Family Theater: Treasure Island

Family Theater presents Marta Torren and Terry Kilburn. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theater brings you Terry Kilburn in Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island.

To introduce the drama, your hostess, Marta Torren. Thank you, Charles Hollington. Family Theater's only purpose is to bring to your attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives if we are to win Peace for ourselves. Peace for our families and peace for the world.

Family Theater urges you to pray, pray together as a family. All of us spend many happy hours living in the shadow of our memories. One of my first recollections was hearing my father read to me the wonderful stories of childhood by Robert Louis Stevenson.

So tonight on Family Theater, it's like calling on an old friend when I introduce Robert Louis Stevenson's well-remembered classic, Treasure Island. Now, as Jim Hawkins, Terry Kilburn will tell you the story of adventure, pirates and the treasure.

I remember it all as if it were yesterday. And often at night, I awakened a sweat. My ears ringing with the angry boom of the surf. After Treasure Island. The whole fantastic adventure began back in England.

Late on a bitter, foggy, frosty day after my poor father's funeral. I was down in the parlour of the Admiral Benbo Inn. With our only guest, Captain Billy Bones, a mysterious seafaring man with a livid saber cut across one cheek.

Métis! Métis Morum! The Captain, the Doctor, said that... This week is a woman. If the Doctor hadn't bled me after my stoke, I'd be able to travel. Get away from here. Get away where they'd never find me again.