1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:16,000 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 2 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:23,400 Tonight, we bring you transcribed a story of a prescription filled in error. 3 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,320 We call it, To None, A Deadly Drug. 4 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:52,200 So now, starring Harry Bartel, here is tonight's Suspense play, To None, A Deadly Drug. 5 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:59,400 Sometimes it can happen, a prescription handed a drugist, a slip up somewhere, a dead person. 6 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:04,720 When it does occur, it's news, because it is almost unheard of. 7 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:09,880 A drugist is a careful man, tempered in the tough crucible of pharmaceutical college, 8 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:15,840 filtered by a board of examiners, sworn, as is a physician, to protect those he serves 9 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:17,480 from wrong and harm. 10 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:30,720 It almost never happens, but when it does, it can ruin a man, and it can ruin his wife. 11 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:35,160 Manxville is on US 99, near the junction of three main arteries. 12 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:38,960 It's a small town, but it supports two drug stores. 13 00:01:38,960 --> 00:01:41,160 One is Foster's Pharmacy. 14 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:46,600 It's owned and run by a young ex-GI pharmacist named Cal Foster. 15 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:51,000 To his wife, Marion, he loves his pharmacy more than anything on earth. 16 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:54,880 Cal has a soda fountain, but he lets a kid named Joe handle that. 17 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:59,320 Cal's heart is with the gleaming scales and the sparkling bottles. 18 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:03,600 That's where he was the evening it happened, typing a label for a prescription, while Marion 19 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:05,600 waited impatiently. 20 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:10,200 Cal, you promised. 21 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:11,680 It's 6.30 and you promised. 22 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:13,640 Okay, honey, I shaved. 23 00:02:13,640 --> 00:02:15,960 Did you get my jacket from the cleaners? 24 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:20,640 It's a half hour drive to the club and it's 6.30 already. 25 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:21,640 Are you listening? 26 00:02:21,640 --> 00:02:23,440 I'll just be a second. 27 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:25,880 Mrs. Peabody lost her digitalis bottle. 28 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:27,720 She's about to have a heart attack worrying about it. 29 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:29,160 Oh, she's as healthy as a horse. 30 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:31,640 And you said you'd be ready at 6.30. 31 00:02:31,640 --> 00:02:34,000 We'll just deliver this on the way to the dance. 32 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:35,000 Oh, no. 33 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,920 It's not far, and she's a nice old gal for a hypochondriac. 34 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:41,480 Look, why don't you hang up the clothes sign on the door? 35 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:43,480 I'll have another customer for sure. 36 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:46,160 I'll just stick this label on her bottle and put on my jacket. 37 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:47,160 Oh, too late. 38 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:48,160 Tell her you're closed. 39 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:49,160 I can't do that, darling. 40 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:50,160 Hey, yes, ma'am. 41 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:51,160 Hello. 42 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:54,960 Can you fill a prescription for me for my son? 43 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:56,960 Well, I think so. 44 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:57,960 Let's see. 45 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,280 Tippy Smith, elixir, phenobarbital, tincture, belladonna. 46 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:03,280 What's the matter, fellow? 47 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:04,280 Stomachache? 48 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:05,280 No, I'm okay. 49 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:06,280 He isn't either. 50 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:08,280 He just doesn't like medicine, that's all. 51 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:10,640 But the minute we get back on the road, he'll be miserable. 52 00:03:10,640 --> 00:03:12,360 Well, this will make him feel better. 53 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:14,720 Hey, a San Francisco doctor wrote this. 54 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:15,720 Yes. 55 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:19,120 I meant to have it filled there, but I got to wire my husband's due back from Japan. 56 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:20,120 He's a Navy man. 57 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:23,480 And what was packing the car to go and meet him and getting Tipp out of school and everything, 58 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:24,840 I forgot. 59 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:26,960 And now he's got the stomachache again. 60 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:28,880 And I'm trying to make another 100 miles tonight. 61 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:30,480 Well, we'll fix him up. 62 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:31,480 How much will it be? 63 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:34,160 I'd say about $1.75. 64 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:35,160 Just take a minute. 65 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:38,840 Gosh, he's a rugged guy. 66 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:41,480 A kid has to be rugged for this sort of life. 67 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:43,840 He's lived in half a dozen towns since he was born. 68 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:45,160 No wonder he gets a stomachache. 69 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:47,080 Well, he must get bored on the road. 70 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:48,800 Oh, he sure does. 71 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:51,640 But we listen to the radio and think up riddles and name cars. 72 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:54,040 He knows every make of car on the road. 73 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:55,560 Uh, where are you headed now? 74 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:57,400 Oh, the ship's coming in to send... 75 00:03:57,400 --> 00:03:59,640 Tippy, leave the comic book alone. 76 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:01,240 You have a dozen in the car. 77 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:02,240 Okay. 78 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:03,240 Hey, Mom. 79 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:04,240 Yes? 80 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:05,240 I don't really need the medicine. 81 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:06,240 I feel all right. 82 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:08,760 Well, you're going to take it, just the same. 83 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:09,760 All right. 84 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:12,520 Well, just make up a label, you can get it back on the road. 85 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:13,520 Let's see. 86 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:16,960 15 drops of glass of water every four hours. 87 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:20,680 Seven at 11 p.m., three and seven. 88 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:21,680 You can start now if you want. 89 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:24,560 It's almost seven, and then you won't have to stop on the road for a glass of water. 90 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:25,560 Oh, that's a good idea. 91 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:26,880 Well, I don't think it is. 92 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:28,240 It isn't time, anyway. 93 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:29,720 Well, it's almost time. 94 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:30,720 Oh, no. 95 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:33,960 Hey, Mom, while we're driving, we can play the game. 96 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:34,960 Like the other time. 97 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:37,320 You know, when I lose, I'll take the medicine. 98 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:39,320 Oh, all right. 99 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:42,320 There we are. 100 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:49,320 Oh, excuse me, just a minute. 101 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:50,320 Hello. 102 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:52,480 Oh, that horrible phone. 103 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:55,440 I'm trying to get him to a dinner dance for the first time in two years. 104 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:57,240 It's like getting a date with Marlon Brando. 105 00:04:57,240 --> 00:04:59,200 Well, at least your husband's home night. 106 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:00,200 I know. 107 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:01,200 It must be awful. 108 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:06,080 Oh, here, I'll put on the label and you can go. 109 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:07,480 How much did he say it would be? 110 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:08,480 Uh, 175. 111 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:09,480 Out of two, as they say. 112 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:15,280 Oh, and it looks as if Tippy's brought a comic book, after all, with his dirty hands all 113 00:05:15,280 --> 00:05:16,280 over it. 114 00:05:16,280 --> 00:05:17,640 The comic book Tippy's on me. 115 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:18,640 Oh, well, thank you. 116 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:19,640 Thanks. 117 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:20,640 Thanks a lot. 118 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:21,640 Good luck. 119 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:22,640 Have a good trip. 120 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:23,640 Yes, Mrs. Speedwagon. 121 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:24,640 I'm sorry. 122 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:27,640 And I won't forget to drop it off. 123 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:28,640 Goodbye. 124 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:31,640 Oh, what a character. 125 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:32,640 Where's our customer? 126 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:34,160 I gave her the medicine and she left. 127 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:35,160 You gave it to her? 128 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:36,160 What do you mean? 129 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:37,760 Well, I sold it to her, I mean. 130 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:40,000 I pasted on the label and sold it to her. 131 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:41,000 You what? 132 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:45,000 Look, Marion, don't you ever, ever label a bottle in this store, do you understand? 133 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,040 Well, Cal, don't look at me that way. 134 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:48,200 That gove my arse. 135 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:49,200 I mean it, Marion. 136 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:52,800 I'm sorry if I usurped any of your prerogatives, pastor. 137 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:55,160 I didn't know it took a registered pharmacist to lick a label. 138 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:57,680 Well, in my store it does. 139 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:00,520 Okay, let's forget it. 140 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:01,600 Where's my jacket? 141 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,600 In the back. 142 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:08,000 Here. 143 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:14,280 Are you sure you don't want to wear your white coat so people will know you're a drugist? 144 00:06:14,280 --> 00:06:15,520 A pharmacist, I mean. 145 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:18,520 All right, that's enough of that. 146 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:19,520 Okay. 147 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:24,920 We all set the safe lock files closed, lights out. 148 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:25,920 Let's roll, doll. 149 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:28,960 Has the stern disciple of Hygieia forgotten something? 150 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:31,320 Ooh, Mrs. Peabody's digitalis. 151 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:32,320 She'll murder me. 152 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:33,320 Just a second. 153 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:38,320 I'll be right back. 154 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:39,320 Marion. 155 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:40,320 What? 156 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:45,480 What bottle did you give that woman? 157 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:46,480 What is it, Cal? 158 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:47,480 What do you mean? 159 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:48,480 That woman, we've got to stop her. 160 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:49,480 Where was she parked? 161 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:50,480 Where'd she go? 162 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:51,480 What is it? 163 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:52,480 The bottle that's left on the sink. 164 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:53,480 It's the kid's medicine. 165 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:54,480 You gave her the digitalis. 166 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:55,480 Now where are they? 167 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:56,760 No, Cal, I took the bottle that was there. 168 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:59,160 There were two bottles there, Marion, and two labels. 169 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:01,520 The Belladonna's left and the digitalis label. 170 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:02,520 You understand? 171 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:03,520 Yes, Cal. 172 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:04,520 Did she say where she was heading? 173 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:06,360 To meet her husband, to meet his ship. 174 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:07,360 I know, but where? 175 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:09,360 I don't think she said. 176 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:11,360 Think, think. 177 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:15,680 She started to tell me, and then the boy, Tippy it was. 178 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:16,680 Come on, come on. 179 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:17,680 He picked up a magazine. 180 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,320 I can't remember, Cal. 181 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:21,320 Maybe she didn't say. 182 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:22,320 Oh, Lord Digitalis. 183 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:25,320 If he takes it, what'll it do? 184 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:35,280 In that dosage, it'll probably kill him. 185 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:38,440 Mom. 186 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:41,320 Yes? 187 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:48,280 You think Dad'll know me? 188 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:50,720 What do you mean will Dad know you? 189 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:51,720 Will he? 190 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:53,600 Well, of course he'll know you. 191 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:54,600 Why wouldn't he? 192 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:56,200 Well, you said once he wouldn't. 193 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:57,200 I didn't. 194 00:07:57,200 --> 00:07:59,360 Well, that time he called from Japan. 195 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:00,760 You said he wouldn't know me now. 196 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:01,760 Well, you did. 197 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:02,760 Oh, Tippy. 198 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:03,760 That's just something people say. 199 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:04,760 Of course he'll know you. 200 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:13,760 Oh, and you and he have lots of fun together before he leaves again. 201 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:16,760 Turn on the radio. 202 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:18,760 Okay. 203 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:36,480 And for Marge and Jim and the guys and dolls of the Maxwell driving. 204 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:40,120 Hey, kids, now you watch that movie, now you hear me. 205 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:46,160 And for the captains of the Upper Valley and for Matilda from her mother on her sweet 16. 206 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:50,760 And for Donnie R. from you. 207 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:52,720 Oh, we don't want that, Tippy. 208 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:53,720 Try something else. 209 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:56,720 I'm just going to play the kind of crazy wax. 210 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:01,840 That's what it's going to do. 211 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:02,840 We got a real good one for you. 212 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:03,840 That's all I get. 213 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:10,680 So from Al, your DJ pal, and KRMX, the voice of the valley, here we are with Per Fidiam. 214 00:09:10,680 --> 00:09:11,680 How's your stomach? 215 00:09:11,680 --> 00:09:12,680 Well, it doesn't hurt a bit. 216 00:09:12,680 --> 00:09:13,680 I feel just fine. 217 00:09:13,680 --> 00:09:14,680 Boy, I'm glad you're here. 218 00:09:14,680 --> 00:09:17,680 Boy, it's a nice night, isn't it? 219 00:09:17,680 --> 00:09:20,120 Do you like to drive, Mom? 220 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:21,120 Uh-huh. 221 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:23,640 When I get older, I'll help you with the driving. 222 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:25,320 Jimmy drives for his folks sometimes. 223 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:27,880 He's three years older than you. 224 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:29,360 And anyway, that's too young. 225 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:31,920 Hey, look at that lake over there, Mom. 226 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:32,920 Tippy. 227 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:33,920 What? 228 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:34,920 Stop it. 229 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:35,920 What? 230 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:38,320 You're trying to make me forget about the medicine, aren't you? 231 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:41,280 You said we could play the game before I had to take the medicine. 232 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:43,160 Oh, all right. 233 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:44,400 We'll start now. 234 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:46,000 How many is the out-of-state licenses? 235 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:47,000 Five. 236 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:49,000 We won't see five in an hour. 237 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Two. 238 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:51,000 Oh, no. 239 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:52,000 You'll see two right away. 240 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:53,000 Three? 241 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:54,000 All right. 242 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,360 Now, when I see three, you have to take your medicine. 243 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:58,360 And what do you know? 244 00:09:58,360 --> 00:09:59,960 You see that car ahead? 245 00:09:59,960 --> 00:10:00,960 Yeah. 246 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:02,520 Oh, Mom, that isn't fair. 247 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:03,640 Not the first car. 248 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:04,640 We didn't really start yet. 249 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:05,640 Oh, yes, we did. 250 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:06,640 See? 251 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:07,640 Ohio. 252 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:08,640 Aw. 253 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:09,640 One down, two to go. 254 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:10,640 No more out-of-states. 255 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:11,640 Uh-oh. 256 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:12,640 That doesn't sound right. 257 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:14,640 Uh-oh. 258 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:16,640 That doesn't look like a California plate to me, is it? 259 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:17,640 Oh, yes, it is, Mom. 260 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:18,640 Oh, you're right. 261 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:19,640 Well, still two to go. 262 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:26,000 Oh, the things I have to do to make you take a perfectly harmless little medicine. 263 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:27,640 I don't like that junk. 264 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:29,640 I'm beginning to believe that. 265 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:30,640 All right, all right. 266 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:31,640 Now, let's stop that record. 267 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:32,640 Our goofy engineer, he put the... 268 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:33,640 I wanted Artie Shaw's for a video. 269 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:34,640 Which one is that? 270 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:35,640 Is that that Perez somebody or something? 271 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:40,920 It sounded like a pair of 272 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:44,560 freoholi's spinning there or something. 273 00:10:44,560 --> 00:10:50,080 Well, anyway, folks, you guys and dolls, this is old Al, your DJ pal, and I've got time 274 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:54,440 for a couple of more phone requests here before the 7 o'clock news. 275 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:55,440 Here's a call. 276 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:56,440 One of the buttons there. 277 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:57,440 Let me get the... 278 00:10:57,440 --> 00:10:58,440 Hello? 279 00:10:58,440 --> 00:10:59,440 Hello, who's this? 280 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:00,440 Mom? 281 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:01,440 Yeah? 282 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:02,440 How far do we have to go? 283 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:03,440 Tonight? 284 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:04,440 Oh, about 100 miles. 285 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:05,440 When do we get to San Diego? 286 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:06,440 Oh, Tippi, what's wrong? 287 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:07,440 Oh, nothing. 288 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:08,440 There's your stomach ache again. 289 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:09,440 Oh, nothing. 290 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:11,000 There's your stomach ache again. 291 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:12,000 Oh, no, honest, Mom, I'm okay. 292 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:13,000 It doesn't hurt at all. 293 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:14,000 You what? 294 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:15,000 I want us to play the game. 295 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:16,000 It does hurt, doesn't it? 296 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:37,200 Oh, I think we better stop at the next place and give you those drops. 297 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:43,040 You are listening to To None, A Deadly Drug, tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding 298 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:54,560 theater of thrills, Suspense. 299 00:11:54,560 --> 00:11:59,720 Listen in twice every weekend for exciting dramas of gun smoke on CBS radio. 300 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:03,800 Listen Saturday in the daytime when United States Marshal Matt Dillon fights to hold 301 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:08,600 the frontier against spoilers and outlaws, and listen again Sunday night on most of these 302 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:13,840 same stations for an entirely new story of gun smoke in America's early West. 303 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:17,400 Make gun smoke a listening habit, and you will readily appreciate the sentiments of 304 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:21,880 critics who have given this thrilling, realistic program their generous applause. 305 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:25,200 Gun smoke at the Star's Address. 306 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:30,240 And now we bring back to our Hollywood sound stage, Harry Bartel, starring in tonight's 307 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:54,520 production, To None, A Deadly Drug, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 308 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:58,520 There are certain things a druggist learns in the school of pharmacy, certain things 309 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:03,240 that have nothing to do with chemistry or toxicology or physiology. 310 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:07,960 He learns the code of ethics, and he reads the oath of Hippocrates, and he knows that 311 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:12,240 it applies to him as well as to the physician. 312 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:20,480 To none will I give a deadly drug, even if solicited, nor will I counsel such. 313 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:22,800 To None, A Deadly Drug. 314 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:28,420 Yes, there are certain things a druggist learns in the school of pharmacy, but no one tells 315 00:13:28,420 --> 00:13:33,600 him how to track down a woman with a common name driving an unknown car on any one of 316 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:38,440 three heavily traveled routes toward an unknown destination. 317 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:42,640 For that, he gets the sheriff. 318 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:48,080 No, she didn't say where she was heading. 319 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:51,040 Are you sure she didn't tell your wife while you were in the back there? 320 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:52,040 Marion can't remember. 321 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:53,040 Is she okay? 322 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:55,040 She kind of just sits there. 323 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:57,440 A little shock, maybe. 324 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:01,120 Foster, I just don't see how you expect us to stop this woman. 325 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:04,000 We got no license number, no make a car, her last name is Smith. 326 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,360 We don't know where she's heading, and with the traffic that we have here, I don't know 327 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:08,360 what... 328 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:09,360 We've got to stop her. 329 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:10,360 What time is it? 330 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:11,360 Ten to seven. 331 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:14,960 You said the first dose was at seven? 332 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:15,960 That's right. 333 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:16,960 Hello. 334 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:17,960 Mr. Foster? 335 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:18,960 Yes, yes. 336 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:21,960 Ready on your call to San Francisco. 337 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:22,960 Oh, thank you. 338 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:23,960 Hello, Dr. Peters? 339 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:24,960 This is Dr. Peters. 340 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:25,960 Doctor, this is Cal Foster. 341 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:26,960 I'm here to see you. 342 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:29,200 Cal Foster, I got your number from a prescription. 343 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:31,920 I'm a pharmacist in Manksville, Foster's Pharmacy. 344 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:32,920 Yes? 345 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:37,200 You treated a child named Tippy Smith, about 12 or 13, a Navy man's son. 346 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:39,400 You wrote a prescription for Belladonna and Phenumbarbital. 347 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:41,400 I think I recall. 348 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:42,400 Go ahead. 349 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:43,400 Well, my wife... 350 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:44,400 I made a mistake. 351 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:47,320 He got digitalis instead, the same dosage. 352 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:48,320 What? 353 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:49,320 Digitalis. 354 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:52,720 A well-built, rugged boy, blonde hair, pretty mother? 355 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:53,720 Yes, that's right. 356 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:54,720 Yes, I remember. 357 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:55,760 Is he alive? 358 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:57,240 We can't find him. 359 00:14:57,240 --> 00:14:58,240 They're on the road. 360 00:14:58,240 --> 00:14:59,240 That's why I called. 361 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:00,240 Well, I'll do anything I can. 362 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:01,240 Digitalis and that dosage... 363 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:02,680 Do you know anything about them? 364 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:03,680 Where they might be going? 365 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:04,680 The make-of car? 366 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:05,680 No. 367 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:06,680 Well, they were new in the city. 368 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:07,680 Their first visit to me. 369 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:11,280 Look, I'm at home, but her address will be in my files downtown. 370 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:12,280 Just a minute, please. 371 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:14,240 Sheriff, if we get her address, can we find her license number? 372 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:18,360 Well, sure, from Sacramento, if it's a California license and if it's current. 373 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:19,360 But it'll take time. 374 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:20,360 It's too long, that's for sure. 375 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:21,360 We've got to try. 376 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:23,320 Doctor, will you get her address? 377 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:24,320 I'm on my way. 378 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:25,320 I'll call back. 379 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:29,920 I don't know what we can do until we find that license number. 380 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:31,560 Can't you set up roadblocks? 381 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:33,160 Call the State Highway Patrol. 382 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:34,360 Where are we going to set up those blocks? 383 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:35,960 Well, she's only been gone 20 minutes. 384 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:36,960 How far is she driven? 385 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:39,680 Oh, 12, 15 miles, maybe. 386 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:40,680 But which road? 387 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:42,680 We don't even know where she's heading. 388 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:44,480 Her husband's ship was coming in. 389 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:45,920 Where would a Navy ship come in? 390 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:46,920 Oh, that's easy. 391 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:49,720 San Diego, Long Beach, San Pedro, Port Woonhamey. 392 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:52,120 She's on 399 or 99 or maybe 466. 393 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:54,120 Now, we don't know. 394 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:56,760 So I call the Highway Patrol for an all-points bullet. 395 00:15:56,760 --> 00:15:58,440 I want a roadblock for a woman and a kid. 396 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:00,240 No car description, no license number. 397 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:01,240 We don't know what road they're on. 398 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:03,680 They're going to laugh at me. 399 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:05,800 It's too late anyway, Foster. 400 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:07,960 We only got three patrolmen who could even get in the vicinity. 401 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:09,520 Now, you've got to forget the roadblock. 402 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:10,840 Well, we've got to do something. 403 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:13,520 We can't sit here and let this kid kill himself in five minutes. 404 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:15,200 All right, what do we do? 405 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:19,040 They're probably playing their game, Mr. Smith and Tippie. 406 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:20,040 What? 407 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:21,040 Their game. 408 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:22,040 What game? 409 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:24,560 They played a game before he had to take his medicine. 410 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:26,600 When he lost the game, he had to take it. 411 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:29,160 Foster, you'd better do something for your wife. 412 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:30,880 All right, now look, Marion, snap out of it. 413 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:31,880 Do you hear? 414 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:33,400 They were going to play a game. 415 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:36,400 He gets bored on the road, so they play games and listen to the radio. 416 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:37,680 They do what? 417 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:39,440 Play games and listen to the radio. 418 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:41,120 Sheriff, the radio, KRNX. 419 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:42,120 We can call them. 420 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:43,120 Yeah. 421 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:45,760 Yeah, you know, that might work at that. 422 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:48,640 That's the only station most people can get in the Valley on their car radios anyway. 423 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:52,280 Yeah, give me the phone. 424 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:59,360 Come on, come on. 425 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:00,360 Operator. 426 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:01,360 Give me KRNX. 427 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:02,360 The radio station? 428 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:03,360 That's right, quick. 429 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:04,360 You can dial that number, sir. 430 00:17:04,360 --> 00:17:05,360 Look, this is Sheriff Gibbs and I haven't got time. 431 00:17:05,360 --> 00:17:06,360 Now get it. 432 00:17:06,360 --> 00:17:07,360 Just a moment, sir. 433 00:17:07,360 --> 00:17:08,360 The line's busy, sir. 434 00:17:08,360 --> 00:17:09,360 It's their disk, Jock. 435 00:17:09,360 --> 00:17:19,400 He takes phone requests. 436 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:21,760 He's always busy when he's on. 437 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:22,760 Look, this is an emergency. 438 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:24,080 I want you to break in. 439 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:25,080 I'll try again, sir. 440 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:42,760 Hello, this is Al, your DJ pal. 441 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:43,760 What's your musical pleasure? 442 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:44,760 This is Sheriff Gibbs. 443 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:45,760 I want you to make an announcement. 444 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:46,760 Oh, yeah, sure. 445 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:47,760 It's Sheriff Gibbs. 446 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:48,760 Sheriff Gibbs, kids. 447 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:49,760 And he wants to make an announcement. 448 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:50,760 You're running for Sheriff Gibbs, right? 449 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:51,760 Yeah. 450 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:55,400 And he wants to make an announcement. 451 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:56,400 You're running for Sheriff again, Sheriff? 452 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:58,400 Listen, Joker, this is Gibbs and it is an emergency. 453 00:17:58,400 --> 00:17:59,400 Oh, yeah, yeah, I know. 454 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:00,400 He says it's an emergency, Katz. 455 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:01,400 There's one in every crowd, kids. 456 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:02,400 Somebody's always got to get in the act. 457 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:03,400 Now, look, fella, just let me have your request. 458 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:04,400 He thinks it's somebody kidding. 459 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:05,400 Come on, huh? 460 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:06,400 Come on, I got all the phones going here. 461 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:07,400 Hello. 462 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:08,400 Hello, Al. 463 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:09,400 Al, will you shut up? 464 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:10,400 This is Cal Foster at the pharmacy. 465 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:11,400 I just sold the wrong medicine to a woman named Smith for her son. 466 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:12,400 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 467 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:13,400 I'm sorry. 468 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:14,400 I'm sorry. 469 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:15,400 I'm sorry. 470 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:16,400 I'm sorry. 471 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:17,400 I'm sorry. 472 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:18,400 I'm sorry. 473 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:21,920 I just sold the wrong medicine to a woman named Smith for her son. 474 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:22,920 They're on the road now. 475 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:23,920 We can't contact them. 476 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:25,620 He's supposed to take it at seven. 477 00:18:25,620 --> 00:18:26,620 We think they might be listening. 478 00:18:26,620 --> 00:18:27,620 Are you serious? 479 00:18:27,620 --> 00:18:28,620 Of course I'm serious. 480 00:18:28,620 --> 00:18:33,200 I want you to announce that the medicine just sold to a Mrs. Smith at Foster's Pharmacy 481 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:35,480 in Manxville is the wrong medicine. 482 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:36,480 It's deadly. 483 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:37,480 She's to call me immediately. 484 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:38,480 Well, yeah, yeah, I got it. 485 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:43,480 But, listen, if you think I'm sticking my neck out for a lawsuit on account of a phone 486 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:44,480 call, you're nuts. 487 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:45,480 But you're not... 488 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:46,480 How do I know you're Foster? 489 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:51,480 I sold you $10 worth of wheat germ last week, you remember? 490 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:52,480 A wheat germ? 491 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:53,480 Yeah. 492 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:54,480 I guess you did. 493 00:18:54,480 --> 00:19:07,480 Well, kids, I guess you're kind of curious. 494 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:11,060 You heard one side of a pretty strange conversation. 495 00:19:11,060 --> 00:19:15,460 Now then, your old pal's gonna stick his neck way out and make an announcement. 496 00:19:15,460 --> 00:19:17,480 Now that I'm not on the air tomorrow, it means I was wrong. 497 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:22,480 The guy that called first really was the sheriff, the sheriff of Manxville. 498 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:23,480 I hope. 499 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:27,480 Because if he asked me to make an important announcement, and if it's a phony... 500 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:28,480 We're here for heaven's sake. 501 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:29,480 Find some music, will you? 502 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:30,480 I'm dead. 503 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:31,480 Anything but a silly chatter. 504 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:32,480 Here's the announcement. 505 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:33,480 Or turn it off. 506 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:34,480 Okay. 507 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:35,480 And it's about a lady named... 508 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:36,480 Hey, where are we? 509 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:40,480 Oh, somewhere on US 99 going to meet your dad. 510 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:44,480 Man, what do you think I see on that car up ahead? 511 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:46,480 Oh, no, it's a California plate. 512 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:47,480 Oh, no, it isn't. 513 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:49,480 It's orange and black. 514 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:50,480 It's New York. 515 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:51,480 Oh, and that's two plates. 516 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:52,480 One to go. 517 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:55,480 Well, go slower, will you, Mom? 518 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:56,480 Slower? 519 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:58,480 So I won't catch up on any more out-of-state cars? 520 00:19:58,480 --> 00:19:59,480 Mm-mm. 521 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:14,480 You're gonna take your medicine. 522 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:16,480 Well, Foster, it's almost seven. 523 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:18,480 We'd have heard by now. 524 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:21,480 I guess they weren't listening to the radio. 525 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:23,480 I guess not. 526 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:26,480 Now, that announcement, that took guts. 527 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:28,480 I sure hate to see it get wasted. 528 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:30,480 I gave him a comic book. 529 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:32,480 I did, Callick. 530 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:34,480 I didn't mean to hurt him. 531 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:37,480 Darling, nobody thinks you meant to hurt him. 532 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:40,480 Here, sit down. 533 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:41,480 Now, take some of this. 534 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:42,480 It'll make you feel better. 535 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:45,480 No, no, I'm all right. 536 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:47,480 I've got to think. 537 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:48,480 I've got to think. 538 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:50,480 Maybe she didn't say where she was going. 539 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:53,480 Tippie was looking at the magazine. 540 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:55,480 I was by the cash register. 541 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:58,480 She was about to tell me, and then she saw Tippie. 542 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:01,480 The ship's coming into... 543 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:02,480 into... 544 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:03,480 San. 545 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:04,480 San? 546 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:05,480 San something. 547 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:07,480 San Pedro, San Diego. 548 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:08,480 She'd take 99E to one. 549 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:10,480 Well, can you send out that information for a roadblock? 550 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:12,480 Yeah, if there's a highway patrol officer on 99E, 551 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:13,480 might try without a description. 552 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:15,480 But one officer trying to handle all those cars, I don't know. 553 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:17,480 Well, how about the places she'd stop? 554 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:19,480 She has to get water for the kid, for the medicine. 555 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:20,480 Where would she stop? 556 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,480 Oh, there are ten restaurants to a mile down there. 557 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:26,480 She's probably around Starrett by now. 558 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:29,480 See, how would we tell which one she'd pick? 559 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:31,480 Oh, the kid might have taken it by now anyway. 560 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:44,480 Mom. 561 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:45,480 Yes? 562 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:48,480 Suppose I'm well by the time you see the other license plate. 563 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:50,480 Suppose my stomach doesn't ache anymore. 564 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:51,480 Yes? 565 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:52,480 Do I still have to take it? 566 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:53,480 You sure do. 567 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,480 You don't want to be sick to meet your dad, do you? 568 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:57,480 Mom. 569 00:21:57,480 --> 00:21:58,480 Hmm? 570 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:00,480 Look what I found in the glove compartment. 571 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:01,480 Your old earring. 572 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:02,480 Oh, that's interesting. 573 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:03,480 Look at it, Mom. 574 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:04,480 Look at it. 575 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:05,480 What's going on here? 576 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:08,480 Why the sudden interest in my old jewelry? 577 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:10,480 Oh, nothing. 578 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:11,480 Why, you little sneak. 579 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:14,480 That car that passed, it has a Texas plate. 580 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:15,480 Well, I almost fooled you. 581 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:16,480 Okay. 582 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:18,480 It's the medicine for you. 583 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:19,480 It's past seven anyway. 584 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:20,480 I need a glass of water for it. 585 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:22,480 Oh, what's that for the restaurant? 586 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:23,480 There's one. 587 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:25,480 Oh, it looks pretty scroungy. 588 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:26,480 Look for a nice one. 589 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:27,480 Okay. 590 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:28,480 I'll look. 591 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:29,480 Oh, I just bet you will. 592 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:42,480 Name the restaurant, Sheriff. 593 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:44,480 All of them, please. 594 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:47,480 Well, let's see. 595 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:49,480 There's Teppits. 596 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:54,480 And then just about a block. 597 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:55,480 Cappies. 598 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:56,480 Laskies. 599 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:57,480 Uh-huh. 600 00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:00,480 Uh, the A.M. Cafe. 601 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:01,480 I remember that. 602 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:03,480 Oh, she wouldn't take a boy in there. 603 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:04,480 It's dirty. 604 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:05,480 Yeah. 605 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:10,480 Now, past Starrett, I think it's a Green Bowl. 606 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:11,480 Yeah. 607 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:13,480 And the Valley Cafe. 608 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:15,480 Look, there's 50 of them. 609 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:16,480 Oh, please, please. 610 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:20,480 Further on, let me see. 611 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:21,480 I think that... 612 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:22,480 What's it? 613 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:23,480 Merits? 614 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:24,480 Yeah. 615 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:25,480 And then Tiny's. 616 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:26,480 Oh, I remember Tiny's. 617 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:29,480 The big place with all the glass and the big neon chicken on the highway. 618 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:30,480 Yeah, that's the one. 619 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:31,480 Okay, I'll give me the phone. 620 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:32,480 Oh, honey. 621 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:33,480 Well, that's where I'd stop. 622 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:34,480 It is. 623 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:35,480 Operator. 624 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:46,480 Yes, ma'am? 625 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:56,480 How about some ice cream after the medicine tip? 626 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:57,480 Okay. 627 00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:58,480 I want chopper, please. 628 00:23:58,480 --> 00:23:59,480 All right. 629 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:00,480 And what would you like? 630 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:01,480 Oh, a dish of vanilla for me. 631 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:03,480 And a glass of water for my boy's medicine, please. 632 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:04,480 Oh, I'm okay now, mama. 633 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:05,480 I'm honest. 634 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:08,480 This is like my little boy. 635 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:10,480 They all hate medicine. 636 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:16,480 Oh, this one's impossible. 637 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:17,480 Thank you. 638 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:18,480 15 drops. 639 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:19,480 You want to count them, Tip? 640 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:21,480 I might get an extra one in by mistake. 641 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,480 Oh, no. 642 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:37,480 One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, 643 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:38,480 fifteen. 644 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,480 Okay, pal, there it is. 645 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:41,480 Mom. 646 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:42,480 Mom? 647 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:43,480 Mm-hmm? 648 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,480 It smells funny. 649 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:49,480 You drink it or I'll tell your dad what a baby you were about it. 650 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:50,480 All right. 651 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:51,480 Stop. 652 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:52,480 Stop it. 653 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:53,480 I'm sorry. 654 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,480 Are you Mrs. Smith? 655 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:56,480 Yes. 656 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:57,480 What? 657 00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:58,480 Take the phone. 658 00:24:58,480 --> 00:24:59,480 Take the phone, please. 659 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:00,480 The phone? 660 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:01,480 But how? 661 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:02,480 Hello? 662 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:03,480 Oh, no. 663 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:04,480 No, it couldn't be. 664 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:05,480 Oh. 665 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:06,480 Oh, yes. 666 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:07,480 Yes, thank you. 667 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:08,480 Mom, are you sick? 668 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:09,480 I'm fine. 669 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:10,480 I'm fine. 670 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:11,480 I'm fine. 671 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:12,480 I'm fine. 672 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:13,480 I'm fine. 673 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:14,480 I'm fine. 674 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:15,480 I'm fine. 675 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:16,480 I'm fine. 676 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:17,480 I'm fine. 677 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:18,480 I'm fine. 678 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:19,480 I'm fine. 679 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:20,480 I'm fine. 680 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:21,480 I'm fine. 681 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:22,480 Are you sick? 682 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:23,480 Sick? 683 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:26,480 Oh, maybe a little. 684 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:38,480 Maybe just a little bit. 685 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:43,480 It's news when it happens, a drugstore mistake, because it almost never does happen. 686 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:49,480 Stories of mistaken prescriptions in the profession of pharmacy are practically non-existent. 687 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:55,480 When it does occur, it can ruin a man, because this profession is hard on its own when one 688 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:57,480 falls short. 689 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:03,480 It can ruin a man, or it can mold him. 690 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,480 What'll happen to this cow? 691 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,480 This store? 692 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:09,480 It's your life. 693 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:11,480 I don't know. 694 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,480 I started from scratch once before. 695 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:15,480 I know. 696 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:17,480 But it's not fair. 697 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,480 It wasn't your fault at all. 698 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:21,480 It's my pharmacy, darling. 699 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,480 Anyway, don't worry. 700 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,480 Will they take your license? 701 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:27,480 I don't know. 702 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,480 That isn't what matters. 703 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:30,480 It's the people. 704 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:31,480 The people? 705 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,480 The people we know, my customers. 706 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,480 They come in blindly, they put their lives in my hands. 707 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:43,480 That's what'll hurt, even if I keep my license. 708 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:54,480 Hello, Mrs. Smith. 709 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:55,480 Where's Tippy? 710 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,480 In the car. 711 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:00,480 He's tired. 712 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,480 I don't know what to say. 713 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,480 There's nothing to say. 714 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:09,480 And there's nothing for you to say either, Mrs. Foster. 715 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:13,480 I didn't really come all the way back to talk. 716 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:15,480 Why did you come back, Mrs. Smith? 717 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:17,480 Why? 718 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:42,480 Well, you could give me Tippy's medicine. 719 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:44,480 Suspense. 720 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:48,480 In which Harry Bartel with Charlotte Lawrence and Eve McVeigh 721 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:53,480 starred in tonight's presentation of To None a Deadly Drug. 722 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:57,480 Next week, the story of man's assault against nature. 723 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:00,480 We call it The Mountain. 724 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:15,480 That's next week on Suspense. 725 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,480 Suspense is produced and transcribed by Anthony Ellis. 726 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,480 Tonight's script was written by Hank Searls. 727 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:25,480 The music was composed by Rene Garigan and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 728 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,480 Featured in the cast were Virginia Eyler, Sammy Og, 729 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:33,480 Hi Aberback, Larry Thor, Jack Crouchon, and John Stevenson. 730 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:35,480 When people are in trouble, what do they do? 731 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:39,480 If the trouble is serious and they want help fast, they call the police. 732 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,480 Every Friday night over most of these same stations, 733 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,480 CBS radio picks up the threads of a startling story of people in trouble 734 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:49,480 who call the police, and just as often, of police who call on people 735 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:53,480 seen to be in trouble, working out of the 21st precinct. 736 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,480 There's fast-moving drama and intimate glimpses 737 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,480 into the dangerous as well as human side of police work. 738 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:27,480 Friday nights on CBS radio when you're invited to hear the 21st Precinct. 739 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:37,480 The 21st Precinct. 740 00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:02,480 The 21st Precinct.