The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure (1956): Season 1, Episode 5 - Applegate's Gold - full transcript

(♪ fanfare)

(Thurl Ravenscroft)
♪ Gold doubloons
and pieces of eight

♪ Handed down to Applegate

♪ From buccaneers
who fought for years

♪ For gold doubloons
and pieces of eight

Handed down
in a pirate‘s chest.

The gold they sailed for,
east and west.

The treasure bright
that made men fight.

Till none were left
to bury the chest.

♪ So now the gold
and pieces of eight

♪ All belong to Applegate



♪ The chest is here,
but wait...

♪ Now where are
those gold doubloons
and pieces of eight?

♪ Pieces of eight,
pieces of eight ♪

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(narrator) Today‘s episode

in "The Mystery
of the Applegate Treasure"...

"Applegate‘s Gold."

(spokes whirring)

(spokes whirring)

(groans)

(growls)

(bird sings)

Who asked you?

(horn honks)



Oh, son.
Which son?

Go tell him I‘ll be
right there, will you?

OK, Dad.

Well, I guess
your detective friends

can wait
for a couple of eggs.

At least you don‘t have to
drive me to the station.

I should have gone back
to the city last night.

How could you, with all
that business with the boys
at the Applegates‘?

I don‘t know what kind
of a case in the city

is more important
than your own family.

Now, now. A job‘s a job,
nothing to steam about.

Dad?
Hmm?

What‘s gonna happen
to Perry Robinson?

That plumber Jackley‘s
being pretty nice about it,

doesn‘t want
to prefer charges.

I suppose he‘ll stay
at Sanders‘ a couple days
while they investigate.

But look here. I‘m afraid
that no matter what happens,

the boy will be sent back
to the city.

Applegate‘s too steamed up
about this

to let him stay on,
guilty or not guilty.

Well, if you ask me,
Silas Applegate

just wants somebody
to mow his lawn
for nothing.

Well, that‘s no concern
of ours, Gertrude.

Couple of days.
That‘s long enough.

(Joe) Sure.
We got time.
Time for what?

Time to solve the case
so Perry won‘t have to
go back to the city.

Boys, I told you before
I don‘t want you
getting mixed up in it.

Oh, there‘s whole angles you
don‘t even know about, Dad.

This looks like the beginnings
of a real mystery.

(Gertrude) Oh, dear.
We got a real client
and everything.

Client? If you mean
Perry Robinson...

(horn honks)

Now look, boys,
before I go, I want to know
what you‘re getting into.

What kind of a mystery
is this?

We‘d rather not say
right now, Dad.

I mean, it‘s not ethical
for a detective

to tell other people
about his cases.

Now, son,
for gosh sakes.
A job‘s a job.

No reason to get
all steamed up
about it.

Goodbye, Fenton.

Bye, Dad.

So long.

Goodbye.

Now, boys, suppose
that we don‘t...

We can‘t tell you,
either, Aunt Gertrude.

Come on, Joe.
We gotta get going.

If you boys think
that you‘re going someplace
where you shouldn‘t...

You promise you won‘t
tell where we are?

(car drives away) .

Well, maybe.

The public library.

Hey!

(whispering) I mean hey.

I think I found something.

At least there‘s pictures
in this one under "Money."

(clears throat)

Let me see it again.

I wish this was as exciting
as that movie was.

‘Cause then the rustlers
started to dig

under the floor
of the cabin and...

There. Look. It‘s a -

It‘s a face, isn‘t it?
Man‘s head?

Yeah, but -

Look.
King Ferdinand VII.

Who? Hey, it‘s the same.

Look. It says, "Ancient
Spanish doubloon."

Dou-Doubloon?!

Doubloon? (gasps)

Doubloon. Well, well.

I-I‘m sorry
he always makes

so much noise,
Miss Snodgrass.

And pieces of eight.

Aren‘t you interested
in those, too?

Huh? What do you mean?

15 men on a dead man‘s
chest. Oh, yes, indeedy.

That‘s what a doubloon is -
pirate gold.

Uh, w-we were just
leaving, Miss Snodgrass.

Now, now, now, now.
Don‘t let me interfere.

I just heard you over here
looking up doubloons,

and I must say
I think it‘s wonderful.

Huh?

For the Hardy boys,
I mean.

Such a welcome change
from those vulgar mysteries

you usually come in
to look at -

The Art of Fingerprinting,
Crime Detection.

But pirates make such nice
reading, don‘t you think?

♪ Yo ho ho
and a bottle of rum ♪

Uh, Miss Snodgrass,
how much do you think

a-a doubloon would actually
be worth today?

Oh, I really couldn‘t say.

A great many dollars,
I should think. Why?

Oh, nothing.
Never mind.

Of course, you could ask
Mr. Applegate. (laughing)

Mr. Applegate?

I‘m sorry, boys.
It just struck me funny.

You stay
with the encyclopedia.

It tells the truth.
What?

Never mind. It‘s just
an old private joke.

I guess
the Applegate treasure

is dead and buried
by this time.

Applegate treasure?
What‘s that supposed to be?

Well, you worked
for him a few days,

and we figured you might
know something about it.

Look out. You‘re
standing on the snake.

Ohh! Snake?

It‘s that thing
he‘s turning, silly.

It‘s used
to clean out pipes.

Roots and stuff get stuck
in them in these old places.

Now, what‘s this malarkey
about a treasure?

Oh, it‘s just
an expression we heard.

Oh, you did? Well,
of all the guys I ever met

who don‘t have a treasure,
Applegate‘s the most.

Pinchpenny little skinflint.
Sour Apple Juice, I call him.

Well, this estate
don‘t mean anything.

It‘s just a run-down,
unpainted white elephant.

Why, he‘s harder up
than I am.

(laughs) Somebody‘s
been kidding you boys.

Well, thanks anyway,
Mr. Jackley.

For what? I didn‘t
tell you anything.

But, um, if I was you boys,
I‘d ask some old-timer.

You know,
the way I figure it,

that Applegate treasure‘s

just a great big
local joke. (laughs)

Something that just
plain never was. (laughs)

No such thing? Of course
there‘s no such thing.

Silas Applegate hasn‘t seen
any more pirates‘ gold
than I have.

Are you sure, Auntie?
Of course I‘m sure.

Then what
was the treasure
supposed to be?

I really don‘t see
why children should
know everything.

Unless it has something
to do with your mystery case.

Well, has it?

Maybe we
better find out
things for ourselves.

(laughs) I‘m not going to
pry anything out of you.

It‘s just
that the Applegates
have always claimed

that they inherited
pirates‘ gold, that‘s all,

but nobody‘s ever seen it
except them.

And why? Because there isn‘t
any such thing, that‘s all.

(phone ringing)

That‘s the phone,
junior.

Don‘t worry.
That‘s all there is to it.

(Joe) Hello. Yeah?

I hope you‘re not
too disappointed.

No, I-I‘m just kinda
baffled, that‘s all.

‘Cause, Auntie,
you see,

everybody laughs,
only...

Only what?

(Joe) Frank!

Frank, come here!

(whispers) Frank,
it‘s him - Perry.

Well, ask him where
he got that thing.

Everybody starts laughing.
It‘s the first chance
he had to call.

He says Mr. Sanders wouldn‘t
even let him out of the house.

Hello. Perry, tell me quick.

Has that thing got anything
to do with Applegate?

Where?

Just a minute.

Yeah.
Three steps beyond...

Yeah. Go on.

And a few inches
down in the dirt.

I was just starting
to dig up some weeds,

and there it was.

Then old Applegate
came snooping outside,

and I never had
another chance

before I got in trouble
over there.

We‘re gonna look some more,
‘cause who cares what
anybody else thinks?

If we know
there‘s at least
one real doubloon -

Doubloon? Is that
really what it is?

Wow. Listen. Wait.

Don‘t go looking
in the daytime.
He‘ll catch you.

We‘re gonna wait
until nighttime.

We‘re not
gonna get caught.
(door opens) catch you.

I mean, we wouldn‘t
get caught dead

getting in any trouble.

(gravel crunches)

(thunk)

Shh.

I don‘t see any old
sprinkler faucet around here.

Be quiet. Must be around
the corner. Come on.

(snoring) .