Escape · October 22, 1950 · 29 min · 3,759 words
The transcript of “129- The Time Machine -John Dehner- -2”, an episode of Escape first broadcast October 22, 1950. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Escape plays Escape free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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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.
with us now, to the year 100,080, and a world where beauty and terror live side by side, as H.G. Wells describes it in his immortal story, The Time Machine. Dudley, you must be mad. The Time Machine.
Yes, my friend, the Time Machine. This... this thing... this very thing. contraption. This framework 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, Father, 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. A 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 to it's impossible out of the question and
what are 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 prime on follow sit in the seat beside me face his ivory dials and I'll take you for a little spin.
Well, you mean right now? Right now. Or just, in case this thing should take off like the flying red horse. Are there any preparations? No, Fowler, no. You won't need the luggage on this trip, not even a toothbrush.
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