainer to do a job. Now

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let's see you do it.

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Speaker 9: John.

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Speaker 12: I had a feeling you were going to do something

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like this, bring in.

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Speaker 14: A private detective or a policeman or something. Well, if

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he's supposed to give me a protection, that's what he'll do.

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Speaker 3: Now, all of you get out of here. I want

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to talk to this mister Diamond.

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Speaker 9: Thank you, John.

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Speaker 12: I'll see you at dinner.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Now, you take care of yourself, you old scone.

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Oh beat it, goodbye, mister Diamond. Nice man of your professor. Well,

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mister Diamond, I have a feeling you might read regret

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this job. It's possible I really wanted you. I was

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just keeping up a front for the benefit of the family.

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Is Professor Fisher one of the family, an old friend.

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Professor Fisher as a psychologist.

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Speaker 12: After my stroke, he came to help me. He teaches

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me how to relax.

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Speaker 3: You had a stroke three months ago. The professor has

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been a great help. You have a physician also, I don't.

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Speaker 12: Need one now.

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Speaker 3: Long you're here to protect me, I might as well

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tell you what it's all about. Answer me one question first,

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I'll drive. Why not calling the police?

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Speaker 12: I have you do? I need the police now.

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Speaker 3: When someone takes a shot at someone, I think the

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police should be the first to do about it. Now,

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if you are quite done, mister Diamond, i'll continue. I'm

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well done this morning. If my wife had brought you in,

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I would have had to thrown out. I didn't want

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any outsiders mixed up in this. What saves your mind?

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Speaker 10: A letter?

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 12: Oh read it all right?

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Speaker 3: I will. I missed you in the garden. I won't

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miss again. You will pay for a shan Ashanti. It's

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in Africa. Oh, twenty years ago, I was in the

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mining business. I had a partner, Frank Victor. We didn't

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get along and there was an argument one day in

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the mind. It was quite a scrap and there was

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a cave in. I got out, Frank didn't. There was

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an investigation and I was cleared. Why tell me the

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shooting in the garden could have been any crack pop.

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I didn't want any publicity, so I didn't want any outsiders.

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Speaker 12: Then this letter. I have to confide in someone so them.

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Speaker 3: Know who to look for. Who else knew about it?

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No one that it should make any difference to Victor

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was a bachelor without a family. Could be blackmail someone

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who was there or at the investigation. Then why shoot

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at me To give you a good scare, You'll probably

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get another lad of demanding money. This person must be coped.

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In my position, I can't afford the scandal. You say,

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I'm the first one you've told outside of your family.

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I haven't told my family a thing. Even my first

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wife didn't know about it. You've heard nothing of the

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incident for twenty years. Nothing. Uh huh. I'll see what

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I can find out. I promised John Simpson my confidence.

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He offered me a large bonus if I should discover

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who had sent him a threatening letter. Then I borrowed

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one of his cars and drove back to the city,

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where I looked up an old friend, Lieutenant Lemonson's Fifth

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Precinct Police Station, where smiling gumshoe, Hello, happiness and light

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wander be a favor depends you can strain your arches.

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I'd like some confidential information on a few people. What

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is in it for me? I promise not to tell

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anyone about a mercenary policeman.

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Speaker 10: You are.

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Speaker 3: I like dinner, maybe a big state. You'll get dinner.

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Maybe y'all name You've got to deal with that restaurant.

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Certainly they saved me all the leftover fortunes stuck in

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the cookies. Who he interested in? I want to know

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about a young guy named Ralph Simpson, an attractive blonde

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named Missus Simpson, and a man named Professor Fisher Simpson,

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Simpson and Fisher. The boy named Ralph was the son

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of John Simpson. No, yeah, he John Simpson know who

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he is? No, Well, I'm like my aunt Hannah, who

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discovered trees and her property. An Hannah Simpson discovered oil.

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Oh that one his wife is the blonde which blonde

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the one. I want you to check on Missus Simpson. Oh,

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how silly I should have know. Don't forget the professor.

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I thought you said his name was Fisher, I did.

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How does he fit in with Simpson? A friend of

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the family. Now you got everything? Sure? Sure, blonde named

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Missus Simpson, her son named Ralph. He's not her son? Well,

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you just said he was John's son. Who's the blonde?

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John's other wife? John's on the wife, that's right, Oh,

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he's her stepson. Oh well, Ryther devil. You want me

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to check on these people? I'm thinking about having a

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bridge party.

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Speaker 10: Give me the rundown on him? Sure?

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Speaker 3: Uh, well, eh, but yours on?

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Speaker 10: Oh?

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Speaker 3: I gave Walter run down. He watted and headed for

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the newspaper, where I knew I could waller to the

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Morgue fire and not be disturbed. I went back twenty years, and,

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after wallowing for three or four hours, found a small

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article dated a Shanty Africa, nineteen thirty. It didn't say

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much more than what John Simpson had already told me.

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It mentioned the mind cave in a depending investigation on

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the death to Frank Victor, and in addition, dated three

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weeks later, I found the account of the investigation and

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it verified Simpson's story. I left the newspaper, went back

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to my office to check on a few things. Then

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as I was about to leave and close up until

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I'd finished the case, I got a phone.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, this is John Simpson. I took a chance

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you might be in your office.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I was just coming back out there.

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Speaker 4: This is John Simpson. I took a chance you might

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be in your office.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, you said that.

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Speaker 4: I'd like you to pick up something for me.

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Speaker 3: Oh sure, it's a package.

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Speaker 4: It's at a bar on fifty seventh Street, the Blue Pheasant.

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Speaker 3: The Blue Pheasant on fifty seventh.

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Speaker 4: Street, Diamond. This is Johnson.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I know, I know anything else. Hello, mister Simpson.

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Speaker 4: Bring it out to me right away. It's very important.

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Speaker 3: I'll pick it up and break it right hard. Something wrong,

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mister Simpson. Hello, Oh funny.

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Speaker 2: And now back to Richard Diamond, Private Detective and starring

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Dick Powell.

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Speaker 3: I left the office and went down to fifty seventh

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Street and the Blue What. I told the bartender who

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I was, and he handed me the package Simpson that

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wanted me to pick up for him. I drove back

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out of the house on Long Island. The maid let

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me in, and Missus Simpson met me at the study door. Hello, well,

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I where's your husband?

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Speaker 9: I think he's still in the study.

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Speaker 3: He was a little while ago.

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Speaker 9: You're going on some shopping. You're staying for dinner.

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Speaker 3: Where's your stepson?

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Speaker 9: Ralph went out just after you left. Did you want him?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 9: No, just wondered then shopping.

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Speaker 3: Oh, this is a package for your husband. Wanted me

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to pick it up. And is it seven, Missus Simpson.

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Professor Fisher, what about him? How long have you known him?

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Speaker 9: Since I've been married to John.

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Speaker 3: Your husband said he was helping him to relax.

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Speaker 12: Yes, is there something wrong?

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I talked to your husband earlier when

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he asked me to pick up this package. He sounded

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rather strange, kept repeating himself since.

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Speaker 9: He had a stroke. He does that sometimes.

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Speaker 3: Should he have a nurse?

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Speaker 9: He should, but he won't if something should happen. Professor

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Fisher's numbers in the book on John's desk. I'll call

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the maid.

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Speaker 3: I'm saying by, well, hello, mister Simpson. I've got the package.

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Give me the package, mister Simpson, give me the package.

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Are you feeling all right? Give me the package? Okay? Yeah, Oh,

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I did some checking on your story about a shoppy.

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Speaker 12: You're not give me the package?

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Speaker 3: You've got it, mister Simpson. Hey, what's wrong, mister Simpson?

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Did you hear me? I better get the maid maid made?

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Speaker 10: Mister Diamond?

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Speaker 12: Yeah, Ron, Yeah, what's wrong?

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Speaker 3: I don't know your father's all like. The whole building

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was coming down around my ears. Ralph and I were

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thrown back against the wall, and by the time we

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got out, the study was a smoking black hole. I

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stumbled in after Rock, but there wasn't much to stumble

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in after John Simpson had been blown to Kingdom. Come,

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you're sure it was Simpson on the phone. Sure, I'm

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sure it was Simpson on the phone. Wall.

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Speaker 10: He asked you to pick up the package.

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Speaker 3: That's right. He wanted it when I brought it into it.

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He wouldn't say anything else. He just demanded that package.

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He'd been pretty sick and me. Yeah, but a man

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doesn't go to that much trouble to commit suicide. No,

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maybe somebody planted the bomb. Looks let's check with that.

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Bartend at the Blue Pheasant. I want to talk to

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the rest of the family first. And by the way,

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why did you find out about them? No, police records

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can't find out much about the professor. He has no practice,

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no license in the state. I'll see if you can

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find out something interested. Yeah, it's funny, and a man

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as a high condition and won't have a doctor. I'll

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drag a professor interfew. No, no, no, you go talk

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to the family. I'll go and check for the bartender.

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Wait a minute, Sherlock, you better tell me how you

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got into this, miss Okay, fatty, I guess it won't

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hurt now. I told Wald everything the late mister Simpson

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had told me, then headed back to town and the

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Blue Pheasant on fifty seventh Street. By the time I

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got there, the place was pretty well felled. But the

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bartender who had given me the package that afternoon wasn't

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in sight. Yeah, will it be? Where's the bartender who

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was working this afternoon? How do I know he just

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works in the afternoon. Where's he lived? Why? Well, I'm

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collecting addresses of bartenders. Now where does he live? You

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collect addresses? I collect wise?

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Speaker 12: Guys?

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Speaker 3: Beat it? You mean I got to show my little

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old badge, A little old badge like you say so complex.

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He lives at five hundred West, one hundred and fifty

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seventh Street. What's his name, well, Earl Collins. Relations of time,

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no relation at the time. What you gotta do? I

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pile out of the bar and back in the car.

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Drove across town to one hundred and fifty seventh Street

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and five hundred West. It was a big apartment house

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and Earl Collins was registered in four h five. I

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climbed the stairs and knocked, gave him a few minutes

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while I knocked my knuckles close, then went and dug

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up the landlady to have her open the door. She

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was a charmer, about four years older than Grant's tomb,

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with a gin disposition that would make a loss of

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weekend seem like Am I any vacation the type that

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should never have been dug up?

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Speaker 10: No, honey, I got cleaning to do, sweetheart, sweetheart.

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Speaker 3: An expression of funding Dermo mustard.

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Speaker 10: Don't give me no worriage longer than one.

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Speaker 3: Terrible cop, will you? Yes, mother, mother, sweetheart, some cop.

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We'll discuss my qualifications as soon as you open that door. Okay,

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sweet good, there you are.

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Speaker 7: Holy.

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Speaker 3: You said it.

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Speaker 10: Is?

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Speaker 3: He dead as dead as he can get m still warming.

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I'm not interested. I needed to drink. Did you see

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him come in?

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Speaker 13: No?

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Speaker 3: Did you see anybody else come in? I've been in

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my apartment all afternoon. I'm going back there. Show you

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something awfully sharp. Neat, job, neat? What are you looking at?

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What's that other room?

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Speaker 7: Hi?

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Speaker 3: What's room?

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Speaker 10: Keep it quiet?

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Speaker 3: What's that room?

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Speaker 10: Oh?

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Speaker 9: Good, gosh?

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Speaker 10: Bedroom?

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Speaker 3: Any other rooms?

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Speaker 1: Hi?

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Speaker 3: Answer me? Lassroom, fire escape?

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Speaker 15: Huh?

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Speaker 10: Where is it? Into the hall?

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Speaker 3: Look, there's some blood leading to that bedroom. Now take

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it easy, go downstairs and call Lieutenant Walter Levinson. You'll

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tell eleven Warson Walter goodbye. There were several drops of

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blood leading to the bedroom door. There was a good

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chance that the killer had been surprised and.

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Speaker 10: Couldn't get out.

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Speaker 3: I went to the door and tried it as quietly

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as I could. It gave and I kicked it open.

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The shades were down. The room was dark enough to

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make it difficult to spot anyone. I moved in with

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my gun in front of me. He was standing right

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by the door, and he had a knife drop it.

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You should have listened. Want sorry, professor, don't be better

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this way. Look, look you're in bad shape. Better tell

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me about it. You fired the shot in the garden

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and sent the letter. Yeah, help me sit up? Okay, yeah,

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let me get the wall here. I still can't figure

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why Simpson had me pick up that bomb. I made him,

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you did. I've been treating him for nerves.

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Speaker 16: I started giving him a hypnotic when he had his

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first spells. Doing one of those times, he re enacted

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the Ashanti affair. So you decided to blackmail him first,

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and when you took the case, we decided to eliminate him.

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Speaker 3: We missus Simpson and I have been that much time

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internal bleeding place will be here pretty quick.

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Speaker 16: Decided to kill the old man. Jane would get to state.

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I thought you'd be blown up with him.

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Speaker 3: Mister Simpson was under some sort of influence when I

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walked into the study, my profession.

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Speaker 16: After you left, I returned and talked him into a

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deep sleep.

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Speaker 3: I had him call you or ours. He nearly messed

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it up hypnosis, I think, unusual simple suggestions. And when

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I walked into the study, he'd been ordered to ask

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for the package and open it. You mean he was

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asleep when I walked in. Yes, too late.

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Speaker 10: You have to guess the rest bleeding in Mm.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well you better lie down again, Professor. You'll have

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to get used to it.

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Speaker 7: Ready to kill the bartender.

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Speaker 3: While Chact and the Professor had been coming into the

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bar for some time in the afternoons, he made friends

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with Earl. The bartender left the package with him when

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he found out I hadn't been killed in the last

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He killed Earl to keep him from an fine ye

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like an asylum and an earthquake.

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Speaker 9: Well, I told you to stick to redheads.

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Speaker 3: Oh ready, Well you know any available ones? One how available?

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Speaker 7: You'll have to do some extensive research.

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Speaker 3: Okay, after dinner. I do not do any research on

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a schedule.

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Speaker 9: Don't you want any dinner?

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Speaker 3: For sure?

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Speaker 10: Get wick.

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Speaker 3: I'm hungry, Oh for peace?

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Speaker 9: You sing something? Well, I go put the food on

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a train. We need in here by the fire.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna get fat and sassy.

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Speaker 13: Nick.

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Speaker 3: I take it back, you're already sassy.

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Speaker 9: You sing something.

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Speaker 7: Let me right back.

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Speaker 10: I'll be right back.

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Speaker 3: I'll be right back. I gonna sing for everything.

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Speaker 13: Oh do do do, do, do do do that's nice.

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Speaker 3: Just get the food.

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Speaker 4: Huh.

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Speaker 3: I think of you with every breathty, and every breath

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becomes sor. Not a sign of despair, but a sign

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that I care for you. I hear your name with

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every breath ofty on every breeze. That one is my

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and your name is a song I remember the long is.

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Even though I war, you guide me in the darkest,

478
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You light my way and all the wild inside me,

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love seems to say some day day, And when I

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sleep you keep.

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Speaker 7: My heart away.

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Speaker 3: But when I wake from dreams, divide every breath that

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I take.

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Speaker 10: Here's a prayer that I'll me.

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Speaker 3: You mind. Y mm hmm.

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Speaker 7: Is there really anything to the hypnosis?

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Speaker 3: Well? Sure is. The old professor made Simpson open that package.

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Speaker 7: Is it hard to do?

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Speaker 3: Look, I'll show you. Just sit right, there's all right.

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Just look me right in the eye. You're going to sleep.

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You're going to sleep. You just want to go to sleep.

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Nothing makes any difference.

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Speaker 8: Just sleep, Sleep, Sleep, sep deep sleep and deep Shaw.

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Speaker 6: Pull Dick Powell will return in just a minute.

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Speaker 2: Tonight's transcribed Adventure of Richard Diamond was written and directed

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by Blake Edwards, with music by Frank Worth. Virginia Gregg

497
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played the part of Helen Asher and Alan Reed was

498
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Lieutenant Levinson. Others in the cast were Gene Bates, Herbert Butterfield,

499
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and Tony Michaels. Be sure to listen to another great

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Camel show, Von Monroe and the Camel Caravan every Saturday night.

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Speaker 1: Welcome Come Back a somewhat typical Diamond story for the era,

502
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with some nice humorous moments and I thought a really

503
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solid musical number at the end. One challenge with Richard

504
00:29:12,319 --> 00:29:16,920
Diamond was that in order to facilitate the separate music

505
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and comedy portions, they tended to occasionally abbreviate the stories,

506
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which really could have been fleshed out a bit more.

507
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It was also kind of interesting to hear a conversation

508
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with Walt Levinson really driving so much of the humor.

509
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That's really different from the early days of the series,

510
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when Diamond would be this very strong comic figure to

511
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Levinson as the absolute straight man. Of course, that was

512
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back when Ed Begley played Lovinson. Alan Reid was the

513
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fourth and final actor to play Walt. We only have

514
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a relative handful of episodes with him in that role,

515
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and it would be more interesting if more merged so

516
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we could get a better idea of what his performance

517
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was like. In a typical episode. Well, now let's get

518
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into the Johnny Dollar. This one star john one. The

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original air ed eate on this one is June the

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twenty third, nineteen fifty three, and this one is the

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Jonathan Bellows matter.

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Speaker 10: By Dolly.

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Speaker 3: You must leave me, oh me.

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Speaker 17: When we get to our new Stateside installation, the housing

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with Locus, they'll be the answerta housing need, Sheila.

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Speaker 10: The housing referro low.

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Speaker 17: Will help us get housed quickly, adequately, suitably.

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Speaker 3: And economically.

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Speaker 7: Que is reasonably close to the installation.

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Speaker 11: Oh san, Sheila, Well you're listening on enjoyment John long as.

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Speaker 10: Johnny, Oh darn? What can I do for you?

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00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,319
Speaker 13: We insure Jonathan Fellows. Nobody trying to kill him?

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Speaker 10: Is that the Jonathan but the industrialists? Yeah?

534
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 13: His wife went to the police, but Fella's refuses any protection.

535
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Doesn't seem worried. Considers the potential assasin. Get the crank.

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Speaker 10: What do you want me to do?

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00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,279
Speaker 13: Look into it. We ensure Fellows for a half million.

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I suggest you talk to me the white first. She's

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staying at the town apartment number one, part Fellows. She'll

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expect you.

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Speaker 10: Right now. I'd like to take a few minutes of

542
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your time to pass on a plump, which incidentally concerns time.

543
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According to the Bible, to everything, there is a season

544
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and a time to every purpose under the heaven. We

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all agree on that, I'm sure, And we'll all also

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agree that the regulation of time also depends on the season.

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For example, did it ever occur to you who decided

548
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where are four time zones in America should be? Exactly? Well,

549
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back maybe seventy five years ago, there were about one

550
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hundred and fifty different time zones which were set up

551
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according to the whim of the local inhabitants. Most of

552
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:28,200
the time was called sun time, and there could be

553
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fifteen minutes difference between the clocks of two towns only

554
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ten miles apart. So to get rid of the confusion,

555
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:40,720
the Interstate Commerce Commission was established. It divided the United

556
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States into four standard time zones so that railroads, planes, buses,

557
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and the mail could run on schedule. Of course, if

558
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the city wants to go on daylight saving time during

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the summer, that's the decision which is made locally. The

560
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standard time remains the same everywhere else, But setting the

561
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nation's clock isn't the only job of the Interstate Commerce Commission. However,

562
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it also makes rules and regulations for the various means

563
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of transportation which goes from one state to another. It

564
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seems that railroads, truck line margism boats operate safely, charge

565
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reasonable rates, and give good, dependable service. It also protects

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trucks and bus drivers from working such long hours that

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they might fall asleep while they're driving. The Commission also

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demands that trains, engines, and machines have safety and stop devices.

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It is in itself a safety device to assure every

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one of us freedom from danger as we travel above

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our companies. Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar

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to Home Office, Intercontinental Indemnasy and Bonding Corporation, New York City.

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Speaker 3: The following is.

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Speaker 10: An accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Jonathan

575
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:20,480
Bellows matter. Expense account. I don't want twenty nine dollars

576
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,719
and sixty five cents mileage and incidentals between Hartford and

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New York City. I arrived at number one Pod Avenue

578
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:31,199
close to two o'clock. Missus Edith Bellows, a very attractive

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redhead somewhere in the early thirties, met me at the

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door and showed me into her luxurious apartment.

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Speaker 7: John Dollar, thank you. Mister Jane explained the situation to.

582
00:34:40,639 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 10: Him, only that someone tried to kill your husband.

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00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,639
Speaker 7: Yeah, day before yesterday, Jonathan was walking in the garden.

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Someone shot at him. Fortunately they knew.

585
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 10: Mister Stearns said, your husband refused police.

586
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Speaker 7: Protection in very unusual man.

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Speaker 18: Mister Dollar, I would say so, it's not a ung

588
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man sixty three retiring and doesn't particularly care for people,

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especially people who meddle.

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00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,639
Speaker 7: Unfortunately, he considers the police medlers.

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Speaker 10: Has he hired any kind of protection? No, Doesny worried?

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Speaker 7: He doesn't show it. But knowing him as I do,

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00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:16,239
I'd say he's mild as concerned.

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Speaker 10: Someone takes a shot at him, and he's only mildly concerned.

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Speaker 7: It's the NATO to be dollars.

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00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:25,679
Speaker 10: Well, I'm sure you're aware that intercommon Metal Indemnity is

597
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more than mildly concerned.

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Speaker 7: Yes, so am I for the whole family for that matter,

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00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:34,519
certainly give you're all a cooperation that I can. I

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00:35:34,519 --> 00:35:36,119
think everyone else in the family will be.

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Speaker 10: Greatly relieved, except your husband.

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00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:40,639
Speaker 7: I would say he won't last as much.

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Speaker 10: It'll be pretty hard investigating if he has me thrown

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out of my ear.

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00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,400
Speaker 7: One thing in your favor. You're not a policeman.

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00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:51,519
Speaker 10: Yeah, but when I'm on a job, Missus Bellows, I've

607
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been known to metal and metal and metal. We talked

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some more about Jonathan Bellows. Missus Bellows had married him

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eight years before, taking her place as number three in

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his collection of wives. Her predecessors had retired to lives

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of leisure on their alimony. Fellows had one son, Ralph,

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by his first marriage, now twenty three years old. Around

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00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:23,920
three o'clock we went downstairs and climbed into a bright

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00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:27,000
news station wagon. An hour later we were driving up

615
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,760
a long circular driveway the bed of the Bellows mansion.

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We parked and went in.

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Speaker 7: Jonathan's in the library.

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Speaker 18: All right, oh hello, mister Dollars, Missus Ralph Fellows.

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Speaker 10: You do the insurance. Yeah, everyone know about this. Everyone

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00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:53,159
your husband. Yeah, he's in the library with Professor Wilks,

621
00:36:53,159 --> 00:36:56,239
going to blow up. He's going to be funny. Huh,

622
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:59,400
well in a way. Yeah, you might not get.

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Speaker 7: Much of that, Ralph. That's not very considerous.

624
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:05,239
Speaker 17: Well, that's the truth, you know it. The old man

625
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:08,400
is gonna take off like a skyrocket. I personally think

626
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:12,199
it's very funny. I'm not being vindictive. I'm just staying honest.

627
00:37:14,079 --> 00:37:16,360
I haven't anything against you. I don't even know you.

628
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:19,039
But my father's a tough, bigoted.

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Speaker 10: Unreasonable old man, and I've had to put up with

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00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,960
it all my life. Well, well that's the truth. I

631
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:25,480
mean a half percent of the time he gets his

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00:37:25,559 --> 00:37:28,039
own way, but when he doesn't, he creates the most

633
00:37:28,039 --> 00:37:29,920
magnificent explosion you've ever seen.

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Speaker 17: Clothingly, I am proud to say that I have been

635
00:37:34,079 --> 00:37:37,360
responsible on several occasions for liking the cubes.

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Speaker 10: Do you want a gun? I don't be ridiculous. I

637
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:41,679
didn't take that shot.

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00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 7: Out, Oh no, course, but just as concerned as the

639
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:47,880
rest of it, I think the better.

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00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,159
Speaker 10: Can you take it? Mister? That's why I'm here, and

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00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,400
allow me to escort you to the library.

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00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:57,840
Speaker 7: You're spoiled, well.

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00:37:58,559 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 10: Rob, the Atomic Energy commissioned. What you have visits? Did

644
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:18,320
you say about your How are you beating three straight games?

645
00:38:18,679 --> 00:38:22,440
Who did with you? This is he's going to find out.

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00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 7: Shot at what now? John? He is an insurance man.

647
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,039
Speaker 10: Insurance man. I'll just sit over here. I'm within a

648
00:38:31,079 --> 00:38:33,159
con medal indemn What are you doing here? Who say

649
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:33,440
for you?

650
00:38:34,519 --> 00:38:35,039
Speaker 4: I want to know.

651
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:37,400
Speaker 7: You?

652
00:38:37,559 --> 00:38:40,559
Speaker 10: Stay out, young man? Who told you I was retained

653
00:38:40,559 --> 00:38:43,199
by mister Sterne. I didn't tell ster understand anyone over

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00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:44,199
here to meddle in my affairs.

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Speaker 7: Got him here?

656
00:38:45,519 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 10: You did? Why he did. We've discussed this whole jo

657
00:38:50,159 --> 00:38:53,000
and if you don't take it easy to get out

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00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,840
of here, mister sure dollar, get out?

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00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:56,280
Speaker 7: Donald?

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Speaker 10: Are you going to get out of here? Possibly? Let's

661
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:01,920
stop looking like you're gonna throw me out, young man.

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00:39:02,079 --> 00:39:04,039
Just let me take you. No, I've got a better idea.

663
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:11,280
Sit down, Sit down? Are you you sit down? I've

664
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got something to say, and you're gonna hear me out here.

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Mister you've got no right for you, professor will Johnny Dollar? Okay, professor,

666
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I'm going to say what I've got to say, whether

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00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:23,920
you think I've got any right to or not. If

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00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:27,719
you want to listen, you're welcome. Well well, young man,

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00:39:28,159 --> 00:39:30,000
if you have something to say, shay it and get

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out and place you call your company and see that

671
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:35,360
you're immediately to charge. Do it for a big shot.

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00:39:36,519 --> 00:39:38,679
I don't know how interested you are and maintaining your

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00:39:38,679 --> 00:39:42,559
insurance policy. If this attempt on your life is an investigated.

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00:39:42,599 --> 00:39:45,920
You're not going to have a policy are No, that's

675
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,920
not what I wanted to say. It's this, I've never

676
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:51,280
met you before, I don't know you, and I don't

677
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:53,800
want to. You're a big man in your field, but

678
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:57,199
that doesn't entice you to be rude to me. Ill go,

679
00:39:58,199 --> 00:40:00,559
But if you ever tried throwing your way to and again,

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I'll turn you over my knee and make up for

681
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,079
the spankings you must have missed a long time ago.

682
00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:09,440
I'm sorry, missus Bellows. It's pretty obvious your husband doesn't

683
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:12,039
care how much his family worries about him. Now, if

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00:40:12,079 --> 00:40:13,760
you'll let me call a cab, I'll get out of here.

685
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:19,639
Mister Dellar, Yeah, would you stay a moment? Now? Count

686
00:40:19,679 --> 00:40:22,199
found the young man. Now we're being rude compared to you,

687
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,239
I'm still in the bush league. Would you please stay

688
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:28,559
for a moment. I'd like very much to talk to you. Please, Miserable,

689
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:35,000
do you keep your mouth shut? Ralph? Yes? Well, mister Dollar, Okay, there,

690
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:39,039
huge shous I'd like to be alone with mister Dollar.

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00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:42,719
We'll finished the game later, Professor, and I want to

692
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:49,320
see you later. Alph. Of course, let's keep it this

693
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:52,440
way I'm still a little nervous. How much do you

694
00:40:52,519 --> 00:40:55,519
know about this shooting? Only does someone try that I know,

695
00:40:57,599 --> 00:41:02,800
I know who shot at me. Do yeah read this letter?

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I have missed you in the guard I won't miss

697
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:15,280
you again. You'll pay for a shot. At Isian Africa

698
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,000
thirty years ago, I was in the mining business. I

699
00:41:18,039 --> 00:41:21,559
had a partner, Frank Victor. We didn't get along and

700
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there was an argument one day on the mind. The

701
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:26,800
scratch scrapped and there was a cave in. I got out,

702
00:41:27,199 --> 00:41:31,039
Frank didn't. There was an investigation and I was cleared.

703
00:41:31,559 --> 00:41:33,840
Why are you telling me this because I've decided to

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00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:37,320
trust you. I'm not particularly fond of you, but I

705
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:39,400
believe that you can get things done. I'm working for

706
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:43,079
the insurance company, mister Bella, certainly, but I'm sure you

707
00:41:43,199 --> 00:41:45,079
must have gathered this sort of think and create some

708
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:48,960
very unfavorable publicity. Do you think this Frank Victor is

709
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:49,360
a liar?

710
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 3: He must be.

711
00:41:50,679 --> 00:41:53,320
Speaker 10: I've never told anyone of this incidents how there were

712
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,159
certainly other people involved, and it happened. Yes, got no

713
00:41:56,199 --> 00:41:59,079
one who allowed to get me. Why would anyone else

714
00:41:59,119 --> 00:42:01,800
but Frank Victor want kill me? But he didn't kill here.

715
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:05,960
Maybe it was someone who knew of the accident. What

716
00:42:06,079 --> 00:42:09,320
would he have to gain blackmail? Maybe I told you

717
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:12,960
it was an accident. Sure, but maybe someone figured they

718
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:15,559
could scare you into believing Frank Victor was still alive.

719
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:19,039
How to kill you? You pay over enough money and

720
00:42:19,119 --> 00:42:23,599
not on your life, Not my life, Debella's yours? Why

721
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:27,159
wait this long thirty years? I have to admit that

722
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:29,800
kind of stops me. You've been a big man in

723
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:32,880
the business world for a long time. Nobody ever have

724
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:36,400
any trouble locating. What are you intend doing first going

725
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:39,679
back to New York? Why? Oh, lots of little things,

726
00:42:40,199 --> 00:42:42,920
mister Dellar. As long as I have taken you into

727
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:47,320
my confidents, someone took a shot at you. It might

728
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:49,880
happen again, and you might be dead. Now. If you

729
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:52,400
want me to prevent something like that, you just have

730
00:42:52,519 --> 00:42:57,199
to trust me. My wife drove you here. Yes, then

731
00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:00,239
you need a car take the station wagon. Well good,

732
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:03,360
be returning probably tomorrow, and you can stay at the

733
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:05,360
town appointment. I want to be in touch with you.

734
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:07,239
You might just as well take advantage of the empty

735
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:11,039
apartment at number one fourth Avenue. Yes, I know, I'll

736
00:43:11,079 --> 00:43:19,719
see you tomorrow. I left without saying goodbye to the

737
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:21,880
rest of the family and drove the Bright news station

738
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:25,119
wagon back to town. I stopped off at the time

739
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:27,440
where I wandered to the Mors file for three or

740
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,400
four hours. I went back thirty years to find what

741
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:34,480
I was looking for, a small article dated Ashanti Africa

742
00:43:34,519 --> 00:43:38,159
in nineteen twenty three. I didn't say much more than

743
00:43:38,199 --> 00:43:41,480
what Jonathan Bellows had already told me. Had mentioned the

744
00:43:41,519 --> 00:43:44,280
mind cave in an appending investigation into the death of

745
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:48,480
Frank Victor, Jonathan Bellow's a partner in In addition, dated

746
00:43:48,519 --> 00:43:50,920
three weeks later, I found the account of the investigation

747
00:43:51,519 --> 00:43:55,199
and a verified Bellow's story about the verdict that is right.

748
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:57,800
I left the newspaper and drove the number one Park Avenue,

749
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,760
where I received a royal greeting from the door man

750
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:03,679
informed me that mister Bellows had phoned to make sure

751
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:06,920
I had everything I needed in the apartment. I poured

752
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:09,400
myself a drink, took off my shoes, stretched out on

753
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:12,119
the sofa and put in a call to Roger Stern.

754
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,719
I want some information on the Bellows family passed in prison.

755
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:19,639
Sure find out where his other two wives are and

756
00:44:19,679 --> 00:44:22,800
how long they've been there, and find out about a

757
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:28,800
professor Wilton Wilt, Yeah, Wilt, I think friend of Bellows

758
00:44:29,039 --> 00:44:31,960
play chess with him. Also, i'll need a background on

759
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:32,679
all the servants.

760
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 13: What do you want it?

761
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:36,239
Speaker 10: Pick it up tomorrow morning if you want to reach me,

762
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:39,880
I meant to wait a minute. Plaza five two oh

763
00:44:40,079 --> 00:44:46,599
nine nine, number one, Park Avenue, How I wish you

764
00:44:46,639 --> 00:44:50,239
were right. Apartment belongs to Bellows. Can you let me

765
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:53,079
use the station wagon too? I don't believe it. It's

766
00:44:53,119 --> 00:44:56,159
my big blue eyes. I just batted them a couple

767
00:44:56,239 --> 00:45:01,280
of times and two sure station wagon, Park Avenue apartment,

768
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:04,360
and it better be nice to me a couple of

769
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:06,559
more bats, and you might buy me my own insurance

770
00:45:06,559 --> 00:45:15,599
company expens to count item two seven dollars and fifty cents. Dinner,

771
00:45:16,079 --> 00:45:18,679
after which I returned to the apartment considered making a

772
00:45:18,679 --> 00:45:22,360
few calls that might relieve alone. The evening, I referred

773
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:24,719
to my meager list of availables and was just about

774
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:34,159
to try my luck when the phone rang Johnny Dollar. Mister, yeah, I'd.

775
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,159
Speaker 13: Like you to take something up for me.

776
00:45:36,599 --> 00:45:38,400
Speaker 10: I was just trying to do the same for myself.

777
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 4: I'd like you to go.

778
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:45,559
Speaker 13: To ninety five each one hundred and eighth streets and

779
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:46,480
pick up.

780
00:45:48,599 --> 00:45:54,119
Speaker 10: Yes, mister Bellas, big package for me, bring it right out.

781
00:45:55,239 --> 00:46:01,199
Sure is anything wrong, mister Bella, nothing's wrong.

782
00:46:01,119 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 13: Mister Dollars does pick up the package and bring it

783
00:46:05,519 --> 00:46:06,400
right out to me.

784
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 10: Well, sure, nine to fifty five East one hundred and

785
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:11,159
eighth Street.

786
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 13: Yes, it's a bar at the bartender for the package.

787
00:46:16,639 --> 00:46:17,880
Bring it right out.

788
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:23,280
Speaker 10: Okay, goodbye, it's de Bellos. Are you sure there isn't

789
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:27,039
something that's a bellos? That's a Bellos?

790
00:46:28,639 --> 00:46:46,239
Speaker 11: H And now, with our star John Lund, we bring

791
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:49,760
you the second act of your truly Johnny Dollars.

792
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 10: I went downstairs, climbed into the station wagon, and wielded

793
00:47:07,519 --> 00:47:09,960
east to one hundred and eighth Street, where I located,

794
00:47:10,079 --> 00:47:14,480
number nine to five five. It was a blue pheasant.

795
00:47:15,039 --> 00:47:18,159
I parked and went in. I introduced myself to the

796
00:47:18,199 --> 00:47:21,280
bartender and he gave me the package Fellows wanted. Then

797
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:25,519
I left and drove up state to the Bellows mansioned, hello,

798
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:28,920
what do you mean? Where's your husband?

799
00:47:29,079 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 7: Then you showed the study was a little while ago.

800
00:47:32,159 --> 00:47:32,920
Speaker 10: Are you going out?

801
00:47:33,199 --> 00:47:35,159
Speaker 7: Yes? To see some friends?

802
00:47:35,599 --> 00:47:36,159
Speaker 10: Where's row?

803
00:47:37,039 --> 00:47:40,320
Speaker 7: What just after you this afternoon. Jonathan gave him a

804
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:43,639
pretty harsh scolding. Uh huh.

805
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:46,159
Speaker 10: Package for your husband called me about an hour and

806
00:47:46,199 --> 00:47:48,000
a half ago, wanted me to pick it up.

807
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 7: What is it?

808
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:50,360
Speaker 10: I don't know what. It's heavy.

809
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:52,400
Speaker 7: Well, i'll see ladies to do.

810
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 10: Uh missus bellows. Yes, your husband's a healthy man, isn't it.

811
00:47:58,639 --> 00:47:59,440
Speaker 7: Yes, of course?

812
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 10: Why well, when I talked to him on the phone,

813
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:06,599
he sounded well, I don't know. It's strange.

814
00:48:07,159 --> 00:48:10,199
Speaker 5: I just said good bye to a fine He played

815
00:48:10,679 --> 00:48:13,599
the pond until about seven. I saw him right after that,

816
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:17,440
some fine man. There's nothing the matter with my husband.

817
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:18,039
Mister Dallas.

818
00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:22,239
Speaker 10: H he's in the library. Huh, yes, I have a

819
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:22,639
good time.

820
00:48:22,679 --> 00:48:23,639
Speaker 7: Oh, thank you bye.

821
00:48:32,119 --> 00:48:37,119
Speaker 10: Yeah. Believing. Yeah, I thought you weren't coming back to

822
00:48:37,159 --> 00:48:40,480
the tomorrow dollar what you said when you left, you

823
00:48:40,519 --> 00:48:42,719
weren't coming back to tomorrow when I talked to you

824
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:45,760
on the phone to be on the phone. Yeah, when

825
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:49,039
you asked me to pick up his package? Package? Yeah

826
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:55,719
here from that bar. Oh, yes, the package. Give me

827
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:58,800
the package. What's wrong with you? Nothing's wrong? Just give

828
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:04,039
me the package. Very important. I've got to open it. Okay,

829
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:23,320
they're sure you're all right, mister Bellant. Well, well, mister Dollon, Oh, Ralph,

830
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:26,119
but you've gone out. Yeah, I just got in. I

831
00:49:26,199 --> 00:49:30,159
was just calling a company doctor. Doctor, I think there's

832
00:49:30,199 --> 00:49:33,519
something wrong with your father. What do you mean? He

833
00:49:33,639 --> 00:49:35,599
called me about an hour and a half ago, told

834
00:49:35,599 --> 00:49:38,039
me to pick up a package. I just brought it

835
00:49:38,039 --> 00:49:41,559
into him and he acted like he never even phoned me. Well,

836
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:45,440
maybe he didn't, Maybe someone else. When he saw the package.

837
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:47,960
You seemed to know all about it. It was on.

838
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:51,760
It was as though I suddenly wasn't even in the room.

839
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:57,920
He took the package. Felt like the whole building was

840
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:00,639
coming down around my ears, Ralph when I was thrown

841
00:50:00,679 --> 00:50:03,000
back against the wall. By the time we got up,

842
00:50:03,039 --> 00:50:08,199
the library was a smoking black hole. Jonathan Bellows had

843
00:50:08,199 --> 00:50:18,760
been blown the Kingdom come. It was a bomb, a

844
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:23,440
big one, flattered in the package I'd given him. I

845
00:50:23,519 --> 00:50:26,719
called the police, and Ralph located Missus Bellows and I

846
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,159
jumped back into the station wagon and doubled the speed

847
00:50:29,199 --> 00:50:32,000
limit getting back to town. The police would be busy

848
00:50:32,079 --> 00:50:34,440
enough until I got back. I wanted to get hold

849
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:37,360
of that bartender would give me the package. By the

850
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:39,840
time I got to the Blue peasant. It was pretty

851
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:43,119
well filled with customers. But the bartender I was looking

852
00:50:43,119 --> 00:50:50,199
for I wasn't in sight. Yeah, whereas the bartender was

853
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:52,719
working here earlier. You get up at eight? Where does

854
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:53,039
he live?

855
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 7: What?

856
00:50:54,639 --> 00:50:57,559
Speaker 10: I'm collecting addresses? Now? Where does he live? You collect?

857
00:50:57,599 --> 00:51:02,280
Thats right? Collect white guys? Beat it. Look fram me

858
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:06,320
that bartender is mixed up in a killing, but murder.

859
00:51:06,679 --> 00:51:09,599
He's a bad boy. You want to give me his address?

860
00:51:09,639 --> 00:51:11,320
Or do I make a call and plug this place

861
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:15,079
with cops? You know when someone dies the hard way

862
00:51:15,199 --> 00:51:18,880
and society frowned. Now, come on, what's his name? Where

863
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:24,880
did he live? Who? Oh? Phillips, five eight and fifty

864
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:28,880
seventh Street. Thanks even just wonderful. Look, I didn't know

865
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:32,119
as anything like murder. Honest, if I'd have known, I

866
00:51:32,119 --> 00:51:34,599
wouldn't have given you any Please, please, I'm getting all

867
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:43,639
choked up. I drove across town to one hundred and

868
00:51:43,679 --> 00:51:46,400
fifty seventh Street and found the five hundred and eighty

869
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:50,480
eight East, a big apartment house. Earl Phillips was registered

870
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:53,960
in four oh five. I gave him a few minutes

871
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:56,559
when I knocked my knuckles loose, then went and dug

872
00:51:56,599 --> 00:51:59,320
up the landlady to have her open the door. She

873
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:03,119
was a dream about four years older than Grant's tomb.

874
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:06,400
For the gin disposition that would make a last weekend

875
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:09,719
seem like a Miami vacation, the type that should never

876
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:10,400
have been dug up.

877
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:12,840
Speaker 7: Honey, I got clinging to do.

878
00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:16,719
Speaker 10: Look sweethearts, sweet shot, an expression of fun.

879
00:52:18,119 --> 00:52:21,960
Speaker 15: Don't give me no work longer than one syllable cop.

880
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:29,360
You cops got badger, don't look like a badge to me.

881
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:36,440
Speaker 10: These are my adgers, John Johnny, I should have brought

882
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:41,559
up my glasses, Johnny Dollar insurance investigator. And sure, let

883
00:52:41,599 --> 00:52:44,239
me explain, madam. I work with the police. I don't

884
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:47,559
sell policies. I'm an investigator. I investigating.

885
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:51,239
Speaker 15: Yeah yeah, well, supposed to tell me what you're investigating?

886
00:52:51,639 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 10: Murder?

887
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:55,320
Speaker 15: Murder, mister Phillips.

888
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:58,239
Speaker 10: With the door open, we'll both know so much.

889
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:09,159
Speaker 7: Oh A.

890
00:53:07,559 --> 00:53:16,159
Speaker 10: Turn on the lights, Oh my land, Yeah mine too.

891
00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:19,559
Speaker 3: He sure is.

892
00:53:21,039 --> 00:53:21,639
Speaker 10: Still warm.

893
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:23,360
Speaker 7: I'm not interrupted.

894
00:53:23,559 --> 00:53:25,360
Speaker 10: I'm going to drink. Did you see him come in?

895
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:25,880
Speaker 4: No?

896
00:53:26,119 --> 00:53:27,239
Speaker 10: Do you see anybody else come in?

897
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:30,039
Speaker 7: I've been in my apartment all afternoon. I'm going right

898
00:53:30,079 --> 00:53:30,599
back there.

899
00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:32,960
Speaker 13: Come here?

900
00:53:35,199 --> 00:53:40,760
Speaker 7: Do I have to watch a war on the bedroom.

901
00:53:41,119 --> 00:53:45,159
Why are we whispering for the other by answer.

902
00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:53,199
Speaker 10: Methrooms under the hall? Please not what are we whispering for?

903
00:54:00,639 --> 00:54:02,280
Speaker 7: Go down to the police and calls there.

904
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 15: I got a good bar.

905
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:15,280
Speaker 10: Ernie Phillips, the bartender, give me the package with the bomb,

906
00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:18,800
and it had been stabbed. At that there were several

907
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:21,679
drops of blood leading in the bedroom door. There was

908
00:54:21,719 --> 00:54:23,519
a good chance to kill her. Had been surprised and

909
00:54:23,559 --> 00:54:25,880
couldn't get out. I went to the door and tried

910
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:28,679
it as quietly as I couldn't cave and I kicked

911
00:54:28,679 --> 00:54:31,639
it open. Were standing right by the door, and he

912
00:54:31,639 --> 00:54:32,119
got a knife.

913
00:54:32,119 --> 00:54:32,599
Speaker 3: We got.

914
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:54,679
Speaker 10: No. You should have listened to paper bad Yes, land

915
00:54:54,719 --> 00:54:58,679
lady's after the police. You want to tell me about it?

916
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:03,920
S sure? Help me sit up all right?

917
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:09,280
Speaker 8: Thank you?

918
00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:14,400
Speaker 10: As suppose you won the bellows call for that package

919
00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:17,719
with a bomb. It was his voice. It was Bella.

920
00:55:19,159 --> 00:55:22,599
I've known him for a number years. I was treating

921
00:55:22,679 --> 00:55:25,760
him for his nurves. Do you know what I'm d now?

922
00:55:27,199 --> 00:55:30,679
Years ago I worked in a connoy at the Carnival

923
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:39,239
card tricks, you know, magic hypnosis. I finally managed to

924
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:44,960
save enough and set myself up as a psychotherapist it

925
00:55:45,079 --> 00:55:48,880
was arranged. I meet Bella's at the party, told him

926
00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:53,239
I could help him. Actually I did help him. Simple

927
00:55:53,719 --> 00:55:57,239
hypnosis turned out to be a good set up. Paid

928
00:55:57,280 --> 00:56:00,639
me well. I had him on a I learned a

929
00:56:00,679 --> 00:56:01,440
lot about.

930
00:56:01,159 --> 00:56:04,000
Speaker 7: His businesses in his personal line.

931
00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:10,000
Speaker 10: He told her about the shoddy affair. Yes, we decided

932
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:18,840
to make it look like blackmail. We that's Edith, missus Bella.

933
00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:22,440
She was got in half of the estate and the

934
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:33,159
other half to row mister Della. I think I'm the

935
00:56:33,199 --> 00:56:37,159
police should be here any minute, But it was Edith's idea.

936
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:41,320
I met her some time ago. She reigned the meeting

937
00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:44,800
with Jonathan, he was hypnotized and he called me. Yes,

938
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:49,000
I left the bomb with her and the as a

939
00:56:49,079 --> 00:56:51,880
bartender know him for a long time. He didn't know

940
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:57,599
anything about it, but he would have identified me as

941
00:56:57,599 --> 00:57:00,960
the one who gave him the package. And Vella's was

942
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hypnotized when I walked into the library with the package.

943
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No post, if not a suggestion, told him when he

944
00:57:09,519 --> 00:57:14,960
was given the package, you take it immediately openly. You

945
00:57:15,039 --> 00:57:18,440
can hypnotize a man tell him to do something hours later,

946
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:22,599
when he's awakening, he'll do it. He did it didn't

947
00:57:22,599 --> 00:57:34,880
he yeah, he certainly did. Well had they come and mean, uh, sirens,

948
00:57:36,039 --> 00:57:42,760
can't you hear him? But I said sirens. That's how

949
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:54,320
I knew the police was professor. Professor, well, he wouldn't

950
00:57:54,320 --> 00:58:14,360
have liked the sound anyway. Missus Bellows was arrested for

951
00:58:14,440 --> 00:58:16,679
her share of the crime. And as you know, the

952
00:58:16,719 --> 00:58:19,639
case comes up next week, and that's the way it

953
00:58:19,719 --> 00:58:22,679
shapes up. They needed someone to be a witness to

954
00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:25,440
the letter and hear the old man's story firsthand. And

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00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:37,360
I wound up the Petsy expense account item three hundred

956
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:41,159
forty one dollars and eighty cents hotel and incidentals while

957
00:58:41,159 --> 00:58:43,320
I stayed in town, tying up the ends for the

958
00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:47,719
law Item four twenty nine dollars and sixty five cents

959
00:58:48,119 --> 00:58:51,800
mileage and incidentals between New York and Hartford expense account

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00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:56,000
total two hundred and eight dollars and sixty cents. Here's truly,

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00:58:56,639 --> 00:59:13,679
Johnny dollars. You know, many great men have attained the

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00:59:13,719 --> 00:59:17,159
highest office in our land, the presidency of the United States.

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00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:20,840
Can you guess the name of this man? The son

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00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:24,119
of a Baptist minister. He entered Union College that's connected

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00:59:24,119 --> 00:59:27,000
in New York at the age of fifteen. He was

966
00:59:27,039 --> 00:59:29,679
the fourth vice president to become president through the death

967
00:59:29,719 --> 00:59:33,719
of the chief executive. One of his first acts as

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00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:37,880
president was the signing of the Civil Service Act. The

969
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:42,400
Territory of Alaska was organized during his administration, and standard

970
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:46,320
time was adopted throughout the country. If you don't know

971
00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:50,199
his name by now, here are two more clues. While

972
00:59:50,239 --> 00:59:53,639
he was president, the American Federation of Labor was organized

973
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:59,280
and the Brooklyn Bridge was completed. Who was he? Chester

974
00:59:59,519 --> 01:00:05,760
Allen author, Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: Usually the PSAs are unrelated, but you noticed the first

976
01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:16,679
PSA was about standard time, the second PSA was about

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01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:21,239
Chester A. Arthur, and they mentioned how standard time was

978
01:00:21,280 --> 01:00:25,719
implemented during his administration. It all came together and makes

979
01:00:25,760 --> 01:00:28,000
me feel like I should read up on Chester A.

980
01:00:28,199 --> 01:00:28,480
Speaker 4: Arthur.

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01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:33,559
Speaker 1: In terms of the episode, Blake Edwards did a good

982
01:00:33,679 --> 01:00:37,559
job flashing out the story and fitting it to Johnny Dollar.

983
01:00:38,119 --> 01:00:40,480
I tend to think that a lot of the early

984
01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:45,920
lunch stories that were recycled from elsewhere weren't properly set

985
01:00:45,960 --> 01:00:50,119
to fit his characterization of Johnny Dollar, but here it

986
01:00:50,239 --> 01:00:54,280
really is. Pitt's just right. I thought the change to

987
01:00:54,360 --> 01:00:58,880
the scene where Johnny nearly walked out on Bellows was

988
01:00:59,039 --> 01:01:03,920
really well handed, and Edwards did a good job of

989
01:01:04,119 --> 01:01:08,679
making it fit with the way that an insurance investigator

990
01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:14,760
would relate to an ensured I also liked how they

991
01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:21,199
shortened the scene where Bellows was repeating the introduction like

992
01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:25,760
some tape recording. It didn't speak well for Diamond that

993
01:01:26,039 --> 01:01:30,039
he wasn't more alarmed by that. I think in this

994
01:01:30,159 --> 01:01:34,199
case it was believable the degree to which Johnny was

995
01:01:34,280 --> 01:01:35,239
concerned about it.

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01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:37,719
Speaker 7: There were a lot of.

997
01:01:37,719 --> 01:01:42,960
Speaker 1: Portions near the end, when you were approaching the climactic

998
01:01:43,599 --> 01:01:48,039
confrontation that were practically word for word from the Diamond episode,

999
01:01:48,079 --> 01:01:51,679
but I think that was to be expected. It's note

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01:01:51,719 --> 01:01:54,760
that the only person who appear in both scripts was

1001
01:01:54,920 --> 01:01:58,400
Virginia Gregg, who played Helen, but wasn't part of the

1002
01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:02,079
main action in the Richard diamond An episode. Now let's

1003
01:02:02,119 --> 01:02:05,800
turn to the TV adaptation of the script for Peter Gunn.

1004
01:02:06,280 --> 01:02:09,480
Peter Gunn was a private eye series created by Blake

1005
01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:13,960
Edwards with an absolute banger of a theme by Henry Mancini.

1006
01:02:14,480 --> 01:02:18,840
It starred Craig Stevens as Gun and ran for three seasons.

1007
01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:24,960
This episode was the sixteenth episode of season two, the

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01:02:25,039 --> 01:02:29,760
Spell of Murder, and was released on January eleventh, nineteen sixty.

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01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:34,800
There are some great old time radio connections on this episode.

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01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:38,760
The director was Lamont Johnson, who had been an actor

1011
01:02:38,880 --> 01:02:42,239
during the Golden Age of radio and was one of

1012
01:02:42,280 --> 01:02:46,280
the many actors to play Archie good Win opposite Sidney

1013
01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:53,599
green Street's neural Wolf. Charles Calvert, who played Sergeant Tartaglia

1014
01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:58,159
on Broadways My Beat, played the role of the Bartender

1015
01:02:58,880 --> 01:03:03,039
and the Blake Edward. Their story was co adapted by

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01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:07,159
Tony Barrett, who of course was a noted old time

1017
01:03:07,239 --> 01:03:12,280
radio actor and actually played the son in the Yours

1018
01:03:12,320 --> 01:03:16,039
Truly Johnny Dollar script. Peter Gunn was not a series

1019
01:03:16,159 --> 01:03:20,920
that relied on narration, so you have a lot more

1020
01:03:21,480 --> 01:03:28,559
events happening on screen rather than being exposited. We actually

1021
01:03:28,639 --> 01:03:32,199
see the first shooting attempt, which is made really interesting

1022
01:03:32,400 --> 01:03:35,280
by the presence of a cat who gets nervous, spots

1023
01:03:35,280 --> 01:03:37,679
the shooter and runs to try to get out of

1024
01:03:37,679 --> 01:03:43,960
the way. And then the wife of Arnold Simpson, the

1025
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:48,440
target of the attack, goes to Peter Gunn and asks

1026
01:03:48,519 --> 01:03:53,039
for his help, and she's talking to gun while his

1027
01:03:53,400 --> 01:04:01,000
girlfriend Eve sings at Mother's which was his out and

1028
01:04:01,039 --> 01:04:05,199
she's singing a great rendition of its wonderful I did

1029
01:04:05,239 --> 01:04:09,039
find a couple of points interesting in terms of showing

1030
01:04:09,119 --> 01:04:14,400
how even in eight years, times had change, and the

1031
01:04:14,559 --> 01:04:19,639
Richard Diamond episode, and in Diamond in general, he tended

1032
01:04:19,760 --> 01:04:25,639
to drop Helen from the conversation or runoff after whichever

1033
01:04:25,760 --> 01:04:29,960
female client came in the office without much regards for

1034
01:04:30,199 --> 01:04:34,119
what her feelings might be. However, in the TV version,

1035
01:04:34,199 --> 01:04:37,719
before gun leaves, he spends some time with ev sweet

1036
01:04:37,719 --> 01:04:41,280
talking her and being very kind about the fact that

1037
01:04:41,679 --> 01:04:44,559
he got called away to do this job. I do

1038
01:04:44,639 --> 01:04:47,559
think romance was a big part of Peter Gunn, but

1039
01:04:47,639 --> 01:04:52,480
it definitely speaks to a change in what the audience

1040
01:04:52,599 --> 01:04:56,320
would expect in the course of just a relatively short

1041
01:04:56,360 --> 01:04:59,000
period of time of eight years. The other thing that

1042
01:04:59,079 --> 01:05:05,320
was interesting is in the radio version, the detectives go

1043
01:05:05,480 --> 01:05:08,840
down in the car with the wife and then they

1044
01:05:09,039 --> 01:05:13,519
borrow a car with Johnny's. It was a station wagon

1045
01:05:14,360 --> 01:05:19,239
from the client. However, by the end of the nineteen

1046
01:05:19,440 --> 01:05:27,159
fifties and the early nineteen sixties, detectives became associated with

1047
01:05:27,480 --> 01:05:35,320
having really cool cars. In fact, Peter Gun's nineteen fifty nine,

1048
01:05:35,519 --> 01:05:41,800
Plymouth Fury landed on the fourteenth spot in Street Muscle

1049
01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:48,320
Magazine's list of the top fifty TV cars of all time. So,

1050
01:05:48,559 --> 01:05:52,519
as a general rule, Peter gun was not going to

1051
01:05:52,599 --> 01:05:56,440
be hitching a ride with somebody and then jumping behind

1052
01:05:56,440 --> 01:06:00,000
the wheel of a station wagon and a Street Musclemane

1053
01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:03,400
magazine also pointed out Plymouth was a sponsor of Peter

1054
01:06:03,559 --> 01:06:08,000
Gunn and Generic station Wagon was not a sponsor, so

1055
01:06:08,159 --> 01:06:13,079
Peter Gunn followed Missus Simpson to the address. Now, the

1056
01:06:13,199 --> 01:06:17,400
script makes a lot of changes in the TV episode,

1057
01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:19,880
and I don't want to labor all of them. I

1058
01:06:19,920 --> 01:06:23,480
think what the writers tried to do is take the

1059
01:06:23,599 --> 01:06:28,880
key elements of Blake Edward's story and create opportunities for

1060
01:06:29,159 --> 01:06:35,239
powerful visuals and solo dramatic moments. For example, they made

1061
01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:39,079
the mind incident more recent and had it happen only

1062
01:06:39,119 --> 01:06:43,519
fifty miles away, so Peter Gunn could investigate in his

1063
01:06:43,840 --> 01:06:49,079
rather stylish automobile rather than calling someone up on the phone.

1064
01:06:49,360 --> 01:06:53,079
And mostly I felt the episode was pretty effective. There

1065
01:06:53,159 --> 01:06:56,840
are some TV series from the nineteen fifties that I

1066
01:06:56,880 --> 01:07:01,800
feel are kind of rough visually and don't really take

1067
01:07:01,840 --> 01:07:07,119
advantage of the opportunities you have. But Peter Gunn was

1068
01:07:07,199 --> 01:07:10,079
one of the better TV programs when it came to

1069
01:07:10,440 --> 01:07:15,239
making the episode visually interesting and eye cashing and drawing

1070
01:07:15,280 --> 01:07:20,119
your attention. The only two things that I kind of

1071
01:07:20,119 --> 01:07:23,280
would have an issue with is I don't think the

1072
01:07:23,320 --> 01:07:28,360
scene where he got the bartender's address was as effective

1073
01:07:28,719 --> 01:07:33,360
as it was an either radio version. They did beef

1074
01:07:33,480 --> 01:07:38,960
up the climactic scene to make it more visually interesting

1075
01:07:39,679 --> 01:07:43,079
and dramatic. They had it raining outside and they had

1076
01:07:43,119 --> 01:07:46,079
their fight end up going on to the fire skate.

1077
01:07:46,719 --> 01:07:50,480
As a concept, it was great, and having the death

1078
01:07:50,519 --> 01:07:54,280
scene being the Professor lying dying on the pavement and

1079
01:07:54,360 --> 01:07:58,000
the rain as kind of a classic noir image. But

1080
01:07:58,159 --> 01:08:03,239
what I think we call the fight choreography between Peter

1081
01:08:03,440 --> 01:08:07,920
Gunn and the Professor was not great. But other than that,

1082
01:08:08,199 --> 01:08:13,000
it was an interesting TV episode and just as fascinating

1083
01:08:13,079 --> 01:08:17,039
to see how they took a story from nineteen fifty

1084
01:08:17,079 --> 01:08:21,319
two and nineteen fifty three and made it fit nicely

1085
01:08:21,720 --> 01:08:26,479
into a nineteen sixty detective TV series. Now, if you

1086
01:08:26,520 --> 01:08:30,439
do want to watch this episode of Peter Gunn, the

1087
01:08:30,600 --> 01:08:36,000
episode is the Spell of Murder from season two and

1088
01:08:36,239 --> 01:08:40,239
I watched it on Prime Video. However, Peter Gunn is

1089
01:08:40,279 --> 01:08:43,279
one of those series that, as of this recording date,

1090
01:08:44,119 --> 01:08:48,800
is distributed at a lot of places online. It is

1091
01:08:48,960 --> 01:08:54,000
available on both Pluto and tub if you don't have

1092
01:08:54,199 --> 01:08:57,439
Prime at least that's the availability.

1093
01:08:56,680 --> 01:08:57,920
Speaker 3: In the United States.

1094
01:08:58,239 --> 01:09:00,840
Speaker 1: And now it is time to then go our Patreon

1095
01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:03,600
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1096
01:09:03,640 --> 01:09:06,920
and think Lisa. Lisa has been one of our Patreon

1097
01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:11,960
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1098
01:09:11,960 --> 01:09:14,520
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1099
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:17,520
Thank you so much for your support, Lisa, and this

1100
01:09:17,760 --> 01:09:20,800
we'll do it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast,

1101
01:09:20,880 --> 01:09:25,960
please follow us using your favorite podcast software. We will

1102
01:09:26,000 --> 01:09:30,560
be back next Sunday with our final listener support Slash

1103
01:09:30,640 --> 01:09:35,199
Appreciation Special. But join us back here tomorrow for the

1104
01:09:35,319 --> 01:09:37,800
Adventures of the Falcon Where.

1105
01:09:38,279 --> 01:09:39,039
Speaker 3: All right, Gregor?

1106
01:09:39,039 --> 01:09:39,520
Speaker 10: Where is she?

1107
01:09:39,640 --> 01:09:41,920
Speaker 3: What are you getting so excited about? What happened to us?

1108
01:09:42,039 --> 01:09:44,399
Is New York broad Daylight? What could happen?

1109
01:09:44,720 --> 01:09:44,920
Speaker 10: Look?

1110
01:09:44,960 --> 01:09:47,199
Speaker 19: Creg Hey, hold on on, my cod ain't going to

1111
01:09:47,239 --> 01:09:52,239
bring it back. If you really want to, all you

1112
01:09:52,359 --> 01:09:53,680
got to do is say the word.

1113
01:09:54,319 --> 01:09:55,000
Speaker 10: What's the word?

1114
01:09:55,960 --> 01:09:56,600
Speaker 3: Yes? Yes?

1115
01:09:56,720 --> 01:09:56,800
Speaker 7: What?

1116
01:09:57,119 --> 01:09:57,359
Speaker 3: Yes?

1117
01:09:57,479 --> 01:10:00,399
Speaker 10: You work for Bill Palmer? What are you talking about it?

1118
01:10:00,479 --> 01:10:02,920
Speaker 19: Did you read about this jerk Downy Bell getting himself

1119
01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:07,039
knocked off last night? Well, well the cops think of boss,

1120
01:10:07,119 --> 01:10:11,600
did it? Why did you try to reason with a cop? Yes,

1121
01:10:12,399 --> 01:10:15,840
you've been pretty successful. That's why Pama wants you to

1122
01:10:15,840 --> 01:10:16,479
work for him.

1123
01:10:16,960 --> 01:10:18,439
Speaker 12: Was it his idea to grab Louise?

1124
01:10:18,800 --> 01:10:21,399
Speaker 3: Who says anybody grab me? You jump the conclusion?

1125
01:10:21,439 --> 01:10:22,119
Speaker 10: All right? All right?

1126
01:10:22,159 --> 01:10:24,199
Speaker 3: When won't you be released in a minute? I get

1127
01:10:24,319 --> 01:10:25,439
your word, you go to work.

1128
01:10:26,079 --> 01:10:27,239
Speaker 10: How do you know I won't break it?

1129
01:10:27,279 --> 01:10:29,479
Speaker 19: That's what guys like us got the advantage of it.

1130
01:10:29,600 --> 01:10:32,680
Speaker 3: Guys like you, we trust you. I suppose I turn

1131
01:10:32,760 --> 01:10:35,119
up evidence to prove that your boss did kill Danny Bell,

1132
01:10:35,880 --> 01:10:36,760
and he deserves to.

1133
01:10:37,159 --> 01:10:39,479
Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime,

1134
01:10:39,600 --> 01:10:43,920
send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot NEP,

1135
01:10:44,079 --> 01:10:47,840
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1136
01:10:47,880 --> 01:10:52,840
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1137
01:10:52,920 --> 01:10:57,039
Boyse Adahol. This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.