Subject: [removed] Digest V01 #119
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Date: 4/18/2001 10:27 AM

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                          The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                             Volume 01 : Issue 119
                       A Part of the [removed]!
                               ISSN: 1533-9289

                               Today's Topics:

     Radio Spirits                        [ArtsMilitaria@[removed] (Arthur Fun]
     Space Opera                          [Gordon R Payton <thescifiguy@[removed]]
     Another RS experience                [Danica L Stein <danicas@[removed]]
     John Wayne on radio                  [Osborneam@[removed]                  ]
     amatuer OTR broadcasting             ["Michael Brady" <MBrady@[removed]; ]
     A&A Plot Summaries for 1931 Now Onli [Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed]]
     Misspelling ...                      ["Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@]
     Horatio Hornblower                   [Tom van der Voort <evan@[removed];]
     John Wayne radio shows               ["Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm]
     #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig [lois@[removed]                  ]
     John Wayne/Radio Spirits             ["Ryan Osentowski" <rosentowski@neb.]

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    Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:00:51 -0400
    From: ArtsMilitaria@[removed] (Arthur Funk)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Radio Spirits

    Obviously, this OTR Digest is monitored by the folks at Radio Spirits.
    Someone from their customer service department sent me an email on
    Monday to follow up on the remarks I made relative to a problem with one
    of their sets.  They have offered to replace the set.  The writer
    speculated that the "echo" effect was the result of the tapes having
    been in close proximity to a radiation source during shipment.  In any
    event, I'm looking forward to receiving a good set.  In future I'll be
    guided by advice from other Digest posters who said that phoning is a
    better means of communicating with RS than email.

    Art Funk

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    Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:21:04 -0400
    From: Gordon R Payton <thescifiguy@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Space Opera

    Who can give me the definition and origin of the term "Space Opera"? This
    term generally seems to refer to shows/stories that don't need to take
    place in space at all. They could just as well take place on a boat,
    plane, or train, and in the present day. Shows like Flash Gordon, Buck
    Rogers, and Space Patrol are often described as such. None of these shows
    really needed to be futuristic or take place in space to tell their
    stories. They're basically just the good guys vs. the bad guys with no
    scientific conundrum at the heart of it all.

    A story like "The Outer Limit", in which a pilot takes off with 4 hours
    worth of fuel and returns 24 hours later(or something like that), is
    scifi, whereas, a story about smugglers smuggling uranium from Mars to
    Neptune is what I would call a space opera.

    What's the prpoer usage of the term?

    Gordon

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    Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:24:10 -0400
    From: Danica L Stein <danicas@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Another RS experience

    I'm glad some of you have had good experiences with Radio Spirits'
    customer service. I had a bad experience with them a couple of years ago.

    I ordered a six-cassette Fibber McGee and Molly collection. I didn't
    listen to it right away when I received it. When I did start listening,
    about 6 weeks after I received the set, I realized I already had most of
    the shows in the collection (the titles RS supplied in their catalog
    misled me; I know better now and I investigate the show dates). I called
    RS and told them the situation, and asked if I could exchange the set for
    another. I was told no, it had been more than 30 days so they would not
    accept any returns or exchanges. I said I would of course pay any and all
    postage involved; I didn't want my money back, I just wanted a different
    set of tapes. I was again told that under no circumstances (even if a tape
    were damaged) would they do any exchanges after 30 days. I got a "sorry
    sweetheart, you're out of luck" attitude and I was chastised for letting
    the tapes "sit around" for more than 30 days before I got around to
    checking them out.  I ended up giving the tapes away to a relative.

    I don't know if I got a clueless customer service rep, or if RS has since
    made an effort to improve their customer relations; but I found their
    attitude a little harsh, and for that reason (and many others), I no
    longer order from them.

    Danica L. Stein

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    Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:24:56 -0400
    From: Osborneam@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  John Wayne on radio

    "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed]; said:
     <<   Did U know that there was only one show that John Wayne was on during
    Radio's Heyday. >>

    I presume you mean "series" and not show.  I have him in two Screen
    Directors' Playhouse shows, "Fort Apache" and "Stagecoach", besides the
    series "Three Sheets to the Wind"

    Arlene Osborne

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    Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:40:35 -0400
    From: "Michael Brady" <MBrady@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  amatuer OTR broadcasting

    Bill Harris said:

>     I doubt you will find much if any broadcasting of OTR programs on the
>     ham bands. Broadcasting on the ham bands is strictly against FCC
>     regulations for [removed] course a pirate would care little about
>     regulations. Some ham bands, the 40 meter ([removed] MHz) band in
>     particular, are shared with commercial short wave broadcast (mostly
>     foreign). There have been some pirate stations that broadcast just above
>     the 40 meter ham band but I have never heard any OTR, mostly just rock
>     junk or anti-government stuff. The hams are usually quick to bring to
>     the attention of the FCC any pirate stations that try to move into their
>     frequencies. Most pirate stations operate either on the standard AM or
>     FM broadcast bands. This can be done legally by using very low power
>     transmitters that comply with part 15 of FCC regulations and operate on
>     a non-interfering basis to commercial stations. The power is so low that
>     a station is lucky to cover a city block. Those that operate at higher
>     power levels are in violation of FCC rules and often do get shut down
>     and fined by the FCC.

    For some time now, I've been aware of webcasting--using your connection to
    the internet to send out your audio output as streaming audio, whatever your
    preference of audio might be (music in any variety, comedy recordings and
    even OTR)--apparantly by making a server out of your computer.  The most
    popular of these seems to be SHOUTcast, a sister site to the home of the
    popular mp3 player, Winamp.

    I've gone to [removed] and clicked on the SHOUTcast link, and done a search
    of these amatuer "radio stations" for whatever I was in the mood for at the
    time, and enjoyed what I heard, even old time radio.  They are commercial
    free, and currently in a grey legal area, as the FCC hasn't really turned
    it's eye on them yet.  The recent flap about copyrights and file sharing
    with Napster though, has brought some attention to these amatuer webcasters,
    since they are not regulated as radio stations are, and the recording
    companies see a loss of revenue.

    The quality of streaming audio is entirely dependant on the speed of the
    server, and your connection to it.  Those most into webcasting are using
    T1-T3 lines, but with my cable modem, I've enjoyed blip-free and commercial
    free listening to old time radio through SHOUTcast, but those providers are
    of course outnumbered by those providing music.

    Michael Brady

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    Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:41:31 -0400
    From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  A&A Plot Summaries for 1931 Now Online

    "Amos 'n' Andy" enthusiasts will now find complete plot summaries for all
    313 episodes aired during 1931 at the "A&A -The First Decade" section of
    my "Amos 'n' Andy In Person" website.

    1931 marked the all-time peak of the series' popularity, and featured
    several key storylines: the Madam Queen breach-of-promise case (complete
    scripts for this sequence are available elsewhere on the site), Ruby
    Taylor's near-fatal bout with pneumonia, summer vacation at the lodge
    camp, Andy's ill-fated summer romance with Hattie Wilson, and the arrival
    of the mysterious Jack Dixon -- a storyline which leads directly into the
    most dramatically-intense sequence of the entire series, the nightmare of
    Amos's murder trial.

    Summaries for 1932 are in the course of preparation, and will probably be
    ready for posting sometime in June.

    The URL for the plot summaries remains
    [removed]~[removed].

    Elizabeth

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    Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:41:28 -0400
    From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Misspelling ...

    Merill Barber notes,

>     Like Stephen A. Kallas Jr I am not apologizing for misspelling poor
>     David Phaneuf's name either.

    Right on!  :-)

    Stephen  A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 18:08:46 -0400
    From: Tom van der Voort <evan@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Horatio Hornblower

          Since my last posting on 'Horatio Hornblower', there have been a
    number of comments on the series.
          It would seem that three versions of the 1952 program are in
    circulation - to wit:
    1) The most complete version with a third person (not Hornblower) narrator
    who recaps what happened in prior programs at the beginning of each new
    episode. It runs about 30 minutes.
    2) An almost complete version without the narrator.
    3) A heavily edited version that is about 22 minutes  long.
          Henry Hinkle, who has the complete run, expressed the opinion that
    the 22 minute versions are complete shows.  This may be the case in some
    instances.  However I have heard two version of the same show--a complete
    version from SPERDVAC and a second version edited down to 22 minutes.
          Randy Cox said he purchased the first 26 episodes from AVPRO.  Were
    these the complete broadcasts, Randy, or were they edited?
          This is an excellent program. Hopefully the complete broadcasts exist
    in an OTR archive somewhere.
    Tom van der Voort

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    Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 20:07:06 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  John Wayne radio shows

    Owens Pomeroy mentions that John Wayne only appeared on radio once in "Three
    Sheets to the Wind."  Actually, Wayne did MANY appearances on the radio.
    Just not as many "popular" programs documented.

    Here's a partial I was able to dig up from an old computer disc I had:

    Three Sheets to the Wind  (2/15/42 to 7/5/42)  NBC radio series starring
                John Wayne and Helga Moray.  Total of 21 episodes aired.
    The Lady Esther Screen Guild Theater  (4/12/43)  ìPittsburghî
                with Marlene Dietrich and Randolph Scott.
    The Adventures of Ellery Queen  (7/22/43)  "The Fire Bug"  Wayne was
                a guest panelist known as an "Armchair Detective" for the
                west coast broadcast of this episode, not the east coast.
    This is Hollywood  (4/5/47)  ìAngel and the Bad Manî
                Anthology series hosted by Hedda Hopper.
    Screen Directorís Playhouse  (1/9/49, premiere episode of the
                series) with Ward Bond and Claire Trevor.  The first few
                episodes of this series, including this episode in
                particular, was titled "Screen Director's Guild" before
                it was retitled to the more familiar title "[removed]"
    The Lux Radio Theatre  (3/7/49)  ìRed Riverî
                with Walter Brennan and J. Dru.
    Screen Directorís Playhouse  (8/5/49)  ìFort Apacheî  with Ward Bond.
    The Lux Radio Theatre  (9/24/51)  ìMovie Time, USAî  with all-star cast.

    This is just a few (28) of Wayne's appearances.  He did others, but it can
    be said for certain that he didn't do as much radio as other well-known
    Hollywood screen actors.

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    Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 06:28:50 -0400
    From: lois@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

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    Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:05:21 -0400
    From: "Ryan Osentowski" <rosentowski@[removed];
    To: "old time radio" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  John Wayne/Radio Spirits

    Hello all,
    Someone mentioned John Wayne on radio.  It seems that I remember Wayne guest
    starring on an episode of Screen Director's Playhouse.  I think it was
    called, "Stagecoche," but I'm not sure.
    Speaking of Radio Spirits customer service, can someone provide their phone
    number on the digest?  Four years ago, I ordered the Gangbusters box set and
    one of the tapes was defective.  I am still waiting for my replacement.
    Thanks in advance.
    RyanO

    [ADMINISTRIVIA: Please send the number directly to the poster, and not to the
    Digest itself.  --cfs3]

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