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(ominous music)

- Okay, Venus?

- Okay, Steve.

- Right. Let's go.

(dramatic music)

(thrusters roar)

(ship humming)

(rockets boom)

(energetic music)

(dramatic music)

(suspenseful music)

(hammer clinking)

- Spanner? - Spanner.

- | said hammer, not spanner, you tooty robot!

- Spanner, hammer, spanner, hammer, spanner, hammer,

spanner, hammer- (steam hisses)

- Now, now, now, now, now!

Now then, Robert. No need to blow your top.

- Spanner, hammer.

(Robert clanks)

- Everything okay in there, Professor?

- Yep. Who is it?

- It's Sergeant Mahoney.

Space City Patrol, Professor.

Professor?

Professor?

Professor!

- There.

A nice drop of penetrating oil will soon put you right.

- Professor!

Professor!

Professor!

Professor! Are you okay, Professor?

- Course I'm okay.

Spanner?

- [Robert] Spanner.

(ratchet clicking)

- Hammer? - Hammer.

- Heavy hammer? - Heavy hammer.

- [Matic] Yow!

Ooh-hoo-hoo!

Eh! Ooh!

- Heavy hammer.

(upbeat music)

- Well, I've put Matic's dinner in the atom oven,

but | don't think he'll turn up now.

- He seems to have forgotten all about eating

since he's been working on this new project of his.

- | don't understand it.

He's so fond of his food as a rule.

- Just what is he up to in that workshop? It's weeks now.

- Top secret, Commander. He won't tell us a thing.

- Well, it must be something very special.

(hammer clinking)

- Well, I'm through.

Dead on schedule.

- On schedule.

- My very own time machine.

(rousing music)

Oh, | say it myself, it's magnificent.

Now, the question is, does it work?

Now let me see.

What can | use to test it?

Why, of course! Robert.

Now come on, Robert. It won't hurt a bit.

In fact, you should be honoured.

I'm gonna transport you back in time.

Get in time machine, Robert.

- [Robert] Get in time machine.

Get in time machine.

- Close the door.

Now let's see.

How far back shall we go?

I've always had a hankering to live in the 19th century.

So let's say, um, 1875?

That's it.

Now the power.

(machine humming)

Hold tight, Robert.

(machine chiming)

(humming growing louder)

(giggles) Gee, it works!

Oh, gee, it works, it works, it works!

1875!

Here we come!

(dreamy music)

(wistful Western music)

- I'm the deputy sheriff round here.

Can't | get a cup of coffee when | ask for it?

(wistful harmonica music)

- Coffee.

- Whoa!

- Coffee. Coffee.

(gun bangs)

(gun banging)

Coffee.

- The ghost!

Of the Lone Ranger.

- Better do something about getting him back, | guess.

(machine chiming and humming)

- Hey, don't. No, no.

Don't come any nearer!

- Coffee.

- Don't, don't! Now don't come any nearer, | say.

It's no use!

You can't get in!

I've locked the door!

Wha...

That dirty, two-timin' son of a ghost.

(machine chimes and hums)

- It works!

Gee! It really works.

- [Robert] Coffee.

- Well, how about taking a look

at what Professor Matic's up to?

- Good idea, Commander. I'm kinda curious too.

- Do you think he'll mind?

- Well, we've left him pretty much alone

since we got back from patrol.

| guess it's time to find out what he's up to.

I'll get the hovercar.

- Here's the key to my workshop.

Now, nobody is to go in there

till I'm ready to demonstrate my new invention.

Understand? - It's finished then?

- It's finished. Yep.

- Tell me, Professor.

| can keep a secret. What is it?

- Well, now, you'll all find out soon enough

when | demonstrate to everyone

in front of the interplanetary patents commissioner.

He's coming tomorrow, isn't he?

- He's coming, okay.

Overnight from Saturn, specially to see your new invention.

- He won't have wasted a journey.

Now, now, now, don't forget,

no, positively no one, is to go inside that workshop.

Understand? - Okay, Professor.

- Now | must get some sleep.

Come on, Robert.

Oh, | sure am tired.

(Matic snoring)

- But sir, the professor said no one

was to go inside until the morning.

- Give me that key, Lieutenant. It's an order!

- It'll be okay, Lieutenant.

- Don't worry, Lieutenant. We'll explain to him.

- The key, Lieutenant, if you please.

- Okay, Commander,

but | don't know what the professor will say.

- Don't touch.

Leave it alone.

New invention.

No one. No one is to touch.

Touch. (snores)

- [Steve] So that's what all the mystery's about.

- [Zero] Eh, what do you make of it, Steve?

- [Venus] Well, let's take a look inside.

- [Zero] Let's do that.

- Hmm. It looks like an artificial gravity test rig.

- Yeah, but I've never seen one like this before.

- [Venus] Well, if it's something Matt's made,

that's not surprising.

- Hey, look. An antique coffee pot.

It's still hot.

- Don't say after all this trouble

that Matt is slyly making another coffee machine?

- Waste of public money.

(Zoonie cooing)

- Oh dear, look at Zoonie.

| must stop him. Matt will be furious.

- Oh, for Pete's sake, don't let him do any damage.

(Zoonie whimpers)

(motor whirs)

- Zoonie. Zoonie, the door.

Open the door.

(Zoonie chirping)

- Venus, can't you make him understand?

(machine chimes and whirs)

(Zoonie whimpers)

- Isn't there a way out of this confounded contraption?

- Doesn't look like it.

Guess we're stuck here until the morning.

- Aw, that stupid Lazoon.

He causes more trouble round here!

(Zoonie growling)

(dramatic music)

- [Steve] What's happening?

We're floating through space.

And we've got no thruster packs.

- [Venus] Steve? Steve, | can't see you.

We're invisible. And my clothes, they're different.

Commander Zero, are you here?

- [Zero] What in tarnation's going on?

My uniform, it's gone.

Hey, I'm wearing a different outfit.

- [Steve] | feel like I'm fading.

Fading away.

(dramatic music)

- Professor!

Professor!

Wake up!

- Hmm? (stammering)

What's going on?

- Professor! Steve, Venus, and Commander Zero!

They went into your workshop.

Oh, gee, I'm sorry, Professor.

You see, | gave them the key.

- Oh no!

Oh, don't tell me!

- Well, it's hard to believe, but you see, they...

They just vanished!

(Zoonie whimpering)

- It's no use crying, Zoonie.

Things are bad enough as they are.

It's all your fault, Lieutenant!

You had no right to let anyone,

not even Steve or Commander Zero,

have the key to this workshop.

- I'm afraid this is a matter for higher authority.

- Gee, Professor. | was only obeying orders, like | said.

- Yeah, okay, Lieutenant.

- Are you sure they all got lost in the time machine?

- Yeah, I'm positive!

Even the antique coffee pot is gone.

- [Mahoney] Add to all the other charges petty larceny.

- Can you get them back, Professor? Can you?

- Well, I'll do my darnedest.

| got Robert back.

But | don't exactly know how far back in time they've gone.

Why, that crazy Lazoon's been playing around with the dials.

(horse neighs)

(lively piano music)

- Say, this is a pretty one-horse town.

A bank.

Saloon.

Population nonexistent, I'd say.

Looks | might've stopped off at the right place.

Sheriff Zodiac.

Hmm.

- Well, of all the luck,

running into you, Frenchie Lil.

You and me, ha!

What a team.

- Now listen, Zero, it's a perfect setup,

the bank wide open, just waiting to be robbed,

and they haven't even got a sheriff.

- Yeah, just that old fool Deputy Dodgem.

Just imagine, a town without a sheriff.

- Well, we're mighty glad to have you with us, Sheriff.

Ain't we, Doc?

- Yes, sir!

And | sure hope you'll stick around

longer than all them other sheriffs. (laughs)

- Well, if anyone does take a shot at me,

| reckon you'll be able to fix me up, huh, Doc?

- Eh, that's just where you're wrong, Sheriff.

You see, he ain't no doctor of medicine.

- He ain't?

| mean, he isn't?

- Eh, just what is you a doctor of, Doc?

Never did find out.

- Doctor of literature.

But folks around these parts

ain't got much time for literature.

Can't read. (laughs)

So | look after their money in the bank nextdoor.

Finest bank in the West.

Ain't never been broke into yet.

(ominous music)

(horse neighs)

(horse neighing)

(suspenseful music)

- Huh, no one there,

except our old four-legged friend yonder.

- Relax, Sheriff.

There ain't no trouble round these parts.

Been quiet for years and years.

- But all those names on the door?

- Just plain bored to death! (laughs)

(suspenseful music)

How ‘bout a tune on the old breath box, Mr. Deputy Dodgem?

- Yeah, how about it, Deputy?

- Well, I'll play you my latest song.

Called it "Cactus Kitty Californi' State

Was the Prettiest Flower | Ever Seen."

(wistful music)

- Yep, | reckon it's only just about one person

could bust open my safe,

and that's Frenchie Lil.

- A woman?

- Oh, the smartest woman bandit ever there was.

And purty, too. (laughs)

Though practically no one ever seen her.

(fuse crackling)

- This Frenchie Lil, does she operate alone?

- Used to, but | heard she's operating

with a gunslinger they call Zero.

- Zero? That's odd.

| seem to know that name.

- Yep, heard told that girl sure is dynamite.

(explosion booms)

My bank!

- Come on, fellas, let's go.

(suspenseful music)

- [Frenchie] Books!

- Okay, come out with your hands up.

- [Doc] Zero!

- Zero?

- I'm not doctor,

but even | can see he's out for a long time.

- That book must've knocked him cold.

- [Doc] It always was heavy reading. (laughs)

- [Frenchie] Okay, drop your gun, Sheriff.

- Frenchie...

Lil!

- Frenchie Lil!

- Where's the dough, Doc?

Drop your gun, | said, Sheriff.

- [Steve] She looks like someone | knew once.

Or did I?

- Yes, the name is Frenchie Lil.

One step more and I'll fill you full of lead,

Sheriff Zodiac.

(ominous music)

- When | left, the machine dial was set for 1875.

Now look at it! 1066!

And now the question is, was it altered before or after

they entered the time machine?

Oh, if only this wretched Lazoon could tell us.

- You've gotta get them back, Professor.

You've got to!

- I'm doing my best.

But remember, one false move

and | could possibly lose them in time forever.

Now, | think we should assume they didn't alter the setting.

Now let's see.

1875.

(sombre music)

- | can't understand it.

I'm sure I've seen her somewhere before.

But she's different somehow.

- Say that once again and I'll have to plug you.

And that would be a pity

‘cause | kinda like you, Zodiac.

Quite a tidy haul.

But then Frenchie Lil never misses out on a deal.

(Zero groans)

- Oh, my head.

- We're all set to go, | think.

- It's got to work.

It's just got to!

(machine hums and chimes)

- So long, Zodiac.

Hope we meet again, real soon.

- Look out!

(Frenchie shouts)

(gunshots bang)

- So long, Zodiac!

So long, pretty Frenchie Lil!

- Well, of all the dirty, double-crossin’...

Ooh!

- [Dodgem] Oh, that Zero sure is a double dealer.

How do we get outta here, Sheriff?

- That's what I'd like to know.

(suspenseful music)

- I'll increase the power.

(machine hums and chimes)

- Well, Sheriff, any ideas for getting out?

- | wish | knew, fellas.

| only wish | knew.

- Oh!

No!

Not again!

| can't stand it!

- Oh, well.

Well, I'll be darned.

(suspenseful music)

- | sure could do with a smoke right now.

Uh, my pipe...

Oh, my pipe.

| left it in the bank.

(upbeat music)

- Oh, gee!

Am | glad to see you back, Colonel.

And you too, sir, of course, Commander.

- Where's Venus?

She was with us.

It's like a bad dream,

but | remember she got slugged by Zero.

- Me?

Did | do that?

- I'm afraid so, Commander.

But what's happened to her?

- If she is unconscious, that's why she hasn't come back.

- Try increasing the power.

- It could bust the machine.

- We'll have to take a chance on that, Professor.

- She can't be transported through time

in her present state.

- But you've got to get her back.

(time machine humming and chiming)

- She won't take much more.

She'll blow up!

- Increase power.

(dramatic music)

- That's it, Steve. That's...

That's what | was afraid of.

(Zoonie howls)

- [Zoonie] Welcome home!

- Well.

This is it, gentlemen.

- Thank goodness you're safe.

- But we've broken Matic's machine.

- You're back safe and sound.

That's all that matters, Venus.

- Two gentlemen from the patent office

to see the professor's machine.

- Haven't we met before somewhere?

- Some time ago.

- Yes, sir. A long time ago.

(upbeat music)

~ 1 wish | was a spaceman S

~ The fastest guy alive

< I'd fly you round the universe f

f In Fireball XL5 I

~ Way out in space together J

~ Conquerors of the sky

My heart would be a fireball

A fireball

f Every time | gazed into your starry eyes f

S We'd take the path to Jupiter

~ And maybe very soon J

f We'd cruise along the Milky way f

¢ And land upon the moon J

¢ To a wonderland of stardust J

f We'll zoom away to Mars S

My heart would be a fireball

A fireball

~'Cause you would be my Venus of the stars