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2. You're traveling
through another dimension-Copy !req
3. a dimension not only of sight
and sound, but of mind,Copy !req
4. a journey into a wondrous landCopy !req
5. whose boundaries
are that of imagination.Copy !req
6. Your next stop,
the twilight zone.Copy !req
7. "Well," I says
to jack pershing,Copy !req
8. "general, we ain't
going to getCopy !req
9. "no artillery
support.Copy !req
10. "They're dug in too deep.Copy !req
11. "Well, we're going to
have to enfilade 'em.Copy !req
12. "That's what
we're going
to have to do.Copy !req
13. "We'll have to
enfilade 'emCopy !req
14. to beat the band."Copy !req
15. Frisby, when are
you going to burnCopy !req
16. that mouth organCopy !req
17. or at least learn
how to play it?Copy !req
18. Well, it
relaxes me.Copy !req
19. Well,
"old black jack"Copy !req
20. knew who he was
dealing with.Copy !req
21. He didn't call meCopy !req
22. "old enfiladin'
frisby" for nothing.Copy !req
23. Horseradish.Copy !req
24. Where do you keep
the horseradish,
frisby?Copy !req
25. Top shelf.Copy !req
26. And ketchup?Copy !req
27. Right in back of
the cash register.Copy !req
28. Well, the
next morning,Copy !req
29. we attacked up
and down the line,Copy !req
30. and the rest is history.Copy !req
31. Smashed them to bits.Copy !req
32. Four and a half
hours later,Copy !req
33. we were in paris,
and an hour later,Copy !req
34. we're
in berlin.Copy !req
35. Oh...Copy !req
36. be my guest.Copy !req
37. Frisby, you're
the biggest liarCopy !req
38. that ever set by a stove.Copy !req
39. You doubting
my word?Copy !req
40. You can start with that.Copy !req
41. I'm not just
doubting your word.Copy !req
42. I'm calling
you a liar.Copy !req
43. How can you getCopy !req
44. from paris to berlin
in one hour?Copy !req
45. Find the celery, pete?Copy !req
46. Yep.Copy !req
47. How about turnips?Copy !req
48. Oh, all out.Copy !req
49. Get some
in the morning.Copy !req
50. We're waiting, frisby.Copy !req
51. How do you go
from paris to berlinCopy !req
52. in one hour?Copy !req
53. Well, now, that's what made
the operation so fantastic.Copy !req
54. See, I was doing
a little reconortin'Copy !req
55. and found a back route.Copy !req
56. Well, that's very
interesting, frisby,Copy !req
57. except last week,Copy !req
58. you sat right in
that dang chairCopy !req
59. and told us you was
in the balloon corps.Copy !req
60. Over the battle
of the marne,Copy !req
61. you shot down threeCopy !req
62. german fokkers
with a pistolCopy !req
63. and directed
the artilleryCopy !req
64. so the marines
could win.Copy !req
65. Well, I did, indeed.Copy !req
66. But that was
a year later.Copy !req
67. Let's see, that was...Copy !req
68. april 1917.Copy !req
69. Well, looks like rain.Copy !req
70. Tell by the clouds.Copy !req
71. Always tell by the clouds.Copy !req
72. Now, that big
job up thereCopy !req
73. that is astrata
cumulus opacus.Copy !req
74. You fellows know
anything about
meterology?Copy !req
75. Here we go again.Copy !req
76. I can't say
we do, frisby.Copy !req
77. Well, I can say
that I do.Copy !req
78. Majored in it at the
university of wichita.Copy !req
79. Got my doctorate.Copy !req
80. Wrote a thesee
at the age of 13Copy !req
81. that's still used
as standard text.Copy !req
82. Meterology and you
it's called.Copy !req
83. Folks that know sayCopy !req
84. it's the most
scholarly treatmentCopy !req
85. of the subject in the
history of the field.Copy !req
86. "Old cumulus frisby"
they called me.Copy !req
87. "Cumulus frisby."Copy !req
88. This guy's
a meteorologist,Copy !req
89. I'm vice-president
johnson.Copy !req
90. What did you say, lyndon?Copy !req
91. All finished,
frisby.Copy !req
92. Want to add it up?Copy !req
93. No, you go ahead and
do it for me, pete.Copy !req
94. Pencil and paper right
there on the counter.Copy !req
95. Do it by hand, only I had
a kind of a busy day,Copy !req
96. and I'm all pooped.Copy !req
97. Say, did I ever tell
you fellas about the timeCopy !req
98. I gave a demonstration
with the computer machines?Copy !req
99. 18 of them lined up
in an auditorium.Copy !req
100. Columns of figures,
eight digits apiece.Copy !req
101. Now, no pencils or
no paper, mind you-Copy !req
102. all in the head.Copy !req
103. Why, folks just came
from miles around.Copy !req
104. What happened?Copy !req
105. I didn't think
anybody'd ever ask.Copy !req
106. Well,Copy !req
107. four of 'em broke down
from overwork, two of 'emCopy !req
108. came up
with the incorrect answer,Copy !req
109. and I beat them all
by 21 seconds.Copy !req
110. "Old archimedes frisby"
they called me.Copy !req
111. Well, now that does it!Copy !req
112. I mean, I just
can't take anymore, frisby.Copy !req
113. I mean, I wouldn't mind
if you was a bright liar-Copy !req
114. I mean, you know,
if there was some logic to it-Copy !req
115. but, well, daggone,
the way you tell it,Copy !req
116. you'd have to be
100 different peopleCopy !req
117. living in 200 placesCopy !req
118. during 12 periods
of american history.Copy !req
119. Hallelujah
and amen.Copy !req
120. Well, now,
who can that be?Copy !req
121. Customers most likely.Copy !req
122. You just said a nasty word.Copy !req
123. You know the only
industrious thingCopy !req
124. about frisby's whole body
is his mouth.Copy !req
125. Easy, easy,
I'm coming.Copy !req
126. The reluctant gentleman with the
sizeable mouth is mr. Frisby.Copy !req
127. He has all the drive
of a broken camshaftCopy !req
128. and the aggressive vinegar
of a corpse.Copy !req
129. As you've no doubt gathered,Copy !req
130. his big stock-in-trade
is the tall tale.Copy !req
131. Now, what he doesn't know
is that the visitors out frontCopy !req
132. are a very special breed,
destined to change his lifeCopy !req
133. beyond anything even his fertile
imagination could manufacture.Copy !req
134. The place is pitchville flats,
the time is the present.Copy !req
135. But mr. Frisby's on the first
leg of a rather fanciful journeyCopy !req
136. into the place we call
the twilight zone.Copy !req
137. Do you want gas, or something?Copy !req
138. That's the idea.Copy !req
139. Why didn't you
pour it yourself?Copy !req
140. Well, as a
matter of fact,Copy !req
141. we're not
too accustomedCopy !req
142. to these rear
engine jobs.Copy !req
143. Oh, you're
not, huh?Copy !req
144. Well...Copy !req
145. I am.Copy !req
146. Matter of fact...Copy !req
147. I'm responsible
for her.Copy !req
148. You developed
them, did you?Copy !req
149. Oh, indeed I did.Copy !req
150. Got a phone call one
time from henry fordCopy !req
151. asking me to fly
out to detroit.Copy !req
152. And I did, and
48 hours later,Copy !req
153. I had developedCopy !req
154. the first rear
engine automobile.Copy !req
155. Mister, you're looking
at the granddaddyCopy !req
156. of the american
automobile.Copy !req
157. Right after I finished
that designing job,Copy !req
158. henry ford said to me,
"rear engine"-Copy !req
159. what he always called me,
"old rear engine frisby"-Copy !req
160. "rear engine,"
he says,Copy !req
161. "you are an
automotive genius."Copy !req
162. And I couldn't very well
argue with himCopy !req
163. on account of
he was telling the truth.Copy !req
164. Do you want it filled up?Copy !req
165. If you don't mind.Copy !req
166. Not at all.Copy !req
167. Not at all.Copy !req
168. Right under there.Copy !req
169. I know, I know.Copy !req
170. I put it
under there.Copy !req
171. This is the man.Copy !req
172. Frisby.Copy !req
173. Is that his name?Copy !req
174. Frisby, an incredible
specimen-Copy !req
175. done everything,
knows everything,Copy !req
176. studied in most of their
major universities.Copy !req
177. Holds a doctorate in
at least eight fields.Copy !req
178. Obviously a key man.Copy !req
179. Water and oil okay?Copy !req
180. I believe they are,
but you might check them.Copy !req
181. Might just as well
while I'm here.Copy !req
182. Well, that will be $1.80.Copy !req
183. Ten bucks.Copy !req
184. Is that what it is?Copy !req
185. Oh, yes, ten dollars.Copy !req
186. You folks from around here?Copy !req
187. No, we're from
quite a ways off.Copy !req
188. Oh.Copy !req
189. Well, if you're going
to drive a spell,Copy !req
190. why, you better
check in some placeCopy !req
191. fore you get started,Copy !req
192. 'cause those are
mean-looking old clouds.Copy !req
193. Looks like it'll
rain shortly.Copy !req
194. Can you tell when
it's going to rain?Copy !req
195. Tell? Rain?Copy !req
196. Mister, I can tellCopy !req
197. when the
humidity dropsCopy !req
198. one half of
one percent.Copy !req
199. Why, I can
predict fog, smog,Copy !req
200. rain, hail,
sleet and snowCopy !req
201. 24 hours before
it happens.Copy !req
202. Mr. Frisby,
we were wondering...Copy !req
203. uh, we'll very likelyCopy !req
204. be seeing you soon,
mr. Frisby.Copy !req
205. Well,
I hope you do.Copy !req
206. And remember what
I told youCopy !req
207. about the weather.Copy !req
208. You better check into
a motel or somethingCopy !req
209. until it blows over.Copy !req
210. We'll probably
do that.Copy !req
211. Thank you again,
mr. Frisby.Copy !req
212. Well, odd fella.Copy !req
213. Why, they believe
what you was saying?Copy !req
214. No, just kind of odd.Copy !req
215. Handed me a ten dollar billCopy !req
216. like they didn't even know
what it was.Copy !req
217. Well, how come
you didn't tell 'emCopy !req
218. you was alexander hamilton,
and that's your picture on it?Copy !req
219. That's one of
the few thingsCopy !req
220. I ain't heard
him claim.Copy !req
221. I'll see you
tomorrow, frisby.Copy !req
222. Yeah.Copy !req
223. I'll see you tomorrow, frisby.Copy !req
224. Okay, pete.Copy !req
225. Well... 5:00.Copy !req
226. That seems like a...Copy !req
227. reasonable hour to close up.Copy !req
228. Mr. Frisby?Copy !req
229. Frisby here.Copy !req
230. Mr. Frisby?Copy !req
231. If you walk out of your store
and head east down the highwayCopy !req
232. for 200 yards,
you'll have quite an adventure.Copy !req
233. H-how was that?Copy !req
234. You're not frightened, are you?Copy !req
235. Frightened?Copy !req
236. Me?Copy !req
237. "Stonewall frisby"?Copy !req
238. Why, dwight david eisenhower
said to meCopy !req
239. when I was the very first man
to climb into a landing craftCopy !req
240. headed for the french coast...Copy !req
241. that was june the 6th...Copy !req
242. 1944.Copy !req
243. "Stoney," ike said, "stoney...Copy !req
244. "you lead the invasion.Copy !req
245. "There'll be mines...Copy !req
246. "german e-boats...Copy !req
247. "stuka divebombers...Copy !req
248. "coast artillery...Copy !req
249. but you can do it."Copy !req
250. Exceptional.Copy !req
251. Well?Copy !req
252. L-I don't think
I better take the walk.Copy !req
253. It looks like rain.Copy !req
254. Then youarefrightened.Copy !req
255. We had thought that
you'd be the one manCopy !req
256. willing to take almost any risk.Copy !req
257. That may be very well, but...Copy !req
258. who may I ask
is saying all this?Copy !req
259. If you walk down the road
as I suggested,Copy !req
260. you'll find out.Copy !req
261. Well, rain
or no rain,Copy !req
262. I never was oneCopy !req
263. to duck a little
excitement.Copy !req
264. W-w-who are you?Copy !req
265. You'll find out.Copy !req
266. Well, all right, but wait till
I get my things put away.Copy !req
267. That won't be necessary.Copy !req
268. You won't be coming back.Copy !req
269. Come right ahead, mr. Frisby.Copy !req
270. We're waiting for you.Copy !req
271. That's right, we're
waiting for you inside.Copy !req
272. Impressed, mr. Frisby?Copy !req
273. Impressed?Copy !req
274. Why, with this rinky-dink?Copy !req
275. This looks like a flea on a dogCopy !req
276. compared to the one
that I designedCopy !req
277. for the united states
space agency.Copy !req
278. And that was back in 1951.Copy !req
279. "Old rocket thrust frisby"
they called me.Copy !req
280. Please, mr. Frisby,
be so good as to enter.Copy !req
281. How do you do,
mr. Frisby?Copy !req
282. Welcome, mr. Frisby.Copy !req
283. How do you do?Copy !req
284. Yeah.Copy !req
285. Movie prop,
ain't it?Copy !req
286. Yeah, that's what
it is, ain't it?Copy !req
287. One of them
hollywood thingsCopy !req
288. advertisin' a flying
saucer picture or something.Copy !req
289. Yeah, that's it...Copy !req
290. ain't it?Copy !req
291. In a word,
mr. Frisby, no.Copy !req
292. This is actually
a flying saucer,Copy !req
293. and we-
my colleagues and l-Copy !req
294. are from another planet.Copy !req
295. L-l-I got
to be going.Copy !req
296. Correction,
mr. Frisby.Copy !req
297. You are
staying.Copy !req
298. So why don't
you relaxCopy !req
299. and be
comfortable?Copy !req
300. What else did you gentlemen want
to know about?Copy !req
301. Your research
in liquid propellants.Copy !req
302. Oh, yeah.Copy !req
303. Liquid propellants.Copy !req
304. Mixed up the first batch
of that myself in my cellar.Copy !req
305. Folks in the hometown wanted me
to run for congressCopy !req
306. on account of
I'd got the country backCopy !req
307. in the space race.Copy !req
308. But if there's one thing
I ain't, it's egotistical.Copy !req
309. I figure, it's a man's
patriotic dutyCopy !req
310. to invent a liquidCopy !req
311. propellant if he has a mind to.Copy !req
312. And I was a mind to.Copy !req
313. Well, even as a boy
at princeton university,Copy !req
314. they used to call me
"old liquid propellant frisby."Copy !req
315. Next question.Copy !req
316. Mr. Frisby,
forgive me,Copy !req
317. but you mentioned princeton.Copy !req
318. It's my understanding
that you went to the universityCopy !req
319. of wichita.Copy !req
320. Well, that, too.Copy !req
321. Happens to be a factCopy !req
322. that I hold a degreeCopy !req
323. in 38 major universitiesCopy !req
324. of advanced schools
of higher learning.Copy !req
325. Got a rogue scholarship, too,Copy !req
326. but I had to turn that down,Copy !req
327. because I wouldn't bow
to the queen.Copy !req
328. Well, I think
that ought to take careCopy !req
329. of all of your questions.Copy !req
330. Now, if you don't mind,Copy !req
331. I'll be getting
home for supper.Copy !req
332. I...Copy !req
333. say, it's getting late,Copy !req
334. and I got to get
home for supper.Copy !req
335. I got to get out of here.Copy !req
336. I gather that
you don't quite
understandCopy !req
337. the situation,
mr. Frisby.Copy !req
338. How's that?Copy !req
339. You're not going home
for supper.Copy !req
340. You shall have supper here.Copy !req
341. Here?Copy !req
342. Precisely.Copy !req
343. In exactly... well, 14 minutes
by your measure of time,Copy !req
344. we'll be departing.Copy !req
345. Departing from
where to where?Copy !req
346. From here
to our planet.Copy !req
347. You see, mr. Frisby,
our assignment hereCopy !req
348. was to secure a
representative
earth specie,Copy !req
349. hopefully the
most brilliant
we could find.Copy !req
350. There seems
to be no questionCopy !req
351. that your
accomplishmentsCopy !req
352. are far and away
more extensiveCopy !req
353. than those of
any other human
being on earth.Copy !req
354. Mine?Copy !req
355. Frisby's?Copy !req
356. Now, wait a minute.Copy !req
357. Wait a minute.Copy !req
358. I'm just an old country boy
with a big mouth.Copy !req
359. Oh,Copy !req
360. come now,
mr. Frisby.Copy !req
361. You do yourself a
terrible injustice.Copy !req
362. We knowCopy !req
363. all about youCopy !req
364. andyour
accomplishments.Copy !req
365. Accomplishments?Copy !req
366. Well, uh, I guess you might
just as well know now as later.Copy !req
367. Only accomplishment I got
you fellas evidently overlooked,Copy !req
368. and, well, that is
I'm the god darndest liarCopy !req
369. that ever hit the pike.Copy !req
370. I spin the biggest yarns
west of the rockies!Copy !req
371. And I don't mean
exaggeration, I mean lies-Copy !req
372. l-l-e-s, lies.Copy !req
373. Don't you get it?Copy !req
374. Uh, mr. Frisby...Copy !req
375. there are some termsCopy !req
376. that we cannot relate
to our own language.Copy !req
377. This word "lie"
that you mention...Copy !req
378. you mean that...Copy !req
379. anything that anybody tells youCopy !req
380. just goes without saying that,
well, it's the truth?Copy !req
381. Hence, everything
that I've told you,Copy !req
382. you believe?Copy !req
383. Hence, you're going
to take me up to your planetCopy !req
384. and put me in a cage?Copy !req
385. Oh, hardly that,
mr. Frisby.Copy !req
386. It won't be a cage.Copy !req
387. We'll naturally have
to keep you confinedCopy !req
388. much as we do the
other specimensCopy !req
389. we've collected.Copy !req
390. Mr. Frisby,Copy !req
391. we have a marvelously
entertaining venutian.Copy !req
392. He sings on eight different
pitches simultaneouslyCopy !req
393. and accompanies himself
with his tail.Copy !req
394. Now, you wait a minute.Copy !req
395. I am a bona fide american
citizen, and I got my rights.Copy !req
396. And furthermore...Copy !req
397. please contain
yourself,
mr. Frisby.Copy !req
398. Now, since we shall be
departing very shortly,Copy !req
399. you have your choice
of supper now,Copy !req
400. or perhaps you'd
prefer waiting.Copy !req
401. What will be
your pleasure?Copy !req
402. Pleasure?Copy !req
403. My pleasure is to punch
you right in the jaw.Copy !req
404. Feeling better,
mr. Frisby?Copy !req
405. We'll be departing
in five minutes.Copy !req
406. Man, the last time
I saw anythingCopy !req
407. that looked like you,Copy !req
408. I'd been four days
on the corn jug,Copy !req
409. and even what I thought
I saw looked betterCopy !req
410. than you do now.Copy !req
411. Say, tell me,Copy !req
412. are the girls
where you come from-Copy !req
413. do they look like you, too?Copy !req
414. Oh, you'll become accustomed
to our appearance, mr. Frisby,Copy !req
415. much as we've been able
to accustom ourselvesCopy !req
416. to yours.Copy !req
417. Well...Copy !req
418. one thing I'll say about you,Copy !req
419. you... sure
are built hard.Copy !req
420. Oh, we are indeed...Copy !req
421. by your standards,Copy !req
422. which is quite
fortunate for us.Copy !req
423. Say, do you mind
if I relax a little?Copy !req
424. That horrible sound!Copy !req
425. You know, I was figuringCopy !req
426. on giving a concert
on this some day.Copy !req
427. Do you have harmonicas
on your planet?Copy !req
428. You better scat.Copy !req
429. They didn't call you
"old mile-a-minute"...Copy !req
430. stay in your room,
mr. Frisby.Copy !req
431. Frisby...Copy !req
432. let him out!
Lower the stair!Copy !req
433. No, don't
follow him.Copy !req
434. He has some sortCopy !req
435. of fantastic instrumentCopy !req
436. that lets out a death sound.Copy !req
437. We best get out of here
before he warns the others.Copy !req
438. Surprise!Copy !req
439. What's going
on here?Copy !req
440. What do
you meanCopy !req
441. what's going
on here?Copy !req
442. Why, it's your birthday.Copy !req
443. This is a surprise party.Copy !req
444. Here, sit down.Copy !req
445. The presents, give
him the presents.Copy !req
446. I've been waiting
all day for this.Copy !req
447. Open it up, frisby,
come on, open it up.Copy !req
448. Read it out loud.Copy !req
449. Yeah, yeah, uh, read...Copy !req
450. mr. Frisby, for the first time
in his life,Copy !req
451. is at a loss for words.Copy !req
452. I'll read
it for him:Copy !req
453. "World's
greatest liarCopy !req
454. "mr. Somerset
frisbyCopy !req
455. "presented by his friends and...Copy !req
456. "occasion of hisCopy !req
457. 63rd birthday."Copy !req
458. Go ahead, frisby.Copy !req
459. Make a speech.Copy !req
460. I've been waiting all day
for this.Copy !req
461. Yeah, come
on, frisby!Copy !req
462. Tell us one of them
real whoppers.Copy !req
463. Where you been
the last couple of hours?Copy !req
464. Did-did you invent something?Copy !req
465. Or maybe you took a quick trip
up to the moon, huh?Copy !req
466. Now, you know,
you ain't very far wrong.Copy !req
467. Do you know who them fellas
was out there in that car?Copy !req
468. Well, I'll tell
you who they was.Copy !req
469. They was from
outer space.Copy !req
470. Now, wait a minute.Copy !req
471. I don't know
how they did it,Copy !req
472. but they just
whooshed meCopy !req
473. right through the air,Copy !req
474. right into their
flyin' saucer,Copy !req
475. and they was
going to kidnap me!Copy !req
476. But this is the truth,
honest, honest.Copy !req
477. You know how I got away?Copy !req
478. I just took out my harmonica...Copy !req
479. blew a couple of chords, and
they just fainted dead away.Copy !req
480. Aw! What
did I tell you?Copy !req
481. Ain't he the perfect limit?Copy !req
482. He sure is!Copy !req
483. But this is the truth.Copy !req
484. They had a big eye
right in the middle,Copy !req
485. and they whooshed...Copy !req
486. mr. Somerset frisby,
who might have profitedCopy !req
487. by reading an aesop fable
about a boy who cried wolf-Copy !req
488. tonight's tall tale
from the timberlandsCopy !req
489. of the twilight zone.Copy !req
490. Rod serling,
creator of the twilight zone,Copy !req
491. will tell you
about next week's storyCopy !req
492. after this message.Copy !req
493. And now, mr. Serling.Copy !req
494. We have a return visit next weekCopy !req
495. from a most imminent performer,
Joseph schildkraut.Copy !req
496. And his vehicle is called,
"the trade-ins."Copy !req
497. It's a story of a future societyCopy !req
498. in which new bodies
may be traded for old.Copy !req
499. It's my own personal feelingCopy !req
500. that of all the various
story areas we've tackledCopy !req
501. in the twilight zone,
this has the most import,Copy !req
502. and carries with it
the most poignance.Copy !req
503. I hope you'll be able
to be with us next week.Copy !req
504. Here in one cigarette,
a chesterfield,Copy !req
505. is all the flavor and tasteCopy !req
506. of 21 of the world's
finest tobaccos,Copy !req
507. aged mild and then blended mild.Copy !req
508. The end result-
tobacco too mild to filter,Copy !req
509. a pleasure too good to miss.Copy !req
510. Smoke for pleasure,
smoke chesterfield.Copy !req
511. This is james arness.Copy !req
512. You know, it's only a short hopCopy !req
513. fromthe twilight zone
to dodge city ingunsmoke.Copy !req
514. Saturday nights
over most of these stations.Copy !req