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[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]

NARRATOR: You're traveling through another dimension.

A dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind.

A journey into a wondrous land

whose boundaries are that of imagination.

That's the signpost up ahead.

Your next stop, the Twilight Zone.

NARRATOR: This is one of the out-of-the-way places,

the unvisited places,

bleak, wasted, dying.

This is a farmhouse. Handmade, crude,

a house without electricity or gas.

A house untouched by progress.

This is the woman who lives in the house.

A woman who's been alone for many years.

A strong, simple woman,

whose only problem up until this moment

has been that of acquiring enough food to eat.

A woman about to face terror

which is, even now, coming at her

from the Twilight Zone.

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

[WHIRRING]

[WHIRRING CONTINUES]

[WHIRRING GROWING LOUDER]

[HIGH-PITCHED TONE]

[SCREAMS]

[THUD, CRASHING ABOVE]

[GRUNTS]

[COUGHS]

[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTS]

[SILENCE]

[SOFT SUSPENSE MUSIC]

[ELECTRONIC BEEPING]

[BEEPING CONTINUES]

[BEEPING]

[BEEPING STOPS]

[CLICK, WHIRRING]

[ALARM-LIKE BEEPING]

[BEEPING STOPS]

[WHIRRING]

[PANTS]

[APPROACHING FOOTSTEPS]

[HIGH-PITCHED BEEPING]

[GASPS]

[GRUNTS]

[SLAMS]

[SIGHS]

[APPROACHING FOOTSTEPS]

[ZAPPING]

[GRUNTS]

[ZAPPING]

[GROANS]

[ZAPPING STOPS]

[PANTS]

[GASPING HYSTERICALLY]

[GROANS]

[SCURRYING FOOTSTEPS]

-[FOOTSTEPS STOP] -[SUSPENSE MUSIC]

[CRACKLING]

[CRACKLING STOPS]

[SUSPENSE MUSIC]

[WOMAN BREATHES HEAVILY]

[ELECTRONIC BEEPING]

[IRREGULAR BEEPING]

-[THUD] -[SUSPENSE MUSIC]

[SUSPENSE MUSIC INTENSIFYING]

[SCREAMS]

[ZAPPING]

[SLAMS]

[PANTS]

[RUNNING FOOTSTEPS]

[GASPS]

[GASPS FRANTICALLY]

[GRUNTS]

Ah!

Oh!

[GASPS FRANTICALLY]

[BEEPING]

[SUSPENSE MUSIC]

[INTENSE CHORD]

[INTENSE WHIRRING]

[INTENSE ZAPPING]

[FOOTSTEPS IN SILENCE]

[GASPS]

[LOUD ZAPPING]

[WHIMPERS]

[PANTS]

[EERIE MUSIC]

[SCREAMS]

-[ALARM RINGS] -[SCREAMING CONTINUES]

[CRIES]

[GROANS]

[CRYING CONTINUES]

[WHIMPERING, CRYING]

[PANTS LOUDLY]

[RAPID BEEPING]

[SUSPENSE MUSIC INTENSIFYING]

[SCREAMS]

[CRIES]

Ah!

[GROANS]

[INTENSE SUSPENSE MUSIC]

[ZAPPING]

Agh!

[ZAPPING]

-Ah! -[ZAPPING]

[SCREAMS]

[GRUNTS]

[THUD]

Agh. [PANTS]

[EXPLOSION]

[ZAPPING]

[HYSTERICAL PANTING]

[SCURRYING FOOTSTEPS]

[SCURRYING FOOTSTEPS]

[NOISE UPSTAIRS]

[WHEEZING]

[WHIRRING]

[CRASH]

[BREAKING]

Ah!

[MAN COUGHS]

MALE VOICE: Central Control.

Come in, Central Control.

Do you read me?

Gresham is dead.

Repeat, Gresham is dead.

The ship's destroyed.

Incredible race of giants here.

Race of giants.

No, Central Control. No counterattack.

Repeat, no counterattack.

Too much for us.

Too powerful. Stay away.

[MAN GROANS]

Gresham and I, we're finished, finished.

Stay away.

[WEAKLY] Stay away.

[WHIRRING]

Agh. Agh.

Ah.

-[WHIRRING STOPS] -[EERIE, MELANCHOLY MUSIC]

[INTENSE SUSPENSE MUSIC]

[EERIE, MELANCHOLY MUSIC]

NARRATOR: These are the invaders.

The tiny beings from the tiny place called Earth

who would take the giant step across the sky

to the question marks that sparkle and beckon

from the vastness of a universe only to be imagined.

The invaders who found out

that a one-way ticket to the stars beyond

has the ultimate price tag,

and we have just seen it entered in a ledger

that covers all the transactions of the universe.

A bill stamped "Paid in Full"

and to be found, unfiled,

in the Twilight Zone.

PRESENTER: Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone,

will tell you about next week's story

after this word from our alternate sponsor.

And now, Mr. Serling.

Next week, on this very spot,

there commences a very kooky chain of occurrences.

The story has to do with a young bank clerk

who for some unexplained and most uncanny reason,

finds himself able to read other people's minds,

and then finds that the power can get him

into a peck of trouble and a bushel of travail.

Our show is called "A Penny for Your Thoughts,"

and it will be here waiting for you next week

on The Twilight Zone.

PRESENTER: Be sure and see the Colgate-Palmolive Company's

new comedy show My Sister Eileen

Wednesday night on many of these same stations.