Speaker 1: The Blue Beetles.
Speaker 2: Weeping down upon the Underworld to smashed. Gangman come a
friend of the unfortunate, enemy of criminals, the mysterious all
powerful character a problem to the police, but a crusade
of a law In reality. Dan Garrett a rookie patrolman,
loved by everyone but suspected by none of being the
Blue Beetles and the Blue Beetle. He hides behind the
strange mask in a super intelligible blue shade m a
flexible as silk but stronger than stick. Today's episode of
The Blue Beatles is entitled Lasting a Dynamite Ring. A
band of desperate Underworld characters have started a reign of
terrorism throughout the city. Their motive is whole failed burglary.
Will they succeed in forcing the authorities to exceed their
demand and they successfully defy the.
Speaker 1: Forces of law and order, or will the Blue.
Speaker 2: Beetle checkmate their efforts and bring their leader to justice.
Speaker 1: As our story opens, the Troman.
Speaker 2: Dan Garrett, a rookie cop who operates as the Blue Beatle,
has stopped for a little early morning chat with his
friend and advise the doctor Franz before reporting for duty.
Well Denny what assignment has the commissioner given you in
this new drave I don't know yet.
Speaker 3: It's something excited.
Speaker 1: You'll probably get you.
Speaker 3: A wish you wouldn't Manigan always get plenty of action.
Speaker 2: What do you suppose as back of these dynamite.
Speaker 3: Duck three this week? All that very strange, fantastic impact.
Speaker 1: What can these racketeers.
Speaker 2: Who to game blame? If I know, looks as if
they were trying to scare the authorities and the meeting
with some exorbitant demand event. But surely the police cannot
prey and the ringleaders. Believe me, If I get a chance,
I'll run and do it. If I can't do it
as Dan Garrett, I'll do it as the Blue Beetle.
Speaker 3: Oh what's that? Sounded like an explosion?
Speaker 2: I don't know what sign Someone's up front of your
store and.
Speaker 3: Go see excuse me?
Speaker 4: Oh hello, doc?
Speaker 2: Is Dan Garrett here?
Speaker 3: Hello? Auf the Naigan?
Speaker 2: Yes, Daddy's here. See he was, Tell what about Managan?
Speaker 3: Me?
Speaker 2: And you're very signed to the West side to investigate
them explosions?
Speaker 3: I thought I heard one just now.
Speaker 4: That's right, Come on, I got the police fire outside.
Speaker 2: Let's get going, Okay, come on, doc, let's follow that again. Listen,
I purnisure, passion, poor furniture, and you know, I know
somebody said it was bomb. That's the fourth this week.
Come on, mammy, and let's see if we can help
there mean still be some people in that burning believe.
Speaker 5: They don't hear me, La.
Speaker 4: I gotta take the cellar.
Speaker 2: First, taken a you down there, Downny, the drawers over head,
that can in any minute, I have to take that cat.
If somebody down here in the cellar by the bend
and I'm gonna come back spot g hear this. I
can't get down to your Donny.
Speaker 5: The fire is between us now, and you sell your
coat down to me? Can I try?
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, then it comes.
Speaker 2: If that is okay, better bring this guy up on
my back. If you think you're cooking my.
Speaker 4: Horse, you better way and let you get the fim
in his here with the horses.
Speaker 2: It's no time for that. I think I can make
it a long I A'm coming down downey way talking dog.
Tell you was talking at first in our lives? You
say that cry they when I comp up stairs.
Speaker 4: And right, come.
Speaker 3: Hey, get easy, Donny, turn eat our body.
Speaker 4: You know almost stop, don't make it stop me the plot.
Speaker 2: Giving away, here's here's behind.
Speaker 5: I got you, Look, God done it.
Speaker 3: I'm coming around. Yeah, he'll be all right. Look he's
so good to die if I'm brave cop.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but Donny, Donny, are you all right?
Speaker 3: Get?
Speaker 4: Thank you?
Speaker 2: Get the old man. I'll tell you did that right,
Thanks to you.
Speaker 3: I didn't do nothing.
Speaker 2: You've done it all, Managin if you hadn't been there
in give me a pool and a collapse, let as
ahead of the frid right. No, you'll be all right
after a rest and plenty of fresh air and your lungs.
He comes the ambulance for the old man. You say,
why don't you take a ride.
Speaker 5: Along with him?
Speaker 2: Maybe they'll give you a bed and a good meal
too at the hospitals. The why, I folk, I'll take
a ride that betting meal can wait. I wanna talk
to that old man when he he gains consciousness, he
may give me a clue to that dynamite.
Speaker 1: Will the old man be able to furnish a clue
as to the dynamite gang?
Speaker 2: Will Danny continue his investigations as Ptrolman Dan Garrett, or
as the Blue Beetles. Let's look in on the mayor
of the city to see if we can discover what
is back of these mysterious explosions. M telegram for you, sir,
No thanks, I wait a minute, George, that may be
an answer. Yes, mm. If you don't have electricity shut
off throughout the city tonight, something unpleasant will happen to
you or your family. Sign the octopus, say what is
this a joke? It is someone has a perverted prince
of humor?
Speaker 1: Why this is preposterous? I never heard of anything so brazen?
Speaker 2: Or what are you going to do? Get me the
commissioner on the phone. Yes, yes, yah, I get the police.
Speaker 1: Commissioner on the phone.
Speaker 2: The mayor calling.
Speaker 3: That's good.
Speaker 2: Uh, you better have a pontyguard or on him. Not
for me, but for my boy since his mother died.
He said, nobody but me to look after him.
Speaker 5: Hello.
Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, Commissioner, is honor the mayor calling here? You
want to well? Hello commissioner, Hello, comm what's on your mind?
Speaker 1: I wanna read you a telegram? I just received a
moment ago a Where is the George?
Speaker 2: Oh? Thanks? I listen to this commissioner. If you don't
have electricity shut off throughout the city. Tonight, something unpleasant
will happen to you or your family and.
Speaker 1: Its signed the Octopus.
Speaker 4: That's bad.
Speaker 1: Who's the octopust?
Speaker 3: Why we can discovers the power in the underworld?
Speaker 2: Our best men of the work the second.
Speaker 4: Dog so far, well, I want you to assign one
of your best men to God.
Speaker 2: My son I was signed Mike Peican on the dog.
Speaker 1: He's the best I have good I know him.
Speaker 2: What about you?
Speaker 1: You should have a body guard?
Speaker 2: Oh, never mind me, I can take care of myself.
It's my son. I'm worried about. Okay, Commissioner. As soon
as you interest the necessary orders, I wish you'd drop
over to my office. I'd like to discuss a plan
of action to check make the octimist and his gang.
In the meantime, Dan garrett Is bought with the old
man whom he saved from.
Speaker 1: The burning building.
Speaker 2: He learned that just before the explosion, the old man
who was the janitor of the factory, or a bearded
man with a lake disappearing up the stairs just outside
the boiler room. Danny decided to keep an eye out
for a bearded man with a limb were next find
him in the little apothecary shop of his brand and
advise us not to Franz and s.
Speaker 3: What do you make of it, Daddy?
Speaker 2: I think it's a diabolical plan of wholesale robbery backed
by terrorism and blackmail. I don't understand how could any
gang of thieves hope? As I see it, the mastermind
of this gang has a well thrown out plan.
Speaker 3: First, his unholy.
Speaker 2: Cruel terrorizes at the city by a.
Speaker 3: Series of explosion Yes.
Speaker 2: Then they plan to suddenly plunge the city into darkness
one night, and while the black hours on theire systematically
rob jewelry stores, banks and first storage plans. And what
makes you think that the mayor got a telegram today
warning him that unless he ordered the city's power supply
shut off, something unpleasant will happen to him or his family.
Speaker 3: Which that's preposterous.
Speaker 2: I never heard of such unmitigated nerve. These men are
desperate characters and their chief.
Speaker 1: Is a cold blooded field.
Speaker 3: What's the mean of doing about it?
Speaker 2: He's talked to the Commissioner of police. See commissioner is
sigmatic and the god the man's young son. He's also
wanted every another one gang hang out from.
Speaker 3: A city raider.
Speaker 2: Every racket tear big or small, is to be erected,
brought in for questions and what are you going to do.
I'm gonna put on my blue Beetle alarmor and take
a little trip down to the municipal power plant. I
have a peculiar feeling the Blue Beetle will come to
grips with some of that gang tonight.
Speaker 1: Out into the night bed.
Speaker 2: A Blue Beetle in his super dynamic space, there to
stay the city's power plant from destruction. A fr al
sale burglary throughout the city. From another point, a fast
water car filled with dark visits. Man is feeding through
all the same destinations. Will I meet or will want
out feed the other to prevent or commit a crime.
As the Blue Beetle nears his destination, he sees another
the car full up in front of the power planning.
That's a suspicious looking car there, h mm. Several men
are getting off, tough looking bunch. There's one with a
bed in a limb.
Speaker 3: That's my man. Alright, man's the watchman coming up to me.
Speaker 1: All right, boys, I'll right now make it suppy.
Speaker 3: They did n't hear me.
Speaker 4: Be sure to suck thing hard and take me up
so he won't be suspected the beer.
Speaker 2: We know this. Don't worry about that pop. We'll fix
this boy here. Well, here was the.
Speaker 3: DNA a room and here the sick.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, tie him up and put him over there
in the corner.
Speaker 3: Come on, flood, I.
Speaker 2: Give me a lot with it clos out.
Speaker 3: Okay, kippy, here we go, I gipsy.
Speaker 2: Why don't you ji with that sledgehammer?
Speaker 4: I count, I bet it be over the help.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the blue people guess the blue petrol. Hey here
the flue beet get along a limp.
Speaker 3: Put down that sledge drop last year.
Speaker 2: Going hoel, I'm go go down with this sledge hamper. Guys,
are you looking one? Li me?
Speaker 3: I go handle this mug?
Speaker 4: Hello?
Speaker 3: I mean to see your handle this one.
Speaker 2: Go on, empty your guns. You'll pooled your hand into
the blue beetle. Now I'm coming after you'll rat back there.
Speaker 3: Come on, let's beat us.
Speaker 2: I know we gotta fight it out. You know the chaps.
It's blue beetles, only your kye and the mask.
Speaker 4: They touched him.
Speaker 2: Let's get him. Give him be killing that wrench.
Speaker 3: Here we go, give me that wrench. Slid here this
blue right on that.
Speaker 2: Your aim is bad, slid I you should have stuck
my lip first. But money a mate below gotcha. That's time,
Blue beetle Come on, Monsey, I got him, I got
the blue beetle. Yeah, good work, Jimpty, that's tossing a
hammer roll right. Yeah, you got him right in the eye. Boy,
he certainly attacks an awful lullap in that left of
his Yeah, you should have got a lamp in your jaar.
Speaker 3: Hey, what do we do with him?
Speaker 5: He ain't dead?
Speaker 2: Tie him up and take him out to the island
left that we wrecked his place. The octopus will take
care of the blue beetles.
Speaker 1: Okay, lest some snapso.
Speaker 2: Life and the flood ie there. I don't plan a
bomb under that dynamo over there.
Speaker 5: Sure, hey, blood eyes, stop out of it, come back,
come back.
Speaker 2: Getting out of here? O?
Speaker 1: What happened?
Speaker 2: Did the place blow up? Now?
Speaker 3: The blue beetle satcha?
Speaker 1: Where is he?
Speaker 5: Land there?
Speaker 3: Gifty plugged him?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Good work?
Speaker 1: Where's give me last nat dynamite.
Speaker 2: Under those dynamos here he comes.
Speaker 3: Now, come on, let go, I let the few won't
be long.
Speaker 2: Now, yeah, yeah, give me a hand with the blue beetles. Right,
let's make it snappy. I don't wanna be around when
that dynamite goes off. Right about the watchman, they'll have
to take his chances. We ain't got room for him.
Speaker 1: Okay, come on, let's go on.
Speaker 2: Kind of short blue? What will happen to the blue
beetle when the octopus gets him in his bar?
Speaker 3: Will that be the end of the blue Beetle?
Speaker 2: How can the police protect the citizens of this vast
city against the depredations of this roofless band of arch criminals?
All night long, in the inky darkness caused by the
disabled powerhouse, a band of Goodlams and Underworld characters ravaged
the city, bombing buildings, setting fires, and rubbing banks and
jewelry stores.
Speaker 3: The police and fire.
Speaker 2: Departments did heroic work trying to stem the side of terrorism.
In the morning around the Populace farm, the doors of
city Hall demanding protection.
Speaker 3: Where's the Mayor?
Speaker 1: Why don't you do something?
Speaker 4: Yes, the holes and stores of being loose?
Speaker 2: Our factory to being dynamic has burned. What's the police
doing about it? Where's the commissioner?
Speaker 3: There's a man.
Speaker 5: Figure Hello, I know you have put in a terrible
knife don't many of you have lost valuables.
Speaker 4: Some of you have had your shops broken into or
your factory is burned by the members of this band
of money mad cutthroats. My friends, you all have suffered losses.
Speaker 3: I too have suffered a great loss.
Speaker 4: Last night, at about nine o'clock my young son was kidnapped.
I'm so and I say to you, my follows citizens,
that I shall leave no stolen turned.
Speaker 2: Who are and these malefactors? I am sure you will believe.
Speaker 4: Me and be patient with me and the Commissioner of police.
Speaker 2: Hey, hey, he's a mayor.
Speaker 3: I am phone me in at a deputy.
Speaker 4: Le's me true?
Speaker 2: Why I was in the army. I ain't here pay
for my brains. I got two grim friends.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: I suppose there are some of you would like to
assist this drive in ISAA report to the commissioner a
police headquarters.
Speaker 5: He can use every fighting man he can get. Now.
Speaker 4: Now I must get back to my office and find
a campaign that will read this city forever.
Speaker 5: I'm in this criminal scum.
Speaker 2: Throughout the city. The movement grew to join with the
police in running down the dynamiters, arsonists and Robert repair
if we're rushed down the power plant, all that but
nightfall the city might again and be illuminated.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, in an iron walled room.
Speaker 2: Of a secret lighting place on an island bar beyond
the city's outskirts, the blue beetle is slowly regaining consciousness.
Oh oh, a head, that kind of gimpe through. Just
place my temper half an inch to the right and
it's in no more. Blue Beetle. Hello, liss there, Uh,
hello Sunny.
Speaker 3: What are you doing here?
Speaker 2: Cause the men brought me, aren't you Tom Rogers, the
man's son.
Speaker 3: That's right, and you're the blue beetle.
Speaker 2: It's Tom, I'm a blue beetle.
Speaker 3: Well then I'm not scared anymore.
Speaker 2: But of course you're not well out with these scoundrels yet.
You and me together. Gee, time, I want you to
help me, mean, help the blue beetle. Gee. Now look, Tom,
here's my plant. I want you to.
Speaker 5: You in the joining room.
Speaker 2: The octopus, mastermind of the civilish scheme to systematically drain
the great city.
Speaker 1: Of its wealth, is concurring with his henchmen.
Speaker 2: You have done very well so far. We already have
five hundred thousand dollars in cash and many jewels. Well,
I build of something. In addition, we have two inches
in the hole.
Speaker 3: You mean the mass kidd and and the blue beecher.
Speaker 2: We can get a big price for the kid, but
the blue bee ain't worth nothing.
Speaker 3: You forget gimpy.
Speaker 2: Where the suit of impenetrable blue chain armor that is
flexible as silk and stronger than steel.
Speaker 1: So what without armor?
Speaker 2: And that my degray eye can become the blue beaker
gee cheep, and you becoming both like the blue beet
exactly gimpy. But first we must dispose up. Oh that
kid's crying again? Got even?
Speaker 3: And make 'em shut up myself?
Speaker 2: Okay, boy, I'll shut up out. Okay, what taking your kid?
Speaker 3: Here's a dead man over there on that car.
Speaker 1: Suh, don't tell me the blue beetle's croak.
Speaker 2: I'll have a lot.
Speaker 3: Why shit ain't dead?
Speaker 4: Huh?
Speaker 2: A little beetle is more alive than ever.
Speaker 3: Oh the kids double cross bright?
Speaker 1: Well I'll no you won't you, white.
Speaker 2: Lilvery dunk, because I'm going to hell.
Speaker 4: Beetles give it to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, we'll finish him off this time, alright,
swould I come and get me. I'll get you all
right with this? You?
Speaker 1: How do you like those potatoes with I?
Speaker 2: Your next can be You've got no hammer to throw
this time, I can got blue beetles on the button.
Speaker 1: No for the act.
Speaker 3: Lookout, blue beetles behind.
Speaker 1: You and with uh blue beetles?
Speaker 2: H h you had me didn't yet? Well you'll never
get out of here alive. This electric ray gunn'll burn
you to a crisp and that steel armor not that, mister.
Speaker 3: You can't do that to the blue I'll bless you too.
Speaker 2: Stay your prayers, blue beetle, because oh that was good work. Tom.
We're just in time of the cheerle. Pick up that
electric ray gun. We'll go after the octopus right with
your blue beetle. Now he's staying back at me. I
don't want you to get hurt. Here we go.
Speaker 1: She disappears very cold.
Speaker 2: Look through the windows there, see you.
Speaker 3: He's running to the top.
Speaker 2: Yes, he's getting in one outboard motor boats.
Speaker 3: Come on, let's go. He got away from it, not yet,
he hasn't.
Speaker 2: Well, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 4: Take off my armor and.
Speaker 3: Swim, afflute? Can you swim fast enough to catch him?
Speaker 4: If it's one time, I'll find out here I go.
Speaker 3: She's look at him gold.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, can that blue beetle swim? The octopus is
shooting at him. The blue beetle's still swimming after the boat.
He's dating boy and he swims.
Speaker 3: He's dating. The octopus is out a bullet.
Speaker 2: A blue beetles dating on him.
Speaker 1: All the time.
Speaker 2: He he's caught the boat. He's climbing in the stern
of the boat. No, no, he's turning the boat over.
There goes the octopus right into the water. See the
octopus can't swim.
Speaker 5: He's calling for help.
Speaker 3: Look at the blue beetle.
Speaker 2: She's diving under the yuppet boat. Got now it's now
he's turning the boat over the right side up.
Speaker 1: She missed.
Speaker 2: A blue beetle is sure strong. Now he's gonna arrescue
the octopus. Look at outstrop.
Speaker 3: He taste there there he's got the octopus. I he
shoulda let him drown.
Speaker 2: H he's rolling him up into the boat.
Speaker 4: Now now he's starting the motor rock.
Speaker 2: Running around the boat and here he comes. Boy, boy,
see blue beal that would well say, says what.
Speaker 3: About the octopus?
Speaker 5: Is he?
Speaker 2: No? No, he's not dead. He's just suffering from immersion,
and suppose you can tie him up while I get dressed.
He's harmless now I've got his gun. He certainly was yellow,
wasn't he when he ran out of bullets and you
ducked him. All gangsters are yellow and they haven't got
a gun. He's no exception. Well what are you gonna
do now? Gonna put on my blue armor and take
you back to the city limits in that boat and
throwing the police. But what about the gangsters in the
house there? They can't get off the island. You've got
the only boat and it's too far to swim to
the mainland. Mister, mister blue beetle, you've done an awful
lot for me, saving me most kidnappers and everything. Oh
that's nothing, Tom, Well my father will pay you a
big reward. The blue beetle seeks no reward, Tom, what
he does he does for humanity?
Speaker 3: Say, would you do me one more favor? Certainly if
I can?
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 3: Would you give me that blue beetle off your helmet?
You are Tom a souvenir to remembers the blue beetle.
By gee, blue beetles.
Speaker 2: You're swell, and so the blue Beetle brought another gang
of criminals to justice, turning him over to the police,
but himself remaining hidden behind the disguise of the Blue Beetle.
Later that day, after setting Tom the Mayor's on ashore
at the city Dock and phoning the police where to
find the Octopus and his court, he disappeared as the
Blue Beetle to turn up later at doctor Franz's little
apothecary shop as patrolman Dan Garrett.
Speaker 3: Do you say, Dan, the octopus was about to shoot you.
Speaker 1: With this electric ray gun you brought that you.
Speaker 2: Yes, he threatened to burn me to a crisp in
my metal armor.
Speaker 3: M what a fiendish idea, but very ingenious.
Speaker 2: I'd have been mosted alive without a clues to the
cause of my death. Of it, that hadn't have been
for young Tom Rodgers sneaking from behind and knocking slid
eye out with that chailer. Yes, yes, well, I I'd
better invent a non conductive lightning for your Blue Beetle armor,
just in case you run into another electric ray gun.
Speaker 3: That's a swell idea, you know, Doc. If I had
the uh just a minute, Dan, Hello.
Speaker 2: Hello, is it Mannigan is Danny and Dan? Yes, it's yeah,
just a minute that I it's for you, Dan or
like doctor A lot of Don Garrett speaking, Hey Danny,
and why do.
Speaker 5: The police had bought it? Immediatelyy me?
Speaker 4: And you are gonna swear new assignment?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yes, where how did John Dorr's time ever? Oh?
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 3: Some slot machine racket is they're trying.
Speaker 4: To make John Doran star some crook a slot.
Speaker 2: Machine Okay, Manigan, I'll be right over.
Speaker 3: I've gotta get going.
Speaker 2: Donc It's no assignment. Never a dull moment in this
business with You've said you craved action. Yeah, I'll san, Doc.
Speaker 3: I may be seeing you tonight.
Speaker 2: What will develop from Patrolman Dan Garrett's next assignment? Will
the Blue Beatle be called into action against the crooked
slot machine racketeers? Can the Blue Beatle protect amusement seekers
against dishonest exploitation. These questions will be answered in the
next episode.
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