The Second Hundred Years (1967–1968)

Arthur O'Connell: Edwin Carpenter

Quotes 

• Narrator : One upon a time out in California a sixty-seven-year-old man lived with his thirty-three-year-old son. Meanwhile up in Fairbanks Alsaka, there was this big avalanche. Get the connection?

  [disappointed] 

  Narrator : You don't.

  Colonel Garroway : Two days ago there was an avalanche in Alaska An frozen object was discovered that been identified as your father.

  Edwin Carpenter : After all these years.

  Colonel Garroway : Um, Mr. Carpernter there is something I haven't told you.

  Edwin Carpenter : I'd like to bring the body back here.

  Colonel Garroway : Your father's alive.

  Edwin Carpenter : Alive!

  Colonel Garroway : Whatever your father may be chronologically, physically and mentally he hasn't aged a day since he fell in that glacier. Your father for all intents and purposes is thirty-three years old.

  Luke : Not bad for a hundred and one. Don't look a day over over ninety.

  [Chuckles] 

  Edwin Carpenter : What are you doing on the floor?

  Luke : Playing with my grandson.

  [laughs] 

• Colonel Garroway : Your father's alive, Mr. Carpenter.

  Edwin Carpenter : Alive! That's impossible! He was frozen sixty-seven years ago!

  Colonel Garroway : He melted.

• Colonel Garroway : [shows newspaper article to Edwin and Ken] 

  Ken Carpenter : Grandpa!

  Edwin Carpenter : Dad!

  Colonel Garroway : Oh, no...