GE 1995 Season 2 Episode 5: Surrender
Note: this is not a transcript, but a working draft of the script, so there may be differences in the aired version.
ST. JOHN'S SURRENDERS
EARLING: 1939 and The Great Eastern's most
popular host Ron Gellately receives startling news from Dirk Pilgram,
then our man at City Hall.
RON: Could you speak up, Dirk ?
DIRK: There's quite a commotion here, Ron, a surprise development at
tonight's meeting of city council. Stating that the Allied Forces
prospects for victory in the European theatre were at best poor, St.
John's Mayor Adam Fry has surrendered the city to the Germans. A
telegram is now being sent to Berlin inviting an occupational force to
be dispatched as quickly as possible.
RON: What great news, Dirk!
DIRK: Say again Ron, there's quite a commotion down here. Oh, I see
some Newfoundland Rangers have arrived scene now.
RON: I say, I'm sure all our listeners will join me in welcoming the people of
the great German nation to our shores. You want Lebensraum?
Look no further, meine Freunde. If our Bavarian brethren are
monitoring this broadcast, from me and everyone here at the BCN, a
great big warm Newfoundland Heil Hitler to you all.
EARLING: Not surprisingly both Mayor Fry and Ron Gellately were detained
after that episode. Mayor Fry, a physician, declared himself
"neurologically unbalanced" and withdrew from office, making way for
the twenty year term of Cliff "Boss" Duffett. Ron Gellately returned to
Broadcasting after the war.