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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 203


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 QUIET PLEASE log
	 TOWER PLAYHOUSE log
	 Vic and Sade
	 Trading Buddy
	 Ducks (aka Quacking Up)
	 Captain Midnight Secret Squadron Decoder Badges
	 OTR in Philadelphia

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Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 00:26:06 PST
From: passage@[removed] (Frank M Passage)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: QUIET PLEASE log
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

                           Q U I E T   P L E A S E
                           ---------   -----------

                                1947 - 1949

     First Show: 06-08-47                            Last Show: 06-25-49
     Number Shows: 105                           Audition Show: not known


     Show Description:

     Considered by many to be the best horror / science fiction series
     ever on radio, QUIET PLEASE came from the pen of LIGHTS OUT creator
     Willis Cooper.  Every episode was written in first person and starred
     the incredibly versatile Ernest Chappell.  The shows range from
     deeply personal human interest shows to some of the most original
     horror / science fiction stories ever written.


     List Comments:

     Although I had started this log previousely, a special nod must go
     to Gordon Payton for the full show list in his catalog, including
     missing (presummed lost) and partial shows.  The missing and partial
     shows are noted (the work "missing" or "partial" will appear below
     the title).  "Partial" is also used when a show is noted as being
     unlistenable for a large portion.  For example, "How Are You, Pal?"
     has a note "unlistenable 1st half" in Gordon Payton's catalog.  I
     show it as "partial".


     List:

         Date     Num Title                              Src Key
         -------- --- ---------------------------------  -----------
                      >>> Starts on Mutual <<<
         06-08-47   1 Nothing Behind the Door            1  4
         06-15-47   2 I've Been Looking For You          1  4
         06-22-47   3 We Were Here First                 1  4
         06-29-47   4 The Ticket Taker                   1
         07-20-47   5 Cornelia                           1
         07-27-47   6 I Remember Tomorrow                1  4
         08-03-47   7 Inquest                            1  4  7
         08-10-47   8 Bring Me To Life                   1  4  7
         08-17-47   9 A Mile High and a Mile Deep
                         (missing)
         08-24-47  10 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
                         (missing)
         08-31-47  11 A Ribbon of Lincoln Green
                         (missing)
         09-08-47  12 Three Sides to a Story
                         (missing)
         09-10-47  13 How Are You, Pal?                  1
                         (partial)
         09-15-47  14 The Big Box
                         (missing)
         09-22-47  15 Be a Good Dog, Darling             1
                         (partial)
         09-29-47  16 The Low Road
                         (missing)
         10-06-47  17 Not Enough Time                    1  4
         10-13-47  18 Camera Obscura                     1  4  7
         10-20-47  19 The Girl With the Flaxen Hair
                         (missing)
         10-27-47  20 Don't Tell Me About Halloween      1  4  7
         11-03-47  21 Take Me Out to the Graveyard       1  4
         11-10-47  22 Three                              1
         11-17-47  23 Kill Me Again                      1     7
         11-24-47  24 In Memory of Bernadine             1     7
         12-01-47  25 Come In, Eddie                     1
         12-08-47  26 Some People Don't Die              1
         12-15-47  27 Little Fellow                      1
         12-22-47  28 Berlin 1945
                         (missing)
         12-29-47  29 Rain on New Years Eve              1
         01-05-48  30 Little Visitor                     1
         01-12-48  31 The Room Where the Ghosts Live     1
         01-19-48  32 Baker's Dozen                      1
         01-26-48  33 Green Light                        1     7
         02-02-48  34 The Pathetic Fallacy               1 34567
         02-09-48  35 A Red and White Guidon             1 34567
         02-16-48  36 Whence Came You ?                  1 345 7
         02-23-48  37 Wear the Dead Man's Coat           1
         03-01-48  38 Sketch for a Screenplay            1
         03-08-48  39 Never Send To Know                 1     7
         03-15-48  40 Meeting at Ticonderoga
                         (missing)
         03-22-48  41 A Night to Forget                  1     7
         03-29-48  42 Quiet Please
                         (missing)
         04-05-48  43 I Always Marry Juliet              1     7
         04-12-48  44 12 to 5                            1     7
         04-19-48  45 Clarissa                           1 3456
         04-26-48  46 13 and 8                           1     7
         05-03-48  47 How Beautiful Upon the Mountain    1     7
         05-10-48  48 There Are Shadows Here             1     7
         05-17-48  49 Gem of the Purest Ray              1
         05-24-48  50 In the House Where I Was Born      1
         05-31-48  51 Below 5th Avenue
                         (missing)
         06-07-48  52 100,000 Diameters
                         (missing)
         06-14-48  53 Not Responsible After 30 Years     1     7
         06-21-48     >>> no show <<<
         06-28-48  54 Let the Lillies Consider           1 34567
         07-05-48  55 Wahine Tahiti                      1
         07-12-48     >>> no show <<<
         07-19-48  56 As Long As I Live                  1
         07-26-48  57 The Man Who Stole a Planet         1     7
         08-02-48  58 It Is Later Than You Think         1    67
         08-09-48  59 The Thing on the Fourble Board     12 45 7
         08-16-48  60 Presto, Change-O, I'm Sure         1     7
         08-23-48  61 3000 Words                         1    67
         08-30-48  62 Motive
                      (missing)
         09-06-48  63 The Third Man's Story              1 3 5 7
         09-13-48  64 Symphony in D Minor                1     7

                      >>> Moves to ABC <<<

         09-19-48  65 Anonymous                          1
         09-26-48  66 Light the Lamp for Me              1     7
         10-03-48  67 Meet John Smith, John              1     7
         10-07-48  68 Beazer's Cellar                    1     7
         10-14-48  69 And Jeannie Dreams of Me           1  4  7
         10-24-48  70 Good Ghost                         1 34  7
         10-31-48  71 Calling All Souls                  1     7
         11-07-48  72 Adam and the Darkest Day           1     7
         11-14-48  73 The Evening and the Morning        1     7
         11-21-48  74 One for the Book                   1 34  7
         11-28-48  75 My Son John                        12 4  7
         12-05-48  76 Very Unimportant Person            1     7
         12-12-48  77 Read Me This Riddle
                      (missing)
         12-19-48  78 Gothic Tale
                      (missing)
         12-26-48  79 Berlin 1945                        1     7
         01-02-49  80 The Time of the Big Snow           1     7
         01-09-49  81 Portrait of a Character            1     7
         01-16-49  82 Is This Murder?                    1
         01-23-49  83 Summer, Good-bye                   1
         01-30-49  84 Northern Lights                    1     7
         02-06-49  85 Tap the Heat, Bogdan               1     7
         02-13-49  86 Valentine                          1   5 7
         02-20-49  87 Where Do You Get Your Ideas?       1 34
         02-27-49  88 If I Should Wake Before I Die      1  4  7
         03-06-49  89 The Man Who Knew Everything        1     7
         03-13-49  90 Dark Rosaline                      1     7
         03-20-49  91 The Smell of High Wines            1     7
         03-27-49  92 A Time to Be Born and a Time to    1     7
                      Die
         04-03-49  93 The Venetian Blind Man
                      (missing)
         04-10-49  94 Dialogue for a Tragedy             1
         04-17-49  95 Shadow of the Wings                1 34  7
         04-24-49  96 The Veil of Glen Cove              1     7
         05-01-49  97 Dark Grey Magic                    1
         05-08-49  98 The Other Side of the Stars        1
         05-15-49  99 The Little Morning                 1234  7
         05-21-49 100 The Oldest Man in the World        1     7
         05-28-49 101 In the House Where I Was Born      1     7
         06-04-49 102 Tanglefoot                         1
         06-11-49 103 The Hat, the Bed, and John J.      1     7
                      Catherine
         06-18-49 104 Pavanne                            1     7
                      (repeat of "The Girl With the
                       Flaxen Hair")
         06-25-49 105 Quiet Please                       1     7
                      (last show)


     Information Sources:

     The information above was obtained from the following OTR vendor
     and club catalogs.  Contact them directly for more information.

         Key  Source
         --- 
------------------------------------------------------------
          1   Gordon R. Payton, 119 E. Cuthbert Blvd., Bldg. "O", #3,
              Westmont, NJ 08108-1829
          2   Carr, Edward J., 216 Shaner Street, Boyertown, PA 19512
          3   Nostalgia Recordings (Ken Mills), 907 Maple Ave., Ridgefield,
              NJ 07657
          4   Radio Showcase (Steve Kelez), [removed] Box 4357, Santa Rosa, CA
              95402
          5   Society to Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety And
              Comedy (SPERDVAC), PO Box 7177, Van Nuys, CA 91409-7177
          6   Radio Spirits, [removed] Box 2141, Schiller Park, IL 60176-2141
          7   Radio Memories, 1600 Wewoka St., North Little Rock, AR
72116

     I have dealt with some of the above, but to be fair to all, this is
     not an endorsement of them.  I receive nothing by mentioning them.
     These vendors and clubs have helped keep OTR alive.  Please support
     them.


     Other Logs or Books:

     This log is meant as a check list and source guide and is based on
     vendor catalogs.  Additional information can be found in:

     1. QUIET PLEASE log - Jay Hickerson, Box 4321, Hamden, Ct 06514

     2. "Science Fiction on Radio: A Revised Look At 1950-1975" by James
        F. Widner and Meade Frierson III.  (Available from [removed], [removed]
        Box 130969, Birmingham, AL 35213-0969).


     Last Update: 06-07-96


     Although I retain copyright, this log may be freely copied provided
     that the text is unchanged.  Please share it with fellow OTR lovers.

     I would greatly appreciate any error corrections or additional
     information. Please send them to: Frank Passage, 109 Elmwood Road,
     Verona, NJ 07044 or via e-mail to passage@[removed]

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Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 00:59:25 PST
From: passage@[removed] (Frank M Passage)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: TOWER PLAYHOUSE log
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

                         T O W E R   P L A Y H O U S E
                         ---------   -----------------

                                      1972


     First Show: 07-25-72                             Last Show: 10-31-72
     Number Shows: 10                             Audition Show: none


     Show Description:

     TOWER PLAYHOUSE, directed by Jim French in Seattle, Washington, was
     the forerunner of CRISIS, also directed by Jim French.  Although a
     short series, some unusual science fiction and horror tales are among
     the titles.  None of these 30-minute shows were repeated in CRISIS.
     The first CRISIS show was not aired until November 22, 1973, over a
     year after the last TOWER PLAYHOUSE show.

     It appears that the main run was only 9 shows with one special on
     Halloween.


     List Comments:

     So far, I found this series in Gordon Payton's and NARA's catalogs.


     List:

         Date      Num  Title                                 Src Key
         --------  ---  ------------------------------------  ---------
         07-25-72    1  Beacon 3699                           1
         08-01-72    2  A Spark of the Sun                    1
         08-08-72    3  The Yesterday Machine                 1
         08-15-72    4  The Mirror                            1
         08-22-72    5  The Strong Man                        1
         08-29-72    6  Confession is Good for the Soul       1
         09-05-72    7  Rembrandt                             1
         09-12-72    8  Hole in the Sky                       1
         09-19-72    9  Sleight of Hand                       12
         10-31-72   10  Three for Halloween                   12


     Information Sources:

     The information above was obtained from the following OTR vendor
     and club catalogs.  Contact them directly for more information.

         Key  Source
         ---  ---------------------------------------------------------
          1   Gordon R. Payton, 119 E. Cuthbert Blvd., Bldg. "O", #3,
              Westmont, NJ 08108-1829
          2   North American Radio Archives (NARA), 134 Vincewood Dr.,
              Nicolasville, KY 40356

     I have dealt with some of the above, but to be fair to all, this is
     not an endorsement of them.  I receive nothing by mentioning them.
     These vendors and clubs have helped keep OTR alive.  Please support
     them.


     Last Update: 06-07-96


     Although I retain copyright, this log may be freely copied provided
     that the text is unchanged.  Please share it with fellow OTR lovers.

     I would greatly appreciate any error corrections or additional
     information. Please send them to: Frank Passage, 109 Elmwood Road,
     Verona, NJ 07044 or via e-mail to passage@[removed]

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Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 01:41:22 -0400
From: "Robert M. Connelly" <rush@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Vic and Sade
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

For Judy in Sacramento and any other relatively new folks on this BB, vic and
Sade was the oasis in the desert of soap opera. It originated from Chicago and
was broadcast on NBC at 8 am Chicago time. The show had, originally, but three
characters that anyone heard speak: Victor Rodney Gook, the father, who was an
accountant at the local kitchenware plant; Sade his wife and Rush, their
adopted son who was Sade's sister Bess's son. But since Bess and her husband
(his name escapes me for the moment), who was a barber with bad feet, could
not afford to keep Rush, Vic and Sade adopted him. Rush, btw, was Sade's
maiden last name.

The show began on 28 July 1932 and until 3 November, 1934 was sustaining - no
sponsor - according to Dunning. 

According to Billy Idelson in a radio interview which I have on tape says it
was sustaining for the first three months and then picked up by a sponsor. In
either case, the sponsor was Crisco shortening manufactured by Cincinnati's
Procter and Gamble Co. and remained sponsor for the rest of the run of the
show which ended  on 29 September 1944. that last show is available. I got my
copy from Carl Froelich. 

While one heard only three voices, the show had a cast of the whole town
including such stellar and unusual characters as Mr Gumpox who drove the
garbage wagon, Ike Kneesuffer, Mr Ruebusch, Vic's boss; the mayor (who was,
according to Vic, a fathead); Fred and Ruthie Stembottom - the best friends of
V&S and hundreds more. We knew all about those other characters because of
hearing the V&S and 
Rush side of telephone conversations and conversations between the principles
themselves. Oh, a particular character favorite of mine was Mr Chinbunny,
principal of the High School.

When Art Van Harvey who played Vic had a heart attack around 1941 or 1942, as
I recall, it was felt another adult male was necessary to bring in Sade's
Uncle Fletcher Rush who was, to put it most gently, a catbird. To illustrate,
Sade got a letter from her sister Bess about Bess's daughter Yuncie (sp?)
going to perform in a piano recital in another town on saturday. Uncle
Fletcher comes and Sade asks if he got a letter too. Uncle Fletcher in a very
dry and semi-nasal way of speaking says Yeeeees. Well are you going? Yeeeees
says Uncle Fletcher. Did you make arrangements to go? Noooooo. Well, did you
tell Bess? Noooooo. But you *are* going? Nooooooo. And it goes back and forth
with Uncle Fletcher reversing himself in all the answers, etc. Very funny
stuff. And there was the time Uncle Fletcher was going to go clear across town
to get his new shoelaces installed because only one guy in town could do the
Cincinnati cross-over underhand lacing.

Art Van Harvey returned, but Uncle Fletcher remained. I loved Uncle Fletcher
and one of my younger brothers could (and still can) imitate him perfectly,
but the show was best with only the three voices. During World War II, Billy
Idelson went into the Navy and he was replaced with another "son", Russell,
who carried on until the end. Russell was really bad - character as well as
the actor who did him. I never have heard where Russell came from since I was
in the Army at that time and never got to hear the show then and none of the
shows available (and I believe I have them all in widely varying quality of
sound) explain the situation. There are huge blocks of shows missing from the
availability list. At one time, Procter and Gamble had the entire set of shows
that they had sponsored - 10 year's worth - on 16-inch transcription discs
untill sometime in the sixties an officious oaf of a minor executive
discovered the storage area and ordered the discs burned because the space
might be needed for important storage. Had I but known such a thing existed -
and this was at least 10 years before I started to collect OTR, I would have
rented a truck to cart them off.

Vic and Sade was the only OTR show to be heard on all four radio networks of
the time: NBC Red, NBC Blue, CBS and Mutual and all sponsored by Crisco. I
used to run home from grade school and Junior High School to catch the last
broadcast which was at 3:30 in the afternoon in Wooster, Ohio. That's some
kind of a show to intrigue a kid, you gotta admit!

------------------------------

Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 00:43:59 -0700
From: Jack Mann <jmann@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Trading Buddy
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Hi OTR Fans: I"m looking for a trading buddy. I have a small collection
of otr programs on cassettes (approx. 700 hours). The collection is
mixed, a little bit of this, some of that. I'm willing to copy any of
my cassettes for free if someone will do the same for me. Tell me what
you want (sorry, I don't have a list, but I have a lot of variety, so
chances are I'll have at least some of your wants) and provide the
blank, good-quality cassettes with blank labels, and a mailing label.
I'll do the copying and send them back with my want list, plus tapes, 
etc., and you do the same for me.
I want only one trading partner at a time, otherwise it gets too con-
fusing. Anyone interested? E-mail me privately and we can get set up,
compare want lists to see if we have what each other needs, etc. Jack 
Mann

------------------------------

Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 02:55:14 -0400
From: JackBenny@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Ducks (aka Quacking Up)
Message-ID: <960607025514_129780440@[removed]>

In a message dated 96-06-05 14:49:45 EDT, you write:

>> In one of the first Marx Brothers movies (Cocoanuts), Groucho is
>> trying to explain to Chico how to get to the place where an auction
>> will take place.  When G says that there is a 'viaduct,' C asks,
>> 'why a duck?'
>
>And there was a duck swimming in the lake in "Horse Feathers."  But, 
>except briefly in the opening, there are no ducks in "Duck Soup."
>
And to that duck in the lake, who chimes in on the last verse of Groucho's
"Everyone Says I Love You", Groucho tells the duck to mind its own business,
as "what if I butted into your affairs and laid an egg?"

And as for "Why a duck" (the namesake of Bob Weide's Whyaduck Productions,
who created--and won an Emmy for--"The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell") only the
script can begin to do it justice.  (OK, so it's not OTR.  But it's FUNNY!)

G:  Now, here's the main road, leading out of Cocoanut Manor.  That's the
road I wish you were on.  Now over here--on this site we're going to build an
Eye and Ear Hospital.  This is going to be a sight for sore eyes.  You
understand?  That's fine.  Now right here is the residential section.
C:  People live there, eh?
G:  No, that's the stockyard.  Now all along here--this is the river
front--all along the river, all along the river--those are all levees.
C:  Thatsa the Jewish neighborhood.
G:  Well, we'll pass over that.  You're a peach, boy!  Now, here is a little
peninsula, and here is a viaduct leading over to the mainland.
C:  Why a duck?
G:  I'm all right.  How are you?  I say here is a little peninsula, and
here's a viaduct leading over to the mainland.
C:  All right, why a duck?
G:  I'm not playing ask me another.  I say, that's a viaduct.
C:  All right, why a duck?  Why a no chicken?
G:  I don't know why a no chicken.  I'm a stranger here myself.  All I know
is that it's a viaduct.  You try to cross over there a chicken, and you'll
find out why a duck.  It's deep water, that's viaduct.
C:  That's why a duck?
G:  [removed] you were out horseback riding and you came to that stream
and wanted to ford over there;  you couldn't make it.  Too deep.
C:  But what do you want with a Ford when you gotta horse?
G:  Well, I'm sorry the matter ever came up.  All I know is that it's a
viaduct.
C:  Now [removed] [removed] catcha on to why a horse, why a chicken, why a
this, why a that.  I no catch on to why a duck.
G:  I was only fooling.  I was only fooling.  They're going to build a tunnel
in the morning.  Now is that clear to you?
C:  Yes.  Everything except why a duck.

(Notice that this was one of the few times that the Marx Brothers used fowl
language.)

--Laura Lee
International Jack Benny Fan Club

------------------------------

Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 08:30:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: JSEXTON@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Captain Midnight Secret Squadron Decoder Badges
Message-id: <01I5MCOER5FS8WVZ9L@[removed]>

   Thanks to Clyde's posting I tried to get those Secret Decoder Badges
again from Klutz  Galactic Headquarters (2121 Staunton Court,Palo Alto,Ca
94306,1-800-558-8944) and was highly Successful!!!
   The badges (2 for [removed] S&H) are made of metal and are as I remember
the same type of item that we got by sending money and the inner seal of
Ovaltine back years ago.
   The badges are a delightful pair to either dislay,wear or save for a rainy day.
   Now once again,I can decode those endless messages telling me to be a good
citizen,and drink my Ovaltine!!!  Best,John (JSEXTON@[removed])

------------------------------

Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 11:55:53 -0400
From: stevecap@[removed] (Steven Capsuto)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: OTR in Philadelphia
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

>suggesting that they add otr to their lineup.  WHYY was running "Black 

WHYY (actually WUHY-FM, in those days) ran OTR every night for years ca.
1980.  Every Monday was SUSPENSE, Tuesday was FIBBER McGEE, Sunday JACK
BENNY, etc.  They were syndicated copies (stock openings/closings, no
commercials, no opening or closing narration on SUSPENSE) but in excellent
sound.  If Philadelphians are looking for a station to lobby, they might be
a good starting point.

Perhaps even more logical is the local nostalgia station, WPEN-AM.

It's a pity that WCAU-AM is gone.  They ran OTR right up to the end!
___
Steven Capsuto, Philadelphia
stevecap@[removed]
WEB page: [removed]~[removed]

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