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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2011 : Issue 20
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Re: This ain't my Green Hornet        [ Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed]; ]
  What science fiction OTR episode is   [ "George Keppel" <gkeppel@thesportsa ]
  1-29 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history 30 Januar  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  1-30 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Philip Marlowe - BBC radio drama      [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]

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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 11:06:52 -0500
From: Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: This ain't my Green Hornet

Jack French recently expressed his opinion on an eagerly awaited new movie.

 A review in today's local newspaper underscores my decision
 to avoid the new GH movie:

You're right, I think it might be better that you didn't see it, but let me
tell you that I liked it.  I didn't require that it be faithful to the
original radio series but that it be good entertainment by itself.  But it
has an interesting twist to the first series of adventures that underscores
that although they were doing good they were perceived as being criminals
themselves -- purposefully.  And while there is a bit of buffoonery in his
character, the final ten minutes leads us to believe that there is a maturity
he has achieved that might make any sequels more to your liking.

 "Canadian Seth Rogen co-wrote the script so it isn't surprising
 he's given the story a bad-boy edge, stuffing the film full of
 sexual innuendo and cursing.  The profanity-laced dialogue and
 the portrayal of boozy nights out implies that Britt Reid has
 serial one-night stands.

I debate the word "full".  Only the first part of the film where his
pre-crimefighter background is being set as a contrast to his later attitudes
do we see this activity.  Serial one-nighters might be implied to that
reviewer, but he seems to have had only one serious girlfriend conquest.  And
once he "matures" he is VERY UN-successful in the womanizing department!  As
for the cursing, that reviewer needs to check out the meaning of "profanity".
I only noticed repeated in the party scene of the "s" word, and it was gone
soon enough.  Anybody that has been to a movie in the past quarter century
will find that the language usage is very mild.

 "While the mayhem has a comic tilt, it's also quite intense
 with point-blank shootings and violent fights."

Most of the action seemed to be a cross between "Home Alone" and "The Blues
Brothers".

 'Nuff [removed] this film is aimed at the core group of
 [removed] year old boys.   Jack French

Uh Jack, just who do you think the RADIO series was aimed at?????

Michael Biel  mbiel@[removed]

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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 11:07:08 -0500
From: "George Keppel" <gkeppel@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  What science fiction OTR episode is this?

Does anyone recognize this episode? I'm positive it's OTR that I
downloaded in the last couple of years from [removed] or somewhere
else on the web, but now I can't find it in my collection.

I won't give away the ending to spoil it for those who haven't heard it.

Two astronauts visit the moon and theorize that the moon was once
inhabited but wonder how, given the surface of the moon. They comment on
the surface - the whiteness of it (almost like ash) and the craters.

Then, as they are approaching Earth on the return [removed]

I can't find this episode it in my Dimension X, X Minus 1, 2000 Plus, or
Exploring Tomorrow .zip files.

Could it be Escape, Suspense, or a similar show perhaps?

Thanks.

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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 11:07:17 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  1-29 births/deaths

January 29th births

01-29-1874 - John D. Rockefeller, Jr. - Cleveland, OH - d. 5-11-1960
rich person: "The Collier Hour"
01-29-1874 - Owen Davis - Portland, ME - d. 10-14-1956
writer: "The Gibson Family"; "Pulitzer Prize Plays"
01-29-1880 - W. C. Fields - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-25-1946
comedian: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
01-29-1885 - Leadbelly (Huddie Leadbetter) - Louisiana - d. 12-6-1949
jazz musician: "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin street"
01-29-1902 - Florence Rinard - d. 10-18-1984
panelist: "Twenty Questions"
01-29-1911 - Bryan Coleman - London, England - d. 7-4-2005
actor: John H. Watson "BBC Light Programme"
01-29-1913 - Daniel Taradash - Louisville, KY - d. 1-22-2003
film writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
01-29-1913 - Joe Parker - Venice, CA - d. 4-28-1970
director: "Sara's Private Caper"
01-29-1914 - Bonnie Prudden - NYC
fitness expert: "House Party"
01-29-1915 - Victor Mature - Louisville, KY - d. 8-4-1999
actor: "Hollywood Star Playhouse"
01-29-1916 - Bill Lawrence - Lincoln, NE - d. 3-2-1972
newsman for the ABC network
01-29-1917 - John Raitt - Santa Ana, CA - d. 2-20-2005
actor, singer: "MGM Musical Comedy Theatre"
01-29-1917 - Lloyd Perryman - Ruth, AR - d. 5-31-1977
singer: (Sons of the Pioneers) "The Roy Rogers Show"
01-29-1918 - John Forsythe - Penns Grove, NJ - d. 4-1-2010
actor: "NBC Star Playhouse"; "Best Plays"
01-29-1923 - Martin Ragaway - d. 4-20-1989
writer: "The Abbot and Costello Show"; "The Milton Berle Show"
01-29-1923 - Paddy Chayefsky - The Bronx, NY - d. 8-1-1981
writer: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
01-29-1927 - Don Morrow - Stamford, CT
announcer: "Advs. of Rin Tin Tin"; "The Dizzy Dean Show"
01-29-1927 - Peter Fernandez - NYC - d. 7-15-2010
actor: George Bigelow "The Aldrich Family"; Skip "Right to Happiness"
01-29-1942 - Robin Morgan - Lake Worth, FL
actor, Former president of NOW: "Cavalcade of America"
01-29-1943 - Tony Blackburn - Guildford, England
disc jockey: "Midday Spin"; "Junior Choice"

January 29th deaths

01-14-1914 - Harold Russell - North Sydney, Canada - d. 1-29-2002
world war II hero, actor: "A Salute to the [removed]"; "NBC University
Theatre"
01-22-1899 - Anne Elstner - Lake Charles, LA - d. 1-29-1981
actor: Stella Dallas "Stella Dallas"; Mary Weston "Wilderness Road"
02-02-1875 - Fritz Kreisler - Vienna, Austria - d. 1-29-1962
violinist, composer: "Telephone Hour"; "Concert Hall"; "Gospel In Song"
02-10-1893 - Jimmy Durante - NYC - d. 1-29-1980
comedian: (Da Schnozz) Claudius 'Brainy' Bowers "Jumbo Fire Chief
Program"
02-17-1924 - Margaret Truman - Independence, MO - d. 1-29-2008
coloratura: "The Big Show"; "The Railroad Hour"; "Authors in the News"
02-22-1925 - Stratford Johns - Pietermaritzburg, South Africa - d.
1-29-2002
actor: Pennington "Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile"
03-04-1921 - Harry Besse - d. 1-29-1994
disk jockey: KSWI Council Bluffs,Iowa
03-12-1916 - Mandel Kramer - Cleveland, OH - d. 1-29-1989
actor: Johnny Dollar "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
04-11-1912 - John Larkin - Oakland, CA - d. 1-29-1965
actor: Perry Mason "Perry Mason"; "Dimension X; " Ford Theatre"
04-12-1904 - Frankie Masters - Saint Marys, WV - d. 1-29-1991
music: "Edgar A. Guest"
04-19-1915 - Albert Buhrman - Springfield, MO - d. 1-29-1999
organist: "Murder at Midnight"; "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"
07-02-1892 - Jack Hylton - Great Lever, England - d. 1-29-1965
bandmaster: CBS 1935-1936 Sundays at 10:30 PM Standard Oil
07-09-1915 - Joan Tompkins - d. 1-29-2005
actor: Nora Drake "This Is Nora Drake"; Siri Allen "Against the Storm"
07-25-1896 - Leo Russotto - d. 1-29-1978
musical coach and arranger: "Roxy and His Gang"
07-31-1908 - [removed] "Bill" Shadel - Milton, WI - d. 1-29-2005
newscaster: Reported the D-Day landings for CBS
08-04-1913 - Barbara Townsend - Oakland, CA - d. 1-29-2002
actor: "Theatre Guild on the Air"; "Cavalcade of America"
09-03-1913 - Alan Ladd - Hot Springs, AR - d. 1-29-1964
actor: Dan Holliday "Box 13"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Proudly We Hail"
09-09-1930 - Martha Jean "The Queen" Steinberg - d. 1-29-2000
Owned WQBH-AM Detroit, Michigan
10-27-1911 - Leif Erickson - Alameda, CA - d. 1-29-1986
actor: Richard Rhinelander III "My Friend Irma"
11-25-1887 - William Steinke - Slatinton, PA - d. 1-29-1958
host: "Jolly Bill and Jane"; "No School Today"
11-28-1894 - Frank Black - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-29-1968
conductor: "Jack Benny Program"; "NBC String Symphony"; "Cities
Service Concert"

Ron
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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 11:07:23 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 30 January to 5
 February

 From Those Were The Days

1/30

1933    The Lone Ranger was heard for the first time.

1/31

1936   The Green Hornet was introduced by its famous theme song, The
Flight of the Bumble Bee. The radio show was first heard on WXYZ in
Detroit, MI on this day. The show stayed on the air for 16 years. The
Green Hornet originated from the same radio station where The Lone
Ranger was performed. You may remember that the title character in The
Green Hornet was really named Britt Reid. He was, in fact, supposed to
be the great nephew of John Reid, the Lone Ranger. Both popular series
were created by George Trendle and Fran Striker.

2/2

1946   The Mutual Broadcasting System presented Twenty Questions for the
first time. Bill Slater was the master of ceremonies.

2/5

1931   Eddie Cantor's long radio career got underway as he appeared on
Rudy Vallee's The Fleischmann Hour.

1940   Amanda of Honeymoon Hill debuted. Joy Hathaway starred as "the
beauty of flaming red hair". The program stayed for six years on NBC.

Joe

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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 11:08:15 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  1-30 births/deaths

January 30th births

01-30-1862 - Walter Damrosch - Breslau, Silesia - d. 12-22-1950
conductor, commentator: "Baulkite Hour"; "Music Appreciation Hour"
01-30-1882 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Hyde Park, NY - d. 4-12-1945
[removed] president: "Fireside Chats"
01-30-1885 - Ida Bailey Allen - Danielson, CT - d. 7-16-1973
homemaker: "Ida Bailey Allen and the Chef"
01-30-1896 - Joseph Gallicchio - Chicago, IL - d. 2-20-1979
orchestra leader: "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Music from the Heart of America"
01-30-1907 - Lois Wilson - Iowa - d. 1-8-1983
actor: "Jack Benny Program"
01-30-1911 - Hugh Marlowe - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-2-1982
actor: Ellery Queen "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; Jim Curtis "Brenda Curtis"
01-30-1914 - David Wayne - Traverse City, MI - d. 2-9-1995
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre" ;" Eternal Light"; "Stars in the Air"
01-30-1914 - John Ireland - Vancouver, Canada - d. 3-21-1992
actor: "MGM Theatre of the Air"; "[removed] Steel Hour"
01-30-1915 - Dorothy Dell - Hattiesburg, MS - d. 6-8-1934
actor: "Stars of Tomorrow"
01-30-1915 - Michael Guido - Lorain, OH - d. 2-21-2009
evangelist: "Seeds from the Sower"
01-30-1922 - Dick Martin - Battle Creek, MI - d. 5-24-2008
writer: "Duffy's Tavern"
01-30-1925 - Dorothy Malone, Chicago, IL
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
01-30-1928 - Ruth Brown - Portsmouth, VA - d. 11-17-2006
singer: "Newport Jazz Festival"
01-30-1931 - Conrad Binyon - Hollywood, CA
actor: Roscoe 'Butch' Gardiner "Mayor of the Town"
01-30-1933 - Louis Rukeyser - NYC - d. 5-2-2006
economic commentator: "Rukeyser's World"; "College Quiz Bowl"
01-30-1934 - Tammy Grimes - Lynn, MA
hostess, actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
01-30-1937 - Vanessa Redgrave - London, England
actor: Histories "I, Boadicea"
01-30-1950 - Bruce Lidington - Harrow, England - d. 8-5-1996
delighted listeners to Radio 4 serials
01-30-1958 - Sayuri Ishikawa - Kumamoto, Japan
enka singer: "Kohaku Uta Gassen"

January 30th deaths

01-05-1911 - Jean-Pierre Aumont - Paris, France - d. 1-30-2001
actor: "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Philip Morris Playhouse"
02-11-1917 - Sidney Sheldon - Chicago, IL - d. 1-30-2007
writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
02-18-1912 - Earl George - Donora, PA - d. 1-30-2004
actor: "Curtain Time"; "Girl Alone"; "Mortimer Gooch"
03-01-1914 - Aaron Ruben - Chicago, IL - d. 1-30-2010
writer: "The Milton Berle Show"
03-02-1904 - Leonard Levinson - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-30-1974
writer: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Great Gildersleeve"; "Jack Carson
Show"
03-07-1923 - Arthur Julian - Memphis, TN - d. 1-30-1995
writer: "The Beulah Show"
03-12-1910 - R. Dale Butts - Lamasco, KY - d. 1-30-1990
staff arranger for NBC Chicago
03-12-1910 - Robert Denton - d. 1-30-1990
announcer: "Dimension X"; "The Robert Merrill Show"
03-19-1919 - Alfred Apaka - Honolulu, HI - d. 1-30-1960
vocalist: "Hawaii Calls"
03-24-1893 - Jane Seymour - Hamilton, Canada - d. 1-30-1956
actor: Mrs. Brown "Claudia and David"
04-05-1921 - Barney Beck - d. 1-30-2007
sound effects: "The Shadow"; "I Love A Mystery"; "Bob and Ray"
04-23-1901 - George Harmon Coxe - Olean, NY - d. 1-30-1984
novelist: "Casey, Crime Photographer" based on his novels
05-15-1897 - Jacques Renard - Kiev, Ukraine - d. 1-30-1973
bandleader: "Burns and Allen"; "The Joe Penner Show"; "Stoopnagle and
Budd"
05-20-1912 - Julius Dixon - Barnwell, SC - d. 1-30-2004
host: "Variety Jive"
06-02-1896 - Katherine Bacon - Chesterfield, England - d. 1-30-1982
pianist: WOR New York
06-25-1918 - Ken Mayer - California - d. 1-30-1985
actor: Robbie Robertson "Space Patrol"
06-27-1907 - John McIntire - Spokane, WA - d. 1-30-1991
actor: Benjamin Ordway "Crime Doctor"; Lt. Dundy "Advs. of Sam Spade"
07-03-1890 - Herbert A. Bell - Rock Valley, IA - d. 1-30-1970
radio manufacturer: Co-founder of Packard-Bell in 1945
07-09-1894 - Dorothy Thompson - Lancaster, NY - d. 1-30-1961
commentator: "Commentary"
08-06-1917 - Edward Jewesbury - London, England - d. 1-30-2002
actor: "Lady in a Fog"
08-08-1887 - Malcolm Keen - Bristol, England - d. 1-30-1970
actor: "Cavalcade of America"
08-14-1909 - Ed Herlihy - Dorchester, MA - d. 1-30-1999
announcer: "Advs. of the Thin Man"; "Just Plain Bill"; "Vic and Sade"
08-15-1919 - Huntz Hall - NYC - d. 1-30-1999
comedian: (The Dead End Kids) "Texaco Star Playhouse"
09-10-1904 - John V. Aspe - d. 1-30-1973
tenor: WHN New York, New York
09-15-1878 - William Hard - Painted Post, NY - d. 1-30-1962
commentator: "Back of the News"
09-21-1901 - Talitha Botsford - Millport, NY - d. 1-30-2002
composer and violinist
10-01-1890 - Stanley Holloway - London, England - d. 1-30-1982
actor, singer: "Music As You Like It"
10-02-1919 - Henry (Noel) Bentinck - Exton, England - d. 1-30-1997
BBC talks producer
10-13-1918 - Jack MacGowran - Dublin, Ireland - d. 1-30-1973
actor: "All That Fall"; "Embers"; "Juno and the Paycock"
11-09-1895 - Lou Lubin - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-30-1973
actor: Shorty "Amos 'n' Andy"
11-22-1923 - Guy Doleman - Hamilton, New Zealand - d. 1-30-1996
charactor actor, announcer: New Zealand radio
11-24-1904 - Pegeen Fitzgerald - Norcatur, KS - d. 1-30-1989
host: "The Fitzgeralds"
12-03-1915 - Robert H. Forward - San Diego, CA - d. 1-30-2001
director: "And Sudden Death"; "Special All-Star Revue"
12-14-1927 - Richard Cassilly - Washington, D. C. - d. 1-30-1998
tenor: "Metropolitan Opera"
12-22-1909 - Robert Barr - Glasbow, Scotland - d. 1-30-1999
radio writer: "To Tell You the Truth"

Ron
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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 11:08:33 -0500
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Philip Marlowe - BBC radio drama
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Hi Folks.
Those of you who like the Philip Marlowe stories might be interested to know
that starting on 5th February ( and continuing through to the Autumn/Fall )
BBC Radio 4 will be dramatising all Raymond Chandler's stories. These include
The Big Sleep, Farewell my Lovely, High Window, Lady in the Lake, Little
Sister, Long Goodbye, Playback, and Poodle Springs. BBC Radio 4 should be
available to download in the States. Full details on the BBC Press Office
website. In their search box just put in the title' Classic Chandler'.
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Cheers! Graeme ( ORCA / UK )

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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 11:08:48 -0500
From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[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 Theatre," Bob Bro's "The Old Time Radio Show," John and Larry
Gassman's "Same Time Station" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics."
Streamed in high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

ON STAGE AMERICA
Episode 10 12-1-47 Guests: Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney
Host: Paul Whiteman

LET YOURSELF GO
Episode 55 4-4-45
Guest Star: Joan Bennett
Host: Milton Berle

TIME OUT
Episode 23 1-14-46 "House Cleaning"
Stars: Alan Prescott
Music: Ted Steele

ACADEMY AWARD THEATER
ACADEMY AWARD THEATER
Episode 34 11-13-46 "Night Train"
Stars Rex Harrison

BETWEEN THE BOOKENDS
ACADEMY AWARD THEATER
6-23-47 "Origin Of Ice Cream"
Stars: Ted Malone
==================================

HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

SUSPENSE
(CBS) 6/19/47
"The Dead of Night" starring: Elliott Reid

THE GREAT GILDERSLEEVE
(NBC) 4/8/45
"Leroy's Pet Pig" stars: Harold Peary

THE ADVENTURES OF SI & ELMER
(Synd.) 1931
"The Lost Baby and the Dog"
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THE OLD TIME RADIO SHOW

FORT LARAMIE (CBS)
Title: Squaw Man
Original Air: 2/5/56
Starring: Raymond Burr, Vic Perrin

I LOVE A MYSTERY (Mutual)
Title: The Million Dollar Curse, Episode 4
Original Air: 12/15/49
Starring: Russell Thorson, Jim Boles, and Tony Randall

GUNSMOKE (CBS)
Title: Trojan War
Original Air: 2/28/53
Starring: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, Georgia Russell
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION

On this week's program, we pay tribute to George Burns, who would have
celebrated birthday #115 on January 20th. He was born on January 20,
1896 and died on March 9, 1996.

We'll hear a birthday special from the program, "Monitor" from NBC with
many of his friends paying tribute. It aired, 01/18/64.

Following is THE BOB HOPE SHOW
from 04/21/55 Episode 631 with Guest Jim Backus, and singing star
Margaret Whiting.

We finish the program with a tale well calculated to keep you in
Suspense. The program from SUSPENSE
features Van Heflin and is called: 3 O'clock and is dated 03/10/49.
====================================

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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