1. The third story in the "Dreary" program is the one by John Bellairs.
2. "Hi, I'm Vincent Price. You may remember me from such other films as The Fly and Beach Party."
3. Thing pops out of the clocks and mistakenly believes it is Daylight Savings Time. The clocks make excessive noises during Price's introductory remarks which prompts harsh words from Price.
4. Mr. Price pontificates how wonderful it is to hear clocks ticking and tocking and chiming and ringing and so forth.
Audio: Price getting all giddy over the title of the book (0:15)
5. Too bad he bows out early and leaves the rest of the film in the incapable hands of these other top-notch actors.
6. Price continues his paraphrasing of chapters (and deleting whole parts of the book to make up for time) and begins the tale of Jonathan and Lewis Barnavelt.
7. Jonathan essentially tells Lewis that he lives in his house and to go to bed. Jonathan isn't big on conversation.
8. Lewis sits up in bed. There is a noise outside!
9. It's just that crazy old man walking the bright, sunlit halls in the middle of the night holding an ear up to spaces on the wall. He's fine, go back to bed.
10. As Lewis watches, his uncle tiptoes downstairs. What an awesome relative!
