WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.000 Adam Hatz presents... 00:07.000 --> 00:15.000 The Strange Doctor Weird. 00:15.000 --> 00:23.000 Good evening. 00:23.000 --> 00:28.000 Come in, won't you? 00:28.000 --> 00:32.000 Why, what's the matter? 00:32.000 --> 00:34.000 Surely you're not nervous. 00:34.000 --> 00:38.000 Perhaps it will calm you if I tell you a story. 00:38.000 --> 00:42.000 The story of a prodigal son's homecoming. 00:42.000 --> 00:55.000 I call it, Murder Comes Home. 00:55.000 --> 01:03.000 My story, Murder Comes Home, starts in a small house on the bank of a river just outside the city. 01:03.000 --> 01:09.000 Mrs. Barnes, who was very feeble, lived there with her younger son Tom. 01:09.000 --> 01:15.000 One evening after the doctor had paid her a visit, Tom stopped him as he was leaving. 01:15.000 --> 01:19.000 Doctor, tell me the truth. How is she? 01:19.000 --> 01:28.000 She's very weak, Tom. Unless we can persuade her to go to the hospital within a few days, I'm afraid I won't be able to save her. 01:28.000 --> 01:33.000 I see. But you know how she is about not leaving this house until my brother Harry comes home again. 01:33.000 --> 01:36.000 She hasn't seen him for ten years, has she? 01:36.000 --> 01:45.000 No. She doesn't know that he's in the state penitentiary for life, for murder. It would kill her if she ever found out. 01:45.000 --> 01:51.000 I see. Well, perhaps you can get her to agree to come to the hospital just for a few days. 01:51.000 --> 01:56.000 Suppose you go in and see, huh? I'll wait downstairs. 01:56.000 --> 02:00.000 All right, Doctor. I'll try. 02:00.000 --> 02:03.000 Tom? Is that you? 02:03.000 --> 02:06.000 Yes, Mother. Would you like me to close the window? 02:06.000 --> 02:12.000 No, Tom. Leave it open. It's foggy out, isn't it? 02:12.000 --> 02:16.000 Yes. You can hardly see your hand in front of your face. 02:16.000 --> 02:23.000 I like to hear the river. I've heard it every day for thirty years. 02:23.000 --> 02:34.000 For thirty years I've watched the cliffs on the riverbank coming closer and closer as the river eats them away. 02:34.000 --> 02:37.000 Mother, I wanted to talk to you about that. 02:37.000 --> 02:38.000 Yes? 02:38.000 --> 02:42.000 It's safe here now. We're going to have to move out of this house soon. 02:42.000 --> 02:49.000 Not till Harry comes back, Tom. He wouldn't know where to find me if we moved. 02:49.000 --> 02:52.000 Yes, he would, Mother. Please listen to me. You could- 02:52.000 --> 03:04.000 No, Tom. Not till Harry comes home. He is coming home soon. I know he is. I can feel it. 03:04.000 --> 03:11.000 He'll be here soon, Tom. Then we can move after Harry gets here. 03:11.000 --> 03:12.000 All right, Mother. 03:12.000 --> 03:25.000 I can feel him getting closer and closer. It won't be long now, Tom. We must be ready for him. 03:25.000 --> 03:40.000 Yes, of course. Good night, Mother. 03:40.000 --> 03:45.000 It's no use, Doctor. She has a mind made up that Harry will be here any minute. 03:45.000 --> 03:46.000 Well, that's rather- 03:46.000 --> 03:47.000 Excuse me. 03:47.000 --> 03:49.000 Certainly. 03:49.000 --> 03:53.000 Hello? Yes, speaking. 03:53.000 --> 03:56.000 Oh, hello, Sheriff. 03:56.000 --> 04:00.000 What? He did? 04:00.000 --> 04:08.000 Yes. Yes, I understand. Of course I will. Goodbye. 04:08.000 --> 04:15.000 Doctor, that was Sheriff Goodright. He said Harry and a companion escaped from the penitentiary early this evening by killing a guard. 04:15.000 --> 04:16.000 What? 04:16.000 --> 04:22.000 Then they stopped the motorist and took his car. The sheriff thinks they may be heading this way. 04:22.000 --> 04:32.000 Maybe that's why Mother felt Harry would be here soon. 04:32.000 --> 04:37.000 Our cast returns in a moment with a final action in tonight's story of Doctor Weird. 04:37.000 --> 04:41.000 Meantime, I'd like to ask good doctor one little question. 04:41.000 --> 04:43.000 What question, young man? 04:43.000 --> 04:46.000 Do you always think of horrible, terrifying things? 04:46.000 --> 04:51.000 No. Only last evening I was out getting a breath of air. 04:51.000 --> 04:53.000 Ah, you breathed. 04:53.000 --> 05:02.000 Yes. And I saw some Adam hats. They were fine looking hats. I walked in, tried one on. And what do you think? 05:02.000 --> 05:03.000 What? 05:03.000 --> 05:06.000 I look just like a person. 05:06.000 --> 05:18.000 Well, thank you, Doctor. Gentlemen, if Doctor Weird can look just like a human being by just putting on an Adam hat, think how much a smart Adam hat can do for a normal looking man. 05:18.000 --> 05:23.000 Seriously, I hope you'll stroll by an Adam hat store yourself sometime soon. 05:23.000 --> 05:37.000 The latest fall and winter line is in. You'll see a great variety of up-to-the-minute hats in every size, color, and style, including the Adam 5, made of fine fur felt and only $5. 05:37.000 --> 05:45.000 You'll be proud to wear an Adam, and you'll be correct, too. Select your favorite at any price from $3.45 to $10. 05:45.000 --> 06:00.000 There are thousands of Adam hat stores and authorized dealers from coast to coast. Now, here's that man again, Doctor Weird. 06:00.000 --> 06:15.000 Now I'll finish my story, murder comes home. After the doctor left, Tom remained on guard with a loaded revolver. And just after midnight... 06:15.000 --> 06:19.000 Hello, Tom. 06:19.000 --> 06:21.000 So you did come here. 06:21.000 --> 06:24.000 Where else would I go? Come on, Jake. 06:24.000 --> 06:25.000 Okay. 06:25.000 --> 06:28.000 No, you can't come in. It would kill Mother Duke. 06:28.000 --> 06:32.000 Oh, yes. How is Mother? 06:32.000 --> 06:34.000 Tom? Tom? 06:34.000 --> 06:36.000 Isn't that her calling now? 06:36.000 --> 06:39.000 Quiet. Yes, Mother? 06:39.000 --> 06:41.000 Tom? Is that Harry? 06:41.000 --> 06:45.000 Yes, Mother. It's Harry. Come to see you. 06:45.000 --> 06:48.000 I knew you'd come, son. 06:48.000 --> 06:51.000 I'll be up in a minute, Mother. 06:51.000 --> 06:54.000 Well, Tom, aren't you going to ask us in? 06:54.000 --> 06:57.000 Now that she knows you're here, I have no choice. 06:57.000 --> 06:59.000 Thanks. 06:59.000 --> 07:03.000 Oh, Tom, meet a pal of mine, Jake Padgett. 07:03.000 --> 07:07.000 What is this, Harry? You said we'd be safe here. This mug meets us with a gun in his mouth. 07:07.000 --> 07:12.000 Oh, don't worry about Tom. He'll warm up to us presently. 07:12.000 --> 07:28.000 Now, you stay here and talk to him while I run upstairs and say hello to my dear old Mother. 07:28.000 --> 07:35.000 Well, Mother was so glad to see me, Tom, that you really ought to put that gun away and ask us to stay a while. 07:35.000 --> 07:39.000 Yes, Harry. Now you are going to stay until the sheriff gets here anyway. 07:39.000 --> 07:42.000 Hey, you're not going to turn us in. 07:42.000 --> 07:43.000 No. 07:43.000 --> 07:50.000 No. I told Mother I couldn't stay, that I had a long journey to make. 07:50.000 --> 07:55.000 But suppose tomorrow she learns that I've been arrested. Then what? 07:55.000 --> 07:58.000 It would kill her. But I'll see to it that she doesn't find out. 07:58.000 --> 08:07.000 And I'll see to it she does. If you turn me in, you'd kill your own Mother. 08:07.000 --> 08:14.000 That won't be necessary if you'll just be reasonable. All we want is to hide here for 24 hours. 08:14.000 --> 08:15.000 I... 08:15.000 --> 08:18.000 Listen, a car just stopped outside. 08:18.000 --> 08:22.000 Probably the sheriff. Well, Tom, make up your mind. 08:22.000 --> 08:26.000 All right. Get in the closet there, both of you. I'll send the sheriff away. 08:26.000 --> 08:28.000 That's more like it. Come on, Jake. 08:28.000 --> 08:30.000 I'll wait for you. 08:30.000 --> 08:35.000 Coming. 08:35.000 --> 08:37.000 Oh, it's you, Sheriff. 08:37.000 --> 08:41.000 Yeah, Tom. We're sure your brother's someplace in the neighborhood. 08:41.000 --> 08:46.000 Thought we might have come here. Seen any sign of him? 08:46.000 --> 08:48.000 No. Not yet, anyway. 08:48.000 --> 08:52.000 You never know. Want me to leave a man with you, just in case? 08:52.000 --> 08:55.000 No, no. I'll be all right. I have a gun. 08:55.000 --> 08:57.000 All right. Okay. I'll be back later. 08:57.000 --> 08:58.000 All right, Sheriff. 08:58.000 --> 09:03.000 So long. 09:03.000 --> 09:06.000 All right, he's gone. You can come out now. 09:06.000 --> 09:09.000 Now, you're acting like a brother, Tom. 09:09.000 --> 09:11.000 Yeah, that's more like it. 09:11.000 --> 09:13.000 The sheriff said he'd be back later, though. 09:13.000 --> 09:16.000 Well, in that case, suppose I just take the gun, then, Tom? 09:16.000 --> 09:17.000 You can't! 09:17.000 --> 09:18.000 Good luck, Harry. 09:18.000 --> 09:23.000 Now, Tom, you just do as we agreed, and everything will be all right. 09:23.000 --> 09:28.000 We can't get anyplace in this fog tonight. It's so thick you can't see a foot ahead of you. 09:28.000 --> 09:32.000 But tomorrow night, they'll be off guard. We'll be able to get away. 09:32.000 --> 09:34.000 Harry, listen. 09:34.000 --> 09:36.000 Dogs. 09:36.000 --> 09:38.000 They've brought up bloodhounds to track us with. 09:38.000 --> 09:40.000 They're coming this way. 09:40.000 --> 09:41.000 What do we do? 09:41.000 --> 09:44.000 It's no use hiding. If the dogs track us here, they'll know we're inside someplace. 09:44.000 --> 09:45.000 Yeah, that's right. 09:45.000 --> 09:47.000 We'll wait for it. 09:47.000 --> 09:50.000 If we can get two or three of them, we may have a chance to break through. 09:50.000 --> 09:52.000 No, Harry, listen. I've got a better idea. 09:52.000 --> 09:54.000 Oh, yeah? What is it? 09:54.000 --> 09:58.000 My rowboat. You remember how we used to run the rapids when we were kids? 09:58.000 --> 10:00.000 Yeah, I remember. 10:00.000 --> 10:02.000 The boat's still there. 10:02.000 --> 10:05.000 In this fog, you could float down the river 20 miles before morning. 10:05.000 --> 10:07.000 Yeah. They'll never catch us that way. 10:07.000 --> 10:09.000 I promise they won't. 10:09.000 --> 10:12.000 You can go out the kitchen door and down the steps into the backyard. 10:12.000 --> 10:14.000 Then follow the path to the river back. 10:14.000 --> 10:16.000 Okay. Jake, get going through the kitchen there. 10:16.000 --> 10:18.000 I got you. I'm on my way. 10:18.000 --> 10:20.000 Now, Tom, I'll just take this coat of yours. 10:20.000 --> 10:21.000 Harry! 10:21.000 --> 10:22.000 I'm coming. 10:22.000 --> 10:24.000 Hurry. I hear somebody outside. 10:24.000 --> 10:26.000 Okay, home. 10:26.000 --> 10:27.000 Get going, Harry. 10:27.000 --> 10:28.000 I'm going. 10:28.000 --> 10:30.000 They'll never catch me. Never. 10:31.000 --> 10:33.000 Tom, over. 10:34.000 --> 10:36.000 Tell them why I didn't get... 10:36.000 --> 10:38.000 Well, man, what's the matter? 10:38.000 --> 10:40.000 I had to do it. 10:41.000 --> 10:43.000 I had to. 10:43.000 --> 10:44.000 They'd have killed you. 10:44.000 --> 10:46.000 What are you talking about, Tom? 10:46.000 --> 10:49.000 Harry and Jake, they were here. 10:49.000 --> 10:57.000 I told them how to escape through the kitchen and down the back step to the path that leads down to the river bank. 10:57.000 --> 10:58.000 To my boat. 10:58.000 --> 11:00.000 Well, they won't get away. 11:00.000 --> 11:01.000 I'm going there. 11:01.000 --> 11:04.000 Wait, Sheriff. Wait, nothing. Let go of my arm, Tom. 11:04.000 --> 11:06.000 I'll get those two murdering rats. 11:06.000 --> 11:09.000 Sheriff, wait. You don't understand. 11:09.000 --> 11:13.000 Shine your flashlight down there at the foot of the steps. 11:14.000 --> 11:17.000 Great glory. 11:17.000 --> 11:21.000 Harry, any ground at the foot of those steps? 11:21.000 --> 11:30.000 When they stepped off the last step, they had a sheer hundred foot drop to the river and the rocks down there. 11:30.000 --> 11:51.000 Well, they escaped this time right enough from human law anyway. 11:51.000 --> 11:55.000 Yes, Harry and Jake escaped all right. 11:55.000 --> 12:00.000 Even if it was in a way they didn't quite expect. 12:00.000 --> 12:04.000 And Mrs. Barnes at last agreed to move. 12:04.000 --> 12:07.000 Just in time, too. 12:07.000 --> 12:11.000 The house was nearly standing on the edge of a cliff. 12:11.000 --> 12:18.000 And it was only a month or so before another slide carried the house away completely. 12:19.000 --> 12:22.000 Do you live at the top of a cliff? 12:22.000 --> 12:25.000 If you do, you... 12:25.000 --> 12:28.000 Oh, you have to go now. Too bad. 12:28.000 --> 12:31.000 But perhaps you'll drop in again soon. 12:31.000 --> 12:34.000 I'm always home. 12:34.000 --> 12:39.000 Just look for the house on the other side of the cemetery. 12:39.000 --> 12:52.000 The house of Dr. Weird.