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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2010 : Issue 62
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
      4-5 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:18:57 -0400
    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," Jonn 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

    Happy Easter!

    OUR MISS BROOKS
    Episode 37 4-17-49 "Easter Outfits"
    CBS SUSTAINING Mondays 9:00 - 9:30 pm
    Connie Brooks: Eve Arden
    Philip Boynton: Jeff Chandler
    Walter Denton: Dick Crenna
    Stretch Snodgrass: Leonard Smith
    Mrs. Davis: Jane Morgan
    Harriet Conklin: Gloria McMillan
    Osgood Conklin: Gale Gordon

    RED SKELTON SHOW
    Episode 28 4-9-50 "Skunk Patrol's Easter Benefit Show"
    CBS TIDE Sundays 8:30 - 9:00 pm
    STARS: Lurene Tuttle, Four Knights, Pat McGeehan, Dick Ryan, Martha
    Wentworth

    REQUEST PERFORMANCE
    Episode 29 4-21-46 "Spring Comes To Central Park South"
    Host: Dick Powell
    Stars: George Raft, Bud Abbott & Lou Costello, Janet Waldo.
    Final Show of the Series.
    CBS Campbell Soup Sundays 9:00 - 9:30 Pm
    Announcer: Del Sharbutt
    Director: William N. Robson
    Music: Leith Stevens Orchestra
    Producer: Masquar's Club Of H

    THE PHIL HARRIS-ALICE FAYE SHOW
    Episode 69 4-9-50 "The Easter Bunny"
    NBC Rexall Drugs Sundays 7:30 - 8:00 Pm
    Stars: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Elliott Lewis, Walter Tetley, Jeanine
    Rose, Anne Whitfield
    Producer/Director: Paul Phillips
    Music: Walter Scharf Orchestra
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    HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

    ARTHUR GODFREY AND HIS TALENT SCOUTS
    (CBS Radio/TV) 6/5/50. Arthur does his unique style of commercials for
    Lipton Tea and Lipton Soup. Two contestants tie for 1st place. Simulcast.

    THE ADVENTURES OF OZZIE AND HARRIET
    (NBC) 3/13/49. Tax troubles.

    THE ADV. OF SUPERMAN
    3/20/40 Superman brings prison back to order but Lois is held hostage.
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    THE OLD TIME RADIO SHOW

    HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL (CBS)
    Original Air: 4/3/60
    Title: "Shanghai is a Verb"
    Sponsor: Sustained
    Starring: John Dehner

    I Love a Mystery (Mutual)
    Original Air: 11/3/49
    Title: "Thing That Cries in the Night - Episode #4"
    Sponsor: Sustained
    Starring: Russell Thorson, Jim Boles, and Tony Randall

    THE JACK BENNY SHOW (CBS)
    Original Air: 3/13/49
    Title: "After the Races"
    Sponsor: Lucky Strikes
    Starring: Jack Benny, Mary Livingston, Dennis Day, Rochester

    Gunsmoke (CBS)
    Title: "The Gypsum Hills Feud"
    Sponsor: L & M Cigarettes
    Starring: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, and Georgia Ellis
    Announcer: George Walsh
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    This week we divide the show in to three segments.
    We look at baseball, Easter, and the continuing series of Jack Benny
    shows and the missing Oscar.

    MY FAVORITE HUSBAND
    09-16-49 Episode 054 Baseball.
    With Richard Denning and Lucille Ball

    Next, We hear a syndicated production from Allan Ladd productions.
    THE DAMON RUNYON THEATER
    06-26-49 Episode 26 Baseball Hattie
    This stars John Brown as Broadway.

    Next, our Easter show
    THE AMOS AND ANDY SHOW
    04-09-50. Sapphire's Easter Outfit.

    THE JACK BENNY SHOW
    04-04-48 for Lucky Strike Cigarettes.
    This is the second of several shows we will air through May 9 1948. The
    story line has to do with Jack borrowing Ronald Colman's Oscar. Jack is
    robbed and looses the Oscar.
    Featuring Jack Benny, Mary Livingston, Dennis Day, Phil Harris, The
    Sportsman Quartet, and Don Wilson.
    Guests include Ronald and Benita Colman. The man who robbed Jack Benny
    was Eddie Marr.
    Written by Milt Josefsberg, George Balzer, Sam Perrin, and John
    Tackaberry. Heard on NBC.
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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: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:19:05 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-5 births/deaths

    April 5th births

    04-05-1898 - Everett Crosby - Roslyn, WA - d. 7-13-1966
    brother and manager of Bing Crosby
    04-05-1900 - Spencer Tracy - Milwaukee, WI - d. 6-10-1967
    actor: "Good News of 1938"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-05-1901 - Melvyn Douglas - Macon, GA - d. 8-4-1981
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-05-1905 - William Andrews - Oakland, CA - d. 5-2-1985
    announcer: "One Man's Family"
    04-05-1908 - Bette Davis - Lowell, MA - d. 10-6-1989
    actor: "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players"; "Prudential Family Hour of
    Stars"
    04-05-1910 - Jim Alderman - d. 12-5-1992
    newscaster: Dallas, Texas
    04-05-1911 - Gordon Jones - Alden, IA - d. 6-20-1963
    actor: Pete Thompson "Meet Mr. McNutley"
    04-05-1911 - Martin Denny - NYC - d. 3-2-2005
    orchestra leader: Live radio show for Alaskan Air Force Command Radio
    04-05-1912 - John Le Mesurier - Bedford, England - d. 11-15-1983
    actor: Sergeant Arthur Wilson "Dad's Army"
    04-05-1913 - Anne Scott-James - London, England - d. 5-13-2009
    journalist: "My Word"
    04-05-1914 - Eric Roberts - Winchmore Hill, England
    author: "The Manadrins Cat"
    04-05-1916 - Gregory Peck - Lo Jolla, CA - d. 6-12-2003
    actor: "Doctor Fights"; "Sealtest Variety Hour"
    04-05-1917 - Robert Bloch - Chicago, IL - d. 9-23-1994
    writer: "Stay Tuned for Terror"
    04-05-1919 - Ted Liss - d. 3-3-1992
    actor: "Destination Freedom"
    04-05-1921 - Barney Beck - d. 1-30-2007
    sound effects: "The Shadow"; "I Love A Mystery"; "Bob and Ray"
    04-05-1922 - Gale Storm - McDade, TX - d. 6-27-2009
    actor: Margie Albright "My Little Margie"
    04-05-1924 - Lee Stevens - Baltimore, MD
    announcer: "Big Sister"
    04-05-1926 - Stan Levy - d. 4-19-2005
    jazz drummer: "Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra"
    04-05-1928 - Michael Bryant - London, England - d. 4-25-2002
    character actor: "Bequest to the Nation"
    04-05-1929 - Nigel Hawthorne - Coventry, England - d. 12-26-2001
    actor: Acted for his college radio station at the University of Cape
    Town

    April 5th deaths

    01-01-1917 - Shelby Storck - Kansas City, MO - d. 4-5-1969
    actor: Speed Robertson "The Air Advs. of Jimmie Allen"
    01-16-1917 - Brainerd Duffield - Boston, MA - d. 4-5-1979
    writer: "The Ford Theatre"
    01-26-1880 - Douglas MacArthur - Little Rock, AR - d. 4-5-1964
    general: "Special Broadcast from Tokyo"
    01-28-1915 - Jud Denaut - Walkerton, IN - d. 4-5-1999
    bassist: "Woody Herman and His Orchestra"
    02-06-1926 - Nancy Overton - NYC - d. 4-5-2009
    singer: (The Chordettes)"Stars for Defense"; "Guest Star"
    02-09-1901 - Brian Donlevy - Cleveland, OH - d. 4-5-1972
    actor: Steve Mitchell "Dangerous Assignment"
    02-17-1941 - Gene Pitney - Hartford, CT - d. 4-5-2006
    singer: "Voices of Vista"
    04-27-1892 - Marjorie Mills - Waterville, ME - d. 4-5-1979
    columnist: "The Girl from Maine"
    06-01-1898 - Molly Picon - NYC - d. 4-5-1992
    actor: "I Give You My Life"; "Molly Picon's Parade"
    07-10-1916 - Dick Carey - Hartford, CT - d. 4-5-1994
    jazz pianist: "Louis Armstrong and the Original All-Stars"
    07-14-1909 - Isabel Jewell - Shoshone, WY - d. 4-5-1972
    actor: "Dr. Kildare"; "NBC Presents: Short Story"
    07-28-1901 - Felix Mills - Fort Collins, CO - d. 4-5-1987
    musical director: "Aldrich Family"; "Burns and Allen"; "Tarzan"
    07-28-1901 - Hal Totten - Newark, NJ - d. 4-5-1985
    sportscaster: first play-by-play announcer for Chicago Cubs; "Elgin
    Campus Review"
    07-29-1910 - Joseph Curtin - Cambridge, MA - d. 4-5-1979
    actor: Nick Charles "Advs. of the Thin Man"; John Perry "John's Other
    Wife"
    08-07-1920 - Mel Diamond - NYC - d. 4-5-2002
    comedy writer: Kate Smith, Milton Berle, Bob Hope and Mickey Rooney
    08-12-1914 - Guy Sorel - d. 4-5-1994
    actor: Larry Noble "Backstage Wife"
    08-22-1921 - Robert Marsden - London, England - d. 4-5-2007
    actor: "Saturday Night Play"
    08-24-1884 - Earl Der Biggers - Warren, OH - d. 4-5-1933
    author: Charlie Chan books
    09-13-1871 - Alma Kruger - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 4-5-1960
    actor: Emily Mayfield "Those We Love"
    09-24-1905 - Howard Hughes - Humble, TX - d. 4-5-1976
    film producer, bra designer, billionaire: "Howard Hughes Senate
    Hearings"
    09-27-1898 - Vincent Youmans - NYC - d. 4-5-1946
    composer: "Chicago Theatre of the Air"
    10-04-1910 - Stanley Farrar - d. 4-5-1974
    actor: (Brother of Danny Thomas) Melvyn Foster "A Date with Judy"
    10-04-1924 - Charlton Heston - Evanston, IL - d. 4-5-2008
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Kaleidoscope"
    10-26-1917 - Buddy Christian - Nyack, NY - d. 4-5-2009
    drummer" "Dizzy Gillespie Band"
    10-31-1887 - Chiang Kai-Shek - Hsikow, Chekiang, China - d. 4-5-1975
    world leader: "Free World Theatre"
    12-18-1922 - Bob Dunnavant - Decatur, AL - d. 4-5-2008
    co-founder of the Athens Broadcasting Company
    xx-xx-1926 - Larry Stevens - d. 4-5-2000
    singer: "The Jack Benny Program"

    Ron

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