Family Theater: Pinocchio

Family Theatre presents Joan Leslie and Mel Blank. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theatre presents Mel Blank in the Adventures of Pinocchio. To introduce the drama, your hostess, Joan Leslie. Thank you, Jenny Lefrano.

Family Theatre's only purpose is to bring to everyone's 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. Tonight, family theater takes great pleasure in presenting the Adventures of Pinocchio, starring Mel Blank as Pinocchio. That's upon a time an old woodcarver named Capetto was given a strange piece of wood that seemed almost alive.

So, Capetto decided to carve it into a little wooden puppet. They know the story, Joni. Come on, let's have some action. One morning in his humble cottage, Gepetto assembled his carving tools and started to work.

Oh me, this is the liveliest piece of wood I ever worked on. I think I'll call this little puppet Pinocchio. What's that? Did I hear somebody laugh? How could that be? I'm all alone here.

I do believe it's this piece of wood that's laughing. Perhaps my knife is tickling its ribs. Hold still, bit of wood, stop wiggling. There now, I'll finish. Hello Pinocchio. Well, imagine that, a talking wood carver.

Hello, you funny old man. Whoever carved you out sure made a mess of it, didn't he? Why, you ungrateful little rascal. I've bought your ears for that. Oh, yeah, you'll have to catch me first.

Eppin' o' kill, come back here, pin o' kill! Well, what do you know? I haven't been born five minutes, and I'm running away from home already. Oh, hulked in the name of the king. Uh-oh.