Not Rated | 30min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, TV Series | Episode aired 27 January 1959
A young Englishwoman is suddenly wracked by dreams of drowning in the ocean. She is stunned when her fiancée tells her that he has prepared a surprise honeymoon trip for them--they're sailing to New York on the passenger liner Titanic.
Director: John Newland
Writers: Merwin Gerard, Lawrence B. Marcus, Collier Young
Stars: Barbara Lord, Isobel Elsom, Patrick Macnee
A young Englishwoman is suddenly wracked by dreams of drowning in the ocean. She is stunned when her fiancée tells her that he has prepared a surprise honeymoon trip for them--they're sailing to New York on the passenger liner Titanic.
Director: John Newland
Writers: Merwin Gerard, Lawrence B. Marcus, Collier Young
Stars: Barbara Lord, Isobel Elsom, Patrick Macnee
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00:00The amazing drama you're about to see is a matter of human record.
00:07You may believe it or not, but the real people who lived this story, they believe it.
00:14They know.
00:16They took that one step beyond.
00:20Alcoa presents a new and unusual kind of television program that takes you just beyond the
00:29world in which you live.
00:32Alcoa presents Aluminum, from the world's leading producer, Aluminum Company of America,
00:39who creates new and unusual uses of this wondrous metal for the world in which you do live.
00:46And now, John Newland takes you one step beyond.
00:52Here in this warm, secure London house, early April 1912, began the bizarre and untold
01:00chapter of a news story that would soon stun the civilized world.
01:07In this library was an unread book.
01:12Coming events cast their shadows before them.
01:16Maybe.
01:17Remember this book.
01:18We'll come back to it later.
01:21It might shock you.
01:23Ah!
01:25Ah!
01:33Mother.
01:36Mother.
01:38Mother.
01:39Mother!
01:41Mother!
01:45What is it?
01:57What's wrong, dear?
01:59It was water.
02:00Dark water.
02:01I was drowning.
02:02I couldn't swim anymore.
02:03I was drowning.
02:04Oh.
02:05You just had one of those old-fashioned nightmares.
02:07Oh, no.
02:08I don't blame you.
02:09All this excitement about the wedding.
02:11No wonder.
02:12Frank.
02:13Frank was there.
02:14But I couldn't find him in the dark.
02:19Then the water closed in over me.
02:23What does it mean?
02:26Nothing.
02:27Absolutely nothing.
02:29And in four days, you'll be married and in Switzerland on your honeymoon.
02:34The happiest bride that ever was.
02:37And you can't drown in Switzerland.
02:40Nobody ever does.
02:42All they do is bang into trees on those foolish skis.
02:46But drowning?
02:48No.
02:50It was all so clear to me.
02:55I could feel the water.
02:59It was like ice.
03:01Now, if you must dream, I order you to dream only pleasant things.
03:06Eric, your wedding dress.
03:10How happy you're going to be.
03:12Promise?
03:14That's better.
03:16Now, come on back to bed.
03:18I couldn't find him.
03:19I couldn't find him.
03:20Now, that is enough, darling.
03:22And I shouldn't worry Eric with this.
03:24He's been trying so hard to make everything wonderful for you.
03:30There.
03:32Now.
03:34Good night, dear.
03:37No more nightmares.
03:47Good night.
04:08Good morning, Emily.
04:10Is the future Mrs. Fowley about?
04:12Grace?
04:13Eric.
04:17Well.
04:18I know it's early, but I wanted to see what my wife would look like in the morning.
04:21Ugly.
04:23Would you like some coffee, darling?
04:24I'd love some.
04:26You like surprises, don't you, darling?
04:28I love them.
04:29Come on, surprise me.
04:31It's about our honeymoon.
04:32Our honeymoon?
04:34We're not going to Switzerland.
04:35We're not?
04:36Well, where are we going?
04:37We're going to America.
04:38To New York City.
04:40New York.
04:41Eric.
04:42Now, why don't you ask me how we're going to get there?
04:45Swim.
04:46Rowboat.
04:47Raft.
04:48All right, darling.
04:49How?
04:51That's how.
04:53Stay for dinner.
04:54I'll be back.
04:55I'll be back.
04:56I'll be back.
04:57I'll be back.
04:59That's how.
05:00State room 111B.
05:02Boat deck right next door to Mrs. John Jacob Astor, no less.
05:05On the maiden voyage of His Royal Majesty's ship, Titanic.
05:08Southampton to New York.
05:09Six days at sea.
05:10Next Tuesday.
05:12At sea?
05:13Oh, just a little sugar, darling.
05:16I can't.
05:24I can't believe it.
05:26I can hardly believe it myself, but the office has connections.
05:31Oh, you lucky children.
05:33You sure you won't miss Switzerland?
05:36Switzerland we'll keep.
05:38But the Titanic, our honeymoon, that's once in a lifetime.
05:43The paper's full of nothing but the Titanic.
05:46Listen to this, Grace.
05:48R.M.S. Titanic, the world's largest and most luxurious liner,
05:52is writing a new and glamorous chapter in man's conquest of the sea.
05:57By virtue of her five watertight compartments,
06:00she's being hailed in marine engineering circles as the unsinkable ship.
06:06Her first passenger list makes her a floating home for royalty,
06:10statesmen, international society, and stars of the theater and the arts.
06:16And Mr. and Mrs. Eric Farley, who are absolutely unknown.
06:21And absolutely in love.
06:33Grace!
06:37Grace!
06:46Grace, what is it, darling?
06:52What is it?
07:00We can't go on that ship.
07:02It happened again.
07:04I dreamed...
07:05Now, now, darling, I do wish you wouldn't.
07:08I saw the sea, cold sea.
07:10There were people struggling in the water.
07:12Really?
07:13Sinking, dying.
07:15Grace.
07:16And then a huge ship slid down.
07:20Down.
07:21Now, it's just a bad dream.
07:24Besides, that ship couldn't be the Titanic.
07:27The Titanic can't sink.
07:29Everyone knows that.
07:30I saw a lifeboat tossing in the water.
07:32Grace.
07:33There were letters on the side of it.
07:34I saw.
07:35So clearly I saw the word Titanic on the side of the boat.
07:38I did.
07:39I did.
07:40I did.
07:41I did.
07:42I did.
07:43I did.
07:44I did.
07:45Your intuition should tell you that what you see next is not a dream.
07:49It can come true.
07:52Just what I've always wanted.
07:55Only my own dear Aunt Agatha would have guessed.
07:59Have you ever kept birds, my darling?
08:02Now, neither have I.
08:03Have you ever thought of keeping birds?
08:06Neither have I.
08:07Then by all means, write dear Aunt Agatha and tell her she's made us very, very happy.
08:11I will.
08:15I will.
08:25I know all about last night.
08:27And the night before that.
08:28Mother told you.
08:31I suppose you think I've gone off my head.
08:33One of those silly, hysterical women.
08:35I think you're a lot overtired and a little overimaginative.
08:38But this isn't my imagination.
08:40Believe me, I saw it.
08:41I saw it.
08:42Now, that is silly.
08:43You don't believe what you see in your sleep?
08:45I mean, unless you're a gypsy.
08:48Great.
08:50Do you trust me?
08:52You know I do.
08:54Then don't spoil the happiest time of our whole lives just because of a bad dream.
08:59Everything's going to be all right, I promise.
09:01I'll take care of you always.
09:04Oh, help me, darling.
09:05Darling.
09:07You know, if I didn't know you so well, I'd think that you'd fallen in love with another man.
09:11That you didn't want to marry me.
09:13I couldn't love anybody but you.
09:18Very well, I believe you.
09:20Only remember, if there ever is another man, I was one of the best shots in the Coldstream Guards.
09:42Are you asleep?
09:47I think I will keep a bird, after all.
09:50I beg your pardon?
09:52That would please your Aunt Agatha, wouldn't it?
09:55It would sorrow me.
09:58Did you have any particularly bad dreams last night?
10:01No, I didn't.
10:03I had a bad dream.
10:05A bad dream?
10:07Yes.
10:08It would sorrow me.
10:10Did you have any particular species in mind?
10:13Oh, a lovebird, of course.
10:15Well, naturally, a lovebird.
10:24Thank you, darling.
10:27What for?
10:29The sixth most perfect day of my life.
10:32How lovely you are.
10:36And very young.
10:37Could be even better days.
10:45You've forgiven me, haven't you, for those silly scenes I made?
10:49I've forgotten the whole thing.
10:52I'm glad.
10:55But awful.
10:57Ridiculous.
10:59But awful.
11:01Ridiculous dream.
11:03It wasn't a dream at all.
11:05I was wide awake when I felt there was something wrong with the ship.
11:08Quite wrong.
11:10I know you'll laugh.
11:12And I don't blame you.
11:15I was in my cabin this afternoon.
11:18I imagine it was around four o'clock when I heard this terrible sound.
11:23What kind of sound?
11:25It was a terrible grinding sound.
11:26As though the ship had suddenly struck some immovable object.
11:29The whole boat seemed to tremble with the impact.
11:32Tell me, by any chance, did you hear anything or feel anything?
11:36No, no. I heard nothing like that, I'm happy to say.
11:39You know, it's probably your imagination.
11:42Or, more likely, indigestion.
11:45Why don't you see the ship's doctor? He's a good man, I'm told.
11:49I'm all right physically, it's just that for the first time in my life, I'm...
11:53I'm afraid.
11:54I'm afraid.
11:56I'm afraid even for the next few hours.
11:58I don't know what I'm afraid of.
12:00It's as if there was something in my... in my soul.
12:04You know, if I weren't such a hard-headed realist and I were at home,
12:09I think I'd call on my minister.
12:12As the mighty ship raced through the Atlantic night,
12:15there were others far away who felt dark premonitions of disaster.
12:19For one, a Methodist minister in Winnipeg, Canada.
12:25Four... six...
12:40Four...
12:43Four, six...
12:47Excuse me, Dr. Morgan, but it's nearly time for the service.
12:51Miss Parsons,
12:52I'd like the congregation to sing hymn number 446 tonight.
12:58But Dr. Morgan, the hymns for tonight are already posted in the church,
13:02and the organist...
13:04Please, 446.
13:07I didn't know that was one of your favorite hymns.
13:11It isn't, I don't even know the words.
13:13I simply know that we must sing it tonight.
13:23Hear, Father, while we pray to thee for those in peril on the sea.
13:29Better we should be praying for our farmers after a winter like this.
13:53Give me that.
13:55Give me that.
14:25For those in peril on the sea, by grace and bounty we ask for them.
14:35See them safely home again.
14:41Hear, Father, while we pray to thee for those in peril on the sea.
14:50By grace and bounty we ask for them.
14:56It's funny, at sea one almost forgets something.
15:02What is it, darling?
15:04Nothing.
15:07You're cold.
15:09Come to bed.
15:14At precisely the same time in New York City, still a thousand miles away,
15:18a magazine illustrator named Harry Teller felt a weird compulsion.
15:24I don't know what's wrong with me.
15:27Oh, Harry, what's this?
15:30I thought you were supposed to be drawing pretty girls in the new spring styles.
15:34You'll never make the deadline now.
15:36I don't know how it happened.
15:39I was, I don't know, helpless.
15:43Something seemed to be guiding my hand.
15:47I can't explain it.
15:53You're tired.
15:55You've been working too hard.
15:57Now, come on.
16:00No.
16:02No, it's not that.
16:06Harry, let's go to bed.
16:08Harry, let's go to bed.
16:15You know, this drawing, it's awful. I don't know who would want it.
16:20Do you know something? This is the best work you've ever done.
16:24I've never seen you do anything like this before.
16:27All of this detail in here.
16:33Harry, what is it?
16:34What is it?
16:37Your hands are like ice.
16:40The water in the drawing was cold.
16:43Icy cold.
16:51If you listen carefully, we will prove our ability to transfer our thoughts to you.
17:34Come on.
17:35Harry.
18:03What the devil are you doing?
18:05Grace.
18:17Grace.
18:21Grace.
18:25Grace.
18:31Grace.
18:35What happened? What's the matter?
18:37Everything's all right now.
18:39You come back to bed.
18:41I don't understand.
18:43I was sleeping and someone was screaming, Harry, that you need warm clothes.
18:46And I must...
18:49What's wrong with me?
18:52I must be losing my mind.
18:56I'm losing my mind.
19:01You're driving me out of mind, you know.
19:03Look, I'm not John Jacob Astor or a member of the nobility.
19:08I've saved for two years for this trip, wanting it to be a perfect honeymoon.
19:13And to have it spoiled by such childish nonsense.
19:19I'm sorry, Eric.
19:21I'm sorry, Eric.
19:24All right, darling, you're forgiven.
19:27I just don't make a habit of pitching my best clothes on the floor.
19:31Iceberg.
19:36Iceberg, get ahead.
19:38Iceberg, get ahead.
19:40Iceberg, get ahead.
20:00Engine seems to have stopped.
20:07Engine seems to have stopped.
20:14Are you all right?
20:22Oh, Stuart.
20:24Sir.
20:25The engine seemed to have stopped. What was it?
20:27There was some report of an iceberg, sir.
20:28The captain stopped the vessel, sir, just to be on the safe side, you know.
20:32What an incredible ship.
20:34What service.
20:36They run out of ice at the bar, so what happens?
20:39We hit an iceberg.
20:41Good fresh ice. That's what I like.
20:43It's all over the deck. Have a drink, chum.
20:45No, thank you.
20:51Never seen an iceberg, darling.
20:53Shall we go and have a look?
20:55That's a good idea. We'll wrap up good and warm.
20:59Package orders. Go to your lifeboat station.
21:02Please dress warmly.
21:04Now, there's no need to panic. Just take it nice and easy.
21:07It's just a precaution, darling.
21:09Remember what the captain said tonight?
21:11The ship that nothing in the world could sink?
21:21What are you doing?
21:23Trying to impress an iceberg with your jewels?
21:25Just in case.
21:27Don't mind I'll be coming back.
21:29Oh, come on.
21:50Easy does it now.
21:52Women and children only.
21:53Men will follow later.
21:55There we go.
21:58Careful, chum.
22:00Right.
22:02There's the little one.
22:05There's the young fellow. Take care of him, will you?
22:08Yes, sir.
22:10No!
22:12No! No!
22:14I won't go without you! No!
22:16Now, stop it! Listen to me.
22:18Have you forgotten your wedding vows so soon?
22:20Love, honour, obey.
22:22Now, you go with the other women in boat four.
22:29I'm sorry.
22:31I love our marriage.
22:33All six days, five hours and 20 minutes of it.
22:35I even loved our first fight.
22:37If you ever have another bad dream, I'll listen to you.
22:40Every word.
22:42Come, come, madam.
22:44It's all right. It's all right.
22:52Good night, madam.
23:12Out of the way!
23:21Out of the way!
23:39Eric Farley never came back to this house.
23:42Over 1,500 people perished that dreadful night aboard the Titanic.
23:46Eric Farley was among them.
23:48You've seen some of the unexplained supernatural events
23:51surrounding the life and death of a great ship.
23:54Now, do you remember this book?
23:58It's a novel published in 1898,
24:0114 years before the ill-fated vessel was even dreamed of.
24:05The title? Futility.
24:07Its author? Morgan Robertson.
24:10It's a story about the largest liner ever built,
24:14carrying on its maiden voyage the rich and great of the world.
24:18Then, on an April night, it struck an iceberg.
24:23The vessel in this book was 70,000 tons.
24:27The Titanic, 66,000 tons.
24:30The length of the ship in these pages, 800 feet.
24:34The Titanic, 882 feet.
24:38Both made 25 knots.
24:41Both carried about 3,000 passengers.
24:44Both liners had lifeboats for only a fraction of that number.
24:49And both were considered unsinkable.
24:52Oh, one more thing.
24:55The author called his ship the Titan.
25:00In a moment, something else to think about.
25:06Oh.
25:08About next week.
25:10Well, it begins with a silly argument about this hat,
25:12and it ends when two people in peril, miles apart,
25:16discover an amazing kind of communication,
25:19an incredible way of finding each other,
25:22as together they take that one step beyond.
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