Speaker 1: X minus five four Craze two x minus one Fire.
Speaker 2: Tonight, George Leffert's original radio drama of the twenty first century,
Farigi's Wonderful Dolls.
Speaker 3: The Dolls Shop stood on a quiet Washington side street,
not too far from the sprawling Pentagon Building. A woman
and a child waited outside, the little girl peering eagerly
through the window at the dolls inside, and the woman
glancing impatiently at her wristwatch as if expecting someone who
was late for an appointment. And there was no thing
about the dog shop to warn them that they were
waiting to keep an appointment with.
Speaker 4: Do mommy, look, yes? What is it?
Speaker 5: Then in the window of the shop, da, oh, mommy,
do you think daddy will buy me one?
Speaker 6: Well, we'll ask him when he comes due. He said,
three o'clock on this corner.
Speaker 5: I see your mommy.
Speaker 4: There he is, Henry.
Speaker 5: Here we are.
Speaker 4: Well, we've been waiting for you.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid I'll have to call off the shopping Elmer.
Speaker 4: Oh, Henry, we promise, I know.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. It's just one of those things. You've been
the wife of an army curnel long enough to know
his life isn't his own.
Speaker 4: What is it this time?
Speaker 1: Oh, some more of that flying sphere nonsense. The pilot
says he's sighted that last month, crashed and was killed today,
So the general wants a full report.
Speaker 4: Dear, what means daddy?
Speaker 1: A staff meeting at the pentagone?
Speaker 5: Daddy, look in this window? Yes for me, daddy, please.
Speaker 1: Indeed, I haven't time to stop and watch a bunch
of six inch dollars parading around the shop. Say they
are lifelike, don't they look at that Alma dolls are
marching round like a regular review. They've even got their.
Speaker 4: Own little band radio staff meeting.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yes, I've got to run. Oh look,
don't go spending a lot of money on that nonsense, helmer.
Speaker 7: No, dear, byday, Oh mommy, look that the band's gonna play.
Speaker 4: Aren't they wonderful? Honey? You know it's funny. I must
have stood on this corner a thousand times and.
Speaker 6: I've never even noticed this shop before.
Speaker 1: Good evening, children.
Speaker 6: Oh, good evening, he chucks off of friends.
Speaker 8: Would you like to step inside the shop of Santra, Yes,
we would this way. It's it's like here in the
shop of Santa Perrici creator of Pig's universal wonderful dolls.
The world of adult reality is blended with the world
of child's fantasy.
Speaker 4: This is a new shop, isn't it, mister p.
Speaker 1: What is new and what is all? Come this way?
Would you like to meet one of my little ones?
Speaker 8: Yes, this one in the red jacket is Toto speak
little one?
Speaker 5: Are you?
Speaker 4: He talks to dat amazing?
Speaker 8: That is nothing for peric is wonderful dolls. Listen sing
Toto sing for the little girl my name, mister.
Speaker 4: Listen sing Toto.
Speaker 9: Mean harm.
Speaker 5: To fos.
Speaker 4: How do they work, mister Precy?
Speaker 1: How do they work?
Speaker 8: That is the secret of the Great Percy, greatest of
all dull masters. To make an ordinary doll is nothing.
To make a perfect replica that is something. But to
make a doll with intelligence that is the work of
an artist. Yes, they must be very expense, madame. When
I construct a doll like thoughto, I cannot bear to
be parted from him permanently.
Speaker 1: So instead of selling, I rent my little people.
Speaker 4: You rent dog precisely ten dollars.
Speaker 1: I have but one request.
Speaker 8: When you grow tired of my dolls, you must return
them to me in good conditions.
Speaker 5: Mommy could we take him home. He's downing in chance. Oh, mommy,
he wants to come. Please, I'll take such.
Speaker 1: Good year of it.
Speaker 5: Please.
Speaker 6: Well, honey, we'll we'll have to deal with your father later,
but well, oh all right, rappa mister b oh, dear,
I have a feeling when your father comes home, we'll
be sorry.
Speaker 5: Sorry, Now, Total in my room and you're gonna sleep
right here next to my please, oh, Total, don't laugh
like that. I'm gonna have to teach you some manner.
You'll be quiet because my daddy will be home soon
and he's a colonel in the army and and he'll
bust you the private if you don't behave you wait here,
I'm going to introduce you to my puppy dog, mister Blister.
To be good now, yeah, bless, yeh bless. This is Total.
Speaker 1: Kira.
Speaker 5: I don't think mister Blister likes you.
Speaker 4: To stop it.
Speaker 5: Mister Blister, come over here and shake hands with Total
mister Blister. Come on now, let.
Speaker 4: Come over here. Why what happened, dear?
Speaker 5: Mister Blister tried to bite my dog? Look how frightened?
Speaker 4: Total dogs don't get frightened, Cindy.
Speaker 5: But he is money he's green.
Speaker 6: You just imagined it, honey, he did, he did, mister
Blister didn't mean it. You know, he's the gentlest little
pup alive.
Speaker 5: He's nasty and I hate him.
Speaker 4: You've heard his feelings.
Speaker 5: He tried to buy my new doll. I don't ever
want to see him again ever.
Speaker 6: Oh dear, all right, mister Blister, you come downstairs with me,
Come on, man, and he's angry at you, Tony.
Speaker 5: I'll kill him.
Speaker 6: Why, cyddy, where did you Where did you hear a
thing like that? Toto said, I see, well, you've had
an exciting day, honey. Brush teeth down and go to bed.
Speaker 4: Dad's coming home late, so will see in the morning.
Good night, don sleep well.
Speaker 5: I hate him, mister Toto. I hate him.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Alba, breakfast? Ready?
Speaker 4: Minute? How was the staff meeting.
Speaker 1: Last night, dear, horrible boy? As usual. There's a little one.
Speaker 4: Up in a room. He'll be down a minute.
Speaker 1: Oh, so, remind me to take some papers back to
the water department with you. I left him in my
strong box, Henry.
Speaker 4: He told me it was against regulations to bring secret
papers home.
Speaker 1: Well, I had to finish some word for the old man.
Nobody will have another difference.
Speaker 4: Well suppose not, Oh.
Speaker 5: See you when you feed the puppy before we sit down?
Speaker 4: His balls under the sea?
Speaker 1: Where is he? That's funny? Is a supper from last night?
Only half even getting flessy, bless her? Ye're blessed her,
bless that. Whether dickens is the mud? Maybe go backward,
maybe head blesster he blester, Alma, what is it?
Speaker 8: Dear?
Speaker 1: Looks hi Henry?
Speaker 6: He is he?
Speaker 4: But how what happened?
Speaker 1: From the looks of it, he might have been poisoned?
Speaker 4: Poisoned? Who on earth would do a thing like that
to an innocent little pup?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Let's see a dick Oh, Henry, I
don't understand this at all. Say what's this?
Speaker 4: What's what?
Speaker 1: Well? Look, there are pieces of broken glass in this food.
Blue glass glass.
Speaker 6: Class, Henry. H Well, I just remembered something. What it
may just be coincidence, But in the bathroom this morning,
what about they's blue glass, you know, the one with
the mickey mouse. Honest, it was broken, Henry. I found
pieces in the wastebaskeer. I meant to ask her about it.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, I'm my for Heaven's sake, you want suggesting
to our little girl, why she love blistered than anyone?
Speaker 4: Not last night?
Speaker 1: She didn't? Why not?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 4: He he he went after Toto.
Speaker 1: Doll. You bought her one of those dolls. I just
rented it, rented it, yes, look al mad? No, well
all right, what's this got to do with blister?
Speaker 4: He went to the doll and Cindy. Well, well, Cindy said, Henry.
She said she'd kill him.
Speaker 1: What, well, that's ridiculous. Good heaven's a nine year old
child putting ground glass and dog food. She'd have to
be a monster. I don't say anything. I'll talk to her.
Speaker 5: Good morning, dear money daddy.
Speaker 1: Hello, what's the matter, nothing, Cindy said. Down here, Cindy, Uh,
your mother tells me you broke your blue drinking glass.
Speaker 4: Oh no, I didn't break it, Cindy, I didn't.
Speaker 1: Somebody broke it. It wasn't your mother, and it wasn't me.
Speaker 5: Well, then it must have been Toto.
Speaker 1: You know, Toto was only a doll. Now, a doll
couldn't have broken your glass, could he?
Speaker 5: Well, but you must have done it, daddy.
Speaker 1: Cindy, you know how daddy feel about little girls. To
tell him truth, I'd hate to think you've done something
you knew was wrong and you were blaming it on
the doll.
Speaker 5: What's the matter with mister Blisters?
Speaker 1: Is he sick? He's dead, Cindy.
Speaker 5: Oh no, he can't be, Daddy. He isn't dead, Daddy. No,
he isn't.
Speaker 1: He isn't.
Speaker 4: Mommy, Yes, dear, but you'll come back.
Speaker 5: He has to come back.
Speaker 4: No, he won't come back, honey.
Speaker 1: What ever, No, Cindy, not ever, now that we've told you, Cindy,
if you want to change your mind about the glass
you think I cute?
Speaker 4: See what you've done. The child feels guilty, dear.
Speaker 1: There is no time for feelings to interfere.
Speaker 4: When they come, they just come.
Speaker 6: You got your room, honey, daddy, and I'll get me
jest wantley, we'll be ready please.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good girl. There's the kitchen door behind you,
mister buster.
Speaker 5: He isn't coming back. It wasn't even it was you.
Speaker 9: It was you.
Speaker 2: You're listening to NBC Radios Award winning science fiction series
X minus one. Now we returned to X minus one
and Parigi's Wonderful Dolls.
Speaker 6: Eat your supper, dear, I'm not hungry, Cindy, you scarcely
touched your lune.
Speaker 5: I feel like e.
Speaker 4: Is it mister blister?
Speaker 1: Cindy answer your mother.
Speaker 4: Henry should work it out in her own way, Dear, Oh.
Speaker 1: I don't know. When I was a boy there was
such a thing as discipline. Where this child is being
brought up Henry, Well, it's true, there's no respect. Lying. Oh,
I don't know, Alma, what's happened to us? We were
a nice, peaceful, happy family until you bought that curse
of doll.
Speaker 4: Now who's blaming things on the doll?
Speaker 1: Well, it's true.
Speaker 4: You wanted to get some papers from your strong box.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, excuse me, Will you try.
Speaker 4: To eat something, Cindy, now, darling?
Speaker 1: Alma, Alma, what is it? Almut's gone?
Speaker 4: What's gone?
Speaker 1: A box? The strong box is gone.
Speaker 4: It can't be. The door to your study's always locked,
and you and I have the only key.
Speaker 1: I know all that, and I tell you it isn't there. Well,
who would, I don't know, Alma. Those confidential reports if
they ever get into the wrong hand.
Speaker 4: I warned you about keeping them here.
Speaker 1: Whatever it ever came out in the open. Can't you
see the papers? I'm a colonel derelict and duty. Call
the police, Henry, want to throw my career in the
waste basket after seventeen years, and we're gonna find it ourselves.
Speaker 4: It was there when I went into clean this morning.
Speaker 1: What a bunch of key.
Speaker 4: Well it's right here. I always keep it right with me.
That's funny. Oh no, my other keys are all on
the room.
Speaker 1: You've lost it. How could you do it? Come on
with search the house. I can't think of anything else
to do.
Speaker 4: Dear, you're going to miss your staff meeting.
Speaker 1: Well all right, never mind them meeting. My whole career
goes up and smoke. If we don't find those reports,
somebody get hold of your key and open that room.
I know Cindy let the child alone.
Speaker 4: She's been through enough. You know she wouldn't do a
thing right there.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything anymore. I don't know my own child.
I don't even know you, Henry. All I know is
that strong box is gone with papers that are dynamite.
If the wrong person gets them, question being who what's
that coming from upstairs?
Speaker 9: Kill him?
Speaker 4: How do you do?
Speaker 6: How do you do.
Speaker 1: There?
Speaker 4: Henry?
Speaker 1: But since we've got this thing.
Speaker 4: With me, look where what around the doll's neck. The key,
the key are steady.
Speaker 1: It was Cindy after all. I don't believe it. Ever
since she got this fool dogs, she has been acting
half insane. First a dog, now this. I think she
hates us how much hemy.
Speaker 4: Cindy is my child and I know her. I know
she's a good, sensitive little person with no malice in her.
Speaker 1: You're just simply refusing to face the facts. Stairs.
Speaker 4: What are you going to do?
Speaker 1: I'm going downstairs and have her talk with that young lady. Cindy.
You're not telling me the truth.
Speaker 5: Yes, I am, daddy.
Speaker 1: All I'm asking is that you tell me the truth. Now,
where is it?
Speaker 5: I didn't take it, daddy, honest, I didn't take it.
Speaker 1: I suppose you're going to tell me now that a
little six inch dollar took my strong box and hit it. Well, Cindy,
I'm speaking to you.
Speaker 4: I didn't take it.
Speaker 5: You don't understand total.
Speaker 4: He's terrible, awful.
Speaker 5: He says things. He says, he's going to kill everybody.
Speaker 1: Cindy, you're inventing things. It's true.
Speaker 5: Hit night, when I'm sleeping, he stands next to my
pillow and whispers, seeds told me awful things. He told
me to kill me too if I told you.
Speaker 1: Oh my, I think this child is sick. I think
she needs a doctor.
Speaker 4: Frightened man's telling I believe. Come on, darling, we'll go
up to your room.
Speaker 5: I don't want to go with you. I'm afraid he's
up there.
Speaker 4: Who Cindy Toto.
Speaker 1: Well he won't be up there for long, as the
Toto was going right back to Parigi's Wonderful Doll shop
before I lose my sanity, which means right.
Speaker 8: Now, Ah, Colonel Grayson, welcome to the home of peerage
is wonderful doll?
Speaker 1: Are you preachy Santra Pirici.
Speaker 8: Creator of the universal dall the dull with the mine?
Speaker 1: Well, I'm returning one of your masterpieces.
Speaker 8: Oh, if you will step into the rear of my chap. Now,
what is the complaint. There's no complaint. Here's your dahal
good riddence, my little Toto. Reject that you found the
world of men too filled with hate. We will change
all that later on. Return to your comrades in the window.
Speaker 1: Little one.
Speaker 8: And now, Colonel Grayson, I think we have no further business,
sir ah, but we do, connel.
Speaker 1: Let me see ay here it is. Do you recognize this, colonel.
That's my strong box quit. My little Toto is very clever, sir.
Are you trying to tell me your dolls stole that
from me?
Speaker 8: Let us not say stole. I'm merely keeping it in custody.
What's your game for Regie?
Speaker 1: Blackmail? You give me what I want. I do not
ruin your career. What do you want information?
Speaker 8: We already know something from the reports of the War Department,
reported by one of your pilots.
Speaker 1: What government do you represent? I represent peerage is wonderful dolls, noneother.
I'm not so naive, sir.
Speaker 8: Perhaps I should explain each man hides something from the world,
each man loves something more than life.
Speaker 1: With the help of my wonderful dolls.
Speaker 8: I obtain personal information which enables me to control the
men who control the world.
Speaker 1: Men like you. Hand over that strong but I warn
you I have a gun.
Speaker 3: Give it to me.
Speaker 1: You are being full.
Speaker 8: Put down that walking stick now no closer, now.
Speaker 1: H Hello, give me the police. Hello, This is Colonel
Henry Grayson. I've just killed a man for Regie's Dollar shop,
corner of Fourth and Lexington. The body is in the rear.
I'll wait for you.
Speaker 4: Shut up?
Speaker 5: Did you speak color, Henry Grayson?
Speaker 1: I can't be. I must be going out of my mind.
Six inch dog, shut up. The Master's dead.
Speaker 9: You are mistaken, Colonel. I Toto am the Master.
Speaker 1: What do you mean?
Speaker 9: If you will examine the body of Santo Barigi, you
will see that he does not plead and he does
not bleed, Colonel, because Santa.
Speaker 1: Perigi never lived, never lived. Santa Perigi is a doll
do but he's a man. He talks, he walks. See.
Speaker 9: People of Militrics are skillful dial builders, metrics Doug Building.
Speaker 1: Who are you?
Speaker 9: I am Zelfus Imperato, commander of the legions of the
third Planetoid Militrics Planetoid. My people and I, whom you
regard as dials, come from a tiny planet beyond the Moon.
What so small that it cannot support our population. We
landed one of our space spheres on Earth three months
ago with the intention of colonizing. Unfortunately, one of your
pilots intercepted us.
Speaker 1: So that's why you wanted our information precisely, and you
are human.
Speaker 9: Great human, of course, in order to deal with Earth
people without suspicion, we were forced to instruct amensized doll.
Speaker 1: No, it can't believe. I can't believe this. I'm I'm
having hallucinations. I'm gonna get out of here.
Speaker 9: It will be impossible. We have weapons of destruction quite
along to earth people.
Speaker 1: I found the place. I'll be here soon. By the
time they.
Speaker 9: Arrive, my people will have prepared something quite shocking.
Speaker 1: Keep me covered, Ryan, Okay, sach all right, you're the
guy who turned in the call. Yes, that's right, sergeant.
Where's his body? Well, you see, it isn't exactly a body.
What do you mean it's a doll? What? Wait, you've
gotta let me explain. I know this sounds fantastic, but
I've stumbled onto one unblievable plot. Yeah, keep talking. You
can see these little dolls. They aren't really dolls. They're
they're tiny people. Now there's a big doll named Santa
Parigi that you him as a front run the shop.
He's off his trolley side. Now now look here, listen, mister,
we gotta call it. There was a murder here.
Speaker 10: Now, if there was one, where is the body, Well.
Speaker 1: It's behind the curtains in the back. Only you see,
it isn't really a body. It's a big wax dummy.
It's it's all part of their plot to gain control.
Speaker 8: Of the world.
Speaker 1: Smoke, he's really off his rocket. Look if you don't
believe me, I'll prove it to you. Come here, look
behind this curtain. You'll see the dummy lying on the floor.
Very come, gentlemen, are you looking for something? This is impossible.
I smashed his collar. You know this guy, that's the one,
the doll? What's your name? Mister creator of the universal?
Do do you ever see this man? Never until just now.
That's not true. He's lying. I tell you he's nothing
but a big doll. The real masters and the little
dolls getting this. He's wacko. Side is a fruitcake. I'm
not crazy. I tell you. I can prove it. They
must have fixed up his head where I smashed it.
In touch and you'll see, mister, you know what this
guy is talking about? The man is that's not true.
I tell you there's a plot to control the Earth.
I've gotta call the water potment. They want to know
about the flying sphere. My Michael list gets worse every minute.
Speaker 8: Ryan.
Speaker 1: Take them the head corner. I'll save some time. Take
him down the cycle wak okay, all right, back way,
just come along nice and quiet. Oh don't just see
he's nothing but a man sized doll. I'm sure the
one's gonna take over the earth. And you're going away
and cut out.
Speaker 8: Sorry, I had all this trouble, miss pres Poor Chap
is obviously suffering from delusion.
Speaker 10: Well he's not the only one in Washington today. You know,
we've been getting the whole string of crack ups lately,
big wigs blowing their tops under pressure. If you could
see some of the names in our confidential file.
Speaker 8: You keep confidential files and cases like this, certainly believe.
Speaker 10: Me, they'd be dying of mind if they have gotten
the wrong hands.
Speaker 1: Well, I'd better be running a loud. My little girl
would be nuts for that.
Speaker 8: So then please accept the doll for saving my life.
That madman might have killed me. Yes, but I talked
home with you as a GIF.
Speaker 10: Well, I don't know, mister brig it's against regulations for
us to accept favors.
Speaker 8: But this is not for you.
Speaker 1: It is for your little daughter.
Speaker 8: And if you will only take the doll and give
him a good home, you will be doing me a
great favor.
Speaker 1: Well, and if you insist and thanks very much. When
my kids sees this, will CHIEP be surprised.
Speaker 8: Yes, Toto will come as a great surprise, A very
great surprise. Hey, Toto.
Speaker 1: This was from the World of X minus one.
Speaker 2: Tonight's story for Regi's Wonderful Dolls, an original drama written
for NBC Radio by George Leopards. Featured in the cast
were Denise Alexander, John Alexander Les, Damon, Joe Dissatis, and
Leon Janny as the doll Toto.
Speaker 1: Music by Al.
Speaker 2: Berman, narration by Norman rose To. Night's program was directed
by Edward King Executive producer Robert Wogan.