1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,519 Speaker 1: In just a moment X minus one. But first your 2 00:00:04,599 --> 00:00:07,599 home will be filled with the voices of top entertainers 3 00:00:07,639 --> 00:00:11,519 and fascinating experts in the homemaking field. Tomorrow when Virginia 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:15,080 Graham and Mike Wallace bring you another broadcast of NBC's Weekday. 5 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:18,679 Among the special guests is Rita gam Hollywood Starr and 6 00:00:18,679 --> 00:00:22,000 one of Grace Kelly's prospective bridesmaids. And Rita will be 7 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:24,960 joined by a singer whose unique style is well known 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,879 to his many fans, Johnny Ray. Then from Britain, It's 9 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:32,479 actor Trevor Howard. Meet them all tomorrow when NBC's Weekday 10 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:36,399 brings you another day of fact and fun on the station. Now, 11 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:38,840 stay tuned for X minus one on NBC. 12 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:48,359 Speaker 2: Come down for Blast Off X minus five, four three 13 00:00:48,640 --> 00:01:18,439 two X minus one Fire from the far horizons of 14 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:22,120 the Unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time 15 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:26,920 and space. These are stories of the future adventures in 16 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:29,200 which you'll live in a million, could be years, on 17 00:01:29,239 --> 00:01:33,879 a thousand, maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation 18 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:51,719 with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, presents HE minus one Tonight, 19 00:01:51,959 --> 00:01:56,319 a story by Frederick Paul Tunnel under the world. 20 00:02:04,359 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 3: On the morning of June fifteenth, Guy Berkhart woke up screaming. 21 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:15,960 It was more real than any dream he had ever 22 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,199 had in his life. He could still hear and feel 23 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:23,759 that sharp, metal ripping explosion, that searing wave of heat. 24 00:02:24,599 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 4: He sat up, ry, Mary, Mary, very Where are you, guy? 25 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 5: What's wrong? You're trembling? Where were you in the kitchen 26 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:34,960 cooking breakfast? What is it? 27 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:36,199 Speaker 6: No? 28 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:38,199 Speaker 7: A dream? I guess an explosion? 29 00:02:38,479 --> 00:02:41,759 Speaker 8: Did you say an explosion? Yes, but that's the dream 30 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:45,319 I had. What I dreamed there was a big explosion, 31 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:47,560 and then something sort of hit me on the head, 32 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:49,360 he smokes me. 33 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:52,919 Speaker 7: Maybe there really was some sort of explosion. It started 34 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:53,800 the streaming. 35 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,360 Speaker 8: Well, there'll be an explosion down at your office if 36 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:57,680 you don't hurry and get to work. 37 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:12,800 Speaker 3: Coming in on the bus, Burkhart watched to see if 38 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:14,960 there was any evidence of an explosion. 39 00:03:15,719 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 9: There wasn't. 40 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 3: If anything, the town looked better than ever. The only 41 00:03:20,039 --> 00:03:23,039 thing that seemed strange to him was the fact that 42 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:24,919 none of the usual crowd. 43 00:03:24,719 --> 00:03:25,479 Speaker 9: Was on the bus. 44 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:28,439 Speaker 7: He was a little relieved when his old. 45 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 9: Pal Henry Swanson finally got on. 46 00:03:32,199 --> 00:03:37,639 Speaker 4: Excuse me, Henry, on me, Henry, what's the matter with you. 47 00:03:37,719 --> 00:03:41,319 It's me Guy Burkart. Burkhart, Sorry, I don't believe we've 48 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:44,919 met what Henry? For Pete's sake, it's me. If you'll 49 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:48,680 excuse me, this is my stop. I'll like that. 50 00:03:56,199 --> 00:03:59,199 Speaker 3: Guy Burkhart got off in front of the Gigantic contro 51 00:03:59,319 --> 00:04:02,599 Chemical building, took the elevator to the ninety eighth floor, 52 00:04:02,639 --> 00:04:06,159 where he had worked in the accounting department for twelve years. 53 00:04:06,719 --> 00:04:09,560 It wasn't until he was almost at his floor that 54 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:13,599 he realized the speaker was not playing the usual commercials. 55 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:17,879 Speaker 10: Friends, Are you happy with your present home freezer of Carskna? Well, 56 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:20,519 the answer to your problems is a Feckle freezer. Feckel 57 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:24,759 freezers are better freezers. Most wives would do anything for 58 00:04:24,879 --> 00:04:27,680 a Feckel freezer. Friends, are you happy with your present 59 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:28,279 home freezer? 60 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 4: Morning is Horn? 61 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:36,759 Speaker 5: Good morning Spirit? 62 00:04:37,639 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 7: Well you Hea? Do I see why? 63 00:04:40,319 --> 00:04:40,519 Speaker 11: Yes? 64 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 5: Do you like it? 65 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 9: That makes a lot of difference in your appearance. 66 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,480 Speaker 12: And mister Barton, no, sir, he had an appointment with 67 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:50,560 mister Dorton of the Human Research Institute today. 68 00:04:51,319 --> 00:04:53,399 Speaker 4: Today's the fifteenth of June. He has to sign the 69 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:54,199 quarterly statement. 70 00:04:54,439 --> 00:04:56,319 Speaker 5: He said he wouldn't be in Hu. 71 00:04:56,480 --> 00:05:00,600 Speaker 7: That's mighty peculiar, yes, sir, Oh, by the way horn, 72 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:03,399 what the devil is a freckle freezer? 73 00:05:03,879 --> 00:05:04,839 Speaker 5: A freezer? 74 00:05:05,319 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 4: There's a new. 75 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:08,839 Speaker 7: Copy on the elevator commercial the daughter you must have 76 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:10,839 landed another account freezes. 77 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 12: I really don't know, mister Barricarr. 78 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:18,199 Speaker 7: It's a funny day. Can't quite put my finger on it. 79 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:19,800 But there's something strange going on. 80 00:05:26,759 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 3: He couldn't shake the thought out of his mind. It 81 00:05:29,879 --> 00:05:32,839 persisted all through the day and through dinner. He was 82 00:05:32,879 --> 00:05:36,240 still brooding as he and Mary got ready for bed. 83 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:42,360 Speaker 5: God, Oh, well, no, anything wrong? 84 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:43,879 Speaker 7: I don't know. 85 00:05:45,079 --> 00:05:47,480 Speaker 5: Well, I guess I'll get a good night's sleeping. 86 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:49,600 Speaker 9: I think I'll set up and read for a while. 87 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 3: At exactly midnight, Guyberghart lapsed into a sudden, deep sleep, 88 00:06:08,399 --> 00:06:12,439 and the following morning he woke up screaming. 89 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:16,600 Speaker 5: Dolly, what is it? What's wrong? 90 00:06:18,399 --> 00:06:21,600 Speaker 9: Oh? I think bad dream? 91 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 5: I guess you gave me such a shock. 92 00:06:25,399 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 7: I seem to be having a lot of nightmares lately. Really, Yes, 93 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:32,560 the one I had yesterday this was the same, A 94 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:34,120 big explosion and then nothing. 95 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 5: You had a dream yesterday, Well, of. 96 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:37,480 Speaker 9: Course I did. 97 00:06:37,519 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 7: You had the same sort of dream. I, guy, you're mistaken. 98 00:06:41,439 --> 00:06:42,639 Speaker 5: I don't remember dreaming. 99 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 4: Mary. 100 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:44,920 Speaker 5: You told me, Guy, you're mistaken. 101 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:45,600 Speaker 4: Mary. 102 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 5: Maybe you dreamed I had a dream. 103 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:52,199 Speaker 7: Maybe, yes, I might have done that. I suppose everything 104 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:53,680 did seem sort of strange yesterday. 105 00:06:54,079 --> 00:06:57,319 Speaker 8: That's probably it. You better get dressed here, today's fifteenth. 106 00:06:57,399 --> 00:06:58,920 That's when the quarterly is fifteenth. 107 00:06:59,199 --> 00:07:02,639 Speaker 7: Yes, it must have been a dream, because yesterday was 108 00:07:02,639 --> 00:07:12,959 the fifteenth. 109 00:07:13,279 --> 00:07:17,560 Speaker 3: Di Berkhart got up, dressed, ate breakfast, and took the 110 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:21,920 usual bus to work. Once again, everything seemed even brighter 111 00:07:21,959 --> 00:07:25,480 and newer than usual, and once again he was puzzled 112 00:07:25,519 --> 00:07:28,000 when he noticed none of the old crowd on the 113 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:36,439 bus hardon me. Please, oh look, don't shove so oh morning, Henry, morning, 114 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:38,160 for God's sake. 115 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 4: Don't talk to me. 116 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 7: What is it You've been followed or something? 117 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 13: Don't you know? I was sure you remembered, remember what? 118 00:07:45,519 --> 00:07:46,279 I can't talk. 119 00:07:47,319 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 4: This is my stopper. 120 00:07:48,199 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 7: You excuse me, please, Hanry, Henry, for Pete's sake. 121 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:04,199 Speaker 3: As in yesterday's dream, Guy Berkhart got off at his 122 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:07,040 stop and took the elevator to the ninety eighth floor. 123 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:11,240 The speaker in the elevator purred a new commercial, this time. 124 00:08:12,439 --> 00:08:18,079 Speaker 11: Marlon searetts they're sanitized. Does your present cigarette make your 125 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:23,519 throat feel raspy and unpleasant? Marlin cigarettes contain a miraculous 126 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:27,959 new drug which actually gives you the sensation of smooth, 127 00:08:28,439 --> 00:08:34,960 creamy smoke. Marlin cigarette. Marlin cigarette. 128 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:43,919 Speaker 3: He walked down the Marble corridor to his office. 129 00:08:45,039 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 4: Good morning, is very Curt, Good morning, was Horn. 130 00:08:48,799 --> 00:08:50,320 Speaker 12: Do you like my new haird. 131 00:08:52,879 --> 00:08:55,159 Speaker 7: Yes? Is mister barth in? 132 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 5: Nohing? 133 00:08:56,679 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 7: He had no appointment with mister Dawton at the Research Institute. 134 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:04,000 I know you know well, I guessed it anyway, And 135 00:09:04,039 --> 00:09:05,879 today is the fifteenth of June, and he won't be 136 00:09:05,919 --> 00:09:08,279 here to sign a quarterly statement. And I'm going nuts. 137 00:09:08,759 --> 00:09:09,720 Let me have a cigarette, will you? 138 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:12,679 Speaker 12: Yes, sir, try one of grief. 139 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 11: They're Marlins. 140 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 7: Never heard of Marlins before today? 141 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 4: What are we a bunch of guinea pigs? Something wrong wrong? 142 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:32,200 Speaker 3: Perish the thought, miss Horn, perish the thought. He went 143 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:35,600 to his desk and stared at the mail before he 144 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:39,720 opened it. He knew that the factory distributor's envelope contained 145 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:43,279 an order for twelve new electronic computers. He knew that 146 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:46,080 the Development journal contained an article about a new method 147 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:51,240 of transprinting selective brain circuits of human engineers onto the 148 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:55,879 electric brain circuits of robot engineers to facilitate the operation 149 00:09:56,039 --> 00:09:59,200 of automatic factories. He knew that there was a complaint 150 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:03,000 from fine beck AND's about the contro chemical's newest household 151 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:03,960 robot circuit. 152 00:10:05,759 --> 00:10:08,960 Speaker 9: After a long while, he forced himself. 153 00:10:08,879 --> 00:10:10,639 Speaker 7: To open them. 154 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:13,080 Speaker 9: They were exactly as he suspected. 155 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:21,000 Speaker 7: Hello, this is Swanson, Henry Swanson. What is it? 156 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:22,279 Speaker 11: Do you remember? 157 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:23,159 Speaker 7: Remember what? 158 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:25,200 Speaker 9: Just remember? All right? 159 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:25,320 Speaker 3: Now? 160 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:28,440 Speaker 7: Listen, Harry, Let's stop playing games. Yesterday, either I was 161 00:10:28,519 --> 00:10:30,600 dreaming or you stubbed me on the bus. Today, the 162 00:10:30,639 --> 00:10:31,480 same thing happens. 163 00:10:31,879 --> 00:10:33,159 Speaker 13: You do remember, Thank Heaven? 164 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:35,559 Speaker 14: I thought so when I saw you, when I couldn't 165 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:35,919 be sure. 166 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:37,320 Speaker 9: Well, what is it you want? 167 00:10:37,919 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 7: Listen? 168 00:10:38,639 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 14: Tomorrow morning when I get off the bus, you get 169 00:10:41,879 --> 00:10:42,320 off with me. 170 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 7: Be casual. 171 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:44,919 Speaker 15: They may be. 172 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 7: Watching, who may be watching? 173 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:59,639 Speaker 4: Swanson? Hello, you buzzed, mister Baker. 174 00:11:00,039 --> 00:11:02,000 Speaker 7: Yes, I'm still out of cigarettes, sir? Would you buy 175 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:02,919 me a pack of Kelvins? 176 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 12: Wouldn't you rather have Marlins? I smoke Kelvin's, but mister Berhard, 177 00:11:08,519 --> 00:11:12,080 Marlins have that soft, creamy smoke. That's so soothing to 178 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:12,639 your throat. 179 00:11:13,799 --> 00:11:15,039 Speaker 7: You really believe that stuff? 180 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:16,720 Speaker 5: It's true. 181 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:20,759 Speaker 12: I wouldn't say this, mister Birhard, except that, well, I've 182 00:11:20,759 --> 00:11:24,440 gotten to know you pretty well, and i've wronged to 183 00:11:24,519 --> 00:11:29,879 admire you so much. You see, would you mind, mister Burkhard, 184 00:11:29,919 --> 00:11:32,120 if I told you that? For months now, I've wanted 185 00:11:32,159 --> 00:11:37,759 to well just comfort you. I know how troubled you've been. 186 00:11:39,039 --> 00:11:43,080 Speaker 7: Well, you've never mentioned your feelings before, miss Horn. 187 00:11:43,159 --> 00:11:46,799 Speaker 12: April, my first name's April. 188 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:49,039 Speaker 7: Well that's pretty name. 189 00:11:49,399 --> 00:11:49,840 Speaker 12: You see. 190 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:51,840 Speaker 5: I do have your welfare at heart. 191 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:55,360 Speaker 12: That's why when I see you smoking Kelvin's and I 192 00:11:55,399 --> 00:11:59,000 know Marlin's is so much better, won't you let me buy. 193 00:11:58,840 --> 00:11:59,720 Speaker 5: Some of them for you? 194 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:02,279 Speaker 9: Well? 195 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:04,080 Speaker 7: I suppose so? 196 00:12:04,919 --> 00:12:05,279 Speaker 9: Why not? 197 00:12:06,159 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 4: Here? 198 00:12:06,399 --> 00:12:07,159 Speaker 7: Bring me a carton? 199 00:12:08,519 --> 00:12:09,639 Speaker 12: Thank you, mister. 200 00:12:10,919 --> 00:12:14,320 Speaker 5: Guy. 201 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:15,639 Speaker 7: I think you ought to go. 202 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:17,159 Speaker 5: I'll be bad. 203 00:12:24,759 --> 00:12:29,960 Speaker 3: There was something wrong, something definitely peculiar about what was happening, 204 00:12:30,519 --> 00:12:33,960 the call from Henry Sponson, the strange behavior of his 205 00:12:34,039 --> 00:12:39,000 secretary in his horn, these new products. The dream guy 206 00:12:39,039 --> 00:12:42,919 Burkhardt went home that night feeling like a man in 207 00:12:42,919 --> 00:12:43,519 a nightmare. 208 00:12:45,279 --> 00:12:47,279 Speaker 4: That you dear, it's me. 209 00:12:47,919 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 5: Do you have a good day? 210 00:12:49,279 --> 00:12:49,600 Speaker 9: Fair? 211 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:50,679 Speaker 5: Oh? 212 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:52,639 Speaker 8: Before you sit down. Will you go down the cellar 213 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:54,600 and put in a new fuse. The switch in the 214 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:55,679 hall closet blew out. 215 00:12:55,919 --> 00:12:56,679 Speaker 5: I shut it off. 216 00:12:57,120 --> 00:12:59,240 Speaker 8: Okay, supper will be ready in a minute, so don't 217 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:00,000 start fooling around. 218 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:01,919 Speaker 5: I've got a boat hull you've been building. 219 00:13:02,039 --> 00:13:23,200 Speaker 16: I want, Harry, Marry, what is it? Come down here, 220 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:23,679 hurry up? 221 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:27,000 Speaker 4: What is it? 222 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:29,840 Speaker 7: I don't know, I'm not sure. I was looking for 223 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:31,879 a fuse and I thought maybe i'd dropped one under 224 00:13:31,919 --> 00:13:35,240 the boat house. So I scratched around. Look, let me 225 00:13:35,279 --> 00:13:39,320 put the flap flight on it. Where Look at the floor. 226 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 5: What about the floor? 227 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:42,799 Speaker 4: It's supposed to be cement? 228 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:46,919 Speaker 7: Well, well, let's copper. There's a thin layer of cement. 229 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:48,000 But underneath its metal. 230 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:49,720 Speaker 4: Look here. 231 00:13:53,799 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 7: Underneath the concrete, more metal. And here on the wall 232 00:14:00,279 --> 00:14:03,679 you see metal under the floor, behind the walls, every place. 233 00:14:03,879 --> 00:14:05,960 Speaker 5: Well, I don't really understand, Mary. 234 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,080 Speaker 7: I know this sounds crazy, but somebody, for reasons I 235 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:10,279 can't even begin to guess, has taken this house and 236 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:13,120 replaced it with a clever imitation. Guy, Harry, I'm gonna 237 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:13,960 look around little more. 238 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 5: Well, your dinner will be ready. 239 00:14:15,039 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 7: All right, say it for me. There are a couple 240 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:18,480 of things I've got to figure out. 241 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 3: The following morning, Guy Burkhardt woke up scream. He dragged 242 00:14:32,279 --> 00:14:35,480 himself into the kitchen where his wife Mary was preparing breakfast, 243 00:14:35,879 --> 00:14:40,480 and discovered it was still June fifteenth. 244 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:41,919 Speaker 7: Mary, where's the morning paper? 245 00:14:41,919 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 4: Where is it outside the door? 246 00:14:43,399 --> 00:14:50,159 Speaker 7: I guess, huh, June fifteenth. 247 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:52,639 Speaker 8: You'd better hurry dear, today's day. Mister Barr feels out 248 00:14:52,639 --> 00:14:53,759 the quarterly tax return. 249 00:14:53,919 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 4: Oh no, it isn't. 250 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:57,879 Speaker 7: He won't be there. He'll get a meeting with that 251 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:01,279 crackpot drsu and at the Human Research has to he'll 252 00:15:01,279 --> 00:15:03,879 be there, and miss Horn will have a new hairdoo, 253 00:15:03,879 --> 00:15:06,279 and the elevator will be selling some new product in Swanson. 254 00:15:07,159 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 5: What about Swanson? 255 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:12,559 Speaker 7: Swanson? He said, I wonder if it's going to be 256 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:14,000 the same today. 257 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 5: Guy, what in the world are you talking about? 258 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:19,080 Speaker 7: Nothing of min where's my coat? 259 00:15:19,159 --> 00:15:20,039 Speaker 5: You haven't had any breakfast? 260 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:21,919 Speaker 7: I don't want to miss my bus. I'll see you tonight. 261 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,279 Speaker 9: Guy Burkhardt got on his bus. 262 00:15:27,559 --> 00:15:31,279 Speaker 3: They were the same unfamiliar faces, the same unusually new 263 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:35,519 looking buildings, the same unusually bright sunshine, and on the 264 00:15:35,559 --> 00:15:40,399 customary corner Henry Swanson pale and furtive climbed a board. 265 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 14: Huh, excuse me, sir, it's quite all right. Do you 266 00:15:47,279 --> 00:15:48,159 remember the phone call? 267 00:15:48,799 --> 00:15:49,000 Speaker 16: Yes? 268 00:15:49,519 --> 00:15:52,039 Speaker 14: Thank heaven. Get off at the next corner and follow me. 269 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 9: Where are you going? 270 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 6: There's an excavation for a building about a blockdown. Make 271 00:15:57,039 --> 00:16:12,720 sure you aren't followed. I'll go first, Burcott, here behind 272 00:16:12,759 --> 00:16:13,159 the fence. 273 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:16,919 Speaker 7: All right, now, Henry, what's this all about? 274 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 6: I'm not sure. At first I thought perhaps they were Russians. 275 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,759 Now I'm beginning to think they're Martians. No humans could 276 00:16:24,799 --> 00:16:26,240 have accomplished what they've accomplished. 277 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:28,519 Speaker 7: Now, wait a minute, start from the beginning, Henry, what's 278 00:16:28,559 --> 00:16:29,000 going on? 279 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:32,559 Speaker 14: Look, Burkhott, peculiar things have been happening to you? 280 00:16:32,679 --> 00:16:32,879 Speaker 9: Right? 281 00:16:33,919 --> 00:16:36,639 Speaker 6: Yes, a lot of your friends are missing. Your house 282 00:16:36,639 --> 00:16:37,480 seems changed. 283 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:42,600 Speaker 7: Something stranger than that. The date today is June fifteenth, 284 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:44,919 Yet I could swear yesterday was June fifteenth, and the 285 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:45,559 day before that. 286 00:16:45,879 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 6: You got it, friend, It's always June fifteenth, and you 287 00:16:49,799 --> 00:16:51,440 and I are the only ones who know it. 288 00:16:52,279 --> 00:16:54,679 Speaker 7: Why, Henry, how I'm not sure. 289 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:58,759 Speaker 14: I think it's some sort of mass hypnosis or something. 290 00:16:58,799 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 7: Well, why doesn't it work for us? My wife Mary 291 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:02,200 doesn't remember a thing. 292 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:06,559 Speaker 6: Somehow when it happened, they missed us. We were protected 293 00:17:06,599 --> 00:17:09,839 from the full force of the rays or whatever they used. 294 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:11,680 Speaker 4: Or cut. 295 00:17:11,799 --> 00:17:14,319 Speaker 14: Where were you on the night of the fourteenth, about midnight? 296 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:18,200 Speaker 7: Let me see, that was Sunday night. Yes, yeah, I 297 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:20,680 was down in the cellar under the boat I'm building. 298 00:17:21,279 --> 00:17:23,920 Speaker 14: I was in my dark room developing some pictures. 299 00:17:24,759 --> 00:17:27,839 Speaker 7: This just doesn't make any sense to me. Russians, Martians, 300 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:29,000 What makes you think that. 301 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:33,400 Speaker 14: I've seen them? Where at the end of the tunnel. 302 00:17:33,559 --> 00:17:37,319 Speaker 7: What tunnel the one they built under Tyler Town Tunnel 303 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:38,200 under Tyler Town. 304 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:39,039 Speaker 13: Yes, that's right. 305 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:41,759 Speaker 14: It's made out of copper or some alloy. 306 00:17:42,519 --> 00:17:43,640 Speaker 4: God, wait a minute. 307 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 7: I found a copper layer under my cellar floor last night, 308 00:17:46,599 --> 00:17:47,079 So did I. 309 00:17:47,599 --> 00:17:50,160 Speaker 6: That's how I discovered it. I found a way to 310 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:55,759 get into It's at the bottom of this excavation. Holy mackerel, Henry, 311 00:17:55,759 --> 00:17:58,519 Why don't we tell the police because we can't trust them, 312 00:17:58,720 --> 00:17:59,839 even the police. 313 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:00,640 Speaker 14: May be marshas in the sky. 314 00:18:00,759 --> 00:18:02,200 Speaker 7: Oh come on, are you being meloderma? Oh? 315 00:18:02,279 --> 00:18:02,440 Speaker 6: Am? 316 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:05,599 Speaker 14: I but you just come with me where into the tunnel? 317 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:06,319 Speaker 4: I'll show you. 318 00:18:13,279 --> 00:18:16,000 Speaker 3: Henry Swanson led Guy berghride to a small hole on 319 00:18:16,039 --> 00:18:18,640 the side of the excavation. There he removed the cut 320 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:21,200 out piece of metallic substance, and they crawled into a 321 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:24,359 dimly lighted tunnel. They walked for what seemed like two 322 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:29,119 miles until Swanson held his finger to his lips. 323 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:31,599 Speaker 13: We've got to be quiet now, Henry. 324 00:18:31,599 --> 00:18:34,880 Speaker 7: This is fantastic. They've got a tunnel right under the hotwn. 325 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:36,680 Speaker 14: You haven't seen anything yet. 326 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 6: There's a room a little farther down, so we'll be 327 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:41,920 able to look through a glass in the door. 328 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:42,920 Speaker 7: Is it safe. 329 00:18:43,839 --> 00:18:46,480 Speaker 14: That's perfectly safe unless one of them comes along. 330 00:18:47,559 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 13: Oh, come on, okay, here. 331 00:18:55,559 --> 00:18:59,599 Speaker 6: Burkhott looked through this glass now, just so I know 332 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:01,039 I'm not completely insane. 333 00:19:01,799 --> 00:19:05,440 Speaker 13: Tell me what you see, good lord. 334 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:11,519 Speaker 7: Well, a tremendous panel with dozens of telescreens, and in 335 00:19:11,559 --> 00:19:15,319 front of each of the several robots. They seem to 336 00:19:15,319 --> 00:19:17,400 be computing something. Yes, I've watched. 337 00:19:18,599 --> 00:19:21,039 Speaker 13: They're evaluating data from the screens. 338 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:23,039 Speaker 7: Have you got a chance to look at the data 339 00:19:23,079 --> 00:19:24,039 on those screens? 340 00:19:24,559 --> 00:19:28,599 Speaker 6: No, I've been afraid to go in. There might be 341 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:30,119 a warning circuit somewhere. 342 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:32,759 Speaker 7: Well, if we knew what those robots were working on, 343 00:19:32,839 --> 00:19:34,039 we could go to the authorities. 344 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 13: I whisk it a few will all. 345 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:40,880 Speaker 7: Right, it's worth a chance. We're lost anyway. 346 00:19:41,839 --> 00:19:52,119 Speaker 13: Okay, open the door. So far, so good. 347 00:19:52,559 --> 00:19:55,359 Speaker 7: Come on, let's take a look at that data. 348 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:56,880 Speaker 13: But don't interfere with the robots. 349 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:02,640 Speaker 7: Don't worry. Yeah, let's look at the screen. Listen to this. 350 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:07,880 Tests in the forty seven K twelve group with Marlin 351 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:12,200 cigarettes pulled eighty percent using the soft feminine approach. Indications 352 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,119 are that an extension of this approach would influence at 353 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:19,400 least seventy percent nationwide. The direct elevator pitch pulled only 354 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:22,480 ten percent. They should be abandoned and a new series 355 00:20:22,519 --> 00:20:26,680 of high persuasion personal elements introduced. Henry, do you know 356 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:27,319 what this means? 357 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:29,400 Speaker 13: I haven't the faintest idea. 358 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,480 Speaker 7: I don't blame you. This is crazy, but it fits 359 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:34,839 the facts when I think about it. Do you know 360 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:39,400 who's behind this? Martian? No, not martians, Henry. Humans What 361 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:43,279 humans were interested in developing the perfect propaganda machine? 362 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:43,720 Speaker 5: What? 363 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:46,359 Speaker 7: I don't know who they are or how they've done it, 364 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:51,920 but somehow they've taken Tyler Town over hypnosis, hypnosis, drugs, 365 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:53,759 maybe some kind of array or something. However they do 366 00:20:53,839 --> 00:20:56,079 it What happens is that they let us live through 367 00:20:56,079 --> 00:20:58,880 a single day. During that day, they pour all kinds 368 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:01,519 of suggestions and propaganda to into us. At the end 369 00:21:01,519 --> 00:21:05,000 of the day, they evaluate the results, see how we've reacted, 370 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:08,160 And at midnight they washed the day out of our minds, 371 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:10,039 and the next morning we start the same day over again, 372 00:21:10,039 --> 00:21:12,000 with different stimuli. Do you know what that means, Henry? 373 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:17,200 Suppose one man learned how to influence people one day 374 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:19,640 in a year, he could sell us anything from freezes 375 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:22,240 to political candidates. Wait a minute, where guinea pigs? 376 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:22,519 Speaker 13: Henry? 377 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:26,200 Speaker 7: This whole community is one big test tube for Dawton's 378 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:29,039 propaganda research. B What do we do? I don't know, 379 00:21:29,079 --> 00:21:30,319 But somehow we've got to get out of this town 380 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:31,000 and get to the FBI. 381 00:21:31,039 --> 00:21:31,799 Speaker 14: How do you think we can? 382 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:32,599 Speaker 7: It's worth a try. 383 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:34,960 Speaker 4: Come on, wait, what is it? 384 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,839 Speaker 6: Look through the door. There's somebody coming down the tunnel. 385 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,480 You've got to hide behind the circuit boxwa. 386 00:21:44,599 --> 00:21:48,319 Speaker 7: Good lord, it's Dawton, the head of the research institute. 387 00:21:55,200 --> 00:22:02,200 Speaker 15: All right, Burcott, come out, we know you're in this room. 388 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:07,440 Ms Horn has informed us that you remember, I must 389 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:11,559 warn you that it's useless to buck us come out peacefully. 390 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,480 Let our maintenance crew adjust you properly so you don't 391 00:22:15,519 --> 00:22:18,039 remember from one experiment to the next. 392 00:22:18,759 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 7: It will be quite painless. 393 00:22:22,079 --> 00:22:24,799 Speaker 15: If you don't come out peacefully, we'll have to get you. 394 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:28,920 Speaker 7: Henry, take this wrench when I give the word jumping. 395 00:22:29,079 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 13: But he may be armed, and we've got nothing to lose. 396 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:40,400 Speaker 15: Very well, I'm coming after you. 397 00:22:37,799 --> 00:22:44,440 Speaker 4: Now, very god, I've killed him. 398 00:22:45,279 --> 00:22:51,000 Speaker 7: Get his coat un buttoned. Maybe his heart still leading? Henry? 399 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:51,799 Speaker 13: What is it? 400 00:22:51,839 --> 00:22:52,319 Speaker 4: What's wrong? 401 00:22:52,599 --> 00:22:57,359 Speaker 7: Look underneath his coat? Heaven help us. It's a robot, 402 00:22:58,039 --> 00:23:00,799 a humanoid robot design look like Dawton. 403 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:01,920 Speaker 14: Come on, let's get out of here. 404 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:04,359 Speaker 7: What's speaker? 405 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:08,160 Speaker 15: I told you it was useless? Gentleman, Who are you? 406 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:12,720 Mister Drton? Naturally the real mister Drton? 407 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:14,640 Speaker 4: What are you trying to do to us? 408 00:23:15,039 --> 00:23:18,400 Speaker 15: Merely trying to prevent you from damaging my experiment? Gentlemen, 409 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:19,599 you can't. 410 00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:22,160 Speaker 7: Get away with this Dawton. Sooner or later somebody, the 411 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,640 FBI or somebody is going to get wind of this madness. 412 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:29,400 Speaker 15: Really, Burhart, you're quite naive now. Why not be reasonable 413 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:31,480 and let the maintenance cruis adjust you? 414 00:23:32,039 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 7: And if I refuse, I suppose you'll kill me. 415 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:40,680 Speaker 15: That would be quite impossible. Oh you see, Burhart, you're 416 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:48,240 already dead. Dead, you're shocked. It's quite true. You and 417 00:23:48,319 --> 00:23:51,799 everyone else in this town were killed by a premature 418 00:23:51,839 --> 00:23:55,720 atomic blast at the contro chemical plant. The blast occurred 419 00:23:55,759 --> 00:23:59,160 at seven am on June fifteenth. That is the last 420 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:02,119 thing imprinted on your minds. That's why you wake up 421 00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:03,160 screaming each morning. 422 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:04,759 Speaker 4: No, it isn't true, but it is. 423 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,359 Speaker 15: What I and my associates did was take the brain 424 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,680 circuits from your dead bodies. We stored them in electrochemical 425 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:14,640 batteries until we had a chance to rebuild the cities 426 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:15,839 and begin our tests. 427 00:24:16,559 --> 00:24:18,640 Speaker 7: Do you think I believe a fantastic tale like that? 428 00:24:19,039 --> 00:24:22,359 Speaker 15: I imagine you find it incredible. Of course, we didn't 429 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,960 rebuild everything exactly. After all, it only has to last 430 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:30,039 for a single day, June fifteenth. At midnight, we turn 431 00:24:30,079 --> 00:24:32,039 off the power and wash out the memory of the day. 432 00:24:33,039 --> 00:24:38,160 You're your friends once and unfortunately have defective circuits. You remember, 433 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:39,480 It's no use. 434 00:24:39,519 --> 00:24:40,839 Speaker 7: We're trapped to give up, not me. 435 00:24:41,319 --> 00:24:41,920 Speaker 4: What can we do? 436 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:43,319 Speaker 7: We can make a run for it down the tunnel. 437 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:47,319 Speaker 15: Come on, it's useless, Burker, keep going it's useless. 438 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:49,519 Speaker 9: Use first, you fir. 439 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:08,759 Speaker 4: Now this door is open. It opens. 440 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,839 Speaker 16: Oh no, no, I don't believe it. 441 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:16,720 Speaker 7: Swats and look. 442 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:26,160 Speaker 3: They were standing on a ledge of smooth, finished metal. 443 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:30,200 At their feet, the ledge dropped away into a chasm 444 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:34,240 so deep they could not see the bottom. Beyond was 445 00:25:34,279 --> 00:25:37,359 only a glare so bright that their eyes could not 446 00:25:37,599 --> 00:25:42,200 stand to look into it. And yet, just at the 447 00:25:42,279 --> 00:25:48,039 limit of their vision, something towered, something so huge it 448 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:49,680 was almost inconceivable. 449 00:25:50,839 --> 00:25:58,000 Speaker 15: Something work hurt. Yes, this is tortune. How do you 450 00:25:58,119 --> 00:25:59,599 understand why it's useless? 451 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,960 Speaker 9: The great looming figure moved closer. 452 00:26:04,839 --> 00:26:07,960 Speaker 3: It seemed to take shape now, and yet it was 453 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:13,119 so gigantic as to be unbelievable. It came closer, the 454 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:18,960 glare was partially blocked, and then Guy Burkhart knew that 455 00:26:19,039 --> 00:26:22,759 the towering shape was none other than Dautchen himself. 456 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:27,240 Speaker 15: You see how I did it, Burkhert. I took your 457 00:26:27,279 --> 00:26:31,440 brain circuits and had them reduced so they could be 458 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:36,599 transferred to tiny humanoid mannikins. That's what you are, Burkhart, 459 00:26:37,079 --> 00:26:42,119 a tiny miniature of yourself. And this city, this whole 460 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:46,319 experiment I'm conducting, is built on a table. 461 00:26:46,079 --> 00:27:04,319 Speaker 3: Top It was the morning of June fifteenth, and Guy 462 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:10,119 Burkhardt woke up out of a dream. 463 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:26,839 Speaker 4: Screaming, who have just heard? 464 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,279 Speaker 2: X minus one presented by the National Broadcasting Company in 465 00:27:30,319 --> 00:27:34,599 cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction magazine, which this month features 466 00:27:34,599 --> 00:27:38,839 another story by Tonight's author Frederick Paul. It's the second 467 00:27:38,839 --> 00:27:43,400 installment of his novel slave Ship Your Announcer, Fred Collins. 468 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,519 X minus one was directed by Daniel Sutter and is 469 00:27:47,559 --> 00:27:49,519 an NBC Radio Network production.