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Come in. Welcome. I'm E.G. Marshall. Have you ever played the game of wondering where and when, if you had the choice, you would have picked to spend your life? Most of us probably might settle for today and where we are. The more romantic among us might opt for some favorite era we view through rose colored glasses, the Greek or Roman Empire. The Renaissance shakes fears England. But the adventurers would turn their eyes to the future, the unimaginable and the unimaginable. What might some distant tomorrow be like? You mean wipe out any inhabitants that are there, General Vardin? Exactly, Dr. Tramayne.

With the robots I build for you, suppose I refuse. That's a lovely wife you have, Dr. Little Young, for you. But then so exquisitely desirable all the more, it would be a pity for anything to happen to her. I'll give you. Our mystery drama, Strange New Tomorrow, was written especially for the mystery theater by Ian Martin and stars John Deel and Terry Keen. It is sponsored in part by a sunkissed growers incorporated. I'll be back shortly with Act One. We're about to bring you a time that none of us will ever know,

or our children, or our children's children, or generations of them to come. This is a time long after the second hundred years war, when the world went mad and burned the green and fruitful earth to barren sinners. When the population was reduced by two-thirds, leaving the survivors to a virtual handful. This is a time of an absolute autocracy, a state in which every individual is born by a selective breeding and condemned by the state to function only in the area prescribed for him. Or her. This could be what the future will be like. Ralph? Yes, one of the air. It's time for your medicine. Well, you don't have to act like a wife when we're alone. It's great. I want you to take it. You need it. I may need it, but it won't help in a minute. What are you looking at?

The return of the conquering hero. Leader of our regiments, defender of the face, general Mark Martin. Homeward to heroes from the Hunts. Pirates and free-booters all. But they're living one. There's not one grain of moral sense. They're not the compassion of one heart among them. Have they been on another? Let me close the windows. I don't even want the winds and their exhaust to touch me. You were saying my dear? I was just asking if they'd been on another galactic raid. Beyond doubt. More and more frequently. Vardin and that evil young man who's elevated himself to Emperor. We're getting desperate as well as you should. Emperor Condor is sitting on an uneasy throne. You think he might be overthrown? Not from within. As long as he has his robot army to protect him.

And as long as fresh blood is brought in to keep them from extinction, the people will still cling to hope. Although there isn't any. Hope for what? It's a long story, my child. A long history. And I don't feel like telling it tonight. Of course you mustn't. You look tired and all Ralph you look so ill. I'm suffering from a chronic complaint old age. Dr. Ralph remains professor of cybernetics emeritus. But you are not retired. No. Not quite yet. There are things I have to finish. You hear that? What Ralph? The silence. The ship has landed. Now they'll feed the poor souls, whoever they are, to the lions.

Your majesty. Greetings, General Barton. Your return, I see. Bringing with me another glorious victory to lay at your majesty's feet. Oh, spare me all that nonsense. Are you successful in your task? You can see for yourself if you'll allow me to tune in the viewing screen. Very well. You were gone an unconscionable time. These missions get more and more difficult. Why? Let me show you the fruits of this one first. There. It's coming into focus now. There's the latest catch. And where are they from? Rubos. The planet in the ninth galaxy. You had to go so far afield. As I said, it becomes more difficult all the time. Galaxy after galaxy is patrolled by police craft seeking us out. Only the black light and bloopers kept our identity secret as long. Even then I must slip through time warp after time warp to avoid discovery and recognition.

What do they expect? We must break them to keep our race alive to maintain enough population to keep the whole fabric of existence viable. You know my answer to that, majesty. No, General, no. I don't want to listen to that now. Perhaps these bodies milling about down in the square. There will be the answer at last. Has tell me more about the planet? Rubos, it's a large planet about the size of Jupiter in our solar system. Its distance in relation to size is approximately the same as our planets from our Sun. The climate and the animal life is also analogous. They don't care. They're not similar enough intelligence. Their average IQ is a good deal higher than ours. And their scientific capabilities considerably more advanced. We were lucky to make our raid and escape unnoticed.

We were almost intercepted. Their communications must be magnificent. We were in a very remote part of what is a very large planet. And yet they were almost honest as we took off. Well, well, well, well, you'll recognize it. I hope not. Unless they had instruments to pierce the black light curtain. But I think we got away. Excellent, excellent. And I won't scold you for the handful that you've brought me. They seem to be first-rate specimens. Next time I'll have to Aconda. Yes, General Voden. There will be no next time. What? No more raids. They are too dangerous. But you know we must have a constant supply of people of healthy bodies so we can weed out the poison that eats at most of us and destroy us. We will never weed it out. But it can be bred out. Once we find the right strait. And Aconda, listen to me. You think the radiation is carried inside us. Bread in our genes. I don't believe it is.

I think every generation reinfects itself from the earth of this planet. The seas that wash it. The space around it. No, no, no, no, that can be General Voden. It's countless generations since the holocaust. And it will be countless eternities before this planet is safe again for anything but robots. So mention those abominations to me. Why do you hate them so? They are the perfect slave. Without them you would have no army, no palace guards and internal police to hold the common people in check. And check from what? From ripping you and me and the rest of the ministers apart. No. There is only one hope. And that is we must abandon earth and resettle elsewhere. Don't you think that hasn't been thought of years and years ago? But we are welcome nowhere the pariahs of the universe. We do not ask. We will take with what I can find enough healthy bodies to run basic services let alone conscript an army.

We do not need an army except mine. Back to those obscene robots again. There aren't enough of them. We built if you will allow me to reopen the planet. No. What are you afraid of? That somehow they'll take over? I don't know. Yes. Yes, I am. Don't worry. They are nothing but a series of relays, transistors, printed circuits. They are programmed by men. I still don't trust them. Give me leave your majesty to go to Dr. Traumane and have him start on blueprints for a new and improved building. No, no, not yet. Give me time to think. First let me find among these slaves you brought back one woman who may give me an untainted child. Yes. Quickly. I must put this in. Close the door. Yes. I am not afraid. I am not afraid. I am not afraid. I am not afraid.

I am not afraid. I am not afraid. I am not afraid. I am not afraid. I must put this in. Close the door. Who are you? I am General Mark Vaden, close it. Forgive me, General. How are you? I am Una. You are a very beautiful woman, Una. Am I? Yes. Where did you come from? Oh, General Vaden. What do we owe the honor of your visit to me? Oh, I see you've met my wife. Your wife? Oh, yes, of course. I've forgotten. The wedding took place while you were on your cruise. My mission, Dr. Taman. Shop vans and Albertsons for fresh savings every time you shop. This week at vans and Albertsons, get fresh, boneless, skinless chicken breast for 199 per pound limit 10 pounds. And locally grown grape-ery cotton candy grapes are 299 per pound with digital coupon. Plus 24 packs of Canada dry or 7-up 12-ounce cans are 499 limit 1 with digital coupon.

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Enjoy fresh and delicious savings for every meal. Hurry in! These deals won't last. Visit vans or Albertsons.com for more deals and ways to save. Oh yes, mission. Did you have success? I fight for myself I did. I have urgent business with you, doctor. Shall we go to my study for what I wish to talk with you about? Your laboratory will be more appropriate. I know my way. Ralph, what is it? The last place I wanted him to be. Oh well, with a little luck we may be all right. Pose the door, doctor, man. Very well. And I'll turn off all this apparatus. No. I prefer to take no chance to what I have to say might be overheard. Well, at least let me lower the volume.

Fascinating. What are you brewing here, doctor? What are these machines? Computers, oscillators, electronic microscopes, calculators, all the impediment of anyone who studies cybernetics, the scientist studies, only to learn how little he really knows. But you know how to build robots. Yes, but we're not building anymore. I want you to be ready. I want you to start building me a prototype designed only for war. Does the Emperor know of this? It is better the Emperor doesn't know of everything. No, I'd have to have his permission first before I embarked on this. I wouldn't want to risk offending him. You will be far worse off off offending me, doctor. General, I am an old man. I haven't long to live, so threats of little use against me. I wouldn't be quite so sure my dear doctor, Tremaine.

I'm going to take over another planet in some other galaxy, a clean planet, untouched by deadly radiation like ours. Take over, you mean wipe out any inhabitants that are there? Exactly. With the robots I build for you, that's it. You are going to build me the army to fight it. And if I refuse? That is a lovely wife. You have, doctor Tremaine. No, a little young for you. It would be a pity for anything to happen to her. You wouldn't dare. Do not try me. One whisper to the Emperor of my plans. Any attempt from you to hinder them. Any refusal to do my will to the best of your ability. And I will have your wife destroyed and buried in a forgotten grave. Well, Dr. Tremaine, are we partners or not?

The general's eyes are chips of granites, and Dr. Tremaine knows this man only too well to doubt that he means every word he says. Mark Barton may be human, but he is as soulless as any robot. What choice can the old man make? I shall return shortly with act two. Perched on the edge of a table in Dr. Tremaine's laboratory, as he awaits the old man's answer, General Mark Barton lets his hawk eyes roam idly about the room. He is the ordered clutter of a busy scientist, who is half chemist, half the electronics wizard. His eye has just fallen on a large black box, almost like a coffin. When the old man speaks, you write, General Barton.

I have no choice. I was sure you would see it by way, Dr. Sutto, ravishingly beautiful woman. Where did you find her? She was one of the group you brought back from, Signe's three on your last mission. I overlooked her all along, journey home. I'm afraid you did. And I asked the Emperor for her hand, the moment I found her, the Emperor gave her to you. I'm unmarried. We do we? I had the right to ask. To demand. I'm surprised he exceeded the way he feels about your robots. Don't be too surprised. No matter what he says, only I can build them and program them. Now that all the others are gone, he needs his palace guard to shield him from you. So he needs me. Nobody else is clever enough to build or service them. Well, that will be taken care of very soon. In the meantime, don't push me too far.

My dear doctor, I have no intention of subjecting you to any pressure now that we are agreed. I ask only the reassurance of being able to drop in from time to time to get progress reports. Oh, when I have some working drawings ready, I'll send for you. But carefully. Till I have sold his majesty on the necessity of my plan. I have an assistant in the lab. A young man named Mac. No one knows him at court. I'll send him. Mac, what? Just Mac. That's all you need to know. I'll leave standing orders for him to be admitted. No. No, I must leave you. Oh, by the way. Yes, General? You say you never stop studying. Just what have you been working on while I've been gone? I don't think it would interest you very much. I'll in the contrary. You're quite sure you haven't been developing some sort of special robot for his majesty.

That just might upset the balance of power. What would make you think, sir? This curious box dig enough to hold someone nice eyes that looks like a coffin. A lid. Oh, it's locked. Actually. What's inside this curious box? That box is lined with lead. Inside it are a group of highly radioactive rocks, which I use in certain biological experiments that I've been conducting to try to neutralize their effect on the body. Then I shall give it a wide birth. I wouldn't want to try their effect on mine if I can believe you. Well, I'll give you the key, and you may open it. But only after I am out of this room and out of this house. Well, come in.

I'm sorry to disturb you Ralph, but it's time for your medicine. General, that's quite all right, Mrs. Traumane. I was just about to leave. Yes, the Emperor made you an extraordinary present. She's ravishingly lovely. Keep her that way, Doctor. At all costs. No, don't worry. I can see myself out. She really gone. What a dreadful frightening man. He's all of that and more. I just had my medicine. I don't need any more. It was an excuse to come in. I knew you needed me. How? I don't know except I always do. It's like a wave, a shutter, a pulse of some electric alarm. What did that awful man mean about the Emperor giving me to you? I don't want you to worry. You're pretty hit. But I do worry.

What do you think it's like not knowing anything about yourself or your family? Where you came from, or who your friends might have been. Just waking up suddenly at the age of 25 and just being. You just have no memories. But why? That's a sort of amnesia. Did I fall? Did you hit my head? No, you...look. I'll tell you what I just told the general. You know this shipload of unfortunate people he just brought back. Did he capture the slaves? What he has condemned them to is tantamount to slavery and worse. But why? Why did he steal people away from their homes? Because sooner or later everyone on this planet dies. A form of sickness caused by nuclear radiation. The Emperor believes it is transmitted through the genes. And that by selective breeding to healthy stock, it can eventually be neutralized. Can it?

No. Even if it were possible this whole globe is one mass of radioactivity that would reinfect everyone again. Has it infected me? No. And it never will. I promise you that. But the others, all those poor women I saw on the viewing screen. They'll be sold to any male who's not yet given any signs of having the sickness. But a terrible cruel man to try to drag the rest of the universe down because of armorsports. And it's all so futile. The Emperor won't believe it, but the cancer is already growing within him. If he had laid eyes on you, he undoubtedly would have chosen you as one of his consorts. How did I escape? Oh. Is that what you told the general that you took me instead? That's what I told him. But I... I have been no real wife to you.

A dear sweet girl. The marriage was only so I could hide you away and keep you safe. I think of you as a daughter. I had only one wife. And she died a long time ago. Of... of the sickness? Yes. And you know something. You were created in her image. You look exactly like her. I'm so rough. I do love you. And I feel so close to you. And I want you to know how strong my love is. That's all I want to hear. Give me all of it you want. But as a daughter, the child I never had. Because you were afraid that... Because if I couldn't give life, I refused to bring anything into this world. You will be meeting someone soon. You'll be working with me. And it will be impossible to conceal his presence from you.

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Perhaps. But he... Is he dead? Oh no. This young man can't die in the ordinary sense. He is in a way immortal. I don't understand you. This young man isn't a human being. He... he's a humanoid. A humanoid? Yes, a... a simulacrum. Something that's formed in the likeness of a human being. Oh, you mean like a mannequin or a dummy? Very far from that. I mean, he is identical in almost every respect with a human. And he will perform, act, simulate almost every human control function. Only in Max case, the motive forces are mechanical and electronic. Max? That's what I call him. And so there's sort of an acronym for what he is. Mechanoelectric activated computer.

You built him, made him... created him? Yes. Oh, how horrible. Oh, I was hoping that you wouldn't react like that. It's the last way I wanted you to feel that. But he's nothing but a machine. A lot more than that. How can he be? It'd be. It's just a super robot... a thing. I don't think you'll feel that way about him when you meet him. I don't want to meet him. What are you afraid of, Luna? I don't know. It's... when I first saw him, I thought, how beautiful he is. And my heart went out to him to be dead, so young. And then you said... you said that he wasn't, that he was immortal. And the strangest feeling just washed all over me and grew inside a warm and tingling. And I couldn't understand it, but...

I wanted it to last forever. Now you tell me he's only a machine. It... I don't know. It's unclean somehow. I want... I want a cringe. Then you've got to meet him to get rid of that feeling. All right. But only for you, Ralph. Let me just set the instruments first. Ah, just to test these electrodes... and step up the power. Watch, Luna. Wake up, Mack. Time to get to work. Oh, well, doctor, I... did I fall asleep again?

Not exactly. And cheer up, you won't anymore. Except when you decide to. Oh, Mack, I want you to meet my wife. Oh, oh, yeah, it's a pleasure to meet you, Mrs. Tremaine. How do you do? Just great. I mean, you're really something to wake up to. I totally need surprise you. I'm not surprised, Tremaine. I'm frightened. Of me? Who? Why? I don't know. I just don't want to... I'm afraid to be near you. I don't want to be near you. Did... did I do something wrong, Doctor? No. I'm the one. I just hope there'll be time enough left to set it right. What does Doctor Tremaine mean by that last statement? And why should Mrs. Tremaine have this strange fear of this old, too human, humanoid?

Or is Mack the mechanical electric computer something other than he or it seems? Your infrasome surprising revelations in this bizarre history of the far-all future when I return shortly with Act III. Three weeks have passed in the course of them for whatever reasons of his own. Doctor Tremaine has tried to bring Una and his protégé Mack together as much as possible. But Una still reacts to Mack with that strange inexplicable fear and the humanoid, although he obviously holds her in admiring all, seems happy to have as few encounters with her as possible. But a rush of events are moving to a startling climax. A climax that builds rapidly as Mack visits General Varten at the palace, bearing a message from Doctor Tremaine.

What does he mean he won't design the robots I ordered? I think he explained that in the message, General. You mean this nonsense about not being able to build machines of war? Or if I remember what he said was he can't. A can't in all conscience I think was the phrase, I'd of black your attitude. I have no attitude, sir. I was only trying to set the record straight. I find you in support of it. What's your name? Mack, General. Mack, who? Just Mack, that's all. Are you trying to make a fool of me? Or no, sir? Varten. General Varten, turn up your viewing screen so I know you're there. Yes, your majesty. That's better. I want to see you in my office immediately. What's wrong, Emperor? Wrong, everything you fool. I've just received a message from President Zorak of the Republic of Ruvas. Your ship was identified on that last raid and now he's on his way to our planet to blow us out of the sky.

Does he say when? No. Then with luck I still can intercept him. I'll be right in your majesty. You. Did you hear that? Yes, I did, General. Then take this message back to Dr. Tremaine. You tell him to get his blueprints ready for my factory to go into production. I need an army of robots and they only have to do one thing. Fight. And you tell him also that he'd better conform. Or his wife will be the one to pay the price. Oh, Mrs. Tremaine. Oh, I'm sorry if I startled you. Don't. Don't come near me. Why do you dislike me so? Look, I've got to see Dr. Tremaine first, but I would like... He's resting. I don't want him disturbed. What is important? I have a message from the general. It can wait. But you don't understand. You're the one in danger.

The general threatened... You don't have to worry about the general's threats. My husband got a promise for protection from the emperor before he told him about General Vardin's planning to build the robots in secret. My husband and I have nothing to fear from him. He should be under arrest by now. Does that satisfy you? Well, yes, I... No. What else do you want? I'd... I'd like us to be friends. So would I. But I don't think that's possible. But why don't you leave me alone? Just leave me alone. But, Mrs. Tremaine, I... Oh, no. It's all right, son. Mac, I should say. Don't bother now. Come in the laboratory. I need to talk to you. Explain some things. I... I... General, there will be no necessity to fight.

What do you mean? I contacted President Orrak and Maid, shall we say an arrangement. Am I to be informed of it? Well, I've offered to return to him, all his people who were abducted. And that satisfied him? I've also offered him you, as the criminal responsible for the brutal pirate raid to do with as he likes. And you trust him? Without me, there's no one to fight him. And after he took off with me as prisoner, he'd still devastate this planet till there was not a living, breathing human being on it. Oh, he intends to do that, of course. They're all dying anyway. What about you? You'll die with him. Certainly not. He has promised me safe conduct to his country, and the right to take my personal fortune with me. So you sold me out. Gladly, just as you were planning to do to me, as soon as you were ready with your new army of robots, Satan guards.

I said, Satan. You really are a fool, your majesty. Just because these metal bodies are pated with the royal purple on their breasts, emblazoned with your coat of arms, you think that makes them yours? Seize him, my captains. Oh, let me go. I am the emperor. Where the emperor? Not anymore. If you think you can take my throne from me, I don't want your throne. Or you. From now on, the whole universe will be mine. You won't get away with it. When President Zorak lands and frees me, he'll follow you with his fleet of ships. He won't get nowhere to find me. There'll be no one to tell him where I went. The king is dead. Long live the general. The reason you felt no fear of Vardin, Mac, is because I didn't program you for fear.

Well, you mean Dr. Taman that every reaction I have, you built into me? Yes. I picked a human model for you and tried to shape you as close to that model as I could, with certain exceptions. Who is the model, sir? Myself. You, sir? Well, very proud, but why would you want to go to all that trouble to duplicate yourself? Well, maybe because I had no other model I knew so well. At QVC, shopping is more than just checking out. It's discovering something new every day. Start with today's special value. Then explore exciting finds across the brands and categories you love. From beauty and fashion to home, culinary and outdoor living. Shop now at QVC.com.

And maybe because I'm dying and every man reaches for immortality, I thought it's a part of it, but not all of it. Not the real reason. And I made such a bunch of it. I'm sorry if I don't measure up, sir. I'm no one to blame. I've got to ask you to help me, Dr. I can't stand it any longer. I'll help you in any way that I can. Then make me so destroy me, dismantle me. Why? Because I love her and she can't stand the sight of me. She loads me and I don't want to go on being knowing that. Why, Dr. Why does she hate me so? She doesn't hate you, Mack. Quite the opposite. It's better if I don't believe that. There never was any hope for me because she's real and I'm only a copy. She's a human being and I'm not much better in a robot. You are a humanoid.

Something very special and unique. The first man of your kind in the history of time still gives me all right to Una. Why not? She is the same as you. What? When I said you were the first man of your kind, I didn't mean the first creation. The first was a woman. Una. Una is like me. Una is like herself. Or if you wish, like my wife, my real wife, my first and only one. I put into Una all the things I recalled about my wife. Sweetness, laughter, some tears, kindness, and the beauty inside. That only makes the outer look more exquisitely lovely.

And then I brought it to life. But I made one terrible mistake, heart mistake. When she came to life, she was so full of the joy of it, the sheer delight in being. And I was awestruck. I didn't have the heart to tell her that she was just a machine. Yes. But you'll have to tell her sooner or later. I know. But I'm a coward. One part of me that I didn't build into you, Mack. I keep waiting for the right time. What's the front door, sir? I meant who would ring like that except it's General Harden. We mustn't let Oonhole open the door. General Harden. How nice of you to greet me. Come, my love. You're leaving with me. Let her go, Warden. Stop right where you are. I'm armed.

Don't shoot him, please. Don't, Mack. It's all right. He can't hurt me. I hit you point, Frank, with the disintegrating ray. Let go of Oonhole. Stay back. If you move one step closer, I promise you I'll turn the ray on her. Give me the gun. If I can't have a no one shout. Oonhole. I won't bother with the rest of you. Zorak is on the way here to blow you all to bits. Now let him take care of you while I make my escape. You won't get away from me. Back to say what you want. No, what if you're done? I can't move. You'll get away. Whatever. But he killed Oonhole. Don't be silly. He couldn't hurt her. Anymore than he could you. You're not hurt. Are you Oonhole? Oh, no. When he fired, I was so afraid. I blacked out for a moment.

It's all right, Oonhole. There's no need to be afraid anymore. He's gone. And I'm alive. He fired at me point blank. I felt the shock, but I'm alive. He also fired at Mac. And it had no effect on him. But Mac is a humanoid. Then that means that I'm a humanoid too. Yes, child. Forgive me. I haven't had the heart to tell you the truth. The heart, Oof, Ralph. You couldn't have told me anything more wonderful. Because now, now there's nothing between us. I can give my heart to Mac the way I did when I first saw him. Oh, no, my darling. Why did you stop me and let him get away? I don't think he will. Listen. Zorak is caught in. General Vaden has opened fire. That means Zorak will always be betrayed.

If he defeats the general, then he'll bomb us all to dust. I don't care as long as we're together, Mac. You don't have to care. He can harm either of you. Oh, Dr. I want to see. There's no trace of this planet. Finally, take it. Come on, Luna. Help me get him to bed. What's happening? What's happening? It's Zorak, sir. He destroyed General Vaden, and now he's wiping the rest of us. Not you and Luna. We don't care. We're together. Of course you care. This fortress I built at the side of the mountain will stand, except for a lucky hit. But the radiation afterwards will not affect either of you. You will still live, when all else is dead, including me. No. My days were numbered anyway.

I wanted children always. You were the best I could offer against Lady. You must fight to exist. Isn't that futile, Dr. the two of us alone? One thing you couldn't give us is the ability to reproduce. Of course I could. Stored in your memory bags is all I have learned. And what I learned is from the accumulated wisdom of man since he first started to reason. Deep in the mountains are stores of parts and transistors and all you need to build in the image of yourselves. Your children, when turned will build their images to become their children. Until at last the earth will be inherited again. Every new world that ever began,

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