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00:00The Blue Beetle.
00:18Weeping down upon the underworld at Matt Janglin comes the mysterious, all-powerful character
00:24who is a problem to the police, but a crusader for law.
00:27In reality, Dan Garrett, a rookie patrolman, loved by everyone, but suspected by none of
00:33being the Blue Beetle.
00:36As the Blue Beetle, he hides behind a strange mask and a suit of impenetrable blue chain
00:41armor, flexible as silk, but stronger than steel.
00:45Today's transcribed episode of the Fox feature, The Blue Beetle, is entitled, The Asylum
01:00of Dr. Drear.
01:02Who is Dr. Drear, and what sort of an asylum does he run?
01:05Is he a friend of the unfortunate, or is he a schemer against law and order?
01:10As our story opens today, Patrolman Dan Garrett, who is really the Blue Beetle, is entering
01:15the little apothecary shop of his friend and confidant, Dr. Franz McKenna.
01:21Hello, Doc.
01:22Cash customer.
01:23Oh, hello, Danny.
01:24What's new?
01:25There's a young lady waiting for you.
01:27A young lady?
01:27Where?
01:28Back in the laboratory.
01:29What does she want, and who is she?
01:31Diana Tilton.
01:32Banker Tilton's foster daughter?
01:33Yes.
01:34What's she doing here?
01:35I don't know, Danny.
01:36Hadn't you better go back and talk with her?
01:38She seems very much disturbed about something.
01:40All right.
01:41I'll talk with her.
01:43Good evening, Miss Dilton.
01:44Oh, good evening.
01:45You're Patrolman Dan Garrett, aren't you?
01:47Yes, that's right.
01:48Oh, I'm so glad you've come.
01:49I've been waiting some time.
01:50What is it you wish to see me about?
01:51Well, my father, or rather, my foster father, he disappeared.
01:55Disappeared?
01:56Yes.
01:56You're sure he hasn't gone on town, no business?
01:59Oh, I'm positive.
02:00He doesn't know he left for me.
02:01Hmm.
02:02I'm going away for a long rest.
02:04Don't worry.
02:05Linus will take care of everything.
02:07Love, Dad.
02:09Oh, this doesn't look as if your father had been kidnapped or met Paul Clay.
02:13It's his handwriting, isn't it?
02:15Yes, I think so, but I'm not certain.
02:18Are there any suspicious circumstances mixed up with his disappearance?
02:20Yes, there are.
02:21What are they?
02:22Well, for one thing, Dad's nephew, Linus Weatherby.
02:26Linus Weatherby?
02:27Yes, do you know him?
02:27Only by reputation.
02:29Quite a playboy.
02:30Yes, though, I've heard.
02:31Well, he's Dad's nephew and an officer of Dad's bank.
02:34But recently, things haven't been going any too well at the bank, and Dad's been worried.
02:39Financially, I mean.
02:40I see.
02:41Go on.
02:41Linus insists that Dad is acting strangely.
02:44And a month or so ago, he called in a psychiatrist, a Dr. Greer, to examine Dad.
02:49What was his opinion?
02:50That Dad needed a rest.
02:51Well, your father's note seems to indicate he is taking Dr. Greer's advice.
02:55Yes, but here's a strange thing.
02:57Dad can't read or write without his glasses.
03:00He wears them constantly.
03:02He lost without them.
03:04Today, I found him in his desk drawer.
03:06When did you last see him?
03:07Two nights ago.
03:08Well, I wouldn't worry.
03:10He'll probably stand for his glasses in a day or so, and you'll learn his whereabouts.
03:13But there's one thing more.
03:14What is that?
03:15Since father's disappearance, Linus has become more insistent that I marry him.
03:20He acts like someone who has the whip hand of a situation.
03:23We're becoming unbearable.
03:26Well, why don't you go to the commissioner?
03:27And he'd probably turn the city upside down to locate your father.
03:31But that's just the point.
03:32I don't want to do that.
03:34If he is all right, he'd resent such interference.
03:37Then if he isn't...
03:38Oh, I don't know what to do.
03:40I'm so worried and puzzled.
03:41Oh, there, there.
03:42Don't cry.
03:43I'll do what I can to help you find your dad.
03:45Now, you run along home, and I'll phone you in the morning.
03:47Oh, thank you so much.
03:50There.
03:51That's to show you how much I appreciate your help.
03:54Goodbye.
03:54Oh, gosh.
03:57I'm glad Madigan didn't see her kiss me.
04:00I'd never hear the last of it.
04:13And where is it we're headed by this morning, Donnie?
04:15The booby hatch.
04:16The booby hatch, is it?
04:18Mm-hmm.
04:18Did you reserve a single or a double of them?
04:20A single.
04:21That'll be big enough for you.
04:22Is that so?
04:24And under what name did you register me?
04:26Sherlock Holmes.
04:27And I suppose you're Dr. Watson.
04:29No, no.
04:29No, Daniel Boone.
04:31Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
04:33Now, we're calling upon a Dr. Dreher, who, according to Charlie's sermon of the news,
04:37runs a private sanitarium for the mentally upset out of Tanglewild.
04:40Oh, you mean he runs an insane asylum.
04:42That's right.
04:43And why are we visiting Dr. Dreher?
04:45We'd like to discover if he has a patient there by the name of Tilson.
04:48The banker?
04:49The same.
04:49Oh, say, does the commissioner know about this?
04:53No, this is a private mission.
04:55Okay, Danny, I'm with you.
04:56Let's go.
05:09Good morning, officers.
05:10Something wrong?
05:11One of my attendants said you wished to speak with me.
05:13Dr. Dreher.
05:14That's right.
05:15We're not here officially, Dr. Dreher.
05:17Miss Tilson, who happens to be a friend of mine, asked me to drive out here and ask
05:20if her father was here.
05:21Yes.
05:22Yes, he's here.
05:23Would you like to see him?
05:24Yes, if we might.
05:25Very well.
05:26If you'll just come with me, I'll let you talk with him.
05:28But not very long, he's very nervous and tired.
05:31On the verge of a breakdown.
05:32You realize, I'm sure, what times like these can mean to a man in his position.
05:36Quite.
05:37And here we are.
05:39There's two gentlemen to see you, Mr. Tilson.
05:41Come in.
05:42Please come in.
05:43And excuse my not rising.
05:47Very tired, you know.
05:49Nerve shot.
05:50Well, that's perfectly all right.
05:51We'll just call at the request of your foster daughter.
05:54She was worried about you and thought you might be out here.
05:57Oh, dear Diana.
05:59Tell her not to worry.
06:01I'll be all right in time, I hope.
06:03Tell her Linus will take care of everything.
06:07He's a good boy.
06:09He'll take care of it.
06:10I'll tell her, Mr. Tilson.
06:12Just one thing more.
06:13Did you write her this note?
06:15Let's see.
06:17Hmm.
06:18My glasses are foggy.
06:20I see better without them.
06:22Hmm.
06:24Yes, yes.
06:24I wrote this note.
06:26Why?
06:27Oh, she just wondered.
06:28That's all.
06:29Well, we won't disturb you any longer.
06:31I hope you recover your health and strength very quickly, Mr. Tilson.
06:36Goodbye.
06:36Goodbye.
06:37And thanks for coming.
06:39Tell Diana not to visit me until I'm...
06:43Oh, my head.
06:45Oh, my head.
06:46Ladies and gentlemen, he's a very sick man.
06:48Oh, it appears.
06:49Goodbye and thanks.
06:50Come on, Mike.
06:54Well, what do you think, Annie?
06:56I think it's strange that a man who's supposed to be unable to read or write without his glasses
07:00takes them off to read that note.
07:03Step on it, Mike.
07:03I've got a hunch and I want to play it quickly.
07:16I am thy father's spirit, doomed for a certain time to walk the night, and by the day confine
07:27too fast, too fast, maybe once more upon my beloved trance, and I will die.
07:33This will be, this will be done, the mouse ran up the clock, the clock took on the mouse
07:39ran down, this will be done.
07:42See?
07:42Here's one twin.
07:44He's the crazy one.
07:46They keep him locked up.
07:47Thanks very much, King Arthur.
07:48You're welcome, Sir Lancelot.
07:50I'm going now before the black nights come.
07:53Don't forget about my round table.
07:56Hey, what's going on outside my door?
07:58Is that you, Mr. Tilson?
07:59The real Mr. Tilson?
08:00Of course it's me.
08:01Who are you?
08:02The Blue Beetle.
08:02The Blue Beetle.
08:04I thought they'd get you someday.
08:06Always doing crazy stunts.
08:08I'm here to save you.
08:09Oh, thank you.
08:10Never mind that now.
08:11Tell me who put you in here.
08:12Oh, that low-down nephew of mine, he and Dr. Drea, they must have drugged me.
08:16Just a minute now, till I try one of my master keys.
08:18To horse!
08:18The Black Knights are coming.
08:21To horse!
08:21To horse!
08:22There he is!
08:23Come on, Joe!
08:24Here he is!
08:24Cover the stairway!
08:25Yes, it's the Blue Beetle.
08:29Come on, you mubs, and get nipped.
08:31Stock him with the rumble hose, Joe!
08:32Let's get the end of my guard first.
08:35Let's get that gunpowder, you chose.
08:37Hey, watch him back to that room there, Joe.
08:38Sorry, but I'm going the other way.
08:41Here, here, here.
08:42What's going on here?
08:43It's the Blue Beetle.
08:43He was talking to jail.
08:44Ah, shut up.
08:45Put on your gas mask and stand aside, but I give him a shot of this tear gas.
08:48They've killed Sir Lancelot.
08:54Sir Lancelot's dead.
08:56Put him in a straight nugget.
08:57In the morning, we'll give the Blue Beetle a permanent room.
09:01Without window.
09:02What will happen to the Blue Beetle in the sanitarium of Dr. Dreher?
09:22Will he be able to free himself from the straitjacket and save Banker Tilson?
09:26These questions will be answered in the next transcribed episode of the Blue Beetle.
09:48Today's episode of the transcribed box feature, the Blue Beetle,
09:51is the second part of a story entitled, The Asylum of Dr. Dreher.
09:57In the previous episode, Diana Tilson asked patrolman Dan Garrett
10:00to locate her missing foster father, Banker Tilson.
10:04He has disappeared, leaving a note addressed to her,
10:07saying he was going away for a rest.
10:10She is suspicious, however, of the actions of Tilson's nephew, Linus Weatherby,
10:14and a Dr. Dreher, a psychiatrist, whom Weatherby brought in to examine the banker.
10:19Armed with a description of the banker,
10:21Dan Garrett and Mike Mannigan visit the private sanitarium of Dr. Dreher.
10:25They are permitted to interview a man who fits the description of Banker Tilson.
10:30He claims he is on the verge of a nervous breakdown
10:32and wishes to remain for a long rest.
10:35But a suspicious circumstance makes Dan Garrett decide to return later as the Blue Beetle.
10:41He finds the real Tilson and is about to release him from a cell
10:44when he is discovered by the guards and Dr. Dreher
10:47and overcome by tear gas.
10:49As the episode ended, he was strapped in a straitjacket
10:53and locked up among the more violent inmates.
10:56As today's story opens, Diana Tilson's telephone is ringing.
11:03Hello?
11:04Is that Miss Tilson?
11:05Yes.
11:06Have you seen Dan Garrett?
11:08Who is this?
11:09This is Officer Mannigan, Danny Tan.
11:11Oh, no, I haven't seen him.
11:13Well, that's strange, I haven't even.
11:15Not since we got back from Dr. Dreher's insane asylum.
11:18Oh, tell me, did you find my father?
11:19Yes, we did.
11:20Did you show him my note?
11:21Yes, he really was.
11:22Oh, did he have his glasses?
11:23Yes, but he...
11:25Hello?
11:26Hello!
11:27Oh, hello.
11:29Oh, hello, Lanny.
11:31Yes, I was talking to someone about father.
11:34And what did they tell you?
11:35Well, they've seen him out of Dr. Dreher's sanitarium.
11:38Oh.
11:39Diana, why don't you marry me and let me take care of you?
11:42One day I'll inherit Uncle's money and you'll be rich.
11:45No, Lanny.
11:46No use.
11:47I'll never marry you.
11:48You may change your mind.
11:49You're upset now.
11:51I think I'll have Dr. Dreher talk with you.
11:53Perhaps we'll rest at his sanitarium.
11:55We'll get your thoughts in the right channel.
11:57Pardon me, sir.
11:58Dr. Dreher calling to see you.
12:00Thank you, Edwin.
12:01Join me in the library.
12:03I'll be right down.
12:03It's very good, sir.
12:05Before I go, I want to warn you, young lady.
12:07If you want to save your father's life, you'd better do as I say.
12:10Good night, my dear.
12:24You say, Dreher, the blue beetle was also out there?
12:27Yes.
12:27We caught him talking to your uncle, the real banker, Tiltum.
12:30That's sad.
12:31No, we'll take care of the blue beetle.
12:32Well, don't worry about him.
12:33What about Olsen, the actor who's impersonating Tiltum?
12:36I'll take care of him also.
12:38And by the way, he'd like to have some more money on account.
12:41And so would I.
12:42You'll get it.
12:43And you'll get it when I get it.
12:44What about the meeting with the mayor's committee tomorrow?
12:46That's all arranged.
12:47You have Olsen there, made up as my uncle.
12:49You'll verify what I tell the committee.
12:51Very well.
12:52But I must be getting back to my sanitarium.
12:54It's quite late and...
12:55I'll stay here tonight.
12:56Everything's in order out there, isn't it?
12:58I believe so.
12:59Fine.
12:59Then we'll go out and burn up the town.
13:01After tomorrow, our worries will be over.
13:03What is it now?
13:27It's the blue beetle.
13:29I'm going to get you out of here.
13:30Good.
13:31I'll pay you well if you make it.
13:33The blue beetle doesn't work for money.
13:37You belong here, blue beetle.
13:39You're really crazy.
13:41Where are the guards?
13:43In the other wing, drunk, apparently.
13:45Come on, Mr. Tiltum.
13:46Follow me.
13:47How did you get out of that cell in straight, Jag?
13:49With master keys and a special 2X formula that gives me super strength and vitality.
13:54Yeah.
13:55Yeah, it's locked the guard in their quarters.
13:58What a headache they're going to have in the morning.
14:00That may be for Dr. Dreher.
14:03Well, what are you going to do?
14:04Wait here until we see if Dr. Dreher's in his office.
14:08Huh.
14:09I wonder where Dreher is.
14:10He's probably in town with that no-good nephew of mine, painting the town red.
14:14I'm going to take a chance and answer the telephone.
14:17I'll disguise my voice.
14:19Hello?
14:20Yeah?
14:22Hello?
14:22Oh, is that Dr. Dreher?
14:24Yeah, this is Gus.
14:26Yeah, Gus.
14:27Sure, everything's under control.
14:30Yeah, you're staying in town tonight.
14:31Okay.
14:33Who?
14:34Oh, the guy impersonating Tiltum.
14:36Sure, I'll leave a message for him.
14:37I mean, I tell him to come to town in the morning.
14:40Uh, the blue beetle?
14:42Oh, say, Doc, the blue beetle and Tiltum are just where they ought to be.
14:46Yeah.
14:47Okay.
14:47Goodbye.
14:49Why, you'd make a good actor, blue beetle.
14:51Oh, thanks.
14:52Come on, let's get out of here.
14:53My car's hidden alongside the road about a mile from there.
14:55If you can make it, Mr. Tiltum.
14:56I never felt better in my life.
14:58Come on.
14:59When I get back to town, we'll put those stungles where they belong.
15:16Oh, here comes Weatherby now.
15:22Oh, where's Tiltum?
15:23I don't know.
15:24He should be here.
15:25Gentlemen, has the mayor arrived?
15:26Well, he couldn't make it.
15:27Press of official duties.
15:28Oh, I'm sorry.
15:29Will you be seated, please?
15:30Yeah.
15:32Where's your uncle, Mr. Weatherby?
15:34I'll have to ask your indulgence, gentlemen.
15:37Uncle Amos is a very sick man.
15:39He'll be here in just a moment with his physician, Dr. Greer.
15:41Well, that's too bad.
15:42Why, I didn't know he was idle.
15:44In the meantime, we'll get down to business.
15:46You, gentlemen, are a committee appointed by the mayor, I believe,
15:49to represent the city in receiving a gift of $1 million from my uncle
15:52to be matched by another million appropriated by the city
15:55to build a children's hospital.
15:57Yes, yes, that's right.
15:58Well, gentlemen, it is my sad duty to have to inform you
16:01that my uncle is withdrawing his offer.
16:03What?
16:04What's that?
16:05Did we hear you right, young man?
16:07You did, gentlemen.
16:08My uncle feels that he has too many obligations
16:10and too many duties right now.
16:12He's on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
16:14Therefore, he is turning his affairs over to me to manage.
16:18Well, what about your authorizing this gift?
16:20Oh, gentlemen, I agree with Uncle Amos.
16:23I do not feel that his financial condition
16:25will allow such a gift to be made at present.
16:27But what the city has already appropriated its share,
16:30the land has been condemned,
16:32and the work of demolishing old tenements has been started.
16:34I'm sorry, gentlemen, but the decision is final.
16:36Well, I demand to see Amos Tilton.
16:38Until I hear it from his own lips, I will not believe it.
16:41We shall take a moment, gentlemen.
16:43Here's Uncle Amos now.
16:44He will speak for himself.
16:45Will you return over here, please?
16:47Ed, gentlemen,
16:49what my nephew has just told you is true.
16:54I'm turning my affairs over to a younger man to handle.
16:59I want to rest and enjoy life.
17:01As soon as my nephew converts my real estate holdings
17:06and other possessions into cash,
17:09we are going away for a long trip.
17:13Heaven speed the day.
17:16I am very tired.
17:19I'm Dr. Dreher.
17:20My uncle, I'm afraid of you.
17:21He's just fainted.
17:22If you'll have the mate get some water,
17:23I'll give him a epidemic.
17:25Gentlemen, I know you'll excuse me,
17:26but I must be with my own.
17:27It's a very pretty teen, but it won't.
17:29Who's that?
17:29It looks like it is, Amos Chilson,
17:31the real Amos Chilson.
17:32This man is an imposter.
17:33I'll call the police.
17:34Imposter, my eye, you young jaconettes.
17:37You and that crooked Dr. Dreher
17:38thought you could get rid of me
17:40and take over my fortune,
17:41but your plans didn't work out.
17:43Look, look there.
17:44The other Chilson, he's running for the door.
17:46I'm Dr. Dreher with him.
17:47Stop it.
17:49Look there in the doorway.
17:50Who is it?
17:51The Blue Beetle.
17:52And I've come to nip three crooks.
17:54Stand where you are.
17:56Dreher, Weatherblay, and Olsen.
17:57Officer Mannigan and his assistants
17:59will escort you to headquarters.
18:00They're on their way here now.
18:01Good work, Blue Beetle.
18:03But where's my daughter?
18:04Here I am, Uncle Andrew.
18:06The Blue Beetle just released me from my room.
18:08Her line is locked in here.
18:09Well, he'll soon be locked in
18:11where even the Blue Beetle can't free him.
18:14Gentlemen, tell the mayor
18:16my gift to the city still stands.
18:20Thank you, Mr. Johnson.
18:21Don't thank me.
18:23Thank the Blue Beetle.
18:25If it hadn't been for him,
18:27there'd be no children's hospital
18:29for York City.
18:38Well, Danny,
18:39and how did you like your visit
18:40to the booby hatch,
18:42as Mannigan calls it?
18:43Oh, that's a terrible place.
18:44Well, what will happen to it now
18:45that Dr. Dreher is in prison?
18:47Hey, Miss Tilson's going to take it over
18:48and make a real sanitarium out of it.
18:50Put a real psychiatrist
18:51at the head of it
18:52and install modern conveniences
18:54and more humane personnel.
18:55Ah, that's splendid.
18:57What about Wetherby?
18:58He used to be disinherited.
19:00Tilson's money will go
19:00to his foster daughter, Diana.
19:02Well, the Blue Beetle
19:03certainly straightened
19:04that situation out.
19:05But there's one thing
19:06he forgot, Bookart.
19:07Yes, the promise
19:08he made to King Arthur.
19:09King Arthur?
19:10By whose King Arthur?
19:11One of the unfortunate
19:12at the sanitarium.
19:13Where are you going, Danny?
19:14I'm going to buy King Arthur
19:16the new round table,
19:17I promised him.
19:18And so a little private work
19:30of patrolman Dan Garrett
19:31as the Blue Beetle
19:32brought happiness
19:33to many people
19:34as well as justice
19:35to a group of dishonest men.
19:38The moral of this story is
19:40always find time
19:41to help the unfortunate.
19:43And whenever you make a promise,
19:45keep it.
19:46What further adventures
19:47await the Blue Beetle
19:48in his crusade against crime?
19:50This question will be answered
19:51in the next transcribed episode
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