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Presented by Chrysler, a name that makes hues in what band?

How did the moon threaten the world by twisting children's minds?

Tonight, Tales of Tomorrow presents Many Happy Returns.

Starring Gene Raymond.

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Sure that thing goes right there? Yeah, sure, Dad.

That's where it goes.

Mm-hmm.

What happens after the switch?

Nothing, Dad.

That's it.

Hmm. Haven't you forgotten the wires that feed the electricity to the switch?

No.

Look, son.

A switch is used for making or breaking the connections in an electrical

circuit.

What's the point of having a switch if you have no power to feed through it?

This is right, Dad.

How's a machine going to work unless you've got power?

No source of power? Let me show you. This switch here... Don't touch it!

I wasn't going to touch it.

I'm sorry, Dad.

I didn't mean to yell.

It ain't going to work, son.

Oh, it'll work, Dad. Mr. White's got it all figured out.

Mr. White again, huh?

Fifteen minutes till dinner, son.

Jack! Andy!

Yes!

Happy anniversary, Dawn.

Ah, not till midnight.

Jack, coming up. Well, I'm afraid we're going to have to give the mad scientist

another 15 minutes or so.

Oh, no, we don't. He gets lost down there. Jack, come on up and wash now.

Just a minute, Mom, please.

Honestly, what he does to keep himself busy in that cellar hour after hour is

beyond me.

Beyond me, too, electrically speaking, that is.

Jane,

do you know of a handyman around here by the name of White?

White? No, I don't think so.

Dr. Barnes has a handyman.

He cuts the lawn, does our jobs.

Julius something or other.

I don't know what his last name is. Might be him.

Speaking of the devil.

Hiya, Doc.

Come on in. Hello, James.

Andy, come over here.

Look. Full moon coming up. Light clouds at 18,000 feet. And by 8.30, we'll have

unlimited visibility.

Looks pretty good. We're concentrating on the upper right quadrant of the moon

tonight. You know, it's beyond me.

Why, two grown men, grown men, that want to spend their evenings peeking through

a telescope at the moon.

Jane, I'm surprised at you.

Astronomy is the oldest science known to man.

By the way, Doc, do you know the last name of your handyman?

Julius... I don't know. I just call him Julius.

Could it be White?

I don't think so.

Well, do you know of a handyman or electrician or maybe an engineer in the

neighborhood by the name of White? White, White, White.

Well,

it's not important.

Well then, observation period begins promptly at 8.30. Oh, don't worry, Doc.

I'll be there. Oh, by the way, bring your lenses with you. Yeah, I won't

forget. So long, Doc. See you later.

Oh, now this has to stop.

Jack? Yes, Mom?

Come up this minute right now.

Now, Jack, you don't want me to come down and get you, do you?

Okay, Dad.

I'll be right up.

It's about time.

Are you washed?

It's a good thing for you that you are.

You're as bad as he is. Down in the cellar the minute you get home.

Outdoors only when it's dark.

You're both beginning to look like a couple of mushrooms.

Hey, that's pretty gruesome.

It's about time.

Did you get it all finished?

Uh-huh.

Does it work?

Are you sure?

Of course, Dad.

I fixed it just the way Mr. White told me to.

It works fine.

Just fine.

I'm late again.

Well, I've forgotten something.

I can't remember what it is. I know. Your whatchamacallit. My lenses. Sure,

let me see where I put them. Oh, no.

The cellar. Oh, just like a steel trap.

Just like a steel trap.

Dad,

are you all right?

That thing who'll get you out a glass of water.

Oh, yeah, I'll call the doctor. I know Let me sit here a minute

You're gonna be all right, aren't you?

There was enough power in that thing to electrocute me yeah, I'm real

sorry you mean the The thing Jack was building did this to you?

How did you know how to build it?

Mr. White, I told you.

Who is this Mr. White?

I don't know.

What do you mean you don't know?

You've spoken to him. He told you how to build it, didn't he? Yes, he did, but I

didn't exactly talk to him.

You didn't talk to him?

No, I didn't have to. You see, whenever I want to know something, I mean about

building the machine.

He tells me.

He tells you?

How? Where?

He just tells me, that's all.

Now, Jack, where do you meet him?

I've never met him. Not the way you mean. How does he tell you things?

He talks to me.

I can hear him.

Inside my head.

Now, Jack, I'm not going to be angry with you if you tell me the truth.

But I want you to tell me, where do you meet Mr. White?

I told you I've never met him. Just one night I was lying in bed, and I looked

out the window, and I heard him. He was there.

There?

Where?

In the moon.

Jack, this is serious. Your father told you not to be afraid to tell him

anything.

In the moon?

You mean you saw him?

No, I didn't see him. I heard him.

He talked to me.

He said he wanted me to make something for him.

Wanted you to make that thing?

That's right.

Well, go on.

Now, how did his voice sound?

Soft, as if he were very close to me. Right in the room.

He tells you what to get and how to put it together?

Does he ever talk to you about anything else, except what you're making?

Sometimes he says that someday he'll see me. He'll come here, from the moon.

He's all alone there.

Jane.

Jack, what's the machine for?

It's a way for him to send me things.

And when you get it finished, he'll... he'll send you something? He's already

sent me something.

I told you it worked.

I was just making some changes so that he could... Well, there were

improvements.

You mean he's already sent you something?

Would you mind telling us what it is? It's a picture of himself.

I wanted to know what he looked like, and I thought it might be nice if I had

a picture of him.

You mean... You can ask him for things?

Well, not exactly ask him.

I think about it, and he knows what I'm thinking.

I had to explain what a picture was. I mean, tell him about the camera and the

film and everything.

And then he sent me a picture.

Jack.

Would you mind showing us the picture? No, you can see it.

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And now back to our story.

Many Happy Returns, starring Jean Raymond.

Jack, this isn't anything human. Darling, darling, where did you get this

picture? From the machine, Mom. Mr. White sent it to me. Now stop calling it

Mr. White. That's the name of something human. This isn't anything human. I

wasn't doing anything wrong.

I know you weren't, Jack.

You better go to your room now.

Don't worry, I won't touch it again. And neither will you.

Maybe he got that picture out of some magazine or book. You know, one of those

fake pictures. No, I don't think it's a fake.

I think he... Somehow he did get it from something out there.

Randy, that's impossible.

That's not so impossible.

We'll be able to send things to the moon one of these days.

They've already invented explosives that'll send rockets outside the

atmosphere.

Apparently this Mr. White has got something better.

An immense electrical discharge.

Enough to wallop something 239,000 miles with the accuracy of a bomb site.

Oh, that's a tall order.

But it could be done.

Well, it has been done.

But how... How did he talk to him?

He must stimulate the auditory centers of his brain somehow.

Mental telepathy.

Across hundreds of thousands of miles of space.

This isn't much of an anniversary for you, is it?

Could this thing hurt him?

It hasn't yet.

But if it came here... Andy, he said it would come here.

Sending a picture is one thing, but making the trip itself.

Didn't Jack say he was making some changes, going to make some kind of

improvement?

I don't even say a word against him. All right, son, I won't say anything against

him, but tell me this.

You were working on the machine, making some sort of improvement, you said? What

kind of an improvement, Jack? No, no, no. Now, Jack, tell me, please.

Now, was this improvement so that Mr. White could come down to Earth through

it? Was that it? I can't tell you. I can't tell you.

Now, Jack, come here.

Jack, you used to talk to me before about Mr. White. Why not now?

He won't let me.

What do you mean, he won't let you?

He can't stop you, can he? Dad, please, please. Can he?

How?

What's the matter?

Dad, can't you talk?

He... He won't let you?

Now, Jack, look at me.

Keep looking at me.

He can't stop you from talking.

I'm here.

I'm your father.

I love you and I want to protect you. Do you understand?

Now, he's reaching out across those hundreds of thousands of miles and

touching your brain with his will. But my will's stronger, Jack, because I love

you. Do you understand that?

Now, he can stop you from speaking, but he can't stop you from telling me what I

want to know, can he?

Can he?

This improvement was this so that mr. White could come here Was it so

was it so he could send you something else something larger Was it so you

could send him something send him something what did he want don't you

know he hasn't told you Jack what have I smashed the machine will that help us?

Jack

Jack, is this, is yours the only machine besides the one he might have?

There are others?

Where are they?

Are they here in the town?

Who has them?

Friends of yours?

Friends of yours?

So that's it. It's worked through the children.

I called Dr. Barnes' house, but his wife said he was out with a club.

I... Andy, what's wrong?

Mr. White?

He's got hold of the boy's mind.

Wrapped himself around his brain so he can't talk to us. Oh, no.

No. No. Jane, take it easy. Take it easy.

Jane, don't leave him alone for a minute.

Where are you going?

There are other kids in the neighborhood. Kids who are making the

same sort of machines as he is. Andy, what does it mean? I don't know. But if

it starts like that, twisting and warping the minds of children, I'd be

afraid to find out.

Oh, my baby.

My baby.

Gosh, I didn't know, Mr. Drew.

Jack and a couple of the other kids have been building them. Peter, are you able

to send things through this machine to Mr. White? Yes.

Well, just a few things.

He wanted anything we could find.

I set up a few things like a tape measure and an electric light bulb.

Peter, now tell me, how do you do it?

How do you send things to him?

Well, you put what you want to send in a package, and you throw the switch and

just hold it over the coil.

And that's it.

It goes.

Thanks, Pete. Thanks for everything.

Randy, I don't understand.

No, it's perfectly simple, darling.

They taught me how to make this in the army.

It's a booby trap.

Even some little less four ounces of pressure will set off the whole bundle.

That means if it's bumped when it gets to Mr. White's machine, it'll go off.

If he even picks it up incorrectly, it'll go off.

You know, Jane, I don't think those other children realized what they were

getting in for.

They didn't know that they were being carefully controlled by this Mr.

White.

Until Jack came along, he was the only one with willpower enough to fight the

thing.

Evidently, that's why he can't talk.

That thing on the moon, whatever it is, doesn't want him to talk.

Might never let him talk again. Now, that's why we must try this thing. I

don't know whether it'll work. Who knows whether it will?

Who knows what'll happen when it goes off in the strange atmosphere of the

moon? It might not even harm this Mr. White creature.

But we've got to do something to try to bring Jack back to us

Andy, you missed it. You missed it. What, Doc? One of the great moments in

the history of astronomical observation.

I called the Hughes Observatory and they hadn't seen it. Seen what? They hadn't

seen it. Seen what, Doc? An eruption.

An eruption on the moon.

An eruption? It was magnificent.

Jack! Oh, Andy, Andy. Jack, come downstairs.

I wouldn't have given for a more powerful... Jack!

And a camera set up. But we were the first to report it. First.

Yes, sir. South Palomar Observatory has been murdered.

The one night your husband couldn't come, he missed an explosion on the

moon. I myself saw only the tail end of it. But it was a sight to behold.

Truly a sight to behold.

Well, aren't you sorry you missed it?

Yeah, I guess I am. Of all the nights you could have chosen to waste at home,

you had to miss this.

Mom!

Dad!

I don't think the evening's been exactly wasted, Doc.

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What fate befell the discoverers of the secret?

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