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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2016 : Issue 43
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Harry Lime again [ "jsalerno@[removed]" <jsalerno@ ]
This week in radio history 12-18 Jun [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 20:32:29 -0400
From: "jsalerno@[removed]" <jsalerno@[removed];
To: OTR List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Harry Lime again
BBC Radio4 extra is running series 2 of the Lives of Harry Lime. They
are up to ep 5 of 7, and all are presently available. Even the first ep
is available for another 25 days. The present eps date from July and
August 1952.
Also, an interesting program Vienna and the Shadow of the Third Man
gives background of the period that the movie and radio show take place.
You can find these by going to [removed], click on radio, schedules,
BBC 4 extra, and you should be able to find them there.
And of course the Goon Show continues as well. Presently we are up to
January 1957.
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Joe Salerno
[ADMINISTRIVIA: The Harry Lime episodes, as well as the "Vienna and the
Shadow of the Third Man" program, have been placed in the Digest's pCloud
folder for listening or download. If you don't yet have access, contact me.
It's completely free. --cfs3]
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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 20:32:39 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 12-18 June
From Those Were The Days
6/12
1947 Sergeant Preston of The Yukon went national for the first time.
The show, with the Canadian Mountie and his trusty dog, King, continued
on the radio until 1955, beginning on WXYZ Detroit in 1938. Sgt. Preston
was created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, who also created The
Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet.
1955 The first network radio show to be produced with no script, The
University of Chicago Round Table, was heard for the final time on NBC.
The program was the first network radio program to win the coveted
George Foster Peabody Award.
1955 "This is Monitor, a weekend program service of NBC Radio," was
heard for the first time. Notables such as Bill Cullen, Ed McMahon, Hugh
Downs, and Dave Garroway recited this line. It was a network cue to NBC
radio stations across the nation who carried the long form news,
entertainment and variety broadcast from New York City. Stations and
listeners who were "on the Monitor beacon" were entertained for six
hours or more each Saturday and Sunday night for nearly two decades.
NBC's Monitor was one of the last live network radio programs on the air.
6/13
1944 The wire recorder was patented by Marvin Camras.
6/14
1922 A [removed] President was heard on the radio for the first time.
President Warren G. Harding dedicated the Francis Scott Key Memorial and
was heard on WEAR in Baltimore.
1950 Harold Peary played the leading role of The Great Gildersleeve
one final time. Willard Waterman took Peary's place in the role.
6/15
1936 Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler starred in Burlesque on the Lux Radio
Theatre.
6/17
1942 Suspense, known as radio's outstanding theatre of thrills,
debuted on CBS. The program kept millions of loyal listeners in suspense
for the next 20 years (and three months).
6/18
1939 CBS aired The Adventures of Ellery Queen for the first time. An
interesting twist came near the end of the program when the show was
stopped to allow a panel of experts to guess the solution of the night's
mystery.
1961 Gunsmoke was broadcast for the last time on CBS. The show had
been on for nine years. It was called the first adult Western. The star
of Gunsmoke was William Conrad.
Joe
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