Family Theater: Stopwatch Finale
Family Theater · June 13, 1951 · 28 min · 4,103 words
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Family Theater presents Robert Young and Mac Donald Carey. From Hollywood, the mutual broadcasting system in cooperation with Family Theater brings you Mac Donald Carey in stopwatch finale. To introduce the drama, here is your host, Robert Young.
Thank you for coming up on. As a little footnote to our drama, I'd like to mention first Family Theater's purpose. Family Theater wants to put the word prayer back into all our vocabularies and put the daily practice of family prayer back into our homes, all our homes everywhere.
And now to Macdonald Carey starring in stopwatch finale. From Cerny Edward Gibson legally tried and condemned to death in the Rebittan death house, there are these unusual facts to remember. Time's going fast, Warden. Get your mind off the time, Gibson.
No word from the governor yet? Not a thing. Can I get you any magazines? Thanks. I think I'll just wait. What's the time? Oh, exactly. Four minutes after five. That makes it six hours roughly. Right.
Six hours to live. I wouldn't keep thinking about it Gibson. He wouldn't, huh? I'd do something. Get my mind on other things. What, for instance? Oh, I'd read the Bible or something. You're asking me to read a Bible when I've got six hours to live?
I can't figure a better time to read one. Yeah, yeah, I know. They all do it, I suppose. Well, if you want, I'll get the chaplain too. You don't need chaplains of Bible's warden when you don't believe in God.
Gibson, you wouldn't be trying to fool me, would you? I think you're a pretty decent fellow. Decent, huh? Yeah. When they tried me and found me guilty, you still say that? That's right. Thanks, anyway.
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All right, go ahead. This is self sketch each person under his own by-lanner, or each family under the family by-lan. And his family theater always reminds us, the family that prays together stays together. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
But the family theater has brought you stopwatch finale starring McDonald Kerry. Robert Young was your host. in our cast were Maris O'Brien as Louise, Tutor Owen, Lamont Johnson and Paul Nexsey. The script was written by Timothy J. Mulvay with music composed and conducted by Harry Zimmerman and was directed for Family Theater by Joseph F. Mansfield.
This series of Family Theater broadcasts is made possible by the thousands of you who feel the need for this type of program. By the mutual network which responds to this need and by the hundreds of stars of stage screen and radio who give someone selfishly of their time and talent to appear on our Family
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