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Speaker 1: Mm hmm.

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Speaker 2: Contdown for blast off x minus five for three two

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x minus one fire From the far horizons of the

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unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time and space.

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These are stories of the future adventures in which you'll

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live in a million, could be years, on a thousand,

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maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Street

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and Smith, publishers of Astounding Science Fiction, presents he he

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minus minus minus one one one Woe to Night's story

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zero Hour by Ray Bradbury.

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Speaker 3: It was a perfect summer day in the year nineteen

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eighty five. Sunlight illumined the suburbs, and the town drowsed

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on the tide of warm, sunlit air on the lawns.

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The children played, and in the homes, busy mothers prepared

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for the evening arrival of their husbands.

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Speaker 4: Excuse me, mom, good heavens man, what's all excitement.

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Speaker 5: We're playing a.

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Speaker 6: Game, mommy, the most exciting game ever.

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Speaker 4: What are you doing in that cabinet?

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Speaker 6: I need some tools from daddy's kit. Your father may

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not take good care of the mom, I promise.

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Speaker 4: Very well, dear, don't lose anything. Or what's the name

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of the game. Mink invasion, invasion? What will they think

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of next?

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Speaker 6: This and this and this and this? Put that over

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there and bring that over here? No, uniny, now get

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back while I fix this. They want it this way.

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See sure, just let me fix this. We'd better talk

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to Drill and get some more instructions.

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Speaker 4: Are where is Drill? Drill?

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Speaker 6: Hey, Drill, Drill, he's in the rose bush. I think

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I'll talk t myself and you write it down on

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the pad. Okay, Drill, Drill, Okay, Drill wants you to

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write down triangle?

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Speaker 4: What's a triangle?

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Speaker 6: Never mind? Drill will tell us when he wants us

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to know. It helps the invasion. Well, how do you

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spell it?

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Speaker 5: Drill?

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Speaker 4: How do your sush mink?

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Speaker 6: Here's your mother looking out the window.

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Speaker 4: Men, Who are you talking to the rose bush?

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Speaker 7: Mom?

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Speaker 6: Only it's not really a rose bush. That's Drill.

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Speaker 5: Who's Drill?

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Speaker 6: He's planning the invasion?

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Speaker 4: What an imagination. You'd better come India and clean up

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for supper.

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Speaker 6: In just a second, mom, Art, did you write down

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what Drill just said?

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Speaker 5: Yup?

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Speaker 8: Four nine seven and A and B and X and

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the fork and the string and the hex hex agony

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hexagonal droopy.

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Speaker 4: Oh I'm in mink suffers in ten minutes.

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Speaker 6: Okay, Mom, just a minute. I have to tell Drill.

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I wish we didn't have to eat though it holds

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up the invasion.

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Speaker 4: Man, for heaven's sake, slow down, you'll choke on that soup.

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Speaker 6: I can't, Mom, it's a matter of life and death.

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Speaker 7: What's a matter of life and death?

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Speaker 6: The invasion?

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Speaker 7: What invasion is that?

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Speaker 4: Oh? Just some silly game the children have been playing.

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Speaker 9: Well, whatever it is, make it'll wait until you finish

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your supper, I'm sure.

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Speaker 6: But Drill is waiting for me, Daddy.

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Speaker 7: Oh, who's drilled?

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Speaker 3: You?

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Speaker 7: Boy in the neighborhood.

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Speaker 6: He's new, all right, Only you can't see him, not yet.

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He hasn't come through yet.

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Speaker 7: What do you mean you can't see him?

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Speaker 4: He lives in a rose bush in our backyard imagination, Henry.

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Speaker 7: Well, while you're at it, tell me more about this

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new game.

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Speaker 6: It's Martians in vas eating Earth, Dad, Well, not exactly martians, Dad,

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they're from I don't know, from up.

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Speaker 4: And from the inside of that little head of yours.

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Speaker 6: You're laughing, Drill said you would. You're killed Drill and

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and everybody.

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Speaker 4: Well, I didn't know you could kill a Martian not.

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Speaker 6: Really a Martian, ma'am. Maybe he's from Jupiter or Venus.

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the Earth. So the kids are helping the Martians.

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Speaker 7: Pretty slick, those Martians using the kids for a fifth.

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Speaker 6: Column they're Drill says after the invasion, we can stay

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up as late as we want, no more baths either,

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Oh is that so? And we can watch all the

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grown up televisor shows.

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Speaker 7: Well, I don't wonder this invasion is caught on among

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the kids.

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Speaker 6: Some of the kids are giving us trouble, like Dale

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Britt's and Pade Jerrick. They're growing up so they won't

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believe in the invasion. They make fun worsh than parents.

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Even I hate them worst. We'll kill them first.

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Speaker 4: I hope you're saving your father and me for last.

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Speaker 6: Drill says, you're dangerous. Know why why? Because you don't

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believe the Martians ought to let us kids run the world.

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But I think they'll let me keep you because I'm

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helping so much. I'll talk to Drill. Maybe we won't

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have to kill you.

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Speaker 9: Eh, Mary.

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Speaker 7: I think this nonsense is going far enough.

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Speaker 6: Can I go out now?

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Speaker 4: Please run along, dear, don't worry dad.

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Speaker 6: I won't let them hurt you.

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Speaker 4: Televisor oh, would you please connect me with missus Helen

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Rogerson on channel seven two Z, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 5: What is your channel?

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Speaker 4: Please? Eight seventeen X New Rochelle, New York.

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Speaker 1: Thank you just a moment, go ahead, you can see

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your now, I says, how are things in New York?

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Speaker 4: Fine? Helen? How are things in Pittsburgh? You look tired?

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Speaker 1: Oh, I've been having a terrible time with the children.

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Speaker 5: Sick, No, just underfoot.

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Speaker 1: They've got a new game that's got me just about crazy.

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It's called Invasion.

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Speaker 4: Did you say Invasion? Isn't it strange? My Mike is

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playing it too.

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Speaker 1: My boy Tim is all involved with some imaginary fellow

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named Drill who's running.

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Speaker 4: The Invasion must be a new password Manke likes him too.

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Speaker 1: How do you suppose these games start? My backyard looks

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like a scrap drive. They've got every conceivable kind of

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macmachanical gadget out there. I talked to Josephine Schiller in Boston.

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She says her kids are wild about it too. It's

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sweeping the country.

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Speaker 4: I can't understand it, Helen. Do you suppose what?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Nothing, just a wild thought that crossed my mind. Oh say,

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the reason I call is that black and white cake recipe?

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Speaker 5: What was that?

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Speaker 4: I don't know. One of the children might have hurt himself.

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I'll have to run and see deer. Call me back tonight,

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will you'd marry by men?

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Speaker 5: What is it?

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Speaker 4: Who is that who screamed Peggy Ann?

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Speaker 5: What happened?

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Speaker 6: She got scared and ran home?

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Speaker 5: Did you hit her?

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Speaker 6: Nope, she just got scared. She's a scared baby.

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Speaker 4: Anyway, Now, miing, tell me why she screamed. No, I

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can't mink you'll answer me or come inside this instant.

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I've had enough nonsense.

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Speaker 6: I can't quit now. Mom, it's almost zero.

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Speaker 4: Then tell me what frightened Peggy Ann.

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Speaker 6: Okay, she saw drill. He almost came through through what

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those pipes and things we set up. She looked into

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one of the pipes and screamed. I guess she saw

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drill and no one hit her?

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Speaker 4: No, Mom, very well, min I'll call Peggyann's mother and

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see how she is.

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Speaker 6: If we could only get drilled through, it would be easy.

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Then all the others could come through after him.

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Speaker 4: I'm going in now, ming. I'll call you in for

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your bath in half an hour. Your father and I

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want to go out tonight.

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Speaker 6: You won't be able to go out, Mom, Why not? Zero?

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It's five o'clock mark, Hello, dear, Oh you're home early, Henry.

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Speaker 7: I thought i'd relax a little before we went to

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the theater. Where's the little one out back? Same game?

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Speaker 4: Same game. They've got a stack of pipes and hammers

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and spoons them out high out there?

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Speaker 7: Children? Why do we have them?

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Speaker 4: They are strange creatures. Aren't they even mink? She's a

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part of us. Yep?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, Look, dear, I like to discuss this with you,

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but we do have a theater date. And it's almost

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five o'clock. Now, Say what's happened to the kids? They're

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so quiet. When children are quiet, you know there's some mischief.

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Say what's that sound?

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Speaker 7: I don't know. Those kids aren't playing with anything electrical,

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Speaker 4: I'm sure they aren't. At least Henry ask them to

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put off the invasion?

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Speaker 7: Good lord, what's that? Mary? Look out the window, Henry?

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Speaker 4: What is it?

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Speaker 7: Where the children? Mary? Why are you shaking? What did

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Speaker 4: Henry?

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Speaker 5: Quick up to the attic.

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Speaker 4: In the attic, Yes, yes, the attic.

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Speaker 9: Quick, Mary, come back here, Mary, don't go up They

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Speaker 7: There's no one up here.

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Speaker 4: Wait, shut the door, lock it, lock it.

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Speaker 7: There's nothing up here. What is wrong with you? Now? Mary,

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come to your senses, Henry, and.

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Speaker 5: We've got to stay here and hide.

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Speaker 7: Are you talking about it?

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Speaker 5: I saw it through the window, Henry. It was horrible.

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They weren't making believe it is an invasion.

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Speaker 9: Oh, Mary, for heaven's sake, let's get down out of

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this attic and talk this over.

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Speaker 4: So.

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Speaker 7: I want to find out if make us all right?

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Speaker 5: She's all right. I saw she was leading them around

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the corner of the.

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Speaker 7: House, leading the kids. Listen, there's nothing.

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Speaker 5: Listen the front door. They're coming.

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Speaker 7: Good Lord, those kids sound like fifty men with boats.

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Speaker 4: Hun No, not then, Oh, please God, to let them

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find us, don't let them, Please God.

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Speaker 7: I don't understand this. Who's there?

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Speaker 4: Don't shut there here?

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Speaker 7: Who's down there? I demanded to answer me.

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Speaker 5: They're coming. The whole house is shaking.

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Speaker 7: Who's there?

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Speaker 5: Please be quiet? They might go away, Henry.

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Speaker 6: Henry, Yeah, are you in the attic?

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Speaker 5: Henry.

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Speaker 7: Listen, let's make We've got to save her, Henry.

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Speaker 5: Don't you understand she's leading them, She's leading them. She's

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on their side. Henry. Oh, please, God forgive them. On

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their side, she told us, but we wouldn't believe her. Listen,

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coming up.

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Speaker 6: Oh God, mam, Dad, we know you're in there. I

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guess you better mount the lock.

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Speaker 5: Drill Henry, the lock. It's molting the door.

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Speaker 6: Oh you God, mom, Dad, Oh I see you. Now

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take a book.

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Speaker 7: You have just heard.

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Speaker 2: X minus one presented by the National Broadcasting Company in

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cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of astounding science fiction.

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Tonight by transcription, X minus one has Brought You Zero

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r by Ray Bradberry, as adapted for radio.

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Speaker 7: By George Lefferts.

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Speaker 10: Featured in the cast were Nina Reader, David Feffer, Peggy Lubin,

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Les Damon Raleigh Bester, Bob Hastings, and John Lockin. X

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minus one was directed by Daniel Sutter and as an

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NBC Radio Network production, and now next week, The Vital

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Factor by Nelson Bond, the story of a man who

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sought to rule the universe and then discovered that this

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formula for gaining that power was minus one.

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Speaker 7: Precious ingredient.

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