Subject: [removed] Digest V2016 #19
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Date: 3/23/2016 4:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2016 : Issue 19
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Truth or Consequences                 [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]
      The Hummerts                          [ Welsa <welsa@[removed]; ]
      REPS is looking for items to sell in  [ "Walden" <waldenhughes@[removed] ]
      Tune into Yesterday - Spring issue n  [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 14:48:27 -0400
    From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Truth or Consequences

>     1940   Truth or Consequences was first heard on radio. Ralph Edwards
>     produced and hosted the [removed] The show was originally heard on only
>     four CBS stations. Later, NBC picked up the show where it eventually
>     became the most popular of all radio quiz shows.

    Again with Truth or Consequences being a quiz show.  Now, I didn't hear
    the show in the 1940s, I first heard it (and saw it on TV) in the 1950s,
    but as I saw it, the show was, at least in part, a spoof of quiz shows.
    The segment started with the host (Jack Bailey, but the time I first saw
    it, and later Bob Barker) asking the contestant a question, with the
    explanation that if you answer the question correctly, you win a prize,
    and if you don't, you have to pay the consequences.  The question then
    would be a riddle.  Things like, "What do a man preparing his income
    taxes and a girl preparing to go to the beach have in common?  They both
    take off as much as the law will allow."  or "What is a paradox?  two
    doctors."  The idea was that the contestant never answered the question
    correctly and always had to pay the consequences.  There really wasn't
    much pretense that it was otherwise.  The consequence was always some
    sort of stunt, and the host often told the audience, before the
    contestant came out, some inside information about the prank they were
    going to play on the contestant, with a clear assumption that of course
    the contestant would not answer the question correctly.

    On a couple of occasions, I did see a contestant answer the question.
    The host acknowledged this and said, "but I just got a signal from the
    control room that I gave you the wrong question" and would ask another.

    This simply was not a quiz show in any sense of the word.

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]| 92 State Street| Suite 700 | Boston, MA 02109-2004
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    Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 14:46:54 -0400
    From: Welsa <welsa@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The Hummerts
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    I was watching Johnny Carson the other night and he told a [removed]  Back when
    Frank & Anne Hummert were the King & Queen of radio soap operas, Carson said
    the once created a story line that included a pregnant [removed]  And they kept
    that story line, including he pregnancy, going for about 1B= years!B  A long
    time to carry a [removed]  Anyone know anything more this story? Is it true?B
    What series was it from and approximately when it aired.
    Ted

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    Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 14:47:22 -0400
    From: "Walden" <waldenhughes@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  REPS is looking for items to sell in there store
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    Hi Everybody,

    REPS Showcase is next month during Friday 4-15-16 through Sunday 4-17-16 and
    they try to keep the cost of attending the three day event low in order that
    as many people can attend and enjoy radio.  Thus REPS tries to close the
    gape by having a lot of items to sell in there store.  If you have photos,
    radio and movies mags and dvd they do well in the store.  Please contact
    REPS at repsclub@[removed] <mailto:repsclub@[removed];  to see if they have any
    intrest in handleing items for you.  Take care,

    Walden Hughes

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    Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 14:47:28 -0400
    From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Tune into Yesterday - Spring issue now available

    Hi.
    The Spring issue of ORCA's Tune into Yesterday magazine is now available.
    This issue also contains two Supplements packed full of news from the radio
    archives. A sample copy is free in the UK from our membership sec John
    Wolstenholme at:
    ORCA, PO Box 1922, Dronfield, S18  8XA, England
    Annual membership is ten pounds sterling, which brings you four issues plus
    access to our lending library of old programmes. International membership is
    twenty-five pound sterling ( or the quivalent in your own curency ).

    Cheers ! Graeme ( Editor )

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