WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.000 Adventures in time and space told in future tense. 00:10.000 --> 00:13.000 Dimension! 00:27.000 --> 00:29.000 Can you predict the future? 00:29.000 --> 00:32.000 Can you tell what will come in 100 years? 00:32.000 --> 00:34.000 Or in 10? 00:34.000 --> 00:36.000 Or in the next minute? 00:36.000 --> 00:40.000 Tonight we present two ventures into the unknown. 00:40.000 --> 00:42.000 Two fantasies of a future, 00:42.000 --> 00:46.000 chosen from the works of one of our most brilliant young science fiction writers, 00:46.000 --> 00:48.000 Ray Bradbury. 00:48.000 --> 00:50.000 First, his story entitled, 00:50.000 --> 01:04.000 There Will Come Soft Rains. 01:04.000 --> 01:07.000 The house was a good house, 01:07.000 --> 01:11.000 planned and built to be lived in in the year 1980. 01:11.000 --> 01:16.000 The real estate agent had told them all about it. 01:16.000 --> 01:18.000 Now this is the bedroom. 01:18.000 --> 01:20.000 Of course it contains all the latest devices, 01:20.000 --> 01:22.000 self-warming blankets, 01:22.000 --> 01:26.000 and here's a brand new feature, 01:26.000 --> 01:29.000 beds which make themselves. 01:29.000 --> 01:33.000 Now if you just step this way through the library, 01:33.000 --> 01:36.000 we can see the latest in talking book recorders, 01:36.000 --> 01:37.000 self-building fireplace, 01:37.000 --> 01:40.000 self-cleaning robot dust disposal, 01:40.000 --> 01:42.000 all these little mouse-like things come out of the wall, 01:42.000 --> 01:45.000 take away all the dirt. 01:45.000 --> 01:48.000 Now over this way, 01:48.000 --> 01:51.000 there's a complete robot kitchen of course, 01:51.000 --> 01:54.000 just set the menu for the week and the stove does the rest. 01:54.000 --> 01:56.000 Then there's the automatic hydroponic garden, 01:56.000 --> 01:58.000 self-sprinkling fire protection. 01:58.000 --> 02:00.000 See the house is fully automatic, 02:00.000 --> 02:03.000 why you could go away for a year and it would run itself. 02:03.000 --> 02:05.000 And so the family took the house, 02:05.000 --> 02:07.000 the man and the woman and the two children, 02:07.000 --> 02:09.000 a boy and a girl, 02:09.000 --> 02:11.000 and they lived contentedly, 02:11.000 --> 02:15.000 enjoying music and poetry and the rich, warm things in life. 02:15.000 --> 02:19.000 And the house fed them and slept them and entertained them. 02:19.000 --> 02:21.000 It made a good life for them. 02:21.000 --> 02:23.000 It was a good place to live. 02:23.000 --> 02:25.000 It was a good place to live. 02:25.000 --> 02:27.000 It was a good place to live. 02:27.000 --> 02:29.000 It was a good place to live. 02:29.000 --> 02:31.000 It was a good place to live. 02:31.000 --> 02:33.000 It made a good life for them. 02:33.000 --> 02:35.000 Until one day... 02:38.000 --> 02:41.000 There were 10,000 explosions 02:41.000 --> 02:44.000 and the world shook and red fire and ashes 02:44.000 --> 02:47.000 and radioactivity fell from the sky. 02:47.000 --> 02:49.000 The happy time was over. 02:55.000 --> 02:58.000 Tick tock, seven o'clock. 02:58.000 --> 03:01.000 Time to rise, open your eyes. 03:01.000 --> 03:04.000 Tick tock, seven o'clock. 03:04.000 --> 03:08.000 Time to rise, open your eyes. 03:08.000 --> 03:10.000 But the house lay empty. 03:10.000 --> 03:12.000 The clock talked to the empty morning. 03:12.000 --> 03:15.000 In the kitchen, the stove sighed 03:15.000 --> 03:17.000 and ejected from its warm interior 03:17.000 --> 03:20.000 eight eggs, sunny side up, 03:20.000 --> 03:22.000 12 bacon slices, two coffees, 03:22.000 --> 03:25.000 and two cups of hot cocoa. 03:25.000 --> 03:28.000 Seven, nine, breakfast time. 03:28.000 --> 03:31.000 Come and dine. Seven, nine. 03:31.000 --> 03:34.000 Today is April 28th, 1985. 03:34.000 --> 03:38.000 Today, remember, is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. 03:38.000 --> 03:43.000 Insurance, gas, atom heat, and electricity bills are due. 03:43.000 --> 03:45.000 In the walls, relays clicked. 03:45.000 --> 03:48.000 Memory tapes glided under electric eyes. 03:48.000 --> 03:51.000 Recorded voices moved beneath steel needles. 03:51.000 --> 03:54.000 Eight, one, run, run. 03:54.000 --> 03:56.000 Off to school, off to work. 03:56.000 --> 03:58.000 Run, run, tick tock. 03:58.000 --> 04:01.000 Eight o'clock, eight o'clock. 04:01.000 --> 04:03.000 But no doors slammed. 04:03.000 --> 04:06.000 No carpets took the quick tread of rubber heels. 04:09.000 --> 04:12.000 At eight-thirty, the eggs began to shrivel. 04:12.000 --> 04:16.000 An aluminum wedge scraped them into the sink. 04:17.000 --> 04:20.000 Nine-fifteen, time to clean. 04:20.000 --> 04:23.000 Nine-fifteen, time to clean. 04:23.000 --> 04:27.000 Out of the wall, hundreds of tiny mechanical mice started. 04:27.000 --> 04:29.000 The rooms were a crawl with small, 04:29.000 --> 04:32.000 freeming animals, all rubber and metal. 04:32.000 --> 04:34.000 They sucked up the hidden dust and dirt 04:34.000 --> 04:37.000 and popped back into their burrows. 04:41.000 --> 04:45.000 At ten o'clock, the sun came out from behind the rain. 04:45.000 --> 04:47.000 The house stood alone on a street 04:47.000 --> 04:50.000 where all the other houses were rubble and ashes. 04:50.000 --> 04:53.000 At night, the ruined town gave off a radioactive glow 04:53.000 --> 04:55.000 which could be seen for miles. 04:55.000 --> 04:58.000 At ten-fifteen, the garden sprinkler 04:58.000 --> 05:01.000 filled the soft morning air with golden fountains. 05:01.000 --> 05:05.000 The water tinkled over the charred west side of the house, 05:05.000 --> 05:08.000 the side which had been facing the blast. 05:08.000 --> 05:11.000 It was black, except in five places. 05:11.000 --> 05:14.000 One of the five places was a silhouette 05:14.000 --> 05:16.000 of a man mowing a lawn. 05:16.000 --> 05:19.000 Just as he'd been the instant the radioactivity 05:19.000 --> 05:21.000 burned his image into the side of the house. 05:21.000 --> 05:24.000 Over there, a woman bent to pick flowers. 05:24.000 --> 05:28.000 Still further over, their images burned into the wood 05:28.000 --> 05:31.000 where a small boy, hands flung into the air, 05:31.000 --> 05:34.000 higher up the image of a thrown ball 05:34.000 --> 05:38.000 and opposite, a girl, her hands raised to catch a ball 05:38.000 --> 05:41.000 which never came down. 05:41.000 --> 05:46.000 Five people, five spots of paint. 05:49.000 --> 05:53.000 On the front porch, the dog whined and shivered. 05:53.000 --> 05:57.000 The front door recognized the dog's voice and opened. 05:58.000 --> 06:02.000 The dog padded in wearily, thin to the bone, 06:02.000 --> 06:04.000 covered with sores. 06:04.000 --> 06:08.000 It ran to the kitchen and pawed the kitchen door wildly. 06:08.000 --> 06:11.000 Behind the door, the stove was making pancakes 06:11.000 --> 06:14.000 which filled the house with their odor, 06:14.000 --> 06:17.000 as prescribed by the automatic preset menu selector. 06:17.000 --> 06:20.000 The dog frogged, ran insanely, 06:20.000 --> 06:24.000 spun in a circle, biting its tail, and died. 06:26.000 --> 06:29.000 One o'clock, one o'clock. 06:29.000 --> 06:32.000 Delicately sensing decay, 06:32.000 --> 06:35.000 the regiments of mice hummed out of the walls, 06:35.000 --> 06:39.000 soft as blown leaves, their electric eyes glowing. 06:39.000 --> 06:41.000 One fifteen. 06:41.000 --> 06:44.000 The dog was gone. 06:44.000 --> 06:46.000 Two fifteen. 06:46.000 --> 06:49.000 Bridge tables unfolded from the walls of the patio. 06:49.000 --> 06:52.000 Playing cards fluttered onto pads. 06:52.000 --> 06:54.000 Martinis appeared on an open bench. 06:54.000 --> 06:56.000 But the tables were silent. 06:56.000 --> 06:58.000 The cards untouched. 06:58.000 --> 07:04.000 Five o'clock, six o'clock, seven o'clock, eight o'clock. 07:04.000 --> 07:07.000 Eight o'clock, nine o'clock. 07:07.000 --> 07:10.000 Dinner was made, ignored, flushed away. 07:10.000 --> 07:11.000 Dishes were washed. 07:11.000 --> 07:14.000 In the study, the tobacco stand produced a cigar 07:14.000 --> 07:16.000 with half an inch of gray ash upon it, 07:16.000 --> 07:19.000 smoking, waiting, waiting. 07:19.000 --> 07:22.000 The heart fire bloomed out of nothing. 07:22.000 --> 07:24.000 Nine o'clock, nine o'clock. 07:24.000 --> 07:27.000 The beds began to warm their hidden circuits, 07:27.000 --> 07:30.000 and the phonograph spoke from beside the fireplace. 07:30.000 --> 07:35.000 Mrs. McClelland, what poem would you like to hear this evening? 07:35.000 --> 07:38.000 Mr. McClelland? 07:38.000 --> 07:40.000 Since you express no preference, 07:40.000 --> 07:44.000 I shall select at random from among your favorites. 07:44.000 --> 07:46.000 Sarah Teasdale. 07:46.000 --> 07:51.000 There will come soft rains. 07:51.000 --> 07:55.000 There will come soft rains, and the smell of the ground, 07:55.000 --> 07:58.000 and swallows circling with their shimmering sound, 07:58.000 --> 08:01.000 and frogs in the pools singing at night, 08:01.000 --> 08:05.000 and wild plum trees in tremulous white. 08:05.000 --> 08:07.000 Robins will wear their feathery fire, 08:07.000 --> 08:10.000 whistling their whims on a low fence wire, 08:10.000 --> 08:13.000 and not one will know of war. 08:13.000 --> 08:16.000 Not one will care at last when it is done. 08:16.000 --> 08:21.000 Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, 08:21.000 --> 08:25.000 if mankind perished utterly. 08:25.000 --> 08:29.000 And spring herself, when she woke at dawn, 08:29.000 --> 08:33.000 would scarcely know that we were gone. 08:36.000 --> 08:39.000 The phonograph finished the poem. 08:39.000 --> 08:43.000 The empty chairs faced each other between the silent walls. 08:43.000 --> 08:48.000 At ten o'clock that evening, the house began to die. 08:50.000 --> 08:52.000 The wind blew the bow of a falling tree 08:52.000 --> 08:54.000 into the kitchen window, smashing it. 08:54.000 --> 08:57.000 A bottle of cleaning fluid crashed on the stove. 09:01.000 --> 09:04.000 Water pumps shot down from the ceiling, 09:04.000 --> 09:06.000 but the solvent spread under the doors, 09:06.000 --> 09:09.000 making fire as it went, other voices in other rooms 09:09.000 --> 09:11.000 taking up the alarm. 09:14.000 --> 09:16.000 The windows broke with the heat, 09:16.000 --> 09:18.000 and the wind blew in to help the fire. 09:18.000 --> 09:20.000 The fire crackled upstairs, 09:20.000 --> 09:22.000 and paintings lay hungrily on the beds, 09:22.000 --> 09:23.000 devoured the rooms. 09:23.000 --> 09:25.000 The house began to shudder. 09:25.000 --> 09:28.000 The bared skeleton began to cringe in the heat. 09:28.000 --> 09:32.000 The wires revealed as if a surgeon had torn the skin off. 09:32.000 --> 09:34.000 Voices screamed in every room. 09:38.000 --> 09:41.000 Windows snapped open and shut like undecided mouths. 09:41.000 --> 09:44.000 One time and now ten times. 09:44.000 --> 09:47.000 One time and now ten times. 09:47.000 --> 09:50.000 One time and now ten times. 09:50.000 --> 09:52.000 One time and now ten times. 09:52.000 --> 09:54.000 A thousand things were happening at once, 09:54.000 --> 09:56.000 like the interior of a clock shop at midnight. 09:56.000 --> 09:58.000 All the clocks were striking, 09:58.000 --> 10:00.000 making a merry-go-round of squeaking, 10:00.000 --> 10:01.000 whispering, and rushing. 10:01.000 --> 10:04.000 In the kitchen, the stove hissing hysterically 10:04.000 --> 10:07.000 was making breakfasts at a psychopathic rate. 10:07.000 --> 10:10.000 Ten dozen pancakes, six dozen loads of toast, 10:10.000 --> 10:12.000 and ten dozen loads of toast. 10:15.000 --> 10:18.000 Then there was silence. 10:18.000 --> 10:21.000 The film spools were burned out. 10:21.000 --> 10:24.000 The wires withered and the circuits cracked. 10:24.000 --> 10:27.000 Then the house began to breathe its last. 10:27.000 --> 10:30.000 The beams began to give at the foundations. 10:30.000 --> 10:32.000 Long cracks appeared in the concrete. 10:32.000 --> 10:34.000 The seams were burst from the heat. 10:34.000 --> 10:37.000 And finally, with a huge rumble, 10:37.000 --> 10:40.000 the house crashed into dust and rubble. 10:53.000 --> 10:56.000 Dawn shone faintly in the east. 10:56.000 --> 11:00.000 In the ruins of the house, only one wall remained standing. 11:00.000 --> 11:02.000 And within the wall, 11:02.000 --> 11:05.000 even as the sun rose to shine upon the burning rubble, 11:05.000 --> 11:09.000 a voice spoke again and again and again. 11:09.000 --> 11:12.000 No one would mind, neither bird nor tree, 11:12.000 --> 11:16.000 if mankind perished utterly. 11:16.000 --> 11:19.000 And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, 11:19.000 --> 11:23.000 would scarcely know that we were gone. 11:23.000 --> 11:25.000 That we were gone. 11:25.000 --> 11:27.000 That we were gone. 11:27.000 --> 11:29.000 That we were gone. 11:29.000 --> 11:32.000 Today is April 29, 1985. 11:32.000 --> 11:36.000 Today is April 29, 1995. 11:47.000 --> 11:50.000 Strange are the uses of Providence. 11:50.000 --> 11:53.000 Is this how the end will come for mankind, 11:53.000 --> 11:58.000 with 10,000 explosions and a flash of radioactive gas, or... 11:58.000 --> 12:01.000 Will destruction come more subtly, 12:01.000 --> 12:05.000 extended to us gently and innocently in, 12:05.000 --> 12:08.000 oh, let's say, the hand of a child, 12:08.000 --> 12:14.000 who knows in what manner zero hour may arrest the world we know? 12:26.000 --> 12:30.000 It was a perfect summer day in the year 1985. 12:30.000 --> 12:33.000 The streets were lined with green, peaceful trees. 12:33.000 --> 12:36.000 Businessmen sat in their quiet offices, 12:36.000 --> 12:39.000 taping their voices or watching televises. 12:39.000 --> 12:42.000 Rockets hovered like darning needles in the blue sky. 12:42.000 --> 12:46.000 There was the universal quiet conceit and easiness of men, 12:46.000 --> 12:48.000 accustomed to peace, 12:48.000 --> 12:51.000 quite certain that there would never be war or trouble again. 12:51.000 --> 12:53.000 There were no traitors among men, 12:53.000 --> 12:56.000 no unhappy ones, no disgruntled ones. 12:56.000 --> 12:58.000 The world was upon stable ground. 12:58.000 --> 13:00.000 Sunlight illumined the suburbs, 13:00.000 --> 13:04.000 and the town drowsed on a tide of warm, sunlit air. 13:04.000 --> 13:06.000 On the lawns, the children played, 13:06.000 --> 13:09.000 catapulting this way and that across the green grass, 13:09.000 --> 13:11.000 shouting at each other, holding hands, 13:11.000 --> 13:15.000 flying in circles, climbing trees and laughing. 13:15.000 --> 13:18.000 And in the homes, busy mothers prepared 13:18.000 --> 13:21.000 for the evening arrival of their husbands. 13:22.000 --> 13:23.000 Excuse me, Mom. 13:23.000 --> 13:25.000 Good heavens, Meg. What's all the excitement? 13:25.000 --> 13:26.000 We're playing a game, Mommy. 13:26.000 --> 13:28.000 The most exciting game ever. 13:28.000 --> 13:29.000 What are you doing in that cabinet? 13:29.000 --> 13:31.000 I need some tools from Daddy's kit. 13:31.000 --> 13:32.000 Your father may not like it. 13:32.000 --> 13:34.000 I'll take good care of them, Mom. I promise. 13:34.000 --> 13:36.000 Very well. Don't you lose anything. 13:36.000 --> 13:37.000 Oh, thank you, Mom. 13:37.000 --> 13:38.000 You want a glass of milk? 13:38.000 --> 13:40.000 Can't stop now, Mom. 13:40.000 --> 13:41.000 What's the name of the game, Meg? 13:41.000 --> 13:43.000 Invasion! 13:43.000 --> 13:58.000 Invasion. What will they think of next? 13:58.000 --> 14:03.000 Now this and this and this and this. 14:03.000 --> 14:06.000 Now put that there and bring that over here. 14:06.000 --> 14:08.000 Oh, no, you ninny. 14:08.000 --> 14:10.000 Now get back while I fix this. 14:10.000 --> 14:13.000 There, they want it this way, see? 14:13.000 --> 14:14.000 Here, just let me fix it. 14:14.000 --> 14:15.000 Hey, Mink. 14:15.000 --> 14:18.000 Oh, Mink, it's that smartypants Joseph Connors. 14:18.000 --> 14:21.000 Don't let him play. He's 12 years old. 14:21.000 --> 14:22.000 Don't worry, I won't. 14:22.000 --> 14:23.000 What you playing, Mink? 14:23.000 --> 14:25.000 None of your business, smartypants. 14:25.000 --> 14:26.000 I want to play. 14:26.000 --> 14:27.000 Can't. 14:27.000 --> 14:28.000 Why not? 14:28.000 --> 14:29.000 You're too old. 14:29.000 --> 14:30.000 Just because you're only eight. 14:30.000 --> 14:32.000 No. You'd only laugh at us and spoil the invasion. 14:32.000 --> 14:34.000 Make him go away, Mink. 14:34.000 --> 14:36.000 Go away? This is my backyard. 14:36.000 --> 14:39.000 Who wants to play with you and your old fairies anyway? 14:39.000 --> 14:41.000 They aren't fairies. 14:41.000 --> 14:44.000 Enough to you. I don't want to play anyway. 14:44.000 --> 14:46.000 Good riddance. 14:46.000 --> 14:49.000 I'm glad you didn't let him play, Mink. 14:49.000 --> 14:50.000 He'd only laugh. 14:50.000 --> 14:53.000 Now we'd better talk to Drill and get some more instructions, all right? 14:53.000 --> 14:55.000 Now here's your pad and pencil. 14:55.000 --> 14:56.000 Where is Drill? 14:56.000 --> 14:59.000 Drill? Hey, Drill. Drill? 14:59.000 --> 15:01.000 Well, he's in the rosebush, I think. 15:01.000 --> 15:04.000 I'll talk to him myself and you write it down in the pad. 15:04.000 --> 15:09.000 Okay. Drill? Drill? 15:09.000 --> 15:13.000 Okay. Drill wants you to write down triangle. 15:13.000 --> 15:14.000 What's a triangle? 15:14.000 --> 15:17.000 Never mind. Drill will tell us when he wants us to know. 15:17.000 --> 15:19.000 It helps the invasion. 15:19.000 --> 15:21.000 How do you spell it? 15:21.000 --> 15:23.000 Well, that's Drill. Drill, how do you spell it? 15:23.000 --> 15:25.000 Mink, here's your mother looking out the window. 15:25.000 --> 15:26.000 Mink? 15:26.000 --> 15:27.000 Yes, Mother? 15:27.000 --> 15:29.000 Who are you talking to? 15:29.000 --> 15:30.000 The rosebush, Mom. 15:30.000 --> 15:33.000 Only it's not really a rosebush. That's Drill. 15:33.000 --> 15:34.000 Who's Drill? 15:34.000 --> 15:36.000 He's planning the invasion. 15:36.000 --> 15:39.000 Oh, I see. Well, you'd better come in and clean up for supper. 15:39.000 --> 15:40.000 Your daddy will be home soon. 15:40.000 --> 15:42.000 In just a second, Mom. 15:42.000 --> 15:43.000 You got that R? 15:43.000 --> 15:44.000 See, now what? 15:44.000 --> 15:53.000 Four, nine, seven, and A, and B, and X, and a fork, and some string, 15:53.000 --> 15:58.000 and a hexagonal, hexagonal, droopy. 15:58.000 --> 16:00.000 Come on, Mink. Supper's in ten minutes. 16:00.000 --> 16:03.000 Okay, Mom, just a minute. I have to tell Drill. 16:03.000 --> 16:07.000 I wish we didn't have to eat, though. It holds up the invasion. 16:20.000 --> 16:24.000 Mink, for heaven's sake, slow down. You'll choke on that soup. 16:24.000 --> 16:26.000 I can't. It's a matter of life and death. 16:26.000 --> 16:28.000 What's a matter of life and death? 16:28.000 --> 16:29.000 The invasion. 16:29.000 --> 16:30.000 What invasion is that? 16:30.000 --> 16:33.000 Oh, just some silly game the children have been playing. 16:33.000 --> 16:37.000 Well, whatever it is, Mink, it'll wait until you've finished your supper, I'm sure. 16:37.000 --> 16:38.000 I don't want any more. 16:38.000 --> 16:40.000 You've barely touched anything. 16:40.000 --> 16:42.000 Oh, but Drill is waiting for me, Daddy. 16:42.000 --> 16:44.000 Drill? Who's Drill? 16:44.000 --> 16:48.000 He lives in a rosebush in our backyard. Imagination, Henry. 16:48.000 --> 16:50.000 Oh, such nonsense. 16:50.000 --> 16:51.000 I've got to run now. 16:51.000 --> 16:53.000 You'll sit through dessert, young lady. 16:53.000 --> 16:55.000 Oh, gee, Daddy. 16:55.000 --> 16:58.000 And while you're at it, tell me more about this new game. 16:58.000 --> 17:00.000 It's Martians invading Earth, Daddy. 17:00.000 --> 17:01.000 What? 17:01.000 --> 17:04.000 Well, well, not exactly Martians, Daddy. They're from... 17:04.000 --> 17:07.000 Well, gee, I don't know, from up... 17:07.000 --> 17:10.000 And from inside that little head of yours. 17:10.000 --> 17:11.000 You're laughing at me. 17:11.000 --> 17:15.000 Drill said you would. You'll kill Drill and... and everybody. 17:15.000 --> 17:18.000 What? I didn't know you could kill a Martian. 17:18.000 --> 17:21.000 But it's not really a Martian, Mom. 17:21.000 --> 17:24.000 Maybe it's from Jupiter or Venus even. 17:24.000 --> 17:25.000 Imagine. 17:25.000 --> 17:28.000 They couldn't figure out a way to attack the Earth. 17:28.000 --> 17:29.000 We are impregnable. 17:29.000 --> 17:31.000 Impregnable, dear? 17:31.000 --> 17:33.000 Well, that's the word Drill said. Impreg... 17:33.000 --> 17:36.000 Well, anyway, that was the word, Mom, the same word. 17:36.000 --> 17:37.000 Anyway, so we're helping them. 17:37.000 --> 17:38.000 Now, who's helping who? 17:38.000 --> 17:40.000 Well, the kids are helping the Martians. 17:40.000 --> 17:42.000 Oh, a fifth column, eh? 17:42.000 --> 17:44.000 Well, Drill says in order to make a good fight, 17:44.000 --> 17:47.000 you've got to have a new way of surprising the people. 17:47.000 --> 17:48.000 That way you win. 17:48.000 --> 17:51.000 And he says also you've got to have help from your enemy. 17:51.000 --> 17:52.000 Pretty slick, those Martians, 17:52.000 --> 17:55.000 using the kids for a fifth column, eh, Mary? 17:55.000 --> 17:58.000 Hiding under rose bushes, too, Henry. Don't forget that. 17:58.000 --> 18:01.000 That's because grown-ups never look under rose bushes. 18:01.000 --> 18:02.000 Only kids. 18:02.000 --> 18:03.000 Oh, I see. 18:03.000 --> 18:05.000 Well, finish your fruit, darling. 18:05.000 --> 18:06.000 You can play for an hour afterward. 18:06.000 --> 18:07.000 Mary. 18:07.000 --> 18:08.000 Oh, it's so nice out, Henry. 18:08.000 --> 18:10.000 And there's no school tomorrow. 18:10.000 --> 18:12.000 Very well. Till eight o'clock. 18:12.000 --> 18:14.000 Drill says after the infation, 18:14.000 --> 18:16.000 we can stamp as late as we want. 18:16.000 --> 18:18.000 No more bets either. 18:18.000 --> 18:19.000 Oh, is that so? 18:19.000 --> 18:21.000 We can watch all the grown-up televisor shows. 18:21.000 --> 18:22.000 I don't wonder. 18:22.000 --> 18:24.000 This invasion has caught on among the kids. 18:24.000 --> 18:26.000 Well, some of the kids are giving us trouble, 18:26.000 --> 18:28.000 like Dale Britz and Petey Cherik. 18:28.000 --> 18:31.000 They're growing up, so they won't believe in the invasion. 18:31.000 --> 18:34.000 They make fun. Worse than parents, even. 18:34.000 --> 18:36.000 I hate them worst. 18:36.000 --> 18:38.000 We'll kill them first. 18:38.000 --> 18:40.000 I hope you're saving your father and me for last. 18:40.000 --> 18:42.000 But Drill says you're dangerous. 18:42.000 --> 18:43.000 What? 18:43.000 --> 18:45.000 But I... I think they'll let me keep you 18:45.000 --> 18:46.000 because I'm helping so much. 18:46.000 --> 18:48.000 I'll talk to Drill. 18:48.000 --> 18:49.000 Maybe we won't have to kill you. 18:49.000 --> 18:52.000 Mary, I think this nonsense has gone far enough. 18:52.000 --> 18:53.000 Can I go out now, please? 18:53.000 --> 18:55.000 Well, run along, dear. 18:58.000 --> 19:01.000 Don't worry, Dad. I won't let them hurt you. 19:02.000 --> 19:04.000 Mary, I think the child's taking this game 19:04.000 --> 19:06.000 entirely too seriously. Invasion. 19:06.000 --> 19:09.000 Now, Henry, you know how mink is. 19:09.000 --> 19:11.000 Besides, all children have their aggressions. 19:11.000 --> 19:13.000 Better to get them out in the open, I suppose. 19:13.000 --> 19:15.000 Maybe you're right. 19:15.000 --> 19:18.000 Um, I was wondering about Bridge 19:18.000 --> 19:20.000 with the Jacksons tonight, Mary. 19:20.000 --> 19:22.000 All right. 19:22.000 --> 19:24.000 You look tired, dear. 19:24.000 --> 19:26.000 Why don't you sit in the relaxer for a while 19:26.000 --> 19:27.000 and get a massage? 19:27.000 --> 19:29.000 I'll sew for a while until it's time to... 19:29.000 --> 19:31.000 Oh, I wanted to call my sister Helen. 19:31.000 --> 19:33.000 Oh, good. Find out when her husband's going 19:33.000 --> 19:46.000 to return my golf clubs. 19:46.000 --> 19:48.000 Televisor. 19:48.000 --> 19:51.000 Would you please connect me with Mrs. Helen Rogerson 19:51.000 --> 19:55.000 on channel 7, 2Z, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 19:55.000 --> 19:57.000 What is your channel, please? 19:57.000 --> 19:59.000 817X, New Rochelle, New York. 19:59.000 --> 20:01.000 Thank you. 20:01.000 --> 20:04.000 Just a moment. 20:04.000 --> 20:07.000 Go ahead. You can see your party now. 20:07.000 --> 20:10.000 Hello, Mary. How are things in New York? 20:10.000 --> 20:12.000 Fine, Helen. How are things in Pittsburgh? 20:12.000 --> 20:14.000 You look tired. 20:14.000 --> 20:16.000 Oh, I've been having a terrible time with the children. 20:16.000 --> 20:17.000 See? 20:17.000 --> 20:18.000 No, just underfoot. 20:18.000 --> 20:21.000 They've got a new game that's got me just about crazy. 20:21.000 --> 20:23.000 It's called Invasion. 20:23.000 --> 20:25.000 Did you say Invasion? 20:25.000 --> 20:26.000 That's right. 20:26.000 --> 20:27.000 Well, isn't that strange? 20:27.000 --> 20:29.000 My mink is playing it, too. 20:29.000 --> 20:32.000 My boy Tim is all involved with some imaginary fellow 20:32.000 --> 20:34.000 named Drill who's running the Invasion. 20:34.000 --> 20:36.000 Must be a new password. 20:36.000 --> 20:37.000 Mink likes him, too. 20:37.000 --> 20:39.000 How do you suppose these games start? 20:39.000 --> 20:41.000 My backyard looks like a scrap drive. 20:41.000 --> 20:43.000 They've got every conceivable kind of 20:43.000 --> 20:45.000 mechanical gadget arranged out there. 20:45.000 --> 20:48.000 I talked to Josephine Schiller in Boston, 20:48.000 --> 20:50.000 and she says her kids are wild about it, too. 20:50.000 --> 20:51.000 It's sweeping the country. 20:51.000 --> 20:53.000 Remember when it was the Roomba? 20:53.000 --> 20:55.000 Please, dear. I'm not that old. 20:55.000 --> 20:56.000 Mommy! 20:56.000 --> 20:58.000 Oh, please, Minky. I'm on the televisor. 20:58.000 --> 21:00.000 Come on, see your Aunt Helen. 21:00.000 --> 21:01.000 Hello, Mink. 21:01.000 --> 21:03.000 Hi, Aunt Helen. Look what I've got. 21:03.000 --> 21:04.000 What is it, honey? 21:04.000 --> 21:05.000 Well, it's the yo-yo. 21:05.000 --> 21:07.000 Look when I enroll it. 21:07.000 --> 21:09.000 See? 21:09.000 --> 21:11.000 Well, Helen, look. It vanished. 21:11.000 --> 21:13.000 Where did it go? 21:13.000 --> 21:14.000 Into another dim... 21:14.000 --> 21:16.000 dim... dim... 21:16.000 --> 21:17.000 She means dimension. 21:17.000 --> 21:18.000 Aren't they the darndest things? 21:18.000 --> 21:20.000 My Timmy brought one home, too. 21:20.000 --> 21:22.000 I can't figure out how they work. 21:22.000 --> 21:24.000 Make it reappear, honey. 21:24.000 --> 21:26.000 There. That's easy. 21:26.000 --> 21:28.000 Where'd you get it, dear? 21:28.000 --> 21:29.000 Joe gave it to me, Mom. 21:29.000 --> 21:30.000 Mink? 21:30.000 --> 21:32.000 Bye, Aunt Helen. Gotta run now. 21:32.000 --> 21:34.000 Mink, you come back here. I want to talk to you. 21:34.000 --> 21:36.000 Can't, Mom. Zero hours. Five o'clock. 21:36.000 --> 21:37.000 Mink! 21:37.000 --> 21:38.000 Bye! 21:38.000 --> 21:40.000 Oh, I can't understand it. 21:40.000 --> 21:42.000 The child's never been so unruly. 21:42.000 --> 21:45.000 Helen, do you suppose that... 21:45.000 --> 21:46.000 What? 21:46.000 --> 21:49.000 Nothing. Just a wild thought that... 21:49.000 --> 21:51.000 Say, the reason I called, 21:51.000 --> 21:54.000 I want to get that black and white cake recipe, 21:54.000 --> 21:56.000 and Henry wants his golf clubs. 21:56.000 --> 21:58.000 I don't know what he'll do... 21:58.000 --> 22:00.000 What was that? 22:00.000 --> 22:01.000 I don't know. 22:01.000 --> 22:03.000 One of the children must have been hurt. 22:03.000 --> 22:04.000 I'll have to run and see. 22:04.000 --> 22:06.000 Call me back tonight, will you? 22:06.000 --> 22:08.000 All right, Mary. Bye. 22:10.000 --> 22:11.000 Mink, come here. 22:11.000 --> 22:13.000 Yes, Mom. 22:13.000 --> 22:15.000 What is it? Who screamed? 22:15.000 --> 22:17.000 Peggy Erin. 22:17.000 --> 22:18.000 All right. What happened? 22:18.000 --> 22:20.000 Well, she got scared and went home. 22:20.000 --> 22:22.000 Did you hit her? 22:22.000 --> 22:24.000 No, she just got scared. 22:24.000 --> 22:26.000 She's a scared baby anyway. 22:26.000 --> 22:28.000 We won't let her play anymore. 22:28.000 --> 22:29.000 She's getting too old. 22:29.000 --> 22:32.000 Now, Mink, tell me why she cried. 22:32.000 --> 22:33.000 No, I can't. 22:33.000 --> 22:36.000 Mink, you'll answer me this instant or come inside. 22:36.000 --> 22:38.000 I've had enough of this nonsense. 22:38.000 --> 22:41.000 Gee, I can't quit now, Mom. It's almost zero hour. 22:41.000 --> 22:44.000 Then tell me what frightened Peggy Anne. 22:44.000 --> 22:46.000 Okay, she saw a drill. 22:46.000 --> 22:47.000 Drill? 22:47.000 --> 22:50.000 He almost came through. He was just testing. 22:50.000 --> 22:51.000 Through what? 22:51.000 --> 22:53.000 Those pipes and things we set up. 22:53.000 --> 22:56.000 She looked into one of the pipes and screamed. 22:56.000 --> 22:57.000 I guess she saw a drill. 22:57.000 --> 22:59.000 And no one hit her? 22:59.000 --> 23:00.000 No. 23:00.000 --> 23:02.000 Very well, Mink. 23:02.000 --> 23:05.000 I'll call Peggy Anne's mother and see how she is. 23:05.000 --> 23:07.000 And I'll call you for your bath in half an hour. 23:07.000 --> 23:09.000 Your father and I want to go out tonight. 23:09.000 --> 23:11.000 You won't be able to go out, Mom. 23:11.000 --> 23:12.000 Why not? 23:12.000 --> 23:23.000 Zero hours, five o'clock, Mom. 23:26.000 --> 23:27.000 Hello, dear. 23:27.000 --> 23:29.000 You home already, Henry? 23:29.000 --> 23:32.000 Yes, I thought I'd relax a little before we went to theater. 23:32.000 --> 23:33.000 Where's the little one? 23:33.000 --> 23:34.000 Out back. 23:34.000 --> 23:36.000 Same game. 23:36.000 --> 23:37.000 Same game. 23:37.000 --> 23:41.000 They've got a stack of pipes and hammers and spoons a mile high out there. 23:41.000 --> 23:43.000 Children, children. Why do we have them? 23:43.000 --> 23:46.000 They're strange little creatures, aren't they? 23:46.000 --> 23:47.000 Even Mink, Henry. 23:47.000 --> 23:52.000 She's a part of us, and yet what do we really know about how she thinks and feels? 23:52.000 --> 23:54.000 I didn't mean to start a philosophic discussion. 23:54.000 --> 23:58.000 Kids are such a queer mixture of love and hate, though. 23:58.000 --> 24:00.000 Even normal, healthy kids. 24:00.000 --> 24:04.000 They need you and they're dependent on you, and yet they resent that dependence. 24:04.000 --> 24:07.000 You sound like a child psychology course I want you to. 24:07.000 --> 24:13.000 I wonder if they ever really forgive the whippings and the commands we have to give them sometimes. 24:13.000 --> 24:15.000 I wonder if we ever forgot them when we were children. 24:15.000 --> 24:22.000 Look, I'd like to discuss this with you, dear, but we do have a theater date, and it's almost five o'clock now. 24:22.000 --> 24:28.000 What's happened to the kids? They're so quiet. 24:28.000 --> 24:32.000 When children are quiet, you know there's some mischief. 24:32.000 --> 24:35.000 What's that sound? 24:35.000 --> 24:37.000 I don't know. 24:37.000 --> 24:39.000 Those kids aren't playing with anything electrical, are they? 24:39.000 --> 24:40.000 I'm sure they are. 24:40.000 --> 24:41.000 At least I don't... 24:41.000 --> 24:42.000 Just the same. I'd better go out. 24:42.000 --> 24:46.000 Henry, tell them to put off the invasion. 24:46.000 --> 24:52.000 What? Mary, don't get upset. It's just a game. 24:57.000 --> 25:00.000 Good Lord, what's that? Look out the window, Mary. 25:00.000 --> 25:07.000 What is it? Where are the children? Mary, why are you shaking? What did you see? 25:07.000 --> 25:09.000 Henry, quick, up to the attic. 25:09.000 --> 25:10.000 They are in the attic? 25:10.000 --> 25:12.000 Yes, yes, the attic. Quick. 25:12.000 --> 25:19.000 Mary, come back here. Mary! Mary, don't go up. They aren't up there. 25:22.000 --> 25:25.000 Mary, you're out of your mind. There's no one up here. 25:25.000 --> 25:28.000 Quick, shut the door. Lock it. Lock it. 25:28.000 --> 25:34.000 There's nothing up here. What is wrong with you? Mary, come to your senses. 25:34.000 --> 25:36.000 Henry, I'm going to go to the attic. 25:36.000 --> 25:37.000 What are you talking about? 25:37.000 --> 25:41.000 I saw it through the window, Henry. It was horrible. 25:41.000 --> 25:42.000 What? 25:42.000 --> 25:44.000 It is an invasion. 25:44.000 --> 25:50.000 For heaven's sake, let's get down out of this attic and talk this over sensibly. I want to find out if Mink is all right. 25:50.000 --> 25:54.000 She's all right. I saw her. She was leading them around the corner of the house. 25:54.000 --> 25:56.000 Leading who? The kids? 25:56.000 --> 25:59.000 Shh! Listen! 25:59.000 --> 26:01.000 There's nothing. 26:01.000 --> 26:05.000 Listen. Listen. 26:06.000 --> 26:09.000 The front door. 26:12.000 --> 26:14.000 They're coming! 26:14.000 --> 26:19.000 Good Lord, those kids sound like 50 men with boots on. 26:19.000 --> 26:25.000 Oh, no, not men. Oh, please God, don't let them find us. Don't let them find us. 26:25.000 --> 26:28.000 I don't understand. Who's there? 26:28.000 --> 26:30.000 Shh! Don't shout, Billy. 26:30.000 --> 26:34.000 Who's down there? I demand that you answer me. 26:34.000 --> 26:37.000 They're coming. The whole house is shaking. 26:37.000 --> 26:39.000 Who? Who's there? 26:39.000 --> 26:43.000 Shh! Please be quiet, Henry. They might go away. 26:45.000 --> 26:49.000 Henry? Henry? 26:49.000 --> 26:55.000 Mom? Dad? Are you in the attic? 26:55.000 --> 26:57.000 Henry, listen. 26:57.000 --> 27:01.000 It's Mink. Mink. We've got to save her. 27:01.000 --> 27:03.000 Henry, you don't understand. She's leading them. 27:03.000 --> 27:04.000 What? 27:04.000 --> 27:10.000 She's leading them. She's on their side. Oh, please God, forgive them. 27:10.000 --> 27:12.000 The children on their side? 27:12.000 --> 27:16.000 She told us, but we wouldn't believe her. 27:16.000 --> 27:19.000 Henry, they're coming! 27:23.000 --> 27:27.000 Mom? Dad, we know you're in there. 27:28.000 --> 27:31.000 Well, I guess you'd better melt the lock, Tia. 27:35.000 --> 27:38.000 Henry, the lock! It's melting! 27:38.000 --> 27:42.000 The door! Oh, dear God! 27:42.000 --> 27:45.000 Mom? Dad? 27:45.000 --> 27:49.000 Oh, I see you now. Pick a ball! 28:03.000 --> 28:07.000 You have just heard another adventure into the unknown. 28:07.000 --> 28:12.000 World of the future. The world of... 28:12.000 --> 28:15.000 Dimension! 28:20.000 --> 28:23.000 Next week, Destination Moon. 28:23.000 --> 28:27.000 A preview of the movie which is soon to have its world premiere in New York. 28:27.000 --> 28:32.000 Telling the Robert Heinlein story of man's first trip to the moon. 28:32.000 --> 28:37.000 Tonight's adventures in Dimension X. 28:37.000 --> 28:44.000 There will come soft rains and Zero Hour were written by Ray Bradbury and adapted for radio by George Lefferts. 28:44.000 --> 28:49.000 Featured in the first story as narrator was your host Norman Rose. 28:49.000 --> 28:59.280 The leading players in Zero Hour were Denise Alexander as Mink and Rita Lynn as the mother of the 28:59.280 --> 29:06.280 Roger DeKoven as the father. Music by Albert Berman, engineer Don Abbott. 29:06.280 --> 29:13.280 Dimension X is produced by Van Woodward and directed by Edward King. Robert Warren speaking. 29:13.280 --> 29:19.280 Programs! Get your programs here! 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