Subject: [removed] Digest V2001 #263
From: "OldRadio Mailing Lists" <[removed]@[removed];
Date: 8/14/2001 9:03 PM

To: <[removed]@[removed];

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2001 : Issue 263
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Re: MP3/Apex 500                      [ Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed]; ]
      I Can Hear It Now                     [ "schickedanz" <schickedanz@[removed]; ]
      War of the Worlds                     [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
      WEVD                                  [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
      Re: OTR Expressions                   [ Harx1@[removed] ]
      TV's Chester Good                     [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
      AFRA & AGENT REPRESENTITIVES          [ "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed]; ]
      Re: Gene "Roddenbury"                 [ "David L. Easter" <david-easter@hom ]
      Re: expressions                       [ "Robert Paine" <macandrew@[removed] ]
      Roots of Roddenberry                  [ John Henley <jhenley@[removed] ]
      That's MISTER Dehner to you, [removed]  [ John Henley <jhenley@[removed] ]
      Re re Expressions [and cartoons]      [ John Henley <jhenley@[removed] ]
      Re: Expressions                       [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
      re: The Clock                         [ dabac@[removed] ]
      Mount Wilson                          [ William L Murtough <k2mfi@[removed]; ]
      Re: New subject - Al Pearce and his   [ sfx-meow@[removed] (Ray Erlenborn) ]
      Lionel Hampton show                   [ khovard@[removed] ]
      Destination Freedom                   [ khovard@[removed] ]
      Two shows: You Are There & The Big S  [ khovard@[removed] ]
      Ellery Queen Radio Book               [ "steven kostelecky" <skostelecky@ho ]
      New Vic and Sade Find                 [ Tom van der Voort <evan@[removed]; ]
      Chester                               [ Harry Bartell <bartell@[removed] ]
      Gene Roddenberry                      [ ktrek@[removed] ]
      OTR syndications and slightly OT      [ "Bob Watson" <crw912@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 23:28:20 -0400
    From: Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: MP3/Apex 500

    From: "Philip Railsback" <philiprailsback@[removed];

>     I just bought an Apex 500 last night. I had read a number of good
>     reviews of this DVD player (particulaly at [removed], where
>     consumers rate and discuss products.  Very neat site), but your
>     message finalized it for me.

    Actually there are at least four completely different machines with this
    same make and model number.  You must always include the suffix letter
    when discussing this machine.  I have the Apex 500A which is the best
    version of the machine, but there also was a 500 B, a 500 with no
    letter, and now the Wal-Mart version called the 500W.  All are made in
    China but by several different factories, and all the different versions
    look very different.

>     There seems to be a small cult around the Apex 500. I think you
>     might be interested in this page devoted to the Apex and what you
>     can do with it: [removed]

    What is important to know about all the Apex models is that some of them
    can be modified to play DVDs from other regions, but that the ways to do
    it vary even with machines with the same suffix.  There are a number of
    web sites with different bulletin boards for the different versions of
    the machines that include instructions and downloadable programs to
    modify the machines--the site you mention deals only with the 500W.
    Much of this info comes from England where it is entirely legal to sell
    multi-region machines.

>     As far as MP3s go, one disc played fine, one didn't.  I have no idea
>     the problem is.  Maybe the Apex didn't like the 700mb size.  I'll try
>     some more discs later.

    I understand that the sampling rate is what makes the difference in some
    machines.

>     By the way, where do you get VCDs?  Thanks.  - Philip

    As Charlie mentioned there are several web sites which specialize in
    selling VCDs that they import from South East Asia where they are the
    dominant form of pre-recorded video.  When I was in Singapore and
    Malyasia last year I saw practically no VHS cassettes, only VCDs and
    DVDs.  If you are into oriental movies you can find them on VCD in
    probably any Chinatown in America.  They're all over the place in New
    York's Chinatown, and you might also find them in Japanese, Korean and
    Indian neighborhoods.

    The VCD is not the same as a DVD, because the VCD has a picture
    resolution only as good as VHS, but you can duplicate VCDs just like
    regular audio CDs or CD-ROMs.  Here in the Western countries we have
    generally skipped over the VCD to go directly to the DVD for
    pre-recorded movies, but the end result will soon be the same.  Within
    two years pre-recorded VHS will go the way of vinyl LPs and 8-tracks.
    You probably won't see many in the stores after the 2002 xmas season,
    and VHS recorders themselves will start to become scarce by 2004, being
    replaced by hard-drive recorders for time shifters and DVD-R for those
    who want to maintain libraries of shows.  If you have a lot of VHS
    cassettes you might want to salt away 2 or 3 machines in the next few
    years while they are still cheap and easy to find.

    Michael Biel  mbiel@[removed]

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    Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 23:28:17 -0400
    From: "schickedanz" <schickedanz@[removed];
    To: "Old-Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  I Can Hear It Now

    Jello, again.

    Anyone know the date, at least the year, of Ed Murrow's "I Can Hear It Now"?
    My database doesn't sort well with unknown [removed]

    Tbanks.

    Norm Schickedanz
    Elmhurst, IL

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    Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 23:28:15 -0400
    From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  War of the Worlds

    I came across a web site tonight that is designed to promote a London play
    based upon Orson Welles' famous Halloween night fright. The play is called
    "The War of the War of the Worlds" and the web site in the best "Blair
    Witch" tradition leads one into a mystery surrounding four youths who
    disappeared on the night of the broadcast. This is a well-done site that
    unfortunately does not  include the new play by Adam Pepper. But it sure
    makes me want to see it. Unfortunately, it is only in the UK right now.

    Check it out:  [removed]

    Jim Widner
    jwidner@[removed]

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    Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 23:28:13 -0400
    From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  WEVD

    There had been a bit of discussion in recent digests regarding radio
    station WEVD and their fond memories of this Yiddish station. There is a
    web site where you can relive those memories a bit and/or get a little info
    on the history of the Yiddish Radio Project. The Project will be premiering
    over National Public Radio in 2002.

    Check out: [removed]

    Jim Widner
    jwidner@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:33:04 -0400
    From: Harx1@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: OTR Expressions

    In a message dated 8/13/2001 11:05:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Stephen
    Kallis wrote:

>     Jim Cox, commenting on Fred Berney's suggestion on OTR expressions,
>      notes,

>      > Fred Berney asks if we remember expressions from radio that, perhaps,
>      > became part of the nation's vernacular.

>      He then lists several that I remember fondly, but which, IMHO, haven't
>      become part of the nation's vernacular.  Not that the expressions don't
>      stir fond memories, which they do, but because a majority of the current
>      crop of under-40 folk hasn't heard of the expressions, or even the
>      programs.

>      One of the better expressions from the old days was "'Taint funny,
>      McGee," said frequently by Molly, but I haven't heard it for at least 20
>      years, save on OTR recordings.

    Well, as a 25-year-old fan of OTR, I'm doing my part to keep such expressions
    alive.  Why only yesterday (and this is a true story), I was driving with a
    friend of mine who for some unknown reason decided that the way I swerved to
    avoid a hubcap was really funny.  Well, the only response in such a situation
    was to hit him with a "Taint funny, McGee."  Granted, he had no idea what I
    was talking about, and explaining it took a bit of the punch out of the line,
    but I just had to set your collective mind at ease and let you know that some
    of us young'uns were doing our part.  I've also been known to spout Jack
    Benny catch phrases from time to time ("Well!"),  and as a student of pop
    culture, I can't help but quote (or paraphrase) Fred Allen ("Imitation is the
    sincerest form of television").  Of course the latter isn't really an OTR
    expression, so much as a really cool quote.  Okay, that is all.

    -Kerri L. Berney
    "        " -Harpo Marx (smarter words were never uttered)
    Watch this space for the return of Exploring the Vast Wasteland.  Coming soon!

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    Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:32:24 -0400
    From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  TV's Chester Good

>         Parley played Chester as an older gentlemen were as Weaver's video
>     vertion was a young man with a limp. (I wounder where that limp came from)

    He was wounded in the Civil War.

>     Subject:  Re: Gene Roddenbury
>     I was listening to a couple of "Have Gun, Will Travel" tapes the other
>     night and the credit for the writer was Gene Roddenbury. I'm assuming this
>     is THE Gene (Startrek) Roddenbury.

    That's the guy, though for TV.  His scripts for Paladin were highly
    regarded, which is why I suspect he was able to sell the idea of a space
    show some years later to network executives skeptical of the genre.
    According to something I read in TV Guide or some other unimpeachable
    source, Have Gun, Will Travel ended only because Richard Boone was tired of
    it.

    M Kinsler
    born with radio, but raised on TV.

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    Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 10:13:11 -0400
    From: "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  AFRA & AGENT REPRESENTITIVES

    This question is for the OTR performers on the digest:  I know that the
    American Federation Of Radio Artists (AFRA) was the Union representitive of
    all the radio performers during the hey-day of radio - but - did any of the
    "Super Stars" (Hope, Benny, A&A, Burns & Allen, etc.) have any "10
    percenters" (agents) to negoiate new contracts for them?  I know that is the
    practice today, that the Networks on TV have to deal with Agents, come
    contract renewal time.
    for series TV Shows.

    Owens Pomeroy

    <br><br><br>"Old-Time Radio is like vintage wine. . . it grows better with
    age!"
    "nostalgia is like a grammar lesson:. . . you find the PRESENT TENSE. . .
    but the PAST PERFECT!"

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    Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 10:13:34 -0400
    From: "David L. Easter" <david-easter@[removed];
    To: "Old-Time Radio Digest (E-mail)" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Gene "Roddenbury"

    Fred Berney wrote:

>     I was listening to a couple of "Have Gun, Will Travel" tapes the other
>     night and the credit for the writer was Gene Roddenbury. I'm assuming this
>     is THE Gene (Startrek) Roddenbury.

>     If so, I didn't realize that he wrote for radio and for Have Gun, Will
>     Travel. Interesting.

    Indeed it is the same Gene Roddenberry (note correct spelling). He went on
    to be technical advisor for a new television series, Mr. District Attorney
    and created and produced The Lieutenant before Star Trek.

    An excellent biography can be found at
    [removed].

    David L. Easter
    Email: David-Easter@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 10:13:41 -0400
    From: "Robert Paine" <macandrew@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: expressions

    My mother used a couple when I was but a wee little laddie growing up in the
    50's - "Tain't funny, McGee" and "Who's Yehoodi?", but I didn't get the
    connections until I got interested in OTR.

    One of my favorite and oft-used is "Don't open the closet door!". (It may
    have a new life after we're moved into our new home next month.)

     Macandrew

    (On the whole, I'd rather be in Great Yarmouth.)

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    Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 10:13:59 -0400
    From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Roots of Roddenberry

    Fred Berney was surprised that

>     I was listening to a couple of "Have Gun, Will Travel" tapes the other
>     night and the credit for the writer was Gene Roddenbury. I'm assuming this
>     is THE Gene (Startrek) Roddenbury.
>     If so, I didn't realize that he wrote for radio and for Have Gun, Will
>     Travel.

    Good thing Charlie posted his correction in the same digest
    otherwise I'd have credited Roddenberry with radio work
    he didn't do.  Nonetheless, here's the rest of my (now-edited)
    response:

    Not only was he experienced with westerns, but Gene
    Roddenberry was one of the chief writers for the "Wagon Train"
    tv series with Ward Bond, and it's often been pointed out that the
    original Star Trek is, basically, "Wagon Train in outer space."
    I think that was in fact his original notion of it.

    John Henley
    jhenley@[removed]
    ph  (512) 495-4112
    fax (512) 495-4296

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    Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 10:14:12 -0400
    From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  That's MISTER Dehner to you, [removed]

    Fred Berney again:

>     I noticed that when the announcer gives the credits at the beginning of
>     Have Gun, Will Travel, the star is announced as "Mr. John Dehner".
>     Anybody know why the "Mr." is included?

    I would assume, just to give his billing a bit more flair and
    himself a bit more distinction for this high point of the dying
    days of radio drama.  He _did_ have (for his portrayal
    of Paladin) a gloriously masculine and serious-sounding voice.

    He's also billed as "Mr." on Frontier Gentleman, I believe, where
    of course he's still masculine, but more dandified.

    I'd be surprised if it turned out that it was something he
    himself wanted.

    John Henley
    jhenley@[removed]
    ph  (512) 495-4112
    fax (512) 495-4296

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    Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 10:14:16 -0400
    From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re re Expressions [and cartoons]

    Bryan said,

>     As I read Jim Cox's post, I was surprised to realize how many of those
>     expressions were familiar to me not from OTR, but from their appearance in
>     1940s/50s Warner Brothers cartoons!

    Bryan, for some of us baby boomers who were watching television
    late-fifties to mid-sixties, it's these very cartoons, and the curiosity
    they engendered about just what those characters were talking about,
    that led us ultimately to OTR!

    John Henley
    jhenley@[removed]
    ph  (512) 495-4112
    fax (512) 495-4296

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    Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 10:14:19 -0400
    From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Expressions

    In thinking of OTR expressions, it surprises me how many "Amos 'n'
    Andyisms" are still around. Use of phrases from the show was a big part
    of the A&A craze of 1930-31, and there were a number of articles during
    that period in which it was asserted that the program was making a
    permanent impression on the American language. Whether this is true or
    not, out of curiosity I did a search in the Google Usenet database and
    was surprised to find that both "regusted" and "unlax" still turn up on
    occasion in the vocabularies of people who probably have little
    consciousness of just how far back these words go, or who coined them.
    There was actually a lengthy discussion some time ago on a Disney
    newsgroup in which participants debated the origin of "unlax," noting
    that it turned up in a Donald Duck comic book decades after A&A left the
    air.

    More influential, though, was A&A's habit of incorporating bits of
    genuine African-American idiom in their scripts, and by this route
    introducing such phrases to white audiences. The best example of this I
    can come up with is the phrase "cold turkey," which started out in urban
    black slang in the late 1910s as a phrase meaning "to come right to the
    point without any sort of advance preparation, to bluntly face unpleasant
    truths" and by the 1920s had acquired a secondary meaning referring to
    abrupt withdrawal from narcotic drugs. Correll and Gosden apparently
    heard the phrase being used in its original sense during a visit to
    Harlem in the spring of 1931, and it was first used by Andy in the
    episode of 5/7/31. Thru the rest of the 1930s "cold turkey" was used
    quite often in the series, so while Correll and Gosden certainly didn't
    coin the phrase, they did much to popularize it with the general public.

    It has sometimes been claimed that A&A were responsible for
    "irregardless," but in fact this is another genuine dialect word that
    they helped to popularize. It had first been noted in print in the
    "American Dialectal Dictionary" in 1912, and was a classic example of
    "hypercorrection," the practice of reconstituting prefixes at the
    beginnings of words that might be dropped in the common dialect
    pronounciation, in order to make them sound "more correct" or more
    emphatic: regardless becomes 'gardless becomes irregardless. This was a
    very common trait in Andy's speech -- disgusted becomes 'gusted becomes
    regusted -- so it's no surprise that he frequently used "irregardless"
    and helped to ensure its permanence in the language. While
    grammar-fundamentalists may wrinkle their noses and wag their rulers and
    insist "there is no such word" in standard English, it's a perfectly
    legitimate relic of an early-20th-century American dialect.

    Elizabeth

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    Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 12:33:43 -0400
    From: dabac@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  re: The Clock

    Ian,
    Thanks for the reply to my question regarding the Clock series. You`re
    right about the confusion over the show, so far I`ve heard of the
    possibility of as many as three different versions or variations of the
    program. I`m sure that the digest members would be interested to hear of
    any additional information as well - it is somewhat unusual. You may
    have been asked this before, but I wondered if you might be able to
    answer some questions concerning australian otr in general?  - What % of
    the programs broadcast were imports vs australian productons and how did
    they compare with australan audiences popularity-wise? Also  what % were
    australian versions of foreign shows?
    Regards, Dan

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    Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 12:34:12 -0400
    From: William L Murtough <k2mfi@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Mount Wilson

    As I recall, the mountain where the television and FM transmitters were
    located was Mount Wilson. Maybe Don Lee renamed it  because his stations
    were there.

    When William Paley was organizing CBS he went to California to sign up
    the the Don Lee stations to carry CBS. At that time Don Lee was about to
    embark on a cruise on his yacht. (this was before CBS bought KNX). Lee
    insisted that Mr. Paley accompany him. Although Mr. Paley was anxious to
    get back to New York, he realized that he should accept the invitation if
    he wanted to get Mr. Lee's signature on the agreement, so accepted.

    Just goes to show the great sacrifices  the pioneers had to put up with.

    Bill Murtough

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    Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:53:21 -0400
    From: sfx-meow@[removed] (Ray Erlenborn)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: New subject - Al Pearce and his Gang (Of
     comics)

    Although I tuned in from the early thirties when he was on KFRC in San
    Francisco with Harrison Holloway and the "Blue Monday Jamboree" and
    watched his early Los Angeles show eminating from the Beaux Arts
    Building, and later worked as   his sound effects and warmup person from
    1941 to 1946 for Camel Cigarettes, Ford Motor Cars, Dole Pneapple and
    [removed], I cannot remember the endless list of comics he started on
    the radio popularity road! If any of you have been alive that long, I
    would like to know who got laughs for the gang preceding
    Elmer Blurt (AL), Eb and Zeb (Al and his brother) Tizzie Lish (Bill
    Comstock) , (Human Chatterbox) ,Arlene Harris,
    Joe Twerp, Mel Blanc, Mabel Todd, Morey
    Amsterdam, Yahbut and Cheerily, (Jennison Parker and Will Wright) Lord
    Bilgewater (Monroe Upton ) Mr. Kitzel
    (Artie Auerbach) Yogi Yorgeson, Andy Andrews, ad Mr. Punypale (Ray
    Erlenborn)
    Anyone out there with recall?   Ray

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    Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:53:29 -0400
    From: khovard@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Lionel Hampton show

     Can someone confirm the accuracy of  the date of the broadcast of the
    'The Lionel Hampton'  Show which featured Canada Lee as MC? Was it
    4/10/48?

    Thanks,

    Howard

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    Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:53:33 -0400
    From: khovard@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Destination Freedom

      Can  anybody tell me the date of broadcast of  'We have Seen  Lincoln"
    which was part of the  Destination Freedom- series? Is there any way I
    can get a copy of it?

    Howard

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    Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:53:40 -0400
    From: khovard@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Two shows: You Are There & The Big Story

    Can anyone confirm the dates of broadcast of

    a. the You Are There show entitled  ' The betrayal of Toussaint' and
    B.   "The Big Story"  episode concerning a man (James Goodwin) wrongly
    convicted of a crime, whom a reporter clears. It may have been done in
    1941 It featured Canada Lee

    Thanks,

    Howard

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    Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:53:42 -0400
    From: "steven kostelecky" <skostelecky@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Ellery Queen Radio Book

    Martin's posts on EQ reminded me to drag out a book I got from the back of a
    mystery mag in the eighties called "The Sound of Detection: Ellery Queen's
    Adventures in Radio" by Francis M. Nevins Jr. and Ray Stanich. This 109-page
    book may be well-known and widely circulated, I don't know. It was published
    by Brownstone Books in 1983. It has a log in the back that lists programs
    available on tape or published in book or mag form as of that time. Since
    Brownstone was a mystery house I wasn't sure if anyone was familiar with the
    book. Hope this may be helpful.

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    Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 16:36:15 -0400
    From: Tom van der Voort <evan@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  New Vic and Sade Find

          I just learned from Dave Goldin that he has located a substantial
    number of 	 "Vic and Sade" broadcasts from 1942  with commercials and in
    excellent shape.  Those who want to get in touch with Dave directly can
    find instructions on his web site:  [removed]. It's nice to
    know that such great programming continues to surface.
          On the water-logged cassettes front: I recently found two more
    cassettes that had been lying in the basement for two weeks following the
    flood. One was wet and both cases were covered with dirt, inside and out. I
    dried and dubbed both, and they sounded pretty darn good.
    Tom van der Voort

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    Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 17:23:00 -0400
    From: Harry Bartell <bartell@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Chester

    If I may take issue with the description of Parley Baer's character on
    Gunsmoke, He didn't play Chester as an older man. He just played him
    relaxed. That's the way Parley sounded.

    The name "Proudfoot" was born as the result of an ad lib . Bill Conrad
    suddenly departed from the script and asked him his middle name and
    that's what came out.

    Like Jim Arness and Milburn Stone, the radio characters didn't suit the
    way they wanted to play Matt and Doc. I personally think Dennis wanted
    to get as far away from Parley's Chester as he could and the limp was a
    gimmick to help him do it.

    Harry Bartell

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    Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 17:22:58 -0400
    From: ktrek@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Gene Roddenberry

    I was aware that Gen had written scripts for Have Gun
    Will Travel but I always assumed they were for the
    television version. But, yes it would be the creator and
    visionary of Star Trek!
    Kevin

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    Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 18:25:58 -0400
    From: "Bob Watson" <crw912@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OTR syndications and slightly OT

    I was listening to an episode of OUR MISS BROOKS earlier today and suddenly
    remembered that my mother once told me that her mother, my grandmother, used
    to listen to OUR MISS BROOKS every day on the radio and usually ironed
    during the time the show was on. She told me this when I was quite young
    when I was watching a TV episode, but I distinctly remember that she was
    talking about gramdmother listening to the show on the radio.  Being a child
    of TV, I was used to old shows being syndicated to individual stations and
    broadcast every weekday afternoon, and not only dismissed the statement, but
    almost completely forgot until my memory was jarred this morning.  In my
    years of collecting though, I don't believe I have come across any
    indications that radio shows were syndicated in this manner to individual
    radio stations back in the 50's.   Since most shows were broadcast live, I
    was wondering if she could have been mistaken, or I misunderstood, or my
    memory is playing tricks on me.  My mother now suffers from memory loss and
    doesn't remember things like that now, so I can no longer ask her.  I was
    wondering if anyone here might be able to give me a little more information
    on the topic.

    Also, a little OT here, but I was wondering if any company replacing putting
    newspapers on microfilm and putting them on CD-Rom instead.  I would love to
    purchase some old local-regional newspapers and have them on hand to check
    the time schedules for radio stations in the area and check to see when a
    show was on.  And also to read the old funny papers.  LOL

    Thanks,
    Bob

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