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Escape is an American radio drama. It was radio's leading anthology series of high-adventure radio dramas, airing on CBS from July 7, 1947 to September 25, 1954.
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00:12You are rushing forward through time, far into the future, trying desperately to flee
00:20the clutching fingers of a band of night creatures, a dreamlike horror from which there seems
00:26no escape.
00:37Escape, designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure.
00:49Tonight we escape to the year 100,080, and to a world where beauty and terror live side
00:57by side, as H.G. Wells described it in his immortal story, The Time Machine.
01:18You must be mad, Dudley.
01:21A time machine.
01:23Yes, my friend.
01:24A time machine.
01:25This thing?
01:26This very thing.
01:28Well, this contraption, this whatever it is, made of quartz and brass and ivory, with its
01:37levers and dials and its seat in the middle, this is the result of three years' hard work?
01:43I promise you, Fowler, that on this machine, a man can go wherever he likes in time.
01:49By working these levers, a man can choose his century, his year, his very day.
01:53Oh, that's impossible.
01:54It's out of the question.
01:55In one of the journeys, I've already taken on this little contraption.
02:00Well, I'm afraid you're having a bad dream.
02:03You mean I've developed into a liar?
02:06Very well.
02:07You shall have proof, my friend.
02:08Oh.
02:09Just climb on, Fowler.
02:10Sit in a seat with me.
02:12I'll take you for a little spin.
02:14You mean right now?
02:15Right now.
02:17Well, just in case it should work, aren't there any preparations we should make?
02:22No, Fowler.
02:23You won't need any luggage on this trip, not even a toothbrush.
02:25You'll be back in less than a minute.
02:27All right.
02:29I'm on.
02:30Now what?
02:31Hold tight, because it sways a good deal.
02:34I'd hate to lose you.
02:35I can't be frightened, Dudley.
02:37Then you're braver than I am.
02:40Tell me, what time is it?
02:41It's just, um, 12 noon.
02:44Before we start, I want to adjust this control a bit.
02:49Is everything ship-shaped?
02:50Oh, yes.
02:52Tell me, did you notice anything just then?
02:54Only a noise, a humming noise, nothing else.
02:56And what time is it?
02:57You just asked me, old man.
02:59It's...
03:01That's funny.
03:02What?
03:04My watch says 11 o'clock.
03:05I could have sworn it was noon a moment ago.
03:09Must be something wrong with it.
03:11There's nothing wrong with the watch.
03:13It's only that I touched the lever.
03:15Detested.
03:16And we've gone forward a full day.
03:1923 hours, at any rate.
03:23Dudley.
03:24Have you finished scoffing, Fowler?
03:27Yes, I believe I have.
03:29Then hold tight.
03:30This will be the real article.
03:33I'm ready, Dudley.
03:35Good man.
03:36Well,
03:38say goodbye, Fowler.
03:40Say goodbye to 1948.
03:44We went off with a shattering jar.
03:46With machines swaying under us,
03:48the walls of Dr. Dudley's laboratory suddenly fell away,
03:50and night was speeding after daylight like the flapping of a black wing.
03:53I saw the sun hopping across the sky,
03:56leaping swiftly across it every second and every second marking a day.
04:00I saw the moon spinning through her quarters like a ball,
04:03from new to full,
04:04all in the twinkling of an eye.
04:05Trees grew and blossomed like puffs of smoke and then passed away,
04:09and all the while we were going faster.
04:11And now our pace was a year, a second.
04:13So that second by second,
04:15the white snow flashed across the world
04:17and was followed by the bright, brief spring.
04:19And still we went on into the future.
04:21How do you feel, Fowler?
04:24Sort of weak and very dizzy.
04:26Don't let go.
04:27Don't fall off.
04:28Where are we?
04:29How far have we come?
04:30We're in 100,000
04:32and 50
04:34and 60
04:35and 70
04:37That's enough.
04:38Stop it, Dudley.
04:39I can't stand anymore.
04:40Stop it.
04:46Fowler.
04:47Are you all right?
04:49I believe so.
04:51No broken bones.
04:54What happened?
04:55I'm not sure.
04:57I must have stopped too suddenly.
05:00Where are we, Dudley?
05:02Look around for yourself.
05:04On a wide lawn
05:05in a beautiful, vast garden.
05:08I meant geographically.
05:10Just where we were when we started.
05:13We're standing exactly on the spot
05:16where my laboratory stood
05:17a hundred thousand years ago.
05:19And the year?
05:21One hundred thousand and eighty.
05:33It seemed absolutely incredible.
05:36A dream, but a pleasant one.
05:38For the garden in which we found ourselves
05:40was beautiful and summery and inviting.
05:42At some distance we could see
05:44a large, imposing building.
05:46All was quiet and peaceful.
05:48Almost too much so.
05:50And the sense of strangeness,
05:52of incredible strangeness,
05:55sent a shiver up my spine.
05:57One hundred thousand and eighty.
05:59Dudley.
06:00Dudley.
06:02Have you thought
06:02what we might find here?
06:04What manner of man?
06:06What danger?
06:07I don't see any man at all.
06:09Well, perhaps they don't exist
06:11at all anymore.
06:11Or if they do,
06:13what do they like?
06:13How they've developed?
06:15There's been a long interval
06:17between us,
06:18more than a hundred thousand years.
06:20We won't know
06:21until we see them.
06:23I bet it may be too late.
06:25Suppose the race has lost
06:26its manliness
06:27and has become
06:28a savage animal.
06:29Do you want to go back?
06:31Yes, Dudley.
06:32I'm frightened.
06:32Let's go back.
06:34Dudley.
06:35From over there in the bushes.
06:36It sounded human.
06:38Come on.
06:39But Dudley,
06:40we don't have any weapons.
06:41Come on.
06:44It's a child.
06:45Look,
06:46it seems to be
06:47a very small girl.
06:48There's been a beast here
06:49of some kind.
06:50It struggled with her.
06:51Look at the marks
06:52on her arms.
06:53Uh, uh, uh,
06:54see here, my dear.
06:56You'll be all right now.
06:57You won't be harmed.
06:59Oh, of course.
07:01She wouldn't understand English.
07:03I don't think it's that.
07:04She's motioning us
07:04to go with her.
07:06I don't believe
07:07they have any language
07:07at all, Dudley.
07:09What about the animal?
07:10Did you see it?
07:10No, not a glimpse.
07:12It was too fast for us.
07:13Perhaps we'd better
07:14go back, Dudley.
07:15The girl seems
07:15to be all right now.
07:17Leave her like this.
07:18Without seeing her people
07:19and the way they live.
07:21You want to go back
07:22so soon?
07:23Yeah, I've had enough.
07:24Well,
07:26they haven't, old man.
07:27Because they're here.
07:29All around us.
07:35They had crept up
07:37on soundless feet
07:38to surround us,
07:39the little people
07:40of this era.
07:41And the girl
07:42we'd saved
07:42was not a child
07:43but a full-grown woman.
07:45For they all
07:46stood four feet high,
07:47dressed in simple tunics,
07:48beautiful creatures,
07:49but terribly frail
07:50with a plump,
07:52soft kind of frailty.
07:54Their mouths
07:55were small
07:56and their little chins
07:57ran to a point
07:58and they made no sound.
07:59They were like
08:00eerie figures
08:01in a dream
08:02and all we could hear
08:03was the heavy rustling
08:04of their clothes
08:05as they surged
08:06happily around us,
08:07their faces
08:08wreathed in smiles.
08:11Why,
08:12they're not
08:13savage at all.
08:14They're very loving
08:15and gentle little people.
08:17Yes,
08:17but there's something
08:18terribly wrong with them.
08:19What do you mean?
08:20They seem to have
08:21the minds of five-year-olds.
08:23This one over here
08:23has been trying
08:24to talk to me
08:24with gestures.
08:25Look at him.
08:25He seems to be asking me
08:26if I've come from the sun
08:27or a thunderstorm.
08:28How'd you expect them to be?
08:30Far ahead of us,
08:31of course.
08:31Incredibly ahead of us
08:32in knowledge
08:33and in science.
08:34And look at them.
08:35Children.
08:36They seem happy
08:37in this huge garden
08:38of theirs.
08:38That's something.
08:39I've changed my mind,
08:41Dudley.
08:42Maybe we shall enjoy
08:43spending a few days
08:44with our little friends.
08:48The little people
08:49led us home
08:50into their valley.
08:51They lived in colossal buildings,
08:52sleeping all together
08:53in one huge hall,
08:55eating in another,
08:56playing and frolicking
08:57together in the sunshine.
08:58And Dudley and I
08:59lived with them
09:00for days
09:00in utter contentment.
09:02One afternoon,
09:03we walked together
09:04along the banks
09:05of the great river.
09:06There's no apparent difference
09:08among the sexes.
09:09They all wear
09:10the same clothes,
09:11have the same
09:11soft, hairless skin,
09:13same feminine roundness
09:15of limbs.
09:15Yeah.
09:16I wonder if it's
09:18because they're vegetarians.
09:20They're vegetarians
09:20because they have to be.
09:21You haven't run across
09:22any horses or dogs
09:23or cattle of any kind,
09:24have you?
09:25No,
09:25now that you mention it.
09:27With good reason.
09:28They're all extinct by now,
09:30just as the dinosaur
09:31is with us.
09:33Dudley,
09:34there's something
09:35very strange here.
09:38Something hidden away
09:39and silent.
09:40You may be right.
09:42Anyway,
09:43I've taken the precaution
09:44of removing the controls
09:45from the machine.
09:46I don't much fancy
09:47the idea of someone
09:48riding away with it
09:49into another century
09:50and leaving us here
09:51for the rest of our lives.
09:52Dudley,
09:53do you recognize
09:54this bit of ground?
09:56Why,
09:57yes,
09:57this is where we landed.
09:59I thought so.
10:00I wasn't sure.
10:01Why do you ask?
10:02Can't you see?
10:03Look around.
10:04It's empty.
10:05What's happened
10:06to the machine?
10:08They've taken it away.
10:10They've stolen it.
10:11Where, Dudley?
10:11Where?
10:12Look,
10:13see the tracks
10:14where they've dragged it?
10:15Over here,
10:15come along.
10:16Right here,
10:17by this monument,
10:19the end of the trail.
10:20Those are brass doors
10:22in the basin.
10:22They're locked.
10:23The machine,
10:24it must be in there,
10:25inside.
10:26We must get it.
10:27Break down the doors.
10:28How?
10:28How can we?
10:29Here,
10:29we'll use the levers.
10:35It's no good, Dudley.
10:37They're solid.
10:37We'll never break through.
10:38Never?
10:39Never?
10:40Do you mean
10:40stay here for all our lives?
10:42Do you mean
10:42never go home again?
10:47They must open
10:48the machine,
10:50the time machine.
10:58The time machine
11:00was gone.
11:01The brass doors
11:02of the monument held.
11:04Our retreat was cut off.
11:05The thin line
11:05by which we could
11:06make our way back home,
11:07back to our own time
11:09and our own people.
11:10But there seemed
11:11nothing we could do.
11:12We had no way
11:13of communicating
11:14with the little people,
11:15of asking what they
11:16had done with the machine
11:17and why and how
11:18to get it back.
11:19They merely stood around
11:21and watched our vain efforts.
11:22There was nothing hostile
11:23in their attitude.
11:24They were more like
11:25simple wandering children.
11:27Only one,
11:28the young woman,
11:29Wiener,
11:30whose life we had saved
11:31on our first day
11:32had become really friendly.
11:33She went with us
11:34wherever we walked
11:35and brought us presents
11:36of garlands,
11:37of flowers,
11:38slept near us
11:38at night in the hall,
11:39and we in turn
11:40had taught her
11:41a few words of English.
11:43Now,
11:43we redoubled our efforts,
11:45like men racing
11:46against the clock
11:47so that we might speak
11:48to her and discover
11:49the secret
11:49of our immense loss.
11:51No,
11:53not these,
11:54Dudley.
11:55No.
11:56How could you be so sure
11:57that your people
11:57didn't steal the machine?
11:59Are there any thieves
12:00among them?
12:00Are they all perfect?
12:01Not so loud, Dudley.
12:02You'll waken them.
12:03Besides,
12:04she doesn't understand.
12:05But the thief
12:06must be sleeping
12:06somewhere in this hall.
12:09Wiener,
12:11they take machine.
12:13No, Dudley.
12:14No.
12:15Who then?
12:16Who?
12:16We are friends.
12:19Yes.
12:20Yes.
12:20Friends.
12:21We need,
12:23must have,
12:24machine.
12:25Yes, Dudley.
12:27Yes.
12:27Who took machine?
12:31Are there other people?
12:33Not yours.
12:36Others.
12:37What about those doors,
12:38Wiener?
12:38Doors.
12:39Open.
12:40No.
12:40Oh, no.
12:41Wiener,
12:42machine in there
12:43must open.
12:45No.
12:45No.
12:46Not open.
12:47All right,
12:47my dear.
12:48Go to sleep.
12:49Get some rest.
12:51Yes.
12:51Dudley.
12:52Sleep.
12:53You too,
12:54Fallon.
12:54Try anyway.
12:55Yeah,
12:56I've tried.
12:56It's no good.
12:58What's to become of us,
12:59Fallon?
13:00Are we caught here
13:01in this century?
13:04Should we spend our lives
13:05with the little people
13:06and their secret?
13:07Try to sleep, Dudley.
13:09We'll go back to the monument tomorrow.
13:12We'll find a way of breaking in.
13:16Dudley.
13:17Yes?
13:18Did you just...
13:20There it is again.
13:21What?
13:21Something on my face,
13:22cold and filthy to the touch.
13:24On my face and in my hair,
13:26cold as death.
13:27Dudley!
13:28You're right,
13:29my boy.
13:30There's something in here with us.
13:32I smell of the grave.
13:33What was it?
13:34I don't know.
13:35But look at them.
13:37The little people are all awake.
13:39It's as though they've been stampeded.
13:40Let's get out of here.
13:41I want some fresh air.
13:44We went quickly through the hall
13:46and outside,
13:47away from the frantic rustling
13:48of the little people
13:49and into silence.
13:50The moon was full just overhead
13:52and it was close to dawning.
13:54There was a faint sound
13:55speeding close behind us
13:56and we turned our nerves ragged
13:58and our muscles tensed.
13:59But it was only Wiener
14:00coming swiftly to join us.
14:02Wiener!
14:03Come closer, my girl.
14:05Dudley.
14:06Tell us.
14:07What do your people fear?
14:09What makes them afraid?
14:13Afraid?
14:14Darkness.
14:15Then there is something.
14:16What do you mean,
14:18darkness?
14:19Dark things.
14:21Dark places.
14:24Night.
14:24Why?
14:25Why?
14:26I...
14:27I don't know.
14:29Why should they be afraid
14:30of the night, Dudley?
14:32Perhaps it's not the night alone.
14:34Dark places.
14:36That's our cue.
14:38Perhaps it's something
14:39underground.
14:46By now it was light.
14:48Another day.
14:49We had wandered into
14:50a lovely wooded place
14:51about a mile from the community.
14:53Suddenly, Wiener screamed.
14:55We stopped short.
14:56A pair of glaring eyes
14:58was fixed upon us.
14:59As we stood there
15:00petrified,
15:00the thing,
15:01a little ape-like figure,
15:03rushed across our path
15:04and disappeared in the clearing
15:05about 30 yards away.
15:08What was it?
15:09I couldn't see it too well.
15:11It seemed to be
15:12dull white
15:14with white hair
15:15on its head
15:15and down its back.
15:16Looked like a
15:17small ape.
15:18That's because it was running
15:19on all fours
15:19with its arms held very low.
15:21Wiener,
15:21Wiener,
15:22what's the matter?
15:23Morlocks.
15:24They are
15:25Morlocks.
15:26Who are the Morlocks?
15:27What are they?
15:28Wiener, tell me.
15:28No!
15:29No, go away!
15:30Let's go over there
15:31and see where it disappeared.
15:37In the clearing
15:38we found a round
15:39well-like opening.
15:40I leaned over
15:40and looked down
15:41a deep shaft
15:42and as I did so
15:43I saw a small
15:45white creature
15:46retreating down
15:47a ladder
15:47in the well.
15:49Something like
15:50a human spider.
15:51Its large,
15:52bright eyes
15:53watching me
15:54as it went swiftly
15:55down
15:55and then it disappeared
15:56in the shaft.
15:57Fowler,
15:57did you see it?
15:58Like a nape?
15:59Yeah, yeah.
16:00But like a man.
16:02So there are
16:03two species of men
16:04in this world.
16:06Eh, Fowler?
16:07Yes.
16:08The little people
16:09above the ground
16:11and this obscene thing,
16:12this bleached monster below.
16:15Two races of men
16:16in this country.
16:17That white look.
16:18It's common to animals
16:20that live in the dark
16:21like huge rats,
16:22like worms
16:23that are cold to the touch.
16:23I know because
16:24they've touched me.
16:26You can feel air
16:28being sucked down
16:29into the shaft.
16:30Yes.
16:30The earth must be
16:31tunneled enormously
16:32here under our feet.
16:34And these monsters
16:35live in the tunnels.
16:36I think we know now
16:38who stole our time machine.
16:40Yes.
16:41I'm sure of it.
16:43Then?
16:44Then we'll go down
16:45and have a look.
16:46No.
16:47No, don't go.
16:48Why not, Weena?
16:49Warlocks,
16:50you'll never
16:51come back.
16:52We've got to have
16:54our machine, my dear.
16:55You'll wait for us
16:56here.
16:57No.
16:58No.
17:02But we went down,
17:04our heels ringing
17:06on the small metallic bars
17:07that were meant
17:08for creatures
17:08so much smaller
17:09than we.
17:10Down we climbed.
17:11Down.
17:12Down.
17:13Ever in darkness.
17:15Down, it seemed,
17:16into the center
17:17of the earth.
17:18Into the core
17:19of the world.
17:23Not much longer.
17:24We won't know
17:25until we reach bottom.
17:27We can only stop
17:28and rest.
17:29It can't be much further.
17:31I'm so terribly tired.
17:32Hang on, old man.
17:36You hear that?
17:38Like machinery,
17:39we're almost there.
17:40Thank heaven for that.
17:42All right, Fowler.
17:44I'm at the bottom.
17:46Come along,
17:46just a few more steps.
17:49Give me your hand,
17:50Fowler.
17:52Good.
17:53We're here.
17:55In the land
17:56of the Morlocks.
17:57Do you have a match?
17:59Yeah.
18:00Yeah.
18:04There seems to be
18:05a large,
18:06vaulted cavern
18:07at the end
18:08of the passage.
18:11What do you suppose
18:12they'll do
18:13if they catch us?
18:14I have no idea,
18:15so we'd better
18:16take care
18:16not to get caught.
18:18Another match.
18:22That throbbing noise.
18:24It's probably
18:25the ventilating system
18:26pumping air down.
18:28There must be
18:28thousands upon
18:29thousands of these
18:30Morlocks
18:31living under the earth.
18:32We haven't seen any yet
18:33except for our friend
18:34who came down
18:35ahead of us.
18:36Why do you suppose
18:38they wanted
18:38our time machine?
18:40I think they wanted
18:42us, Dudley,
18:43not the machine.
18:44And we've
18:45come to them.
18:47We must.
18:47It's our only chance.
18:50Fowler,
18:52if that noise
18:53does come from
18:54air pumps,
18:55why is it so
18:56stuffy here?
18:58So oppressive?
18:59Dudley,
19:00that smell.
19:02Blood.
19:04Light another match.
19:06Dudley,
19:07look.
19:09straight ahead
19:10on the white
19:12metal table.
19:13It's set for a meal.
19:16Yes,
19:17with a big
19:18chunk
19:18of bloody meat.
19:20And we know
19:21that
19:22cattle
19:23are extinct.
19:25What do they
19:26feed on
19:26these Morlocks?
19:29Don't you know?
19:31I guess
19:32I do.
19:34Another match.
19:36All right,
19:37I...
19:39Dudley?
19:41Dudley?
19:43I haven't
19:44got any more.
19:45We've used
19:46our last match.
19:48All right,
19:49we'll have to
19:49go back there
19:50then.
19:50We know
19:51the secret
19:52now anyway.
19:53The Morlocks
19:54living here
19:55underground
19:55are the masters
19:57of this age.
19:59and our
20:00friends up
20:00above.
20:01Fatted
20:02cattle
20:02fed by
20:03the Morlocks
20:03clothed and
20:04supplied and
20:05housed until
20:06the day
20:06when they're
20:07cut out from
20:07the herd
20:08and brought
20:08underground
20:10as food.
20:12This is the
20:13future you're
20:13looking at.
20:15This is what
20:16we men of
20:16the 20th century
20:17shall come to.
20:18Dudley!
20:19What is it?
20:19I felt hands,
20:20cold hands.
20:21Take one of
20:22these levers.
20:23Use it as a
20:23weapon.
20:24Lash out!
20:25Against the
20:26wall!
20:27Fowler,
20:28here beside
20:28me!
20:29Dudley,
20:29what do we
20:29do?
20:30Do!
20:31Fight them!
20:32Kill!
20:32Use your
20:33evil man like
20:34this!
20:35Dudley,
20:36they're all
20:36around us.
20:37This way,
20:38Fowler,
20:38this way,
20:39back this way!
20:44We went
20:45back
20:46in that evil
20:48darkness,
20:49fighting every
20:50step as we
20:50went,
20:51back to those
20:52projecting bars,
20:53kicking and
20:54clawing ourselves
20:55loose from their
20:55pallid grasp,
20:56hands and
20:57climbing up
20:58again toward
20:58daylight and
20:59freedom,
20:59away from
21:00their stench
21:01and the
21:01eagerness of
21:01their icy
21:02hands.
21:03And they
21:04didn't follow,
21:05for daylight
21:06was their
21:06enemy and
21:07their great
21:08fear.
21:12And we
21:13lived among
21:14the lush
21:14gardens of
21:15the gentle
21:15little people
21:16like prisoners,
21:18like men
21:19without reprieve,
21:21like men
21:22who are dead
21:22while they
21:23still walk
21:24the earth.
21:25For the
21:25time machine
21:26was locked
21:27away behind
21:28great brass
21:28doors and
21:29we knew we
21:30could never
21:30force them
21:31open.
21:35Then,
21:36one day,
21:38Weiner told
21:39us of an
21:39old building,
21:40an ancient,
21:41staggering
21:41structure that
21:42had survived
21:42through many
21:43ages and
21:44was filled
21:45with many
21:45curious objects.
21:46A museum?
21:46That's what it
21:47must be,
21:47a museum,
21:48Fowler.
21:49Perhaps from
21:49some earlier
21:50time.
21:50I'm in no
21:51mood to go
21:52looking at
21:52a museum.
21:53But don't
21:53you see?
21:54Specimens are
21:55hermetically
21:55sealed in
21:55museums.
21:57Perhaps there
21:57were things,
21:58weapons,
21:58machinery,
21:59something we
21:59could use.
22:00Oh, sure,
22:00if we could
22:01find some
22:01dynamite or
22:02gunpowder or
22:02something.
22:03We could
22:03blast those
22:04doors,
22:04we could
22:04get in.
22:05Where is
22:05this place,
22:05Weiner?
22:06This old
22:06building that
22:07no one ever
22:07goes near?
22:08I take you,
22:10Fowler,
22:10eat not far.
22:12A chance,
22:13old man,
22:13a slim chance,
22:14but a chance
22:15nonetheless.
22:20All day
22:21we wandered
22:22through the
22:22great ruined
22:23halls.
22:24The building
22:25had been
22:25deserted and
22:26in disuse
22:27for perhaps
22:27a century.
22:28The childlike
22:29men of that
22:30time had long
22:30since ceased
22:31to care about
22:32anything but
22:32their own
22:32personal comforts.
22:34It was late
22:34afternoon and
22:34growing dark
22:35when we came
22:36upon the
22:36chemical section.
22:37We'd found
22:38nothing useful
22:39to us until
22:39then.
22:41And now,
22:43now came the
22:44worst disappointment
22:45of all.
22:46And it's
22:47dust,
22:48all of it.
22:49it's been
22:50dust for
22:50centuries.
22:52Another dead
22:52end.
22:53It's hopeless.
22:54We were out
22:55of our heads
22:56to hope that
22:56nitrates would
22:57retain their
22:57form for
22:58a hundred
22:58thousand years.
23:00We'd better
23:02go if
23:03nothing here.
23:04Wait just a
23:05moment.
23:06There's something
23:06in this case.
23:07You can break
23:08it with your
23:08lever.
23:08Stand back
23:09a little.
23:11Hallelujah.
23:12A box of
23:13matches,
23:13hermetically
23:14sealed.
23:14They're
23:15perfect.
23:16They're not
23:17even damp.
23:18And what
23:18should we
23:18do with
23:18them?
23:19Burn down
23:19those brass
23:20doors?
23:22Well,
23:24better keep
23:24them anyway.
23:26At least
23:27we can
23:27smoke again.
23:28And you
23:29can't tell.
23:30Fowler.
23:31Yeah?
23:32On the
23:32floor.
23:33See them?
23:34Small,
23:35narrow footprints
23:36leading away
23:37into the
23:37darkness at
23:37the end
23:38of the
23:38gallery.
23:38Dudley.
23:39We'd better
23:39go.
23:40Pick
23:40Queen up
23:41and carry
23:41her.
23:41We'll
23:41have to
23:42run for
23:42it.
23:42Don't
23:42be frightened,
23:43my dear.
23:44It'll be
23:44all right.
23:45Go on,
23:45run!
23:52We came
23:53out of the
23:53gloom of that
23:54place into the
23:54deeper gloom of
23:55dust.
23:56Suddenly we saw
23:56we were trapped
23:57all around us
23:58with the
23:58Morlocks.
23:59And with
23:59there were
23:59the thousand
24:00surrounding us
24:01and coming
24:01closer, a
24:02long, even
24:03line of
24:04deathly white,
24:05their eyes
24:05blinking in the
24:06half-light and
24:07their tiny mouths
24:08alive with
24:08appetite.
24:10The
24:10matches,
24:11Dudley.
24:12Light a
24:12fire here.
24:13The forest
24:13is dry.
24:14Good.
24:14We'll have
24:15an inferno
24:15here in a
24:16minute.
24:16And our
24:16little friends
24:17don't like
24:18light or
24:18heat.
24:20The fire
24:21leaped high
24:22to the
24:22heavens and
24:23the countryside
24:23was ablaze.
24:24The Morlocks
24:24turned in
24:25fear, blinded
24:26by the glare.
24:26Some of
24:27them burned
24:27into the
24:28middle of
24:28the raging
24:29flames and
24:30the rest
24:30faded away
24:31like a
24:31fog.
24:32Dudley had
24:33left a narrow
24:33passageway for
24:34our retreat and
24:35we fled down
24:35a long corridor
24:36of leaping
24:37flames and
24:37blistering
24:38heat.
24:39We fled
24:40to safety.
24:48We fled
24:49back toward
24:50the community
24:51of the
24:51little people.
24:53And as we
24:54ran, we
24:54passed the
24:55huge monument
24:55with its
24:56great bronze
24:57doors that
24:57were locked
24:58tight on
24:58our time
24:59machine.
25:00And suddenly,
25:02in the glare
25:03of the distant
25:03fires, we
25:04saw something
25:04that stopped
25:05us short.
25:08They're
25:08open.
25:09Fowler, the
25:09doors are
25:10open.
25:10No, no,
25:11not go in,
25:12Dudley, no.
25:13It's a trap.
25:13They're ready
25:14for us inside.
25:15Ready or not,
25:15we're going in.
25:16Dudley, it's
25:17suicide.
25:18It'll take me
25:18about one
25:19minute to
25:19screw the
25:19levers in
25:20again.
25:20Then I
25:20touch them
25:21and we're
25:21away.
25:22All right,
25:23I'll try to
25:24give you
25:24your one
25:24minute.
25:25Good boy.
25:25No, no,
25:27go, not
25:27leave me.
25:28You, my
25:29dear, you
25:29hold tight
25:30around my
25:31neck.
25:31You're coming
25:32home with
25:32us.
25:32All right,
25:33let's
25:33go.
25:38We're in.
25:39Look, the
25:41machine, they
25:41haven't harmed
25:42it.
25:42I don't see
25:43them yet.
25:44Come on,
25:44quickly.
25:46Give me that
25:46other lever.
25:49The doors,
25:50Dudley, they're
25:51closed.
25:51Get in the
25:52seat.
25:52I'll be ready
25:53in a minute.
25:55I waited for
25:56the hum that
25:56would signal our
25:57departure, and
25:57there in the
25:58darkness, the
25:58Morlocks were
25:59finally upon us.
26:00Cold, persistent
26:01fingers swarmed
26:02over my body,
26:03tugging at me,
26:04sucking me away
26:05from the machine,
26:05but I held
26:06tight to wiener
26:07as a man
26:07holds fast to
26:08life and tried
26:10to kick them
26:10away with my
26:11feet.
26:12Hurry,
26:13Dudley, hurry!
26:14I can't seem
26:15to get these
26:16and leave
26:17it.
26:17Click,
26:18or we're
26:18done.
26:19Just another
26:20turn, and
26:21it's...
26:25There,
26:25fella.
26:26We're away.
26:28They're gone.
26:29Yeah, we
26:30made it.
26:31You all
26:32right?
26:33I'm all
26:34right.
26:35Good.
26:36And wiener?
26:38Wiener isn't
26:39with us.
26:41What
26:41happened?
26:42They tore
26:43her from my
26:44hands at the
26:44last minute.
26:45They got
26:45her.
26:46I tried to
26:47save her.
26:48I couldn't.
26:48I know,
26:48old man.
26:50I still
26:50got a piece
26:51of her tunic
26:52here in my
26:52fist.
26:54A little
26:54piece of
26:55her tunic,
26:55Dudley,
26:57but nothing
26:57else.
27:08And so we
27:09came home
27:10again.
27:11Back into
27:12the very
27:13minute from
27:14which we
27:14had left.
27:15Back into
27:1612 noon,
27:18May 9th,
27:191948.
27:21we were in
27:23Dudley's
27:23laboratory again,
27:24motionless,
27:26sitting on
27:26the ridiculous
27:27contraption
27:28which he
27:28called a
27:29time machine.
27:33Was it
27:33all a dream?
27:35A mad and
27:37feverish dream.
27:38Did any of it
27:39happen?
27:40Could any of it
27:41happen?
27:42No, of course
27:44not.
27:45How stupid.
27:48But then,
27:51what's this?
27:54What of this
27:55jagged piece
27:56of thick
27:56green silk
27:58I hold in
27:58my hand?
28:01What does
28:02that mean?
28:15Escape,
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28:16directed by
28:17Norman MacDonald.
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28:19Machine by H.G.
28:20Wells,
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28:22radio by
28:22Irving Ravitch,
28:23with Eric
28:24Rolfe as
28:24Fowler,
28:25Jeff Corey
28:25as Dudley,
28:26and Kay
28:27Brinker as
28:27Weena.
28:28The musical
28:29score was
28:29conducted by
28:30Wilbur Hatch.
28:33Next week,
28:36you are
28:37wandering in
28:38a vast white
28:38solitude,
28:39torn by the
28:40icy blast of
28:41arctic wind.
28:42Your strength
28:43ebbing and
28:44frozen death
28:44creeping up on
28:45you,
28:45and behind
28:46you a man
28:47with a gun
28:47from whom
28:48there is no
28:49escape.
28:59Next week,
29:00we escape with
29:00another great
29:01story of high
29:02adventure by
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29:03world's best
29:04known authors.
29:05Good night,
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29:07next week,
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