There Will Come Soft Rains-Zero Hour

Countdown for blast off, X minus 5, 4, 3, 2, X minus 1, fire. From the far horizons of the unknown, come tales of new dimensions in time and space.

These are stories of the future, adventures in which you'll live in a million could be years on a thousand maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, presents To predict the future

Can you tell what will come in 100 years or in 10 or in the next minute The night we present two ventures into the unknown Two fantasies of a future chosen from the works of one of our most brilliant young science fiction writers Ray Bradbury first his story entitled there will come soft rains. The house was a good house planned and built to be

lived in in the year 1980. The real estate agent had told them all about it. Now this is the bedroom. Of course it contains all the latest devices, self-warming blankets, and there is a brand new feature, beds which make themselves. Now if you just step this way through the library. We can see the latest in talking book recorders,

self-building fireplace, self-cleaning robot dust disposal. Oh these little mouse-like things come out of the wall and take away all the dirt. Now over this way, as a complete robot kitchen of course, just set the menu for the week and the stove does the rest. Then there's the automatic hydroponic garden, self-sprinkling fire protection see the house is fully automatic well you could go away for a

year that would run itself and so the family took perhaps the man and the woman and the two children a boy and a girl and they lived contentedly enjoying music and poetry and being rich warm things in life and the house fed them and slept them and entertained them it made a good life for them until one day