Speaker 1: Tired of the everyday grind, ever dream of a life
Speaker 1: of romantic adventure. I want to get away from it all.
Speaker 1: We offer you.
Speaker 2: Escape, Escape, designed to free you from the four walls
Speaker 2: of today for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1: You are seated before the dials of your radio receiver,
Speaker 1: listening to a faint voice from the blackness beyond, while
Speaker 1: the one who speaks with words of friendship is debating
Speaker 1: the destruction.
Speaker 3: Of your world.
Speaker 2: Listen now, as Escape brings you Michael Gray's exciting story
Speaker 2: The Invader.
Speaker 4: Here in the Nevada Desert, our forward Observation Post is
Speaker 4: a slit trench less than two miles from ground zero
Speaker 4: of Operation Doorstep eight a bomb test. The time exactly
Speaker 4: thirty seconds to eh hour. That's the voice of our
Speaker 4: official guide, Colonel Jim Donovan.
Speaker 5: We have eight minus sixteen fifteen, fourteen thirteen, prow eleven
Speaker 5: ten nine, eight, seven, six, five four three two one.
Speaker 4: There it goes there, It is.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 4: You'll hear the sound of the explosion any second.
Speaker 3: Now, that flash, Commander, Yes, check the cyclo gauges for reactions.
Speaker 7: No reaction, zero count. What an extraordinary race, very primitive.
Speaker 8: The main object appears to be to kill each other
Speaker 8: off at periodic intervals.
Speaker 7: I wonder why the council doesn't order extinction.
Speaker 8: There's hope, that's why we've been sent.
Speaker 7: But the Red zero Discs vanished on the same job
Speaker 7: last di Loo. Why waste more lives? The things should
Speaker 7: be exterminated.
Speaker 8: Don't be unscientific. The red zero discs probably disobeyed orders
Speaker 8: and landed on water.
Speaker 7: Water, yes, water, what a place? What did they call
Speaker 7: those creatures? Commander humans? Humans? What an odd name?
Speaker 8: I'm afraid they're a very odd race.
Speaker 7: That you all?
Speaker 9: All right? Yes?
Speaker 10: Yes, my thing.
Speaker 11: I saw the bomb test on television this morning. Did
Speaker 11: you see it in school?
Speaker 10: No, dear, where are you going?
Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 10: Into the lab? Call me when dinner's ready?
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's see hm Aldred.
Speaker 6: I want to talk to you, huh.
Speaker 2: I said, I want to talk to you.
Speaker 11: Oh, yes, dear, of course, I saw Missus Warren today. Yes, dey,
Speaker 11: Will you stop messing around and pay attention to what
Speaker 11: I'm saying?
Speaker 10: Yes, yes, dey.
Speaker 11: I should merely like to remind you that Missus Warren
Speaker 11: is your school principal's wife. She hinted that.
Speaker 10: He's not pleased with your work in.
Speaker 11: Fact, he's not pleased at all.
Speaker 10: Albert, did you hear what I said?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 11: Yeah, yes, Deir, come back here, now, stand still and
Speaker 11: listen to me. How do you think I feel having
Speaker 11: the principal's wife laughing at you and laughing at me too.
Speaker 11: This is the third job you've had in the past
Speaker 11: two years, and you are going to keep this one.
Speaker 11: I know it's hard for a scientific genius to settle
Speaker 11: down teaching twelfth grade chemistry, but this time you are
Speaker 11: going to stick. I'm mina, Albert. You're making yourself the
Speaker 11: laughing stock of the school with your crazy experiments, and
Speaker 11: it's got to stop. I'm just not going to spend
Speaker 11: the rest of my life following you around from job
Speaker 11: to job like a gypsy.
Speaker 10: Whoa Well, of course, dear, I understand.
Speaker 11: You'd better understand. I'm not gonna stand for it anymore.
Speaker 11: If you're not down for dinner in five minutes, there
Speaker 11: won't be any dinner for you.
Speaker 8: Magne transastylating probably magnetic storms.
Speaker 7: No, it's a definite signal on our channeler.
Speaker 8: That's the console's calling horaise and bring it.
Speaker 10: In station m XA calling station, m XA calling.
Speaker 9: Station m X A over and now.
Speaker 8: That's not the council. Check the frequency the emergency band.
Speaker 8: Somebody's playing a joke. Tell them to clear the ether.
Speaker 7: Stellar disc quite zero now whose call moment?
Speaker 8: Ask for code check.
Speaker 7: Stellar disc quite zero? Now give name code.
Speaker 9: Check station m XA. Uh, where are you?
Speaker 8: Give me the frequent tone? Listen MxA. This is commander
Speaker 8: of Deltaship White zero null on space mission. Get off
Speaker 8: this channel. Make a note for the log. We'll report
Speaker 8: it back to the console. What was his identification?
Speaker 7: Sounded like MxA mx A mx A.
Speaker 8: Check the cyclo listing.
Speaker 7: There's no such station listed.
Speaker 13: DRIs must be cross check and fix. Yes, no, absolutely,
Speaker 13: no listing.
Speaker 8: Oh no, it's impossible. Those blundering primates couldn't have the
Speaker 8: intelligence trimates ris humans. It's incredible. But use the Magna band.
Speaker 8: We keep emergency open, fix and raise MxA immediately.
Speaker 10: Del Toaship white zero. No, del Toship White zero.
Speaker 11: No, are you coming down to supper y.
Speaker 10: Martha, Martha, it's amazing. I've made contact. I spoke to them.
Speaker 10: Do Delta white zero. No, I've checked the station list.
Speaker 10: There's no such call sign. It means only one thing, Martha,
Speaker 10: one thing Space men in space. You know what that means?
Speaker 11: Stop Albert?
Speaker 2: When are you going to grow up?
Speaker 10: Your dinner is getting called?
Speaker 9: Commander Delta White zero null calling station MxA.
Speaker 10: Where are you located, Commander Delta White zero null. This
Speaker 10: is Station MxA MxA. I'm located at La Murada, California.
Speaker 9: What planet a planet?
Speaker 7: Earth?
Speaker 10: That's continent of North America.
Speaker 6: Who are you?
Speaker 10: Repeat? Who you are over?
Speaker 9: Are you humans?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 10: Yes, you aren't.
Speaker 9: No, of course not. We're of Epsilon from the race
Speaker 9: of planetoid Delta Delta on mission of exploration for the
Speaker 9: Council Council, the Council of Quantum Major of the Nebulae Ursula.
Speaker 9: We're arriving in your atmosphere in two dlos more to
Speaker 9: examine your planet. We cannot continue this unauthorized contact without
Speaker 9: permission from the Council. If granted, we will raise contact
Speaker 9: again at your earliest lifetime tomorrow. Oh did you hear that?
Speaker 10: Martha? Did you hear?
Speaker 13: Are you or are you not?
Speaker 10: Coming down to dinner?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 10: I've got it. Out there in space is another intelligence,
Speaker 10: another race, And I've done. I've made contact for the
Speaker 10: last time.
Speaker 11: Are you coming down?
Speaker 10: The list and I've made one of the most important
Speaker 10: discoveries in the century, the first contact with another world,
Speaker 10: and other people or something think what it'll mean for
Speaker 10: civilis They think what they'll bring. Maybe a whole new
Speaker 10: way of life.
Speaker 11: Just another one of those radio amateur friends of yours
Speaker 11: playing No.
Speaker 10: Mother, that's impossible, frequencies completely outside the UHF band. No no,
Speaker 10: no station could even reach the range, much less transmit speech.
Speaker 10: Oh yes tomorrow and ask questions. All right, now, I've
Speaker 10: stood another.
Speaker 11: I've watched you wreck job after job with your silly
Speaker 11: crackpot ideas.
Speaker 10: I've been hoping that you'd come, but you heard Mark.
Speaker 11: With this pile of junk long enough. If you don't
Speaker 11: come to your senses and for all, I'm through with you.
Speaker 11: But I give you five minutes more to wash and
Speaker 11: get downstairs, or I'm through Albertanna, I mean it.
Speaker 10: Oh, I'll.
Speaker 11: Wake up, Albert.
Speaker 10: Oh I'm kind of seven. Oh yes, good, I hurry
Speaker 10: up and get shared. He'll be like God, Oh, I
Speaker 10: mustn't be. Oh have you seen an early light early
Speaker 10: late time? I hope I'm not late, he said, make
Speaker 10: contact early and late light. Don't worry about breakfast here,
Speaker 10: just fix some coffee and dressed. Now, now do you
Speaker 10: hear me? You know what the principal said the last
Speaker 10: time you were late, Math, I'm not going to school.
Speaker 10: Don't you understand here? Today I'm going to contact Delta White. No,
Speaker 10: in fact, I'm going to contact right now.
Speaker 11: You mean to tell me that you're risking your job
Speaker 11: for that that crazy, Oh, mother.
Speaker 7: Is not crazy.
Speaker 10: You're putting on this earth could have transmitted on that frequency.
Speaker 10: There's only one explanation.
Speaker 9: All right.
Speaker 11: I can see that there's only one solution to this,
Speaker 11: and you've asked for it.
Speaker 10: Mother, door, I'm to stop. What are you going to do, Martha?
Speaker 11: Get away from that door. By the time I finished
Speaker 11: with this place, get out of my way.
Speaker 1: All you need of.
Speaker 10: The room, sam Won, I said. Now, then you listen
Speaker 10: to me for a change. For fourteen years I've been
Speaker 10: teaching sniveling little monsters to blow themselves up for less
Speaker 10: money than our garbage collecting. And for ten years I've
Speaker 10: listened to you nagged me out of any sort of manhood.
Speaker 10: But if you lay one finger or not equipment or
Speaker 10: come in this room again, whether my express permission, I'll
Speaker 10: kill you.
Speaker 2: We will return to escape in just a moment, But
Speaker 2: first in your town, in the next town, across the nation,
Speaker 2: you'll find the Red Cross. But the Red Cross is
Speaker 2: above and beyond all boundary lines, for it is infinite
Speaker 2: in its scope. In time of hardships, epidemics, floods, fires,
Speaker 2: the Red Cross is the symbol and soul of humanity.
Speaker 2: You are part of that symbol because it is the
Speaker 2: money that you contribute that enables the Red Cross to
Speaker 2: continue its great work. Answer the call, and humanity will
Speaker 2: answer you with gratitude. Now back to escape.
Speaker 10: XA calling Delta white zero No. Station MxA calling Delta
Speaker 10: white zero null.
Speaker 9: This is Delta by zero. No to station MxA. Can
Speaker 9: you read us?
Speaker 10: You're coming in loud and clear.
Speaker 9: Council authorises to continue contact. What is your name and function?
Speaker 10: My name's Tanner, Albert Tanner. I'm a chemistry teacher Lamarada
Speaker 10: High School.
Speaker 9: A scientist.
Speaker 10: Yes, all kind of in a way.
Speaker 9: We too have servants of learning. Did you construct this
Speaker 9: magnetron channel?
Speaker 10: Yes, but I'm afraid it's a bit elementary. I had
Speaker 10: to use war surplus stuff and that's never very satisfactory.
Speaker 9: All. Is there war in your territory at this moment?
Speaker 10: Oh no, no, commander, Oh, everything's quite peaceful here.
Speaker 9: Good. We're looking for a suitable land space and don't
Speaker 9: want to arrive in the middle of your hostilities.
Speaker 10: You'd be very welcome, Commander. We plenty of space and
Speaker 10: open fields all around us here. It'd be a pleasure
Speaker 10: to have you.
Speaker 9: Thank you, Tanner, You're welcome, Commander.
Speaker 10: Might I ask what is the position of your planet?
Speaker 9: Menatoid delta is five light years behind the summersaultstice.
Speaker 10: I'm afraid I don't understand that.
Speaker 9: In elementary matho medical formulae, its gamma is to the
Speaker 9: power of epsilon to the seventh vector.
Speaker 10: Oh of course, yes, yes course. Now how is it
Speaker 10: we haven't observed your planetoid before. I couldn't find you
Speaker 10: on any of our star atlases.
Speaker 9: We are exactly opposite your son. This would make observation
Speaker 9: by ordinary optical instruments impossible, but with our magnetic electroscopes
Speaker 9: we are able to filter out the soul rays and
Speaker 9: observe you perfectly.
Speaker 10: I see, Oh, I see, Commander. Ah, when do you expect.
Speaker 9: To arrive by your time? Late? In your so called
Speaker 9: after noon? We shall determine that by later contact.
Speaker 10: And Commander might I ask a personal question.
Speaker 9: Of course, what do you oh, what do you look like?
Speaker 9: I all members of the race Delta of the nebulae Ursula.
Speaker 9: Of course, is there any other way to look? M hm.
Speaker 14: Oh, Marada Police Department, Sergeant Williams.
Speaker 11: This is a Missus Dan at thirty five Crescent Heights.
Speaker 11: My husband just made contact with Dell to zero something
Speaker 11: in space and they're going to land this afternoon.
Speaker 9: Will you say that, little flower? Please?
Speaker 11: I said that the men from space are going to
Speaker 11: land this afternoon. I heard my husband talking to them.
Speaker 11: You've got a sense of police been out of here because.
Speaker 14: Before yeah, yes, yes, ma'am. No, I'll take it easy.
Speaker 14: How did you say your husband got this information.
Speaker 11: Through the radio? I mean got through this radio.
Speaker 14: Sure, I understand these spacemen radio to your husband.
Speaker 7: But I keep telling you I've heard them.
Speaker 11: The door was opened up.
Speaker 10: I could hear them very distinctly. Please, please, please, you've
Speaker 10: got the help.
Speaker 14: It sounds like a matter for the army, Missus Tanner.
Speaker 14: Why don't you call that?
Speaker 10: All right?
Speaker 11: I'll call them. What's their number?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 10: Please?
Speaker 11: Please one moment, please are you still there?
Speaker 9: Please?
Speaker 14: It's Murda four six three seven I'll call Yeah.
Speaker 9: You do that, Missus Tanner, they'll take care.
Speaker 10: Six three.
Speaker 4: Mm hmmm I.
Speaker 7: Four six three.
Speaker 10: Seven h.
Speaker 9: U s rmy camp, ronalds.
Speaker 11: Can I speak to something in charge? Please?
Speaker 10: Please?
Speaker 11: We're being invaded.
Speaker 10: By Delta or White.
Speaker 5: I mean it's spaceships of the line.
Speaker 9: Please, I'll give you the duty office. Are you still,
Speaker 9: Lieutenant Jacobs?
Speaker 11: My name is Missus Tanna, Missus Halbatanna, thirty five Cresent Heights.
Speaker 10: Now please please, you've.
Speaker 11: Got us told it out here right away.
Speaker 7: Oh that's interesting.
Speaker 10: Command here. How long you been in space?
Speaker 9: By your time? Five months? But remember, I'll speed is
Speaker 9: twice the speed of lights.
Speaker 12: Uh huh?
Speaker 10: Do you use atomic energy.
Speaker 9: Discarded in our bleak age? We use the natural magnetic
Speaker 9: forces that surround the universe.
Speaker 10: What about friction he caused by your velocity through the atmosphere.
Speaker 9: Our speed is adjustable by control of the magnetic fields
Speaker 9: we ride it in any case. The disull is of traxendium.
Speaker 9: It's pressure to withstand anything anything that is but water
Speaker 9: but water.
Speaker 10: But everything in nature has water. Even the human body
Speaker 10: is eighty percent water.
Speaker 9: What you have water in your body?
Speaker 10: Yes, it's in different forms such as blood, or sweat,
Speaker 10: but it's still water.
Speaker 9: Thank you for warning us.
Speaker 10: What's wrong with water?
Speaker 9: To humans? Apparently nothing, but to our life form, water
Speaker 9: is a deadly corrosive.
Speaker 10: But our atmosphere contains water.
Speaker 9: We know and have sufficient exterior protection for the moisture
Speaker 9: of your atmosphere. Did you say your habitation was inland?
Speaker 10: Yes, yes, you're perfectly safe, sir. We're over one hundred
Speaker 10: miles from the nearest ocean river. Now, if you will
Speaker 10: follow my carrier signal down to the landing, you'll.
Speaker 9: Be all right. Thank you, Tanner. I'll report your assistance
Speaker 9: to the council. Do you think your authorities will object
Speaker 9: to our visits?
Speaker 10: I'm sure they won't, sir, and they'll be honored.
Speaker 9: We'll all be honored. Is this a joke? Are you?
Speaker 11: Are you not going to help?
Speaker 9: CEO is away for.
Speaker 4: The weekend and I've got an appointment.
Speaker 9: Can't it wait till monday?
Speaker 11: He'll right away. I'll send a report of your contract
Speaker 11: to my congressman with the copy to your command in general.
Speaker 4: Yes, missus, Tanner, I'll be over.
Speaker 7: Do you really trust that human commander?
Speaker 8: There isn't much option we've orders to carry out. It's
Speaker 8: an incredible race, but Tenner seems harmless enough. We're meeting
Speaker 8: pressure race, probably entering the outer atmosphere. Let us start
Speaker 8: degaussing and settle on his carrier. Twenty seven hundred zero two.
Speaker 8: No change switch on the water ocllograph arslograph on variation none.
Speaker 9: Good.
Speaker 8: We'd better check again with Tanner until we see ground
Speaker 8: right away.
Speaker 9: Race filter to MxA, filter to MxA over.
Speaker 10: NXA to delta. You're in loud and strong.
Speaker 9: We're entering your atmosphere.
Speaker 10: I'll check your approach on radar and keep tracking it.
Speaker 9: We're going all deeper. Your channel open, Martha, I thought.
Speaker 11: I told you this, Lieutenant Jacobs from Campos Albert I
Speaker 11: heard you talking to the desert man, and I was again.
Speaker 4: Your wife was worried, so she wanted me to come over.
Speaker 10: Oh I see, I suppose she told your story about
Speaker 10: man from space.
Speaker 4: Well, yes, sir, oh all right.
Speaker 10: You probably think I'm crazy, but you'll see they're coming
Speaker 10: in right now using my channel as a ground approach.
Speaker 10: You've been through signal school.
Speaker 4: I am from twenty seven signal course.
Speaker 10: I see then you recognize the equivoment.
Speaker 9: Something wrong wrong, reversal fields turner. Cross check our position.
Speaker 9: We have a danger reading.
Speaker 10: You're heading straight for us. Commander you're safe, Why you're
Speaker 10: perfectly safe?
Speaker 9: Check it again? Did you check it again? Yes? I did?
Speaker 9: The great deal of water down there, turn of a
Speaker 9: signals are a danger. It's fun danger. Cross check your figures.
Speaker 9: Couple reversal, magnus, it's what it's water lancers and masses
Speaker 9: of water. Better, we've hit warm in an ocean. Well, well,
Speaker 9: we're learning a.
Speaker 10: Delta downtown. What's happened?
Speaker 4: Cross checked their position, sir. The signal is getting weaker,
Speaker 4: but your fix is right. It's within one hundred yards
Speaker 4: of this set.
Speaker 10: Let's get outside. Maybe it crashed into the fields.
Speaker 4: Where is it? There's nothing else that there must be.
Speaker 10: Maybe it crashed into the trees or come.
Speaker 9: On, come over, how the.
Speaker 6: Look look?
Speaker 4: I'll read it so but I don't know.
Speaker 12: Go on.
Speaker 4: On Saturday, July fourteenth, at fourteen hundred hours, a telephone
Speaker 4: call was received from Missus Albert Tanner et ceterus ceteru,
Speaker 4: and on going out to the back lot, we could
Speaker 4: see no sign of the space disc our Attention was
Speaker 4: then drawn by Missus Tanner to the fish pond from
Speaker 4: which steam could be seen rising. On inspecting the pond,
Speaker 4: a small circular object approximately eight inches in diameter could
Speaker 4: be seen floating on the surface. On attempting to retrieve
Speaker 4: the object, it disintegrated as attacked by a powerful corrosive
Speaker 4: end of report.
Speaker 10: Well, you forgot about the men inside. You've got to
Speaker 10: say something about their size.
Speaker 4: We never saw them, mister Tanner.
Speaker 9: What do you do?
Speaker 4: Don't do that, Tana, mister Tanner, I'm doing this for
Speaker 4: both of us. If I sent in the report, nobody
Speaker 4: would believed it's better this way.
Speaker 7: No, it's the truth.
Speaker 10: You saw it happen. Why you know what's happened.
Speaker 4: The only thing I know is there's no proof. As
Speaker 4: far as I'm concerned, it didn't happen. I never saw anything,
Speaker 4: I never heard anything. That's going to be my report,
Speaker 4: mister Tanner. No occurrence, incident closed. Good afternoon, mister Tanner.
Speaker 2: Under the direction of Anthoni Ella's Escape has brought you
Speaker 2: The Invader by Mychael Gray, starring Howard McNear. Faye Baker
Speaker 2: was heard as Martha, with Edgar Barrier as the Commander.
Speaker 2: Featured in the cast were Paul Freese, Peter Leeds, Bill
Speaker 2: Bissel and Leroy Leonard. The special music for Escape is
Speaker 2: composed and conducted by Leith Stephens.
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Speaker 1: your life.
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