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Tales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and broadcast live on ABC from 1951 to 1953. The series covered such stories as Frankenstein starring Lon Chaney Jr., 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea starring Thomas Mitchell as Captain Nemo, and many others.
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00:13Tales of Tomorrow
00:17Ice from Space, starring Edmund Ryan
00:22This is it, gentlemen, the Arrow B-76
00:26autographed from our takeoff compound two days ago
00:30Our radar followed her for 76,200 miles into outer space
00:35Then our instruments were no longer able to keep track of her
00:38According to our monocalkulator, everything within the ship was behaving perfectly
00:42That's the last you saw her?
00:43That's the last, sir
00:45Sergeant, the lights, please
00:47For 48 hours, there hasn't been a trace of the AR-76
00:55Perhaps, Congressman, your investigating committee
00:59They should look into the problem of who repealed the law
01:02Whatever goes up must come down
01:03I don't consider this a laughing matter, Major
01:06There are millions of dollars of taxpayers' money involved here
01:09The point is past where we can laugh at such matters
01:12Congressman, I think both the Major and myself understand your position
01:16As head of the scientific division here, I'm more concerned right now with the fact
01:21That we have a new unexplainable phenomenon
01:25That rocket must come down
01:28The question is, when?
01:31You see, Congressman, our instruments indicate that if the rocket maintained its original path of ascent
01:38It must come down within 50 miles of this post
01:42But when?
01:44Well, I suppose there's nothing to wait for now except the reports to come in
01:49It'll be interesting to discover, when that rocket does come down, what happened to our little passengers
01:54What about these mice?
01:56Well, according to the boys at the rocket ramp, these particular mice, they call the, uh, Flying Mice Brothers
02:03Mice Brothers
02:04It's just a joke the men have among themselves
02:07Joke, eh?
02:08These mice went up three weeks ago in the old AR-75
02:1250,000 miles, Congressman
02:14I've learned a great deal of useful information from their reactions
02:18A year ago, we were able to send them out 500 miles, then 2,000
02:21Now that we're probing outer space, there's quite a lot of tension among all of us
02:25And these little jokes, such as the Mice Brothers, help to relieve this tension
02:29How much would you reckon the AR-76 cost, Major?
02:33Well, I'm sorry, sir, but I couldn't rightfully say
02:36As you know, the, uh, 76 was designed as the first rocket to carry a man, though it hasn't done
02:41so yet
02:42If you're gonna be close-mouthed about it, I can always appeal to Washington
02:44Well, my orders confined me to, uh, the launching of the rocket, nothing more
02:49I simply followed my instructions
02:51Your father would have known how much was involved
02:53Your father would have made it his business and know everything about the project
03:06Yes?
03:07Major, they've tracked the AR-76, she's down
03:10Where?
03:10On the Baker Ranch
03:11Uh, they called in, said their kids have already located it in the mesquite
03:14Kids?
03:16Sergeant, get Lieutenant Garcia to take a detail over there right away
03:20Yes, sir
03:20Get the Baker family on the phone
03:21Tell them that AR is government property and to keep their kids away from it
03:25Yes, Major
03:26Have them take a recovery group out there and get a report back to me as fast as possible
03:30Now get a move on
03:32Well, that's it
03:35The Baker Ranch is not more than ten miles from here
03:39Well, she finally came down
03:41But why the delayed return?
03:43She should have come down within hours after the takeoff
03:46What do you make of this, Dr. Meschkel?
03:48It's strange
03:49Very strange
03:51Are you making any guesses as to what we'll find inside?
03:54Not just now
03:55I think we'd better wait and see it for ourselves
03:57I hope it's not badly damaged
03:59After all these things cost lots of money
04:03One o'clock
04:05Any idea how long before we'll be able to see it?
04:07We'll wait for a word from the recovery group, Congressman
04:16Yes, sir
04:40Now, what's longer, Major?
04:41I have no idea.
04:44Sergeant?
04:44Yes, sir?
04:45Any word from that recovery group?
04:47Not a word, Major.
04:48I want to be notified immediately when they're sighted.
04:50Immediately. Is that clear?
04:51Yes, sir.
04:52It's been over two hours since Dr. Meshkoff left with a lieutenant.
04:55Any idea what might be detaining them?
04:58Could it be anything serious?
04:59Might be anything.
05:00Anything from a broken axle on the tow truck to a broken head.
05:03How should I know?
05:05I'm sorry, Congressman. I didn't mean to jump on you.
05:07The heat, the pressure, and my bad manners.
05:11That'd be all right. That'd be all right.
05:13One gets used to that sort of thing on the investigating committee.
05:17But please try to understand my position.
05:20I believe I do understand it, sir.
05:22The enormous amount of funds being requested by your superiors
05:25for the so-called top-secret projects is beginning to raise questions.
05:29You military people are secretive about everything
05:32except the amounts of money you require.
05:34Naturally.
05:34And quite naturally, my committee became curious.
05:36Quite curious about these new explorations into outer space.
05:40They've expressed a desire to know why
05:42money is being expended for such items of expense
05:45as your flying mice brothers, as you put it.
05:48I'm sure your father wouldn't have countenanced this.
05:51Will you please stop telling me how my father would have done things?
05:54He was a great man, Major.
05:55The credit to his country and to you.
05:57This is my problem, not his.
05:59I'm running this project, not my father.
06:03Yes?
06:03Our retrieving group reported back, sir.
06:05They've taken the rocket over to the barn on the Baker Ranch.
06:07Why did they do that?
06:09Order a jeep for me.
06:10If you're going to the ranch, I'd like to go with you and see the rocket or what's left of
06:13it.
06:14As you well know, this project is top secret.
06:18I'll have to ask you to remain here until we make our preliminary examination.
06:22Now, see here, Dodger, I represent the Congress of the United States
06:26and I'll brook no interference from the military.
06:28I'm sorry, sir, but I'll have to refuse you.
06:31And don't tell me what my father would have done in my position.
06:53And, according to the Baker kids, according to them,
06:58when they pried off the backplate of the rocket, they found this object inside.
07:03And the mice, dead, sir, frozen still.
07:08There was no evidence that the rocket had been tampered with during its ascent or descent.
07:16Doctor, what is the possibility that something or someone
07:20could have dismantled this projectile somewhere out in space
07:25and then put in this thing?
07:27Common sense would make me say that such a thing is an impossibility.
07:31Yet, here it is.
07:34It was not in the AR-76 when it went up.
07:37Now, here it is.
07:39Who is to say how such things happen?
07:43Then what next?
07:45I must have time.
07:46I must analyze this substance, test it, see what's made of, discover its properties.
07:54Very well, Dr. Metzkoff.
07:57My facilities are at your command.
07:59I don't know.
08:02Perhaps it came through the hull while it was in a gaseous or liquid state.
08:07Then, once inside, it turned solid.
08:12You mean it may have seeped through the metal?
08:14I'm only guessing, Major.
08:17I've arranged to have Lieutenant Garcian move it here in order that it may be further investigated
08:22and analyzed, sort of in isolation.
08:24I have never seen anything like this, harder than steel or any new in alloys.
08:33Glowing like molten lava, yet freezing the very air about it with growing intensity.
08:42Notice how cold it is in here, Major.
08:44It must be 20 degrees colder than outside.
08:49Let's get back to the office.
08:51Lieutenant Garcian, a film from the cameras that were on the rocket.
08:54Right here, sir.
08:55Good.
08:55Get him to the left.
08:56Yes, sir.
08:57Good.
09:34Well, what have you found out?
09:42Well, I'm afraid nothing. Nothing more than we knew before. It's a strange thing we have on our hands.
09:48You don't have to tell me that. But I've got a report back to Washington. I want something concrete.
09:53I can't send a wire saying we have something strange in our hands.
09:56Congressmen have sent stranger messages than that, Mr. Burns.
09:59Now, Theodosia, I've taken about all I can stomach from you. You've been rude and uncooperative.
10:05And I'm going to blow the lid off this thing.
10:06You'll do nothing of the kind. I'm slapping security on you and this entire project. This whole area is under
10:12quarantine.
10:13You're not moving out of here or sending any messages until I clear with Washington.
10:18Major! Major Gozier!
10:22Major! What is it, Sergeant?
10:24It's the photo lamp, sir. They say that...
10:26Get to the point!
10:27It's Lieutenant Garcia, sir.
10:29What's happened to that film?
10:29It's not the film, sir. It's something happened to the Lieutenant.
10:32Sergeant, speak up.
10:33He keeled over, sir. All of a sudden.
10:38He's dead, sir.
10:41He's frozen to death.
11:12Hello, Congressman.
11:13Major.
11:13What can I do for you?
11:14You'll get me out of here, for one thing.
11:16Oh?
11:17Well, I've been willing to go along with you.
11:19I'm accustomed as I am to living in an encampment, in sleeping bags, eating out of cans.
11:24It's been a good experience for me, a good experience, for three days.
11:27But this is your job, your problem, not mine.
11:30Oh, thanks.
11:31And I think it's about time I got back to Washington.
11:35Sort of a case of cold nose as well as cold feet, sir, huh?
11:39If you wish to put it that way, then why not?
11:43With that unearthly substance in the barn near the camp?
11:46Why, in three days, it's frozen hundreds of miles of desert land in the middle of the summer.
11:50Seventy-five miles.
11:51Seventy-five or a hundred and seventy-five. What does it matter?
11:54Whatever it is, there doesn't seem to be anything you can do about it.
11:57Let's turn this country into the Antarctic in no time at all.
12:01And with worse effects.
12:03But don't you consider the death of those twelve men or those youngsters, those poor Baker children?
12:09Don't you consider this a serious matter?
12:11Now, look here, Congressman, let's get one thing straight.
12:14All personnel are quarantined on this base.
12:17No one.
12:18No one moves out of here under any conditions until we've seen this thing through.
12:23And that means you.
12:27Major?
12:28Yes, Wilson?
12:28They're making another food drop for us, sir.
12:30Well, that shows that they still have confidence in us.
12:34I'm afraid you don't have much confidence in me, Mr. Burns.
12:37Can't help thinking how your father would have handled this situation.
12:40Now, look here.
12:41As a military man, I am supposed to extend you my respect.
12:45But you've got to stop needling me.
12:47I am perfectly aware of what a fine soldier my father was.
12:51However, I have my own career to make, and it will not be as Colonel Dozier's son.
12:55My career and my reputation I will make on my own are not at all.
12:59Of course, of course.
12:59I didn't mean to imply that you couldn't handle this problem.
13:03Then leave me alone and let me do it my own way.
13:05I have my orders and I intend to carry them out.
13:07May I ask, just what are your orders?
13:10To hold until we do away with it.
13:13Or it does away with us.
13:14Dozier!
13:15Yes?
13:16Dozier!
13:16What's wrong, Doctor?
13:17The barn.
13:18You must come to the barn quickly.
13:19The blue ice is becoming critically active.
13:46It does seem worse.
13:48Much worse.
13:49What do you mean, Doctor?
13:50Go ahead.
13:51After the first 24 hours, it seems the radiations seem to level off.
13:57Like an invisible glacier, slowly moving, growing.
14:01But now, its radiations have doubled, an intense double.
14:06But how?
14:07Why?
14:08Six hours.
14:09In less than six hours, it contaminated more of the surrounding area than it has in the last three days.
14:15Yes.
14:16It's unbelievable.
14:17Yes.
14:18Even with it stretching out before your very eyes, mile after mile of frozen desert.
14:23Gleaming under a hot sun at sub-zero temperature.
14:26It can't go on like this.
14:27It mustn't.
14:28It will happen when it's sighted by some tourist or engulfs one of these desert towns.
14:33Fortunately, this mesa was selected originally because it was isolated.
14:37Now I've made this whole zone a heavily guarded area, 500 miles wide.
14:43But with its increased intensity, there isn't much time before the fringe will envelop a town here,
14:50a railroad junction there, and then the panic will begin.
14:54I know.
14:55I know.
14:56There must be some way.
14:58There has to be a way.
14:59It's no use.
15:00No use.
15:01We have dried everything within our resources to destroy it, to change its substance.
15:07Heat, acids, firepower.
15:10Don't you have any idea what it is?
15:12A molecular structure completely unknown to us.
15:16Neither vegetable, nor mineral.
15:18I believe this frozen thing may be alive.
15:22And possibly in communication with others on the periphery of outer space.
15:33Others like that one?
15:35Why not?
15:37What would they want here?
15:39The heat and the warmth of our world, which has been previously denied them by the protective gases that surround
15:47us,
15:47until we provided them with a conveyance, the AR-76.
15:54Self-powered, designed to provide protection from the friction of dissent.
16:02But who can know the real purpose?
16:05The only thing that matters now is the removal of this cosmic substance.
16:10It's destruction, before it destroys us, and contaminates the Earth.
16:19Mile by mile.
16:22Our farms.
16:24Our cities.
16:30Where do we go from here?
16:33I need a little more time to think.
16:35If only we had more money for large-scale experiments.
16:39Possibly we could solve this thing.
16:41Washington tells me our appropriation won't allow it.
16:44I'll see that you get your appropriation the moment I set foot in Washington.
16:47The government must do more to encourage scientific research.
16:50I thought of that a month ago. I'm afraid it's a little late now, Tom.
16:53There's got to be a way up. There's got to be.
17:03Anything new?
17:05Nothing at all.
17:07The frozen area keeps expanding and growing faster and faster.
17:12We are now in the middle of a patch of ice and snow 300 miles in diameter.
17:17I think we are beat.
17:20This can't be. We can't give up now.
17:22What would you have us do? Sit here until the whole country becomes a frozen wasteland?
17:28Not unless you have any other suggestions, Major.
17:32As for me, I am tired.
17:36Doctor, is the AR patched up yet?
17:40Yes. The damage was relatively minor.
17:43It's all fixed up again, ready to fly.
17:47Why do you ask?
17:49Oh, no reason in particular.
17:52Surely you don't have a mind sending the 76 up again?
17:56I don't know.
17:57That would be madness.
17:58Doctor, we can't sit on our hands.
18:02Something must be done.
18:04What can we do?
18:05It might come down with still another piece of ice in it.
18:07And there, where would we be?
18:09He's right.
18:10If that's what you're thinking of, get it out of your mind.
18:13Gentlemen, if you'll excuse me.
18:15I've got some work to do.
18:17I'm going to my quarters.
18:19Good night, Mr. Burns.
18:21Good night, Doctor.
18:22Good night.
18:27Good night.
18:30If I may be permitted, Congressman,
18:33you have been riding the Major awfully hard.
18:36Yes, I'm afraid I have.
18:38He has an enormous responsibility,
18:40not only to the men on this post,
18:43but with this new thing perhaps to the rest of the country.
18:47Major is a very good man.
18:50He'll solve it somehow.
18:52I have the greatest confidence in him.
19:08Yes?
19:09Still no sign of Major Dozier, sir.
19:11He's not in his quarters nor on the post anywhere.
19:15I don't understand it.
19:18He's been over four hours.
19:21Where could he be?
19:22I hope nothing has happened to him.
19:25Sergeant Wilson.
19:26Yes, sir?
19:27Have you tried a Baker and see if the Major's there?
19:30No, sir.
19:30I haven't tried there yet, but I will now.
19:32Good.
19:33Call me right back.
19:34Yes, sir.
19:39I don't know where I'm going to find out.
19:42Wilson!
19:43Sergeant Wilson!
19:45Yes, sir?
19:46One more thing.
19:47I don't know, sir.
19:48It sounded like the AR-76.
19:49AR-76?
19:50But that's impossible.
19:51It's not impossible, Congressman.
19:53Sergeant, get over to the Major's quarters on the double.
19:55See if the Executive Officer knows anything about his whereabouts.
19:58Yes, sir.
20:01Get me through to the Baker and...
20:03Lieutenant Halsey here.
20:04This is Meshko.
20:05What's going on out there?
20:06Sounds crazy, sir.
20:07But the AR-76 just took off.
20:11Wait.
20:12Let's get out to the Baker and see.
20:15I tell you, sir, I don't understand.
20:19The Corporal tells me that the Major came in here and gave instructions to load the ice into the AR
20:24-76.
20:25The Corporal just followed out orders.
20:27He got three men and they loaded it in.
20:31Then the Major gave orders to clear the field.
20:34Walked over to the 76 by himself.
20:37One of the men said he thought that he saw him climb in.
20:41But the next thing we knew, it took off.
20:43Tell me that fool took off in that rocket.
20:45It hasn't been fully tested.
20:47I'm afraid, Congressman, that that fool did just that.
20:51We found this in his quarters, sir.
20:53We found this in his quarters, sir.
21:01Dear Dr. Meshkoff, I hope this does not spoil any of your fancies.
21:08Scientific theories, but it seemed to me like the only way.
21:13I know that eventually you would have found out all about the ice from space.
21:19But who knows how much longer we would have to wait.
21:24The only way to make sure seemed to be to go along with it and blow up the whole thing
21:33in outer space.
21:38Had I sent up the rocket alone, it might have come down again with the same cold cover.
21:48Goodbye and Godspeed.
21:54That's all there is.
21:57That's his last will and testament.
22:01I guess that makes two dozers our country has to be thankful for.
22:06Yes, Congressman.
22:07Too dozers.
22:10Too dozers?
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