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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 179


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 Horror Shows
	 Re: Sealed Book/Mysterious Traveler
	 Re: NPR Service
	 new address
	 News Radio
	 Canticle for Leibowitz
	 Alien Worlds log
	 Gunsmoke/Howard Culver
	 Carlton Fredericks

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Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 11:03:10 +0000
From: "George S. Cole" <us030822@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Horror Shows
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Juat wanted to mention two additional good radio horror series -- 
Macabre and Fear on Four. Macabre, I believe, was done by overseas 
armed forces personnel, and many of the episodes were quite scary. 
Fear on Four was a British series, but I am not sure when it was done.  
The few episodes I have heard were focused on supernatural themes.

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Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 11:27:31 -0400
From: FabFicBks@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Sealed Book/Mysterious Traveler
Message-ID: <960518112730_537897299@[removed]>

Hi Everyone,
     I'll add my two cents to the Sealed Book-Mysterious Traveler comments.
 For years I also thought that The Sealed Book were recycled Mysterious
Traveller stories, but it ain't so.  What we have here is essentially the
same people who did Mysterious Traveller doing The Sealed Book.  Some of the
scripts were recycled with only minor variations and some endings were
changed, but most of the stories are new to that particular series.  The guys
who did these two shows also recycled scripts and plots for their other
productions including Strange Doctor Weird.  Some other Mysterious Traveller
scripts showed up on other network shows with only minor variations.  I don't
have my files handy on this or I'd list specific examples.
    One assumes that the writers/directors/producers believed that the public
at large either had irregular listening habits or the turnover was large
enough that nobody would never notice the reusing of stories.  Little did
they anticipate that a whole hobby of collectors would come along to compare
notes decades later.
     One of the things that always fascinated me about the Mysterious
Traveller was its spinoffs into other media.  An extremely first rate
detective-horror digest magazine came out in the late forties, which only
endured five issues, but they were superlative issues.  Then, in 1956, a
couple of years after the show went off the air, Charlton Comics bought the
rights and turned it into a comic book which ran contineously thru the late
seventites.  (A singe issue of a MysTravel comic came out in 1948, but died
for lack of funding)
     The Charlton comic features great artwork by people such as Steve Ditko,
John Bushema and others (often completely ruined by Charlton's hideously
aweful coloring work), and usually features pretty good scripts by a wide
variety of people.
     As you might have guessed MysTrav is one of my favorite shows and I am
stunned and amazed by the comments of a few people (obviously alien visitors
from Mars or someplace) who claim they don't enjoy the show.  Perhaps they
heard it while undergoing an attack of stomick virus or something.  I can
think of no other explinations of why people wouldn't be as enthusiastic
about the program as I am.
     A bunch of new shows turned up in the hobby about three years ago, and
the rumor is that another three reels may surface soon.  I hope so.

---Bob Jennings

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Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 16:36:39 GMT
From: Francis Fisher <ffisher@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: NPR Service
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

rdruian@[removed] wrote:

>several local stations changing their formats. When I lived in San 
>Francisco, I experienced the change of KQED's format from mostly classical 
>to "All News." I moved to El Lay, only to find that KCRW had moved from 
>classical to "eclectic," and that KUSC had changed to the "new sound" of 
>classical music, whatever that is. In all these cases, the changes were 
>made by the local stations and not by NPR. In fact, NPR had been one of the 

The money is drying up for public broadcasting. The Republican congress said
to curtail these kinds of expenditures. We are downsizing. The money,
although there have been increases in public giving since this began, is not
sufficient to sustain the service at its previous level. One solution that
individual stations are finding is to expand the listening base by switching
the format to something more palatable to the masses. 

It's most important that we not dry up else the FCC licenses, like a natural
resource, will disappear, never to be had again.

As to NPR, it is funded in great part by its member stations. Little West
Virginia, where I'm from, pays dues to the tune of $250K a year. NPR will
have to come around to meet the needs of the stations but it's
understandable that they'd be slower since they're not on the front line as
we are and don't feel the heat as we do. 

Changes in programming are not "forever." On a better day it can shift back.
For now, if you are concerned, it's within our purview to change. Talk to
your representatives, telling them not to cut public broadcasting and give
to your local station. There is an 'or else.' If nothing changes then 25
years from now another generation will be trading Metropolitan Opera tapes
on this very listserv and talking about how great things were before.

Francis
____________________
Francis P. Fisher II
Dir of Engineering
WV Public Radio

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Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 11:55:55 -0600
From: aerickse@[removed] (Anna Ericksen)
To: dmoore440@[removed], otr@[removed], [removed]@[removed]
Subject: new address
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

we've got a new address for e-mail!!!!!

It is aerickse@[removed]

Send us some mail so we can test it out!!!!!!

Thinging about canceling the aol account.  We've been having lots of
problems with them!

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Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 19:01:13 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: News Radio
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

One of the many items I collect of otr are news-related. I am looking for a
CBS New Roundup from March, 1938. In fact it was the FIRST roundup and
probably the beginning of what radio news broadcasting would become. 

If anyone knows of any source or has this, I would be interested in getting
email from you for possible trade or buy.

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Jim Widner                      INTERNET: jwidner@[removed]
Dayton, OH                      WWW: [removed]
COMPUSERVE: 74566,3041          
AOL: JimWidner                            

                                                 

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Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 20:58:21 -0400
From: PDKinder@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Canticle for Leibowitz
Message-ID: <960518205820_304152487@[removed]>

I haven't heard the radio drama.  But, a dramatization in the form of a stage
play exists.  And, it is absolutely awful.  It even changes the ending.  

For those interested in "Canticle" and sci-fi from the 50s generally, there's
a fascinating book out:  Albert E. Stone, "Literary Aftershocks:  American
Writers, Readers, and the Bomb"  (New York:  Twayne Publishers, 1994).
 Hardly a page doesn't elicit a "Is that right?!"  

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Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 01:31:33 PST
From: passage@[removed] (Frank M Passage)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Alien Worlds log
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

                            A L I E N   W O R L D S
                            ---------   -----------

                                     1979


     First Show: ??-??-79                             Last Show: ??-??-79
     Number Shows: ??                             Audition Show: not
known


     Show Description:

     ALIEN WORLDS is a modern science fiction series.  The shows open with:

      "Slowly rotating, at the edge of deep space, one thousand
kilometers 
       beyond the atmosphere of 21st century earth, is the Arthur C.
Clark 
       astronomical observatory Star Lab.  Here Star Lab research director 
       Mora Cassiday, along with scientists and technicians of the Inter-
       national Space Authority, watch over the countless suns, planets 
       and star systems that fill the universe."

 
     ALIEN WORLDS was the work of J. Michael Straczynski, (creator of the
     TV series "Babylon 5" and executive producer for "Murder, She
Wrote").  
     It was produced and broadcast in 1979 and deals with he
interplanetary 
     peacekeepers on Star Lab.

     There were 26 episodes broadcast.  There may also be an additional 9
     un-broadcast shows plus an interview with the creator.


     List Comments:

     There are not many sources for these shows, so not much information
     for verifying accuracy.  The McCoy catalog had come different dates.
     The earliest found were used here.  With the exception of the show
     opening, most information in the Description came from comments 
     posted by Jim Widner in the OTR Digest.


     List:

         Date      Num  Title                                   Src Key
         --------  ---  --------------------------------------  ---------
         01-07-79       Sun Stealers, Part 1                    1234
         01-14-79       Sun Stealers, Part 2                    123
         01-21-79       Starsmith Project, Part 1               123
         01-28-79       Starsmith Project, Part 2               123
         02-04-79       Night Riders Og Kalimar, Part 1         123
         02-11-79       Night Riders Og Kalimar, Part 2         123
         02-18-79       Resurrectionists Of Lethe, Part 1       123
         02-25-79       Resurrectionists Of Lethe, Part 2       123
         03-04-79       Keeper Of Eight, Part 1                 123
         03-11-79       Keeper Of Eight, Part 2                 123
         03-18-79       ISA Conspiracy, Part 1                  1 3
         03-25-79       ISA Conspiracy, Part 2                  1 3
         04-01-79       ISA Conspiracy, Part 3                  1 3
         07-08-79       The Kilohertz War                       123
         07-15-79       The Adventure Of The Egyptian           123
                          Necklace, Part 1
         07-22-79       The Adventure Of The Egyptian           123
                          Necklace, Part 2
         07-28-79       Time Clash                              123
         08-05-79       Death Song                              1 3
         08-21-79       Infinity Factor, Part 1                 123
         08-19-79       Infinity Factor, Part 2                 123
         08-26-79       Earth Light, Part 1                     123
         09-02-79       Earth Light, Part 2                     123
         09-09-79       Seeds Of Time                           1
         09-16-79       Madonnas Of Zanzibar Alpha, Part 1      123
         09-23-79       Madonnas Of Zanzibar Alpha, Part 2      123
         09-30-79       Himalayan Parallel                      1 3


     Information Sources:

     The information above was obtained from the following OTR vendor
     and club catalogs.  Contact them directly for more information.

         Key  Source
         ---  ----------------------------------------------------------
           1  Radio Historical Association of Colorado, [removed] Box 1908, 
              Englewood, CO 80150
           2  North American Radio Archives (NARA), 134 Vincewood Dr., 
              Nicolasville, KY 40356.
           3  McCoy's Recordings, PO Box 1069, Richland, Wash. 99352
           4  Society to Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety And
              Comedy (SPERDVAC), PO Box 7177, Van Nuys, CA 91409-7177

     I have dealt with some of the above, but to be fair to all, this is
not 
     an endorsement of them.  I receive nothing by mentioning them. 
These 
     vendors and clubs have helped keep OTR alive.  Please support them. 
 


     Last Update: 05-17-96


     Although I retain copyright, this log may be freely copied provided
     that the text is unchanged.  Please share it with fellow OTR lovers.

     I would greatly appreciate any error corrections or additional
     information. Please send them to: Frank Passage, 109 Elmwood Road,
     Verona, NJ 07044 or via e-mail to passage@[removed]

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Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 22:30:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Mike Fields <mfields@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Gunsmoke/Howard Culver
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

>Can anyone tell me where (with address) I can get a copy of the Howard
>Culver audition  on tape, of the Gunsmoke radio program  - the one where the
>hero is "Mark Dillon", which has been discussed here in the last week?
>Mrs. Howard Culver

Yes, You can get your copy from the RHAC out of Denver. They have a page on
Lou Genco's OTR Web. It is on reel 690 and also features Rye Billsbury in a
audition along with Howard Culver. The date is 7/13/49 on CBS. I would offer
a copy off mine, but it was put on inferior tape and isn't in the best of
condition now. Hope this helps.

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Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 23:39:01 -0400
From: Fred Berney <berney@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Carlton Fredericks
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

To Bud, who was asking about Carlton Fredericks, he died a few years back.

Back in the early '70's, we had a client who recorded a number of tapes by
Fredericks and we did the duplicating. It was a set of basic and advanced
nutrition tapes.

                                Fred

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