WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:16.000 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 00:16.000 --> 00:23.400 Tonight, we bring you transcribed a story of a prescription filled in error. 00:23.400 --> 00:26.320 We call it, To None, A Deadly Drug. 00:26.320 --> 00:52.200 So now, starring Harry Bartel, here is tonight's Suspense play, To None, A Deadly Drug. 00:52.200 --> 00:59.400 Sometimes it can happen, a prescription handed a drugist, a slip up somewhere, a dead person. 00:59.400 --> 01:04.720 When it does occur, it's news, because it is almost unheard of. 01:04.720 --> 01:09.880 A drugist is a careful man, tempered in the tough crucible of pharmaceutical college, 01:09.880 --> 01:15.840 filtered by a board of examiners, sworn, as is a physician, to protect those he serves 01:15.840 --> 01:17.480 from wrong and harm. 01:17.480 --> 01:30.720 It almost never happens, but when it does, it can ruin a man, and it can ruin his wife. 01:30.720 --> 01:35.160 Manxville is on US 99, near the junction of three main arteries. 01:35.160 --> 01:38.960 It's a small town, but it supports two drug stores. 01:38.960 --> 01:41.160 One is Foster's Pharmacy. 01:41.160 --> 01:46.600 It's owned and run by a young ex-GI pharmacist named Cal Foster. 01:46.600 --> 01:51.000 To his wife, Marion, he loves his pharmacy more than anything on earth. 01:51.000 --> 01:54.880 Cal has a soda fountain, but he lets a kid named Joe handle that. 01:54.880 --> 01:59.320 Cal's heart is with the gleaming scales and the sparkling bottles. 01:59.320 --> 02:03.600 That's where he was the evening it happened, typing a label for a prescription, while Marion 02:03.600 --> 02:05.600 waited impatiently. 02:05.600 --> 02:10.200 Cal, you promised. 02:10.200 --> 02:11.680 It's 6.30 and you promised. 02:11.680 --> 02:13.640 Okay, honey, I shaved. 02:13.640 --> 02:15.960 Did you get my jacket from the cleaners? 02:15.960 --> 02:20.640 It's a half hour drive to the club and it's 6.30 already. 02:20.640 --> 02:21.640 Are you listening? 02:21.640 --> 02:23.440 I'll just be a second. 02:23.440 --> 02:25.880 Mrs. Peabody lost her digitalis bottle. 02:25.880 --> 02:27.720 She's about to have a heart attack worrying about it. 02:27.720 --> 02:29.160 Oh, she's as healthy as a horse. 02:29.160 --> 02:31.640 And you said you'd be ready at 6.30. 02:31.640 --> 02:34.000 We'll just deliver this on the way to the dance. 02:34.000 --> 02:35.000 Oh, no. 02:35.000 --> 02:38.920 It's not far, and she's a nice old gal for a hypochondriac. 02:38.920 --> 02:41.480 Look, why don't you hang up the clothes sign on the door? 02:41.480 --> 02:43.480 I'll have another customer for sure. 02:43.480 --> 02:46.160 I'll just stick this label on her bottle and put on my jacket. 02:46.160 --> 02:47.160 Oh, too late. 02:47.160 --> 02:48.160 Tell her you're closed. 02:48.160 --> 02:49.160 I can't do that, darling. 02:49.160 --> 02:50.160 Hey, yes, ma'am. 02:50.160 --> 02:51.160 Hello. 02:51.160 --> 02:54.960 Can you fill a prescription for me for my son? 02:54.960 --> 02:56.960 Well, I think so. 02:56.960 --> 02:57.960 Let's see. 02:57.960 --> 03:01.280 Tippy Smith, elixir, phenobarbital, tincture, belladonna. 03:01.280 --> 03:03.280 What's the matter, fellow? 03:03.280 --> 03:04.280 Stomachache? 03:04.280 --> 03:05.280 No, I'm okay. 03:05.280 --> 03:06.280 He isn't either. 03:06.280 --> 03:08.280 He just doesn't like medicine, that's all. 03:08.280 --> 03:10.640 But the minute we get back on the road, he'll be miserable. 03:10.640 --> 03:12.360 Well, this will make him feel better. 03:12.360 --> 03:14.720 Hey, a San Francisco doctor wrote this. 03:14.720 --> 03:15.720 Yes. 03:15.720 --> 03:19.120 I meant to have it filled there, but I got to wire my husband's due back from Japan. 03:19.120 --> 03:20.120 He's a Navy man. 03:20.120 --> 03:23.480 And what was packing the car to go and meet him and getting Tipp out of school and everything, 03:23.480 --> 03:24.840 I forgot. 03:24.840 --> 03:26.960 And now he's got the stomachache again. 03:26.960 --> 03:28.880 And I'm trying to make another 100 miles tonight. 03:28.880 --> 03:30.480 Well, we'll fix him up. 03:30.480 --> 03:31.480 How much will it be? 03:31.480 --> 03:34.160 I'd say about $1.75. 03:34.160 --> 03:35.160 Just take a minute. 03:35.160 --> 03:38.840 Gosh, he's a rugged guy. 03:38.840 --> 03:41.480 A kid has to be rugged for this sort of life. 03:41.480 --> 03:43.840 He's lived in half a dozen towns since he was born. 03:43.840 --> 03:45.160 No wonder he gets a stomachache. 03:45.160 --> 03:47.080 Well, he must get bored on the road. 03:47.080 --> 03:48.800 Oh, he sure does. 03:48.800 --> 03:51.640 But we listen to the radio and think up riddles and name cars. 03:51.640 --> 03:54.040 He knows every make of car on the road. 03:54.040 --> 03:55.560 Uh, where are you headed now? 03:55.560 --> 03:57.400 Oh, the ship's coming in to send... 03:57.400 --> 03:59.640 Tippy, leave the comic book alone. 03:59.640 --> 04:01.240 You have a dozen in the car. 04:01.240 --> 04:02.240 Okay. 04:02.240 --> 04:03.240 Hey, Mom. 04:03.240 --> 04:04.240 Yes? 04:04.240 --> 04:05.240 I don't really need the medicine. 04:05.240 --> 04:06.240 I feel all right. 04:06.240 --> 04:08.760 Well, you're going to take it, just the same. 04:08.760 --> 04:09.760 All right. 04:09.760 --> 04:12.520 Well, just make up a label, you can get it back on the road. 04:12.520 --> 04:13.520 Let's see. 04:13.520 --> 04:16.960 15 drops of glass of water every four hours. 04:16.960 --> 04:20.680 Seven at 11 p.m., three and seven. 04:20.680 --> 04:21.680 You can start now if you want. 04:21.680 --> 04:24.560 It's almost seven, and then you won't have to stop on the road for a glass of water. 04:24.560 --> 04:25.560 Oh, that's a good idea. 04:25.560 --> 04:26.880 Well, I don't think it is. 04:26.880 --> 04:28.240 It isn't time, anyway. 04:28.240 --> 04:29.720 Well, it's almost time. 04:29.720 --> 04:30.720 Oh, no. 04:30.720 --> 04:33.960 Hey, Mom, while we're driving, we can play the game. 04:33.960 --> 04:34.960 Like the other time. 04:34.960 --> 04:37.320 You know, when I lose, I'll take the medicine. 04:37.320 --> 04:39.320 Oh, all right. 04:39.320 --> 04:42.320 There we are. 04:42.320 --> 04:49.320 Oh, excuse me, just a minute. 04:49.320 --> 04:50.320 Hello. 04:50.320 --> 04:52.480 Oh, that horrible phone. 04:52.480 --> 04:55.440 I'm trying to get him to a dinner dance for the first time in two years. 04:55.440 --> 04:57.240 It's like getting a date with Marlon Brando. 04:57.240 --> 04:59.200 Well, at least your husband's home night. 04:59.200 --> 05:00.200 I know. 05:00.200 --> 05:01.200 It must be awful. 05:01.200 --> 05:06.080 Oh, here, I'll put on the label and you can go. 05:06.080 --> 05:07.480 How much did he say it would be? 05:07.480 --> 05:08.480 Uh, 175. 05:08.480 --> 05:09.480 Out of two, as they say. 05:09.480 --> 05:15.280 Oh, and it looks as if Tippy's brought a comic book, after all, with his dirty hands all 05:15.280 --> 05:16.280 over it. 05:16.280 --> 05:17.640 The comic book Tippy's on me. 05:17.640 --> 05:18.640 Oh, well, thank you. 05:18.640 --> 05:19.640 Thanks. 05:19.640 --> 05:20.640 Thanks a lot. 05:20.640 --> 05:21.640 Good luck. 05:21.640 --> 05:22.640 Have a good trip. 05:22.640 --> 05:23.640 Yes, Mrs. Speedwagon. 05:23.640 --> 05:24.640 I'm sorry. 05:24.640 --> 05:27.640 And I won't forget to drop it off. 05:27.640 --> 05:28.640 Goodbye. 05:28.640 --> 05:31.640 Oh, what a character. 05:31.640 --> 05:32.640 Where's our customer? 05:32.640 --> 05:34.160 I gave her the medicine and she left. 05:34.160 --> 05:35.160 You gave it to her? 05:35.160 --> 05:36.160 What do you mean? 05:36.160 --> 05:37.760 Well, I sold it to her, I mean. 05:37.760 --> 05:40.000 I pasted on the label and sold it to her. 05:40.000 --> 05:41.000 You what? 05:41.000 --> 05:45.000 Look, Marion, don't you ever, ever label a bottle in this store, do you understand? 05:45.000 --> 05:47.040 Well, Cal, don't look at me that way. 05:47.040 --> 05:48.200 That gove my arse. 05:48.200 --> 05:49.200 I mean it, Marion. 05:49.200 --> 05:52.800 I'm sorry if I usurped any of your prerogatives, pastor. 05:52.800 --> 05:55.160 I didn't know it took a registered pharmacist to lick a label. 05:55.160 --> 05:57.680 Well, in my store it does. 05:57.680 --> 06:00.520 Okay, let's forget it. 06:00.520 --> 06:01.600 Where's my jacket? 06:01.600 --> 06:04.600 In the back. 06:04.600 --> 06:08.000 Here. 06:08.000 --> 06:14.280 Are you sure you don't want to wear your white coat so people will know you're a drugist? 06:14.280 --> 06:15.520 A pharmacist, I mean. 06:15.520 --> 06:18.520 All right, that's enough of that. 06:18.520 --> 06:19.520 Okay. 06:19.520 --> 06:24.920 We all set the safe lock files closed, lights out. 06:24.920 --> 06:25.920 Let's roll, doll. 06:25.920 --> 06:28.960 Has the stern disciple of Hygieia forgotten something? 06:28.960 --> 06:31.320 Ooh, Mrs. Peabody's digitalis. 06:31.320 --> 06:32.320 She'll murder me. 06:32.320 --> 06:33.320 Just a second. 06:33.320 --> 06:38.320 I'll be right back. 06:38.320 --> 06:39.320 Marion. 06:39.320 --> 06:40.320 What? 06:40.320 --> 06:45.480 What bottle did you give that woman? 06:45.480 --> 06:46.480 What is it, Cal? 06:46.480 --> 06:47.480 What do you mean? 06:47.480 --> 06:48.480 That woman, we've got to stop her. 06:48.480 --> 06:49.480 Where was she parked? 06:49.480 --> 06:50.480 Where'd she go? 06:50.480 --> 06:51.480 What is it? 06:51.480 --> 06:52.480 The bottle that's left on the sink. 06:52.480 --> 06:53.480 It's the kid's medicine. 06:53.480 --> 06:54.480 You gave her the digitalis. 06:54.480 --> 06:55.480 Now where are they? 06:55.480 --> 06:56.760 No, Cal, I took the bottle that was there. 06:56.760 --> 06:59.160 There were two bottles there, Marion, and two labels. 06:59.160 --> 07:01.520 The Belladonna's left and the digitalis label. 07:01.520 --> 07:02.520 You understand? 07:02.520 --> 07:03.520 Yes, Cal. 07:03.520 --> 07:04.520 Did she say where she was heading? 07:04.520 --> 07:06.360 To meet her husband, to meet his ship. 07:06.360 --> 07:07.360 I know, but where? 07:07.360 --> 07:09.360 I don't think she said. 07:09.360 --> 07:11.360 Think, think. 07:11.360 --> 07:15.680 She started to tell me, and then the boy, Tippy it was. 07:15.680 --> 07:16.680 Come on, come on. 07:16.680 --> 07:17.680 He picked up a magazine. 07:17.680 --> 07:20.320 I can't remember, Cal. 07:20.320 --> 07:21.320 Maybe she didn't say. 07:21.320 --> 07:22.320 Oh, Lord Digitalis. 07:22.320 --> 07:25.320 If he takes it, what'll it do? 07:25.320 --> 07:35.280 In that dosage, it'll probably kill him. 07:35.280 --> 07:38.440 Mom. 07:38.440 --> 07:41.320 Yes? 07:41.320 --> 07:48.280 You think Dad'll know me? 07:48.280 --> 07:50.720 What do you mean will Dad know you? 07:50.720 --> 07:51.720 Will he? 07:51.720 --> 07:53.600 Well, of course he'll know you. 07:53.600 --> 07:54.600 Why wouldn't he? 07:54.600 --> 07:56.200 Well, you said once he wouldn't. 07:56.200 --> 07:57.200 I didn't. 07:57.200 --> 07:59.360 Well, that time he called from Japan. 07:59.360 --> 08:00.760 You said he wouldn't know me now. 08:00.760 --> 08:01.760 Well, you did. 08:01.760 --> 08:02.760 Oh, Tippy. 08:02.760 --> 08:03.760 That's just something people say. 08:03.760 --> 08:04.760 Of course he'll know you. 08:04.760 --> 08:13.760 Oh, and you and he have lots of fun together before he leaves again. 08:13.760 --> 08:16.760 Turn on the radio. 08:16.760 --> 08:18.760 Okay. 08:18.760 --> 08:36.480 And for Marge and Jim and the guys and dolls of the Maxwell driving. 08:36.480 --> 08:40.120 Hey, kids, now you watch that movie, now you hear me. 08:40.120 --> 08:46.160 And for the captains of the Upper Valley and for Matilda from her mother on her sweet 16. 08:46.160 --> 08:50.760 And for Donnie R. from you. 08:50.760 --> 08:52.720 Oh, we don't want that, Tippy. 08:52.720 --> 08:53.720 Try something else. 08:53.720 --> 08:56.720 I'm just going to play the kind of crazy wax. 08:56.720 --> 09:01.840 That's what it's going to do. 09:01.840 --> 09:02.840 We got a real good one for you. 09:02.840 --> 09:03.840 That's all I get. 09:03.840 --> 09:10.680 So from Al, your DJ pal, and KRMX, the voice of the valley, here we are with Per Fidiam. 09:10.680 --> 09:11.680 How's your stomach? 09:11.680 --> 09:12.680 Well, it doesn't hurt a bit. 09:12.680 --> 09:13.680 I feel just fine. 09:13.680 --> 09:14.680 Boy, I'm glad you're here. 09:14.680 --> 09:17.680 Boy, it's a nice night, isn't it? 09:17.680 --> 09:20.120 Do you like to drive, Mom? 09:20.120 --> 09:21.120 Uh-huh. 09:21.120 --> 09:23.640 When I get older, I'll help you with the driving. 09:23.640 --> 09:25.320 Jimmy drives for his folks sometimes. 09:25.320 --> 09:27.880 He's three years older than you. 09:27.880 --> 09:29.360 And anyway, that's too young. 09:29.360 --> 09:31.920 Hey, look at that lake over there, Mom. 09:31.920 --> 09:32.920 Tippy. 09:32.920 --> 09:33.920 What? 09:33.920 --> 09:34.920 Stop it. 09:34.920 --> 09:35.920 What? 09:35.920 --> 09:38.320 You're trying to make me forget about the medicine, aren't you? 09:38.320 --> 09:41.280 You said we could play the game before I had to take the medicine. 09:41.280 --> 09:43.160 Oh, all right. 09:43.160 --> 09:44.400 We'll start now. 09:44.400 --> 09:46.000 How many is the out-of-state licenses? 09:46.000 --> 09:47.000 Five. 09:47.000 --> 09:49.000 We won't see five in an hour. 09:49.000 --> 09:50.000 Two. 09:50.000 --> 09:51.000 Oh, no. 09:51.000 --> 09:52.000 You'll see two right away. 09:52.000 --> 09:53.000 Three? 09:53.000 --> 09:54.000 All right. 09:54.000 --> 09:57.360 Now, when I see three, you have to take your medicine. 09:57.360 --> 09:58.360 And what do you know? 09:58.360 --> 09:59.960 You see that car ahead? 09:59.960 --> 10:00.960 Yeah. 10:00.960 --> 10:02.520 Oh, Mom, that isn't fair. 10:02.520 --> 10:03.640 Not the first car. 10:03.640 --> 10:04.640 We didn't really start yet. 10:04.640 --> 10:05.640 Oh, yes, we did. 10:05.640 --> 10:06.640 See? 10:06.640 --> 10:07.640 Ohio. 10:07.640 --> 10:08.640 Aw. 10:08.640 --> 10:09.640 One down, two to go. 10:09.640 --> 10:10.640 No more out-of-states. 10:10.640 --> 10:11.640 Uh-oh. 10:11.640 --> 10:12.640 That doesn't sound right. 10:12.640 --> 10:14.640 Uh-oh. 10:14.640 --> 10:16.640 That doesn't look like a California plate to me, is it? 10:16.640 --> 10:17.640 Oh, yes, it is, Mom. 10:17.640 --> 10:18.640 Oh, you're right. 10:18.640 --> 10:19.640 Well, still two to go. 10:19.640 --> 10:26.000 Oh, the things I have to do to make you take a perfectly harmless little medicine. 10:26.000 --> 10:27.640 I don't like that junk. 10:27.640 --> 10:29.640 I'm beginning to believe that. 10:29.640 --> 10:30.640 All right, all right. 10:30.640 --> 10:31.640 Now, let's stop that record. 10:31.640 --> 10:32.640 Our goofy engineer, he put the... 10:32.640 --> 10:33.640 I wanted Artie Shaw's for a video. 10:33.640 --> 10:34.640 Which one is that? 10:34.640 --> 10:35.640 Is that that Perez somebody or something? 10:35.640 --> 10:40.920 It sounded like a pair of 10:40.920 --> 10:44.560 freoholi's spinning there or something. 10:44.560 --> 10:50.080 Well, anyway, folks, you guys and dolls, this is old Al, your DJ pal, and I've got time 10:50.080 --> 10:54.440 for a couple of more phone requests here before the 7 o'clock news. 10:54.440 --> 10:55.440 Here's a call. 10:55.440 --> 10:56.440 One of the buttons there. 10:56.440 --> 10:57.440 Let me get the... 10:57.440 --> 10:58.440 Hello? 10:58.440 --> 10:59.440 Hello, who's this? 10:59.440 --> 11:00.440 Mom? 11:00.440 --> 11:01.440 Yeah? 11:01.440 --> 11:02.440 How far do we have to go? 11:02.440 --> 11:03.440 Tonight? 11:03.440 --> 11:04.440 Oh, about 100 miles. 11:04.440 --> 11:05.440 When do we get to San Diego? 11:05.440 --> 11:06.440 Oh, Tippi, what's wrong? 11:06.440 --> 11:07.440 Oh, nothing. 11:07.440 --> 11:08.440 There's your stomach ache again. 11:08.440 --> 11:09.440 Oh, nothing. 11:09.440 --> 11:11.000 There's your stomach ache again. 11:11.000 --> 11:12.000 Oh, no, honest, Mom, I'm okay. 11:12.000 --> 11:13.000 It doesn't hurt at all. 11:13.000 --> 11:14.000 You what? 11:14.000 --> 11:15.000 I want us to play the game. 11:15.000 --> 11:16.000 It does hurt, doesn't it? 11:16.000 --> 11:37.200 Oh, I think we better stop at the next place and give you those drops. 11:37.200 --> 11:43.040 You are listening to To None, A Deadly Drug, tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding 11:43.040 --> 11:54.560 theater of thrills, Suspense. 11:54.560 --> 11:59.720 Listen in twice every weekend for exciting dramas of gun smoke on CBS radio. 11:59.720 --> 12:03.800 Listen Saturday in the daytime when United States Marshal Matt Dillon fights to hold 12:03.800 --> 12:08.600 the frontier against spoilers and outlaws, and listen again Sunday night on most of these 12:08.600 --> 12:13.840 same stations for an entirely new story of gun smoke in America's early West. 12:13.840 --> 12:17.400 Make gun smoke a listening habit, and you will readily appreciate the sentiments of 12:17.400 --> 12:21.880 critics who have given this thrilling, realistic program their generous applause. 12:21.880 --> 12:25.200 Gun smoke at the Star's Address. 12:25.200 --> 12:30.240 And now we bring back to our Hollywood sound stage, Harry Bartel, starring in tonight's 12:30.240 --> 12:54.520 production, To None, A Deadly Drug, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 12:54.520 --> 12:58.520 There are certain things a druggist learns in the school of pharmacy, certain things 12:58.520 --> 13:03.240 that have nothing to do with chemistry or toxicology or physiology. 13:03.240 --> 13:07.960 He learns the code of ethics, and he reads the oath of Hippocrates, and he knows that 13:07.960 --> 13:12.240 it applies to him as well as to the physician. 13:12.240 --> 13:20.480 To none will I give a deadly drug, even if solicited, nor will I counsel such. 13:20.480 --> 13:22.800 To None, A Deadly Drug. 13:22.800 --> 13:28.420 Yes, there are certain things a druggist learns in the school of pharmacy, but no one tells 13:28.420 --> 13:33.600 him how to track down a woman with a common name driving an unknown car on any one of 13:33.600 --> 13:38.440 three heavily traveled routes toward an unknown destination. 13:38.440 --> 13:42.640 For that, he gets the sheriff. 13:42.640 --> 13:48.080 No, she didn't say where she was heading. 13:48.080 --> 13:51.040 Are you sure she didn't tell your wife while you were in the back there? 13:51.040 --> 13:52.040 Marion can't remember. 13:52.040 --> 13:53.040 Is she okay? 13:53.040 --> 13:55.040 She kind of just sits there. 13:55.040 --> 13:57.440 A little shock, maybe. 13:57.440 --> 14:01.120 Foster, I just don't see how you expect us to stop this woman. 14:01.120 --> 14:04.000 We got no license number, no make a car, her last name is Smith. 14:04.000 --> 14:07.360 We don't know where she's heading, and with the traffic that we have here, I don't know 14:07.360 --> 14:08.360 what... 14:08.360 --> 14:09.360 We've got to stop her. 14:09.360 --> 14:10.360 What time is it? 14:10.360 --> 14:11.360 Ten to seven. 14:11.360 --> 14:14.960 You said the first dose was at seven? 14:14.960 --> 14:15.960 That's right. 14:15.960 --> 14:16.960 Hello. 14:16.960 --> 14:17.960 Mr. Foster? 14:17.960 --> 14:18.960 Yes, yes. 14:18.960 --> 14:21.960 Ready on your call to San Francisco. 14:21.960 --> 14:22.960 Oh, thank you. 14:22.960 --> 14:23.960 Hello, Dr. Peters? 14:23.960 --> 14:24.960 This is Dr. Peters. 14:24.960 --> 14:25.960 Doctor, this is Cal Foster. 14:25.960 --> 14:26.960 I'm here to see you. 14:26.960 --> 14:29.200 Cal Foster, I got your number from a prescription. 14:29.200 --> 14:31.920 I'm a pharmacist in Manksville, Foster's Pharmacy. 14:31.920 --> 14:32.920 Yes? 14:32.920 --> 14:37.200 You treated a child named Tippy Smith, about 12 or 13, a Navy man's son. 14:37.200 --> 14:39.400 You wrote a prescription for Belladonna and Phenumbarbital. 14:39.400 --> 14:41.400 I think I recall. 14:41.400 --> 14:42.400 Go ahead. 14:42.400 --> 14:43.400 Well, my wife... 14:43.400 --> 14:44.400 I made a mistake. 14:44.400 --> 14:47.320 He got digitalis instead, the same dosage. 14:47.320 --> 14:48.320 What? 14:48.320 --> 14:49.320 Digitalis. 14:49.320 --> 14:52.720 A well-built, rugged boy, blonde hair, pretty mother? 14:52.720 --> 14:53.720 Yes, that's right. 14:53.720 --> 14:54.720 Yes, I remember. 14:54.720 --> 14:55.760 Is he alive? 14:55.760 --> 14:57.240 We can't find him. 14:57.240 --> 14:58.240 They're on the road. 14:58.240 --> 14:59.240 That's why I called. 14:59.240 --> 15:00.240 Well, I'll do anything I can. 15:00.240 --> 15:01.240 Digitalis and that dosage... 15:01.240 --> 15:02.680 Do you know anything about them? 15:02.680 --> 15:03.680 Where they might be going? 15:03.680 --> 15:04.680 The make-of car? 15:04.680 --> 15:05.680 No. 15:05.680 --> 15:06.680 Well, they were new in the city. 15:06.680 --> 15:07.680 Their first visit to me. 15:07.680 --> 15:11.280 Look, I'm at home, but her address will be in my files downtown. 15:11.280 --> 15:12.280 Just a minute, please. 15:12.280 --> 15:14.240 Sheriff, if we get her address, can we find her license number? 15:14.240 --> 15:18.360 Well, sure, from Sacramento, if it's a California license and if it's current. 15:18.360 --> 15:19.360 But it'll take time. 15:19.360 --> 15:20.360 It's too long, that's for sure. 15:20.360 --> 15:21.360 We've got to try. 15:21.360 --> 15:23.320 Doctor, will you get her address? 15:23.320 --> 15:24.320 I'm on my way. 15:24.320 --> 15:25.320 I'll call back. 15:25.320 --> 15:29.920 I don't know what we can do until we find that license number. 15:29.920 --> 15:31.560 Can't you set up roadblocks? 15:31.560 --> 15:33.160 Call the State Highway Patrol. 15:33.160 --> 15:34.360 Where are we going to set up those blocks? 15:34.360 --> 15:35.960 Well, she's only been gone 20 minutes. 15:35.960 --> 15:36.960 How far is she driven? 15:36.960 --> 15:39.680 Oh, 12, 15 miles, maybe. 15:39.680 --> 15:40.680 But which road? 15:40.680 --> 15:42.680 We don't even know where she's heading. 15:42.680 --> 15:44.480 Her husband's ship was coming in. 15:44.480 --> 15:45.920 Where would a Navy ship come in? 15:45.920 --> 15:46.920 Oh, that's easy. 15:46.920 --> 15:49.720 San Diego, Long Beach, San Pedro, Port Woonhamey. 15:49.720 --> 15:52.120 She's on 399 or 99 or maybe 466. 15:52.120 --> 15:54.120 Now, we don't know. 15:54.120 --> 15:56.760 So I call the Highway Patrol for an all-points bullet. 15:56.760 --> 15:58.440 I want a roadblock for a woman and a kid. 15:58.440 --> 16:00.240 No car description, no license number. 16:00.240 --> 16:01.240 We don't know what road they're on. 16:01.240 --> 16:03.680 They're going to laugh at me. 16:03.680 --> 16:05.800 It's too late anyway, Foster. 16:05.800 --> 16:07.960 We only got three patrolmen who could even get in the vicinity. 16:07.960 --> 16:09.520 Now, you've got to forget the roadblock. 16:09.520 --> 16:10.840 Well, we've got to do something. 16:10.840 --> 16:13.520 We can't sit here and let this kid kill himself in five minutes. 16:13.520 --> 16:15.200 All right, what do we do? 16:15.200 --> 16:19.040 They're probably playing their game, Mr. Smith and Tippie. 16:19.040 --> 16:20.040 What? 16:20.040 --> 16:21.040 Their game. 16:21.040 --> 16:22.040 What game? 16:22.040 --> 16:24.560 They played a game before he had to take his medicine. 16:24.560 --> 16:26.600 When he lost the game, he had to take it. 16:26.600 --> 16:29.160 Foster, you'd better do something for your wife. 16:29.160 --> 16:30.880 All right, now look, Marion, snap out of it. 16:30.880 --> 16:31.880 Do you hear? 16:31.880 --> 16:33.400 They were going to play a game. 16:33.400 --> 16:36.400 He gets bored on the road, so they play games and listen to the radio. 16:36.400 --> 16:37.680 They do what? 16:37.680 --> 16:39.440 Play games and listen to the radio. 16:39.440 --> 16:41.120 Sheriff, the radio, KRNX. 16:41.120 --> 16:42.120 We can call them. 16:42.120 --> 16:43.120 Yeah. 16:43.120 --> 16:45.760 Yeah, you know, that might work at that. 16:45.760 --> 16:48.640 That's the only station most people can get in the Valley on their car radios anyway. 16:48.640 --> 16:52.280 Yeah, give me the phone. 16:52.280 --> 16:59.360 Come on, come on. 16:59.360 --> 17:00.360 Operator. 17:00.360 --> 17:01.360 Give me KRNX. 17:01.360 --> 17:02.360 The radio station? 17:02.360 --> 17:03.360 That's right, quick. 17:03.360 --> 17:04.360 You can dial that number, sir. 17:04.360 --> 17:05.360 Look, this is Sheriff Gibbs and I haven't got time. 17:05.360 --> 17:06.360 Now get it. 17:06.360 --> 17:07.360 Just a moment, sir. 17:07.360 --> 17:08.360 The line's busy, sir. 17:08.360 --> 17:09.360 It's their disk, Jock. 17:09.360 --> 17:19.400 He takes phone requests. 17:19.400 --> 17:21.760 He's always busy when he's on. 17:21.760 --> 17:22.760 Look, this is an emergency. 17:22.760 --> 17:24.080 I want you to break in. 17:24.080 --> 17:25.080 I'll try again, sir. 17:25.080 --> 17:42.760 Hello, this is Al, your DJ pal. 17:42.760 --> 17:43.760 What's your musical pleasure? 17:43.760 --> 17:44.760 This is Sheriff Gibbs. 17:44.760 --> 17:45.760 I want you to make an announcement. 17:45.760 --> 17:46.760 Oh, yeah, sure. 17:46.760 --> 17:47.760 It's Sheriff Gibbs. 17:47.760 --> 17:48.760 Sheriff Gibbs, kids. 17:48.760 --> 17:49.760 And he wants to make an announcement. 17:49.760 --> 17:50.760 You're running for Sheriff Gibbs, right? 17:50.760 --> 17:51.760 Yeah. 17:51.760 --> 17:55.400 And he wants to make an announcement. 17:55.400 --> 17:56.400 You're running for Sheriff again, Sheriff? 17:56.400 --> 17:58.400 Listen, Joker, this is Gibbs and it is an emergency. 17:58.400 --> 17:59.400 Oh, yeah, yeah, I know. 17:59.400 --> 18:00.400 He says it's an emergency, Katz. 18:00.400 --> 18:01.400 There's one in every crowd, kids. 18:01.400 --> 18:02.400 Somebody's always got to get in the act. 18:02.400 --> 18:03.400 Now, look, fella, just let me have your request. 18:03.400 --> 18:04.400 He thinks it's somebody kidding. 18:04.400 --> 18:05.400 Come on, huh? 18:05.400 --> 18:06.400 Come on, I got all the phones going here. 18:06.400 --> 18:07.400 Hello. 18:07.400 --> 18:08.400 Hello, Al. 18:08.400 --> 18:09.400 Al, will you shut up? 18:09.400 --> 18:10.400 This is Cal Foster at the pharmacy. 18:10.400 --> 18:11.400 I just sold the wrong medicine to a woman named Smith for her son. 18:11.400 --> 18:12.400 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 18:12.400 --> 18:13.400 I'm sorry. 18:13.400 --> 18:14.400 I'm sorry. 18:14.400 --> 18:15.400 I'm sorry. 18:15.400 --> 18:16.400 I'm sorry. 18:16.400 --> 18:17.400 I'm sorry. 18:17.400 --> 18:18.400 I'm sorry. 18:18.400 --> 18:21.920 I just sold the wrong medicine to a woman named Smith for her son. 18:21.920 --> 18:22.920 They're on the road now. 18:22.920 --> 18:23.920 We can't contact them. 18:23.920 --> 18:25.620 He's supposed to take it at seven. 18:25.620 --> 18:26.620 We think they might be listening. 18:26.620 --> 18:27.620 Are you serious? 18:27.620 --> 18:28.620 Of course I'm serious. 18:28.620 --> 18:33.200 I want you to announce that the medicine just sold to a Mrs. Smith at Foster's Pharmacy 18:33.200 --> 18:35.480 in Manxville is the wrong medicine. 18:35.480 --> 18:36.480 It's deadly. 18:36.480 --> 18:37.480 She's to call me immediately. 18:37.480 --> 18:38.480 Well, yeah, yeah, I got it. 18:38.480 --> 18:43.480 But, listen, if you think I'm sticking my neck out for a lawsuit on account of a phone 18:43.480 --> 18:44.480 call, you're nuts. 18:44.480 --> 18:45.480 But you're not... 18:45.480 --> 18:46.480 How do I know you're Foster? 18:46.480 --> 18:51.480 I sold you $10 worth of wheat germ last week, you remember? 18:51.480 --> 18:52.480 A wheat germ? 18:52.480 --> 18:53.480 Yeah. 18:53.480 --> 18:54.480 I guess you did. 18:54.480 --> 19:07.480 Well, kids, I guess you're kind of curious. 19:07.480 --> 19:11.060 You heard one side of a pretty strange conversation. 19:11.060 --> 19:15.460 Now then, your old pal's gonna stick his neck way out and make an announcement. 19:15.460 --> 19:17.480 Now that I'm not on the air tomorrow, it means I was wrong. 19:17.480 --> 19:22.480 The guy that called first really was the sheriff, the sheriff of Manxville. 19:22.480 --> 19:23.480 I hope. 19:23.480 --> 19:27.480 Because if he asked me to make an important announcement, and if it's a phony... 19:27.480 --> 19:28.480 We're here for heaven's sake. 19:28.480 --> 19:29.480 Find some music, will you? 19:29.480 --> 19:30.480 I'm dead. 19:30.480 --> 19:31.480 Anything but a silly chatter. 19:31.480 --> 19:32.480 Here's the announcement. 19:32.480 --> 19:33.480 Or turn it off. 19:33.480 --> 19:34.480 Okay. 19:34.480 --> 19:35.480 And it's about a lady named... 19:35.480 --> 19:36.480 Hey, where are we? 19:36.480 --> 19:40.480 Oh, somewhere on US 99 going to meet your dad. 19:40.480 --> 19:44.480 Man, what do you think I see on that car up ahead? 19:44.480 --> 19:46.480 Oh, no, it's a California plate. 19:46.480 --> 19:47.480 Oh, no, it isn't. 19:47.480 --> 19:49.480 It's orange and black. 19:49.480 --> 19:50.480 It's New York. 19:50.480 --> 19:51.480 Oh, and that's two plates. 19:51.480 --> 19:52.480 One to go. 19:52.480 --> 19:55.480 Well, go slower, will you, Mom? 19:55.480 --> 19:56.480 Slower? 19:56.480 --> 19:58.480 So I won't catch up on any more out-of-state cars? 19:58.480 --> 19:59.480 Mm-mm. 19:59.480 --> 20:14.480 You're gonna take your medicine. 20:14.480 --> 20:16.480 Well, Foster, it's almost seven. 20:16.480 --> 20:18.480 We'd have heard by now. 20:18.480 --> 20:21.480 I guess they weren't listening to the radio. 20:21.480 --> 20:23.480 I guess not. 20:23.480 --> 20:26.480 Now, that announcement, that took guts. 20:26.480 --> 20:28.480 I sure hate to see it get wasted. 20:28.480 --> 20:30.480 I gave him a comic book. 20:30.480 --> 20:32.480 I did, Callick. 20:32.480 --> 20:34.480 I didn't mean to hurt him. 20:34.480 --> 20:37.480 Darling, nobody thinks you meant to hurt him. 20:37.480 --> 20:40.480 Here, sit down. 20:40.480 --> 20:41.480 Now, take some of this. 20:41.480 --> 20:42.480 It'll make you feel better. 20:42.480 --> 20:45.480 No, no, I'm all right. 20:45.480 --> 20:47.480 I've got to think. 20:47.480 --> 20:48.480 I've got to think. 20:48.480 --> 20:50.480 Maybe she didn't say where she was going. 20:50.480 --> 20:53.480 Tippie was looking at the magazine. 20:53.480 --> 20:55.480 I was by the cash register. 20:55.480 --> 20:58.480 She was about to tell me, and then she saw Tippie. 20:58.480 --> 21:01.480 The ship's coming into... 21:01.480 --> 21:02.480 into... 21:02.480 --> 21:03.480 San. 21:03.480 --> 21:04.480 San? 21:04.480 --> 21:05.480 San something. 21:05.480 --> 21:07.480 San Pedro, San Diego. 21:07.480 --> 21:08.480 She'd take 99E to one. 21:08.480 --> 21:10.480 Well, can you send out that information for a roadblock? 21:10.480 --> 21:12.480 Yeah, if there's a highway patrol officer on 99E, 21:12.480 --> 21:13.480 might try without a description. 21:13.480 --> 21:15.480 But one officer trying to handle all those cars, I don't know. 21:15.480 --> 21:17.480 Well, how about the places she'd stop? 21:17.480 --> 21:19.480 She has to get water for the kid, for the medicine. 21:19.480 --> 21:20.480 Where would she stop? 21:20.480 --> 21:23.480 Oh, there are ten restaurants to a mile down there. 21:23.480 --> 21:26.480 She's probably around Starrett by now. 21:26.480 --> 21:29.480 See, how would we tell which one she'd pick? 21:29.480 --> 21:31.480 Oh, the kid might have taken it by now anyway. 21:43.480 --> 21:44.480 Mom. 21:44.480 --> 21:45.480 Yes? 21:45.480 --> 21:48.480 Suppose I'm well by the time you see the other license plate. 21:48.480 --> 21:50.480 Suppose my stomach doesn't ache anymore. 21:50.480 --> 21:51.480 Yes? 21:51.480 --> 21:52.480 Do I still have to take it? 21:52.480 --> 21:53.480 You sure do. 21:53.480 --> 21:56.480 You don't want to be sick to meet your dad, do you? 21:56.480 --> 21:57.480 Mom. 21:57.480 --> 21:58.480 Hmm? 21:58.480 --> 22:00.480 Look what I found in the glove compartment. 22:00.480 --> 22:01.480 Your old earring. 22:01.480 --> 22:02.480 Oh, that's interesting. 22:02.480 --> 22:03.480 Look at it, Mom. 22:03.480 --> 22:04.480 Look at it. 22:04.480 --> 22:05.480 What's going on here? 22:05.480 --> 22:08.480 Why the sudden interest in my old jewelry? 22:08.480 --> 22:10.480 Oh, nothing. 22:10.480 --> 22:11.480 Why, you little sneak. 22:11.480 --> 22:14.480 That car that passed, it has a Texas plate. 22:14.480 --> 22:15.480 Well, I almost fooled you. 22:15.480 --> 22:16.480 Okay. 22:16.480 --> 22:18.480 It's the medicine for you. 22:18.480 --> 22:19.480 It's past seven anyway. 22:19.480 --> 22:20.480 I need a glass of water for it. 22:20.480 --> 22:22.480 Oh, what's that for the restaurant? 22:22.480 --> 22:23.480 There's one. 22:23.480 --> 22:25.480 Oh, it looks pretty scroungy. 22:25.480 --> 22:26.480 Look for a nice one. 22:26.480 --> 22:27.480 Okay. 22:27.480 --> 22:28.480 I'll look. 22:28.480 --> 22:29.480 Oh, I just bet you will. 22:40.480 --> 22:42.480 Name the restaurant, Sheriff. 22:42.480 --> 22:44.480 All of them, please. 22:44.480 --> 22:47.480 Well, let's see. 22:47.480 --> 22:49.480 There's Teppits. 22:49.480 --> 22:54.480 And then just about a block. 22:54.480 --> 22:55.480 Cappies. 22:55.480 --> 22:56.480 Laskies. 22:56.480 --> 22:57.480 Uh-huh. 22:57.480 --> 23:00.480 Uh, the A.M. Cafe. 23:00.480 --> 23:01.480 I remember that. 23:01.480 --> 23:03.480 Oh, she wouldn't take a boy in there. 23:03.480 --> 23:04.480 It's dirty. 23:04.480 --> 23:05.480 Yeah. 23:05.480 --> 23:10.480 Now, past Starrett, I think it's a Green Bowl. 23:10.480 --> 23:11.480 Yeah. 23:11.480 --> 23:13.480 And the Valley Cafe. 23:13.480 --> 23:15.480 Look, there's 50 of them. 23:15.480 --> 23:16.480 Oh, please, please. 23:16.480 --> 23:20.480 Further on, let me see. 23:20.480 --> 23:21.480 I think that... 23:21.480 --> 23:22.480 What's it? 23:22.480 --> 23:23.480 Merits? 23:23.480 --> 23:24.480 Yeah. 23:24.480 --> 23:25.480 And then Tiny's. 23:25.480 --> 23:26.480 Oh, I remember Tiny's. 23:26.480 --> 23:29.480 The big place with all the glass and the big neon chicken on the highway. 23:29.480 --> 23:30.480 Yeah, that's the one. 23:30.480 --> 23:31.480 Okay, I'll give me the phone. 23:31.480 --> 23:32.480 Oh, honey. 23:32.480 --> 23:33.480 Well, that's where I'd stop. 23:33.480 --> 23:34.480 It is. 23:34.480 --> 23:35.480 Operator. 23:35.480 --> 23:46.480 Yes, ma'am? 23:46.480 --> 23:56.480 How about some ice cream after the medicine tip? 23:56.480 --> 23:57.480 Okay. 23:57.480 --> 23:58.480 I want chopper, please. 23:58.480 --> 23:59.480 All right. 23:59.480 --> 24:00.480 And what would you like? 24:00.480 --> 24:01.480 Oh, a dish of vanilla for me. 24:01.480 --> 24:03.480 And a glass of water for my boy's medicine, please. 24:03.480 --> 24:04.480 Oh, I'm okay now, mama. 24:04.480 --> 24:05.480 I'm honest. 24:05.480 --> 24:08.480 This is like my little boy. 24:08.480 --> 24:10.480 They all hate medicine. 24:10.480 --> 24:16.480 Oh, this one's impossible. 24:16.480 --> 24:17.480 Thank you. 24:17.480 --> 24:18.480 15 drops. 24:18.480 --> 24:19.480 You want to count them, Tip? 24:19.480 --> 24:21.480 I might get an extra one in by mistake. 24:21.480 --> 24:23.480 Oh, no. 24:23.480 --> 24:37.480 One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, 24:37.480 --> 24:38.480 fifteen. 24:38.480 --> 24:40.480 Okay, pal, there it is. 24:40.480 --> 24:41.480 Mom. 24:41.480 --> 24:42.480 Mom? 24:42.480 --> 24:43.480 Mm-hmm? 24:43.480 --> 24:46.480 It smells funny. 24:46.480 --> 24:49.480 You drink it or I'll tell your dad what a baby you were about it. 24:49.480 --> 24:50.480 All right. 24:50.480 --> 24:51.480 Stop. 24:51.480 --> 24:52.480 Stop it. 24:52.480 --> 24:53.480 I'm sorry. 24:53.480 --> 24:55.480 Are you Mrs. Smith? 24:55.480 --> 24:56.480 Yes. 24:56.480 --> 24:57.480 What? 24:57.480 --> 24:58.480 Take the phone. 24:58.480 --> 24:59.480 Take the phone, please. 24:59.480 --> 25:00.480 The phone? 25:00.480 --> 25:01.480 But how? 25:01.480 --> 25:02.480 Hello? 25:02.480 --> 25:03.480 Oh, no. 25:03.480 --> 25:04.480 No, it couldn't be. 25:04.480 --> 25:05.480 Oh. 25:05.480 --> 25:06.480 Oh, yes. 25:06.480 --> 25:07.480 Yes, thank you. 25:07.480 --> 25:08.480 Mom, are you sick? 25:08.480 --> 25:09.480 I'm fine. 25:09.480 --> 25:10.480 I'm fine. 25:10.480 --> 25:11.480 I'm fine. 25:11.480 --> 25:12.480 I'm fine. 25:12.480 --> 25:13.480 I'm fine. 25:13.480 --> 25:14.480 I'm fine. 25:14.480 --> 25:15.480 I'm fine. 25:15.480 --> 25:16.480 I'm fine. 25:16.480 --> 25:17.480 I'm fine. 25:17.480 --> 25:18.480 I'm fine. 25:18.480 --> 25:19.480 I'm fine. 25:19.480 --> 25:20.480 I'm fine. 25:20.480 --> 25:21.480 I'm fine. 25:21.480 --> 25:22.480 Are you sick? 25:22.480 --> 25:23.480 Sick? 25:23.480 --> 25:26.480 Oh, maybe a little. 25:26.480 --> 25:38.480 Maybe just a little bit. 25:38.480 --> 25:43.480 It's news when it happens, a drugstore mistake, because it almost never does happen. 25:43.480 --> 25:49.480 Stories of mistaken prescriptions in the profession of pharmacy are practically non-existent. 25:49.480 --> 25:55.480 When it does occur, it can ruin a man, because this profession is hard on its own when one 25:55.480 --> 25:57.480 falls short. 25:57.480 --> 26:03.480 It can ruin a man, or it can mold him. 26:03.480 --> 26:05.480 What'll happen to this cow? 26:05.480 --> 26:07.480 This store? 26:07.480 --> 26:09.480 It's your life. 26:09.480 --> 26:11.480 I don't know. 26:11.480 --> 26:14.480 I started from scratch once before. 26:14.480 --> 26:15.480 I know. 26:15.480 --> 26:17.480 But it's not fair. 26:17.480 --> 26:19.480 It wasn't your fault at all. 26:19.480 --> 26:21.480 It's my pharmacy, darling. 26:21.480 --> 26:23.480 Anyway, don't worry. 26:23.480 --> 26:25.480 Will they take your license? 26:25.480 --> 26:27.480 I don't know. 26:27.480 --> 26:29.480 That isn't what matters. 26:29.480 --> 26:30.480 It's the people. 26:30.480 --> 26:31.480 The people? 26:31.480 --> 26:34.480 The people we know, my customers. 26:34.480 --> 26:38.480 They come in blindly, they put their lives in my hands. 26:38.480 --> 26:43.480 That's what'll hurt, even if I keep my license. 26:43.480 --> 26:54.480 Hello, Mrs. Smith. 26:54.480 --> 26:55.480 Where's Tippy? 26:55.480 --> 26:57.480 In the car. 26:57.480 --> 27:00.480 He's tired. 27:00.480 --> 27:03.480 I don't know what to say. 27:03.480 --> 27:05.480 There's nothing to say. 27:05.480 --> 27:09.480 And there's nothing for you to say either, Mrs. Foster. 27:09.480 --> 27:13.480 I didn't really come all the way back to talk. 27:13.480 --> 27:15.480 Why did you come back, Mrs. Smith? 27:15.480 --> 27:17.480 Why? 27:17.480 --> 27:42.480 Well, you could give me Tippy's medicine. 27:42.480 --> 27:44.480 Suspense. 27:44.480 --> 27:48.480 In which Harry Bartel with Charlotte Lawrence and Eve McVeigh 27:48.480 --> 27:53.480 starred in tonight's presentation of To None a Deadly Drug. 27:53.480 --> 27:57.480 Next week, the story of man's assault against nature. 27:57.480 --> 28:00.480 We call it The Mountain. 28:00.480 --> 28:15.480 That's next week on Suspense. 28:15.480 --> 28:18.480 Suspense is produced and transcribed by Anthony Ellis. 28:18.480 --> 28:21.480 Tonight's script was written by Hank Searls. 28:21.480 --> 28:25.480 The music was composed by Rene Garigan and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 28:25.480 --> 28:27.480 Featured in the cast were Virginia Eyler, Sammy Og, 28:27.480 --> 28:33.480 Hi Aberback, Larry Thor, Jack Crouchon, and John Stevenson. 28:33.480 --> 28:35.480 When people are in trouble, what do they do? 28:35.480 --> 28:39.480 If the trouble is serious and they want help fast, they call the police. 28:39.480 --> 28:42.480 Every Friday night over most of these same stations, 28:42.480 --> 28:45.480 CBS radio picks up the threads of a startling story of people in trouble 28:45.480 --> 28:49.480 who call the police, and just as often, of police who call on people 28:49.480 --> 28:53.480 seen to be in trouble, working out of the 21st precinct. 28:53.480 --> 28:56.480 There's fast-moving drama and intimate glimpses 28:56.480 --> 28:59.480 into the dangerous as well as human side of police work. 28:59.480 --> 29:27.480 Friday nights on CBS radio when you're invited to hear the 21st Precinct. 29:27.480 --> 29:37.480 The 21st Precinct. 29:57.480 --> 30:02.480 The 21st Precinct.