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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2009 : Issue 215
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  This Is Your Life                     [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
  "War Of The Worlds" Version Two!      [ "Glenn P.," <C128User@[removed]; ]
  Drear [removed] or Memorex        [ "Laura Leff" <president@[removed] ]
  11-10 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  11-11 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  OTR on [removed]                       [ Doug Leary <doug@[removed]; ]
  Re: The Shadow - The Hypnotized Audi  [ John Olsen <jrolsen2@[removed]; ]
  re: THE SHADOW: "The Hypnotized Audi  [ Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@earthlin ]
  Those Were The Days and the Radio Ha  [ Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed] ]
  RE: The Hypnotized Audience           [ Michael Ogden <michaelo67@[removed] ]

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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:18:31 -0500
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  This Is Your Life

Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:07:07 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];

1948   This is Your Life debuted on NBC. Ralph Edwards hosted the
radio show for two years before it moved to television.

I think it continued on the radio as well.  At least I think I
remember hearing it on radio sometime in the mid-1950s.

It became the subject of frequent parodies.  I remember Bob Hope
doing a "This Is Your Life" sketch with Lassie, in which Lassie's
relatives were trick dogs, including one dog walking on hind legs,
leading a smaller dog on a leash.  At the end, Ralph Edwards himself
appeared to serve Bob Hope with a lawsuit.

In a "Your Show of Shows" sketch, Carl Reiner was Ralph Edwards and
Sid Caesar the subject/victim.  On being told, "Al Duntie, This Is
Your Life," Caesar gets up and starts running and is pursued for
several minutes all around the theater and outside before he is
finally subdued and sat down on the stage.

They did a "This Is Your Life" bit, with Ralph Edwards appearing by
voice, in the 10th anniversary Howdy Doody show.  They used the
device again, though not the "This Is Your Life" title, in the 1987
40th anniversary special.

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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:19:04 -0500
From: "Glenn P.," <C128User@[removed];
To: "[The Old-Time Radio Mailing List]" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  "War Of The Worlds" Version Two!

I've FINALLY got to download the second version of "The War Of The Worlds".
In an earlier message to this Digest (I subscribe to the Digest version of
the list), I wrote something like, "I would very quickly be leaping to my
feet, ears to the speaker, listening intently" -- because I have a
phonographic memory and would not need to make detailed comparisons
to know that I was hearing a different version.

What readers probably didn't notice was just how GUARDED that wording was.
That's because, while I was absolutely confident of my ability to detect the
difference between the two versions, I was by no means sure of how QUICKLY
I would be able to do so. In my own mind I was pretty sure it wouldn't take
more than sixty seconds; but I wasn't about to "bet" it!

Rueful LOL! As it turns out, I grossly underestimated myself: it took less
than a THIRD that time! Unwarned, I'm sure I would strongly suspect, within
ten seconds, that Something Was Seriously Amiss; within twenty seconds I'd
be all but certain that I was hearing a different version.

I don't expect you to believe me, or even to understand -- your description
of having to make careful comparisons of sound effect timings and the like,
clearly show just how different our worlds really are. All I can do is to
ask you to Please Trust Me on this:

     IF Someone
        (1) has a genuine, authentic, bona-fide phonographic memory
            AND
        (2) knows the original broadcast
     THEN that Someone will recognize the difference between the two
     versions almost immediately.

Listening to the second version was a fascinating, but very disturbing,
experience -- one I've never had before -- my memory kept telling me "that
was said WRONG! That was said WRONG!" ANY difference at all -- any missed
word at all -- between the original version, I caught. I wasn't cataloging
them, so I can't list them (though if I WAS cataloging them, I could, and
the list would then be both extensive and exhaustive) but for those looking
for a quick and easy way to tell the difference between the two versions,
there's an obvious clue for you "non-phonographics": wait a couple of minutes
for the players to cut to "The Meridian Room in the Park Plaza Hotel, where
Bobby Millett and his orchestra are offering a program of dance music"; in
the Original version, the announcer stumbles over the word *Meridian*, a
purely accidental occurence, and which DOES NOT occur in Version Two -- no
stumble. In other words, if you hear a flawless utterance of "Meridian Room",
you're listening to the Alternate Version. Hope this helps!

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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:19:15 -0500
From: "Laura Leff" <president@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Drear [removed] or Memorex

and Laura may be able to tell us, was this show taped
in advance of airing on the east coast, or run live in NYC and rolled out
transcribed for the rest of the nation at a more convenient time?:>).

It was done live for the east coast on 1/8/50, but recorded for west coast
rebroadcast.

--Laura Leff
President, IJBFC
[removed]

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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:19:21 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  11-10 births/deaths

November 10th births

11-10-1889 - Claude Rains - London, England - d. 5-30-1967
actor: "Shakesperian Circle"; "This Is War!"; "Presenting Claude Rains"
11-10-1891 - Gary Breckner - Illinois - d. 6-25-1945
announcer: "Al Pearce and His Gang"; "Gateway to Hollywood"
11-10-1893 - John P. Marquand - Wilmington, DE - d. 7-16-1963
writer: "Information Please"
11-10-1899 - George Storer - Champaign, IL - d. 11-4-1975
Broadcast Executive
11-10-1907 - Jane Froman - University City, MO - d. 4-22-1980
singer: "Florsheim Frolic"; "Bromo Seltzer Hour"; "Gulf Musical
Playhouse"
11-10-1909 - Johnny Marks - Mount Vernon, NY - d. 9-3-1985
songwriter, lyricist: "Great Moments in Music"
11-10-1909 - Robert Arthur, Jr. - Corregidor, Philipines - d. 5-2-1969
writer: "The Mysterious Traveler"
11-10-1912 - John L. Greene - Buffalo, NY - d. 10-4-1995
writer: "Texaco Star Theatre"
11-10-1914 - Cyril Enfield - Scranton, PA - d. 4-16-1995
writer: "Supsense"
11-10-1915 - Bob Shepard - NYC - d. 12-19-1993
announcer: "Pot O' Gold"; "Counterspy"; "Break the Bank"; "You Can"t
Take it with You"
11-10-1916 - Billy May - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-22-2004
orchestra leader: "Music Depreciation"; "Stan Freberg Show"
11-10-1918 - Jack McCoy - Akron, OH - d. 3-18-1991
announcer: "Steve Allen Show"; "Dinah Shore Show"
11-10-1919 - George Fenneman - Peking, China - d. 5-29-1997
announcer, actor: "You Bet Your Life"; "Dragnet"; Buzz "I Fly Anything"
11-10-1920 - Jennifer Holt - Dorset, England - d. 9-21-1997
actor: "Family Theatre"; "Curtain Time"; "All-Star Western Theatre"
11-10-1923 - Anne Shelton - Dulwich, London, England - d. 7-31-1994
vocalist: "American Band of the Supreme Allied Command"; "Variety
Bandbox"
11-10-1924 - Bobby Limb - Australia - d. 9-14-1999
actor: "The Idiot Weekly"
11-10-1925 - Richard Burton - Pontrhydfen, South Wales - d. 8-5-1984
actor: Readings of poetry, plays and school programmes for the BBC
11-10-1929 - Stanley Morgan - Liverpool, England
novelist and sometime radio actor
11-10-1931 - Don Henderson - Leytonstone, East London, England - d.
6-22-1997
actor: "The Wolf and the Woodcutter"

November 10th deaths

01-31-1923 - Norman Mailer - Long Branch, NJ - d. 11-10-2007
author: "Highlights of Monitor's Twenty Great Years"
02-06-1902 - Louis Nizer - London, England - d. 11-10-1994
attorney, author: "Words at War"; "Author Meets the Critics"
02-08-1868 - Evangeline Adams - d. 11-10-1932
astrologist: "Horoscope Talks"
02-18-1919 - Jack Palance - Lattimer Mines, PA - d. 11-10-2006
actor: "Bud's Bandwagon"
03-04-1916 - William Alland - Delmare, DE - d. 11-10-1997
actor: "Mercury Theatre"; "Doorway to Life"; "Frontier Gentleman"
03-04-1932 - Miriam Makeba - Johannesburg, South Africa - d. 11-10-2008
click singer: "The World of Folk Music"
03-26-1918 - William Hardcastle - Newcastle, England - d. 11-10-1975
newscaster: "The World At One"
03-28-1910 - Jimmy Dodd - Cincinnati, OH - d. 11-10-1964
singer, songwriter: "Lifebuoy Show"; "Command Performance"; "CBS Radio
Workshop"
03-29-1924 - Jackie Vernon - NYC - d. 11-10-1987
comedian: "Bill Stern Show"
04-08-1922 - Carmen McRae - NYC - d. 11-10-1994
jazz singer: "Woolworth Hour"; "Newport Jazz Festival"
04-10-1921 - Chuck Connors - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-10-1992
actor: "Family Theatre"
04-23-1925 - Elena DaVinci - d. 11-10-2006
host: "Magazine of the Air"
04-29-1908 - Jack Williamson - Bisbee, Arizona Territory - d. 11-10-2006
writer: "Dimension X"; "Future Tense"
05-31-1921 - Howard Reig - NYC - d. 11-10-2008
newscaster, announcer: "The Music Builders"; "The Falcon"
06-11-1914 - Gerald Mohr - NYC - d. 11-10-1968
actor: Philip Marlowe "Advs. of Philip Marlowe"; Jacque Monet "Our
Miss Brooks"
08-31-1907 - Gus Hawkins - Shreveport, LA - d. 11-10-2007
congressman: Democratic response to Reagan's radio address
10-13-1920 - Laraine Day - Roosevelt, UT - d. 11-10-2007
host,actor: "Double Play with Durocher and Day"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
11-27-1911 - Charles Wood - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 11-10-1997
announcer: "The Green Hornet"; "The Lone Ranger"

Ron

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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:20:31 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  11-11 births/deaths

November 11th births

11-11-1872 - Maude Adams - Salt Lake City, Utah - d. 7-17-1953
actor: "Maude Adams"
11-11-1883 - Wilbur C. Tuttle - Missouri - d. 6-6-1969
writer: "Hashkdnife Hartley"
11-11-1885 - George S. Patton - San Gabriel, CA - d. 11-21-1945
maverick general: "These Are Our Men"
11-11-1887 - Roland Young - London, England - d. 6-5-1953
actor: Cosmo Topper "Advs of Topper"; William "Johnny Presents"
11-11-1891 - Rev. Dr. Walter Van Kirk - Cleveland, OH - d. 7-6-1956
minister: "Religion in the News"
11-11-1892 - Al Schacht - NYC - d. 7-14-1984
sportscaster: ( The Clown Prince of Baseball) "Al Schacht's Sports Show"
11-11-1897 - James Goss - Chicago, IL - d. 8-20-1976
actor: Uncle Jim Fairfield "Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy"
11-11-1898 - Rene Clair - Paris, France - d. 3-15-1981
film director: "This Week Around Paris"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-11-1899 - Harold J. "Pie" Traynor - Framingham, MA - d. 3-16-1972
sportscaster: KQV Pittsburgh
11-11-1899 - Pat O'Brien - Milwaukee, WI - d. 10-15-1983
actor: Dan Carson "Dan Carson"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Family Theatre"
11-11-1900 - Lorayn Brox - Memphis, TN - d. 6-14-1993
singer: (Brox Sisters) "A Tribute to Irving Berlin"
11-11-1901 - F. Van Wyck Mason - Boston, MA - d. 8-28-1978
writer: "The Man from G-2"
11-11-1902 - Webley Edwards - Corvallis, OR - d. 10-5-1977
announcer, host: "Hawaii Calls"
11-11-1904 - Joe Penner - Magybecskereck, Hungary - d. 1-10-1941
comedian: "Joe Penner Program"; "Penners of Park Avenue"
11-11-1906 - Harry Holcomb - Malta, OH - d. 9-15-1987
director, narrator: "Curtain Time; "Dr. [removed], The Mental Banker";
"Moon River"
11-11-1906 - Victor Bell - d. 11-30-1976
newscaster: KUTA Salt Lake City, Utah
11-11-1908 - Jerry Devine - Boston, MA - d. 5-20-1994
producer, director, writer: "Mr. District Attorney"; "This Is Your FBI"
11-11-1909 - Bill Demling - Chicago, IL - d. 8-30-1974
writer: "Mickey Mouse's Theatre of the Air"
11-11-1909 - Rad Robinson - Bountiful, UT - d. 9-20-1988
singer: (Member of the King's Men) "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "King's
Men"
11-11-1909 - Robert Ryan - Chicago, IL - d. 7-11-1973
actor: "Document A/777"; "Hollywood Star Playhouse"; "Suspense"
11-11-1911 - Patric Knowles - Horsforth, Yorkshire, England - d.
12-23-1995
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-11-1913 - Jess Oppenheimer - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-27-1988
writer: "The Jack Benny Program"; The Baby Snooks Show"; My Favorite
Husband"
11-11-1914 - Howard Fast - NYC - d. 3-12-2003
writer: "New World A' Coming"; "Cavalcade of America"
11-11-1915 - William Proxmire - Lake Forest, IL - d. 12-15-2005
[removed] senator: "Meet the Press"
11-11-1917 - Paul Masterson - Montana - d. 5-10-1996
announcer: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; "Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou"
11-11-1917 - Robert J. Shaw - Pewaukee, WI - d. 3-30-1996
writer: "Mr. District Attorney"; "Advs. of Christopher Wells"
11-11-1918 - Elma I. Ellis - Birmingham, AL
writer, producer: "We the People"; "Great Jury Trials"
11-11-1918 - Stubby Kaye - NYC - d. 12-14-1997
comic, singer, actor: "The Heartbeat of Broadway"
11-11-1920 - Ruth Brooks - Omaha, NE
writer: "The Billie Burke Show"
11-11-1922 - Kurt Vonnegut - Indianapolis, IN - d. 4-12-2007
writer: "Dimension X"
11-11-1923 - Willie Cook - Tangipahoa, LA - d. 9-22-2000
jazz trumpeter: "Voice of America"
11-11-1925 - Jonathan Winters - Dayton, OH
comedian: "Monitor"
11-11-1929 - La Vern Baker - Chicago, IL - d. 3-10-1997
singer: "Camel Rock and Roll Dance Party"
11-11-1930 - Hank Garland - Cowpens, SC - d. 12-27-2004
guitarist: "Jim Reeves Show"; "Country Music Time"; "Country Style
[removed]"
11-11-1939 - Denise Alexander - NYC
actor: Francie Nolan "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"; Debbie Sharp "Big Guy"
11-11-1941 - Russell Horton - Los Angeles, CA
actor: "Americans All"

November 11th deaths

01-27-1885 - Jerome Kern - NYC - d. 11-11-1945
composer: "Railroad Hour"; "Show Boat"
02-25-1925 - Lisa Kirk - Charleroi, PA - d. 11-11-1990
vocalist: "The Henry Morgan Show"
03-22-1886 - Thomas J. Cowan - Newark, NJ - d. 11-11-1969
announcer: First voice heard over WJZ
03-29-1912 - Fred Brady - NYC - d. 11-11-1961
actor: Himself "The Fred Brady Show"
04-10-1885 - Sigmund Spaeth - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-11-1965
commentator: "Tune Detective"; "Fun in Print"
04-16-1917 - Jean Holloway - d. 11-11-1989
writer: "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Mayor of the Town"; "Mr. President"
05-10-1894 - Dimitri Tiomkin - St. Petersburg, Russia - d. 11-11-1979
composer, conductor: "Last Man Out"; "1947 March of Dimes Campaign"
05-26-1912 - Barbara Lee - Denver, CO - d. 11-11-1986
actor: "Big Sister"; "Valiant Lady"; "Our Gal Sunday"
06-05-1961 - Mary Kay Bergman - Los Angeles, CA - d. 11-11-1999
voice actor: commercials for radio
06-07-1933 - Herb Score - Rosedale, NY - d. 11-11-2008
baseball broadcaster: Cleveland Indians
07-12-1920 - Keith Andes - Ocean City, NJ - d. 11-11-2005
actor: "Sears Radio Theatre"
07-16-1916 - Lionel Baxter - d. 11-11-2000
sportscaster: WAPI Birmingham, Alabama
07-17-1883 - James Abbe - d. 11-11-1973
photographer: "James Abbe Observes"
07-20-1920 - Max Bicknell - d. 11-11-1995
disk jockey: KIUL Garden City, Kansas
07-26-1914 - Erskine Hawkins - Birmingham, AL - d. 11-11-1992
bandleader: "Apollo Concerts"; "Big Band Themes on the Air"
07-31-1912 - Irv Kupcinet - Chicago, IL - d. 11-11-2003
sportscaster: WGN Chicago "Chicago Bears"
08-06-1911 - Dwight Butcher - Oakdale, TN - d. 11-11-1978
singer: (Cedar Ridge Boys) WBAP Fort Worth, Texas
08-08-1900 - Victor Young - Chicago, IL - d. 11-11-1956
conductor, composer: "Shell Chateau"; "Old Gold Don Ameche Show
08-09-1901 - Gaby Casadesus - Marceilles, France - d. 11-11-1999
pianist: "The Telephone Hour"
08-29-1899 - George V. Denny, Jr. - Washington, [removed] - d. 11-11-1959
moderator: "America's Town Meeting of the Air"
09-24-1919 - Dayton Allen - NYC - d. 11-11-2004
actor: Phineas T. Bluster/Flubadub "Howdy Doody"; "Words at War"
10-11-1897 - Jane Ace - Kansas City, MO - d. 11-11-1974
comedian: "Easy Aces"; "Jane Ace, Disc Jockey"
10-19-1903 - Robert Hardy Andrews - Effingham, KS - d. 11-11-1976
writer: "Skippy"; "Jack Armstrong"; "Just Plain Bill"
12-25-1907 - Cab Calloway - Rochester, NY - d. 11-11-1994
bandleader: "Quizzical"
12-28-1932 - Pamela Duncan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-11-2005
actor: "Dangerous Assignment"

Ron

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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:20:36 -0500
From: Doug Leary <doug@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  OTR on [removed]

Tune in this Friday evening to my OTR web radio show at
[removed] (9-11pm EST, 6-8pm PST). I'm continuing through the
series Voyage of the Scarlet Queen with episodes 3 and 4, plus great
episodes of Escape (8/11/47 - The Ring of Thoth) and The Inner Sanctum
(8/22/43 - The Bog Oak Necklace).

Doug Leary, aka DJ Snooge

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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:47:26 -0500
From: John Olsen <jrolsen2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: The Shadow - The Hypnotized Audience

Andrew Steinberg wrote:

There are some logs that show The Hypnotized Audience as airing June 5, 1938
and some show March 27, 1938 with the subsequent shows following each date.
Does anyone know why the discrepancy and if one date is more correct that the
other?

Terry Salomonson lists it as 03/27/38.  Since he owns the electrical
transcriptions, I would tend to accept his date over others.  If you
wish to check out his web page, it's at:
[removed]

John

--
"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!"
     The wonderful old pulp mystery stories are all reviewed at:
                 [removed]~deshadow/

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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:47:34 -0500
From: Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  re: THE SHADOW: "The Hypnotized Audience"

on 11/11/09 10:18 AM, Andrew Steinberg asks:

There are some logs that show The Hypnotized Audience as airing June 5, 1938
and some show March 27, 1938 with the subsequent shows following each date.
Does anyone know why the discrepancy and if one date is more correct that the
other?

"The Hypnotized Audience" was the first transcription in the 1938 SHADOW
summer season sponsored by Goodrich Safety Silvertowns (and Margot
Stevenson's first time portraying her namesake, "the lovely Margot Lane").
Street & Smith's 1937 licensing contract with advertising agency Ruthrauff &
Ryan stipulated that THE SHADOW had to be aired 104 consecutive weeks which
necessitated that two summer seasons had be be broadcast during the 26-week
periods when Blue Coal wouldn't be sponsoring the series during the warm
spring and summer months. Since the 1937-38 Blue Coal series ended on March
20, 1938 and the 1938-39 Blue Coal season began on September 25, 1938, the
Goodrich summer season debuted the week of March 27, 1938. However, it's
important to understand that the 1938 and 1939 Goodrich summer seasons were
syndicated and thus local stations broadcast the shows on different days and
times rather than the Sunday afternoon timeslot of the Blue Coal Mutual
broadcasts. That's why I designated "The Hypnotized Audience" as airing THE
WEEK OF March 27, 1938.
--Anthony Tollin ([removed])

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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:47:41 -0500
From: Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Those Were The Days and the Radio Hall of Fame

Hello all,

In case you weren't among those who got to hear last Saturday's live
broadcast of the Radio Hall of Fame induction ceremonies, it was quite a
night. Among other things, it was announced that thanks to the recent
"Stimulus" package, the state of Illinois was finally earmarking money to
guarantee completion of the new home for the Museum of Broadcast
Communications.

In addition to firming up spending for the Museum, Governor Quinn also did me
a huge favor personally by not showing up to induct Studs Terkel into the
Hall of Fame. That honor, I'm thrilled to say, fell to yours truly. In a year
of exciting developments, this ranks near the top.

Those who blinked their ears and missed me last Saturday are invited to hear
that induction on this Saturday's "Those Were the Days" program, along with
The Campbell Playhouse, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, The Life of Riley, and The
Cinnamon Bear. As usual, the show airs from 1-5 pm CST on WDCB-FM ([removed] for
you Chicagoans, [removed] for everyone else).

Steve

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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:47:57 -0500
From: Michael Ogden <michaelo67@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  RE: The Hypnotized Audience

Andrew Steinberg wrote:

There are some logs that show The Hypnotized Audience as airing June 5, 1938
and some show March 27, 1938 with the subsequent shows following each date.
Does anyone know why the discrepancy and if one date is more correct that the
other?

The March 27, 1938 date is more correct than the other, although since "The
Hypnotized Audience" was part of a transcription series which was played on
different dates by different stations, there can't be any really "correct"
broadcast date. The most accurate you can get is, as I do when I'm putting
together a log of a disc series, by determining through research which
station ran the transcription series first. But then you also have to
determine if that "first" station ran the episodes in the order that the
releasing company designated, or did they run episodes out of order.

Using this method, I've been able to determine, for example, the "first
broadcast" dates of the two transcription series of THE WITCH'S TALE which
came out in 1934, and from which many of our present-day circulating
recordings originated.

In the case of the Orson Welles Goodrich SHADOW transcriptions, the series
was produced to immediately follow the end of the Blue Coal network series.
Coal being a very seasonal product that would not necessarily be advertised
on a year-round basis, theBlue Coal people ended their SHADOW season early in
the year, on March 20, 1938. The Goodrich show was intended to (1) provide
additional episodes to a market which had already been listening to the show,
and (2) branch out to many parts of the country (particularly the West Coast)
where Blue Coal did not advertise at all. They were actually way more
successful at reaching new listeners; as I recall from my research, only
about 4 or 5 of the stations which had been broadcasting the WOR Blue Coal
series in the winter season broadcast the Goodrich series in the spring.

Speaking of the Orson/Goodrich SHADOW shows, this would be a good point to
remind everyone that Radio Spirits has been gradually releasing the missing
Goodrich shows (two to each new Shadow set so far), and this is an endeavor
that really should be supported monetarily by the fans, despite the fact that
we might all feel like grousing ("Only TWO of the new shows to a set!
[removed]"). The finding and releasing of these episodes is, in my opinion, the
most significant development to happen in SHADOW radio collecting in the last
couple of decades.

Oh, yeah, the usual disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with Radio Spirits. None
of the people there even know I exist, and, in fact, I am actually a figment
of my own imagination.

Mike Ogden

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