Speaker 1: Adventures in time and space transcribed in future tense. Can
you predict what will come in one hundred years? Can
you see beyond the known dimensions of time and space
into the unknown dimension X? In nineteen eighty seven, Atlantic
Spaceport was established on the site of old Fort Devon
outside of Boston, and as the ships pushed deeper and
deeper into space the time of voyage increased by geometrical progression,
it became more and more difficult to persuade able spacemen
beers sign on for flights which lasted for years ten
to fifteen monotonous years. In the cramp forcusal of a
deep space.
Speaker 2: The barrooms and one Armed Joints and Scully Square in
Boston were plastered with recruiting posters for the deep space
Star runs, flashy four color signs with a blue eyed
young man gazing into a star studded sky.
Speaker 3: Seek your future in the stars, Jeff, there's your last
chance to get out of the wedding.
Speaker 4: Sure, just send Judith a.
Speaker 5: Short note I can't get away to marry you today
and three hundred million light years away.
Speaker 4: Very funny, very funny.
Speaker 6: Buzzing it over boy tomorrow.
Speaker 7: The shackles of matrimony.
Speaker 4: But tonight the stars.
Speaker 6: The mystery of the galaxy, Eat drink and the.
Speaker 4: Merry for tomorrow.
Speaker 1: You commit matrimony.
Speaker 4: Oh, come on, we came here to have a little fun.
Speaker 3: I might as well be in mother's music and commonwealth an'tue?
Speaker 8: Please?
Speaker 4: The problems of the rich?
Speaker 9: Hey, Jeff, just where does the coffin fortune come from?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 10: I guess it started in Nantucket. My great great something
or brother used to be a whaler.
Speaker 1: A whaler, our sea.
Speaker 6: Boat, dead whalers, whole boat.
Speaker 4: Watch my trustee, our pool. Whoere's the money now?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 4: I don't know. We've got a lot of commercial holdings, mills, import.
Speaker 5: Export outfits, rocket lines, you.
Speaker 4: Know, mere trivia. Hey, why don't we get out of
this dumb We could.
Speaker 10: Go up to the coffee plaza. It may be stuffy,
but at least the glasses are clean.
Speaker 7: Hey, you're the condemned man.
Speaker 4: All right, you guys, go ahead and get a taxi copter.
I'll settle meet you out. It's run right.
Speaker 10: Excuse me on something, but check oa oky Milton check
he'd be.
Speaker 5: Right out right and h huh nice snug eh huh.
Speaker 11: I suppose I've been watching you sailor break so so
am I? Joe's got off a deep space run out
the Centaurus Centaurus.
Speaker 4: That's a fifteen year run, isn't it?
Speaker 11: Fifteen and three blooming months? How do you know you're
a spaceman?
Speaker 4: No, not exactly, Hey, barkeep where's that check? Ain't your hat?
Speaker 5: Bud?
Speaker 4: Milton is slow? But he sure heal it up? Charlie, say,
why don't you join me?
Speaker 12: Mate?
Speaker 4: Jolie, I know no, thank you? No, come on, won't
take off on? Say let break whatever it is you're
celebrating on me. Come on, poor Charlie.
Speaker 10: And sure now I guess I might as well thank you?
Speaker 4: Cheers, cheers?
Speaker 5: Was that varnished Charlie spacial brand at Charlie?
Speaker 12: Yes?
Speaker 4: Look, could you get that waiter out here? I've got
to meet my friends the morning. What's your hearing? Mate?
You got plenty of time? Sure, sit down, take it easy.
You don't look so good. I don't feel so good. Well,
and now you sit right here?
Speaker 11: If you're chipping as a blooming grass eper and it's shake,
you gotta get.
Speaker 4: Outside in a hurry. Where's the check?
Speaker 7: Check?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 5: Come on, get about the back before his mates turn.
Speaker 4: Up for his other leg.
Speaker 11: Let's go and very easy and swear he thinks where
he's gone, He's got plenty of time. All right, mate,
up on your feet, Wake you wake you, wake up
me see Ida, rise and shine and greet the dawn.
Speaker 13: Where am I?
Speaker 4: What's going on here? Come on now? Made up in it?
And wake you wake you wake? Come on, show it,
show it.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, hey, you were at that bar Scully Square.
Speaker 4: Come on up to the power room. You'll be in
trouble power room. What you're talking about? Where am I?
We'll let you out to say exactly?
Speaker 11: Opened about eight hours out of Atlantic Spaceport.
Speaker 4: Atlantic Spaceport. What kind of a joke is this? If
Alan and Peter think this is funny, they what ship
is this? R is Michael im rafferty coffin line? Coffin line.
Well that makes it easy. You've got to put back
the port. Forget your toothbrush.
Speaker 7: Maid.
Speaker 4: Listen, you'll run. Take me to the captain. I'll tell
you a party.
Speaker 12: Here they go.
Speaker 11: I'm on a per movie. Sure, sure might. I'll take
you up to the captain. Captain Lunstrom is just the
man you want to see.
Speaker 7: Martin, What the devil are you doing on the bridge?
Get to be.
Speaker 4: Long right right away? I need this, sar. Gentleman asked
to Shay.
Speaker 10: Now that's right, Captain, there's been a mistake made. I'm
afraid it was supposed to be a joke. Yes, you see,
I'm going to be married today, and I suppose my
friends thought it would be funny to make me miss
the ceremony.
Speaker 4: I'm sure it won't be too much trouble. Or have
you dropped me off back at Atlantic?
Speaker 7: What? Martin? What is this?
Speaker 4: How we simply captain? He wants you to turn the
ship around it.
Speaker 10: If there's any trouble with your superior, I'm sure I
can fix it up.
Speaker 4: You see, I'm Jeff Coffin. Yeah, you don't understand. My
father is Cyrus coff and he owns this ship.
Speaker 7: He does. Hey, if I can.
Speaker 10: Understand, you're not believing me, captain, but I can identify
my Hey, where's my wallet? Well, captain, all you have
to do is ready back and chat.
Speaker 7: Instead of black they move this man from the bridge.
Speaker 4: Hi, sir, you heard the captain bustard. Wait a minute,
let go on me. There's no way to treat a passenger.
Hasn't you wake up? Sonny boy? You're one of the crew.
What are you crazy? I'm Jeff Coffin, maybe, but just
signed on as a crewman. I'll stand at attention. You
can't get away with this and say, sir, are you
cheap hudling?
Speaker 14: I'll lessen careful, Sonny. You're a spaceman on this ship,
and when an officer gives you an order, you're gonna jump.
Speaker 4: How do you all busted? Let go my arm.
Speaker 14: I guess you'll need a little lesson and ship's just
it and you might as well get it now.
Speaker 9: All right, mister black Now take him below?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 10: Now, mate, you grab yourself a buffer and you get
to look those deck plates. I can't get away with this.
It's kidnapped.
Speaker 11: Maybe yes, maybe no. I get this here deck nice
and charny. We might even see a batch and grub.
I'll be back for two hours. A mind, Joe.
Speaker 4: I want to be able to seem gloom and reflection
in it.
Speaker 6: Hey, hey, you'd better get started.
Speaker 4: I can't get away with this.
Speaker 15: The law says, once you sign on, your under absolute orders.
Speaker 4: I looked it up, but I didn't sign on. I
was kidnapped.
Speaker 15: You won't be able to prove it. Come on, mister, please,
I didn't get anything to read today. Give me a break,
all right, you run the buffer over exetted. Yeah, that's right,
like this.
Speaker 4: Okay, you sign on? Yeah, I ran away from home.
Why how old are you? Sixty?
Speaker 5: I'll be thirty when we get back.
Speaker 4: What do you mean thirty? We're headed from Mars hunt.
We only to refuel. We're found out. The centauris snap.
We can't but that's fifteen years, Horton. I've gotta get back.
Snow you're getting married. You'll think I'm dead. Martin Houghton.
Speaker 11: Houghton, watch you'll be to call me ship break again,
He'll give you what for?
Speaker 3: No listen now, listen, I've got to get back. I
can't this appay for fifteen years. I'll set you fat buck.
Speaker 5: We stop at Mars right, yeah, you'll be below to
get from the lock and key.
Speaker 4: Listen. I can make it worth your while if you
get me off at.
Speaker 5: Mars Port chumping ship. That's real, not team one thousand dollars.
What would tell me? Poor old mother?
Speaker 4: In pattercy two thousand five in advance? What do you
mean in advance. I bet you're the one that rolled
me for my wallet. There's a way. I don't believe
your young cowpend. Maybe I know better, all right, said Dan?
Speaker 15: All right, look, mister coffin, can you take me with you?
I didn't realize what it would be like. I'll pay
my shoe. I could work it for you, or maybe
borrow money. I couldn't stand fifteen years.
Speaker 4: I go crazy. He'll cost you another thousand, you cheap swimming.
Speaker 11: Now, mister coffin, I'm all that stands between you and
a lovely pleasure cruise for fifteen years. So I think
you to treat me with a respecting politeness or a
gentleman like me self deserves.
Speaker 4: Stand by stand by for landing procedure. All right now,
isn't careful?
Speaker 11: This here is the cable locker for the grappling ainger
when she land as we had your open and the
cables go out, don't get yourself caught.
Speaker 4: In me or be caught apart. All right, we got that?
Are you sure we can get up? You'll just do
what I say.
Speaker 11: When you drop down, run for the blasted nobody's there
for a landing.
Speaker 4: Lay low until doc you got it I don't worry.
I'll tell the patrol you. I'll just get away. Help
you when they catch up with this guy. Thank you, sir,
Thank you. Good. I've got to get to mistation. Good. Thanks, thanks,
mister Martin. There's the landing on. Yeah, get clear that cable, Joey.
Speaker 10: It comes an acceleration blast that goes to the grappling cable.
Speaker 4: Right, come on, drop to the hatch. It's about six feet.
It's clear. Hurry up.
Speaker 11: Here, I go.
Speaker 4: All right. You twisted my ankle. It's all right. There's
the blast pit, get going. Yeah, yeah, we're all right.
So far the ship high.
Speaker 13: Here's the pit.
Speaker 4: Get down so you can't see.
Speaker 13: I thank you, mister company.
Speaker 4: It must have been crazy to sign on that ship.
That's all right, Joey. What happened a fight at home? Yeah?
Wait a minute, I hear somebody coming. What keeps doll?
Speaker 15: Maybe we better look.
Speaker 4: We stick our heads over the edge. I'll see a sure,
keep down and keep quiet, I hear them, Josh.
Speaker 3: Well, well, well look what we have here. Two little
babes in the wood. You two moving our shoots. You
each once in.
Speaker 6: The belly Martin. Yeah, I got good eye.
Speaker 4: To Jorge m coming his way. Mister Blake, jumping ship?
What an't you terrible thing? Did you?
Speaker 3: You?
Speaker 4: Double crossing rat? You got paid in advance, didn't you
then turned us in. I'll see the port police about this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, already turned your papers over to the Port Police's
ship jumpers papers.
Speaker 4: I didn't sign any papers.
Speaker 6: You just don't remember signing them.
Speaker 4: I got them stamped nice and legal. It's no use,
mister Copton. We haven't got a chance my my jumping ship.
Speaker 11: Or don't worry, mate, you'll see your girl again in
fifteen years.
Speaker 9: Mister Black informed of the ship's company that these two
men have been found guilty of attempted desertion.
Speaker 3: Desertion or you kidnap me? You're dirty, crooked people. Don't
you talk to Captain Lunster that way.
Speaker 7: I'm sentencing them to twenty four hours.
Speaker 3: I'll watch take them away, Martin, take them to the aftlock.
Speaker 4: Are ship ship jumping? You didn't have that gunna break
you in? Two, double crossing rat. You calm down after
twenty four hours? Whole Watch what's whole? Watch very simple?
Speaker 11: We put you two in spacesuits and shove you through
the airlock and the end of a line.
Speaker 4: You sit out.
Speaker 11: There and you watch the hole for twenty four hours.
You can talk to each other or the wireless intercom,
but no food and no water, and the heating units
in those suits are just a little bit defective.
Speaker 4: Hick makes it interesting.
Speaker 6: Long about the eighteing there?
Speaker 4: How better? Hey, here we are gentlemen the airlock. Now
you get in here.
Speaker 11: You've got five minutes to get into suits, and we
blow you out of the lock. See you in twenty
four hours.
Speaker 12: Maybe.
Speaker 11: Joey, Joey, can you hear your Yeah?
Speaker 4: Get an awful cold? How much longer we got? I
don't know.
Speaker 8: I suppose that's part of the food. Guess I'm awful thirsty.
It can't be too much more. Hang on, kidding, it's cold.
You'll probably get colder.
Speaker 4: We'd better stop the safety of Jeff, Jeff, what would
happen if we drifted away from the ship.
Speaker 8: We'd keep going in the same direction to the oxygen.
Gave up?
Speaker 11: Yeah, well, I can get much colder.
Speaker 12: I don't know if I can take it.
Speaker 8: We haven't got any choice, Joey, Just hang on. It
can't last for.
Speaker 11: A well, welcome back to our little alone. What a
what a hasty water right here? Yeah, which snopping like
a bloody animal.
Speaker 4: Joey messed up. It'll be all teacher. Listen, boy, you
just take my advice and behave yourselves.
Speaker 11: You're fifteen years ago and this year ship, and you
might as well make the best of it. Hey Martin,
what do you call this mess? That's your supper mate?
Food concentrate?
Speaker 10: Let's the idea, only two months out and non concentrates
already you complaining?
Speaker 4: Read?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm complaining.
Speaker 14: If Captain Lunston's chiseling on the manifest, that's his business.
Speaker 4: But when he tries to take.
Speaker 11: It out of our height, Chief quiet, I'll turn you
in to mister black. Concentrade is what you get to
eat from here on out. Now, Shot in your face
and keep quiet.
Speaker 4: I'll shove it in your face and see how you
like it. What's going on in here? Martin?
Speaker 12: What happened?
Speaker 4: He struck me at? What? Forty eight hours old? Watch?
Speaker 13: All right?
Speaker 14: What are you all looking at? You get back to
their places, Martin. Bring that man to the aft airlock.
M alright, Red, come on out of there.
Speaker 4: It times up.
Speaker 6: Come on, yo, Mike, go in and get him.
Speaker 4: Come on Joey Chief forty eight hours out there and
snapped the helmet. Gentle, get it off, Come on now,
hurry up, ring him to I can't what he said.
Speaker 11: Get him undressed. Hang up that space suit here, most
of it auto take heart attack. He's frozen to death.
Mister Black would be fair art broken. Red was the
first claws jet man. Hurry up with that suit.
Speaker 13: It's coding you a ship.
Speaker 4: That's how I have to say.
Speaker 3: It's murder. That's what just plain murder. Space Code gives
a thirty hour limit for punishment.
Speaker 15: They didn't even have a burial, just shove them out
of a lock.
Speaker 4: One of the honors knew about this. They'd stop our
five lot of.
Speaker 3: Good debt going to do us for the next fifteen years.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, Wait a minute. If we could get
the ship back.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow, that's no good sun two weeks after we landed,
we'd be hung. That's what space code says about mutiny.
If they catch you in the act, they shoot you down.
Speaker 7: And no question.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm willing to take the chance.
Speaker 3: Are we gonna let Black and Lunstream kick us around
for fifteen years? Why don't we take over and head
back okay, you.
Speaker 11: Know, interrupt something, gentlemen, a discussion.
Speaker 5: Go kee you at the captain, maybe wait to.
Speaker 11: Have them going me?
Speaker 4: Have you hole out in the island, shifts out seeing enough? Please?
Just what an't? Yeah? You'ing my oil?
Speaker 12: Right?
Speaker 3: Well that's done it, Harry, he's an officer. Okay, suck,
We're gonna move now.
Speaker 10: Joey get up to the radio room and smash to
set before they can get a message out.
Speaker 4: Pop, you get a tell the engine.
Speaker 10: Watch the rest of us will go up to the
bridge about this right, tie him up, speed counts Now,
we've got to take over before they know what hit him.
Speaker 4: Careful, he's got a surprise. We'll get him cold.
Speaker 15: Yet quiet sparks were sending when I got in, but
I knock him out and smashed this up.
Speaker 4: We're all right, all right, come on, let's get up
to the bridge. Close the hatch. We're we're cut off
from the bridge. You never we get through that.
Speaker 3: He must have found out somehow, folks will in the
calm black must must have turned it on from the bridge.
Speaker 4: He must have heard the whole thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
we better get.
Speaker 3: Out of here.
Speaker 13: Yeah, what do they do?
Speaker 4: Hang out all the controls up there. We can shut
down the drive, but we can't steer it. He dug
down the hatch behind us.
Speaker 13: Well, what next?
Speaker 3: All right? Man?
Speaker 6: Yet and lunch have be giving you one minute to
get up quiet in that pick time?
Speaker 4: Hey, let me bring one of you. What do we
do now? Quiet? They can hear everything on the end
of com if.
Speaker 3: I cut the switch, gotta get through to the it's
a Mexican standoff. We can't get it, then they can't
get it us.
Speaker 4: What's up? Airly? The precious dive hurts? What lunston?
Speaker 3: He blew the hatch in the mess hall section. Just
open it up and let the air.
Speaker 4: Anybody caught al Janes he was cooking supper. That is
a door nail. But they can kill us all.
Speaker 3: They'll do it too. All they've got to do is
bleed off the air. They've got the atmosphere controls up there.
Speaker 11: I'll see all of you Black swinging from a land
and crane or where you scum.
Speaker 4: Martin, you know what Black's going to do. Bleed off
the air down here.
Speaker 11: Shave you all right, play in my way and see
you all out in the older.
Speaker 4: Your froze stiff you're forgetting something. Mordan. You're back here
with us.
Speaker 10: What do you make if Black and runs from blowout
compartments one by one, I'll bleed the air off.
Speaker 4: You'll get it too. They'll take care of me. Don't
you worry about that? You think so? Joey plug that
in the comback in.
Speaker 3: Yes, Black Black, we've got Martin back here. Yeah, if
you try anything, honest, he'll get it too.
Speaker 4: What am I supposed to do?
Speaker 13: Right?
Speaker 3: You don't care if he dies, that's his problem.
Speaker 6: We're gonna drop the oxygen level five percent.
Speaker 4: You can't do that to me. Captain Kemptain.
Speaker 6: He's gotta funcunate that you have captured Martin. But the
security of my ship comes first.
Speaker 4: You do you mean you don't care? You see me dead?
Speaker 6: He says, for your can't is murdered. A's what I'm
not one of him?
Speaker 4: You can't kill me? You Telly pline to come, God
do it?
Speaker 6: I always fully owners haging the dirty work.
Speaker 4: And Polly can't hear you anymore? Do he shut up? Martin?
They kill you as soon as look at you. Now, listen,
we've got to get through the bridge. You know this ship.
There must be some way. Well, you're only chance Morton
gets through that hatchet up to the bridge. Who are
or it was odor? They'd kill me and there is
a way to get through.
Speaker 11: The emergency release works by, and I don't tell Crominy
Ballott to keep him from breaking throwing an engine blast
and leaking radiation to the breach.
Speaker 4: Let's get going.
Speaker 10: We've got to get through before Lunstrom cuts the air
down and gets us off. Here's the hatch, Morton, where's
the release under the floor panel?
Speaker 4: It can dry it up. Hurry, I got it. He's
up works on a key, really back.
Speaker 3: Against the walls. They've got the guns, and I'm happy.
I want to wrap my rat around Black's neck. All right, Morden,
open it up.
Speaker 4: Here goes he's dead. Electric chudreed and the hatch is
still closed. He didn't get to turn that key, killed
him instantly, Harry. They got your watch gloves. They're insulated.
Oh sure, sure they'll take any courage. Skip Morton out
of the way and don't touch them, Joey. He's got
the court from put them away with the glove. All right,
I stand by, Here goes the key. Let's go away
on from hold them by. You don't have to worry
about Black. I got him square with a wretch. Anybody
else hurt? I am in the sider. I think it
just graced me. We better toy lunch from up.
Speaker 7: Why do you think you are going to do it?
Speaker 4: Now? Turn around and go back home.
Speaker 9: I don't think so. I have burned the navigation tapes.
None of you can recalculate. You'll just wander in spade
because the huel gets down. You'll die right here on
the ship.
Speaker 4: I comeing, Jeff, it's no use. I've had a little
space math, but not enough to computer a flight.
Speaker 7: Sooner or later you're going to beg me to let
you surrend, Jeff.
Speaker 4: The intercept the screens went on media. No, No, it's
a ship, a patrol ship coming up on us. He
must They got off an sos. No, we don't have
to worry.
Speaker 7: We can just tell them the true true you're not
familiar with this space called young man.
Speaker 9: Yourthany is punished by immediate execution on the ship itself.
In other words, they don't ask questions.
Speaker 7: They choose.
Speaker 4: He's right, Jeff, way through? Can we get away? Not
from a patrol ship they've already sent a sa Heeve
two flash. We run the blow us out of space.
Speaker 7: I'm afraid your mutiny is over, gentlemen.
Speaker 9: They'll be alongside with an air luck coupling, and ten
minutes after that you will all be there.
Speaker 5: Nobody move seargeants, take a squad and secure the ship,
collect or weapons and post a guard.
Speaker 4: In the engine room. Yes, sir, you bra William tell me.
Speaker 7: I am delighted to see you.
Speaker 6: Major.
Speaker 7: I was not sure that an SOS had gotten proved.
Speaker 4: Oh, Captain, Lunchtrom.
Speaker 7: I tried. I can't swear out the effidavit of mutiny, and.
Speaker 5: They don't think a mutiny charge will stand up, Lunchtrom.
Speaker 15: Not.
Speaker 5: With the relief of command warrant out for you, I
think we'll just forget about it.
Speaker 4: You're under arrest, captain, or you can't do that.
Speaker 16: Space called is clear. You recorded my SOS s of course,
how else did you get here? They send us after
you to get Jeff Coffin. See, I'm Jeff Coffin. We
had a missing person's alarmed for you. And then when
a check your sign turn up in Mars. Poor check,
that's right. I gat Wonda Martin to help me get away.
Speaker 5: And he sold it to a fence for half faced value.
We traced it back to this ship, Coffin, I've got
orders to escort you personally. We're taking it back to
earth son measure. Can I send other message?
Speaker 4: Of course?
Speaker 5: Oh, that reminds me I've got one for you from
your fiance.
Speaker 4: Huh.
Speaker 5: She said to tell you that she didn't object to
a bachelor party in principle, but she did think six
months was stretching it a bit.
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Featured in the cast were John Sylvester as Jeff and
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