Tales of Tomorrow Season 1 -Vol 1
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00:00 [Music]
00:14 Tales of Tomorrow.
00:17 [Music]
00:21 Presented by Jock Chrysler.
00:24 [Music]
00:38 Yes, Chrysler, who brings you tomorrow's watch band styles today.
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00:49 It features Chrysler's new Monte Cristo watch bands for men and Chrysler's new jeweled watch bands for women called flirtation.
00:58 And speaking of flirtation...
01:01 [Music]
01:05 This is how they did it in the days of Madame Pompadour.
01:08 She was the greatest beauty of her day and the biggest flirt too.
01:12 Yes, flirtation has always been part of romance and fascination.
01:16 So these fascinating new Chrysler watch bands for women are well-named flirtation.
01:21 Never have watch bands been so beautifully designed.
01:25 For now, they have the jeweled look that makes them look high fashion.
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01:53 So convenient, so comfortable.
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02:19 [Music]
02:47 [Door buzzer]
03:05 >> Hathaway? Tim Hathaway?
03:08 >> Where do you want?
03:09 >> I'd like to talk with you.
03:10 >> This hour of the night?
03:12 >> Mind if I close the door?
03:16 >> Jethro, Will Jethro, 24th Precinct.
03:20 >> You're a cop.
03:21 >> I was in trouble a little while ago over at the Clover Club.
03:24 Somebody shot a woman.
03:26 I was sent here to investigate.
03:27 >> Investigate? Me? It's none of my business.
03:32 I think it is, Hathaway.
03:34 >> What are you saying? What are you trying to tell me?
03:36 What's it got to do with me?
03:37 >> We got a description of the man who did the shooting from an eyewitness.
03:41 Fits you to a T.
03:44 >> Okay, Hathaway, you want to talk about it?
03:46 >> No.
03:48 I want a drink. I want to talk about it.
03:51 >> Look, I'm only trying to do my job. Don't make it tough.
03:54 >> Everybody's always trying to do a job.
03:58 >> Why don't you start off by telling me who the woman was?
04:02 >> All right.
04:04 The woman I shot was my wife.
04:09 Sit down.
04:10 >> Okay.
04:12 >> It's a long story.
04:14 Starts five, six years ago.
04:17 You want a drink?
04:18 >> No, thanks.
04:19 >> You better have one.
04:21 Because when you hear what I've got to say, you're going to need it.
04:25 Sure.
04:27 Sure, my wife was an angel.
04:30 That's why I had to kill her.
04:36 We've got the wrong idea of angels, my friend.
04:38 They're not good.
04:41 That's why I had to kill her before she killed me.
04:47 Yes, we were married four years.
04:51 I was about 40.
04:53 She was 35.
04:55 We were pretty happy, I always thought.
04:58 And then one evening, something strange happened.
05:04 That's how it all started.
05:14 >> Tim.
05:16 Tim, darling.
05:18 >> I'll be there in just a minute, dear.
05:20 >> Come and help me with these buttons.
05:21 I can't reach them.
05:22 >> Hang on, I'll be right there.
05:28 >> Oh, darling.
05:29 >> Monsieur Le Messiaen.
05:31 >> He will certainly be happy when he gets that out-of-the-way cocktail.
05:36 >> Back here, darling.
05:38 >> There we are.
05:43 >> Thank you, sweetheart.
05:45 >> Any time at all, pet, any time.
05:47 Would you like to try a sample?
05:48 >> No, thank you.
05:49 I don't want to be on my face before Jack.
05:51 >> Well, he probably wouldn't notice it.
05:53 He would think he was in his office and start taking pictures.
05:58 You feel all right?
05:59 >> Never better.
06:00 >> You sure there's no pain anywhere?
06:02 >> Oh, I can't even feel anything.
06:03 Don't worry, darling.
06:04 It couldn't have been a broken rib.
06:05 It healed too fast.
06:06 >> No, but Jack told me the x-rays he took.
06:08 >> Yes, I bet any money that he made a mistake.
06:11 Probably why he wants to bring over the new set, the ones he took today.
06:14 Wants to apologize.
06:15 Oh, darling, did you feed Jack?
06:17 >> Oh, yes, yes, I fed the puppy.
06:20 Now, dear, hurry up, will you?
06:21 >> Oh, yes, sweetheart.
06:22 >> I want you to sample this and tell me if there's enough vodka.
06:26 Oh, there's Jack now, dear.
06:28 I'll get him, you go, will you?
06:29 >> All right.
06:34 >> And there's the doctor.
06:35 >> Hello, Ted.
06:37 >> Well, how are you feeling, Jack?
06:38 >> Pretty good, and you?
06:39 >> Oh, top.
06:40 Say, let me have your coat.
06:41 >> I have it.
06:42 >> Here, take this, will you?
06:43 You'll get into that athaway eyeball, huh?
06:48 Say, what is this?
06:50 >> It smells like an operating room.
06:51 >> You're supposed to drink it, not sniff it.
06:55 Say, old sore bones is here, dear.
06:57 >> Say, I'll go and get some more ice.
06:59 She'll be right out.
07:01 >> Oh, hello, Jack.
07:02 How nice of you to come.
07:03 >> Hello, Joanna.
07:04 >> Well, doctor, what's the verdict?
07:05 Shall we amputate?
07:07 >> We may have to amputate, but it'll be the M.D. at the end of my name that's coming off.
07:11 >> What?
07:12 >> Joanna, you had yourself a very bad fall on the sidewalk Saturday, and you broke a rib.
07:19 I have x-rays to prove it.
07:21 And, you know, you don't argue with x-rays.
07:25 >> I'm not arguing, Jack.
07:26 >> Well, I am.
07:28 Yesterday was Monday, and I took more x-rays, remember?
07:30 >> Yes.
07:36 >> No break, no fracture, nothing.
07:39 >> So?
07:40 >> Joanna, it just isn't possible for a normal human being to sustain a broken rib on Saturday
07:46 and then find no evidence of that broken rib on the following Monday.
07:49 >> Jack, is it possible for a doctor to get hold of the wrong instead of me?
07:52 >> Oh, now, Joanna, please.
07:54 >> I'm only asking, Jack.
07:56 >> Well, it's possible.
07:57 >> There we are, ready for the plunge.
08:00 >> Did you get enough ice, Doug?
08:01 >> Oh, yes, plenty, Jack.
08:02 >> Of course, I have my doubts about this, but...
08:04 >> Oh, it'll be all right.
08:06 [ Music ]
08:26 >> Gentlemen, don't mind me.
08:27 I think I'll be turning in.
08:28 >> Well, I have to be running along pretty well pretty soon myself, so...
08:31 Oh, how about a nightcap?
08:33 >> All right, Jack, sure.
08:35 >> You all right there?
08:36 >> Oh, yes, of course.
08:38 Good night.
08:39 >> Good night, Joanna.
08:40 >> Good night, sweetie.
08:41 >> Good night, darling.
08:47 >> I wanted to wait until she'd gone to bed.
08:49 I know it's very late, but this is important, Tim.
08:52 This X-ray business with her broken ribs.
08:55 >> Oh, what about it?
08:57 >> This is serious, Tim.
08:58 Let me get these prints, huh?
09:00 I'll show you what I mean.
09:03 Now, this is the picture that I took the day of the accident.
09:06 You see the break?
09:08 >> Sure.
09:10 >> Well, now, this is the print that I took yesterday.
09:14 Same Joanna, same position, same rib.
09:17 Two days later.
09:18 What do you see?
09:20 >> Well, it's not broken.
09:21 >> Right.
09:22 It's completely healed.
09:24 Not a scratch, not even any evidence of a fracture.
09:27 I'll tell you, Tim, that it's things like this that makes a fellow study his pictures more closely than ever.
09:32 And believe me, I've studied these very, very closely.
09:35 That's how I happened to discover these other things.
09:39 >> Oh, what other things?
09:40 >> Her heart, for instance.
09:42 You remember a year ago, Joanna came to me for a checkup.
09:45 >> Yeah?
09:46 >> I took an electrocardiograph and took some X-rays.
09:48 Her heart was perfectly normal.
09:50 Now look.
09:52 A heart only half the normal size.
09:55 >> It's unbelievable.
09:57 >> And her appendix.
09:59 Look at it.
10:00 >> I can't see it.
10:02 >> It isn't there, Tim.
10:06 >> You mean she has no appendix?
10:08 >> That's right.
10:09 But she had one a year ago.
10:11 And she's had no appendectomy.
10:12 >> No, she hasn't.
10:13 She has no scar.
10:15 No appendix.
10:17 A heart half the normal size and a rib that knits in two days.
10:23 Tim, there's something medically strange about Joanna.
10:27 Very strange.
10:29 [Music]
10:55 >> Oh, I thought you'd be asleep, dear.
10:57 >> Is Jack gone?
10:59 >> Yes.
11:00 He tells me that your broken rib is mended perfectly.
11:03 >> Yes, he told me.
11:05 What else was he saying?
11:06 >> Oh, nothing.
11:07 We just talked.
11:08 >> Just talked?
11:09 >> Yes.
11:10 Well, it's not important, dear.
11:11 Just a lot of nonsense about your heart getting smaller, your rib mending so fast,
11:16 something about your appendix.
11:17 >> Tim, sit down.
11:18 Sit down.
11:20 We've got to talk about something, Tim.
11:23 I didn't intend for you to find out so soon.
11:26 >> Find out what, dear?
11:29 >> How can I make you understand?
11:32 Tim, I'm changing.
11:37 I was afraid that Jack would notice something when I went to him about the broken rib.
11:41 I sort of hoped he wouldn't.
11:43 But perhaps it's better that we talk about it now.
11:46 >> What are you trying to say, dear?
11:48 >> I'm changing.
11:49 I'm changing in many ways, not just the size of my heart, no appendix,
11:53 but other things that even Jack doesn't know about.
11:56 That's the part of it, but only a small part of it.
12:00 I've discovered things about myself, things that are sometimes strange,
12:05 sometimes even frightening.
12:08 I can -- Tim, I can do things I don't think anybody else can do.
12:15 I can control objects.
12:18 I can make things move, in other words, Tim.
12:21 >> For heaven's name, stop saying things like that.
12:24 Please, darling, you must be ill.
12:26 >> No, I'm not.
12:27 >> Now, look, dear, you're exhausted.
12:28 You're worn out.
12:29 Let's pack up and go away tomorrow.
12:30 >> No, no, no, I must show you.
12:31 I must show you, Tim.
12:34 Tim, look.
12:38 Look.
12:40 [ Music ]
12:53 I must be seeing things.
12:55 What is it?
12:56 What is this?
12:57 >> Listen to me, listen to me, listen to me.
12:59 I have the power to do lots of things other people can't do.
13:01 That's what I'm trying to explain to you.
13:03 I think that I'm becoming an entirely new kind of human being.
13:10 I'm developing every day.
13:12 I'm learning things.
13:13 I'm growing stronger.
13:14 It's almost as if I were just growing up, reaching maturity.
13:19 Tim, look in the top drawer of the bureau.
13:22 Go ahead, please.
13:23 Please.
13:25 While you're away during the day, I'm studying.
13:28 I'm learning new things.
13:30 I'm working.
13:32 >> The elastic impact of the mesons, living guideposts of the past.
13:37 John, I'm making nuclear fission as a source of power.
13:39 >> Yes, can't you see that I have an intellect that's developing and advancing just as my other powers are?
13:46 >> This is frightening.
13:48 I can't understand it here.
13:50 What about us?
13:51 What is all going to lead to?
13:53 >> I don't know.
13:54 Already I've grown beyond you.
13:58 A few months, a few weeks, even.
14:00 >> Then you have to stop it, dear.
14:02 You must.
14:03 >> I can't stop it.
14:04 I can't stop it.
14:05 Can you expect a plant to stop growing?
14:06 Can you make it go back into a seed?
14:08 I can't help it.
14:10 I'm becoming a different being.
14:13 Oh, my darling, I can't take you with me.
14:15 I can't take you with me.
14:16 >> Darling, I love you.
14:17 >> I love you.
14:19 I love you with all my heart.
14:22 But soon that love will change.
14:26 The kind of love that we have for Champ, the sort of love you have for a lower species.
14:32 Oh, forgive me, my darling.
14:34 I don't want that to happen.
14:35 I couldn't bear it.
14:37 So I think we'd better make the break now.
14:43 >> Oh, no.
14:44 >> Yes, yes, yes, while we have the right memories, the pleasant memories, not bitter ones.
14:47 Can you understand that, my precious?
14:50 I wanted it to take longer.
14:54 Now you found out too soon, we'd better face it.
14:58 But now, leaving you still hurts.
15:04 It hurts very much.
15:20 >> Before we go back to our tale of tomorrow, let's take a look at yesterday.
15:25 Let's go back to the days of swordsmanship and the famous Count of Monte Cristo.
15:32 On guard, defend yourself.
15:35 Remember Monte Cristo, famous swordsman on the field of honor?
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15:45 Inspired by the royal crests of old, each of these Chrysler watch bands carries a fabulous coat of arms.
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15:53 Here is the Fleur de Lis crest, the emblem of nobility.
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16:28 Go to your jeweler.
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16:38 Quite a story.
16:52 Quite a story.
16:54 The next morning, the morning after the doctor paid us his visit, she was gone.
17:02 Just like that?
17:03 Just like that.
17:04 What did you do?
17:05 What could I do?
17:07 I had no one to turn to.
17:09 I couldn't expect anyone to believe me.
17:12 What about the doctor?
17:14 Did you talk to him?
17:16 I tried.
17:18 What's the use?
17:19 He's a medical man.
17:20 The only thing that interested him were the physical changes.
17:23 You said it was five years ago that she left you.
17:26 But tonight...
17:27 Well, I saw her a year later.
17:29 You did? How?
17:30 Oh, I kept waiting, hoping, reading newspapers.
17:35 I didn't know exactly what I was looking for, but something told me that one day I'd find something.
17:42 And then, one day I did.
17:49 The picture was blurred.
17:51 The name was different.
17:53 But something seemed to tell me it was Joanna.
17:57 It couldn't be anyone except Joanna, even though the paper said she was only 20 years old.
18:05 I took a plane to Berkeley, California.
18:21 Joanna!
18:37 Tim!
18:38 Sit down and be quiet.
18:40 I know that here is Marianne Parkhurst.
18:42 Joanna, you've come back to me.
18:44 You've got to come back to me.
18:45 Don't be silly.
18:46 I've explained it all to you.
18:47 But I can't understand that, dear.
18:49 All I know is that I love you and I want you with me.
18:52 Tim, don't.
18:53 Darling, it was all a trick, wasn't it?
18:55 Tell me it was a trick.
18:56 The statuettes, the X-rays.
18:58 You were angry about something you wanted to get away from.
19:00 But that's all past, dear.
19:01 Come back to me.
19:03 It wasn't a trick.
19:04 Look at me.
19:05 Look at me, Tim.
19:06 Am I the same?
19:08 Of course you're the same.
19:11 You're no different.
19:12 You're no different to me.
19:13 I am.
19:14 I'm changing every day.
19:15 Now I know why this is happening.
19:17 I know what it's leading to.
19:20 I'm the first of a new race.
19:22 A new kind of being.
19:24 I don't understand all that.
19:26 All I know is that I love you.
19:30 You mustn't shout like that.
19:32 Nobody knows about me here.
19:33 Nobody must know until everything is ready.
19:36 Oh, Joanna.
19:37 Tim, wait.
19:39 Where are you going?
19:40 I'm going to get my coat.
19:41 You can't talk here.
19:42 I'll be back in four minutes.
19:44 [door opens]
19:45 Joanna.
20:04 Where are you?
20:06 Joanna.
20:09 Joanna.
20:10 [phone ringing]
20:12 Well, I guess I will have that drink.
20:20 Broom Plaza, huh?
20:27 It disappeared through the wall, you figure?
20:30 You tell me.
20:32 Did you see her again?
20:34 Not for four years.
20:39 Not for four years, you say?
20:43 But I heard from her, though.
20:45 Oh?
20:46 She wrote to you?
20:47 No, no.
20:48 I kept reading newspapers and scientific periodicals.
20:52 I kept this scrapbook.
20:54 You see, every once in a while I'd read about an invention by some young woman scientist.
21:00 I knew always that it was Joanna.
21:02 Some new discovery in the field of radiation.
21:06 Now, for example, you take this.
21:09 I knew that that was Joanna.
21:11 And over here is that electronic telescope.
21:14 It all led to the same thing.
21:16 I kept track of it.
21:17 Joanna, somewhere in the world, working, growing, developing.
21:23 I couldn't forget her.
21:26 Four years passed, and then tonight I saw her again.
21:32 I suppose I've been growing despondent over losing Joanna, drinking too much.
21:38 I even thought of killing myself.
21:41 I bought a gun.
21:43 But I guess you'd say I was on the skids.
21:46 But I kept thinking it would suddenly be all right again.
21:50 That I'd come in the house one evening and Joanna would be there and it would be like old times.
21:56 Tonight I went to the Clover Club.
21:59 Lately I've been going there more and more frequently.
22:03 But tonight, as I walked in, my heart almost stopped.
22:08 There she was, more beautiful and radiant than ever.
22:13 It was as if she had come back after all.
22:16 This horrible nightmare was over.
22:20 My Joanna was mine again.
22:23 Warm and beautiful.
22:26 Right in front of me.
22:29 Joanna. Joanna, darling, Joanna.
22:40 Don't touch me.
22:41 Joanna, you've come back to me.
22:44 I'm waiting for someone else. Go away and leave me alone.
22:46 Joanna, darling, I still love you.
22:49 Can't we forget these past five horrible years and begin again?
22:53 Don't be ridiculous.
22:55 We're a different species now.
22:58 I'm not of your kind anymore. Go away.
23:02 Joanna.
23:03 You're nothing to me. Nothing.
23:05 My time...
23:07 Our time to rule is coming soon.
23:11 Sooner than even I realized.
23:14 You've been listening.
23:23 You've been listening.
23:26 Joanna.
23:28 Joanna.
23:42 You've...
23:43 I have to.
23:44 You've killed him.
23:45 He heard us.
23:47 But you... you killed him in cold blood.
23:50 Why?
23:51 He might have told others.
23:53 We're not ready yet. I can't wait.
23:56 So you decide just like that.
23:59 You destroy just like that.
24:01 You're not human.
24:03 You have no feelings for me or for anyone.
24:07 You've got too much power, Joanna.
24:11 There's no one to stop you.
24:13 Get rid of anyone who stands in your way.
24:16 You're ruthless, hard, cold.
24:18 That's what you are.
24:19 A menace, a terror.
24:21 Heartless, godless.
24:23 Jim.
24:25 No one is safe while you live.
24:28 And you ran all the way home after you shot her?
24:40 You didn't stop anywhere?
24:42 No.
24:43 No, I came right home.
24:46 I suppose it's murder.
24:49 I'd call it execution.
24:52 She was my wife, but she wasn't human anymore.
24:56 She could have made the world unfit to live in.
25:01 If I hadn't killed her, someone else would have.
25:05 People like her have got to be killed, and killed they will be.
25:14 This so-called new class will find out
25:17 that might does not make right now or in the future.
25:22 You're wrong, Hathaway.
25:24 Wrong?
25:25 Joanna is still alive.
25:28 What?
25:29 Your bullets couldn't possibly harm Joanna.
25:32 She's alive and she's waiting for me.
25:34 Waiting for you?
25:35 Just as she was waiting for me tonight when you interfered.
25:40 When I interfered?
25:41 Yes.
25:42 You see, she's not the only one.
25:45 Between Joanna and me, the new race will begin.
25:51 What are you saying?
25:53 Are you trying to tell me that you--
25:55 Me, Hathaway.
25:57 Me.
25:58 [static]
26:01 Our secret's got to be kept a little while longer.
26:24 [applause]
26:28 So ends our tale of tomorrow.
26:48 Two weeks from tonight, look for an exciting new tale of tomorrow,
26:52 "The Crystal Egg," by H.G. Wells and starring Thomas Mitchell.
26:58 And now, a final word from the Chrysler kids.
27:02 [music]
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27:45 [music]
27:49 [music]
27:52 [music]
28:16 "Candy's Gowns" by Bonwit Teller.
28:19 [music]
28:22 Two weeks from tonight, Chrysler brings you Thomas Mitchell
28:38 and H.G. Wells' "The Crystal Egg,"
28:41 a new adventure in "Tales of Tomorrow."
28:46 Remember, next week you'll thrill to "Tales of Tomorrow,"
28:52 the exciting science fiction show presented by Jack Chrysler.
28:57 Men, make your watch look better than new with Chrysler's handsome
29:00 Monte Cristo expansion watch band with a richly enameled crest.
29:05 And ladies, see how Chrysler's new flirtation watch band
29:08 adds jeweled beauty to your watch.
29:10 Remember, look for Jack Chrysler at your jeweler.
29:13 It's the name that means quality in watch bands.
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