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>> Megan: Welcome once again ladies and gentlemen
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>> Chris: Good evening, we're your hosts for tonight's show.
I'm Chris Walsh.
>> Megan: And I'm Megan Katzman, co-host.
Pleased to have you join us on The Golden Age of Radio.
>> Chris: Thank you so much for tuning in once again.
This show promises excitement, comedy, danger and great songs.
>> Megan: Don't forget we have Popeye tonight [toot toot].
>> Chris: Yes.
The old salt himself.
I'm guessing that that's the reason
for your unique choice of hat tonight.
>> Megan: Does it suit me?
>> Chris: Yeah, yes.
And for those anxious to find the fate of Martin Curiale,
tonight we'll show the final episode of the Horla
within the Inner Sanctum.
>> Megan: Eek!
I can't wait.
>> Chris: But first we're going to treat you
to the amazing sounds of Pat Aranda
and his swinging orchestra.
And to keep your musical experience afloat,
we're shipping in, that's right, teens,
Frankie for one last song.
>> Megan: Last song?
>> Chris: Yes, this is our last evening together.
>> Megan: It's been an amazing voyage.
>> Chris: Now our ship is sinking.
>> Megan: Sounds grim.
Let's move on.
>> Chris: Okay, then gather
around for the adventures of Popeye.
Tonight the folks from Meat & Greet are going
to help Popeye go toe-to-toe with another great hero.
>> Megan: Oh?
>> Chris: Yes.
Tonight Popeye and his friends are going
to visit Sherwood Forest and meet Robin Hood himself.
>> Megan: What strange bedfellows those two would make?
>> Chris: Don't you mean shipmates?
>> Megan: Ugh, let's just listen in, shall we?
All hands on deck.
It's Popeye [toot toot].
[ Music ]
>> Chris: These wintery days have kept Popeye, Olive Oil,
Wimmin and Whimpey indoors.
But they've had lots of adventure.
Tonight is another night around the fireside.
They'll start with dinner at Olive Oil's.
And then the four friends will be sitting
around discussing their favorite books,
and the people and places they love.
>> Olive Oil: Oh, I just love this book about Robin Hood.
It always makes me homesick for Sherwood Forest.
>> Popeye: Yeah, Robin Hood
and his Merry Men was elegant crew, all right.
>> Wimmin: They sure were, that's the life for me,
dressing in Lincoln green and haunting in the great forest.
>> Popeye: And righting the wrongs and then doing kind acts
with plenty of need for great muscles.
>> Whimpey: Oh, don't worry
about the roast venison and huge meat bites.
>> Wimmin: Let's see.
It was Friar Tuck and Robin Hood and Little John.
>> Olive Oil: Oh, and that Kevin Costner.
Oh, I do you declare that man has the loveliest eyes.
>> Popeye: Oh, Olive you and your google eyes.
>> Wimmin: Go on.
Meet some more.
>> Olive Oil: All right.
I will. Let's see, where was I?
Oh. Yes. The notes of the Golden Horns fills the majestic sky
like sunlight through stained glass.
[ Trumpet Horns ]
>> Wimmin: Listen, the trumpet.
It's just like the time of John and Robin Hood.
>> Popeye: That's right, Wimmin.
And Robin Hood said we might come back to Sherwood
by reading his stories near the fire light.
>> Whimpey: It seems to be happening again.
>> Olive Oil: Would you go on?
I'll read more and we'll see.
From far and near the horns --
[ Trumpet Horns ]
>> Wimmin: Look!
It happened.
Here we are in Sherwood Forest again.
>>Popeye: Hey, look stubborn.
They're the Merry Men.
>> Olive Oil: Hundreds of them, yonder across the stream.
>> Wimmin: Hey, let's go over there.
Maybe we'll find Robin Hood.
>> Whimpey: And go to Friar Tuck.
Ugh, does he know his groceries?
>> Popeye: We have to find a bridge or something first.
The stream is too wide to jump across [hunting horn].
>> Wimmin: Listen, that's Robin Hood.
>> Whimpey: It seemeth to come from yonder the forest.
>> Popeye: Now, don't start with that seemeth business, Whimpey.
It's all right for those Robin Hood guys, but,
but it sounds goofy coming from you.
>> Wimmin: Quiet everyone.
Here's Robin Hood now.
>> Robin Hood: [laughter] Greetings Popeye, greetings.
Well do my own bones recall the sound of spinach crunching
in thy mouth that saved our forest?
>> Popeye: Oh, you embarrass me Robin Hood.
It wasn't nothing.
>> Robin Hood: [laughter] Come now, my pretty Popeye.
>> Popeye: Hey, now I know you must be making fun of me.
I'm sure what you ain't call pretty.
>> Robin Hood: Well forsooth,
tell me not that thou has tuckest your brain
in that unbreakable crown of yours.
>> Popeye: Hey, now listen here.
My brain isn't very fancy, but, but it's elegant
for its purpose [toot toot].
>> Megan: Wow.
Popeye drafted into Robin Hood's army.
What will the Navy say?
>> Chris: I can hardly believe it myself.
But let's take a moment to hear
from the folks from Meat & Greet.
[ Music ]
>> Uncle Ezio: How's it going out there?
It's Uncle Ezio here to tell you about Meat & Greet.
Southern California's premier meat
and fish delivery, with a smile.
Call us up.
Choose your cuts.
Choose your guts.
And my boys Ronnie and Raymond will drive
on out there in a snap.
I teach my boys the kind of manners
that makes a man a sales man.
They'll treat you right and proper.
And like I say, meat and fish delivery, with a smile.
If they aren't smiling, let me know,
and I'll give them something to frown about.
[pig grunting] But hey, what you really want
to hear about is the meat.
I get it. Look, I've been in this business longer than any
of the butcher west of the Santa Ana River.
These new guys popping up, they're fresh meat.
But hey, the meat ain't that fresh.
Trust me. The best meat
in the state comes through my chop shop.
The best chuck, the best back, the best fish the best birds.
Come slaughter to house.
[chicken clucking] Look, you leave a couple of my thighs
out on the counter overnight, it's going to wake you
up in the morning like you back on Nana's farm.
[ Cock Crows ]
My beef cuts, mwah.
You can try looking for fresher cuts till the cows come home.
And when they do, I'm going to turn them
into the best steaks you ever did have [cow huffs].
My fish, hey, from seashore to your door.
I got the freshest gills for your grills.
I got lamb, ram, hogs, dogs, oh, chicken,
turkey, rabbits, you name it.
The three little pigs are looking for another home.
So why not make it yours [pig squeals]?
Maybe you just took the family to see Bendy
at the local pig jobs.
But hey, that's a good tasting animal right there.
See for yourself.
Don't like venison?
Well, Mary had a little lamb and so do I.
Try the chops.
Try the mutton.
Don't like venison?
Well, Easter came earlier this year
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So if you're hungry, give information a call.
Ask for Meat & Greet and tell them Uncle Ezio sent you.
That's a Meat & Greet, meat and fish delivery,
with a smile [farm animal sounds].
[ Music and Animal Sounds ]
>>Megan: It says here in the Navy regulations
that enlisted personnel may be conscripted
to a Special Forces unit headed by authorized leadership only
when cooperative battle plans involve two
or more branches of the Armed Forces.
>> Chris: Megan, I don't mean to interrupt,
but I have an important question.
>> Megan: What's that?
All right.
What's your question, Chris?
>> Chris: While you've got that little book handy,
does the Navy regulation describe
where we should put Pat Aranda's Band on a battleship?
>> Megan: We're not on a battleship.
>> Chris: Precisely.
Folks, it's our pleasure to bring you the musical stylings
of Pat Aranda and his swinging orchestra.
[ Music ]
[ Applause ]
[ Music ]
[ Applause ]
Boy, that was really something, huh?
>> Megan: I loved it.
Reminded me of the first ocean liner I was ever on.
>> Chris: Oh, yeah?
And how was that?
>> Megan: No matter how fast the ship went, we just kept
on rocking [drum rimshot].
>> Chris: Well, let's keep the mood rocking
with everybody's favorite crooner, Brandon, Frankie.
[ Applause ]
>> Voices: Oh Frankie!
[ Women Fainting ]
[ Applause ]
[ Music Saxophone Intro ]
>> Frank Sinatra: [singing] I'd like to get you on a slow boat
to China, all to myself, alone.
Get you and keep you in my arms evermore.
Leave all your lovers standing on the distant shore.
Out on the briny with the moon big and shiny,
melting your heart of stone.
I'd like to get you on a slow boat
to China All to myself alone.
[ Saxophone Interlude ]
>> [singing] Out on the briny with the moon big and shiny,
melting your heart of stone.
I'd like to get you on a slow boat to China.
All to myself alone, All to myself alone.
[ Applause ]
>> Megan: Thank you so much Frankie.
That was swell.
You know, I just can't get enough of his voice.
>> Chris: Well, with apologies, that was his last song.
>> Megan: Oh dear, whatever shall I do now?
>> Chris: Well, maybe you can book passage
on the next luxury wineries reporting on.
>> Megan: As soon as the show is over.
But I am not leaving until I find out if Martin Curiale,
world famous piano virtuoso can win his life and death battle
with the terrifying Horla.
>> Chris: Well, we'll get to that.
But right now the folks at the Beech-Nut company would like you
to smile as we present more hilarious comedy.
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>> Megan: I'm just so worried about Martin and his poor wife.
Martin was fighting the Horla with fire last time.
>> Chris: I know, I know.
And we'll get to that.
But right now, ladies and gentlemen, it's our pleasure
to present our special guest, Bob Hope
and his special guest, Lucille Ball.
>> Megan: You mean our special guest has a special guest?
>> Chris: Uh huh.
He certainly does.
Does that make her extra special?
>> Megan: Well, don't mention that to Mr. Hope.
You know how jealous he gets.
[ Audience Chatter and Applause ]
>> Bob Hope: Thank you very much.
How you doing ladies and gentlemen?
This is Bob back in Hollywood Hope telling all Congress
whether you're Republican or Democrat,
to brush on that toothpaste with a steady beat.
Your teeth will stay in even though you lost your
seat [laughter].
Now, I want to introduce a grand guest star here ladies
and gentlemen.
Star of the current picture Easy
to Wed appearing here tonight courtesy of Heaven
and Chaffey College, Miss Lucille Ball right here.
[applause].
>> Lucille Ball: Thank you.
Thank you.
Thanks, everybody.
Before we go any further, Bob, I want to thank you
for that wonderful introduction.
If we weren't in front of an audience right now,
I'd give you a great big kiss.
>> Bob Hope: Everybody out [laughter].
Everybody, go on make your books and go.
Happy waiting [laughter].
Okay, where were we?
Lucille, what's the latest picture?
>> Lucille Ball: Easy to Wed.
>> Bob Hope: Yeah, but what's the title
of the picture [laughter]?
>> Lucille Ball: That's the title Bob.
It's called Easy to Wed.
>> Bob Hope: No kidding.
We gets to play the lead, Billy Bob Thornton [laughter]?
Yes, sir. That's right.
That five time winner.
Well, you know, it'll make a good combo Forever Amber
and Forever Eager [laughter].
>> Lucille Ball: Bob.
>> Bob Hope: Okay, how about your picture?
>> Lucille Ball: Bob, Van Johnson is in Easy to Wed
and I think he's wonderful.
>> Bob Hope: Van Johnson?
That's all you girls think of.
>> Lucille Ball: Is there anything else?
>> Bob Hope: I don't know.
You must be kidding.
I got everything he's got.
>> Lucille Ball: Yes, Bob,
but he's got Van in front [laughter].
>> Bob Hope: Well, to each his own.
You say I don't think he's too many.
But I'm paramount, they're trying
to give me the Van Johnson type of parts.
>> Lucille Ball: Well, grab them boy.
You could use a few parts.
>> Bob Hope: What do you mean?
That Johnson doesn't have anything but a cowlick.
You know, I used to have a cowlick too [laughter].
>> Lucille Ball: Yes, Bob.
I heard about your romance with Elsie [laughter].
>> Bob Hope: Let them leave the seals don't milk him,
don't milk him.
>> Lucille Ball: But I would
like to get different roles too, Bob.
I'm always the wise cracking gum chewing type.
>> Bob Hope: A gum chewing type.
>> Lucille Ball: Yeah,
last month the Beech-Nut people voted me Miss Jawbreaker
in 1946 [laughter].
>> Bob Hope: Well, speaking of Jawbreakers, Lucille,
you should meet Miss Vague.
Oh, Miss Vague [applause].
This is Lucille Ball, the glamorous
and gorgeous movie star.
>> Miss Vague: Oh, really?
I think of her as Lucille Ball, period [laughter].
>> Lucille Ball: Hmm.
What a coincidence.
I think of you as very Vague, question mark.
>> Bob Hope: Oh.
Steady now, steady.
>> Miss Vague: Miss Ball, huh?
>> Lucille Ball: That's right, Ball.
>> Miss Vague: Well, I wouldn't worry about that dear.
I've been bounced around a bit myself.
>> Lucille Ball: Miss Vague,
don't you mean dribbles [laughter]?
>> Miss Vague: Isn't she pretty Mr. Hope.
Look at that beautiful red hair.
And it's on straight too [laughter].
>> Lucille Ball: Tell me Miss Vague, when you get
up in the morning who puts you together?
>> Bob Hope: Girls, please, let's not pull hair here.
>> Miss Vague: Hair huh?
I could have hair like that too.
But who wants to keep their head in a glass
of orange juice every night [laughter]?
>> Lucille Ball: But you do smell nice darling
for your type.
What is that perfume you're wearing?
>> Miss Vague: Oh, it's Cotton Evening and Heroes.
How do you like it?
>> Lucille Ball: Hmm, it's too bad you couldn't get a better
table [laughter].
>> Miss Vague: Why you?
You, you female red skeleton.
>> Bob Hope: Oh, come on.
Come on. Girls let's kiss and make up.
>> Lucille Ball: Oh, all right.
I'm a good sport.
>> Miss Vague: Oh, all right.
>> Lucille Ball: Bob,[laughter] you're not supposed
to be in this.
>> Bob Hope: Don't be silly.
All the delegates are supposed to join
in on the peace conference.
Thank you Lucille Ball and Vera Vague.
[ Applause ]
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[ Music ]
>> Megan: Holy cats.
Is she going to be okay?
Are we allowed to show that on air?
>> Chris: The audience can't see.
It is radio, remember?
>> Megan: Technical, this is YouTube.
>> Chris: Don't break the fourth wall.
We're supposed to close this show.
>> Megan: Wait, what are we breaking?
Is that why our ship is sinking?
>> Chris: Never mind.
Let's just get to the last item for tonight.
>> Megan: The Inner --
>> Chris: Sanctum [spooky organ music].
>> Megan: Things are getting really tense.
Martin had the Horla trapped.
>> Chris: He had to set his bedroom on fire to do it.
This is the final act.
>> Megan: Will Martin and Helen survive the experience?
I'm so nervous.
I wish I had a shot of liquid courage.
>> Chris: Maybe you should try some of what she's having.
Seriously, the folks at the Beech-Nut company want you
to be happy, safe and healthy.
>> Megan: And stay away from South American jungles
with blood sucking monsters in them.
>> Chris: I'm afraid it's a little too late for that.
Martin has to battle this terror in his own home.
In desperation he set ablaze his own bedroom thinking the Horla
was trapped in there.
>> Megan: Will it work?
Can he win back his freedom?
>> Chris: All we can do is watch for ourselves
as the Golden Age brings the final installment of the Horla
within the Inner Sanctum.
[ Spooky Organ Music ]
[ Door Creaking ]
[ Paper Burning ]
>> Martin: Holding a blazing piece of newspaper before me.
I back out of the door and lock.
The room was already in flames.
I put my ear to the door and hear him call out.
>> Horla: Let me out.
Let me out.
>> Martin: Yes.
He was trapped, but I must take no chance.
Quickly I find some old clothes, soak them in kerosene,
put them in front of my door, throw them back to him.
I rushed to my wife's room.
The door is locked [door rateling].
Helen, open the door.
Helen!
>> Helen: What do you want, Martin?
>> Martin: Open the door quickly.
The house is on fire.
>> Helen: Martin?
>> Martin: Hurry, will you?
The house is filling with smoke.
The flames are spreading rapidly.
[ Spooky Organ Music ]
At last, we make it to the garden.
It's safe there.
And Helen and I stopped to rest.
>> Helen: Martin?
>> Martin: Yes, Helen.
>> Helen: Are the servants out?
>> Martin: Yes.
They're on the other side of the house.
They're safe.
>> Helen: Where did the fire start?
>> Martin: In my room.
>> Helen: Martin?
Did you?
>> Martin: Yes, I had to Helen.
>> Helen: Had to?
>> Martin: Yes, he was in there.
The invisible being, the Horla.
>> Helen: Martin, ugh, Martin.
>> Martin: Helen, try to understand.
Helen, come back here.
Helen!
She disappears into the darkness.
[ Fire continues to burn ]
Whipped by the winds, the flames danced madly about the house.
By this time it was a blazing furnace with tongues
of fire red, orange, yellow, blue.
Flames leaping high into the air, biting up the dark night
like a magnificent torch.
Already parts of the roof began to crumble in between the walls.
A fountain of flames roars towards the sky.
The structure begins to topple.
In a moment it comes crashing to the ground.
[ Crashing and Siren ]
The flames let high into the air,
lighting up the countryside.
It was a funeral fire,
a monstrous magnificent funeral fire.
And in it he who hated my Christian
in physical being, the Horla.
[ Siren Fades ]
[ Knocking ]
>> Martin: Who is it?
Who's there?
>> Helen: Open the door, Martin.
It's Helen.
>> Martin: Helen?
Oh. Well, I knew you'd come.
[ Door creaks open ]
>> Helen: Martin, why didn't you get in touch with me sooner?
>> Martin: Helen I was scared to.
The police are after me.
Helen, you don't know what I've been through hiding
in alleyways, chased like a mad dog.
Finally, I decided to register here in this hotel.
I don't think they recognized me.
>> Helen: Martin?
>> Martin: Yes.
>> Helen: I want you to give yourself up.
>> Martin: Give myself up?
>> Helen: That's the only way you can be helped.
>> Martin: But you saw the papers, Helen.
You know what they'll do to me if I surrender to them.
>> Helen: It's not as bad as you seem to think.
You'll receive medical attention and --
>> Martin: Medical attention?
And you believe them?
You think I'm insane, don't you?
Don't you?
>> Helen: I love you.
I wouldn't suggest you give yourself
up if I didn't think it best for you.
>> Martin: I see.
>> Helen: Won't you come with me, Martin?
>> Martin: Insane?
Yes, there was a time I thought that I was insane.
But now I'm certain I'm not.
It's been a week, a whole seven days since our house burned down
and since I felt the Horla near me.
And he was real I promise you.
He, he was as real as you or I.
>> Helen: Perhaps, but if that's the case,
you've got nothing to fear.
The doctors will examine you and find you're normal.
Will you come with me, Martin?
>> Martin: That's right.
What difference does it make?
The only thing that matters is that he is dead.
[ Wind Chimes ]
Helen?
>> Helen: Yes Martin?
> Martin: Do you feel?
>> Helen: What is it, Martin?
>> Martin: I'll do as you ask.
I'll give myself up.
You go down to the lobby and wait for me there?
>> Helen: All right, Martin.
>> Martin: Is, is it you?
>> Horla: Yes.
>> Martin: Then you're not dead?
>> Horla: No.
>> Martin: And it was all in vain?
>> Horla: All in vain [laughter].
You cannot destroy me.
Why do you hesitate?
Why don't you go down and join her?
Give yourself up.
>> Martin: What you want me to do, isn't it?
>> Horla: That's the only thing you can do.
>> Martin: No, it's not.
There was one other alternative.
I decided what I would do if you live through that fire.
>> Horla: You're going to destroy yourself.
>> Martin: Yes.
I will not be what you are trying to make me become.
I will not be your slave.
I'd rather die.
>> Helen: Martin, there's something I forgot to -- Martin?
Put the gun away.
>> Martin: Don't try and stop me [gunshot].
>> Helen: Martin [crying]!
>> Martin: Helen, the Horla.
>> Horla: That's exactly what I wanted you to do.
[ Spooky Organ Music ]
[ Laughter ]
>> Raymond: My, what a note to end on for
such a fine musician [laughter].
Ah, but at least he's at rest.
That's the whole key to the thing you see.
Don't you think so, Mary?
>> Mary: Indeed I do Mr. Raymond.
>> Raymond: Do you think our listeners are ready
for the test I promised them, Mary?
>> Mary: I'm sure they are.
After all, it really is quite easy.
Here's the first question.
What beverage saves you time?
The second question,
what refreshment restores your energy?
And here's the final question.
What drink saves you money?
The answer to all three is Brisk Lipton's tea.
See, I told you it was easy.
And it is easy to think of Lipton's
when you need a pick-me-up at meals or during the day.
And then the large economy says available at your grocer,
Lipton's actually saves you money.
Brisk Lipton's tea, be sure to pick some up tomorrow.
>> Raymond: [laughter], thank you, Mary.
I hope tonight's contrapuntal exercise
in horror didn't leave you feeling flat [laughter].
Look sharp there, because that's just a minor problem.
We'll have a major new tale of terror
for you again next Wednesday night
when Lipton's Tea brings another in our Sanctum Mystery.
Directed by Kelly Ford-Kaminski.
Until then, good night.
[ Laughter ]
Pleasant dreams.
>> Megan: I can't believe it.
Chris, Can you believe that?
That was horrendous?
I can't believe it.
>> Chris: Megan, I'm stunned.
I never expected to come to such a sticky end.
>> Megan: Oh, but that's what I love about the Inner Sanctum.
They always keep you guessing.
I was just hoping that Martin could have pulled through.
>> Chris: Well, we it can't all be happy endings.
And speaking of which, that's our show.
>> Megan: Good grief.
What a segue.
And don't forget our sponsors.
We here at the Golden Age,
we'd like to extend our warmest thanks to our viewing --
>> Chris: listening --
>> Megan: -- audience who tuned in every week.
It has been a pleasure producing the program
and we truly hope you enjoyed it.
This has been Megan Katzman.
>> Chris: And I have been Chris Walsh.
From our family to yours, thank you and goodnight.
[ Music ]