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THE ADVENTURES OF THE SEASPRAY - Episode 4 - "Stale-Mate"
Originally broadcast 27th April 1967 in Victoria
Originally broadcast 12th April 1967 in South Australia

MOPPY-KUN is back!

"These are the adventures of a charter schooner, of its Captain - journalist Dan Wells - and of his children as the roam the South Pacific".

Synopsis -
After a bank robbery in Levuka, the Seaspray crew crosses paths with a lone tourist, John Miller, who has a hearing impediment travelling with his wife Mildred. Grateful for his help, Captain Wells offers him passage. But when Noah uncovers a suspicious stash in the cabin, trust is tested—and a deadly standoff unfolds on deck (Filmed in Fiji)

"These are the adventures of a charter schooner, of its Captain - journalist Dan Wells - and of his children as they roam the South Pacific"

Starring: -
Walter Brown as Captain Daniel Wells
Susanne Haworth as Sue Wells
Gary Gray as Mike Wells
Rodney Pearlman as Noah Wells
Leone Lesianawai as Willyum

Featuring: -
Lloyd Lamble as John Miller and Diana Davidson as Mildred Miller

Written by William Manville
Music by Eric Gross
Story editing by Bill Strutton
Directed by Eddie Davis
Produced by Roger Mirams

A Pacific Film Production in association with Screen Gems Filmed entirely in the South Pacific

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Transcript
00:30Hello down there. I'm going ashore. Anyone want to help me with the shopping?
00:36Sorry, Dad. I've got too much sewing to do. Could you get some thread to go with this material?
00:41If you can't get the exact same color, Kelly Green or even Apple Green will do.
00:45You wouldn't settle for just green.
00:46I've already got green. Thanks, Dad.
00:49Mike? How about you?
00:51I can't. I've got a problem.
00:53Like who's going to help me carry the bundle?
00:57Honest, I'm right in the middle of this.
00:58Hey, get us a roll of film. 8 milliliters, 50 feet.
01:00Thanks, Dad.
01:04What do you want?
01:05Nothing. Just to go with you.
01:06Well, that's a relief. Come on.
01:09If I can't get this, you want a Philly Green.
01:11Take Apple Green.
01:1350 feet.
01:14Dad, do you want to call him a lizard?
01:37We have a nodding acquaintance. Why?
01:38Well, he hasn't been himself lately.
01:40No? Who's he been?
01:41No kidding, Dad. I'm worried.
01:43He seems lonely or something.
01:44Why not get him a pet? Another lizard.
01:46I knew you'd see him that way.
01:47What way?
01:48Well, while you're in town, I'll stay here.
01:51Find him another lizard.
01:52Well, I'm glad I suggested it.
01:53I wouldn't like Charlie to get sick on my account.
01:55But you stay around, you hear?
01:57Bye, Dad. I'll be here when you get back.
01:58Excuse me, sir.
02:27Did you purchase something in this man's shop?
02:29He did, all right.
02:30Yes. Why? What's wrong?
02:32Did you give him a five-pound note to change?
02:34Well, I don't know. I could have done.
02:36He knows he did.
02:37It was the only one I changed today.
02:39All right. Suppose I did.
02:40What's it all about?
02:41It was a bank robbery.
02:42And this note was on the list of stolen money.
02:44You are under arrest.
02:45Yes.
02:46Yes.
02:47Yes.
02:48And this note was on the list of stolen money.
02:58All right.
03:59Anything I can do to help?
04:00We would appreciate if you would pull up anchor and sail on.
04:03You think they might try to jump us and take our boat?
04:05That is exactly what we're afraid of.
04:07Goodbye and good luck.
04:52Come on.
05:22Hey, you there.
05:33I see.
05:34Are you hurt badly, sir?
05:36I'll be all right.
05:37My head's splitting.
05:38Oh, excuse me.
05:40I had my hearing aid off.
05:41What did you say?
05:43My head.
05:44I'm glad you had your eyes open.
05:46Yes.
05:47You better let me help you to your hotel.
05:50I've been out there.
05:51That boat.
05:53Oh, I think I'll be all right if you'll give me a hand on my feet, Mr. Miller.
05:57John Miller.
05:59After my father.
06:01Well, hi.
06:02Here we go.
06:05That's bad.
06:07You'll be in cold blood.
06:10Soon.
06:10Oh, thank you.
06:13Turn, turn.
06:16What would you like to be so bad for me?
06:18Who was the brute?
06:19I never saw him before.
06:20Might be one of the bank robbers.
06:22I see.
06:23Bank robbers?
06:25Oh, what am I getting me accepted?
06:29There I was, minding my own business, taking pictures.
06:31When all of a sudden.
06:35Oh, no.
06:37What is it, Mr. Miller?
06:39Mr. Miller?
06:40Is there anything wrong?
06:42A picture.
06:43What picture?
06:45I have a picture of that man.
06:47Let's get it to the police right away.
06:48Yes, of course.
06:49That man killed a guard here at the robbery.
06:51Killed a guard?
06:58Mr. Miller.
06:59Maybe you better stay on board tonight.
07:02Well, Matt, he doesn't want to hear anymore.
07:03He doesn't hear anymore.
07:05I'll go to the police with you in the morning.
07:08I really think you'd better try and get some rest, Mr. Miller.
07:11Mr. Miller.
07:19Oh, Mildred.
07:32Who's Mildred?
07:33My wife.
07:34You know, I was so frightened last night, I completely forgot all about her.
07:37You have to help me explain why I couldn't come shore last night.
07:40Don't worry.
07:41Oh, that's easy and certain done.
07:44I don't know what not to worry about first.
07:46Oh, look.
07:47Would you mind holding that for me?
07:49It makes me so nervous.
07:52Oh, hello.
07:53Could I have the Royal Palm Hotel, please?
08:00My doctor said to me only last month.
08:01He said to me...
08:02Oh, room 12, please.
08:05Yes, I know it's early, Maughan.
08:08Well, ring gently, but wake her up, please.
08:10Yes, he said to me.
08:11Your heart, Mr. Miller, is none too good.
08:13You must avoid all sorts of...
08:14Oh, Mildred?
08:15Oh, thank goodness.
08:17Look, Mildred, dear.
08:18I...
08:19Uh, yes, Professor.
08:20Yes.
08:21Yes.
08:21Well, if you don't give me the chance to explain...
08:23I...
08:24I think we'd better get going, Mr. Miller.
08:28I...
08:30Mr. Miller.
08:32Don't give me...
08:32I know.
08:47I know.
08:47THE END
09:17THE END
09:47THE END
10:17THE END
10:47THE END
10:48Get the police
10:49The END
10:54The END
10:59You all right, sir?
11:16I will be in a minute.
11:17Did you catch me?
11:18No luck, sir.
11:21You will have to come to the police station and make a report.
11:24Me too?
11:25Yes, sir.
11:26Oh, dear, little liver.
11:27Forgive me.
11:27The END
11:28Oh, there you are, finally.
11:46First you stay out all night and have me worried after this.
11:48And then you wake me at seven o'clock in the morning just to tell me you're all right.
11:51As if I say whether you're all right or not.
11:53And then, without so much as a bar, you'll leave I have to pass all my things and come
11:57rushing down here at a moment's notice.
11:59Oh, Mildred, this is Captain Wells.
12:01How do you do?
12:02We should be grateful to Captain Wells for his offering the passage.
12:05But if you'd just behave yourself and mind your own business, we wouldn't have to go
12:08looking for pets.
12:09Now, what do you say to that, hmm?
12:11Well, if you'd only give me the chance to explain.
12:13Come on, then.
12:14Let's get going.
12:15I'm afraid that all luggage must be judged.
12:18All luggage.
12:18I suppose I'd be worth those.
12:20Oh.
12:21Well, all right.
12:22If I know what they'll buy them.
12:24Shell, shell, and all shell.
12:26And what's wrong with that?
12:28Just because you don't appreciate the beauty of shells, does that mean I can't have them?
12:31Does that mean I should be denied this small pleasure?
12:33You don't appreciate beauty.
12:35That's your trouble.
12:35You just don't appreciate anything.
12:37A small bag to it, Mr. Miller.
12:40Mr. Miller.
12:44Let me see the small bag, please.
12:47Oh, yes, of course.
12:48That's all right.
13:07What did he say?
13:08He said that this lady certainly loves t-shirts.
13:14Keep a look at all strange boats.
13:16They might try to board you after you leave the island.
13:18Nobody will get near us.
13:20Sorry for all this trouble.
13:22Wasn't of your choice.
13:23Thanks a lot, Corporal.
13:24Thank you very much, Victor.
13:25Bye.
13:26Bye-bye.
13:26Boats, you know I hate boats.
13:41You did it deliberately, that's for sure.
13:43Just anything can make me miserable.
13:45Henry Miller, turn that hearing aid on this minute.
13:48Do you hear me?
13:49Of course you don't hear.
13:50You've got to keep turning it off.
13:51I've been just from like a peopleest person on your face.
13:53If you don't hear a word that I'll take you.
13:55Turn it out and talk.
13:56It's never like it.
13:57Raisin pudding?
13:58Uh-huh.
13:59And you lost your lizard.
14:00I lost my lizard?
14:02I went into the cabin and the door was open.
14:04And you did nothing.
14:05Nothing at all.
14:06She just stood there and did nothing.
14:08Nothing.
14:08She didn't even care if he ran away.
14:10All she cares about is her raisin pudding.
14:12And all she cares about is eating.
14:13Toro, Toro.
14:15From now on, Sue, Eden, if you want to look at him, I'm going to charge you money.
14:18Toro, Toro.
14:19I don't know if anyone's expecting to find a tiny little on this big ship.
14:22He could be anywhere.
14:22I don't know where to look.
14:23He could be in the pocket.
14:24He could be...
14:26Sue.
14:28Sue?
14:38Tab, look at this.
14:39What is it?
14:40It's a good looking side.
14:43Where'd you find it?
14:47Stuffed behind the bulkhead.
14:50Where?
14:50In the guest cabin.
14:51The small one?
14:53The one Mr. Miller slept in last night?
14:55Uh-huh.
14:56I was chasing my lizard when we found this fox behind the bulkhead.
15:01He had me fooled.
15:03He certainly had me fooled.
15:05Don't be too upset, Captain.
15:07Too bad.
15:09If it hadn't been for that lizard, you might never have known.
15:11Well, start loading that money into this bag.
15:16I can't need this anymore.
15:22That's how you brought the money aboard last night.
15:25That's how I brought the money aboard last night.
15:28Those thugs attacked me to throw suspicion off you.
15:30Well, it worked, didn't it?
15:34You're outnumbered, Miller.
15:37No.
15:38Not actually.
15:39You see, the rest of your brood are locked up downstairs.
15:42And up here, we do have an advantage.
15:45Get your boy down below.
15:48All right, now do as he says.
15:49Now, you back there.
15:59Down below.
16:01He can't leave the wheel, you know that.
16:03I'm afraid he'll have to.
16:05Otherwise, Mildred will put a slug into it.
16:09Go on, will you?
16:10Is that all right?
16:22That is all right.
16:22Did you get the police?
16:23No, they wrecked the radio.
16:25Can we fix it?
16:26They broke the juice.
16:31All right, Captain.
16:33Start loading the money into that bag.
16:34Mildred, grab the wheel and straighten her out.
16:56Now load the money into the bag, please.
16:59Come on, move.
17:04Hurry up.
17:20Now you'll have to shoot me to get it.
17:23That I shall do.
17:24If you do, I drop the box.
17:26Shoot and you'll lose the money.
17:30Mildred.
17:31Yes?
17:32Head south of Suva.
17:33Deserted there.
17:34Hear me?
17:35I hear you.
17:38All right, Captain.
17:39What do we do now?
17:41You decide, Miller.
17:42As you say, you have the advantage.
17:46I'll tell you what.
17:48Give me the money.
17:50I'll lock you below.
17:51Mildred and I will take the dinghy, and that way nobody will get harmed.
17:55Well, what do you say to that?
17:56No deal.
17:59You're a brave man, Captain.
18:01But also very foolish.
18:02As soon as we hit shallow water, I shall shoot you.
18:07The money won't sink too deep, then.
18:11Well, what about that?
18:14No deal.
18:15All right.
18:19We'll wait.
18:20We'll wait.
18:22We'll wait.
18:34We'll wait.
18:35Captain?
18:37That's land over there.
18:39Any time now, we'll be hitting shore.
18:45The moment we scrape bottom, you're a dead man.
18:51Don't you want to live, Captain?
18:54Don't you want to live?
18:58Any moment now, you can still bathe yourself.
19:04Miller?
19:06Yes.
19:17Before I go, your money goes.
19:30Number two.
19:31Number two.
19:35Good breeze today.
19:41Let's try three together.
19:50Another three or four.
19:56Stop him!
19:57Stop him!
19:57Shoot him!
19:58Shut up!
20:00How many is that, Miller?
20:00Are you counting?
20:02You should, you know, it's your money.
20:03If you won't stop him, I will.
20:08Wait a minute.
20:09Just wait till we get closer and show.
20:28Worked hard for this money, didn't you, Miller?
20:29You wished your life for it, didn't you?
20:37Think of all it could buy for you, Miller.
20:42And now it's all going.
20:45It's going.
20:47It's going.
20:49When this money is all gone, you're going to have trouble convincing those three partners of yours that it really blew away like this.
20:55Those guys are pretty rough.
21:00I hate to think what they're going to do to you.
21:03You're so good at hiding money, they'll think you hid it from them.
21:07But you and I know better, don't we, Miller?
21:15Here, Miller.
21:16Let's see if they'll skim along the deck.
21:19Catch.
21:22Build it!
21:23Come on, Miller.
21:25Come on.
21:26Let's see if we're going to break 우리나라.
21:27Oh, what?
21:28I don't know.
21:29Come on.
21:29Come on.
21:30Oh, we're all together.
21:32Oh, we're all together.
21:32Come on, Miller.
21:34Let's go.
21:35Bye-bye.
21:36Bye-bye.
21:37Leave it.
21:38Oh, no, no.
21:39No, no.
21:39Bye-bye.
21:44Bye-bye.
21:45Bye-bye.
21:46Hi, Miller.
21:46Bye-bye.
21:46Bye-bye.
21:47Bye-bye.
21:49Bye-bye.
21:51Bye-bye.
21:52Oh, my God.
22:22Don't try it, Captain.
22:52I'm sure you won't have any trouble getting them to help you to find the rest of the gang.
23:04I appreciate this, Captain. Thank you.
23:06Don't take him. Think I can find a lizard.
23:22Captain, you forgot all about my foot.
23:24So I did.
23:25What about my foot?
23:26Here I go again.
23:28If you can find another lizard, bring him back. It'd be pretty handy at times.
23:30And remember, that's 8mm, not 16mm.
23:34Kelly Green, give me your lizard.
23:3550 feet, not 100. Black and white.
23:37Okay, 50 feet, Dad, not 100.
23:39Anybody need some water, please?
23:43Come on.
23:44Oh!
23:49Oh, oh.
23:50Oh, oh, oh.
23:53Oh, oh.
23:54Oh, oh.
23:55Oh, oh, oh.
23:58Oh, oh.
24:00Oh, oh.
24:00Oh, oh.
24:05Oh.
24:06I don't know.

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