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Tales of Tomorrow.

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Martha, come over here and sit down.

Dad, what is it?

I've just completed my computation.

At this time tomorrow, the Earth will be one flaming white inferno. What

happened? That's not our show. Where's that picture coming from?

Another Indian, get the dust.

I'm tired.

Go to sleep.

What do you say? Fine.

Go

to

bed.

Why should I go to bed?

Okay, then don't.

Don't ever get married, Hank. They're all nuts, the whole bunch of them. I

promise you I won't. I won't. I will never get married.

If there ain't one thing, it's another.

Why don't you stop?

I mean it, Hank. Stop it.

Get lost.

The hospital is there, and there's nobody there to meet.

I've got to grab a bus all the way up here by myself.

You know I was getting out of the hospital today. Where were you, huh?

Boy! Look, remember, I gotta say a very funny joke about a guy. How do I know

what's happening? That picture came from out of nowhere. Give a hold of Earl

Wooster if you can. What is it? We were cut off. That picture through the window

is going out in place of our show.

It all says we're going back on the air.

Mort, Mort, how about running a film? We don't have any. Mort, we can't sit on

this standby slide for half an hour. John, John, John.

Tell us what's happening out here.

I don't know. It looks like we just lost the slide chain, too.

Jim, it's all mixed up. We've got to feed some kind of picture to the

network. I don't know what we're going to do. The network's coming out. Get

started again. All right, stand by, please.

Let's have it quiet, please. Get Bob Williams. Have him make an announcement.

John, look, tell us what is happening.

The picture came from nowhere, Jim, and interrupted our program. Now we're back

on the air. I don't get it.

Look, Jim, make an apology announcement. We think of something to do.

A what? An apology announcement. Go ahead.

Look, Bobby's in here. Do it yourself, please, Jeff. Me?

What do I say?

I don't know anything.

Go ahead.

Well, look, there's Roger DeKoven. He'll do it.

Rod! Hey, wait. Hold him on that camera. Stay right with him. Wait.

We're on the air right now. Look,

why don't you watch out, please?

Look, Don wants to do a quick apology now. We lost her.

Ladies and gentlemen, due to circumstances beyond our control...

Why don't you get lost?

Look at it.

Just like the swings.

See no evil, hear no evil.

Nah, what's it you?

Get some more beer.

It's right behind you. I said get some more beer. Do something around here for

a change. I'll get it. Let me get it. Now.

She'll get it.

Now that's the most you've done for me in two months. I got a letter from

Dawson. Remember Dawson?

Johnny Dawson? That guy.

Boy, he used to buck for rank.

Yeah, sure, sure. It happens again. Wait, just pan around the rush tomorrow.

One thing I can't understand. Look, the officers are coming to our studio. What

else could it be?

Jim, you're crazy. That's impossible.

So what else? You mean we've been picking up another Netflix picture, Jim?

Well, it must be. He says it's not coming from any studio here at ABC.

We'll get back to you. We'll make it hard, Jim. Yeah.

What then? Who knows? That picture in the window keeps interfering.

Interview Mr. Worcester. Keep it going. Roger, Roger. Worcester, we're back in

the air again. Go on again.

Let's have a quiet, please.

Ladies and gentlemen, due to the lack of time, the program we had intended

presenting this evening will have to be postponed until a later date.

But ladies and gentlemen, I'd like you to meet Merle Worcester, the head of our

engineering department, who has just been telling us that the two scenes

we've just witnessed at the window are definitely not emanating from any studio

in this building.

Nor from any other networks, for that matter. The chances of one channel

interfering with another channel is impossible.

Well, then where, in your opinion, is it coming from, Mr. Worcester?

I don't think this ghost picture is being transmitted from any studio at

all. I think it's a living scene that's actually happening somewhere in this

general area. Perhaps in an apartment house.

But how's that possible?

I don't know, Rog.

Maybe it's being reflected off an ionized cloud right in the middle of our

wavelength. Like a mirage.

A mirage?

Yes.

There's a theory that every sound and action we go through is preserved in the

ether in a form of electrical impulse. That's pretty theoretical, of course.

Well, do you feel then that that explains this?

I can't explain this.

Maybe something's happening in our atmosphere tonight that's accidentally

causing the right combination of conditions to produce this special

image. You really feel then that the scenes we've been viewing through the

window are actually coming from some apartment, some kitchen right here in

this vicinity, in this area?

Well, they're not coming from any studio. I bet my life on...

So, drink along.

Your Highness.

Your Highness, the Queen of Sheba.

See no evil, hear no evil.

What's everybody so quiet about?

What did he say?

Anything.

He said a poem or something.

Come on, he said a poem.

Shut up.

What did you say? I knew a poem once, a very interesting poem. I taught it in

high school.

It was... The gossips tell the story of the sparrow and the cat, the

feline, thin and hungry, and the sparrow...

It was exceedingly fat.

I thought I remembered, but I guess I don't know any more than the first part.

I never forgot it.

What's the feel on it?

Like a cat.

Hello, feline.

Boy, it looks good, Bill.

How did you get so sweet, sugar?

You had a lot.

You two people will excuse me.

Your Highness.

I know you have your problems, but I have mine too. The sponsor expects a

commercial. We've got to do a commercial.

I'm sorry, Mr. Lewin, but we're not on the air. Well, I mean when we get back

on the air.

There's no guarantee that we're going to stay on the air. Well, then do the

commercial over and over and keep it going. We're trying. We're just standing

by with it.

Oh, we're back on the air again. Cue him, Jim.

Cue him.

All right, all right.

Let's have it quiet. Please, stand by.

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I love you too, sweetie.

I'm scared.

No, stop, stop, stop it.

Let's run away. No, no. Let's run away.

No, stop it. I can't bear the thought of it. All right, stop looking. You can't

bear the thought of it? Fine. We'll wrap it up and forget the whole thing. And

you can forget me too because I'll go someplace else. Out of town, it makes no

difference. Forget it. I'm out of here.

Andy, I don't need you.

Andy, Andy, stop it.

Easy, easy, easy, easy, easy.

Now, come on, come on. Try to keep your voice low.

Oh, I'm sorry. It's all right, all right.

All right, easy now. What are you afraid of? Come on.

Come on now.

I'm afraid we'll get caught. All right, so what do you want us to do? Forget the

whole thing?

Give it up? Get a job? Go away someplace? We can both get jobs. No,

honey. We make out. We make out.

Shh.

Listen to me.

Come here.

Shh, shh.

Just listen to me what I'm going to say.

We've got a perfect setup here.

He's got an insurance policy and he's got a business.

Why settle for less and get more, huh?

I think more of his money than you do of me.

You mean that? I don't know. I don't care whether you know it or not. I just

want to know if you mean it. That's all.

Of course you don't. Of course you don't.

Don't you understand, sweetie?

Without money, love... Love just goes out of windows.

Just like it sounded.

I didn't mean it like it sounded.

Please.

Please. When is it going to happen?

In a couple of hours. Just a couple of hours.

When everybody in the building goes to sleep.

What if he screams? He's not going to scream. What if he does? He's not going

to scream. I told you, he wouldn't scream.

Get up on the sixth floor.

Sixth floor. He's going to hit the bottom sofa.

I certainly did. I'm planning on dumping this guy out the window. Obviously,

that's what we're talking about, man. I know. Hold it. We're back on air again.

I'm trying to cover every time they come back to us. We never know where. Yes,

John. He's right. We'll just have to do the best we can.

Camera 2, follow Roger there, please. Follow Roger and Jim wherever they go.

Meanwhile, look at that apartment. They're going to murder this distraught.

You saw it, John. Yes, I saw it. Look, if Merle is right, this is actually

happening somewhere in the city.

Don't you think we better do something?

What can we do? Like what? I don't know.

I think maybe we ought to make a record of their conversation.

Try to pin their location down.

Should we call the police?

What good is that going to do? We don't even know where they live. Well, maybe

some of our viewers at home have recognized one of these people. That's a

possibility. Maybe it could be. Well, should we tell them how to contact us in

case one of them has recognized any of these people?

That's for the last. I'll do it. It's all for the last.

You drink too much, pal.

Go get some beer.

So is it closed?

What do you mean stores are closed? It ain't even 10 o'clock yet. The grocery

store downstairs is open. It's closed.

Mickey's always closes at 9.30. Don't tell me what time he closes. 10 o'clock

he closes. I'll get it. Let me get it. No.

in 1952.

You know, she went to college.

That's all right. In a couple of hours, you won't have to. It's going to be all

over, baby.

Well, we're back on again. Listen, Peggy, read back that last bit about the

grocery store.

Downstairs and she said so she always closes at 930. Jim. Jim. It might be

worth the name of Mickey's Grocery Store. Try it. Please.

It's worth a try. It's a red bull.

Here.

Here.

Here we are.

Grocery.

Mickey's. Mickey's. There must be at least 30 of them. I have to try them

all.

Baby, relax.

Stop. If he screams, I'll hit him. Let's go. Come on.

I suppose they find him right away.

Who's going to find him right away? Who's going to find him right away in an

alley there?

Somebody. At 1 o'clock in the morning, how can it be? Nobody's going to be

there at 1 o'clock.

Is that when you're going to tell him?

That's right.

No,

no, no, no. Come on, come on, come on, come on. Look at me, look at me, look at

me, look at me.

Now look, tomorrow morning, somebody's going to come up here and they're going

to tell you some very, very, very sad stories.

And then tomorrow night, it's going to be all over.

Who do you think will come up? I don't know who's going to come up. Probably be

the cops or somebody else. The cops? That's right.

Would they ask me questions?

Stop it! What have you got here?

What have you got?

Listen to me. This guy is a lush.

He's a character, right?

That's right. That's right.

He gets so drunk, honey, that he lights a cigarette and then burns himself to

death.

He gets so drunk, this guy.

He drinks and he falls down a flight of stairs.

So he goes to the hospital, honey, right? But what puts him in the

hospital? A guy gets so drunk that he runs in front of a bus and they have to

send him away to the hospital. He's famous for it. The cops know it. The

people know it. Everybody. So then what?

He falls out a window.

A window. Everybody expects that. Nobody asks any questions.

Listen to me. Listen to me.

Please.

Please stop worrying.

Do you think everybody at least sleeps? Yes, yes, they do. Are you sure?

Sure, I'm sure.

There's a Ninth Avenue, and everybody always sleeps very good on Ninth Avenue.

Ninth Avenue, Ninth Avenue.

Stay right away.

Here's a Mickey's grocery store here at 48th Street. Wait a minute, there's

another one at 24th and 9th. Yes, and here's one at 63rd Street. There's three

of them?

Why don't we try this? Yes, Don. Why don't we try all of them?

We each take a number. Good, good. All right, John. Look, call Belmont at

78522. You take the line to me first. I'm sorry.

I'll take it to you first.

Easy does it. Come on.

Easy.

Yes,

that's right. His name is Al.

Do you know anybody by that name?

I want to find out if there's somebody in the neighborhood by that name.

He's a medium-sized fellow. He buys beer in your store.

He has a wife. Her name is Jean.

No, I don't know their last name.

You don't know anyone that fits that description?

All right, thank you.

Any luck?

Still raining.

Don, Don, how about you?

No, no good, no good.

Still no answer?

It's closed.

Keep on trying. They must be busy. We've got to keep on ringing.

Oh, it's closed.

What are you doing?

It's closed about 9.30.

What cooks?

What cooks?

What's going on?

I was telling them the stores would probably be closed. I know what you were

doing.

What's going on?

What's happening? Don't get excited. What do you mean, don't get excited?

What's been going on? Ow, come on, move your head.

This is Ross. Ross, hang up. You must have the right number. The husband said

the store downstairs is closed.

Let's see that. What's that?

48. 48 and I.

I'm going to call the police.

Hello. Hello. Hello, operator.

Whoever's on this line, will you please get off? This is an emergency call.

Hello, operator.

Look, I'm trying to put a call through to the police. Will whoever's on this

line get off?

Jim. Jim. Try Roger's phone.

Try Roger's phone.

Roger.

Hello, operator.

I'll be fine. I know it. We'll have to take the chance. If he were to scream,

honey, it would have been all over, please.

Let's run away.

Let's run away.

Please, let's stop it.

Listen to me now.

Honey, please listen to me. Now look at me.

Look, all you have to do is put a light on. That's all. A light.

So you have to go.

You don't have to do anything. I'll do it.

I'll throw him out the window here. I'll drag him home.

Come on. Come on. Just put the light on.

That's it.

Easy does it. Go on.

Just put it on.

Put it out! Come on!

This is a matter of life and death, officer.

I can't explain now. There's no time.

Listen, in a couple of minutes, a guy is going to be pushed out of a window on

48th Street and 9th Avenue.

Yes, that's right. I'm calling from a television studio on 66th Street, but

look don't come here

Do you think there's a chance? There's not a chance. Listen to me. Then why do

you have to check? Because I have to find out if he's dead or not. That's

why.

Come on. Take it easy. Take it easy. Just listen to me. Listen to what I'm

going to say.

You have to go. I went home.

I went to bed.

Right? We left him in the kitchen and he was drinking.

That's all.

That's all. Come on.

Come on.

What's the matter?

All night long, I felt.

What did you feel?

I don't know.

I don't know. I think somebody's watching.

What?

Somebody's watching.

No, no, don't be silly. There's nothing over there.

Big, big, blank wall.

Nobody can hear you. I know, I know.

Haven't you noticed? No.

It's your imagination.

Here it is, baby.

That's all it is.

Well, it's all over now.

Yes.

All right, what's been going on here? Listen, officer, what's been going on

here?

Look, tomorrow morning, you're going to get a report.

that a guy accidentally fell out of a six-story window on 48th Street, 9th

Avenue. Look, when that report gets in, you can check with us.

We'll have further information for you.

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How did a camera have the power to affect human lives?

What was the secret which lay behind its blank photographs?

Next week, Tales of Tomorrow presents The Camera, starring Olive Dearing and

Donald Buca.

And now a word from Alan Edwards.

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on Tales of Tomorrow.

The Window was an original television play by Frank DeFelita.

The people in the window were Rod Steiger, Frank Maxwell, and Virginia

Vincent. The players appearing in the opening sequence of The Lost Planet were

William Coburn and Merle Albertson.

The secretary was played by Muffet Peter.

The following people were played by themselves.

Jim Walsh, floor manager.

Roger DeCoburn, announcer.

Robert F. Lewine, agency executive.

Merle Wooster, chief engineer.

Don Medford, director.

Mort Abrams, producer.

The producers of Tales of Tomorrow would like to thank the technical and

administrative personnel of ABC for their cooperation in helping us to

present The Window.

We hope you found it an exciting... and different kinds of television

experience.

The preceding program, originally telecast by ABC in New York, has come to

you by special video recording. This is ABC, the American broadcasting company.