Twilight Zone Radio Dramas: The Dummy (5/4/62)

Portrait of a bush-league Führer named Peter Vollmer, a sparse little man who feeds off his self-delusions and finds himself perpetually hungry for want of greatness in his diet. And like some goose-stepping predecessors he searches for something to explain his hunger, and to rationalize why a world passes him by without saluting. That something he looks for and finds is in a sewer. In his own twisted and distorted lexicon he calls it faith, strength, truth. But in just a moment Peter Vollmer will ply his trade on another kind of corner, a strange intersection in a shadowland called the Twilight Zone.

You've seen them. Little towns, tucked away far from the main roads. You've seen them, but have you thought about them? What do the people in these places do? Why do they stay? Philip Redfield never thought about them. If his dog hadn't gone after that cat, he would have driven through Peaceful Valley and put it out of his mind forever. But he can't do that now, because whether he knows it or not his friend's shortcut has led him right into the capital of the Twilight Zone.

Incident one hundred miles off the coast of Guadalcanal. Time: the present. The United States naval destroyer on what has been a most uneventful cruise. In a moment, they're going to send a man down thirty fathoms and check on a noise maker – someone or something tapping on metal. You may or may not read the results in a naval report, because Captain Beecham and his crew have just set a course that will lead this ship and everyone on it into the Twilight Zone.

What you have just witnessed could be the end of a particularly terrifying nightmare. It isn't – it's the beginning. Although Alan Talbot doesn't know it, he's about to enter a strange new world, too incredible to be real, too real to be a dream. It's called The Twilight Zone.

Professor Ellis Fowler, a gentle, bookish guide to the young, who is about to discover that life still has certain surprises, and that the campus of the Rock Spring School for Boys lies on a direct path to another institution, commonly referred to as the Twilight Zone.The ‘X’ Zone Broadcast Network and ALL of our Radio Programming is with Our Compliments - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotvThe ‘X’ Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com (Free)To contact Rob McConnell - [email protected]

Submitted for your approval, the case of one Miss Agnes Grep, put on Earth with two left feet, an overabundance of thumbs and a propensity for falling down manholes. In a moment she will be up to her jaw in miracles, wrought by apprentice angel Harmon Cavender, intent on winning his wings. And, though it's a fact that both of them should have stayed in bed, they will tempt all the fates by moving into the cold, gray dawn of the Twilight Zone.The ‘X’ Zone Broadcast Network and ALL of our Radio Programming is with Our Compliments - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotvThe ‘X’ Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com (Free)To contact Rob McConnell - [email protected]

They make a fairly convincing pitch here. It doesn't seem possible, though, to find a woman who must be ten times better than mother in order to seem half as good, except, of course, in the Twilight Zone.The ‘X’ Zone Broadcast Network and ALL of our Radio Programming is with Our Compliments - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotvThe ‘X’ Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com (Free)To contact Rob McConnell - [email protected]

You're looking at the house of the late Mrs. Henrietta Walker. This is Mrs. Walker herself, as she appeared twenty-five years ago. And this, except for isolated objects, is the living room of Mrs. Walker's house, as it appeared in that same year. The other rooms upstairs and down are pretty much the same. The time, however, is not twenty-five years ago but now. The house of the late Mrs. Henrietta Walker is, you see, a house which belongs almost entirely to the past, a house which, like Mrs. Walker's clock here, has ceased to recognize the passage of time. Only one element is missing now, one remaining item in the estate of the late Mrs. Walker: her son, Alex, thirty-four years of age and, up till twenty minutes ago, the so-called perennial bachelor. With him is his bride, the former Miss Virginia Lane. They're returning from the city hall in order to get Mr. Walker's clothes packed, make final arrangements for the sale of the house, lock it up and depart on their honeymoon. Not a complicated set of tasks, it would appear, and yet the newlywed Mrs. Walker is about to discover that the old adage 'You can't go home again' has little meaning in the Twilight Zone.The ‘X’ Zone Broadcast Network and ALL of our Radio Programming is with Our Compliments - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotvThe ‘X’ Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com (Free)To contact Rob McConnell - [email protected]

You're watching a ventriloquist named Jerry Etherson, a voice-thrower par excellence. His alter ego, sitting atop his lap, is a brash stick of kindling with the sobriquet 'Willy.' In a moment, Mr. Etherson and his knotty-pine partner will be booked in one of the out-of-the-way bistros, that small, dark, intimate place known as the Twilight Zone.The ‘X’ Zone Broadcast Network and ALL of our Radio Programming is with Our Compliments - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotvThe ‘X’ Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com (Free)To contact Rob McConnell - [email protected]

The place is Mexico, just across the Texas border, a mountain village held back in time by its remoteness and suddenly intruded upon by the twentieth century. And this is Pedro, nine years old, a lonely, rootless little boy, who will soon make the acquaintance of a traveler from a distant place. We are at present forty miles from the Rio Grande, but any place and all places can be the Twilight Zone.Listen to The ‘X’ Zone Broadcast Network and ALL of our Radio Programming is with Our Compliments - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotvWatch The ‘X’ Zone TV Channel on SimulTV (Channel 54) - www.simultv.comRead The ‘X’ Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com (Free)