 outstanding theater of thrills the master of mystery and adventure William and Robeson they call themselves the beat generation by which they do not mean defeated they mean beatific which is to say blissful they're cool man they're way out there they dig jazz which has no melody and poetry which makes no sense at least to the rest of us squares their kids seeking an answer and to the beat generation the answer seems to be found in inaction in non feeling they couldn't care less but face a beat cat with reality facing with murder and what happened listen listen then as Dennis Day stars in like man somebody dig me which follows in just a moment like man somebody sorry mr. Dennis day a pale well calculated to keep you in man like crazy man I dig everything I dig Zen and underarm deodorant I dig Elvis Presley and Sputnik even dig people that drive right on by when I'm hitchhiking people call me the tennis shoes but I wear them because I'm always on the move but mostly because I'm cool man I could stand out here in the middle of this desert all day and you know something you wouldn't bother me you are left hey I'm with you Jake how far you're going I just stick with route 66 man on to the ocean we're on our way to Las Vegas you're going to California like I wrote a poem man I want to read it to the Pacific Ocean Pacific Ocean well I already read it to the Atlantic if you read it to the Atlantic why bother to read it to the Pacific man have you ever read a poem to the Atlantic in January well no I know man we almost didn't stop for you you know most people won't take a chance on hitchhikers these days yeah you're lucky we picked you up and look man I don't know what you want but I ain't got it I got no rose to pin on you no medals dig I just stand by the road with my thumb up if you want to pick me up cool if you want to drive on by too cool if you want to stop the car and let me out that's okay with me because man I'm cool I just don't care you're the driver and I'm just along for the ride you dig I'm just making conversation if you're going to Vegas man you'll have to turn off a Kingman I don't dig Vegas Vegas is the squares but now I'm going to get from shut eye I'm tired man the cops run me out of town last night for filling the fire to keep warm I'm tired man any just for building a fire like how was I didn't know all that would with somebody's house lives in my eyes and makes like I was asleep but with all I could do to keep a butt that aren't laughing it was kicks man these plans were real kicks water chill on the radio okay I don't like that man oh Mary don't be voice down you will wake him up I think he's crazy and I think he's dangerous honey he's perfectly harmless I see his type in a road a lot like kind of a fan they call themselves the beat generation pretend that nothing matters to them anymore they just thrift he's harmless but just the same I wish we had we interrupt matinee melodies to bring you another bulletin on the killer who's been terrorizing southern Nevada the hatchet maniac sports victim was just found brutally murdered in the small Nevada town of search life not far from the Arizona border only one eyewitness has seen the killer she described him as being medium-height dark coloring wearing a red nylon jacket and tennis shoes use your head now in Arizona but the description that he could be carrying anything in that bag up here looking a bag like I thought you were asleep don't jump stay cool I'll put it in the front seat and you can let's see man it don't even zipper shut so what do you dig inside a bottle of wine from the supermarket type written copies of my arms a clean shirt with a 30 collar man I travel so light I don't even take toothbrushes so what am I gonna do with a hatchet man there's one thing about squares they never ever learn payment buddy what do you want to get out anywhere we've got to get some gas too with that maniac running loose everybody's probably locked up in doors we have turned off by now we're just about out of town yeah wait a minute here's a place he's got food and gas look why don't we pull in here and ask and get some gas at the same time I don't see anybody like maybe they're close lights are still on I'll go inside leave me Walter there's nothing to be afraid of well I'm searching not going to stay out here alone like thanks Jake water like who was I to stay in the car when the body's inside just as we go through the front door some cat hustles in from the kitchen wiping his hands on his apron oh there you are I didn't hear you drive up well then you've got blood on your head Mary please don't be lying tomorrow specials chicken and dumpling somebody has to kill the chickens that's why I didn't hear you drive up oh we need some gas yeah man my gasoline nobody's pop and he ain't never run no gas station before what do you think I'm going to tell these squares I dropped my bag at the end of the counter and then I walk around to the back of the station and scrub some of the dirt off my face it takes me quite a while to scrub but I come back around the station just in time to see the two squares drive off down the road and what do you think happened instead of turning right to go to Vegas they turn to the left you want to come in the cafe I surprised this cat behind the counter hey man you walk up on people like to quiet that's why they call me the tennis shoe like you're here they call me the cat I can tell why hey where those two squares go Mexico Mexico they said it was going to Vegas yeah I know they asked me where to turn I told them they drive long enough they'll wind up in Mexico I leave the cat and I walk the rest on 66 with my thumb ready 10 maybe 15 minutes at the most in the squad car with a flashing light screams up to a stop right away to pull out those big shiny pistols right away I don't know what they're thinking doesn't really gotta be crazy hold your hands in here man like all way hold them up high if you don't want your head blown off that's better than searching George easy man I laugh when people do that he's clean he got in the bag I got goodies for grandma you did grandma step away from it see what's in the bag George okay I got what is it we've got him what got who man this is a hatchet killer Charlie look over the big what's in the bag and I almost flip there on top of a clean shirt with a dirty collar on top of all that cool poetry on top of an almost full half bottle of wine there's this hatchet I never seen before man I'd laugh but the hatchet is all bloody I told you man I'm the tennis shoe I don't like your flip attitude so let my hand flip I don't know what you realize is not that you're in bad trouble you've been caught with a murder weapon and no identification and no alibi I'll tell you my story but you don't take it you expect me to believe that you've just been passing through this state don't forget that Branson cat and Gallup in Mexico he's all the alibi I need I was swinging at a party at his place last night all night he takes me so I'm not shook is a new kick daddy oh I ain't never been up for murder before oh it's too cool yeah he's here Gallup police hello hey I got him there with you put him on will you shut up so I can hear hello to Branson in the Kingman Sheriff's office we got a man here that says you know him without a party at your place last night calls himself the tennis shoe what you never heard of you let me talk to him oh man man hey this is me the tennis show and you like I know well tell the man I would but I keep forgetting hey Branson this is for real they're trying to pin a murder on me like man will somebody dig me now do you want to tell me why you killed him yeah but I didn't you were carrying a hatchet that killed five people how did it get in your bag the cat must have put it there who's that I told you already you know the guy that was that pops place who else saw him beside you I told you the two squares what give me a lift a man and woman you sent in the wrong direction I didn't send him in the wrong direction the cat did he's cool he did it for a kick you kill the old man for a kick no I'm innocent it's all a collection of circumstances I'm just a victim in a world man take him down and book him for first-degree murder what's going on out there almost everybody in town's out front the yellow for the hatchet killer you aren't gonna let him in here chief huh if they make up their mind they're coming in it's gonna take more than me to stop them oh you can't let him get me don't pay any pensions on him daddy oh I'm going to go out there and try and talk him out of it yeah all friends and neighbors I know how you all felt about pop Daniels he was a friend of mine too but I know you all well enough to know that you all want to see justice done that's what we brought the rope for we want the killer we want the killer now quiet down the night man a million hands pulling drag me out of the jail across the street and into this sleepy little park in the center of town I try to laugh man I mean if the new kick things hang around like that I try to laugh yeah but no laugh comes out when I see this rope and all of a sudden I know that the only cat that's going to be swimming at this party is me the rest that man had popped place to give it the wrong turn oh I should have paid more attention to my sense of direction all that driving and here we are right back in Kingman I know there was nobody in the street when we came through and well now look at that crowd over there in the park probably a political rally of some sort no look at that road they're gonna hang somebody hey old timer what's going on they caught that fellow that's been going around chopping up people over in Nevada but I'm sure they made a mistake when he killed old pop Daniels here in Kingman's afternoon we don't put up with that kind of thing look at that man there putting the rope on it isn't that the same that's our hitchhiker they're making a terrible mistake he was with us all afternoon Walter where are you going hang him if I don't stop him he's innocent because he was with my wife and me all afternoon man am I glad to see you cops were mad because I wasn't a killer but there wasn't anything they could do about it and the next morning I walk out of jail into the sunshine and the fresh air like man man it's really great to be alive and the world looks good even people look good I walk down the main dragon a list of five blocks and pass a little kid that tries to con me and to buy up all his newspapers so he can go home early put me on sign that screams good food and dance a hundred cars driven by guys that don't own them no apology for some guy I bumped into and then I start wondering what am I so gone about young man yeah like I wonder if you'd be so kind you see my daughter let me out of her car she told me the optometrist was straight ahead and somehow I kept turned around would you lead me to the right door optometrist yes I broke my glasses this morning well grandma I don't know how you did it but you drifted yourself down about two doors here take my arm oh thank you so much you're such a kind young man watch it there's a step here cool in here well I didn't know you were here grandma and what nice music on the radio yeah mom that's way out look here's a chair you sit down oh thank you so much oh my whatever would I have done without you if there's a sign over there that says quiet please I'll tell the receptionist you're here don't go away can I help you yeah are you one of the family or a friend of the deceased oh it's my mother yeah she doesn't want to view the body she just wants to sit here and meditate about the daily department I see yeah yeah just leave her alone with her thoughts I'll be by and pick her up in a while we do our best to be a comfort in the time of trial instead I get out of the street and I hot put it way out in the desert before I fall down and bust down laughing I think of that old chick sitting in that bureau parlor waiting for a pair of glasses am I just about crack up man one thing about squares man they just never ever learned action of like man somebody dig me written by George Bamber in tonight's story we're Lillian Byatt, Bill Quinn Jack Moyles, Paul Freese and Charles Seal listen listen again next week when we return with Miss Agnes Moorhead starring in Head Shrinker another tale well calculated to keep you in suspense