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00:00And now, stand by for adventure, 3, 2, 1.
00:21In the exciting story of Manhattan on the Moon.
00:34Interplanetary investigator Colonel Bleak and his space deputies Squeak and Scratch
00:40floated to a stop just above the surface of the moon.
00:44They were searching for some trace of the terrible Dr. Destructo among the thousands
00:49of crater marks that dotted the strange landscape.
00:52To Bleak it appeared that these craters might have been caused by thousands of meteors crashing
00:56down at terrific speed.
00:59But many scientists believe the strange markings are the scars of a tremendous bubbling action
01:04caused when hot internal gases escaped to the outer surface back when the moon was soft
01:09and pliable.
01:10Scratch, however, imagined the many craters had been left long ago by violent volcanic
01:16eruptions.
01:18Similar to those the planet Earth had experienced from time to time.
01:23Then, something below caught their attention.
01:26Glistening in the sun at the very top of Mount Leibniz, the moon's highest visible peak stood
01:30a strange tower.
01:32It closely resembled the man-made structure called the Eiffel Tower, which is a familiar
01:36landmark on Earth.
01:37In the city of Paris, diving down for a closer look, Bleak and his friends found a huge reflecting
01:44mirror with a powerful lens attached to the top of the tower.
01:48This had been the moon power device used by Dr. Destructo not long ago to guide the
01:52runaway rocket straight down towards Zero Zero Island.
01:56While Bleak and Squeak searched for clues, Scratch peered through the powerful lens for
02:01a telescopic view of the Earth beyond.
02:04But as he looked, he froze with horror, for there, with one foot on South America and
02:11the other on South Africa, stood a tremendous black giant.
02:17Apparently it was only a highly magnified shadow of the caveman himself, projected nearly
02:22a quarter of a million miles through space by the light of the moon.
02:26But the sight was so terrifying, the frightened Scratch fell over backwards and tumbled down
02:32to almost certain death on the rocks below.
02:35Squeak looked up just in time to see his helpless companion falling straight down upon the puppet
02:40himself.
02:41Squeak couldn't move or even call for help.
02:43He could only cover his eyes and wait for the bone-splintering crash.
02:47He waited for the end, and waited, and waited, but nothing happened.
02:52Then Squeak opened his eyes just as Scratch gently floated into his arms.
02:57For you see, the gravity pull of the moon is only one-sixth as great as Earth, so Scratch
03:02almost floated down that great distance like a feather to land unharmed in the arms of
03:08little Squeak.
03:11Suddenly Bleep urgently signaled his companion.
03:14He had found still another clue.
03:17At the base of the tower was a scrap of notebook paper covered with the hasty scrawls of Dr.
03:23Destructo's own hand.
03:25To the others it was only a jumble of strange symbols, but to Bleep this was a flight plan,
03:32Destructo's own flight plan, and it told the colonel exactly where this master culprit
03:37had gone.
03:39It would take courage to follow Destructo now, for Bleep knew this place, knew it too
03:45well, and he was sure that fantastic terrors would be waiting out there.