 you finding life pretty dull dreaming again of exotic places wishing you were somewhere else we offer you escape escape designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure escape with us now to the year 100,000 and 80 and a world where beauty and terror live side-by-side as HG Wells describes it in his immortal story the time machine Dudley you must be mad the time machine yes my friend a time machine this this thing this very thing this contraption this framework and made of quartz and bronze ivory with its levers and its dials and its seat in the middle this is the result of three years hard work I promise you follow that on this machine a man can go wherever he likes in time by working these levers a man can choose his century his year his very day oh really old man time is only a kind of space if we can move about in all the other dimensions of space why not in time too is it's impossible out of the question and what of the journeys I've already taken on this little contraption I'm afraid you've been having a bad dream mean I've developed into a liar very well you shall have proof my friend how just climb on follow sit in the seat beside me face these ivory dials and I'll take you for a little spin were you you mean right now right now or just in case this thing should take off like the flying red horse are there any any preparations no follow no you won't need any luggage on this trip not even a toothbrush you'll be back here in my laboratory in less than a minute all right I'm on now what oh tight it sways a good deal I'd hate to lose you I can't be frightened that lean and you're braver than I am tell me what time is it it's just 12 noon before we start I want to adjust this control a bit is a is everything in ship shape come did you notice anything just then only a noise a humming noise nothing else and what time is it you just asked me old man it's 12 well that's odd what my watch says 11 o'clock it was sworn it was noon a moment ago there must be something wrong with it it's only that I touched the lever to test it and we've gone forward a full day 23 hours at any rate finished scoffing follow yes yes I believe I have then hold tight this will be the real article I'm ready to leave good man well say goodbye follow say goodbye to 1950 he went off with a shattering jar machine swaying under walls of dr. that these laboratories have me fellow a night was speeding up today like a flapping of a black week I saw the sun hopping across the sky leaping swiftly across it every second and every second marking a day I saw the moon spinning through her quarters like a ball from new to full all in the twinkling of an eye trees groove and blossom like pops of smoke and then passed away all the while we were going faster now our pace was a year a second so that second by second the white snow flashed across the world and was followed by the bright brief spring and still we went on into the future on a field follow very weak very dizzy or let go don't fall off of where are we how far have we come we're in 100,000 and 50 and 60 and 70 that's enough stop it I can't stand anymore stop it you all right I believe so no broken bones what happened not sure must have stopped too suddenly where are we Dudley the ground for yourself a wide lawn beautiful vast garden I meant geographically just where we were when we started where my laboratory stood hundred thousand years ago and the year Dudley what is the year now 100,000 and 80 it seemed absolutely incredible a dream the pleasant one for the garden in which we found ourselves was beautiful and summery with an unexpected perfume about it almost like platine at some distance we could see a large and imposing building and everything was quiet and peaceful but almost too much so and the sense of strangeness of incredible strangeness sent a shiver up my spine 100,000 and 80 Fallon do you want to go back yeah yes I rather think I do let's go back Dudley from over there the bushes it sounded human come on it's a child seems to be a very small girl there's been a beast here of some kind struggle with a look at the marks in her eyes now my dear you'll be all right now you won't be harmed of course you won't understand English motioning us to go with her what about the animal did you see it no not a glimpse too fast for us perhaps we better go back Dudley the girl seems to be all right now leave her like this yes yes I've had enough well they haven't old man because they're here all around us they had crept up on soundless feet to surround us the little people of this era and the girl we'd say it was not a child but a full grown woman well they all stood four feet high dressed in simple tunics beautiful creatures but terribly frail with a plump soft kind of frailty they were like eerie figures in a dream and all we could hear was the rustling of their clothes as they served happily around us their faces we do smiles why they're not savage at all they're very loving and gentle little people yes there's something terribly wrong with them how do you mean seem to have the minds of five year olds how do you expect them to be far ahead of us of course incredibly ahead of us in knowledge and in science look at them children they seem happy in this huge garden of theirs Dudley I've changed my mind let's stay maybe we shall enjoy spending a few days with our little friends the little people led us home into their valley they lived in colossal buildings sleeping all together in one huge hall eating in another playing and frolicking together in the sunshine and we lived with them for days in utter contentment one afternoon Dudley and I walked along the banks of the great little people all wear the same clothes of the same soft hairless skin same feminine roundness of limbs I wonder is because they're vegetarians the vegetarians because they have to be haven't run across any horses of dogs cattle of any kind have you know another dimension with good reason all extinct by now this is the dinosaur is with us Dudley there's something strange here something hidden away and silent here in the year 180 felt the same way I've taken the precaution of removing the control levers of the time machine putting a master padlock on the main switches don't much fancy the idea of someone riding away with it into another century and leaving us here for the rest of our lives Dudley you know where we are yes this is where we landed I thought so I wasn't sure what did you ask what's happened to the machine but they've taken it away they've stolen it this is where it was it's right here look follow the tracks here where they've dragged it over here come along down this path look right there the monument there's a brass doors in the base they're locked the machine it must be in there inside we must get it break down the door how can we use the ladders no good Dudley the solid will never break through never never the laughs that Red 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attitude they were more like simple wandering children only one young woman we know whose life we had saved on our first day had become really friendly she went with us wherever we walked brought us presents of gardens of flowers slept near us at night in the hall and we in turn had taught her a few words of English now we redoubled our efforts like men racing against a clock so that we might speak to her and discover the secret of our immense loss we were talking to her one night after the others had gone to sleep no not these deadly no how can you be so sure your people didn't steal the machine are there any thieves among them are they all perfect that's so loud but they awake them sign she doesn't understand thief must be sleeping somewhere in this hall we know they take machine no who then who we we are our friends we must have machine yes who took machine other people not yours what about those doors we now doors open no no we not machine in in there must open no no not open all right my dear go to sleep get some rest yes that's to become of us Fowler are we caught here in this century we spend our lives with the little people in their secret we'll go back to the monument tomorrow we'll find a way of breaking in good night Dudley Dudley did you just there was a game what something on my face cold filthy to the touch on my face in my hair as cold as death you're right there's something in here with us smells of the grave I don't know but look at them look at the little people are all let's get out of here I want some fresh air we went quickly through the hall and outside away from the frantic rustling of the little people the moon was full just overhead and it was close to dawning there was a faint sound speeding close behind us and we turned our nerves ragged our muscles tensed but it was only we know coming swiftly to join us there is something what do you mean we know dark what why should they be afraid of the night that's not the night alone dark place that's our cuba perhaps it's something underground it was another day we had wandered into a lovely wooded place about a mile from the community and suddenly we know screen we stopped short a pair of glaring eyes were fixed upon us as we stood there petrified the thing a little ape-like figure rushed across our path and disappeared in the clearing about 30 yards away what was it I couldn't see it too well seem to be a dull white with white hair on its head and down its back and look like a small it was running on all fours over this arms held very low we know we know what was it who are the more locks what are they we not tell me let's go over there and see where it disappeared come along father in the clearing we found a round well like opening Dudley and I leaned over and looked down a deep shaft a small white creature was retreating down a ladder in the well like a human spider its large bright eyes watching me as it went swiftly down then it disappeared in the shaft did you see it like an ape yes but also like a man so there are two species of men in this world yes the little people above the ground in this obscene thing this bleached monster below that white look common to animals that live in the dark like huge rats like worms that are cold to the touch I know because they've touched follow you can feel the air being sucked down into this shaft yes the earth must be tunnel enormously here under our feet these monsters must live in the tunnels I think we know now who stole our time machine yes then then we'll go down and have a look no no not go why not we know more locks you've never come back we must have our machine my dear and you wait for us here and so we went down our heels ringing on the small metallic bars that were meant for creatures so much smaller than us down we climbed down down ever in darkness down it seemed into the center of the earth into the core of the world how much longer won't know until we reach bottom can't be much further do you hear that like machinery we're almost there well thank heaven for that all right for him on the bottom come along just a few more steps now give me your hand we're here he's in the land of the Morlocks ever match yeah yes yes here seems to be a large vaulted cabin at the end of this passage what do you suppose they'll do they catch us I've no idea better take care not to be caught another match that throbbing noise probably their ventilating system pumping the air down must be thousands upon thousands of these Morlocks living under the earth we haven't seen any yet except for our friend who came down ahead of us why do you suppose they wanted our time machine I think they wanted us not the machine and we've come to them we must it's our only chance how long if that noise does come from air pumps yeah why is it so stuffy here so oppressive Dudley that smell blood light another match Dudley look straight ahead on the white metal table set for a meal yes with a small haunch meat we know that the cattle are extinct then what do they feed on these Morlocks but you know yes I know another match yes Dudley I have no more I've used our last match oh all right we'll have to go back then we know the secret now anyway Morlocks living here underground and the masters of this age and our friends up above fatted cattle fed by the Morlocks cloth supplied and housed until the day when they're cut out of the herd and brought underground as food this is the future you're looking at this is what we made of the 20th century shall come that's it what is it I felt hands to him take one of these letters yes use it as a weapon lash out against this wall follow here beside me we went back in that evil darkness fighting every step as we went my side back to those projecting bars clawing ourselves in climbing up again up toward daylight and freedom away from their stench and the eagerness of their icy hands and they did not follow for daylight was their enemy and their great fear and we lived among the lush gardens of the little people like prisoners like men without reprieve like men who are dead though they still walk the earth for the time machine was locked away behind great brass doors and we knew we could never force them open then one day we not told us of an old building an ancient sagging structure that had survived through many ages and was filled with many curious objects a museum that's what it must be a museum foul perhaps from some earlier time I'm in no mood to go looking at a museum don't you see specimens hermetically sealed in museums perhaps there are things weapons machinery something we can use yes yes of course if we could find some dynamite or gunpowder or something glass those doors we could get in and where is this place we now this this old building that no one ever goes near I take you a chance old man a slim one but a chance nonetheless all day we wandered through the great ruined halls the building had been deserted unused for perhaps a century the child like men of that time had long since ceased to care about anything but their own personal comforts it was late afternoon and growing dark when we came upon the chemical section yet found nothing useful to us until then now came the worst disappointment of all and it's dust all of it been dust for centuries another dead end now it's hopeless we were out of our heads to hope that nitrates would retain their form for a hundred thousand years we go now it's nothing here wait just a moment something in this case you can break it with your lever stand back a little box of matches hermetically sealed now wait let me see when they're perfect but they're not even damp what should we do with them burn down those brass don't you'd better keep them you can't tell a lot on the floor you see them small narrow footprints leaning away into the darkness at the end of this gallery we'd better go pick we not been carryable after I'm forced I don't be frightened my dear it'll be all right go on run we came out of the gloom of that place into the deeper gloom of dusk and suddenly we saw we were trapped all around us with a morlock you were there by the thousand surrounding us and coming close in the long even line of deathly fight their eyes blinking in the half light their tiny mouths alive with appetite I'll let the matches I have them dip like a fire here please holy man the forest is dry hurry buddy we'll have an inferno here in a minute our little friends don't like like or heat the fire leap high to the heavens the country side with a blade the ball arcs turned in fear blinded by the glare some of them bonded into the middle of the raging flames and the rest faded away like a farm Dudley had left a narrow passageway for our retreat and we fled down a long corridor of leaping flames and blistering heat we fled to safety toward the community of the little people as we ran we passed the huge monument with its great ones door that were locked tight in our time machine and suddenly in the glare of the distant fires we saw something had stopped us short they're open follow the doors are open no it's a trap they're there waiting for us inside waiting or not we're going in it's to take me one minute to screw the levers on again then I touch them and we're away all right I'll try to give you a good boy no you you might hear you hold tight around my neck you're coming home with us all right all right let's go waiting I'll look for machine they haven't found it I don't see them yet come on now quickly the doors Dudley the clothes get in the seat I'll be ready in a moment I waited for the hum that would signal our departure they're in the darkness the Morlocks were finally upon us cold resistant fingers swarmed over my body tugging at me sucking me away from the machine I held tight to win as a man holds fast and like right to kick them away my feet hey Dudley hey let's see to get these levers weekly or we're done one more turn and it's in they're following away we're gone yes yes we made it are you all right I'm all right good and we know we know isn't with us what happened they tore her from my hands the last minute they got her I tried to save her I couldn't I still have a piece of a tunic here in my fist little piece of a tunic Dudley nothing else and so we came home again back into the very minute from which we had left back into 12 noon October 22nd 1950 we were in Dudley's laboratory again motionless sitting on the ridiculous contraption which he has called a time machine was it all a dream did any of it happen could any of it happen course not how stupid then what of this what of this little piece of thin green silk I hold in my hand escape is produced and directed by Norman McDonald today we have brought you the time machine by H. G. Wells adapted for radio by Irving ravage and starring John Danaer his father and Larry Dubkin as Dudley with Georgia Ellis as Wiener the special music for escape was arranged and played by Ivan Detmar next week escape with us to a small fishing boat off the California coast at a night of terror and death at the hands of a brilliant madman as Bud A. Nelson tells it in his exciting story seven hours to freedom Hollywood star Dick Powell plays Paul Revere and takes Charlie McCarthy with him on his historic ride tonight on CBS Charlie's flunked his history course so Bergen has asked Dick Powell to help him out the historic ride becomes hysteric as Charlie Bergen and Dick try to reenact the famous ride listen tonight and most of these same CBS stations stay tuned now for make believe town this is Roy Rowan speaking this is CBS the Columbia broadcasting system