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00:00Westinghouse, first with the future, presents the Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse.
00:20Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to another Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse.
00:25Tonight, we're going to see a story written by Rod Serling and starring William Bendix.
00:31Our story begins in a doctor's office.
00:35A patient is sitting there.
00:38He walked into this office nine minutes ago.
00:44Once upon a time, there was a psychiatrist named Arnold Gillespie and a patient whose name was Peter Jensen.
00:50Mr. Jensen walked into the office nine minutes ago.
00:53It is 11 o'clock, Saturday morning, October 4th, 1958.
00:59It is perhaps chronologically trite to be so specific about an hour and a date.
01:04But involved in this story is a time element.
01:10Well, Mr. Jensen, I think we have some of the facts.
01:13Your age, unmarried, no physical ailments of any serious nature, and no previous business to a psychiatrist.
01:20No previous arrests either.
01:21The only time I ever saw a psychiatrist before was in a cartoon.
01:25Well, at best you'll find this helpful.
01:28And at worst, harmless.
01:32Cigarette?
01:33No, thanks.
01:39Now, your occupation.
01:42Various, part-time unsuccessful bookie, card dealer.
01:48Oh, I attended bar once, just down the street from here, a couple of doors.
01:52Andy's place.
01:54Well, how do I stack up, doctor?
01:55Am I subnormal, abnormal, or just an average American lad?
02:00Family?
02:01Father and mother, both married.
02:05Scranton, Pennsylvania.
02:07He was a butcher.
02:08Butcher?
02:10Yeah, he was highly successful.
02:11His thumbs weighed 12 pounds.
02:14That's a good joke.
02:15You think so?
02:17Maybe you should see a psychiatrist.
02:20I think I will take one of those cigarettes.
02:23Sure, help yourself.
02:23Help yourself.
02:23Help yourself.
02:23Help yourself.
02:23Help yourself.
02:25Help yourself.
02:27Help yourself.
02:32Well, you want me to pull up a couch now?
02:34Not necessarily, if you're comfortable here.
02:37Let's start right here.
02:39You can start by telling me why you came.
02:41All right.
02:44Nothing shakes you up, does it?
02:46How do you mean?
02:47I mean everything is calm and cool, and you're the boss.
02:50When I walked in here, I could see you making inventory.
02:53Check the cut of the clothes.
02:55Check the language.
02:57And up there inside your head, that's where you mark down all the results.
03:01And then later on, you put the whole thing in pigeonholes.
03:04This fits here.
03:05This fits there.
03:06You got me pegged, haven't you?
03:09No.
03:10You figure this is some sort of minor league horse player.
03:13Maybe a little hungover.
03:14Maybe a little bugged.
03:16But either way, maybe about 40 degrees tilt.
03:18My cigarette went out.
03:35All right.
03:36Pigeonhole this one.
03:36Look, if said minor league horse player tells you a half-witted story,
03:45can you tell me in one simple statement whether or not I'm off my rocker?
03:49Without dragging in Sigmund Freud and a lot of medical school English,
03:53can you tell me what's wrong with me?
03:55I can try.
03:56I keep having a dream.
04:02Aren't you going to mark it down?
04:04You keep talking.
04:05I'll just make some notes on things that I think are pertinent.
04:08I don't know whether or not any of this will sound pertinent.
04:12I do know it'll probably sound nuts.
04:14I know it sounds nuts to me.
04:15Anyway, there it is.
04:17Okay.
04:17Tell me about it.
04:18Well, I keep having this dream.
04:20I've had it, I don't know, five or six times now.
04:23What sort of dream?
04:25A real one.
04:27Did you ever have any wacky dreams that seemed real?
04:30Well, sure.
04:31I guess we all have.
04:33But have they happened over and over again?
04:36Recurred.
04:36Same dream.
04:37The same dream.
04:38Identical.
04:39It doesn't change.
04:40What's it about?
04:42It always begins the same way.
04:45I'm asleep.
04:46I'm sound asleep.
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05:26Yes, sir?
05:39Uh, this is, uh...
05:41It's 5.06.
05:43Tell me, I got in pretty late last night, didn't I?
05:46I beg your pardon, sir?
05:47I asked you if I got in late last night.
05:50I really don't know, Mr. Jensen.
05:51I walked on duty last night.
05:53Oh.
05:53Look, have you got any water?
05:56Well, you'll find some if you look around, sir.
05:58Oh, yeah.
05:59Thank you very much.
06:01Wait a minute.
06:02What do you call this place, anyway?
06:04I beg your pardon, sir?
06:05I asked you the name of the hotel.
06:07Look, do you work here or are you just inspecting the kitchen?
06:10I asked you what the name of the hotel was.
06:14This is the Imperial Hawaiian, sir.
06:16Oh.
06:17Are you in the right hotel, Mr. Jensen?
06:19I haven't got the slightest...
06:21Yeah.
06:22Yeah, I'm in the right hotel.
06:28Oh.
06:29Oh.
06:30Oh.
06:30Oh.
06:50Oh.
06:51December 6th.
07:16Yeah?
07:17Hey, sir, do you want me to clean up now?
07:20No. Wait a minute, yes.
07:26Good morning, sir. Did you sleep well?
07:30Mother, that's a moot question.
07:33All right, you want to explain the gag now?
07:35Excuse me, sir?
07:36I asked you if you wanted to explain the gag.
07:39You tell the guy who put you up to this he's on the threshold of a deep wound.
07:43You tell him I'm going to take out his teeth one by one.
07:47This is October, isn't it?
07:49October, sir?
07:50What's October?
07:5330 days has October. April, June, and November. Remember? This month, it's October, isn't it?
08:00October? I don't believe so, sir.
08:02What do you mean, you don't believe so? Is it October or isn't it?
08:06It's December, sir. December 6th.
08:09It's what?
08:10It's December 6th.
08:11Yeah, that's what I thought you said. December 6th? Are you all right, sir?
08:19Yeah, I'm all right. Except that I have obviously just come down the home stretch of the biggest toot in the history of man.
08:25You say this is December 6th? Well, last night I was in New York City at the Benjamin Willard Hotel and it was in October.
08:33You're probably overtired, sir. Maybe you aren't feeling so well. Why don't I come back later?
08:38Overtired, I'm not. Not feeling so well. That is the champion blue ribbon understatement of the year.
08:43A toot that takes two months and winds up in... What's the name of the place?
08:47What's the name of what place, sir?
08:48This place!
08:50It's the Imperial Hawaiian Hotel.
08:53That's what I mean. Since when is there an Imperial Hawaiian Hotel in New York City?
08:59It isn't in New York City, sir. It's in Honolulu.
09:04Oh, I figures. It's in Honolulu.
09:07Which leads me to the next question. What am I doing in Honolulu?
09:11I don't know, sir.
09:14That's what I thought you said. Now, there's just one more question.
09:19Really, sir? Why don't I come back later?
09:24Come here.
09:32What, sir?
09:33Does this hotel have a bar?
09:35Yes, sir. It's got a lovely bar.
09:38And where is the lovely bar?
09:39Downstairs, sir. Off the lobby.
09:42If I ever have another mother, I'd want her to be you.
09:44Come back later, honey, and we'll dance.
09:47Yes, sir.
09:50Absolutely, sir.
09:56Honolulu.
09:57Would you like a table, sir?
10:09No, I want to sit at the bar.
10:10But there are no seats left at the bar, sir.
10:13Look, if the President of the United States came in here and wanted to sit at the bar, you'd have a seat for him, wouldn't you?
10:18Well, of course.
10:19Well, I guarantee you he won't be here, so I'll just take his seat.
10:22That seat's occupied.
10:34You know it.
10:36I want a dry martini.
10:37I want it so dry the olive will come up coughing.
10:40You're the boss.
10:41Look, I'll tell you what you better do.
10:57You better just keep them coming.
10:58I'm on the last lap of the biggest binge in the world.
11:01Rough night, huh?
11:02Thirty rough nights.
11:04Would you believe it?
11:04I fell asleep in New York a month ago and I woke up here this morning.
11:07Oh, dear boy, I know the feeling.
11:11Once I fell asleep at the Dublin airport and I woke up on a British tube train going into Palestine.
11:19And that's my record.
11:21Forty-three days in the arms of Morpheus.
11:24Well, bless you.
11:26Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
11:28My wife.
11:29My drink.
11:31Oh, I'm sorry.
11:33Oh, that's all right.
11:33Took nothing of it.
11:34Have you been married long?
11:35One day, six hours, and twelve minutes.
11:40Well, I never would have guessed it.
11:42Oh.
11:47You from New York?
11:56Born, bred, and raised.
11:58Good man.
12:00Sure is.
12:03Was.
12:04How's that?
12:06Was a good man.
12:07Yeah, that's what I said.
12:09No, you said he is a good man.
12:12Well, isn't he?
12:12He was.
12:13He's not here today.
12:15Of course he isn't.
12:16He's in New York, where he should be.
12:26You know, you've got a nutsy sense of humor.
12:28What are you, the argumentative type?
12:31You looking for an argument, buddy?
12:32Is that it?
12:33No, I'm not looking for an argument.
12:34I just want to tell you that if you're kidding me, I'll come behind that bar, and in about
12:39three minutes, they'll be able to scrape you up in a spoon and put you in a cup.
12:42Let me buy you a drink.
12:48No, let me buy you a drink.
12:50A drink for the newlyweds.
12:52The newlyweds are drinking champagne.
12:54Give them champagne.
12:55What do I look like?
12:56A dead beat?
12:56To the bride and groom.
13:03Long may she wait.
13:12You off a ship?
13:13That's your life.
13:14The best baby afloat.
13:16The Arizona.
13:17What?
13:18The Arizona.
13:19The Arizona?
13:20When did they dredge her out of the mud?
13:22You're talking about my ship.
13:25She's never been close to the mud.
13:27She hasn't, huh?
13:29Boy, you got a lovely wife and a lousy memory.
13:32You trying to tell me she wasn't sunk?
13:34I'm not trying to tell you.
13:35I'm telling you.
13:35The Arizona's never been sunk in her life.
13:38She hasn't, huh?
13:39You know it.
13:40You know it.
13:40I don't know it.
13:42I say she got sunk on December 7th, 1941.
13:46And that's where she sits today.
13:48In the mud at the bottom of Pearl Harbor.
13:49Now, what do you think of that?
13:55What did you say?
13:57I said...
13:57It's not 1941.
14:26It's 1958.
14:27You hear me?
14:32It's 1958.
14:37How could it be 1941?
14:39It's 1958.
14:41How could it be 1941?
14:43It's 1958.
14:461958.
14:50Mm-hmm.
14:52And the dream ends there, huh?
14:54No, it goes on.
14:56I see.
14:56But up to that point, you say that each dream is identical.
15:00Identical.
15:02I even remember going to the door of the bar, look out in the street, look at all the cars.
15:0839s, 40s, 41s.
15:09No fins or anything.
15:12Go on.
15:15Now, get this.
15:16This is probably where I should get on the couch.
15:22I don't think this is a dream.
15:29You can make all the chicken tracks you want to.
15:31This is the goods here.
15:32I believe you.
15:34You do?
15:37Well, call up the sanitarium.
15:38Tell them we'll take a double room.
15:41I mean, I understand why you think it's real.
15:43See, some dreams are extremely realistic.
15:47As often as not, they're impossible to distinguish from reality while you're asleep.
15:55Have a cigarette.
15:56It's run out of fluid.
16:05Done quite a bit of smoking here.
16:07Now, where were we?
16:12You don't get what I'm telling you, do you?
16:15It isn't just that it's real while I'm asleep.
16:19While I'm telling you this, while I'm standing here telling you this, it's still real.
16:24Everything that happens in those dreams, that's real.
16:28Go on.
16:29Well, it spills the beans, doesn't it?
16:31Then this is your problem.
16:33That's some problem.
16:34A guy who dreams things and thinks they're real.
16:37Well, as I told you, some dreams are very real.
16:40Oh, I've had dreams like everybody else.
16:43But a week ago when these things started, I knew that they weren't dreams.
16:46You understand?
16:47They're not dreams.
16:49Well, if they're not dreams, Mr. Jensen, what do you suppose they are?
16:53What do you suppose they are?
16:55I wake up in a hotel room in Honolulu and it's 1941.
17:00But I mean, I really wake up and it's really 1941.
17:05Now, wait a minute, Mr. Jensen.
17:08You're not trying to tell me...
17:10Yes, I am telling you.
17:12I'm going back in time.
17:14Well, are you a bookie or aren't you?
17:34Okay, then.
17:35This is the bet.
17:36I picked Joe Lewis over Buddy Bear.
17:38What odds would he give me if I picked around?
17:39What are you talking about?
17:41They're not scheduled.
17:42They will be.
17:43You're going to fight on January 9th.
17:46Yes, that's right, Buddy Bear.
17:48I picked Lewis in one round.
17:50What's the quote?
17:5130 to 1.
17:52Come on, boy.
17:53Come on.
17:54Well, that's better.
17:56Okay, I'll take $500.
17:58Right.
17:59What do you mean, how do I know?
18:00I just know, that's all.
18:02Right.
18:03Say, wait a minute.
18:03You got the name right?
18:05No, J-E-N-S-O-N.
18:07Jensen.
18:08Peter Jensen.
18:09That's right.
18:10I'm at the Imperial Hawaiian.
18:12Wait a minute.
18:14Jensen speaking.
18:15Right.
18:16I'm the guy.
18:17I'll call you back.
18:19You want to take a bet on the All-Star game for next year?
18:23I'll pick the American League.
18:24I spent the next two and a half hours in a kind of paradise, making bets on sure things.
18:29Every race, every prize fight, every football game I can remember happening after December of 1941.
18:35I got it figured out that if this crazy stuff goes on at least six more months, I'm a shoo-in to collect about $464,000 from a half a dozen soon-to-be impoverished bookies.
18:48I'm not scared, you understand.
18:50I don't have one idea what I'm doing back here, but as long as I'm back, I figure I'll put it all to good use.
18:59Come in.
19:01Hi.
19:02How are you?
19:06I'm fine.
19:06How about a drink?
19:08My wife asked me to stop by and see how you felt.
19:13That was nice of her.
19:13I feel great.
19:14How about a drink, huh?
19:15No, thanks.
19:16We're going swimming.
19:17She was a little concerned.
19:19My wife, I mean.
19:20About what?
19:21About me?
19:22Well, it's just that down at the bar, when you saw that paper, you began to...
19:26Oh, that.
19:27Well, that was...
19:29Well, as a matter of fact, I was going to give you a ring and tell you that I was sorry about that Arizona stuff.
19:33You know, the mud and everything.
19:34It was nothing personal, you understand.
19:37Sure.
19:37Good.
19:38Let's see the...
19:40Let's see, I had the All-Star Game 500.
19:44Are you sick?
19:46No, I'm all right.
19:47Well, what made you say it was 1958?
19:50Oh, I guess I was just a little worldly up here.
19:53Sure.
19:56Well, look, we'll be back about four or five.
19:59Maybe you'd like to have a drink with us then, if you feel okay.
20:03You got a deal.
20:04Well, we'll see you later then.
20:06Fine.
20:10Wait a minute.
20:12Yeah?
20:12What do you do on the Arizona?
20:16Oh, I'm in the engineering section.
20:20You work down below, huh?
20:21Most of the time.
20:23Good job?
20:25I like it.
20:29Well, I'll see you later then.
20:30Yeah, we'll give you a call when we get in.
20:32All right.
20:32How is he?
20:43I think he's okay.
20:45He seems so lost.
20:46Now he'll be okay.
20:48Said to give him a call when we get in.
20:50Wonderful.
20:58I remember thinking right at this given moment
21:00that these are two nice-looking kids.
21:03And while I'm watching them,
21:04the thought hits me that this is an awfully young and pretty kid
21:06to be a widow after just two days of being a wife.
21:10So right at this moment,
21:11I do the only thing I can do.
21:13I make a jerk out of myself.
21:15I want a Honolulu newspaper.
21:18I don't care anyone.
21:23Mr. Jensen, this is Mr. Gibbons, the editor.
21:26Well, Mr. Gibbons, the editor, what's with it?
21:28If this information is so hot,
21:30why didn't you take it to the army?
21:31Because I figured a newspaper would spread it around a lot quicker.
21:35Besides, there isn't time to go to a lot of brass trying to get heard.
21:39Well, what about it?
21:40You going to print it?
21:40You going to get out an extra?
21:41Of course, an extra.
21:43And if you take all this down,
21:45you dictate to him everything you've got.
21:50I can give it to him in about three paragraphs.
21:52But I want a guarantee before I do.
21:56I want to be sure I'm not going to get stuck in any rubber room
21:58with a straitjacket after I finish the story.
22:02Go ahead.
22:03And you take it all down.
22:05All right.
22:10I have information that the Japanese are going to bomb Pearl Harbor
22:13tomorrow morning at approximately 8 a.m. Honolulu time.
22:16You know this to be a fact?
22:21As sure as I know, the good Lord made racehorses.
22:24They're going to come over here in about 30 waves
22:26off a bunch of carriers.
22:28They're going to plaster us while we're still in our beds
22:30dreaming about last night.
22:33Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Schofield Barracks,
22:36the airfield, and you name it.
22:39You got all that down?
22:42Yes, sir.
22:43Well, what are you going to do about it?
22:47I'm going to call a commanding general
22:48and tell him to get out all available manpower.
22:51I figure that at least 10 or 11 regiments
22:54fully combat equipped should be sent to the beach.
22:56Now you're talking...
22:57We're calling the Navy, too.
22:59Aircraft carriers will be sent to the area.
23:00I figure there should be at least 1,000 planes.
23:02That's action, man. That's action.
23:04Then I'm going to recommend to the President of the United States
23:06that you lead the troops
23:08because you're good officer material.
23:10Now you're talking, my...
23:11All right, knock it off.
23:16Cut the gag.
23:17Now you listen to me.
23:18No, you listen.
23:20Because I'm going to tell you something, newsboy.
23:23Tomorrow morning, you're going to be about 4,000 miles away
23:26from any kind of laughing.
23:27And you're not going to be able to say that I didn't warn you
23:29because this is no gag.
23:31You're right. It's no gag.
23:33Because we're fed up.
23:34We've had all we can take for one afternoon.
23:36Now you get out of here peacefully, Mr. Johnson,
23:38or I may have to have somebody escort you outside.
23:41I can walk out by myself.
23:43And if you try to put anybody at my elbows,
23:45you're going to have to call in a hospital staff.
23:47I don't appreciate that kind of talk.
23:49Oh, you don't, huh?
23:51You really don't.
23:52Well, what do you appreciate, Mr. Gibbons?
23:55Maybe you'd appreciate a good smack in a jaw.
23:57Something to repay me for my trouble in coming over here
24:00and trying to get in to see you.
24:02This is going to hurt me worse than it does you, Mr. Johnson.
24:05Believe me.
24:06I believe you, Mr. Gibbons.
24:08Is he out of his mind?
24:34Appears to be sane enough.
24:36Well, I'm sorry to call you down here, Doctor.
24:38But this character went berserk.
24:40It took the whole office to keep him here.
24:42I think he ought to be fitted for a jacket.
24:44You walk on your lower lip one more time, big shot,
24:47and I'll get you out of the newspaper business
24:49on a disability pension.
24:50You've never suffered from delusions, have you?
24:58You do know where you are, who you are?
25:00Oh, stop it.
25:01I'm as sane as anybody in this room.
25:04And a more incriminating statement I'll probably never make the rest of my life.
25:09What is the date today?
25:11December 6th.
25:12And we're...
25:12We're what?
25:14We're where?
25:16We're in Honolulu, Hawaii.
25:18What did you have to eat today to drink?
25:20Nothing.
25:21Nothing to eat and precious little to drink.
25:24I've spent the whole afternoon wasting my time with these two kooks.
25:27Who is the president of the United States?
25:35Who's kidding who?
25:36You're supposed to be finding out if I'm nuts.
25:38Eisenhower.
25:39Who did you think it was?
25:40U.S. Grant?
25:41Who?
25:42Who did you say the president was?
25:44I...
25:44Of course, it's 1941.
25:53FDR.
25:54Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the president.
25:57Who was the other person you mentioned?
26:00Eisen something?
26:01I was thinking about something else.
26:02Franklin D. Roosevelt is the president.
26:04Who else did you mention?
26:05Eisenhower.
26:06Dwight Eisenhower.
26:07He's a light colonel on the general staff in Washington.
26:10How did you know about Ike Eisenhower?
26:13Who is the vice president, Mr. Jensen?
26:19Uh, Garner.
26:22John Nance Garner.
26:24John Nance Garner was the vice president.
26:27He isn't any longer.
26:30Oh.
26:32Well, uh...
26:33Wait a minute now.
26:34I...
26:38Truman!
26:40Harry Truman!
26:41Truman!
26:42Of course it's Truman, because when Roosevelt dies, Truman becomes the president.
26:49How's that?
26:50What's the matter with you guys?
26:51Don't you know that Roosevelt dies, and then Truman takes over, and then Eisenhower becomes the president?
26:59What's the matter with you guys?
27:02What's...
27:03All right, fellas.
27:13I...
27:14I take it all back.
27:15You named the vice president, and that's who it is.
27:18Forget I ever mention it.
27:21Hold it.
27:21Hold it.
27:23Sit down, Mr. Jensen.
27:25Let's you and I talk this over.
27:27Uh-uh.
27:32Any of you guys know what a Sputnik is?
27:39I thought so.
27:42Rock and roll?
27:44Jetstream?
27:47Rocky Marciano?
27:49Atomic Subs?
27:56The Los Angeles Dodgers?
28:00Well...
28:01My bonds!
28:04Jensen!
28:05Jensen!
28:11Something on your mind, Hennepi?
28:13No, nothing, Doc.
28:17Except...
28:18Except what?
28:20There's nothing insane about that man.
28:22I didn't say there was.
28:29This yours, Hennepi?
28:32You're quite an artist.
28:35Your plane's Japanese, I suppose.
28:38Not really.
28:40Just doodles, that's all.
28:41You'd better watch yourself.
28:44I'll be putting you under a light.
29:03The best laid plans of mice and men and Pete Jensen.
29:07I just struck a blow for law and order and missed.
29:09So what's left to do?
29:12Simple.
29:13Nothing.
29:15Just sit in a bar, feeling that kind of sweet, sad glow
29:18that comes with realizing that most people aren't as bright as you are.
29:23The next morning, they'd probably all come back and measure me for a brass statue,
29:27but it would be too late.
29:28I didn't care anymore.
29:29But it was kind of a crazy feeling, though, to watch these kids relax over their dates
29:34and their drinks, when tomorrow morning there'd be a couple of odd thousand of them
29:38taking a miserable route through hell to get to heaven.
29:41And a happy new year to you.
29:51Knock it off.
29:57I know how it is, pal.
29:59Believe me, I know how it is.
30:01Once I tied one on in New Orleans around Mardi Gras time.
30:07And I woke up outside the bleacher section of Ebbets Field on St. Patrick's Day.
30:13Still in costume.
30:15Believe me, I know the problems of which you are exposed.
30:19How about having that drink with us?
30:27Oh, yeah.
30:28It's a pleasure.
30:30No, some other time.
30:34Hello.
30:34Hi.
30:36I'm a little ahead of you.
30:38How was the swim?
30:40Wonderful.
30:40Good.
30:41How many hours is it now?
30:4331 hours and 15 minutes.
30:46And everybody said it wouldn't last.
30:49Mr. Jensen?
30:55Pete.
30:57Pete.
31:00Are you all right?
31:01Oh, sure.
31:02I'm all right.
31:02Why?
31:04Well, this morning you seemed so sure it was another year.
31:08Did I?
31:10Well, I guess I was just a little mixed up.
31:12That's all, honey.
31:13And I didn't mean anything personal about what I said this morning either.
31:16Oh, I told you to forget that.
31:17Yeah.
31:18Around for all of us.
31:19Tom, call it to me.
31:21Same here.
31:21What about you?
31:21What are you drinking?
31:22Double scotch.
31:23Double scotch?
31:24Double scotch.
31:25You sure like your scotch, don't you, sir?
31:26Why?
31:26You got a grandfather in the bourbon business?
31:28Yes?
31:37What's the matter?
31:38I wasn't kidding this morning.
31:42I meant what I said.
31:44The Arizona's going to get sunk tomorrow morning.
31:49Are we on that again?
31:50We're on that again.
31:52Look, Lieutenant.
31:54Ensign.
31:55Ensign, Lieutenant.
31:56It doesn't matter.
31:57I've got no axe to grind, you understand?
31:59And tomorrow morning, I've got every intention of going down into the basement and cuddling
32:04up to the furnace and spending the whole day listening to the sirens.
32:07Ensign's, you say you're an engineering officer or something.
32:11That means you're down near the boilers.
32:14Well, I'm telling you that at about 8.20 a.m. tomorrow morning, there won't be any boilers.
32:19There won't be any decks.
32:20There won't be any ship left.
32:22And that goes for a lot of boilers and a lot of decks and a lot of ships.
32:26Not to mention handsome young ensigns with new brides.
32:30Please, don't talk like that.
32:33I've got to talk like that.
32:34But this is the second half of the story.
32:40I know what's going to happen tomorrow.
32:42Because tomorrow is December 7th, 1941 to you people.
32:47But it's 17 years ago to me.
32:53That's right.
32:56Last night, I was in New York City.
32:58It was 1958.
33:00It was October.
33:00It was 17 years after what it is this very minute.
33:06And I've lived through those 17 years and I know what's going to happen.
33:14You're nice kids.
33:15You're nice young kids.
33:17I've got no reason.
33:19No reason in the world to give you grief.
33:20I'm telling you that tomorrow morning we're going to get attacked.
33:27And if you're on that ship...
33:28I'll be on that ship because that's my birth.
33:32Mr. Jensen, you're a nice fellow and all that.
33:34But if you keep saying crazy, wild things like this and making Edna worried, I'm going to have to pop you.
33:39Come on, honey.
33:40We'll have our drink at the bar.
33:43Wait a minute.
33:44Hey, you.
33:45I don't want no trouble.
33:46You want to fight, go out and fight a lamppost.
33:47You shut your mouth.
33:49All right, what are you going to do about it?
33:52You're going to stand around holding hands and biting earlobes until this boy goes back to his ship?
33:57Because I'm telling you if he goes back to that ship, he may not be alive at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning.
34:04Repeat.
34:04He may not be alive tomorrow...
34:06I told you I don't want no trouble.
34:11You hear me?
34:12You don't want any trouble, huh?
34:24You don't want any trouble.
34:28All right, I don't want to give you any trouble.
34:31I want to give you music.
34:33I'll sing songs for you.
34:45Songs you never heard before.
34:50Let's remember Pearl Harbor
34:53As we go to meet the foe
34:58You want to hear another one?
35:00Praise the Lord
35:08And pass the ammunition
35:09Praise the Lord
35:12And pass the ammunition
35:14Praise the Lord
35:16And pass the ammunition
35:18And we'll all
35:19Stay free
35:21You hear that?
35:23That's the song you're all going to be singing
35:27You're all going to sing that in about a week
35:30Because the Japs are going to
35:33Want to hear another one?
35:43Let's remember Pearl Harbor
35:51As we go to meet the foe
35:55Do you know?
35:57Let's get it
35:57Come on
35:58No
35:58Help
35:59The Japs
35:59providers
36:00You're all going to be
36:00�
36:25I told you, I told you, I told you, why wouldn't anybody listen to me?
36:49I told you, I told you, I told you.
36:56I told you, I told you, I told you, why wouldn't anybody listen to me?
37:09And then?
37:11That's where I wake up, standing by the doors, planes coming in low, bombs dropping, strafing.
37:22That's just where I wake up.
37:25It's realistic and very frightening.
37:29How long has this been going on?
37:33How often have you had this dream?
37:35Every night for a week.
37:37Everything is always the same.
37:39Chronologically the same.
37:40Everything.
37:41Everything.
37:41The ensign and his bride.
37:45The bar.
37:46In my room, on the phone, everything.
37:50And the moment when I'm standing by those doors and the planes are coming in, it's always the same.
37:56And it's...
38:00It's real.
38:04It's not a dream.
38:05It's real.
38:05I'm going back in time.
38:08I know.
38:08Well, Mr. Jensen, I...
38:13I won't attempt to analyze that dream now, except to say this, that very often you dream with a purpose.
38:21Dreams are usually significant to something deep-rooted in a man's subconscious.
38:25But very often the subjects that you dream about are not really the things that bother you.
38:31They're only symbols of the things that bother you.
38:34Look, Doc.
38:35Don't try to out-logic me.
38:39I'm not trying to pass this off as logic.
38:43I just know what I know.
38:45I'm going back in time.
38:48I can't give you an explanation.
38:50I thought maybe you could give me one.
38:52And I'll tell you something else.
38:55When I'm standing by those doors and the planes are coming in, that's where I wake up.
39:00But even after I wake up and I'm lying in bed thinking about it,
39:04I know the dream shouldn't have ended there.
39:08It should have gone on beyond that.
39:11One of these nights, it will go on beyond that.
39:15And you have no idea what might transpire in that moment beyond that?
39:19No.
39:19All right, let's approach it your way.
39:36Let's look at it as if it weren't a dream, but let's look at it very practically.
39:41Assume now that it were possible to go back in time.
39:44Now we can assume that.
39:46You go back in time and you do something.
39:51Let's say you warn people about an accident that you know is going to happen so that the accident doesn't happen.
39:57But what is it that you're doing?
40:00By altering the past, you change the present.
40:06Look, Doc...
40:07Now this is important, Mr. Jensen.
40:08It's very important that you grasp this.
40:12Let's try this analogy.
40:16Supposing...
40:17Supposing I were able to go back in time.
40:21I go back and I'm hit, well, let's say by a taxi.
40:24Now it figures that if I were able to go back in time and were killed, I wouldn't be living today.
40:32Not only that.
40:33Think of all the other lives affected.
40:36I wouldn't have gotten married, I wouldn't have any children, I wouldn't have bought a house.
40:40Now all these things wouldn't exist as they do today because I changed them in the past by being killed.
40:47So?
40:48So.
40:49It's not possible to go back in time.
40:52We must assume that this is a dream.
40:54All right, try this then.
40:59All right.
41:06I've never been in Honolulu in my whole life before except during that dream.
41:12So after the first couple of times I dreamed this, I...
41:17Take your time.
41:22Well, I decided I'd put it to a test.
41:24I knew the ensign's last name.
41:27It was an odd one, Janoski.
41:30He told me that he and his girl had come from a little town called White Oak, Wisconsin.
41:34I placed a call there.
41:37There was only one Janoski in the book.
41:38A woman answered the phone.
41:40She told me she was his mother.
41:41I told her that I was an old friend of his from Honolulu and I asked, was he there?
41:50And then?
41:51And then she told me that her son and his wife were killed in Honolulu on December 7th, 1941.
42:02He went down with the Arizona.
42:04She was shot down near King Street by a plane strafing.
42:06Well, doctor?
42:16Are you sure you've never been to Honolulu?
42:19Yes, I was there once.
42:21When?
42:23When I'm supposedly having that dream.
42:25All right, doc, tell me.
42:40I don't hear you talking.
42:46Well,
42:46at the moment,
42:51I don't quite know what to say.
43:12Dr. Gillespie's patient lay on the couch almost in a stupor.
43:16They'd been talking for hours.
43:18It was Saturday,
43:19and Gillespie had planned to close early and go play golf.
43:23At that moment,
43:24he'd forgotten golf.
43:26He was concerned only with the fascinating and unbelievable story
43:29that this man in front of him had told him.
43:32And then,
43:33as he looked at him lying there on the couch,
43:35Dr. Gillespie knew Jensen was falling asleep.
43:39He could tell by the look on the face
43:40that he was far from resting,
43:42though his eyes were closed
43:44and he was no longer aware of him.
43:46Oh,
43:47all questions.
43:47I don't know how to kiss
43:48when we didn't talk to him.
43:49Oh, my God.
44:19Oh, my God.
44:49Oh, my God.
45:19Oh, my God.
45:49I told you.
45:50I told you.
45:51I told you.
45:52I told you.
45:56I told you.
45:57I told you.
45:58I told you.
45:59I told you.
46:00I told you.
46:02I told you.
46:04I told you.
46:07I told you.
50:08Just look familiar, that's all.
50:12Where is he now?
50:14He's dead. He was killed at Pearl Harbor.
50:16It is October 4th, 1958, Saturday, 1210 p.m., if anyone is remotely interested in the element
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