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Decoder Ring Theatre

Marvellous Boxes (06) - Aliens Are Like Mirages

Decoder Ring Theatre

Gregg Taylor

Stories For Kids, Fiction, Kids & Family

4.8661 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2012

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This week, our final Marvellous Box opens to reveal a secret from beyond the stars. Is it a gift? A curse? Or nothing more than we make of it? Nothing can be certain when we find that Aliens Are Like Mirages.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I got an email this week from John Bell of the Bells in the Batfree podcast, which said,

0:06.5

I have greatly enjoyed the offerings of DRT this season, but I had to make special mention of remembering the Martians. What fun! What great twists on all the wonderful books, radios, cartoons I grew up with. Thank you all for a very entertaining story.

0:22.0

However, there was a glaring omission. It mentioned the cartoons with the Martian who came

0:26.8

down to Earth to help out rabbits and other animated animals, but you didn't give an example of one

0:31.6

of those cartoons. I found an old 16-millimeter print of one of those cartoons in my basement.

0:37.8

I dubbed down some of the soundtrack for your entertainment.

0:41.2

Keep up the good work, John Bell.

0:44.2

Let's give a listen.

0:46.0

What's down, Doc?

0:47.7

I am down from Mars.

0:50.5

Where is that pesky human hunter?

0:53.1

Here he comes now, Doc.

0:54.5

Do not move, you rascally rabbit.

0:57.1

I have you in my sights.

0:59.4

Where was the kaboom?

1:00.9

There was supposed to be a hair-shattering kaboom.

1:04.1

You don't realize it, but I stopped time,

1:07.0

so this bunny could tinker with your gun.

1:10.5

Ain't I a tinker?

1:12.0

Well, my assistant will now teleport an anvil from that booth above your head.

1:18.0

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yep, yeah, yeah, yeah, just gotta push this button, yeah.

1:23.2

Oh, yo, yop, yop, yop, yop, yop, yop, yop, yop.

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