Alien Worlds was a syndicated radio show created by radio personality Lee Hansen. It aired 26 half-hour episodes between 1979 and 1980, becoming well known for its realistic sound effects, high production values and documentary style of dialog. J. Michael Straczynski was one of the writers.
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00:00And now, Peter Paul Mounds, Almond Joy, and Cadbury Chocolate Bars presents Alien Worlds.
00:11Slowly rotating at the edge of deep space, 1,000 kilometers beyond the atmosphere of 21st century Earth,
00:21is the Arthur C. Clarke Astronomical Observatory, STARLAB.
00:26Here, STARLAB Research Director Dr. Maura Cassidy and scientists and technicians of the International Space Authority, ISA,
00:36watch over the countless stars and planets that fill the silent distances beyond the giant space station.
00:45This week, the men and women of STARLAB become entangled in The Adventure of the Egyptian Necklace,
00:52an intergalactic detective story in the Sherlock Holmes tradition on Alien Worlds.
00:59The Royal British Museum freighter, Nile Delta, commanded by Captain Jack Lemus, is returning to Earth from the planet Thanatos.
01:14The Royal British Museum freighter, Nile Delta, commanded by Captain Jack Lemus, is returning to Earth from the planet Thanatos.
01:28Aboard the freighter, the priceless King Tut exhibit, sent to Thanatos two weeks earlier as part of an interplanetary cultural exchange program.
01:39Nile Delta to StarLAB Control.
01:43This is StarLAB. Go ahead, Nile Delta.
01:46Is that you, Jerry?
01:48Affirmative, Captain. Are you planning to dock at StarLAB on your way home?
01:52No, not this time. An ISA tanker came up from Cannabis 12 and refuelled us on the other side of Saturn.
01:58No, I just wanted to say hello and invite you around for a visit if you're ever in London.
02:03My wife's got quite a lovely sister she's trying to marry off.
02:07And I've got some 40-year-old brandy that'll lift you right out of your boots.
02:11Thanks for the invitation, Captain. I'll take you up on it the first chance I get.
02:16I'll be looking for you. Nile Delta, clear.
02:20StarLAB, out.
02:25That alien ship's back again, Captain. 3500 meters off the port bar.
02:29Have you tried to contact her?
02:31Yeah, we tried. But she still doesn't respond.
02:34Alright, let's have another look at her. Full magnification this time.
02:40Hey, she's a beauty, isn't she?
02:43All white and slim like that.
02:46Do you recognize any of the markings, Tony?
02:49Wait a minute. What's that on the tail fin?
02:52The sun symbol.
02:54No, no, just below it. The blue and gold bird with its wings spread out.
02:57Isn't that the...
02:58Hold on. She's dropping down a bit.
03:01Tony, she's been damaged.
03:03Top of the hull amid ships.
03:05There go the SOS flares.
03:07Let's get up alongside her and see if we can help.
03:14As the Nile Delta's navigator maneuvers the red and gray freighter
03:19into a side-by-side position with the damaged alien ship,
03:23Captain Lemus and first mate Tony Cargill
03:26put on bright blue pressure suits and enter the freighter's airlock.
03:31A moment later, an enclosed metal-flex walkway slowly telescopes from the Nile Delta's airlock
03:44to an excess hatch which has irised open in the hull of the fluorescent white alien spacecraft.
03:50You're very generous to give us your time and kindness.
03:57Well, hello. Who are you?
03:59My name is Piratep.
04:01I am glad you didn't abandon us.
04:03Yours is the only vessel we've seen since the accident.
04:07When did it happen?
04:08Three days ago.
04:10And some of our mariners have been injured.
04:13Is there a healer aboard your vessel?
04:16Yes, there is.
04:17And we have a complete medical facility as well.
04:20Then if you'll please follow me, we can begin transferring our engine to your ship.
04:25If you wish to remove your helmets, you'll be in no danger.
04:35We're oxygen breathers too.
04:38Whew. Well, that's better, isn't it?
04:41Why? It was getting a bit stuffy in there.
04:46This is Amantef.
04:49Which of you is Captain Lemus?
04:52Well, I am. How do you know my name?
04:55We know the names of everyone aboard the Nile Delta.
05:00We also know it carries the afterlife treasures and mummified body of Tutankhamen.
05:06Your ship isn't damaged at all, is it?
05:09No, it isn't.
05:11Don't look now, Captain.
05:13But I think we've been set up for a little of the old smash and grab.
05:17What the bloody hell do you want with the King Tut treasure?
05:20It only has value on Earth. It's worthless out here.
05:23We don't want the entire treasure, Captain.
05:25Only the beaded floral necklace.
05:28It's not mine to give you.
05:30And even if it were, I wouldn't.
05:32I have a rule against being overly charitable to anyone who makes a fool of me or my friends.
05:37Come on, Tony. Let's get back to the ship.
05:40Please, Captain. Don't force me to use this weapon.
05:43A weapon? A tiny little thing?
05:46Let's get out of here, Captain.
05:49Amantef?
05:50Stop them, Pirate.
05:57Tony! Tony!
06:02Alien Worlds will continue.
06:23Alien Worlds continues.
06:27The Royal British Museum freighter, Nile Delta, is returning to Earth from the planet Thanatos.
06:34Aboard the freighter, the treasure of the Egyptian boy king, Tutankhamun.
06:41Midway between Earth and Saturn, a damaged alien spacecraft appears and fires SOS flares.
06:48Nile Delta Captain Jack Lemus and first mate Tony Cargill board the alien ship to offer assistance.
07:00But inside, they discover they have fallen into a trap set by the aliens who want a beaded floral necklace from the king Tut treasure.
07:09An hour later on Starlab, Dr. Maura Cassidy and SET Captain John Graydon, not yet aware of the Nile Delta incident, enter the vestibule of Starlab's visual media theater.
07:24John, how long has Buddy been in there?
07:30About six hours.
07:32Six hours? Was he watching the outtakes from Gravity's Rainbow?
07:35Oh no, that was yesterday.
07:37Sunday he sat through five old Stanley Kubrick films.
07:40And Monday it was a Daffy Duck Festival.
07:43What he's watching today is anybody's guess.
07:45Maybe he fell asleep.
07:46Well, I wish he'd sleep a little faster. We're going to be late.
07:51Hi Maura, hi John.
07:52Buddy.
07:53Buddy, didn't your mother ever tell you that if you watched too many movies your face would break out and you'd go blind?
07:58Very funny.
07:59I think you've got that mixed up with something else, Maura.
08:01I do? What?
08:02I'll tell you later.
08:04Well, Buddy, what'd you see today?
08:06The Guiding Light, All My Children and Search for Tomorrow.
08:10They're television soap operas from the sixties and seventies.
08:12Soap operas? Why do they call them that?
08:14Were they musicals about people getting clean?
08:17Not exactly, Maura.
08:19They were mostly about people getting dirty.
08:21Dr. Cassidy, please contact the control bridge.
08:25Oh, we'll never make the lecture at this rate.
08:27Have they repaired the intercom terminal in the theater, Buddy?
08:30I was working this morning.
08:32Be back in a minute.
08:36What did you think of those music tapes Ingrid brought back from Calibria?
08:40I was listening to one when I turned in last night.
08:42You know, the one with all the voices?
08:44The hinge of the vanished canal?
08:45Yeah.
08:46Yeah, that's it.
08:47And I fell asleep while it was still running.
08:49And I had dreamed about kaleidoscope faces and stained glass animals all night.
08:54Incredible.
08:55Let's get up to the bridge.
08:59Something's happened to the Nile Delta.
09:00When we woke up, we were back aboard the Nile Delta.
09:01The rest of my chaps were still knocked out.
09:02And the necklace and the aliens were gone.
09:03Is the necklace the only thing missing?
09:05We don't know yet.
09:06We're still checking the manifest.
09:07Have you notified the museum yet?
09:08I'm going to do that just as soon as...
09:09Stand by, Starlab.
09:10Dr. Cassidy, our medical officer, Dr. Lowell Maxey's just come up from the cargo bay.
09:13I'm going to do that just as soon as...
09:14Stand by, Starlab.
09:15Dr. Cassidy, our medical officer, Dr. Lowell Maxey's just come up from the cargo bay.
09:16He said the aliens opened the coffin, unwrapped the mummy down to the neck, and took a tissue
09:20from the back of the night.
09:21And the rest of my chaps were still knocked out.
09:22The rest of my chaps were still knocked out.
09:23And the necklace and the aliens were gone.
09:24Is the necklace the only thing missing?
09:25We don't know yet.
09:26We're still checking the manifest.
09:27Have you notified the museum yet?
09:28I'm going to do that just as soon as...
09:30Stand by, Starlab.
09:31Dr. Cassidy, our medical officer, Dr. Lowell Maxey's just come up from the cargo bay.
09:36He said the aliens opened the coffin, unwrapped the mummy down to the neck, and took a tissue
09:44sample from its face.
09:47A tissue sample?
09:49Is Dr. Lowell Max absolutely certain about that?
09:53He's positive, Dr. Cassidy, and he's holding up a little gold surgical instrument they dropped.
09:59We'll put it in a safe place, and we'll analyze it when you get here.
10:03See you around midnight, Captain.
10:05Starlab out.
10:07Nile Delta, clear.
10:09Buddy, John, what do you think?
10:11Well, we've got about nine hours before the Nile Delta gets here.
10:14Let's go down to the library and pull the King Tut tapes out of the Egyptology section.
10:19Maybe we can turn up something.
10:21Why not?
10:22Meanwhile, at the Royal British Museum in London,
10:29Sir Dorian Bradford Gray, the museum's director, receives word of the Nile Delta incident.
10:38Fifteen minutes later, Sir Dorian reports the incident to British Prime Minister, Lord Henry Gladstone Bags.
10:47Within the hour, Lord Henry enters Buckingham Palace and conveys the news to Her Majesty, Queen Victoria III.
10:58And what about the aliens who perpetrated this awful crime, Lord Henry?
11:03Does the Ministry have any idea who they are?
11:06I'm afraid we're still in the dark about that, Your Majesty.
11:11Hmm.
11:12Hand us the royal pen and ink, Lord Henry.
11:15And some royal stationery too.
11:17This incident requires the services of England's most famous consulting detective.
11:23Agreed?
11:24Oh, yes.
11:25By all means, Your Majesty.
11:26By all means.
11:27By all means.
11:29Now, let's see.
11:32From Victoria Regina III.
11:37Yes, yes, Your Majesty.
11:38To Sonar T. Foom.
11:42Without any shadow of a doubt.
11:43My dear Mr. Foom,
11:46a matter of some urgency has arisen,
11:53which requires your immediate and undivided attention.
12:02Oh, Britannia.
12:09Meanwhile, in the heart of London's West End,
12:12Sonar T. Foom and his associate Dr. MacGuffin Drone
12:16are spending a quiet afternoon in their rooms
12:19at 221B Pennybaker Street.
12:33Foom! Foom! Foom!
12:39Did you say something, Drone?
12:41I really must protest, Foom.
12:42That instrument of yours had my London Gazette vibrating so rapidly,
12:46I could scarcely read today's news.
12:48Oh, please forgive me, Drone,
12:52but you know how restless I am when there's nothing afoot
12:55to test my keen powers of observation and deduction.
13:00And music does, after all, soothe the savage beast.
13:05Well, if it's savage beast you're interested in soothing,
13:08perhaps you should consider taking up residence at the zoo.
13:10Careful, Drone.
13:12I think you're skating on rather thin ice with that one.
13:17Just a moment.
13:19Do my ears deceive me, or is that Mrs. Hudson's cat-like tread upon the stair?
13:26Yes, that's Mrs. Hudson, all right.
13:29No question about it.
13:31Come in, Mrs. Hudson.
13:33Why, Mr. Foom, how on earth did you know it was me?
13:40Elementary, my dear Mrs. Hudson.
13:42There are just the three of us in the entire house.
13:45The doors and windows are latched from the inside.
13:48Dr. Drone and myself are, as you can plainly see, here in this room.
13:54Which left only you, Mrs. Hudson, unaccounted for.
13:59Oh, Mr. Foom, you never cease to amaze me.
14:03I also perceive an envelope between the thumb and forefinger of your right hand, Mrs. Hudson.
14:11White, six inches square, addressed to me in violet ink.
14:16Oh, my, yes, I nearly forgot. It just arrived.
14:20May I have the envelope, please?
14:27Hmm.
14:28A message from none other than Her Royal Majesty.
14:32You don't say, Her Royal Majesty.
14:35How did you know that, Foom?
14:37The return address, my dear Drone.
14:39I recognize the royal zip code.
14:42Your powers of observation are absolutely uncanny, Foom.
14:46Yes.
14:47And now...
14:55The Gag Drone.
14:57The Nile Delta's been set upon by alien beings.
15:00And King Tutankhamun's floral necklace has been purloined.
15:04Her Majesty requests that we go to Starlab at once
15:08and assist in the investigation of this beastly crime.
15:11Mrs. Hudson, call the airfield and tell Smattering to prepare the Bellerobomb.
15:17Right away, Mr. Foom.
15:20Let's get our equipment sorted out, Drone.
15:22The game is afoot, and a new adventure is at hand.
15:25Alien Worlds will continue.
15:32Alien Worlds continues.
15:34The Royal British Museum freighter, Nile Delta, is returning to Earth from Thanatos.
15:40Aboard the freighter, the treasures of Tutankhamun sent to Thanatos two weeks earlier for exhibition.
15:53Midway between Earth and Saturn, the freighter is boarded by aliens who steal the King Tut floral necklace,
16:08and take a tissue sample from the face of the boy king's mummy.
16:12When news of the Nile Delta incident reaches Queen Victoria the Third,
16:17she quickly notifies consulting detective, Sonar T. Foom.
16:22Let's get our equipment sorted out, Drone.
16:25Her Majesty respectfully requests that we go to Starlab at once
16:29and assist in the investigation of this beastly crime.
16:32At the Pennybaker Street tube station,
16:36Foom and Drone board an urban-linked train
16:39that carries them to a small spaceport near Croydon.
16:46Crossing the field to Launch Pad 6,
16:48they board Foom's powerful multi-atmosphere cruiser, the Bellerophon,
16:53England's most sophisticated privately-owned spacecraft.
16:57Thirty seconds later, the Bellerophon jets out over the grey waters of the English Channel,
17:07banks up into a glacier-like mass of white clouds,
17:11and rockets away towards Starlab.
17:22Let me know when Erica finishes replacing the AE-35 module, huh?
17:26Will do, Dr. Cassidy. See you later.
17:33Let's see. Nine o'clock.
17:35Well, time to feed my fish.
17:44Hi, Winston.
17:45Hi, Emmett.
17:46Hi, Orpheus.
17:48Dr. Cassidy.
17:49Hi, Dorothy.
17:50Yes, Dorothy, what is it?
17:51I have a transmission coming through from ISA headquarters.
17:54It's Commissioner White.
17:55I'll take it here.
17:56Patch him through.
17:58Mara, I just received a transmission from the British Prime Minister.
18:03Sonar T. Foom is on his way up to help with the Nile Delta investigation.
18:07Good.
18:08I've always wanted to meet that man.
18:10When did he leave?
18:11Oh, about an hour ago.
18:13He should be docking in a few minutes.
18:15He and his partner officially represent the British government in this case, Mara, so give him all the help you can.
18:22All right, Commissioner.
18:23I'll keep you posted.
18:24Starlab out.
18:25Good evening, Starlab.
18:32This is the Bellerophon.
18:35Sonar T4 at the controls.
18:38This is Starlab.
18:39Go ahead, Bellerophon.
18:40What is Starlab's rotational profile?
18:4418 per minute on a variable axis of 0.3 degrees.
18:51Non-correctable.
18:52Thank you so much.
18:54At our present rate of speed and your present rate of rotation, I calculate our docking orbit insertion coordinates will be 208 degrees at subvector 671.
19:10Uh, hold on a minute.
19:15That's right.
19:16Did you calculate that in your head?
19:18Of course.
19:19That's amazing.
19:21Nothing to it, really.
19:23Now, what do you have in the way of empty docking bays?
19:28Uh, number 14.
19:31Thank you so much.
19:33And will you please inform Dr. Cassidy that we'll be there in 1 minute 13 seconds.
19:41Will do.
19:42Starlab out.
19:50All right, Jerry.
19:51Have Polly bring them to my quarters as soon as they dock, huh?
19:53Okay, Maura.
19:54Well, you two look more red-eyed than usual.
19:59Where have you been?
20:00We went back to the library after dinner and ran the King Tut tapes again.
20:03Did you come up with anything?
20:05Yeah.
20:06You know that blue and gold bird symbol Captain Lemus described?
20:09The one on the tail fin of the alien ship?
20:11Mm-hmm.
20:12We found one just like it on King Tut's ecclesiastical chair.
20:15Oh, what does the bird represent?
20:17Well, it's actually a sacred vulture.
20:20And it represents the goddess Nekebet, a guardian of Upper Egypt and protectors of childbirth.
20:25When Captain Lemus gets here, we should run his visual scanner tapes of the alien ship
20:29against the library tapes to see if the symbols match.
20:32And if they do?
20:33If they do, we've concocted a pretty bizarre theory to explain why.
20:37I'm listening.
20:38Well, if the symbols match, and this is strictly hypothetical now,
20:42if they match, then maybe the aliens aren't aliens after all.
20:48Maybe they're Egyptians.
20:49Oh, come on, you two.
20:51Modern Egypt isn't capable of the kind of technology Captain Lemus described.
20:56That's the bizarre part of the theory, Mara.
20:59We're not talking about modern Egypt.
21:01We're talking about ancient Egypt.
21:03Good evening, Dr. Cassadin.
21:05Mr. Foom.
21:06Dr. Drone, welcome to Starlight.
21:09Thank you, Dr. Cassadin.
21:10Mara, please.
21:11And, uh, who are these gentlemen, Mara?
21:14Space Exploration Team Captains John Graydon and Buddy Griff.
21:18Oh, how are you doing?
21:19Nice to meet you.
21:20I believe you were discussing the possibility that the aliens who boarded the Nile Delta
21:25might in fact be ancient Egyptians.
21:27Something like that, Doctor.
21:29It's a theory Buddy and John dreamed up.
21:31Hmm.
21:32I think we're going to get on very well indeed, gentlemen.
21:36Dr. Drone and myself were discussing a similar hypothesis not more than fifteen minutes ago.
21:43You were?
21:44Congratulations, Captain Graydon.
21:46Thank you, Captain Griff.
21:48Mr. Foom, with all due respect to you and Dr. Drone, I find it hard to believe that we're dealing with 3300-year-old Egyptians.
21:57Not 3300-year-old Egyptians, Mara, but rather the descendants of the high priests and priestesses who departed the Earth following Tutankhamen's death.
22:08Departed the Earth? How?
22:10The King Tut library tapes were full of references to skyships, Mara.
22:15Tell me, gentlemen.
22:16Did your theory arise from Captain Lemus' description of the Neckhebit symbol on the tail fin of the alien ship?
22:23That and the way the aliens were dressed?
22:25Yes.
22:26Captain Lemus conveyed those very same descriptions to the museum.
22:30Fascinating, isn't it?
22:32Alright, suppose these aliens are what you think they are.
22:35That still doesn't explain the theft of the necklace or why they took a tissue sample from the mummy.
22:39The necklace is a puzzlement, Mara, but the tissue specimen isn't.
22:45It has long been our contention that the Egyptian kings were preserved for only one reason.
22:51So that in future their tissue could be rejuvenated for the purpose of monocellular replication.
22:58Cloning.
23:00You mean you actually believe these aliens intend to duplicate Tutankhamen?
23:05The ancient Egyptian religion was completely devoted to the concept of life after death, Mara.
23:11Most scholars and historians still maintain that the Egyptian afterlife was simply an abstract journey through an equally abstract underworld.
23:19Dr. Dr. Drone and myself think otherwise.
23:22We believe the Egyptian underworld was a metaphor to describe the very real fact of physical immortality.
23:32Thou art standing before Ra, who cometh from the east.
23:42His duration of life is infinite.
23:45His limit of life is everlastingness.
23:49Become one with Ra, and be received into the land of eternal triumph.
23:58A verse from the Papyrus of Ani, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, telling of a journey into the regions of life everlasting.
24:09Immortality.
24:10Immortality.
24:11The most beautiful and mysterious of all, alien worlds.
24:16All Однако, alien worlds.
24:42We ran the Egyptology tapes all the way back to the first dynasty,
24:57but we couldn't find a connection with any other civilization.
25:00A lot of theories, but nothing definite.
25:03What sort of theories?
25:04Well, some historians think dynastic Egypt may have evolved from ancient Samaria
25:08because of the similarity of their religious deities and astrological calendar.
25:12And a few renegade scholars even hypothesized that the Egyptians were the survivors of Atlantis.
25:18Look, before we get carried away by all these theories, I'd like to know one thing.
25:24Aside from religious deities and skyships,
25:27did these civilizations share a common philosophy about where they came from?
25:32Yes, Maura, they did.
25:33They all believed they were the children of highly evolved beings
25:37who originally came down from the stars.
25:49The Limehouse Express to Starlap Control.
25:52The Limehouse Express?
25:55Where do people come up with these names?
25:57Who knows?
25:58This is Starlap.
25:59Go ahead, Limehouse Express.
26:01Good evening.
26:03It's Jerry, isn't it?
26:05That's right.
26:07Who are you?
26:08What's your position?
26:10My position is that I never state my position.
26:14What's the problem, Limehouse Express?
26:16No problem, Dr. Cassidy.
26:19Now, if you don't mind, I wish to speak to Mr. Foom.
26:23Does he know you?
26:25Oh, my, yes.
26:27He knows me very well indeed.
26:29I'm Professor Moriarty.
26:31Alien Worlds will continue.
26:39Alien Worlds will continue.
26:39Alien Worlds continues.
26:53England's most famous consulting detective, Sonar T. Foom, and his associate, Dr. MacGuffin Drone,
27:02arrive at Starlap to investigate the theft of the King Tut floral necklace from the Royal British Museum freighter Nile Delta.
27:10Half an hour later, Starlap Control receives a transmission from the Limehouse Express, a mysterious spacecraft that refuses to give its position.
27:24Have you tried to locate him with a tracer beacon?
27:27He's neutralizing our tracer beacon with a scrambler beam that he's transmitting along with his radio signal.
27:33He's too far away for the scanners to pick him up.
27:36Very clever, Moriarty.
27:38Very clever indeed.
27:40Nearly as clever as you, eh, Foom?
27:43Well, I wouldn't go quite that far, Drone.
27:45No, no, I suppose not.
27:48Open B channel, Jerry.
27:50Go ahead, Mr. Foom.
27:53So, Professor Moriarty, we meet again.
27:56Ah, my dear Foom, it's so good to hear your voice.
28:01Interplanetary crime is so boring without an adversary of your caliber.
28:07What exactly is on your criminal mind?
28:10I'm in the mood for a bit of cat and mouse with you, Foom.
28:14So I thought it might interest you to know that the Tutankhamen necklace is in my possession,
28:21and the aliens who took it are being held aboard my ship.
28:24You mean the Egyptians who took it, don't you, Moriarty?
28:28Very good, Foom.
28:29Very good indeed.
28:32Well, I see by the old atomic clock on the wall that we've run out of time.
28:36I do, however, want to leave you with these inspiring words.
28:41Catch me, if you can.
28:44Limehouse Express.
28:46Out.
28:47Limehouse Express, indeed.
28:49Why, does that name mean something?
28:52Moriarty's great-great-grandfather was the most cunning criminal genius of his time.
28:58His headquarters were somewhere in the Limehouse section of London.
29:01And like his great-great-grandson's spacecraft,
29:05the location of the old professor's headquarters was a constant source of mystery.
29:10If the Egyptians are working for Moriarty, why is he holding them prisoner?
29:15It just doesn't make sense.
29:17I think it's safe to assume that they were cooperating with Moriarty rather than working for him.
29:23It's obvious now that he was using them to get the necklace for himself.
29:27We're right back at the beginning, aren't we?
29:30The beginning?
29:31Of course.
29:34Maura, you're positively inspirational.
29:36I am?
29:37Indeed you are.
29:39Drone, I think it's time we contacted the museum and had a chat with Sir Dorian.
29:44Something tells me he knows more about the origins of this case than he thinks he does.
29:54Meanwhile, near Mars, the Limehouse Express, a huge, metallic-gray flying wing,
30:02moves into a parking orbit between the Martian moons of Deimos and Phobos.
30:09Imprisoned in a storage compartment near the flying wing's hangar bay,
30:14are Piratep and Amantef,
30:17the two extraterrestrial Egyptians responsible for the theft of the necklace.
30:21It was foolish and undignified, Amantef.
30:27The two of us sitting in Sir Dorian's office, wearing those absurd Earth costumes,
30:34trying to deceive him the way the Professor eventually deceived us.
30:38Perhaps we can still redeem ourselves.
30:42It is apparent from the way the Professor talks about this man, Phuom, that they are deadly enemies.
30:51If we could reach Starlab and explain to Phuom why we need the necklace, he might be sympathetic.
30:59But we'll never reach the hangar bay without a weapon.
31:04We have a weapon, Piratep.
31:07A photon pistol.
31:09I hid it in my boot as our ship was being taken aboard.
31:14Then you knew the Professor was manipulating us.
31:17He's coming, Amantef.
31:22Hide the pistol.
31:25Well, how are the children of the sun this evening?
31:30Why have you brought the necklace here?
31:33I'll be taking it to Anshar in a few hours,
31:36and I thought perhaps you'd like to have one last look at it.
31:40Be very careful with it, won't you, my dear?
31:51Amantef, there is only one guard in the corridor.
31:56All right.
32:01What is it?
32:02Who are you?
32:10Take the necklace into the ship.
32:19I'll open the launch doors.
32:30Piratep, hurry.
32:34Amantef, the guards are coming.
32:37Take the necklace to stop it.
32:40Piratep.
32:49Stop him, you fool.
32:50He has the necklace.
33:00Meanwhile, on Starlab,
33:03Sonar T. Foon and Dr. MacGuffin Drone
33:06sit in a conference room on G-Level,
33:08analyzing a video image
33:11Sir Dorian has transmitted
33:12from the museum's employee index terminal.
33:16Drone, there's something rather curious
33:18about this picture of Wilhelmina Hammersmith.
33:21Look closely at the eyes.
33:24What's your professional opinion?
33:26Well, the left eye is artificial.
33:30Now, look at the ring finger on the left hand.
33:33Oh, here, let me magnify it.
33:37What do you see?
33:39A deep, circular impression,
33:42as if a ring had been removed.
33:44A platinum serpent's ring, perhaps?
33:47Great Scott.
33:49Great Scott indeed, my dear Drone.
33:51This is not a 70-year-old Egyptologist
33:54named Wilhelmina Hammersmith.
33:55This is none other than Professor Moriarty himself.
33:59What an extraordinary masquerade.
34:02Yes.
34:03Wearing this disguise,
34:05Moriarty appears at the museum
34:07and presents false credentials.
34:09Impressed with these documents,
34:11Sir Dorian gives Moriarty
34:13a post in the Egyptian antiquity section.
34:16And it is here that he learns
34:18the highly confidential facts
34:20of the Nile Delta's Thanatos schedule.
34:23Didn't Sir Dorian say
34:25that this Hammersmith woman
34:26was in his office
34:27when the Egyptian couple
34:28was there trying to buy the necklace?
34:31Yes.
34:31And two days later,
34:33Wilhelmina Hammersmith,
34:35Moriarty,
34:36resigns,
34:37and the Egyptian couple
34:38are never seen again.
34:43Now, let me see.
34:46The two Egyptians
34:47who boarded the Nile Delta
34:49are obviously the same two
34:51who were in Sir Dorian's office.
34:54When they leave the museum,
34:56Moriarty follows them.
35:00Alien Worlds will continue.
35:14Alien Worlds continues.
35:17Escaping from a prison compartment
35:21aboard Professor Moriarty's
35:23Limehouse Express,
35:24the necklace safely in their possession,
35:27Pyrotep and Amantef
35:28dash to their ship
35:29in the hangar bay
35:30of Moriarty's huge,
35:32metallic gray flying wing.
35:35Take the necklace into the ship.
35:37I'll open the launch doors.
35:38But as the thick metal doors
35:40slide open,
35:41they trigger a series
35:42of security alarms.
35:44And before Pyrotep
35:45can reach the ship,
35:46a squad of Moriarty's guards
35:48enter the hangar bay
35:49and open fire
35:50with laser rifles.
35:55Pyrotep!
35:57As Pyrotep falls,
35:58blood streaming from her face,
36:01Amantef closes the hatch
36:02of the ship
36:03and blasts off
36:04for Starland.
36:05Nine hours later...
36:12Droom.
36:30Droom, wake up.
36:32Pyrotep!
36:32Oh!
36:34Fool!
36:37Is it time for breakfast already?
36:40I've just been having a chat
36:42with a very interesting
36:43and charming Egyptian gentleman.
36:45I thought you might like to meet him.
36:48What earth are you talking about?
36:50The Egyptian ship,
36:52my dear drone.
36:53It docked 20 minutes ago.
36:55You're pulling my leg.
36:57No, my dear drone.
37:08I'm not pulling your leg.
37:10The white beads
37:11of the necklace
37:12are data storage terminals.
37:14Here,
37:15look through the lens.
37:17Good heavens.
37:18Micro circuits.
37:21The beads
37:21are emanation scanners,
37:23Doctor,
37:24that sensed
37:25and recorded
37:26the spiritual aura
37:27of the kings
37:28who wore the necklace.
37:31The necklace
37:32was brought to earth
37:33by our ancestors
37:34and passed
37:35from dynasty
37:36to dynasty
37:37in the hope
37:38that it would
37:39one day be worn
37:41by a spiritually
37:42perfect king.
37:44A king
37:45who would then
37:46be replicated
37:47and given
37:48immortality.
37:51Tutankhamun
37:52is that king.
37:54Look,
37:54you said
37:55you didn't know
37:55King Tut's tomb
37:56had been discovered
37:57until just a few weeks ago.
37:59How did your people
38:00lose track
38:00of its location
38:01in the first place?
38:02The last Egyptian dynasty
38:04ended with the death
38:06of King Nehnebph.
38:08When he died,
38:10the necklace
38:11was sealed
38:11in his sarcophagus.
38:14One year later,
38:15on the first day
38:17of the new
38:17solar equinox,
38:19our ancestors
38:20returned
38:21from Nakhesh Shem
38:22in a ceremonial
38:24funeral ship.
38:25As the ship
38:27orbited earth,
38:28an inner circle
38:30high priestess
38:31went down
38:32in a small lander.
38:34She recovered
38:35the necklace,
38:36analyzed the white beads,
38:38and saw
38:39that of all
38:40the recorded
38:41spiritual auras,
38:43Tutankhamun's
38:44had been
38:45the most perfect
38:46and powerful.
38:49Placing the necklace
38:50in Tutankhamun's tomb,
38:52she returned
38:53to the lander,
38:55contacted the ship,
38:56and reported
38:57that it was
38:58Tutankhamun
38:59who would be
39:00given immortality.
39:02But before
39:03she could give
39:03the location
39:04of the tomb,
39:06her transmission
39:07was interrupted.
39:09She was never
39:09seen
39:10or heard from
39:11again.
39:12Limehouse
39:14expressed
39:15to Starman.
39:17I'll talk
39:17to him,
39:18Mora.
39:19Well,
39:20if it isn't
39:21the notorious
39:22Wilhelmina Hammersmith.
39:24Don't be tired
39:25from home.
39:26I know,
39:27Amanteph is there
39:27with tracked
39:28his ship.
39:29Now,
39:30as you said
39:30earlier,
39:31let's get down
39:32to cases.
39:34Pyrotep is alive
39:35and sealed
39:36in an airlock.
39:38If you don't
39:38return the necklace,
39:39I'll decompress
39:40that airlock
39:41and kill her.
39:43I see.
39:45How do you
39:46want us to proceed?
39:47Dr. Cassidy
39:48and Amanteph
39:49will deliver
39:50the necklace
39:50in an unarmed ship.
39:52Amanteph knows
39:53my location.
39:55And,
39:55Foom,
39:56don't try
39:57any of your drinks.
39:59Decompression
39:59is a singularly
40:01horrible way
40:02to die.
40:03What are you
40:04going to do,
40:04Foom?
40:05Elementary,
40:06my dear drone.
40:07I'm going to
40:08beat Moriarty
40:08at his own game.
40:09Amanteph,
40:12come with me.
40:13I'd like to have
40:13a word with you
40:14in private.
40:23Two hours later,
40:25Amanteph leaves
40:27Foom's quarters
40:27and returns
40:29to Starlab Control.
40:31From there,
40:31he and Mora
40:32descend to
40:33launch Bay 15,
40:35board the deep
40:36space laboratory
40:36ship Octavia
40:38and blast off
40:39for the Limehouse
40:40Express.
40:43Nine hours later,
40:45the Octavia
40:46enters Martian
40:47space
40:47and moves
40:48into a side-by-side
40:50position
40:50with Moriarty's
40:52huge flying wing.
40:57As the two ships
40:59float in the
40:59airless void
41:00between
41:01Diemos and
41:02Phobos,
41:02an enclosed
41:04Metalflex
41:04walkway
41:05telescopes
41:05from the
41:06Octavia
41:07to the
41:07personnel hatch
41:08of the
41:09Limehouse
41:09Express.
41:13After
41:14pressurizing
41:15the walkway
41:16interior,
41:17Mora
41:17stabilizes
41:18its atmosphere.
41:20A moment
41:20later,
41:21the two ships
41:22open their
41:23airlocks.
41:29Amanteph!
41:29Amanteph!
41:30Pirate,
41:33your forehead.
41:35Don't concern
41:36yourself,
41:36Amanteph.
41:37The wound
41:38is superficial.
41:39Thank Ra
41:40for that.
41:42Go into
41:42the ship
41:43now and
41:43rest.
41:47You're very
41:47pleased with
41:48yourself,
41:49aren't you,
41:49Professor?
41:50And why
41:50shouldn't I
41:51be?
41:52I not only
41:53have the
41:53necklace,
41:54but I've
41:54outsmarted
41:55Sonatifu
41:56as well.
41:58You're no
41:58match for
41:59Mr.
41:59Fool.
42:00Your cruelty
42:01defeated him,
42:01not your
42:02intelligence.
42:03You're an
42:04ugly little
42:04man,
42:05Professor.
42:05Ugly and
42:06arrogant and
42:07stupid.
42:08Sticks and
42:09stones,
42:09Dr.
42:09Cassidy,
42:10sticks and
42:11stones.
42:12It's time,
42:13Professor.
42:15All right.
42:16Tell your
42:17men to
42:17return to
42:18their stations.
42:20May I
42:20hold the
42:21necklace one
42:22last time?
42:23Of course,
42:24Amanteph.
42:25I'm as
42:26sentimental as
42:27the next
42:27man,
42:28in spite of
42:29my overweening
42:30ugliness.
42:33Would you
42:34like to
42:34hold it,
42:35Mora?
42:36Ah,
42:36yes.
42:38Yes,
42:38thank you.
42:41Professor?
42:43Yes?
42:50Amanteph.
42:51Into the ship,
42:52Mora.
42:53I'll bring
42:53the Professor.
42:56Professor!
42:57Go!
42:58Go!
42:59Go!
43:09Hold his
43:10wrists a little
43:10closer together,
43:11Amanteph.
43:13Good.
43:13There.
43:18Watching you
43:19walk into
43:19Jastro prison
43:20is going to
43:21be a pleasure,
43:22Professor.
43:28Amanteph,
43:29how did the
43:30descendants of
43:30an ancient
43:31Egyptian high
43:32priest manage
43:32to become a
43:33master of
43:34oriental martial
43:35arts?
43:36In much the
43:37same way
43:37that I became
43:39a master of
43:40disguise,
43:41Mora.
43:42Practice.
43:42Here,
43:44hold my
43:44nose.
43:46Mr.
43:46Foo!
43:47Shh!
43:48You'll
43:48wake
43:48Piratep.
43:50Why didn't
43:50you tell
43:51me?
43:51If you
43:52had known
43:53it was
43:53me disguised
43:54as Amanteph,
43:55you might
43:55have behaved
43:56differently
43:56aboard
43:57Moriarty's
43:57ship.
43:58Here,
43:59help me
44:00peel off
44:01this beard.
44:01My
44:01fingernails
44:02are all
44:03so...
44:04Mora!
44:05I'm
44:06sorry,
44:06Mr.
44:07Foo.
44:07That's
44:08all right.
44:08I'm
44:09sure I'll
44:09be as
44:09good as
44:10new when
44:10they remove
44:10the bandages.
44:11What did
44:13Amanteph say
44:13when you
44:14told him
44:14what you
44:14intended to
44:15do?
44:15He smiled
44:16his most
44:17seraphic smile
44:18and gave
44:19me his
44:20blessing.
44:21He's quite
44:21an extraordinary
44:22man,
44:23you know.
44:23While we
44:24were talking,
44:25I asked him
44:25why the
44:26Egyptian
44:26civilization
44:27was brought
44:28to Earth
44:28in the first
44:29place.
44:29and he
44:30said,
44:31to create
44:31a sense
44:32of wonder,
44:33Mr.
44:33Foo.
44:34A sense
44:35of wonder
44:36so compelling
44:37as to cause
44:38those generations
44:39still unborn
44:41to look at
44:42history with
44:43new insight
44:44and see the
44:46universe with
44:46new eyes.
44:48Eyes that
44:49will one day
44:50look back at
44:51ancient Egypt
44:52and understand
44:54what we tried
44:55to do there.
44:56and on
44:57that day
44:58realize that
45:00they are
45:00looking back
45:01into the
45:02future.
45:18The Adventure
45:19of the Egyptian
45:20Necklace
45:21was written
45:21by Ron Thompson
45:22and starred
45:24Linda Gary,
45:25Chuck Olson,
45:25Bruce Phillip
45:26Miller and
45:27Corey Burton
45:28with special
45:29guest stars
45:30Philip Clark,
45:31John Abbott,
45:33Lester Fletcher,
45:34Carol Bilger
45:35and Joe Baker.
45:37Associate
45:37producer Ron
45:38Thompson,
45:39music director
45:40Tom Rounds,
45:41engineer Stu
45:42Jacobs,
45:43assistant to
45:44the producer
45:45Jim Cook,
45:46technical
45:47consultant
45:47Peter Skye.
45:49Alien Worlds
45:50was created,
45:52produced and
45:52directed by
45:53Lee Hansen
45:54and is
45:55distributed
45:55by
45:56Watermark
45:56Incorporated.
45:58The Adventure
45:59of the Egyptian
46:00Necklace
46:00is dedicated
46:01to the
46:02memories
46:02of Sir
46:03Arthur
46:03Conan Doyle,
46:05creator of
46:05England's
46:06most famous
46:07consulting
46:07detective.
46:09And so,
46:10until next week,
46:11this is Roger
46:12Dressler,
46:13inviting you to
46:14join us
46:15for our next
46:16adventure,
46:17Time Clash,
46:18in the elsewhere
46:19and else
46:20when of
46:21Alien Worlds.
46:23?
46:30?
46:31?
46:32?
46:33?
46:33?
46:34?
46:34?