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2000 Plus - The Green Thing

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Broadcast on:: 24 Jun 2024
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Adventures in the world of tomorrow, the magic stories of science fiction from the years beyond 2000 AD. Today, the story of a horrible mike nail that wouldn't stop, even when the dreamer woke up. A story called "The Green Thing". It is the year 2000 plus 175. It is late evening, and all is peaceful and quiet in Dr. Harvey Grondon's sanitarium. Outside, on the vast estate that stretches away from the main building, there are only the soft country north. The wind sighing in the trees, the shrill trippings of innumerable crickets. In the well furnished rooms, the patient's sleep stretched out on comfortable mattresses and clean white sheets. The country breezes straying over their form. In room 32B, Mr. Sellers sleeps deeply with his head on a fluffy pillow. He sleeps, and he dreams. Help me, help me, please. So, in the light of the growing psychological problems facing our nation, the government has sent me to you, Dr. Grondon, to enlist your aid. Since you're the country's outstanding psychiatrist, well, I'm honored indeed, Mr. Carley. But I don't know that as much as I can tell you about the advancement of psychiatric research, it isn't being published in the medical journals. Well, Dr. Grondon, isn't there anything that you're working on now, something definite? I know you're a cautious scholar, but Mr. Carley, it isn't possible to announce sweeping new generalizations in our kind of science. Our work is painstaking, complex, highly subjective. It takes the case of one of the patients here in the sanitarium. Oh, buddy, will you bring our records to Mr. Sellers? Well, you've talked to Grondon just one moment. Summer is about 40, 41. It was about five months ago, suffering from a melancholia. Yeah, the records, Dr. Sellers. Oh, thanks, sir. As you can see from these notations, he's been feeling much better the past few weeks. Mm-hmm. Yes, I see. Until last night, when he suddenly woke up, screaming in his bed, he was being attacked, he shouted, by some sort of green devil. We had to have this job getting him under control. Now, in the past, Summers had spoken quite often of a green hat that he lost as a child. His father, he remembered, had punished himself for losing it. - And later, like... - Grondon. This is all very interesting, but you can hardly call this dream analysis anything new. Yes, it has been known for centuries. Well, then I don't understand Mr. Carley. I know why he came to see me. Apparently, I haven't been able to keep my achievement as secret as I had hoped. That's right, sir. We've heard rumors. All right, Mr. Carley, I've said that Mr. Summers' dream is very unusual. Now, would you like to see it? I mean, see his dream? Exactly. I am going to show you a motion picture of Mr. Summers' dream. Photograph from the subconscious mind, exactly as he dreamed it. MUSIC I attach special nerve electrodes. And these electrodes pick up the current impulses of the brain. Then these impulses are transmuted back into pictures on the film of the machine, really very similar to the method of wireless photography. Here's Mr. Summers' dream deal, doctor. Oh, fine, thanks, Eddie. The injector tube is ready, so I'll just place the dream real in it. And there. Hold on to your hat, Mr. Carley. You're going to see an actual dream. MUSIC Yes, yes, sir. Well, Mr. Clobber, three slices of lemon drops will do. You think I don't see him putting the pennies in his pocket when he knows they belong to me? Three slices of lemon drops to his little boy. I'm not a little boy, Clobber, and you know it. I'm all grown up, but I don't come to your store anymore. I don't even live here anymore, and you steal pennies. All right, all right, get out, now, good boy. Take your lemon drops and get out. Get out. MUSIC I have no Clobber hat music in his store. I don't like his music. Now slam his door, I'll go out in the street. Now there won't be any more pennies stealing music. MUSIC What's that? It won't go away, it won't go away. Summers, I am calling you. What's that? Clobber? It's... It's green, it's a monster with great pink eyes and long stalks. It's standing in front of me, it has claws. You're not a little boy anymore, Summers. No, no, no, no, don't touch me with your claws. Come with me now, Summers. You are mine. You belong to me. No, no, no. You're touching me. Don't! Don't! Don't help me! Don't make me! Please! Please! I better get to him at that moment of a dream machine, shut off. You, some dream. Now what effect will the discovery of this dream machine have on psychiatric research, Dr. Grinton? Well, I've only just perfected it about four or five months ago. I've got perhaps 40 or 50 photographed dreams in that file. 40 or 50? Yeah. However, as far as developing new techniques and treatments, maybe years before I can get them analyzed and correlated so that overall theories can be drawn from them. As long as that. All you understand, Mr. Colleen, why it's a little difficult for me to answer your questions. That dream was fascinating. I've never seen anything like it. A doctor, I know I'm presuming on your time, but I'd like to see just one more. I'll have to report on these at the Government Bureau. Well, only one more though, I'm sorry, but I'm quite busy. What about this one here? The purple tag. What's that for? I haven't seen that one myself yet. Purple tag means it's been the violent war. Mr. Love, hmm, sick man. I will try it. Sorry. Oh, Seth. Be quite nice. How'd you do, Mrs. Kemp? Oh, I'm climbing a wall and it's only two of us. How warm me. Me, I'm a little old enough. I can tell things I'm a little... I'm a sense of that. The gibberish, I'm afraid. Rob's a difficult case. I'm a societal tendencies. Sounds like a good family. It's a very successful business, man. I'm... Can you do anything for him? Oh, I think so. A lot of times when he can be reached, lose his moments. And some of his dreams are very true. Seriously? Oh, sailing in for the head of the show. I mean... Seventy-paw. You are not frightening me. I don't need you. You can't scare me, but I don't know. Don't touch me. Your claws. Your green claws. Your green claws. Doctor, look. On the screen. Look, there it is again. That green thing. No. It's impossible. Two people that possibly have the same dream. I don't understand it, Betty. I can't understand it. I didn't do all the records at both of them. Summer's and Rob. There's nothing in that background. I would cause them to have the same dream. Are you sure they haven't been together at some time? I'm positive, Doctor. They haven't even met. Mr. Rob came there only a month ago and he was placed in the violent war to meet me. He's never been out of it. It's possible for people to have similar dreams, yes, but never the dream of the same unusual, horrible, specific subject as that green thing. Every detail was the same. The pink eyes, the claws. Makes me shudder myself. Betty, I want our dream reels. All those I haven't seen. Oh, now you're not going to view them all. If it takes you... I don't get how long it takes. I want to see them all. I've got a funny feeling inside. That I won't be at ease until I know. Until I'm sure. Sure, what, Doctor Grandma? Sure, that none of the other patients have had that dream. That same, horrible dream of... That green thing. Green nine, Mr. Jordan. So I put the sound on. Oh, no, not necessarily. We can see it if it appears. No, nothing here. Green ten, naphonum. No, nothing. I don't think we'll find anything, Doctor. It must have been a freak, a coincidence. Keep going, keep going. Dream eleven, Mr. Craig. Green twenty-one. Nothing there, either. Dream twenty-two. Maybe you're right, Betty. I'm beginning to thank myself. Doctor Glendon, Doctor Glendon, look! There it is. A green thing. Green forty-two, Mr. Bradley. Hold up the shot, hold it off. That's it again. A green thing. Four of them, Carlin. Four dreams of that monstrous green thing. Each one for a different patient and each one during the past week. Carlin, there's something there. Something to make even a psychiatrist feel frightened. Carlin, the patients weren't having a dream. They couldn't be. They had nothing in common but the fact that they're in this sanitarium. Why, even the nature of their illnesses are different. Doctor, aren't you getting a little mixed up yourself? Huh? You saw those dreams. I saw them. Betty saw them. Don't you think? I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't think so. You saw those dreams. I saw them. Betty saw them. I know it's incredible. Listen, to have a dream means that you create that dream. You and nobody else. I mean, you think the patients didn't create those dreams. They're not their dreams. There is such a thing as thought projection. Mental telepathy? Yeah. Well, why should anyone want to do that? Some of them may have found out about the dream machine. Maybe jealousy, or grudge, or hatred of psychiatry in general. There are many reasons. What we've got to do is to find out where it's coming from. The patients must be protected. Oh! First, we've got to find out whether this telepathy is coming from inside or outside the sanitarium. And we've got to track it down. I tell you, darling. Whoever's trying this terror by mental telepathy isn't going to get away with it. I'm not going to stand by while a lifetime's work is destroyed by a campaign of terror against my patients. It's going to institute protective measures at once. Anything yet, doctor? Oh, I still have the goddess beam beamed on the area directly around the main building. I don't expect to find anything so close, but I want to switch every inch of the ground. I still feel whoever it is is on the ground. I can't be sure of anything, except that I'm convinced that the staff is loyal, and I have a hunch that whoever is transmitting these thought waves will want to be close enough to judge the results. July, bring the patients down now, doctor Brandon. Oh, yes, Betty. Go get them, will you, please? It's possible that they may be able to help us. They may have felt current seminating from a certain direction. I think the goddess screen has reached its range, lemon doctor. It's repeating itself. All right, I'll give it wider focus. I'm going into the ground now. Wait, there's something. I figure you're on the screen. Yeah, I see him. I ain't gonna clap a stick or something. Who is it, doctor? Can you tell? I don't want to alarm him. I'll signal that the fool calls. Let me. That red button on the wall, isn't it? Oh, no. No calling. Never mind. That is one of the patrol corps. I can see his arm band. It's bad. Well, I'll switch the machine to the North French. There's another figure. Well, you seem to be well-directed. Another member of the patrol corps. Well, let's hope the patients will be able to hear the Betty. Doctor. Doctor. So, uh, the Betty, where the patient? They're gone, doctor. I think it's a penis. And the fifth patient has just begun screaming in his room. The green thing. The green thing. 54, all accounted for, doctor. So far that a missing would make 58. That combination we have. I checked the nurses. Eight besides Betty. They're all here. And the patrol corps have checked the rest of the staff. And no one has left the grounds except the four patients. Unless somebody got in and carried them off. No, no. No jet mobiles and no jet ships have been in the vicinity between the time the patients were last reported. And now, the patrol corps are about for that. There's the village. Linfield? Oh, it's the only village for a hundred miles. But it's a backwoods country village, a quaint place. Never kept up at the times. Oh, I doubt that they have any jet mobiles and Linfield much less jet ships. You can't arrange for transportation there, can't you? The inn. Wait, that's where they go. Why did I think of that before? It's a center of the village, the gossip spot. If the patients send it down at all, news of them would spread to the inn. Betty, you take charge of your calling. I'm going to Linfield. How long have you begun, doctor? Until we find them. They're no longer alive. [Music] Sorry, I can't help you, no, doctor. I ain't seen no strangers. Spoke to no strangers. You're heard of no strangers. A lot of our transportation jet will be able to, the jet ships. You can put in any calls for jet mobile service going on to two months. Not since Miss Jennings busted her leg, and we had to send her to the hospital in the city. Oh. [Laughs] Jet ships. Right. Last time one of them flaming monsters landed here, we nearly had a ride in Linfield. Then fools off our question base, you promised. That's around a wild goose chase, actually. That's so insane. Well, thanks anyhow, Mr. Barker, you've been very helpful. [Laughs] Oh, she says. That flying city jet believes in all this, doctor. I do, I do. Hey, everyone knows there's ghosts everywhere. Hey, Jet, there's no such thing as ghosts. There's ghosts. There's ghosts. There's ghosts in every village in town. [Laughs] Hey, there's the doctor. Doctor Glendon talking to Mr. Barker. I put it up to him now, okay? What'd you say, Doc? There's no such thing as haunts, ghosts, rather now. Hey, you tell my ignorant friend. I was listening very carefully, but if it's ghosts you're talking about, there's never been any scientific evidence that they exist. Odds don't exist. That's what you're trying to say ain't it, Doc? That's right. Oh, come on, Carling, let's get out of here. Hey, hey, no ghosts. This, this, that's an educated man. He knows this. Yeah. And who'll you tell me what that green thing was looking around down near the cage? Yeah, we ain't the only one who's seen it. Right, boys? Right. A green thing? Where? Where are these kids? They're right down the river. Right, Doc. You ain't going there. Night time now. Oh, no, no, no. Carling, don't you wish it? I've got my right, Doc. You're crazy. I'm telling you, there's a haunt. Why are they in a man in his whole village go with you tonight? I'm a totally a ghost, you're not even worried. But if we're not out of those caves by dawn, you better come for us. It won't be a ghost that's holding us. This must be the right cave, Carling. There's the only one with a brush trampled out in front of it. The area's a tomb in here. I'm sure the light's bright. I don't hear anything. They just don't want to be taken by surprise. These kids have to be as quiet as possible. All right, come on. Hey, what's that? Carling, what are you? Carling, are you all right? I'm coming for me. The green thing, the green thing. It's water. It's terrible. No, no, there's nothing there. You're on the floor of the cave, but there's no one near you. Nothing. All right, there's a sleep. He's having a dream. That same dream. Hey, my darling, come on. Snap out of a coming. There's only a dream. Only a dream. I mean... There's something like a dream. I mean... I feel dizzy and tired. What's the matter with me? I'm falling asleep. How? I won't. I won't let myself. Dr. Glendon. Dr. Glendon, I am calling you. You must come with me. No. No, I won't. I'll face you. I'll face you. Come with me, Dr. Glendon. I control you now. No, of course. No, of course. It's just a dream. I know it's a dream. I'm going to wake up. I'm going to wake up. I'm going to wake up. I did it. I'm awake. I crunkered the cleansing. Did you... Did you conquer me, Dr. Glendon? Huh. I can't be. Standing over me. The pink eyes and long stalks. They're clothes. A green theme. (screaming) (music playing) Right in here, Dr. Glendon. Into this rough chamber. And you, Mr. Carling. Don't worry. You won't fall. My will is controlling you. My patience. Over there in the corner. Well, Bradley. Summer's gone. I won't be sent to him. Summer's all right. Bradley, this is Dr. Glendon. You're Dr. Glendon. What's the matter with them? They just don't understand you anymore. They are attuned only to Venusian thought wave. Illusions. You're from the planet of Venus? That is right. For a long time, we have been observing your... your resources and your remarkable technology. But we did not know how to conquer you. For we of Venus have no strength for physical dexterity. Only mental power. If you haven't told me that, I'm going to beat that horrible body of yours to a public-grade master. You hit only air, didn't you? I'm growing tired of this game. Stop. I will that your arms obey me, and not you or... I can't lose 'em. Call if you stop it. Do not be foolish again, and I will return their motion. So hypnotize my patients the same way, did you? Those dreams are a little more complicated than what you earthlings call hypnosis. But it is mind control. I have come to earth to prove to my planet that this is the way to conquer your earth. We will control the minds of its inhabitants, and thereby control their strength, their physical dexterity. I began on your patients first because their minds are more easily controlled. What do you want up? Their bodies. They can perform physical acts that I cannot. With their bodies, we Venusians can continue our investigation of your planet at close range, and we can also study the structure of the earthling when I bring them back with me. Bring them back. The Venus? Do not worry, my dear doctor. I shall not separate them from you. I will also take you and your companion with me to Venus as rare prizes. Earthling, buying these two men. No, don't do it. I'm your friend, your doctor. No, let me go. What are you doing? You shot the monster. I got it lastly. Maybe he didn't know the earthlings had weapons, too. Like ray guns. Why doesn't it fall? He's still standing. Did you really think you could hurt me with that? Your death rays have no effect on me. No effect on my body. Drop your weapon. Find the men. Oh, shoot them. I'll kill you, please. You cannot. But if you could, I would not care. There are millions more to choose from. You can kill yourselves, too. You are replaceable, except to yourselves. You are trapped. Your only escape is death. What's wrong? The crumbling. The explosion of your rage on calling it. Loosen the rocks. It's a case man. We'll be worried alive. It's a crime, isn't it? It's a crime. Not the patients. It wasn't anything to close us again. It's a crime. Take care. That's the mouth of the case. Attorney, doctor. It's lunch. It's lunch that's fallen here, too. There's one thing when justice is in mouth. You move that one, I think what you make it. Fine, help me, doctor. I'll get the patients, too. All right, come on, then. Here. Go. All right, listen. Move it. Move it. All right. All right. All right. Now, let me just squeeze through now. You go first, doctor. Pull the patients after you. All right. All right. All right. All right, I'm out. All right. Come on. All right. That's it. All right, bad. Are you next? Come on. That's the way. All right. You're summer's. All right. All right, doctor. All right, doctor. All right, doctor. All right. All right. All right. Oh, you got it. All right, my guess. Oh, good. Help me. Earthlings. I got all the stairs. He can't squeeze through. He has no physical strength. Earthlings. Earthlings. Come over. The green terrain. They're going to have power come on calling quick further release it not be shoved this lock over the opening I want to see it. Thank goodness. It was bad. Look out, stand back. It collapsed. The entire cave fell in, and we were just in time, escorting, and time to save earth from the horror of the green things. Next week, an incredible story about a man of science who dared tamper with the secret of human life. Be sure to listen to that which lived in a head of steel. 2000+ is produced by dryer and when Olsen Productions incorporated. Today's guest, Lon Clark, by Clinton, Joseph Julian was calling, Helcher Sandegard was Miss Connors, Gilbert Mack was raw, John Griggs was summarized, and Henry Morel was the green thing. The script was written by Edward Martin. The music was composed by Elliot Sir Courtney, the orchestra conducted by Emerson Buckley, Sound, Walt Shaver, and Adrian Penner. engineer Bob O'Briggs. Save on a Riley Brake Parts Cleaner. Get two cans of a Riley Brake Parts Cleaner for just $8, valid in store only at O'Reilly Auto Parts. America, we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 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