Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #69
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 3/7/2006 4:18 PM

To: [removed]@[removed]

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 69
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Re: George Lefferts interview         [ Jim Widner <widnerj@[removed]; ]
      dan Reid                              [ "Robert Acosta" <boacosta@[removed] ]
      Re: Franklyn McCormack                [ Cnorth6311@[removed] ]
      American Airlines Music Till Dawn     [ Dick Fisher <w9fjl@[removed]; ]
      3-7 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Congratulations to Norman Corwin!     [ Richard Fish <fish@lodestone-media. ]
      Norman Corwin film                    [ "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@bas ]
      Vic Perrin continued                  [ "evantorch" <etorch@[removed]; ]
      OTR mini-article; the dynamics of ci  [ Rutledge Mann <cliff_marsland@yahoo ]
      Second Class Passenger                [ Tony Baechler <tony@[removed]; ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@c ]
      Milton Berle                          [ "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed] ]
      Dan Reid again                        [ [removed]@[removed] ]
      Fibber's Magic Radio                  [ JLF <jlf@[removed]; ]
      Tom Mix Alblum and Monitor            [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
      Differences                           [ Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed] ]
      Virginia Gregg                        [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
      Inner Sanctum trivia                  [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]

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    Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 18:48:21 -0500
    From: Jim Widner <widnerj@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: George Lefferts interview

     Linda T., Resident Trekkie wrote:

>     Sy Fy Portal (of all places) has an interview with George Lefferts,
>     writer for Dimension X and X Minus One.  visit
>     [removed]
>     and that should be the article. If not, scroll down the menu on the left
>     to "Writing the Future for Radio" link.

    Good article, though it does contain some errors which I am not sure if
    they came from Lefferts or not. I know when I interviewed Lefferts back
    in 1996 for the book I co-authored with Meade Frierson III, he was
    pretty clear on some things. Glad to know he is still that way.

    One example of the error is that "Marionettes, Inc." is not the same as
    "Perigi's Wonderful Dolls."  The former is based on a story by Ray
    Bradbury which is about henpecked husbands attempting to fool their
    spouses by replacing themselves with "robots (Marionettes)" so they
    could go out and be free of their wives.

    "Perigi's Wonderful Dolls" is by Lefferts as the article states and is
    about so-called "dolls" actually being aliens attempting to take over Earth.

    The mistake is not quoted, so I assume it comes directly from the
    interviewer.

    But a good interview overall.

    Jim Widner

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    Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 18:51:15 -0500
    From: "Robert Acosta" <boacosta@[removed];
    To: "oldtime radio digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  dan Reid

    I checked Mr. Dunning's book, "On the Air," page 404 and he says that Ernie
    Winstanley and james lipton played Dan.  Thank you to all who have
    contributed to the answer to my question.

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    Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 18:51:03 -0500
    From: Cnorth6311@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Franklyn McCormack

    Someone mentioned Franklyn McCormak's name in regards to the Meister Breau
    Showcase, and I was wondering if that is the same Franklyn McCormack who
    announced for the Jack Armstrong show?

    Charlie

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    Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 19:38:21 -0500
    From: Dick Fisher <w9fjl@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  American Airlines Music Till Dawn

    While I lived in Chicago from 1965 to 1976 I frequently listened to
    American Airlines Music Till Dawn.  It was a late night show and I
    understand was done in many major cities in the USA with different
    announcers in each city.

    Does anyone have any copies of this program - particularly from
    Chicago?  Does anyone know how long this show was broadcast?

    You can reply off the digest if you wish.

    Richard

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    Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 21:36:55 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  3-7 births/deaths

    March 7th births

    03-07-1878 - Percy Hemus - Auckland, New Zealand - d. 12-22-1943
    actor: Dr. Winslow "Road of Life"; Old Wrangler "Tom Mix"
    03-07-1886 - Ray Largay - Wisconsin - d. 9-28-1974
    actor: Mr. Farnum "Ma Perkins"; Frederick Nelson "Young Widder Brown"
    03-07-1906 - Edward Mabley - Binghampton, NY - d. 12-16-1984
    writer: "The American School of the Air"
    03-07-1913 - Smokey Montgomery - Rinard, IA - d. 6-6-2001
    banjo picker: (Member of the Light Crust Dough Boys) "Columbia's
    Country Caravan"
    03-07-1923 - Arthur Julian - Memphis, TN - d. 1-30-1995
    writer: "The Beulah Show"
    03-07-1925 - Rene Gagnon - Manchester, NH - d. 10-12-1979
    Iwo Jima flagraiser: "Interview programs"
    03-07-1929 - Marion Marlowe - St. Louis, MO
    singer: "Arthur Godfrey Time"
    03-07-1934 - Willard Scott - Alexandria, VA
    disc jockey: (The Joy Boys)
    03-07-1937 - Rhoda Williams - Birmingham, AL
    actress: Betty Anderson "Life with Father"

    March 7th deaths

    01-01-1913 - Norman Rosten - d. 3-7-1995
    writer: "Cavalcade of America"; "An American in Russia"
    01-01-1916 - Earl Wrightson - Baltimore, MD - d. 3-7-1993
    singer: "Highways in Melody"; "Getting the Most Out of Life"
    02-18-1914 - Pee Wee King - Abrams, WI - d. 3-7-2000
    singer, songwriter, accordionist: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Pee Wee King Show"
    03-06-1914 - Kiril Kondrashin - Moscow, Russia - d. 3-7-1981
    conductor: "Van Cliburn Concert"
    03-23-1910 - Paula Winslowe - d. 3-7-1996
    actress: Peg Riley "Life of Riley"; Jill "Joe E. Brown Show"
    03-25-1903 - Frankie Carle - Providence, RI - d. 3-7-2001
    bandleader, pianist: "Pot o' Gold"; "Treasure Chest"
    07-23-1910 - Nat Brandywine - NYC - d. 3-7-1978
    pianist, bandleader: "Wonderful City"
    08-21-1882 - Helen Carew - Kansas - d. 3-7-1980
    actress: Vera Johnson "Stella Dallas"; "Mrs. Mitchell "Barry Cameron"
    09-12-1901 - Ben Blue - Montreal, Quebec, Canada - d. 3-7-1975
    actor, comedian: "Hollywood Hotel"
    10-20-1927 - Priscilla Lyon - Washington County, NC - d. 3-7-1980
    actress: Corliss Archer "Meet Corliss Archer"; Amy Foster "Those We
    Love"
    11-05-1879 - Will Hays - Sullivan, IN - d. 3-7-1954
    puritanical censor: "Republican National Convention 1948";"A Tribute
    to FDR"
    12-24-1916 - Morton Fine - d. 3-7-1991
    writer: "Bold Venture"; "Broadway Is My Beat"; "The Front Page"
    xx-xx-xxxx - Doc Bagely - d. 3-7-1952
    father of radio excercise programs

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 22:40:36 -0500
    From: Richard Fish <fish@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Congratulations to Norman Corwin!

    Thanks much to Irene Heinstein for posting contact information for
    Norman Corwin!

    As the guy who actually typed up those words on Corwin's website, I'd
    just like to emphasize that communications are indeed sent on promptly.
    The email, in fact, is forwarded automatically (and your return email
    address info is included). Snailmail is turned around immediately by
    John Weber at the catalog office (dropped into a bigger envelope) and
    goes out to Norman's home, usually, the next day.

    Norman is usually punctilious about answering mail, but just at present
    I'm not really expecting an answer to the email I sent him -- not
    anytime soon, anyhow! John told me this evening that a lot of email has
    been moving through the website.

    Norman may be getting inundated, but I know he's delighted, too, so
    don't hesitate to write if you wish. Nothing could please or encourage
    him more than hearing from you.

    Again, you go to [removed] and click the bar on the
    left marked "Contacting Corwin."

    And to Corinne Marrinan and Eric Simonson:

    SFX: LOUD CHEERS, VAST APPLAUSE, WHISTLING, STOMPING, AND SHOUTS OF "BRAVO"

    Many, many thanks to them, and to all of you who've written.

    Richard Fish

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    Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 00:00:32 -0500
    From: "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Norman Corwin film

     Eric Cooper penned:

>     A NOTE OF TRIUMPH: THE GOLDEN AGE OF NORMAN CORWIN has won the Oscar for
>     Best  Documentary Short Subject.

     To which I reply:  That's great!  But how can we see this film?

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    Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 00:00:51 -0500
    From: "evantorch" <etorch@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Vic Perrin continued

    While not exactly pertaining only to OTR, two interesting Perrin facts:
    1. Perrin stated that he voiced all of his Outer Limits control voice intros
    and outros in one or two sessions the summer before the season started.
    2. When asked how he gave such beautiful and profound openings and closings
    to scripts he had not read Perrin stated " God gave me the talent to sound
    authoritarian and expert about subjects I know absolutely nothing about".
    Evan Torch MD
    Atlanta

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    Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 01:37:26 -0500
    From: Rutledge Mann <cliff_marsland@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  OTR mini-article; the dynamics of circulating
     OTR shows

    Hi there,

    I wrote another mini article, on the dynamics of the
    types of OTR collectors and their role on circulating
    shows.  In the recent past, I had written How to
    Encode/Record Shows Properly, and How to Collect
    Quality OTR on a Budget (I got a LOT of requests for
    that one.  I've been doing pretty well on that score -
    for the price of a twenty show, 60 buck box set, I've
    been averaging 720 quality, non-compressed, shows from
    quality reels (usually first or second generation)
    that I bought.  700 extra shows for the same amount,
    basically.)

    Anyhow, since the article would be too long to post
    here, if you want it, email me and I'll send it. It's
    in Word form as usual.

    I came up with 3 classifications for collectors
    (doesn't examine dealers, archives, etc, just private
    collectors). 1) There's the trader (the traditional
    cassette, CD, reel, etc trader).  2) The sharer (both
    ones that broadcast OTR on the radio, the OTR club,
    and those who share on any media without a set
    expectation of shows in return.  3) And finally, the
    hoarder.  And before I get jumped on, a hoarder in my
    definition is not one who holds some shows back, but
    is one who (purposely) does not sell, share, trade,
    etc. 95% or greater percent of their holdings,
    generally in an anti-social way. The hoarder is a
    fairly rare and extreme case, generally confined to
    the ET field, which lets out the vast majority of OTR
    collectors from this category.

    I hope in the future to examine the dynamics of how
    these different types of collectors interrelate in
    more detail in the future.  The mini-article deals
    with some aspects of this.

    I postulate in the article, while the trader has
    traditionally been the driving force and the majority,
    the sharer is becoming the dominant one numerically,
    due to changes in technology.

    The trader, however, is the one that is traditionally,
    and still generally is, the one who originates new
    shows, and that's explored a bit in the article.  This
    is changing some, as there are some sharers who are
    beginning to originate new shows, but the trader still
    holds the majority in this regard.

    Anyway, if you're interested email me and I'll pop off
    a copy to you.  I think the dynamics that shape the
    hobby are quite interesting and bear examination.

    Trav

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    Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 07:49:49 -0500
    From: Tony Baechler <tony@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Second Class Passenger

    Hi all,

    As you probably know, both Escape and Suspense dramatized a short
    story called Second Class Passenger.  If you want to read the
    original short story, Project Gutenberg has just put it online.  It
    is in a collection of short stories.  It is in the public domain so
    use it as you wish.

    [removed]

    Also, I've updated my list of books about vintage radio available to
    the blind.  Most are on [removed] which requires proof of
    disability and membership fees, but a couple are available to anyone
    via Project Gutenberg.  If you have any printed copies of books to
    donate for scanning, are an author or publisher and have error-free
    electronic copies, or know of a site which offers other complete
    books and not just articles, scripts or excerpts, please contact me
    off list.  I'm always interested in adding more vintage radio books
    to bookshare.  Note that dramatic material such as radio scripts
    aren't eligible because of US copyright law.

    [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 08:49:50 -0500
    From: "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

    Hi Friends,

    Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you may
    listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage Radio
    Theater," Big John Matthews and Steve "Archive" Urbaniak's "The Glowing
    Dial," Lee Michael's "The RADIO Show" and my own "Same Time, Same Station."
    Streamed in high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    HAMLET!

    THEATER GUILD ON THE AIR
    Episode 65    3-4-51    "Hamlet"
    John Gielgud, Dorothy McGuire, Pamela Brown
    Special 1 1/2 Hour Program

    CBS RADIO WORKSHOP
    Episode 22    6-22-56    "Another Point of View: Hamlet"
    Narrator: William Conrad
    Stars: John McIntire, Sammie Hill and Ben Wright
     ==================================

    HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

    THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN
    A look back at the start of the network SUPERMAN programs in 1940
    1. Promotional Radio Disk with Fred Allen, Clayton "Bud" Collyer.
    2. Episode #1 - 2/12/40 MBS Krypton is Destroyed. Kal-L is Catapulted to
    earth by Jor-L.
    3. Episode #2 - 2/14/40 MBS Superman Arrives on Earth.
    4. Episode #3 - 2/16/40 MBS "Keyno's Landslide"
    5. Episode #6 - 2/26/40 MBS Impending destruction of the Silver Clipper.
    Final episode of the story.
    ====================================

    THE GLOWING DIAL

    The Jack Benny Program - "Orson Welles guest hosts, Phil Returns After 3
    Months"
    originally aired March 14, 1943 on NBC
    Starring: Orson Welles, Dennis Day, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Don Wilson,
    Phil Harris, Frank Nelson, Verna Felton.
    Special Note: Audio restoration on "The Jack Benny Program" was done by
    Jerry Haendiges.

     The Jack Benny Program - "Orson Welles guest hosts, Mary Returns"
    originally aired March 21, 1943 on NBC
    Starring: Orson Welles, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Eddie "Rochester"
    Anderson, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Frank Nelson, Verna Felton.
    Special Note: Audio restoration on "The Jack Benny Program"  was done by
    Jerry Haendiges.

    The Jack Benny Program  - "Orson Welles guest hosts, Too Much Mayonnaise"
    originally aired March 28, 1943 on NBC
    Starring: Orson Welles, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Eddie "Rochester"
    Anderson, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Bill Morrow & Eddie Beloin (Benny's
    writers), Verna Felton.
    Special Note: Audio restoration on "The Jack Benny Program" was done by
    Jerry Haendiges.

    The Jack Benny Program - "Orson Welles guest hosts, Little Red Riding Hood"
    originally aired April 4, 1943 on NBC
    Starring: Orson Welles, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Eddie "Rochester"
    Anderson, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Andy Devine, Bill Morrow & Eddie Beloin
    (Benny's writers), Verna Felton.
    Special Note: Audio restoration on "The Jack Benny Program" was done by
    Jerry Haendiges.

    The Jack Benny Program - "Orson Welles, Jack Returns After a 5 Week Illness"
    originally aired April 11, 1943 on NBC
    Starring: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Eddie
    "Rochester" Anderson, Don Wilson, Frank Nelson, Orson Welles, Verna Felton.
    Special Note: Audio restoration on "The Jack Benny Program"  was done by
    Jerry Haendiges.
    ==================================

    The RADIO Show

    SPEED GIBSON OF THE INTERNATIONAL SECRET POLICE
    Another Speed Gibson Special, as we accelerate the storyline with the next
    four episodes of The Atlantian Syndicate Adventure

    A Word from Our Sponsor:

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    ===================================

    If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

         Jerry Haendiges

         Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
         The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
         Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on the Net

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    Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 08:50:02 -0500
    From: "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Milton Berle

    [removed] Uncle Milty was clobbering his TV rivals on Tuesday nights
    at 8 pm what were the radio networks running at that hour?!

    BILL KNOWLTON

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    Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 10:15:24 -0500
    From: [removed]@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Dan Reid again

    Jim Nixon stated,

>     there doesn't seem to be any credible evidence that Ernie
>     Winstanley ever played Dan Reid on the radio series.  This despite Ernie's
>     first-person claim to that effect during a Detroit radio interview conducted
>     shortly after the death of Brace Beemer

    Paul's comment: I would think the fact he was surrounded by folks he worked with
    lends some fact to his claim. Normally the actors on the Lone Ranger are not
    credited on the air so it would be difficult to come up with an exact list of
    people on each episode.

    Jim Nixon continues:

>     in the series which appears to introduce Dan's
>     character in late 1942, the final episode is titled, "A Nephew is Found".
>     If Dan had been found earlier, this would not have made any sense.

    Paul says: This was basically a retelling of the origin story. But a clue maybe
    in the fact that the Green Hornet came on the air in January 1936. I wonder if
    the basic (fictional) genealogy of the family as we understand it today existed
    during the early Green Hornet episodes?

    Paul Urbahns
    Radcliff, KY

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    Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 11:13:01 -0500
    From: JLF <jlf@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Fibber's Magic Radio

    My programs lists don't show a Fibber show on Nov 16, 1951. I am also
    looking for this great bit. Help please!

    Thanks,  JLF

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    Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 13:46:59 -0500
    From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Tom Mix Alblum and Monitor

    Hi Everybody,

    does any one have a copy of the Tom Mix Album from 1983 with the re-creation
    with Les Tremayne, and Curley Bradley?  This was recorded at Frank Bresee
    studio and he would like to find a copy of the record album.  Would Jim
    Taylor   who wrote the article on Monitor in the March SPERDVAC newsletter
    contact me off list.  Take care,

    Walden Hughes

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    Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 13:47:25 -0500
    From: Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Differences

    While I am not a fan of  "The Lone Ranger," I do have the text of the
    interview conducted by radio personality J. P. McCarthy to which Jim Nixon
    alluded in the last issue of The Digest.

    It is found in David Rothel's book, WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN (A. S. Barnes,
    1976), pp. 124-140.

    Ernie Winstanley does indeed state that he played Dan Reid on "The Lone
    Ranger."  He discusses how director Charles Livingstone picked him up in
    Orchard Lake and drove him into the studio for three years, starting in
    1934.   Livingstone and another director, Fred Flowerday, were present
    during the interview. Livingstone started with the program about  the same
    time as Winstanley.

    It seems odd that Livingstone did not contradict Winstanley's version of
    events.  In fact, his responses to McCarthy's questions seem to enhance
    them. Livingstone acknowledges  Winstanley was cast in other roles after
    his voice changed.

    Will the real Dan Reid please stand up!

    Dennis Crow

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    Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 13:47:39 -0500
    From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Virginia Gregg
    X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative
    X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain

            I remember Virginia Gregg in the role of Nurse Parker on "Dr.
    Kildare"
    and, if I'm not mistaken, on several eps of the TV version of "Dragnet".
    She was very talented and could play a wide range of roles easily and well.
    It was always a pleasure to see her ease into a role the way she did.  You
    almost came to believe that she  was the person she portrayed.

    Another OTR Fan,

    Kenneth Clarke

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    Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 14:36:38 -0500
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Inner Sanctum trivia

    Hi. I don't remember if I've ever e-mailed you before, but I've been
    searching for an Inner Sanctum episode for quite some time. A friend of mine
    who passed away several years ago was a big band musician who lived on
    Hollywood Boulevard around 1945. The house was across from the Florentine
    Gardens and was always full of people from the entertainment business. He
    told me that a writer from the Inner Sanctum show was there one night and
    wrote down his name. He told my friend, Joe Servello, to catch the next show
    for a surprise. When Joe tuned in the episode used his name over and over
    again. It kept saying "Joe Servello and his gang from Chicago" and "he had
    murder in his eye" or something like that. I'd like to present a challenge.
    Joe didn't remember the name of the writer or the episode. If there's any
    way you could locate this episode as script or recorded form, it would be
    great. If not, and I've already contacted you concerning this, thank you for
    your time and consideration.
    Sincerely,
    Sue Pich

    Anyone who knows the answer to this, e-mail me and I'll forward your reply
    to her.  I'm on the road most of the week so there's no rush in answering
    this if anyone knows the solution.
    Martin
    mmargrajr@[removed]

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