"Mrs. Collins: [answering the phone] Collins speaking. No madam, most definitely not, your son will not be allowed to bring his baseball. Dr. Terwilliker does not believe in baseballs, golf balls, basketballs or tennis balls, ping-pong balls, snowballs, croquet balls or hockey pucks. Dr. Terwilliker believes only in the piano!"

"Elevator operator: [singing the Dungeon elevator song] First floor dungeon Assorted simple tortures Molten lead, chopping blocks and hot boiling oil Second floor dungeon Jewelry department Leg chains, ankle chains, neck chains, wrist chains, thumbscrews and nooses of the very finest rope Basement dungeon EVERYBODY OUT!"

"I am no cog; I don't even like the sound of it. I am an independent contractor."

"[sings:] Come on and dress me, dress me, dress me in my finest array,/because in case you haven't heard, today is Do-mi-do Day!/Dress me in my silver garters, dress me in my diamond studs,/Because I'm going do-mi-do-ing in my do-mi-do duds!"

"Attention! Attention, everyone at the Terwilliker Institute. Down below me, my students are awaiting our date with destiny. They will not fail, for I shall not fail."

"Bartholomew Collins! The years you spend with Dr. Terwilliker will be the happiest years of your life. But if you get homesick, don't try to escape. The barbed wire around the Terwilliker Institute... is ELECTRIFIED!"

"This is my day! 5,000 little fingers, all playing together on my piano! Every finger obedient to the whim of me, the master! Every infinitesimal, microscopic piece of living tissue of those 5,000 little fingers, cringing and trembling and groveling before me! Before me, Dr. Terwilliker, as I raise my baton! We shall play... raise hands! We shall play the most beautiful piece ever written! I wrote it. Ten Happy Fingers! A one, and a two, and a three, and a play!"

"[singing "Because We're Kids"] Now just because we're kids Because we're sort of small Because we're closer to the ground And you are bigger pound by pound You have no right, you have no right To push and shove us little kids around... Now just because your throat has got a deeper voice And lots of wind to blow it out At little kids who dare not shout You have no right, you have no right To boss and beat us little kids about... Just because you've whiskers on your face to shave You treat us like a slave... So what? It's only hair. Just because you wear a wallet near your heart You think you're twice as smart. You know that isn't fair... But we'll grow up someday, and when we do I pray, We won't just grow in size and sound, And just be bigger pound by pound... I'd hate to grow, like some I know, Who push and shove us little kids around."

"Trevor Bardette — Professor Arthur Flanders"

"Les Tremayne — Martin Cochrane"

"Lola Albright — Cathy Barrett"

"Grant Williams — Dave Miller"

"Now The Amazing Monolith Monsters Reveal Powers Shocking Beyond Belief!"

"The most startling science fiction concept ever brought to the screen!"

"Stranger Than Anything Science Had Ever Discovered As Thrill Crowds Upon Thrill!"

"Joe Higgins: Look at the dog - it's as hard as a piece of granite!"

"Martin Cochrane: The desert's full of things that don't belong. Take the salt here. Used to be an ocean bed. Now that ocean knew that the middle of a desert was a pretty silly place for it to be, so it just dried up and went away."

"Narrator: From time immemorial the Earth has been bombarded by objects from outer space. Bits and pieces of the Universe piercing our atmosphere in an invasion that never ends. Meteor, the shooting stars on which so many earthly wishes have been born! Of the thousands that plummet toward us, the greater part are destroyed in a firey flash as they strike the layers of the air that encircle us. Only a small percentage survives. Most of those fall into the water which covers two-thirds of our world. But from time to time from the beginning of time a very few meteors have struck the crust of the Earth and formed craters - craters of all sizes sought after, poured over by scientists of all nations for the priceless knowledge buried within them. In every moment of every day they come from planets belonging to stars whose dying light is too far away to be seen. From infinity they come. Meteors! Another strange calling card from the limitless regions of space - its substance unknown, its secrets unexplored. The meteor lies dormant in the night - waiting!"

"You've got to remember, Dave, when this hit our atmosphere, it burned at such a fantastic temperature, that its metal-bearing compounds could have been altered - left ready to activate, to grow!"

"Dave, if it is a meteorite, the chances are it's been hurtling around our universe for a good many centuries. The answer to your question lies buried in those centuries. We'll just have to dig for it."

"Ross Elliott — Joe Burch"

"Nestor Paiva — Sheriff Jack Andrews"

"Mara Corday — Stephanie Clayton"

"John Agar — Dr. Matt Hastings"

"Leo G. Carroll — Prof. Gerald Deemer"

"Even Science was stunned!"

"Science-fiction's most terrifying thrill!"

"More terrifying than any horror known to man comes a creeping crawling monster whose towering fury no one can escape!"

"Prof. Gerald Deemer: The history of medicine is the history of the unusual;"

"Andy Andersen: I never saw anything like it! No footprints! No blood! No sign of a struggle! The bones just stripped clean like peeling a banana!"

"Stephanie 'Steve' Clayton: Science or no science, a girl's got to get her hair done."

"Give women the vote and what do you get? Lady scientists."

"The desert, it gives people wonderful ideas!"

"I may be just a country doctor, but I know what I know."

"This is Sand Rock, Arizona, of a late evening in early spring. It's a nice town, knowing its past and sure of its future, as it makes ready for the night, and the predictable morning. The desert blankets the earth, cooling, resting for the fight with tomorrow's sun. And in my house near the town, we're also sure of the future. So very sure."

"Joe Sawyer — Frank Daylon"

"Charles Drake — Sheriff Matt Warren"

"Barbara Rush — Ellen Fields"

"Richard Carlson — John Putnam"

"Amazing sights the human eye has never before seen!"

"NOTHING LIKE THIS HAS EVER HAPPENED BEFORE!"

"From Ray Bradbury's great science fiction story!"

"You would be horrified at the sight of us. Had you fallen on our world, it might have been different. We understand more."