WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:13.000 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 00:13.000 --> 00:21.280 Tonight, we bring you Transcribe, a story of a very ordinary family and what happens 00:21.280 --> 00:23.920 when a UFO lands in their backyard. 00:23.920 --> 00:26.760 We call it Heavens to Betsy. 00:26.760 --> 00:33.280 So now, starring Trude Marson and Hia Aberbach, here is tonight's Suspense play, Heavens to 00:33.280 --> 00:34.280 Betsy. 00:34.280 --> 00:51.560 A lot of people might call what happened to the 00:51.560 --> 00:57.960 Doyle's, a fantasy, or an allegory, or mass hysteria, or just about anything. 00:57.960 --> 01:00.200 But it happened, no matter what you call it. 01:00.200 --> 01:03.760 And you couldn't convince the government, the half dozen army men, and the Doyle's that 01:03.760 --> 01:04.920 it didn't. 01:04.920 --> 01:08.440 In particular, you couldn't convince Betsy Doyle. 01:08.440 --> 01:11.400 The day it started wasn't much different to any other day. 01:11.400 --> 01:15.400 It was about five o'clock in the evening, and there was a thunder and rainstorm hanging 01:15.400 --> 01:17.960 around the suburb where the Doyle's lived. 01:17.960 --> 01:21.680 Henry Doyle was still at the bank, about to leave for home. 01:21.680 --> 01:24.440 Betsy Doyle was in the kitchen cooking dinner. 01:24.440 --> 01:28.000 And eight-year-old Dicky Doyle was listening to the radio. 01:28.000 --> 01:37.120 So, Captain Spaceman, you are ready to tell us where you have hidden the galactic astroprism? 01:37.120 --> 01:39.040 Never, Pothoth. 01:39.040 --> 01:43.480 With all your secret knowledge, if you're really so smart, you should be able to use 01:43.480 --> 01:46.120 your visioautoscope and find out for yourself. 01:46.120 --> 01:51.720 Unfortunately, while you put up such a tremendous, although useless, struggle against the Royal 01:51.720 --> 01:55.960 Soldiers of Gramick, the visioautoscope was smashed. 01:55.960 --> 02:00.200 It will take two days to repair it, and I cannot afford to wait. 02:00.200 --> 02:01.200 That's too bad, Pothoth. 02:01.200 --> 02:04.520 Then I am afraid I have no other... 02:04.520 --> 02:05.520 Darn it. 02:05.520 --> 02:06.520 Are you all right, dear? 02:06.520 --> 02:07.520 I'm not sure, Mom, but the darn thing... 02:07.520 --> 02:08.520 Oh, it must have been a thunder. 02:08.520 --> 02:09.520 It was a thunder. 02:09.520 --> 02:10.520 It was a thunder. 02:10.520 --> 02:11.520 It was a thunder. 02:11.520 --> 02:12.520 It was a thunder. 02:12.520 --> 02:13.520 It was a thunder. 02:13.520 --> 02:14.520 It was a thunder. 02:14.520 --> 02:15.520 It was a thunder. 02:15.520 --> 02:16.520 It must have been a thunder and thunder. 02:16.520 --> 02:20.180 It was 02:20.180 --> 02:24.780 A thunderbolt. 02:24.780 --> 02:27.960 It was a thunderbolt. 02:27.960 --> 02:30.760 It was a thunderbolt. 02:30.760 --> 02:32.160 It was a thunderbolt. 02:32.160 --> 02:33.420 It was a thunderbolt. 02:33.420 --> 02:35.720 It was a thunderbolt. 02:35.720 --> 02:36.720 It was a thunderbolt. 02:36.720 --> 02:37.720 It was suffering in pain. 02:37.720 --> 02:39.000 It was asking, I say, as though nothing... 02:39.000 --> 02:40.440 You know, Grandma, it would be a bray to swat inside so quickly. 02:40.440 --> 02:41.440 Did you really hear? 02:41.440 --> 02:42.440 If it was a thunderbolt, I mean. 02:42.440 --> 02:43.520 Oh, be careful of it. 02:43.520 --> 02:44.520 Who's the就是說? 02:44.520 --> 02:45.520 It was a thunderbolt. 02:45.520 --> 02:47.020 Okay. 02:47.120 --> 02:49.020 You can help me in the kitchen if you want. 02:49.120 --> 02:52.520 Oh, I guess I'll read a book or something. 02:52.620 --> 02:54.520 Why don't you bring it in the kitchen and read it? 02:54.620 --> 02:56.820 You can keep me company. I wish you would. 02:56.920 --> 02:58.020 Okay, ma. 03:00.120 --> 03:01.120 Hello? 03:01.220 --> 03:03.320 Hello, Betts. Are you all right over there? 03:03.420 --> 03:04.420 Ella? 03:04.520 --> 03:07.020 Hi. Oh, sure, we're fine. 03:07.120 --> 03:09.020 Wasn't that something? 03:09.120 --> 03:10.520 I thought it was right on the house. 03:10.620 --> 03:11.820 Oh, I was scared too. 03:11.920 --> 03:13.820 I looked out the window and I saw the flash. 03:13.820 --> 03:16.120 It looked like it was in your backyard. 03:16.220 --> 03:17.820 Oh, thank heavens it wasn't. 03:17.920 --> 03:19.820 It must have been on the other side of the tree. 03:19.920 --> 03:21.020 I guess so. 03:21.120 --> 03:23.120 Honey, I've got to get back to my dinner. 03:23.220 --> 03:24.220 I'll call you back. 03:24.320 --> 03:25.320 Okay. 03:30.420 --> 03:31.820 That's how it started. 03:31.920 --> 03:34.420 The great flash, the explosion, 03:34.520 --> 03:37.520 and there was only a static to speak for the radio. 03:37.620 --> 03:40.820 Dickie took his latest space science comic book to the kitchen 03:40.920 --> 03:43.420 and became lost in willowy women of the future 03:43.420 --> 03:45.920 and their comrades in bravery, 03:46.020 --> 03:47.920 super-reggun armed, 03:48.020 --> 03:50.920 invincible globe headed, granite jawed heroes. 03:51.020 --> 03:54.420 His mother prosaically made dumplings for the stew. 03:54.520 --> 03:57.920 It was five minutes to six when the phone rang again. 04:00.520 --> 04:01.920 Will you get it, dear? 04:02.020 --> 04:03.420 Sure, ma. 04:08.520 --> 04:09.520 Hello? 04:09.620 --> 04:10.720 Hello, Betts. 04:10.820 --> 04:12.520 This is Richard Doyle. 04:12.520 --> 04:15.220 Oh, Dickie, this is Mrs. Gilbert, dear. 04:15.320 --> 04:16.820 Is everything all right over there? 04:16.920 --> 04:18.020 Can I talk to your mother? 04:18.120 --> 04:20.420 Mom's making dumplings. She can't come to the phone. 04:20.520 --> 04:21.820 Oh. 04:21.920 --> 04:25.020 Well, ask her what that funny glow is over your way. 04:25.120 --> 04:26.420 Is there fire in the woods? 04:26.520 --> 04:28.420 Did the thunderbolts hit fire or something? 04:28.520 --> 04:30.020 I don't see anything. 04:30.120 --> 04:32.020 No fire around here, Mrs. Gilbert. 04:32.120 --> 04:34.020 Besides, the rain would put out a fire. 04:34.120 --> 04:36.220 Well, there is something glowing, Dickie. 04:36.320 --> 04:38.020 I can see it from my window. 04:38.120 --> 04:40.020 I don't know why you can't. 04:40.120 --> 04:41.820 It's right out there near your house. 04:41.820 --> 04:44.320 Maybe it's out the back. I'll take a look, Mrs. Gilbert. 04:44.420 --> 04:45.720 All right, dear. 04:48.820 --> 04:49.920 Who is it, Dickie? 04:50.020 --> 04:51.320 Mrs. Gilbert, Mom. 04:51.420 --> 04:54.320 She says there's a glow around here somewhere. 04:54.420 --> 04:55.320 A glow? 04:55.420 --> 04:56.720 Yeah, she said it was a fire. 04:56.820 --> 04:57.920 I'm gonna take a look out back. 04:58.020 --> 04:59.120 Oh, no, you're not. 04:59.220 --> 05:00.520 It's pouring out there. 05:00.620 --> 05:02.320 You can pull up the shade and see out the window. 05:02.420 --> 05:03.520 Okay. 05:03.620 --> 05:05.320 I'll be glad when your father gets home. 05:05.420 --> 05:06.720 I don't like these storms. 05:06.820 --> 05:07.920 Dickie, will you... 05:07.920 --> 05:10.420 What's that? 05:10.520 --> 05:12.420 I don't know, Mom. 05:12.520 --> 05:15.820 I guess it's what Mrs. Gilbert was talking about. 05:15.920 --> 05:18.420 Kind of a glow. 05:18.520 --> 05:20.420 It's in the backyard. 05:20.520 --> 05:22.420 It's on fire. 05:22.520 --> 05:23.420 No, no, it isn't. 05:23.520 --> 05:26.820 It's just a... something shining. 05:26.920 --> 05:28.420 Pull down the shade. Pull down the shade. 05:28.520 --> 05:29.620 Hurry. Hurry. 05:29.720 --> 05:31.420 Oh, my. 05:31.520 --> 05:33.820 Don't you be scared. We've got to think. 05:33.920 --> 05:35.420 What would your father do? 05:35.520 --> 05:36.820 Maybe we should go and see. 05:36.820 --> 05:38.320 You'd better give your old man a kiss. 05:38.420 --> 05:39.320 Oh, dear. 05:39.420 --> 05:40.320 I didn't hear you come in. 05:40.420 --> 05:41.320 No, I guess you didn't. 05:41.420 --> 05:42.320 I'm so... 05:42.420 --> 05:45.320 Dear, there's something out there. 05:45.420 --> 05:46.320 Where? 05:46.420 --> 05:48.320 In the back. We saw it. 05:48.420 --> 05:49.320 No! 05:49.420 --> 05:51.320 You mustn't go out. 05:51.420 --> 05:53.120 I'll get it. What? 05:53.220 --> 05:54.320 Look. 05:54.420 --> 05:58.320 See, Dad? All shiny and glowy. 05:58.420 --> 05:59.320 Where'd that come from? 05:59.420 --> 06:00.920 I don't know. 06:01.020 --> 06:02.320 Ella called and said she saw it from her house. 06:02.420 --> 06:03.320 Didn't she, Dickie? 06:03.420 --> 06:04.320 Yeah. 06:04.420 --> 06:05.320 Oh, hey, hey, hey. 06:05.320 --> 06:07.820 All right. Quiet, son. We've got to investigate this. 06:07.920 --> 06:08.820 Yeah, but, Dad... 06:08.920 --> 06:10.820 Son, there's something out there, all right. 06:10.920 --> 06:11.820 No question about that. 06:11.920 --> 06:13.820 Can't see too well. The shrubs are in the way. 06:13.920 --> 06:17.820 It's like neon lights. Only all over. 06:17.920 --> 06:19.820 You going out there, Dad? Can I come with you? 06:19.920 --> 06:22.820 Son, this is one of those times I was telling you about. 06:22.920 --> 06:25.220 Fools rush in where brave men fear to tread. 06:25.320 --> 06:26.820 You remember me telling you that? 06:26.920 --> 06:27.820 Yes, Dad. 06:27.920 --> 06:29.820 Well, this is one of those times. 06:29.820 --> 06:32.320 Mr. Doyle turned back to the window 06:32.420 --> 06:34.320 and stood staring out into the wet night, 06:34.420 --> 06:38.320 softly radiant from the glow in his backyard. 06:38.420 --> 06:42.320 He was a man to whom the unusual rarely, if ever, happened. 06:42.420 --> 06:46.320 A man who in his teens dreamed of adventure and heroism, 06:46.420 --> 06:49.320 and his twenties dreamed of adventure and heroism, 06:49.420 --> 06:52.920 and now in his late thirties still dreamed of adventure. 06:53.020 --> 06:57.920 The heroism at least was tempered by the 06:57.920 --> 07:00.420 knowledge of his own weaknesses. 07:00.520 --> 07:02.420 His life had been ordinary, 07:02.520 --> 07:06.420 and he could never completely forgive life for that. 07:06.520 --> 07:09.420 Now there was something out there in the night, 07:09.520 --> 07:12.420 and he knew that it was the beginning of a great moment. 07:12.520 --> 07:18.420 He thought, I don't know what it is, but it's different. 07:18.520 --> 07:22.420 I can feel it. I know it. 07:22.520 --> 07:27.420 I'm a little afraid to go out and see, but I want to. 07:27.420 --> 07:29.920 It's my chance, whatever it is. 07:30.020 --> 07:33.920 It's come to me, to Betsy. 07:34.020 --> 07:34.920 It might even be... 07:35.020 --> 07:37.920 Dad? Dad, what do you think? 07:38.020 --> 07:39.920 What do you think it is? 07:40.020 --> 07:42.920 Oh, yes, son, I was looking at it. 07:43.020 --> 07:43.920 This is a time for caution. 07:44.020 --> 07:45.920 Betsy, go up and get my pistol, will you? 07:46.020 --> 07:46.920 No, no, I will not. 07:47.020 --> 07:48.920 You call the police, the fire that brought the... 07:49.020 --> 07:50.920 It's not a fire. It's a thing. 07:51.020 --> 07:52.920 Probably perfectly harmless, but I want to make sure. 07:53.020 --> 07:53.920 Oh, Henry, please. 07:54.020 --> 07:55.920 Dicky, get my pistol, will you? 07:55.920 --> 07:58.420 Oh, boy, sure, Dad, be right back. 08:04.920 --> 08:06.420 I don't want you to go out. 08:06.520 --> 08:07.820 Henry, if you love me, you'll... 08:07.920 --> 08:10.420 I love you, and I'm going to find out what it is. 08:10.520 --> 08:11.420 Here you are, Dad. 08:11.520 --> 08:12.420 Thank you, son. 08:12.520 --> 08:14.220 Well, if you're going, I'm going too. 08:14.320 --> 08:15.020 Oh, no. 08:15.120 --> 08:16.020 Oh, yes. 08:16.120 --> 08:17.420 Dicky, you get my raincoats in the hall. 08:17.520 --> 08:18.420 Okay, Mom. 08:18.520 --> 08:19.220 Honey... 08:19.320 --> 08:21.420 There's no use talking. I'm going. 08:21.520 --> 08:23.020 What... 08:23.120 --> 08:25.420 What do you think it is in the yard? 08:25.420 --> 08:27.920 I don't know, but I've got an idea. 08:28.020 --> 08:28.920 Oh, here, Mom. 08:29.020 --> 08:30.920 Can I come too, Dad? Can I? 08:31.020 --> 08:32.520 No, son, you stay here. 08:32.620 --> 08:34.920 All right, Henry, I'm ready. 08:35.020 --> 08:37.320 All right, come on, and stay behind me, you understand? 08:37.420 --> 08:38.920 I'll watch from the window. 08:39.020 --> 08:40.920 Yes, you do that, son. 08:48.020 --> 08:49.920 It's so bright. 08:50.020 --> 08:51.520 That light. 08:51.620 --> 08:53.920 Well, we'll get a good look at it when we get past the shrubs. 08:53.920 --> 08:56.420 Henry! 08:56.520 --> 08:58.420 Look! 08:58.520 --> 09:01.420 You wanted to know what it is? 09:01.520 --> 09:03.420 I'll tell you. 09:03.520 --> 09:06.420 It's the greatest thing that's ever happened in the world. 09:06.520 --> 09:08.420 I knew it would happen someday. 09:08.520 --> 09:10.420 It's a UFO, that's what it is. 09:10.420 --> 09:24.920 A flying saucer! 09:25.020 --> 09:26.920 You are listening to Heaven's Tabetse, 09:27.020 --> 09:30.920 tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of theater. 09:31.020 --> 09:32.920 The best of the best. 09:33.020 --> 09:34.920 The best of the best. 09:35.020 --> 09:36.920 The best of the best. 09:37.020 --> 09:38.920 The best of the best. 09:38.920 --> 09:42.620 The world's outstanding theater of thrills, suspense. 09:42.720 --> 09:49.720 ... 09:49.920 --> 09:51.420 Driving tonight? 09:51.520 --> 09:54.420 CBS radio hopes you're not taking any chances. 09:54.520 --> 09:58.120 It takes only a split second to turn a gambler into a corpse. 09:58.220 --> 09:59.620 On today's highways. 09:59.720 --> 10:01.820 Keep in line when your vision ahead is obscured. 10:01.920 --> 10:04.020 Keep well back of the car in front of you. 10:04.120 --> 10:05.620 When you ride up on his tail pipe, 10:05.720 --> 10:07.820 you're assuming all his risks too. 10:07.820 --> 10:13.420 Don't pass until you've got a clear lane for it with no opposing traffic in it for a safe distance and then some. 10:13.420 --> 10:15.820 Play it smart and survive. 10:15.820 --> 10:22.520 And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage Truda Marson and Hai Aberback, 10:22.520 --> 10:31.320 starring in tonight's production, Heaven's Tibetse, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 10:31.320 --> 10:45.420 That's what it was all right. 10:45.420 --> 10:51.720 No longer an unidentified flying object, but a very real flying saucer. 10:51.720 --> 10:58.220 Henry Doyle believed in saucers and this one had landed in their backyard and lay in the mud glowing, 10:58.220 --> 11:01.420 a soft rich silvery glow. 11:01.420 --> 11:06.220 They were lost in excitement and with it went their normal earth like fear. 11:06.220 --> 11:12.020 Together they walked around it. 11:12.020 --> 11:19.820 Well, I figure eight feet long and three wide and about two feet high. 11:19.820 --> 11:21.020 Wouldn't you say that Betts? 11:21.020 --> 11:23.120 Hmm, I guess so. 11:23.120 --> 11:25.820 There's no door, no windows or anything. 11:25.820 --> 11:27.620 How are the people going to get out? 11:27.620 --> 11:29.220 I don't know. I don't know. 11:29.220 --> 11:30.220 What's that? 11:30.220 --> 11:31.020 Hmm? 11:31.020 --> 11:32.320 Siren. 11:32.320 --> 11:34.020 Somebody else must have seen it. 11:34.020 --> 11:35.220 I'll bet it's the police. 11:35.220 --> 11:37.220 Yeah. 11:37.220 --> 11:39.820 Yeah, wouldn't be surprised. 11:39.820 --> 11:40.920 Come on, let's get inside. 11:40.920 --> 11:41.920 What are you going to do? 11:41.920 --> 11:43.920 If they come here, you let me do the talking. 11:43.920 --> 11:46.020 I don't want you or Dickie to say a word. 11:46.020 --> 11:46.520 But Henry, I... 11:46.520 --> 11:49.420 I want you to promise me this is the most important thing in our lives. 11:49.420 --> 11:50.420 I mean it, Betts. 11:50.420 --> 11:51.020 You promise? 11:51.020 --> 11:53.220 What's got into you, Henry? 11:53.220 --> 11:54.020 They're so funny. 11:54.020 --> 11:54.820 I just don't... 11:54.820 --> 11:55.220 All right. All right. 11:55.220 --> 11:56.420 I'll tell you. 11:56.420 --> 12:01.520 This thing, this saucer, it doesn't surprise me, see? 12:01.520 --> 12:03.820 I've known this was going to happen. 12:03.820 --> 12:07.220 I'm not like those people who laugh and make jokes about it. 12:07.220 --> 12:09.620 I knew it was coming. 12:09.620 --> 12:13.120 Up there, up there on some planet, it's been planned for a long time, 12:13.120 --> 12:15.020 a billion miles away. 12:15.020 --> 12:17.520 They didn't surprise Henry Doyle though. 12:17.520 --> 12:18.820 No, no. 12:18.820 --> 12:20.620 This is big. 12:20.620 --> 12:22.420 Bigger than you can imagine. 12:22.420 --> 12:25.620 And maybe we're the first people in the world to know about it. 12:25.620 --> 12:26.920 That's why. 12:26.920 --> 12:30.920 From here on, no matter what happens, I want you to let me do the talking. 12:30.920 --> 12:32.320 Do you understand? 12:32.320 --> 12:34.420 Yes, Henry. 12:42.420 --> 12:43.620 Is something wrong, officer? 12:43.620 --> 12:45.320 Well, that's what we want to find out. 12:45.320 --> 12:49.320 I got a call from Mrs. Gilbert down the road. 12:49.320 --> 12:53.420 Said she called you a few minutes ago and the kid answered and then went away and didn't come back. 12:53.420 --> 12:54.620 Oh, gee, the phone. 12:54.620 --> 12:57.020 I forgot. Mom, Mrs. Gilbert. 12:57.020 --> 12:58.220 What's it all about? 12:58.220 --> 13:00.220 What's what all about, officer? 13:00.220 --> 13:04.020 Mrs. Gilbert says there's a light or a glow or something over here. 13:04.020 --> 13:06.420 Well, I don't know. You got a thing that glows here? 13:06.420 --> 13:08.820 I couldn't figure out what she was trying to say. 13:08.820 --> 13:10.320 Nothing wrong here, is there, Betts? 13:10.320 --> 13:12.320 No. No, nothing. 13:12.320 --> 13:13.120 Beats me. 13:13.120 --> 13:16.420 Well, Mrs. Gilbert is kind of nervous in storms. You know how it is. 13:16.420 --> 13:17.220 Dad, aren't you going to tell us? 13:17.220 --> 13:18.920 Son, you better get your hands washed for supper. 13:18.920 --> 13:19.920 Supper time, isn't it, dear? 13:19.920 --> 13:21.920 Heavens, yes. And everything will be all right. 13:21.920 --> 13:25.420 Yes. I'm sorry you had the trip for nothing, officer. 13:25.420 --> 13:26.820 Well, now, I'm glad everything's all right. 13:26.820 --> 13:30.520 Maybe we better take a look out back just to be on the safe side, huh? 13:30.520 --> 13:32.320 Why? I was just out there. It's fine. 13:32.320 --> 13:34.720 All the same. Can't take chances, you know. 13:34.720 --> 13:35.920 Back door through here. 13:35.920 --> 13:38.620 Now, listen. This is my house. 13:38.620 --> 13:40.020 A man's house is his castle. 13:40.020 --> 13:42.920 If anything were wrong, I wouldn't be telling you everything's okay, would I? 13:42.920 --> 13:45.120 We'll just take a minute. 13:45.120 --> 13:46.520 Dinner's ready, dear. 13:46.520 --> 13:49.220 Well, you go ahead, folks. I'll take a... 13:49.220 --> 13:50.920 Holy... 13:50.920 --> 13:52.520 What's that? 13:52.520 --> 13:53.520 What? 13:53.520 --> 13:55.520 That. 13:55.520 --> 13:57.320 I don't see anything. 13:57.320 --> 13:59.820 What do you got out there? Something on fire? 13:59.820 --> 14:03.820 Oh, that. Oh, nothing. Just a lighting arrangement. 14:03.820 --> 14:05.220 Kind of pretty, don't you think? 14:05.220 --> 14:07.520 Lighting? That's no lighting. 14:07.520 --> 14:09.320 Both of you stay here. No funny business. 14:09.320 --> 14:10.920 I'm going to take a look. 14:14.520 --> 14:16.420 The officer took a look. 14:16.420 --> 14:18.320 Didn't believe what he saw. 14:18.320 --> 14:21.420 Took another look, and the secret was out. 14:21.420 --> 14:25.020 He put in a call for the riot squad and waited. 14:25.020 --> 14:26.620 Henry thought for a while. 14:26.620 --> 14:29.120 Then a slow anger grew in him. 14:29.120 --> 14:32.520 It was his flying saucer, Betsy's flying saucer. 14:32.520 --> 14:34.420 It belonged to the Doyles. 14:34.420 --> 14:38.220 More than that, he knew it was his one chance for fame. 14:38.220 --> 14:41.420 To offset the dull obscurity of his daily life. 14:41.420 --> 14:46.020 Henry Doyle objected, and because she loved her husband, Betsy objected. 14:46.020 --> 14:48.420 You have no right to do this, officer. 14:48.420 --> 14:51.620 You're trespassing on my property and you haven't got a warrant. 14:51.620 --> 14:54.620 There's no good saying, my husband is right. 14:54.620 --> 14:57.120 That saucer is mine. It's on my land. 14:57.120 --> 14:59.520 My land is paid for. It belongs to me. 14:59.520 --> 15:00.820 Disturbing a piece. 15:00.820 --> 15:02.320 Disturbing you. It isn't disturbing us. 15:02.320 --> 15:04.320 It isn't disturbing anybody. It's just sitting. 15:04.320 --> 15:05.520 Well, there's enemies inside. 15:05.520 --> 15:06.620 Who said they were enemies? 15:06.620 --> 15:07.720 Well, it's a fake. 15:07.720 --> 15:09.020 You just said it was full of enemies. 15:09.020 --> 15:10.520 Now, look, lady. 15:10.520 --> 15:12.720 This thing's got me real upset. 15:12.720 --> 15:14.520 I don't know what I'm saying. 15:14.520 --> 15:18.520 I'm scared if you want to know, but I'm a police officer and I got a job to do. 15:18.520 --> 15:21.020 And I'm staying here until I'm told otherwise. 15:24.020 --> 15:25.520 The riot squad came. 15:25.520 --> 15:30.020 The sergeant, followed by the inspector, followed by the chief of police. 15:30.020 --> 15:33.020 Henry Doyle said, this is my house. 15:33.020 --> 15:35.520 My property. My flying saucer. 15:35.520 --> 15:38.020 You have no warrant. Get out of my house. 15:38.020 --> 15:39.520 Get off my property. 15:39.520 --> 15:42.020 Betsy agreed with every word. 15:42.020 --> 15:46.520 Then the FBI came, followed by some extremely important gentlemen in uniform. 15:46.520 --> 15:48.020 Henry was not impressed. 15:48.020 --> 15:50.020 I don't care what you say. 15:50.020 --> 15:52.020 In the morning, I'm going to see a lawyer. 15:52.020 --> 15:55.020 No, no, I'm going to get the federal district attorney. 15:55.020 --> 15:57.020 A man's house is his castle. 15:57.020 --> 15:58.520 You're all trespassing. 15:58.520 --> 16:00.020 Now, listen, Mr. Doyle. 16:00.020 --> 16:02.020 No, you listen, General. Sure. 16:02.020 --> 16:04.520 I know. You're real interested in my saucer. 16:04.520 --> 16:06.520 Of course, one of you is. 16:06.520 --> 16:09.520 When a few other fellows like me were trying to convince you they existed, 16:09.520 --> 16:11.020 you laughed at us. 16:11.020 --> 16:13.520 Well, now I'm laughing. Ha ha. 16:13.520 --> 16:15.520 My wife's laughing too. 16:15.520 --> 16:18.520 It's in our backyard. It stays there. 16:18.520 --> 16:21.520 Have you any idea what kind of beings are in it? 16:21.520 --> 16:25.020 Did you ever stop to consider that they may be hostile to the earth? 16:25.020 --> 16:27.020 Well, that's my tough luck, not yours. 16:27.020 --> 16:28.520 It's my bit of earth. 16:28.520 --> 16:30.520 You're not going to touch that saucer. 16:30.520 --> 16:32.520 Right. A man's home is his castle. 16:32.520 --> 16:33.520 Right. 16:33.520 --> 16:36.520 Castle. 16:36.520 --> 16:39.520 The next morning, Henry Doyle proved it. 16:39.520 --> 16:41.520 He conferred with the U.S. district attorney, 16:41.520 --> 16:43.520 who in turn conferred with Washington. 16:43.520 --> 16:46.520 And the upshot of all this was... 16:46.520 --> 16:50.520 The object now resting in the backyard of Mr. Henry Doyle is, 16:50.520 --> 16:55.520 until proved a menace to public welfare or hostile to these United States, 16:55.520 --> 16:59.520 his property and shall remain in violet. 16:59.520 --> 17:03.520 His property and shall remain in violet. 17:03.520 --> 17:05.520 The Army didn't agree. 17:05.520 --> 17:09.520 Neither did the police or any other law enforcement agency. 17:09.520 --> 17:13.520 A battery of heavy guns, eight tanks, a machine gun unit, 17:13.520 --> 17:17.520 two flamethrowers, as well as a picked company of commandos 17:17.520 --> 17:19.520 were brought to the scene. 17:19.520 --> 17:23.520 The army was not afraid to take advantage of the situation. 17:23.520 --> 17:26.520 The army was not afraid to take advantage of the situation. 17:26.520 --> 17:29.520 As a picked company of commandos were brought to the scene. 17:29.520 --> 17:34.520 The road was blocked off and the siege of the Doyle's residence began. 17:34.520 --> 17:38.520 Five days later, the saucer lay still glowing quietly 17:38.520 --> 17:41.520 and Mr. and Mrs. Doyle stood by the incinerator watching it. 17:41.520 --> 17:43.520 Betsy surmised... 17:43.520 --> 17:46.520 If they're afraid of us, you'd think they'd try and get away. 17:46.520 --> 17:50.520 Well, maybe they're biding their time. 17:50.520 --> 17:53.520 Must all be as strange to them as it is to us. 17:53.520 --> 17:55.520 Fine welcome they must think they're getting. 17:55.520 --> 17:57.520 That is, if they've got some kind of instrument inside 17:57.520 --> 17:59.520 that can see what's out on the road. 17:59.520 --> 18:01.520 You know, I still can't understand 18:01.520 --> 18:03.520 how the people inside the saucer get out. 18:03.520 --> 18:07.520 It's funny, I've been over the thing a dozen times. 18:07.520 --> 18:09.520 There isn't even a seam I can see. 18:09.520 --> 18:11.520 Do you think maybe we ought to let those scientists take a look at it? 18:11.520 --> 18:12.520 They can't hurt us? 18:12.520 --> 18:14.520 Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Now don't you start. 18:14.520 --> 18:17.520 This is ours. You let one of those fellas get a hand on it 18:17.520 --> 18:20.520 and the next thing you know we won't have our flying saucer anymore. 18:20.520 --> 18:21.520 No, no. 18:20.520 --> 18:21.520 Dad! 18:21.520 --> 18:22.520 What is it, son? 18:22.520 --> 18:24.520 Here's about 40 men at the front door. 18:24.520 --> 18:26.520 They're from newspapers. They want to talk to you. 18:26.520 --> 18:30.520 Oh. All right. Tell them to wait. I'll be there in a minute. 18:30.520 --> 18:31.520 Okay, Dad. 18:31.520 --> 18:34.520 Oh, Henry. It is wonderful, isn't it? 18:34.520 --> 18:37.520 Nothing like this has ever happened to us. 18:37.520 --> 18:39.520 I never thought it would. 18:39.520 --> 18:41.520 You know, old catacomb at the bank called me yesterday. 18:41.520 --> 18:43.520 Offered me the vice presidency. 18:43.520 --> 18:44.520 No! 18:44.520 --> 18:48.520 Yeah. I didn't tell you because that's nothing to what offers we'll get. 18:48.520 --> 18:51.520 Honey, this is our big moment. 18:51.520 --> 18:54.520 It's our big moment in history. History, Betts. 18:54.520 --> 18:56.520 I'm not going to let this get away from us. 18:56.520 --> 18:58.520 I've waited all my life for it. 18:58.520 --> 19:00.520 What are you going to tell the newspaper men? 19:00.520 --> 19:02.520 Whatever they want to know. 19:02.520 --> 19:05.520 Come on. We'll see them together. 19:11.520 --> 19:16.520 Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen. 19:16.520 --> 19:20.520 Now, now, now, gentlemen, you, uh, you've asked my opinion of the object. 19:20.520 --> 19:23.520 Do I think it is a ship from out of space? 19:23.520 --> 19:27.520 Gentlemen, my answer is yes. 19:27.520 --> 19:31.520 In due time, as soon as the government and I come to terms 19:31.520 --> 19:35.520 and that ridiculous show of force outside my house is withdrawn, 19:35.520 --> 19:39.520 you will be allowed to see the thing and to take your pictures. 19:39.520 --> 19:43.520 Gentlemen, that's all I can say for the moment. 19:43.520 --> 19:46.520 I know you'll excuse me. There are many things to attend to. 19:46.520 --> 19:50.520 Oh, Henry, Henry, you're wonderful. 19:50.520 --> 19:53.520 You sounded just like a senator, even a president. 19:53.520 --> 19:55.520 Oh, no, no. 19:55.520 --> 19:58.520 I'm still plain old Henry Doyle, your loving husband, 19:58.520 --> 20:01.520 whose home is his castle. 20:04.520 --> 20:06.520 A senatorial committee came to investigate. 20:06.520 --> 20:11.520 Henry was polite, allowed them to see his saucer, but no more. 20:11.520 --> 20:14.520 And the word spread until there wasn't a corner of the globe 20:14.520 --> 20:18.520 that didn't know about Henry Doyle and his flying saucer. 20:18.520 --> 20:20.520 A week later, the Supreme Court was in session 20:20.520 --> 20:22.520 debating the district attorney's decision. 20:22.520 --> 20:24.520 The country was divided. 20:24.520 --> 20:26.520 Half said the saucer belonged to Henry. 20:26.520 --> 20:28.520 The other half thought it was a shame. 20:28.520 --> 20:32.520 They never quite made clear what the shame was, but it was. 20:32.520 --> 20:35.520 The Doyles never budged. 20:35.520 --> 20:38.520 But it was the small Doyle, Dickey, who one evening, 20:38.520 --> 20:40.520 three weeks after the thing had landed, 20:40.520 --> 20:44.520 noticed what was taking place in the backyard. 20:44.520 --> 20:46.520 Dad, Mom, the saucer. 20:46.520 --> 20:47.520 What about it? 20:47.520 --> 20:48.520 Something's happening to it. 20:48.520 --> 20:49.520 What? 20:49.520 --> 20:50.520 The light's going out. 20:50.520 --> 20:51.520 Oh, that's silly. 20:51.520 --> 20:52.520 It can't be. 20:52.520 --> 20:53.520 It is. 21:05.520 --> 21:06.520 He's right. 21:06.520 --> 21:08.520 It's not as bright as it was. 21:08.520 --> 21:10.520 You can almost see it getting dimmer. 21:10.520 --> 21:11.520 What do you think's happening? 21:11.520 --> 21:12.520 I don't know. 21:12.520 --> 21:14.520 Maybe they're going to come out now. 21:14.520 --> 21:15.520 I don't know. 21:16.520 --> 21:20.520 Henry, I'm afraid. 21:20.520 --> 21:21.520 Oh, no. 21:21.520 --> 21:22.520 No, you don't have to be. 21:22.520 --> 21:24.520 Something's wrong with it. 21:24.520 --> 21:26.520 I can feel it. 21:26.520 --> 21:27.520 Oh, now that's silly. 21:27.520 --> 21:30.520 It's the people inside I'm worried about. 21:30.520 --> 21:33.520 Maybe it's the power supply or their own special air... 21:33.520 --> 21:34.520 I'm afraid. 21:34.520 --> 21:37.520 It's getting dark awful quickly, Dad. 21:37.520 --> 21:39.520 We've got to do something. 21:39.520 --> 21:40.520 What? 21:40.520 --> 21:41.520 Maybe the scientists. 21:41.520 --> 21:42.520 Yeah, that's it. 21:42.520 --> 21:43.520 The scientists. 21:43.520 --> 21:44.520 You go and call them. 21:44.520 --> 21:45.520 They're at the Grand Hotel. 21:45.520 --> 21:46.520 All of them. 21:46.520 --> 21:47.520 Hurry, Betsy. 21:52.520 --> 21:54.520 The scientists came. 21:54.520 --> 21:57.520 Grave and wise, they rapped on the thing, 21:57.520 --> 21:59.520 listened with super stethoscopes, 21:59.520 --> 22:02.520 took readings on wonderful electronic devices, 22:02.520 --> 22:04.520 and shook their heads. 22:04.520 --> 22:08.520 That night at exactly 11.04 p.m., 22:08.520 --> 22:10.520 the glow went out. 22:10.520 --> 22:14.520 And as it did so, the saucer began to shrivel, 22:14.520 --> 22:17.520 grew smaller and smaller. 22:17.520 --> 22:19.520 The group watched silently. 22:21.520 --> 22:24.520 Can't somebody help? 22:24.520 --> 22:26.520 It's just melting away. 22:26.520 --> 22:27.520 What can you do? 22:27.520 --> 22:29.520 It's dying. 22:29.520 --> 22:31.520 Henry, it's dying. 22:31.520 --> 22:33.520 We've got to help. 22:33.520 --> 22:34.520 I don't know. 22:34.520 --> 22:36.520 If we could get a sample of the substance, 22:36.520 --> 22:37.520 but we can't make it disappear. 22:37.520 --> 22:39.520 Oh, I won't have you banging on it like that when it's dying. 22:39.520 --> 22:41.520 Stop it. Stop it. 22:41.520 --> 22:42.520 Honey, Betsy. 22:42.520 --> 22:43.520 I mean it. Let it alone. 22:43.520 --> 22:45.520 It's no use anyway. 22:45.520 --> 22:47.520 It'll be gone soon. 22:47.520 --> 22:48.520 You can stop. 22:48.520 --> 22:49.520 It isn't any good. 22:49.520 --> 22:52.520 It was alive, Henry. 22:52.520 --> 22:53.520 It was alive. 22:53.520 --> 22:54.520 Honey, no. 22:54.520 --> 22:57.520 No, there were people in it. 22:57.520 --> 22:59.520 People from another planet. 22:59.520 --> 23:00.520 They couldn't live on Earth. 23:00.520 --> 23:01.520 That's all they could care. 23:01.520 --> 23:02.520 No, no, no, you're wrong. 23:02.520 --> 23:04.520 I feel as if I've lost. 23:04.520 --> 23:05.520 I don't know, like losing Dickie. 23:05.520 --> 23:07.520 I tell you, it was alive. 23:07.520 --> 23:08.520 There wasn't anyone inside. 23:08.520 --> 23:09.520 That's it. 23:09.520 --> 23:11.520 That thing is all of it. 23:11.520 --> 23:12.520 You're tired, Mrs. Doyle. 23:12.520 --> 23:13.520 Why don't you go inside? 23:13.520 --> 23:15.520 Oh, you're fools. 23:15.520 --> 23:16.520 A woman knows. 23:16.520 --> 23:19.520 It was an animal or maybe like us, 23:19.520 --> 23:21.520 only made differently. 23:21.520 --> 23:22.520 It was alive. 23:22.520 --> 23:24.520 And now it's dying. 23:24.520 --> 23:25.520 It's dying. 23:31.520 --> 23:33.520 It's almost gone. 23:33.520 --> 23:35.520 Yes. 23:35.520 --> 23:38.520 It's too bad we couldn't have examined it earlier. 23:38.520 --> 23:54.520 Dad, listen. 23:54.520 --> 23:56.520 It's gone. 23:56.520 --> 23:58.520 Yes. 23:58.520 --> 24:01.520 Did you hear that sound? 24:01.520 --> 24:04.520 Yes. 24:04.520 --> 24:09.520 Almost like a voice, sighing. 24:09.520 --> 24:11.520 I wonder. 24:11.520 --> 24:13.520 I wonder. 24:16.520 --> 24:18.520 On the spot where the thing had rested, 24:18.520 --> 24:22.520 there was nothing, not a fragment. 24:22.520 --> 24:24.520 And although they didn't know why, 24:24.520 --> 24:28.520 the scientists and Henry Doyle stood for five minutes, 24:28.520 --> 24:29.520 just looking. 24:29.520 --> 24:31.520 Nobody spoke a word. 24:31.520 --> 24:33.520 And there was a great quiet, 24:33.520 --> 24:37.520 a sadness in the air. 24:37.520 --> 24:38.520 I feel sad. 24:38.520 --> 24:40.520 Strange. 24:40.520 --> 24:41.520 I do too. 24:41.520 --> 24:45.520 Dad, why are you crying? 24:45.520 --> 24:48.520 Am I? 24:48.520 --> 24:49.520 That's funny. 24:49.520 --> 24:51.520 Mom was crying too. 24:51.520 --> 24:55.520 What's happened? 24:55.520 --> 24:58.520 They all went away, silently. 24:58.520 --> 25:01.520 The scientists, the guns and tanks, 25:01.520 --> 25:03.520 the soldiers and police, 25:03.520 --> 25:07.520 and finally, only the Doyles were left in their house, 25:07.520 --> 25:10.520 which was their castle. 25:10.520 --> 25:12.520 Do you really think it was alive? 25:12.520 --> 25:13.520 Yes. 25:13.520 --> 25:16.520 I think it was hurt and fell down. 25:16.520 --> 25:18.520 We didn't understand. 25:18.520 --> 25:21.520 If I hadn't been so selfish, wanting to keep it to myself, 25:21.520 --> 25:22.520 we might have saved it. 25:22.520 --> 25:23.520 No. 25:23.520 --> 25:26.520 No, it's probably better this way. 25:26.520 --> 25:30.520 You know, everybody felt what you felt. 25:30.520 --> 25:32.520 Sad. 25:32.520 --> 25:36.520 Even the general and the scientists. 25:36.520 --> 25:39.520 I wonder what it was. 25:39.520 --> 25:43.520 Where it came from. 25:43.520 --> 25:45.520 Somewhere up there. 25:45.520 --> 26:14.520 Perhaps one day, another will come. 26:14.520 --> 26:16.520 Suspense. 26:16.520 --> 26:21.520 In which Trude Marsen and Hiavrabach starred in tonight's presentation of Heavens to Betsy. 26:21.520 --> 26:28.520 Be sure to be listening for next week's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, 26:28.520 --> 26:38.520 Suspense. 26:38.520 --> 26:43.520 Suspense is produced and transcribed by Anthony Ellis, who wrote tonight's script. 26:43.520 --> 26:47.520 The music was composed by Rene Garaghan and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 26:47.520 --> 26:56.520 Featured in the cast were John Danaer, Victor Perrin, Byron Cain, Richard Beals, Virginia Eiler, Barney Phillips, and Howard McNeer. 26:56.520 --> 27:03.520 Dr. Jim Brandt, a young, skillful doctor, shows determination, but little talent, in caring for his family after the death of his wife. 27:03.520 --> 27:11.520 The problems that beset him on his road of life are yours to listen to Monday through Friday in the daytime on most of these same stations. 27:11.520 --> 27:19.520 It's Road of Life, another great daytime dramatic program in the family of daytime shows, millions here every day at the Star's Address. 27:19.520 --> 27:47.520 On CBS Radio tomorrow, the Road of Life continues.