1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:00,480 Speaker 1: Mm hmm. 2 00:00:03,399 --> 00:00:08,480 Speaker 2: Calm down for blast off x minus five for three 3 00:00:08,839 --> 00:00:39,159 two x minus one. Fire from the far horizons of 4 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:42,399 the unknown come transcribe tales of new dimensions in time 5 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:46,399 and space. These are stories of the future adventures in 6 00:00:46,439 --> 00:00:48,479 which you'll live in a million, could be years, on 7 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:52,560 a thousand, maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation 8 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:56,399 with Street and Smith, publishers of Astounding Science Fiction, presents. 9 00:00:56,439 --> 00:01:00,119 Speaker 3: He minus minus minus. 10 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:13,879 Speaker 4: On tonight's story Child's Play by William ten. 11 00:01:22,719 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 3: My name Sam Webber. My job an attorney, and a 12 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:29,200 pretty successful one. If I do say so myself. Maybe 13 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:31,439 you won't believe it. My best friends find it hard 14 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:31,920 to believe. 15 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,319 Speaker 5: But I used to be a completely different guy. 16 00:01:35,239 --> 00:01:39,359 Speaker 3: Frighten, sickly, nearsighted, a real mortemer meek, no kid. 17 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:41,319 Speaker 5: That was ten years ago. 18 00:01:42,159 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 3: The big change in me began to take place on 19 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:52,280 a cold December morning in nineteen fifty five. Just a moment, please, yes, 20 00:01:52,319 --> 00:01:57,359 please Webber, Yes, Samuel, that's right, okay, Jack, step back, all. 21 00:01:57,319 --> 00:01:59,719 Speaker 6: Right, fellas bringing in just a moment. You must have 22 00:01:59,799 --> 00:02:04,680 the watch it, Jack sign head? Is that for me? 23 00:02:04,959 --> 00:02:06,439 Webb Garden Apartments. 24 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 3: It looks like a coffin I don't design them, Jack, 25 00:02:09,719 --> 00:02:21,080 I just deliver them sign head. After much straining, I 26 00:02:21,159 --> 00:02:24,080 wasn't in very good physical shape those days, I managed 27 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:26,879 to push the box under my single light bulb. There 28 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:29,680 was a card in a small envelope. 29 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:37,479 Speaker 6: Let's see to Sam from your classmates at the Interdimensional 30 00:02:37,759 --> 00:02:45,759 and Cosmic Institute, Merry Christmas, twenty one fifty five, Holy 31 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:51,759 Jumping Catfish. Hey mister, Hey mister, there must be some mistake. Hey, 32 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:54,280 Holy Jumping Jack. 33 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:02,080 Speaker 3: They were gone and I didn't even know which livery. 34 00:03:01,719 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 5: Company it was. 35 00:03:03,599 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 3: I sat down to think, and it was just beginning 36 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,719 to seep into my sleepy brain that maybe this was 37 00:03:08,759 --> 00:03:12,080 one of lu White's practical jokes. When I noticed there 38 00:03:12,159 --> 00:03:14,840 was something funny about that box. For one thing, it 39 00:03:14,879 --> 00:03:17,560 was dated twenty one fifty five, two hundred years from now. 40 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:20,840 And for another thing, it was solid gold. Pop had 41 00:03:20,879 --> 00:03:22,639 been in the jewelry business long enough for me to 42 00:03:22,719 --> 00:03:25,759 verify that. At that point, I decided to open it 43 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,000 up and see what was in it. After about a 44 00:03:28,039 --> 00:03:30,439 half hour of fumbling, I gave up. 45 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 6: All right, if you won't open, you won't open. Ah. 46 00:03:44,639 --> 00:03:46,879 Speaker 3: No sooner had I said the word open than it 47 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,479 came apart like the skin off a banana. There inside 48 00:03:50,599 --> 00:03:56,240 was something resembling a high powered kid's chemical set. Vials, jars, tubes, wires. 49 00:03:56,759 --> 00:03:59,719 You never saw so much scientific looking junk in your life. 50 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:01,759 And on top of it all was a book of 51 00:04:01,759 --> 00:04:05,840 instructions printed in mad green streaks. I opened the cover 52 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:16,160 and read page one, Build Aman Set number three. This 53 00:04:16,319 --> 00:04:19,160 set is intended solely for the use of children between 54 00:04:19,199 --> 00:04:20,920 the ages of eleven and thirteen. 55 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:23,839 Speaker 5: The equipment will enable the child to. 56 00:04:23,879 --> 00:04:27,639 Speaker 3: Build and assemble complete adult humans in perfect working order. 57 00:04:28,639 --> 00:04:31,560 This assembly latter is provided so the set may be 58 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:35,759 used again and again with profit. Refills and additional parts 59 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:38,800 may be acquired from the Builderman Company, nine to eight 60 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:41,519 diagonal level, Blunt City, Ohio. 61 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:46,199 Speaker 5: Remember only with Builderman, can you build a Man? 62 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:54,639 Speaker 3: When I arrived at work that morning, an hour late, 63 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:56,759 my brain was still reeling with the stuff I had 64 00:04:56,759 --> 00:04:59,160 read in the instruction book. By the time I had 65 00:04:59,199 --> 00:05:01,879 reached the office, I decided it's been a bad dream 66 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:03,319 and it would be over by nightfall. 67 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:10,079 Speaker 7: Somerset no Jack Attorneys at Law. Just a moment, I'll 68 00:05:10,079 --> 00:05:13,759 connect you with mister Ojack. Oh, good morning, mister Webber. 69 00:05:13,879 --> 00:05:17,920 Speaker 6: Good your I mean, good morning. You got to get 70 00:05:17,959 --> 00:05:19,600 my mind off that book. 71 00:05:19,959 --> 00:05:22,720 Speaker 5: Only with Build a Man? Can you build a Man? 72 00:05:23,519 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 6: It must have been a dream. Probably go home tonight 73 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:28,160 and find the place empty. 74 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:31,519 Speaker 8: Well, well, well, if it isn't the poor Man's Clarence Darrow. 75 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:34,319 Speaker 4: Hi you Sam, Sam? 76 00:05:35,519 --> 00:05:37,399 Speaker 6: Oh, hello, Lou. 77 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:39,519 Speaker 4: I come as bearer of sad tidings. 78 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:40,759 Speaker 6: You don't look very sad. 79 00:05:40,879 --> 00:05:43,519 Speaker 4: Boss wants to see you, laughing boy, what about? Well, 80 00:05:43,519 --> 00:05:44,199 how should I know? 81 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:44,759 Speaker 7: Oh? 82 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:47,199 Speaker 8: And by the way, Sam, you'll be happy to know 83 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:48,279 that I've just been promoted. 84 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:50,360 Speaker 4: I'm handling all the criminal stuff. 85 00:05:50,079 --> 00:05:50,519 Speaker 5: From now on. 86 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:52,319 Speaker 6: Congratulations of Coss. 87 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:55,040 Speaker 8: You know what this means for Tina and me, don't you, Sammy? Ah, 88 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:59,000 cheer up, son, Tina's not for you anyway. Some got it, 89 00:05:59,079 --> 00:06:03,439 some don't. I'm loving you nothing so long, laughing boy. 90 00:06:13,759 --> 00:06:16,040 Speaker 5: That was my good friend Lou White. 91 00:06:16,519 --> 00:06:18,720 Speaker 3: Lou was one of those guys who always lands with 92 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:20,199 his feet firmly. 93 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:22,439 Speaker 5: Planted in the back of somebody else's neck. 94 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:25,279 Speaker 3: In the year I had known I me'd already managed 95 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:27,079 to steal the job I wanted, and he was now 96 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:28,560 working on the girl I wanted. 97 00:06:28,879 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 5: Her name was Tina, Tina Velvet. 98 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:40,480 Speaker 7: She was good morning, Sam. 99 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:46,160 Speaker 6: Oh, good morning Tina. My you look yes, good enough 100 00:06:46,199 --> 00:06:47,079 to take to lunch. 101 00:06:47,199 --> 00:06:49,399 Speaker 7: Oh I'm sorry, Sam, but I promised Lou. 102 00:06:49,879 --> 00:06:50,199 Speaker 6: Sure. 103 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:52,319 Speaker 7: I hope you're not too disappointed. 104 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:52,639 Speaker 2: Me. 105 00:06:53,439 --> 00:06:58,360 Speaker 6: Oh no, no, some got it, some don't. I don't. 106 00:07:02,639 --> 00:07:06,040 Speaker 3: Theoretically, Tina was employed by Somerset and Ojack as combination 107 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:09,079 secretary and switchboard operator Balloo and Me. I guess she 108 00:07:09,199 --> 00:07:11,560 wasn't what you'd call really smart, but she always managed 109 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:13,199 to look like a pinup girl caught with. 110 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 5: Her clothes on, if you know what I mean. Well 111 00:07:16,319 --> 00:07:16,959 that was Tina. 112 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 3: I try to steady my blood pressure as I walked 113 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:21,279 into the boss's office. 114 00:07:22,439 --> 00:07:24,279 Speaker 6: You sent for me, mister Ojack. 115 00:07:24,399 --> 00:07:27,319 Speaker 4: Oh, sit down with Ursadan, Thank you, mister Jack. 116 00:07:27,399 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 9: My boy, In this business, you've got to be aggressive 117 00:07:29,279 --> 00:07:31,279 if you've got to go out and create new clients. 118 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:33,439 I don't mean I'm milon chasing or anything like that, 119 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:36,959 but you've got to show some zip. Yes, sir, well 120 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,199 getting there in punch Webber. I want to see a 121 00:07:39,319 --> 00:07:40,959 change in you the next few months. As a matter 122 00:07:40,959 --> 00:07:42,040 of fact, you'd better. 123 00:07:44,519 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 3: I went back to my office resolved to show some zip. 124 00:07:47,879 --> 00:07:50,839 I bit savagely into a copy of Hackleworth's on Torts, 125 00:07:51,279 --> 00:07:52,720 and I called Tina from memo. 126 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 5: By the time she came in, my mind was wandering again. 127 00:07:57,079 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 7: Rosenthal versus Rosenthal on August fourth, part the first part? 128 00:08:01,639 --> 00:08:05,240 What comes next? Sam? What comes next? 129 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:11,199 Speaker 6: Oh? Listen, forget the memo for a while. I want 130 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:13,879 you to take a letter, all right, Sam, Today's date 131 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:19,720 usual heading to the Chamber of Commerce, Glunt City, Ohio. Gentlemen, 132 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:23,759 would you inform me if you have registered a street 133 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:29,680 or avenue known as diagonal level or avenue? I write 134 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:31,480 on behalf of a new client of mine. 135 00:08:31,519 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 7: Oh, Sam, he was a new client. I wondered about it. 136 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:37,000 But he looked so strange and sinister. 137 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:38,039 Speaker 6: What do he look like? 138 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 7: It was a terribly tall old man and a black overcoat. 139 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:42,840 He asked if you were in and then he tried 140 00:08:42,879 --> 00:08:45,159 to get your home addressed. But he looked and acted 141 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:47,200 so strange. I didn't give it to him. He went 142 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:48,600 away positively furious. 143 00:08:48,919 --> 00:08:50,919 Speaker 6: That's great. Did he leave his name? 144 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:53,679 Speaker 7: Oh, that's the funny part of it. He just said 145 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:56,360 he was the censor or the census taker or something 146 00:08:56,399 --> 00:08:58,120 from the twenty fourth oblong. 147 00:09:06,519 --> 00:09:09,720 Speaker 5: I left the office early and went home. Sure enough. 148 00:09:09,759 --> 00:09:11,440 There it was my build. 149 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:14,320 Speaker 3: A man sat gleaming a little obscenely in the corner. 150 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:16,320 I walked over to it, gave it a kick, and 151 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:21,039 hollowed open sesame. Three minutes later I was flopped down 152 00:09:21,039 --> 00:09:25,799 in bed reading chapter one making Simple living Things. An 153 00:09:25,799 --> 00:09:28,679 hour later I was fooling around with such complicated items 154 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:31,840 as the Junior By calibrator, which measured everything from blood 155 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:35,279 pressure to hemoglobein content, and the Jeffy vitalizer, which was 156 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:38,120 actually supposed to put life in your creation, providing you 157 00:09:38,159 --> 00:09:41,440 had followed instructions carefully. At eight o'clock I went out 158 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:43,440 to supper with the idea of getting a little drunk. 159 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:44,279 Speaker 5: I did. 160 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 3: At nine forty five, I came back and made my 161 00:09:47,279 --> 00:09:48,679 first simple living thing. 162 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:55,919 Speaker 6: Here boy, here, boy. Maybe you aren't a boy. Let's see. 163 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:01,440 Speaker 3: According to the book, you are a rubicular oyster hog. 164 00:10:02,279 --> 00:10:06,039 Speaker 6: Not much to look at, But I made you. Me, 165 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:11,960 Sam Weber, Attorney at law, I have created life. Hey, hey, 166 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:16,799 come back, here, come back, here boy, here boy, here boy. 167 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:26,200 Speaker 4: Aye, it was no use. 168 00:10:27,039 --> 00:10:29,799 Speaker 3: My rubicular oyster hog, which was a cross between a 169 00:10:29,799 --> 00:10:31,960 field mouse and the oyster, had run out under the 170 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:34,840 door and into the world. Next morning in the office, 171 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:39,639 I turned to chapter two, duplicating babies and small humans. 172 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:44,279 Speaker 6: Assemble your mannequins, setting all moles to the indicated calibrations. 173 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:50,919 To disassemble a model, use the disassemblator provided with a set. 174 00:10:51,639 --> 00:10:55,120 If you cannot destroy your creation, the law requires you 175 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:58,360 to call the census keeper for your oblong. 176 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:04,399 Speaker 7: Good morning, Sam. Here's that memo on Rosenthal versus Rosenthal, 177 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:06,919 also a letter for you. Shall I read it? 178 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:07,320 Speaker 6: Please? 179 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:12,639 Speaker 7: Dear mister Webber, there is no firm at Blunt City 180 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:15,120 bearing the name of Build a Man, nor do we 181 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:21,240 have any thoroughfare called Diagonal. Sincerely, yours, Thomas Plantagenet mayor. 182 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:22,639 Speaker 6: Well that's that. 183 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 7: Oh, by the way, your client was here again this morning, 184 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:26,840 the ghoulish one. 185 00:11:26,879 --> 00:11:27,679 Speaker 6: What'd you tell him? 186 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:28,960 Speaker 7: I said you'd be in later. 187 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:29,559 Speaker 6: Thanks. 188 00:11:30,159 --> 00:11:30,759 Speaker 7: Will that be all? 189 00:11:30,799 --> 00:11:31,639 Speaker 5: Sam? Yes? 190 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:36,879 Speaker 6: No, are you doing anything? New Year's Eve? Say? 191 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 7: I'm disappointed in you? 192 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:39,799 Speaker 6: What did I do? 193 00:11:39,919 --> 00:11:45,559 Speaker 7: You haven't even noticed the ring? Silly third finger, left hand? 194 00:11:45,919 --> 00:11:48,519 What Lou gave it to me? 195 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:53,039 Speaker 6: Well, Lou has plenty of zip I'm sure you'll be 196 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:56,240 very happy zipping around with each other. 197 00:11:56,639 --> 00:12:01,440 Speaker 7: Oh, Sam, I don't know. I'm so confused. 198 00:12:02,519 --> 00:12:04,279 Speaker 4: Hey, listen, what's going on in here. 199 00:12:04,799 --> 00:12:07,639 Speaker 6: Tina just told me the good news about your engagement. 200 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:09,440 She's crying with happiness. 201 00:12:09,879 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 1: Oh is that right, honey? 202 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 8: Well, no hard feeling, Sam, It's just that the best 203 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:16,759 man got the girl. 204 00:12:16,879 --> 00:12:17,879 Speaker 4: You understand how it is. 205 00:12:18,159 --> 00:12:19,919 Speaker 8: Oh, by the way, we're having a little celebration at 206 00:12:19,919 --> 00:12:20,639 sgalle tonight. 207 00:12:20,759 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 4: Crop around and we'll live it up a little hot. 208 00:12:29,799 --> 00:12:31,840 Speaker 3: I went home feeling like a man who had been 209 00:12:31,879 --> 00:12:34,440 stuffed into a washing machine with the dials set at 210 00:12:34,519 --> 00:12:38,480 rintse dry. I was a failure, My job was a bust. 211 00:12:38,519 --> 00:12:40,840 My girl was going to marry a football player. I've 212 00:12:40,879 --> 00:12:44,120 been playing god with a chemistry set from some crazy 213 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:49,480 futuristic world, and the bill collectors were hot on my heels. 214 00:12:50,039 --> 00:12:51,799 Speaker 6: Why not think. 215 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:57,320 Speaker 3: A Sam Webber without all the psychological problems. You've got 216 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:01,039 a dynamic, uninhibited Sam who could win a girl like 217 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:04,799 Tina by sheer magnetism. Then when it was all over, 218 00:13:04,919 --> 00:13:08,480 we just take the old disassemblator and pressed. 219 00:13:09,519 --> 00:13:25,200 Speaker 6: And I can do it too. Chromosome content check, Well, 220 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:31,519 here goes. It's moving. 221 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:32,679 Speaker 5: Oo. 222 00:13:35,519 --> 00:13:42,519 Speaker 6: Holy, it's alive. It's sitting up. Hey, I feel great. 223 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:45,399 Take it easy. Do you know who you are? 224 00:13:45,519 --> 00:13:47,919 Speaker 3: Don't give me that take it easy routine. Of course, 225 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:50,120 I know who I am. I have all the thoughts 226 00:13:50,159 --> 00:13:52,320 you ever had up until the point I was vitalized. 227 00:13:52,519 --> 00:13:54,960 My brain is an exact duplicate of yours, except that 228 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,960 I'm not all blocked up psychologically. Oh, by the way, 229 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:00,480 since we both have the same name, it'll simp five things. 230 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 5: If I call you Weber, I'll be Sam. 231 00:14:03,519 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 3: Look here, I'll make the decision. How would you like 232 00:14:06,399 --> 00:14:07,639 a good punch in the nose? 233 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:11,399 Speaker 6: Is that any way to talk to your own parent? 234 00:14:12,399 --> 00:14:13,879 I did create you, you know. 235 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:16,200 Speaker 3: And don't think I don't appreciated Weber, old man. But 236 00:14:16,279 --> 00:14:19,240 let's get one thing straight. I live my life and 237 00:14:19,279 --> 00:14:21,600 you live yours. Got that who pays the rent? 238 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 5: You do for a while. 239 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:25,600 Speaker 3: Anyway, I haven't decided whether or not I want to 240 00:14:25,639 --> 00:14:27,960 stay in the law business, a law business. It'd be 241 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,080 a shame to waste all that good training. Though we 242 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:33,840 went to Harvard, didn't we. On the other hand, I 243 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:36,080 want to spread out a little. Tina is the kind 244 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:38,279 of girl to whom money is very important. 245 00:14:38,399 --> 00:14:39,919 Speaker 6: Tina, what do you expect? 246 00:14:40,679 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 5: We're not quite the same you and I. 247 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 4: I've got zip don't use that word. 248 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 5: Sorry. Now, how about some dinner. 249 00:14:46,639 --> 00:14:48,679 Speaker 6: I'm starved. We'll have to go out. 250 00:14:48,759 --> 00:14:49,679 Speaker 5: I'll need some clothes. 251 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:52,559 Speaker 3: Sorry, I only have this one suit. Fine, you can 252 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:54,960 lend it to me, But what about me. I'll bring 253 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,480 you a sandwich after I come back from Cigali's. You 254 00:14:58,519 --> 00:15:01,679 haven't forgotten, have you, Webber. We're invited to the celebration 255 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:05,120 Tina and lou White. Only it wouldn't look quite right 256 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:08,120 if we both showed up, so I'll tell you all 257 00:15:08,159 --> 00:15:08,600 about it. 258 00:15:08,879 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 5: Now, come on, off with a suit and no nonsense. 259 00:15:23,759 --> 00:15:25,600 Speaker 7: Slipping it up both here. 260 00:15:26,679 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 4: I have another great mister Ojack. Come on, thank you? 261 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 5: Lou? 262 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:34,919 Speaker 4: Hey ever rare body? How fair? Oh Tina, honey? You 263 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:36,159 having yourself a little old time? 264 00:15:36,559 --> 00:15:36,879 Speaker 6: Well? 265 00:15:36,919 --> 00:15:40,480 Speaker 3: Well, well the happy couples, good evening cats. 266 00:15:40,519 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 5: Everybody's lit up like a Christmas tree. 267 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 6: Well, I'll be sham. 268 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:45,240 Speaker 4: Are you in the bag? 269 00:15:45,399 --> 00:15:47,519 Speaker 5: Never touched the stuff? Lou my boy? Never touch it? 270 00:15:47,639 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 7: Hey? 271 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:48,559 Speaker 4: What's gotten into you? 272 00:15:48,679 --> 00:15:48,840 Speaker 7: Whatever? 273 00:15:48,919 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 4: You seem different somehow? 274 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:50,919 Speaker 5: Well, I'll tell you. 275 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 3: Ever since I had that talk with mister Ojack about myself. 276 00:15:53,879 --> 00:15:57,039 Speaker 5: Oh you remember, don't you, miss o Jack Whiles You 277 00:15:57,240 --> 00:15:57,720 made me. 278 00:15:57,679 --> 00:16:00,679 Speaker 3: Realize, mister Ojack, that I had a whole reservoir of 279 00:16:00,799 --> 00:16:03,799 untapped zip and that's all it took. 280 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:04,919 Speaker 5: Just like that. 281 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 4: I'm a changed man. 282 00:16:07,279 --> 00:16:08,039 Speaker 5: I don't believe it. 283 00:16:08,039 --> 00:16:08,559 Speaker 4: It's an act. 284 00:16:08,679 --> 00:16:11,799 Speaker 8: Why you're nothing but a cream puffin you always will. 285 00:16:11,759 --> 00:16:14,799 Speaker 5: Mister o Jack. I think he owes me an apology 286 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:15,039 for that. 287 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:18,360 Speaker 3: I should think so, all right, all American boy, make 288 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:19,399 with the apologies. 289 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 4: Apologize wife for two cents a post. 290 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:25,399 Speaker 3: Folks, would you excuse mister White myself for a few 291 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:27,200 minutes coming mister. 292 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:44,879 Speaker 1: White, I'll be right back, honey. 293 00:16:40,399 --> 00:16:52,159 Speaker 3: Okay, big boy, you've taken enough punishment. Oh, oh dear, 294 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:55,080 he'll be all right in a little wild baby. 295 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:56,879 Speaker 7: Did you? I mean? 296 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:00,879 Speaker 5: Oh, sad, Sina. 297 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:05,880 Speaker 7: We really shouldn't be I mean kissing like this. 298 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:16,160 Speaker 5: It's what you've always wanted, isn't it? Well, isn't it? 299 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:16,400 Speaker 7: Oh? 300 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:17,319 Speaker 4: Same? 301 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:37,920 Speaker 3: By this time, he's probably kissing her, and there's nothing 302 00:17:38,039 --> 00:17:40,000 you can do about it, weber, old man. 303 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:46,640 Speaker 6: Nothing. Hey wait a minute, where's that book of Instructions 304 00:17:49,559 --> 00:17:53,680 to disassemble a build a Man model? Merely focus the 305 00:17:53,799 --> 00:17:58,920 ray of the disassemblator device and press lever X THIRTEENA 306 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:05,200 myot seen. So you're finally home. I'm starry boy. 307 00:18:05,319 --> 00:18:07,200 Speaker 3: You are looking at a man who, in one fell 308 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:10,680 swoop has got himself a raise of promotion and a wife. 309 00:18:10,759 --> 00:18:12,119 Speaker 5: At least you'll be my wife tomorrow. 310 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:12,799 Speaker 6: Who teen? 311 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:17,559 Speaker 3: Of course? Who have we wanted so desperately all these years? 312 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:19,319 Speaker 6: I don't believe it. 313 00:18:19,319 --> 00:18:19,960 Speaker 5: It's true. 314 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 3: I had to put on quite a show, but all 315 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,519 around it was a real success. Mister Ojak was so 316 00:18:24,559 --> 00:18:26,440 impressed he called me aside and said he was going 317 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:28,920 to give me a crack at some criminal cases. And 318 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,799 if I made the grade, who knows, I may even 319 00:18:31,839 --> 00:18:33,079 accept a partnership. 320 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:34,319 Speaker 6: And what happens to me? 321 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 3: I suppose I sit in this room with no clothes 322 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:37,960 for the rest of my life. 323 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:39,960 Speaker 5: Oh, you'll be well taken care of, Weber. 324 00:18:40,039 --> 00:18:42,880 Speaker 6: You've got it all figured out, haven't chats about it? 325 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:45,440 Only you neglected to consider one thing. 326 00:18:45,559 --> 00:18:47,559 Speaker 5: Oh what's that this? Oh? 327 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:51,519 Speaker 3: Come on, put that down. I'm going to melt you 328 00:18:51,799 --> 00:18:53,359 down like a Welsh rabbit. 329 00:18:53,759 --> 00:18:55,680 Speaker 5: Weber, you can't do that. 330 00:18:55,839 --> 00:18:56,640 Speaker 6: It's murder. 331 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:58,359 Speaker 5: It's like killing your own son. 332 00:18:58,519 --> 00:19:01,039 Speaker 3: Take off my suit you for you won't be needing 333 00:19:01,039 --> 00:19:03,480 it again. You're going through with it, eh, I am 334 00:19:04,079 --> 00:19:06,400 all right? Here's your jacket? 335 00:19:06,599 --> 00:19:08,519 Speaker 4: Oh, my arm. 336 00:19:08,759 --> 00:19:10,160 Speaker 5: No, you give me that thing. 337 00:19:10,759 --> 00:19:11,359 Speaker 6: Give it to me. 338 00:19:11,599 --> 00:19:14,799 Speaker 5: Oh that's better. 339 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:18,000 Speaker 3: Now we'll fix this little item so it can't do 340 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:19,359 any damage. 341 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:21,200 Speaker 5: Huh. 342 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:23,640 Speaker 3: You see whether you don't have the guts to stand 343 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:27,799 up against the man you might have been. What's that 344 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,519 sounds coming up the stairs? 345 00:19:32,519 --> 00:19:37,839 Speaker 5: Listen, take a peek through the keyhole. 346 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:46,519 Speaker 6: Weather, Holy jumpy. It's him whom he's burning it. He's 347 00:19:46,559 --> 00:19:47,839 burning a hole right through the door. 348 00:19:52,519 --> 00:19:53,519 Speaker 10: Good evening, gentlemen. 349 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:54,400 Speaker 6: Who are you? 350 00:19:54,559 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 10: I'm the census keeper for the twenty fourth oblong. You see, 351 00:19:57,759 --> 00:19:59,799 your builder Man set was intended for one of the 352 00:20:00,079 --> 00:20:02,319 but children who's on a field trip in this oblong 353 00:20:02,319 --> 00:20:05,400 two hundred years from now because of an unfortunate time, 354 00:20:05,519 --> 00:20:07,839 or the set was delivered here accidentally. 355 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:11,319 Speaker 3: You mean this set came here from two hundred years 356 00:20:11,319 --> 00:20:11,880 from now? 357 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:14,559 Speaker 4: Precisely? Time is with all things is relative. 358 00:20:14,839 --> 00:20:16,480 Speaker 10: We shall have to recover the set of cost and 359 00:20:16,519 --> 00:20:20,000 adjust any discrepancies that has caused. Meanwhile, the problem is, 360 00:20:20,319 --> 00:20:22,839 which of you, gentlemen, is the original Samweber? 361 00:20:23,519 --> 00:20:26,720 Speaker 6: I am, listen, liar. Difficulties difficulties? 362 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 10: Why can't I ever have a simple case like the 363 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:30,240 double cond duplication? 364 00:20:30,599 --> 00:20:33,599 Speaker 5: Now look here, mister census keeper, the duplicate. 365 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:38,319 Speaker 3: Will obviously be less stable and more emotionally unbalanced. Certainly, 366 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:41,359 a man of your qualifications can decide which of us 367 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:44,440 is the more valid member of society, which of us 368 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:48,160 will conform more readily to the standard. Naturally, I observe 369 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:50,599 that one of you is naked. That of course, Wait 370 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:53,559 a minute, and you seem to be trembling, whereas this 371 00:20:53,599 --> 00:20:55,480 gentleman seems quite cap hold it. 372 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:56,720 Speaker 6: You're making a mistake. 373 00:20:56,799 --> 00:21:00,319 Speaker 10: I hardly think so. Away from you, not struggle, please, please, 374 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:05,519 please your Yes, it would be better if you didn't watch. 375 00:21:06,039 --> 00:21:09,319 Of course, you understand. It's not the gift of the builder. 376 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:11,720 Man said, we're afraid of letting you have. It's the 377 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:16,240 principle involved you. People just aren't ready to play god, 378 00:21:16,759 --> 00:21:18,119 you understand, of course. 379 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:35,640 Speaker 5: Perfectly. Well that's my story. 380 00:21:36,519 --> 00:21:39,680 Speaker 3: Within ten seconds, the old Sam Webber had been completely 381 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:43,640 dismantled and packed into the box. Tina and I were married, 382 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,039 as you know, and I went on to become a 383 00:21:46,079 --> 00:21:50,440 full partner in the firm of O Jack, Somerset and Weber. 384 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:53,200 Oh and by the way, Tina and I have been 385 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:56,079 doing quite successfully what the old Sam Weber and his 386 00:21:56,160 --> 00:22:01,680 Builderman said, made such a mess up. We have one, two, 387 00:22:02,079 --> 00:22:08,559 three little carnuplications, Sam Junior age four, Sameta age three, 388 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:13,319 and Semina age two months. 389 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:14,640 Speaker 6: Good Night. 390 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,680 Speaker 11: You have just heard X minus one, presented by the 391 00:22:20,759 --> 00:22:25,480 National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers 392 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:30,240 of Astounding science fiction. Tonight by transcription, X minus one 393 00:22:30,279 --> 00:22:33,400 has brought you Child's play by William Ten, adapted for 394 00:22:33,519 --> 00:22:36,400 radio by George Leffards. Featured in the cast were Bill 395 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:39,720 Zuckerd as the truck driver, John Gibson as Sam, Grant 396 00:22:39,799 --> 00:22:43,640 Richards as his alter ego. Peggy Lobbin was Tina, ted 397 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,960 Osbourne played mister O. Jack Bob Hastings played Lou, and 398 00:22:47,039 --> 00:22:48,920 Guy Repp was the man from the Census Bureau. 399 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:51,319 Speaker 4: You're announcer Fred Collins. 400 00:22:51,759 --> 00:22:55,359 Speaker 2: X minus one was an NBC Radio Network production.