2000 Plus - The Rocket And The Skull

0:00Out of the night on the rocket, on the mine night, the skull. 2000 plus science fiction adventures from the world of tomorrow, the years beyond 2000 AD. 2000 plus presents the rocket and the skull. The ship is on the ship. The ship is on the ship. Lieutenant, have you heard from Colonel Bradley yet? No sir, I've been trying to for ten minutes. We'll try again, yes sir. Be for base to our for rocket. Be for base to our for rocket. Come in the RF for rocket every time bad birase more than five minutes later, get the chittice.

1:03He's too important for this project not to know where he is every moment, yes sir. Be for base to our for rocket. Come in the RF for rocket. Try a scant of the enemy. He should be on the old hill of a lot of Detroit. Yes sir. Be for base to our for rocket. Come in our for rocket. We can't afford to have anything happen to him. The first experiment is being conducted tomorrow morning. Redberry is the only man who knows every step of the room to be. Be for base to our for rocket. Come in our for rocket. You're not getting him. Cut the scanner and return to standard beam. Yes sir. Come in our for rocket. He should have left an hour earlier and he could have taken a scheduled flight. But no, he has to work up for the last minute and then fly his own plane to get you in time. Be for base to our for rocket. Our for rocket. Be for base. This is our for rocket. Come in the RF for rocket.

2:04Be in contact at 14.0.6. It's about 80 miles out of Detroit. Give me that mic. Red, this is General Hilton. Are you receiving me? Go ahead General. What happened? We couldn't contact you. That's a problem with my stabilizer. Thought I might have to land. But it's okay now. Are you sure? We can't have anything happen to you. But worry sir. The first experiment is being conducted tomorrow morning. Everything is ready for you. Good. The entire General staff will be there. Maybe the president himself. Is there anything you want me to have done before you come in? Red, anything you want done. Hello, RF for rocket. I'm not getting a response. Be for base to RF for rocket. Come in RF for rocket. What's funny sir? He was receiving clear as a bell. Come in RF for rocket. He said the stabilizer had been acting up. I can mean a lot of trouble at 700 miles an hour. What's that? Automatic distress signal for coming from Colonel Bradbury's plane.

3:04Hello crack central. This is be for base. Automatic distress signal coming in on Channel 420. Colonel Bradbury flying a rocket jet X-93. Hey, it's stopped. Be for base to crash central. Automatic signal ceased to register as beam contacts X-16 over 8. Carry out emergency crash procedures. Repeat. Colonel Bradbury's rocket jet X-93 has crashed on beam position X-16 over 8. Check out. I'm glad you were able to get here general. We're going to operate very shortly. Like there is a miracle he's alive. If we'll be more of a miracle if he's alive one hour from now. You got to save him. He's an important man. Yes, the White House calls and sort of the Pentagon. We know Colonel Bradbury is important. But a shattered skull is very difficult. I know you'll do all you can. Stay right here general. We'll keep you informed.

4:05Where is south of our hands? I have a report from crashed central sir. Apparently Colonel Bradbury used the catapult parachute just before the plane crashed. Otherwise he would have been killed instantly. When he was catapulted up his shoot didn't open. He fell into a group of trees who were bred. It might have been better if he'd stayed in the ship. But he was a little bit more of a trouble. He was a little bit more of a trouble. He was a little bit more of a trouble. He was a little bit more of a trouble. He was a little bit more of a trouble. He was a little bit more of a trouble. It might have been better if he'd stayed in the ship. You heard what the doctor said? Yes sir. A shattered skull. The one brain we need to carry out the experiment tomorrow and this is what kind of... ...prove. Clams. Storm. ...scalpel. Batmine brown earth. Clams. The talic 80 over 40. The patient thinking is that more oxygen. The patient responding sir. Good.

5:06The patient responding sir. Good. Scalpel. The talic 80 over 40. Are we going to perhaps...? Have you a cigarette? Yes sir. Here you are. Oh this is waiting. Waiting. No, I'm brain surgery is very delicate, sir. May take another hour or even more. You carried out my orders to postpone the experiment? Yes, sir, until further notice. If Brad doesn't live, we'll have to start another man all over. May set the project back a year, and the year could be dangerous. Oh, you look surprised, Lieutenant. You don't know what this experiment's all about, do you? Well, I see the code name for it on the paper, sir, but it never has a description after all it's Mark Topp secret. Maybe it's about time you were told with Brad upstairs, and then you'll be able to make a life by a thread. I'm going to need a bright young man to give me some important assistance. You've come through with pretty good colors these last many hours. Thank you, sir.

6:06Well, we'll talk more about it in a little while. Right now I'm going to stretch out and quite arrest. I'm about done in... If I hear anything, I'll awaken you, sir. I don't expect I'll sleep. Not with the fate of the world, depending on a surgeon's life. But there's me operating in the house. I'm working on the work. Pardon me. Clown. Adjust the light. Yes. Scale proof. Probe. Yes. Quite a bone fragment. Spun. Clowns. Sixth eye. Seventy over forty. Oxygen again. It's pure oxygen now, sir. Nurse, we're there for transfusion. Sixty over forty. Patient thinking, sir. That's right, Nurse. Go ahead, Dr. Bowen. Hurry. Condition's claimed, Doctor. He's getting the transfusion. Let me help you, Dr. Bowen. There. Well, the doctor. 80 over forty. Good. He's responding. All right. Careful. Probe.

7:09Clown. Distinguished, even the rest. How long has it been? Almost two hours, sir. Two hours. Just about now, the general staff would be arriving. And Brad would be checking everything for the experiment in the morning. And have you any guess about that experiment about what it is? Well, I guess it is. It's about a new kind of aircraft. No, why do you say that? Well, because it's an Air Force project. Well, I wouldn't say you were warm, but you aren't cold either. The experiment and the reason it's so important concerns a rocket to the moon. A rocket to the moon, but why, sir? Why send one there? Who controls the moon, controls the world? If we had rockets on the moon, we could compel peace on earth. The United Nations would press a button and wipe any aggressor off the face of the earth. That means space travel. You don't mean that we're all old-tenant. We haven't found the way to send rocket ships with human beings to space, not yet anyway. But the rocket we're experimenting with is a two-way rocket.

8:11It can land on the moon and return from the moon. All electronically controlled from the earth. Fantastic, sir. Oh, that's quite feasible, I assure you. But we have reason to believe that we're not the only nation thinking of this. Time is of the essence. Colonel Bradbury knows more about operating these rockets than any man alive. And just on the verge of the experiment, this has to happen. Quiet. General Hilton. Yes? The doctor is your weapon. Take him at your time to you from the operating room. Brad? He's dead, isn't he? No, General. He's still hanging on. Dr. Rizio says that he now has a 30% chance of surviving. Thank you. Part of Colonel Bradbury's call is in fragmented. A head flight will have to be put on. Because of the size of the area, a new metal allotted flight will be used. It'll take a bit five or six more hours. Dr. Rizio suggests you go home, General, where you'll be more comfortable. The hospital will phone you if anything happens.

9:18The hospital will be in the hospital. The hospital will be in the hospital. The hospital will be in the hospital. The hospital will be in the hospital. The hospital will be in the hospital. He's coming out of it. Colonel Bradbury can you hear me? This is Dr. Rizio. Nice. Open the blinds a little. Good. Now, easy to back until I'm holding. Thank you. Ten days since the operation, he's just now coming out of it. He's a strong man. Almost any other person would have died. Colonel Bradbury. Colonel Bradbury, can you hear me? The... The bay... Rocket? Or Rocket? Yes, the beginning of the talk. Nurse, have Dr. Keeze come in at once?

10:18The eyes are puffed. Rocket, sir. General, what's wrong? Something's wrong. All right, Grandma, take it easy. You call for me. The nurse said he was coming out of it. He's talking erratically, typical sir. Rocket, be base. And that sort of thing waits to take the go jog on. Air force, no. Mars... Marshal. Marshal? He was all sort of code name. Mars is probably one of them. I think it about 48 hours, you know, to be out of shock completely. We can call General Hilton. Tell him to come over there for tomorrow. I'll take it easy, Colonel. Six months. In the order, being pretty good-shaped. Nurse, keep him comfortable. Back to Keeze and I will leave now. Rocket. The eyes are off. Wrong. Something wrong. It must call General. Call General Hilton. Mars.

11:18But, Marshal. Mars. Oh. Now we're dead back to the point. Remember random to General Staff? One. The new experiment is tentatively planned for April 3rd, 2016. Two. All security measures have been taken. Three. Although severely handicapped by Colonel Badbury's absence, newly trained specialists will endeavour to fill the gap. Anything more, General? No, no, Lieutenant. Sorry, I should say no, Captain. You like that extra bomb? Certainly, I do. Well, you've earned it, Bob. You've been a great help to me. Okay, note the memo with top secret and send it back similarly to the Pentagon. I'll take it, never mind. General Hilton, who? The president. Oh, yes, Mr. President. Of course, sir.

12:18Well, I've just prepared a memorandum, but that's only two weeks, Mr. President. We assumed about 60 days. Yes, sir. A work day and night to do it. Thank you, Mr. President. Captain, change the date in the first paragraph of the memo. The new experiment is to take place in two weeks. General, that's almost impossible. I know it and you know it. But there's one man who doesn't know it. And he says it's got to be done. I'm not disposed to argue with the president of the United States. I'd like to double check some of my notes on General Bradbury with you. Of course, sir. This afternoon, the general is coming to see him. But, uh, Colonel Bradbury. He's month of cover lessons. I have to lose it. Now, that's the point. He's not too lucid, but weak as he is. He talks normally for a while, makes sense. And then that strange reaction setting. I've observed it myself three times.

13:20Well, head injury cases are quite unpredictable. Perhaps, but according to my notes, Colonel Bradbury's strange reaction is taking place. Always, either at 10am or 5pm. Of the three instances I've observed, two have been at 10am, one at five. Well, that is unusual. And in each instance, well, I can see now my mind's eyes sitting around lying in bed. Talking quite sensibly, although no weak voice suddenly he becomes tense. He grimaces as if his head were in pain, even clutches the bed clothes with tight fists. He appears to be rigid. Then, as per a few minutes, invariably comes a flood of disjoint, the disconnected senses about messages, emergency crisis, state of the world, and Mars. Our general kitten is going to visit the Colonel this afternoon with about five o'clock. And do you expect the Colonel to have another strange reaction? I do. Surely, General Hill will realize that a man who had severe surgery, Kai, they can't tell what the General will realize, but my fear is that he may feel the Colonel

14:24is not improving his ability, might, and he may call in other doctors. But we're doing everything humanly possible. That is the irony of the situation. I could have killed the Colonel in surgery. It would have been very easy, but, well, important government officials are concerned I get worried. If we ever were investigated carefully, they might find out who you and I really are. And that would be dangerous. Very dangerous indeed. The Colonel will be there soon. You hear him? The thank-you nurse. Hello, Brad. Oh, I understand you wanted to see me. I came to see you as soon as I couldn't.

15:26Sit down. Sure, Brad. Don't worry about me. Brad, we're rescheduling the experiment. If you look to answering a few questions among the experiments. The terrible. Sure, Brad. Sure, I know there's a lot you want to tell me, but when you're still a sick guy, so... Suppose I just ask you a few questions and you answer them yes or no. That'll save your energy. Time. What time is it? It's a few seconds before 5 o'clock. Why? I mean, message coming. Message coming. What message? Trying to tell you. I didn't tell anyone else. Mars. Marsha. Mars. Marsha's. Trying to tell me what? Brad, go ahead and see. What's the matter, Brad? The nurse, the doctor. Something's happening to Colonel Bradbury. Hurry! Hurry! The doctor is here.

16:26Hello. Colonel. Is Dr. Ligio here? Can you hear me? Mars. Mars. The general here can be here too. Do you remember? And, sir, the general, strange things happen to the human mind. It's color, the metal plate. Mars. Calling Mars. Er, calling Mars. It's like a hit. It's like looking at it. It is a different point. Er, calling Mars. You are received. Mars receiving your call. Proceed. And, a bad day. Colonel. Nurse, we'll try a high point. Get one for a, please. A, a, a, a. I'll get two moon experiments. It'll take the place at 12 o'clock. It's got enough. It's got enough. The general here will propose a phone project in deputy. Thank you, nurse. Now I'll inject. You should be at the moment. Very incapacitated. Government is ordered to experiment to proceed.

17:28Here are your further orders. The experiment must fail. You are to be certain that all tests are taken. There. The habit was released to stint from you sleep now. The all right in your wakeings. I'm not certain, but in a few days we may be able to tell more. I know you're doing everything possible, doctor. And we're grateful for your saving Brad's life. But might not be wise to call in some specialists, some other doctors for consultation. There's so much information and advice we need from Colonel Bedbury. Call in other doctors? Well, general, I don't know that's necessary. It's so strange watching you. Almost as if you were listening to something. You know, now that I think of it, he did say something about a message. Do you think there's any connection I hardly think? So, general, after all we didn't hear anything. No, no. I'm afraid it was just the arrophic talk of a sick and injured brain.

18:36General, you really went through an experience watching the Colonel like that. Captain, he was almost in a fit. Had some crazy idea he was getting messages. Message your hallucinations. He was off his rocker for a while. And the very day I was a little brusque with Dr. Regio. He's a fine man, but I'd feel better if some other medicals looked at Brad too. I arranged for some specialists from Army Medical to examine him. Will you captain here? Sir, I'll do it promptly. The only thing more. On the experiment fire, your fire... General Hilton's office? At one moment please. For you sir Pentagon intelligence section. Intelligence. Hello. General Hilton. Yes. Yes. Are you certain? Put it in the president and the chief of staff in inform? Good. It's over over in 15 minutes. Right. What am I caught captain? Things are happening. Yes sir. General Hilton's car is stand by at West Empress. What things sir? Intelligence reports that the Eastern Alliance is definitely planning a moon rocket for the blast off in six days.

19:37You know what that means if they get there before the United Nations? Six days and we will be ready for 14 days. We really wanted three months. That's right. But how somehow they must have found out about our experiment and have agents that feed for some of our vital data? That's what the emergency meeting is about. For your car's ready general. Good luck. We're going to need it captain. We're going to need it. Keys. Doctor Keys. Have you heard? What is it? Some of the doctors are examining Colonel Bradbury. As I just met him. What? Of course I gave him permission. I had no choice. General Hilton requested it yesterday. Or are they? That's just it. Army medical. Army. How you can be so cold and calculating and surgery. So nervous now I cannot understand.

20:37Your record here is flawless. Your operation on Bradbury superb. No suspicion will attach to you or to me. If we conduct ourselves in a normal professional manner, what is the risk? Not they are the army. Now that means an intelligence section. They have routines about these things. We have no choice but to keep up with air. I know I know. But if they ever find out that we are the agents of Eastern Alliance. But we have mastermind the theft of certain mean rocket data. They will be ruthless doctors. Wutherless. General Hilton's office. I'm sorry the general isn't here. This is his aide. No sir, I don't know when he'll return.

21:38I suggest you place the information on our private faxsimilar line in code. Our extension is 8-3. I'll then give the paper to the general when he arrives. Yes sir, I'll turn the faxsimilar line on now sir. We can receive it at once. Thank you. Ah, it's coming in now. Report regarding Colonel Bradbury. Item 1. We have him, Doctor Regio. Item 2. The metal plate, surgically applied to Colonel Bradbury's skull. The metal skull plate. Martian voices. So that's what the Colonel's hallucinations are. It's fantastic. The message is handed. Let's move quickly. Very quickly.

22:40Military police. Hello General Hilton's office. At Central Hospital there are two staff doctors, Doctor Regio and Doctor Keys. Right, place them under arrest at once. Now, message headquarters please. This is General Hilton's aid. When the general returns, tell him I'll be at Central Hospital talking to Colonel Bradbury. But Colonel, I'm the General's aid. You can describe the voices to me. Now, what happened? My whole head vibrating. Very painful. Then I hear voices. What are they saying? It's talking to Martians.

23:40Martians. Apparently the metal plate on your head somehow picks up certain high frequency radio waves. At least that's the theory of the Army Medical itself. Martians, they want to stop the moon rocket. And at least from a little world. Colonel, you can't really believe that. You must have misunderstood. The real enemies are the Eastern Alliance. But their agents have been caught. Their moon project won't take place for a long time as a result. You just take it easy, sir. The Army is going to track down that wave length of the bow as your head. Then you'll recuperate peacefully. Captain Trouwak. Excuse me, sir. It's almost 5 o'clock. I've got to be going, sir. Just take it easy, please. Yes.

24:49Yes. Eight, three. Three, eight. Nine, one. One, nine. Chronos. Chronos is six, four, three. Your code is correct. Go ahead. Do not send the message to Mars on the regular wave length at five o'clock. Hereafter, you will be alternate wave length. I will submit a report explaining how our communications were discovered. But you can report this. The Eastern Alliance agents have been captured by the Americans. This reduces the chances of the Earth sending a moon rocket from two. To only one. I will say to it that that one does not succeed. Are you positive you can execute this plan? Without question. Go on. You may report to my superiors on Mars that their observation base on the moon is safe from discovering. Mars will continue to be the only planet controlling outer space. That is all. It shall be reported.

25:53Captain, I just heard that fact. Simley message in my office came as quickly as I could. Now what I know is just happening. Nothing on Earth is happening, General. What are you talking about? Why I mean everything is all right now, sir, isn't it? The Eastern Alliance has been taken care of. And there is reason to believe Colonel Badbury's weird hallucinations won't recur anymore. You know those are the two best pieces of news I've heard all day. Captain, I don't know what I'd do without you. Thank you, sir. I just try to do the best I can for my country. Next week, another exciting adventure from the world of tomorrow. From the years beyond 2000 AB. Be sure to listen.

26:532000 plus is produced by fire and whenossum productions incorporated. In today's cast, Arnold Robertson, with K. General Hillton, those who have been supposed to be women, Gregory Morgan, with Dr. Riggio, and that boy with him, with Dr. Volklund, with Colonel Badbury and Colonel George, with Dr. Keith. The orchestra was conducted by Amazon Blacklay Music composed by Elliot Jacobi, Sound, Walt Shaver, and Adrian Penner, engineer Bob Aldrich. This is Ken Marvin's thinking. Picture of Sean Scott.