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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2020 : Issue 17
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  This week in radio history 31 May to  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 7-13 June  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Does anybody know what years and epi  [ Steve Atlas <slavacotr@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history 14-20 Jun  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Lee Wiley programme search            [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:29:22 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 31 May to 6 June

 From Those Were The Days -

5/31

1943 - A comic strip came to radio as "The Adventures of Archie
Andrews". It was heard on the NBC Blue network. Archie, Veronica and the
gang stayed on radio for about ten years, moving to Mutual Broadcasting
in January 1944, and then to NBC in June 1945. The radio sitcom was
based on Bob Montana's comic strip about Archie Andrews and his teen-age
pals.

1949 - A crowd of 35,000 people paid tribute to radio personality Mary
Margaret McBride at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, (one of the five
boroughs that make up New York City). McBride was celebrating her 15th
year in radio.

6/1

1936   The Lux Radio Theater moved from New York City to Hollywood.
Cecil B. DeMille, the program's host on the NBC Blue network, introduced
Clark Gable and Marlene Dietrich in The Legionnaire and the Lady.

1938 - The first issue of "Action Comics" was published. In its pages
was the world's first super hero, Superman. Jerry Siegel had a dream
about the baby, Moses, who was abandoned by his parents in order that
his life be saved. This dream prompted Siegel's creation of the "Man of
Steel". Artist Joe Shuster made the comic book hero come alive. The
first story, in this first issue, took place on the planet, Krypton,
where baby Kal-El was born. The infant was shot to Earth in a rocket
just before Krypton exploded.

6/2

1946   The Fabulous Dr. Tweedy was broadcast on NBC for the first time.
Frank Morgan starred as the absent minded Dr. Tweedy.

1937   CBS presented the first broadcast of Second Husband. The show
continued on the air until 1946.

6/3

1946 - Mutual Radio debuted "The Casebook of Gregory Hood". The show was
the summer replacement series for "Sherlock Holmes". The mystery series
became a regular weekly program in the fall of 1946.

6/4

1944 - "Leonidas Witherall" was first broadcast on the Mutual
Broadcasting System. Witherall was a detective who looked just like
William Shakespeare.

6/6

1938 - Stella Dallas was presented for the first time on the NBC Red
radio network. The serial was "the true to life story of mother love and
sacrifice." Stella continued to do this and so much more until 1955.

Joe

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:29:33 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 7-13 June

 From Those Were The Days

6/7

1945   The NBC program The Adventures of Topper was heard for the first
time.

1955   NBC presented The Lux Radio Theatre for the final time. The
program had aired for 21 years.

6/8

1942   The comic soap opera Clara, Lu 'n Em was revived on CBS (the
original show began in 1931 on NBC). Clara, Lu and Em were together
again for just a short while before vanishing into radio oblivion.

1947   Lassie debuted on ABC. It was a 15 minute show about an
extraordinary collie. Animal imitator, Earl Keen provided the whines and
other dog noises. The announcer was Charles Lyon; Marvin Miller and
Betty Arnold played Lassie's owners. The sponsor was Red Heart dog food.
6/10

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1909   An SOS signal is transmitted for the first time in an emergency
when the Cunard liner SS Slavonia is wrecked off the Azores.

 From Those Were The Days

1924   The first political convention on radio was presented.  Graham
McNamee provided coverage of the Republican National Convention from
Cleveland, OH.

6/12

1947   Sergeant Preston of The Yukon went national for the first time.
The show, with the Canadian Mountie and his trusty dog, King, continued
on the radio until 1955, beginning on WXYZ Detroit in 1938. Sgt. Preston
was created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, who also created The
Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet.

1955   The first network radio show to be produced with no script, The
University of Chicago Round Table, was heard for the final time on NBC.
The program was the first network radio program to win the coveted
George Foster Peabody Award.

1955   "This is Monitor, a weekend program service of NBC Radio," was
heard for the first time. Notables such as Bill Cullen, Ed McMahon, Hugh
Downs, and Dave Garroway recited this line. It was a network cue to NBC
radio stations across the nation who carried the long form news,
entertainment and variety broadcast from New York City. Stations and
listeners who were "on the Monitor beacon" were entertained for six
hours or more daily for nearly two decades. NBC's Monitor was one of the
last live network radio programs on the air.

6/13

1944   The wire recorder was patented by Marvin Camras.

Joe

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:30:00 -0400
From: Steve Atlas <slavacotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Does anybody know what years and episodes of the
 Jack Benny   show Ronald and Benita Coleman were in as Jack's British
 neighbors?
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I've been listening to The Halls of Ivy 8 CD set from Radio Spirits. A great
series--one of my absolute OTR favorites.

In the notes, the writer comments that Ronald and Benita Coleman were
previously regulars on the Jack Benny program.
Do any of you know what years and what episodes the Colemans were in?  (Please
also cc me at my other email address: steveatlas@[removed].)

Thanks.

Steve

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:30:25 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 14-20 June

 From Those Were The Days

6/14

1922   A [removed] President was heard on the radio for the first time.
President Warren G. Harding dedicated the Francis Scott Key Memorial and
was heard on WEAR in Baltimore.

1950   Harold Peary played the leading role of The Great Gildersleeve
one final time. Willard Waterman took Peary's place in the role.

6/15

1936   Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler starred in Burlesque on the Lux Radio
Theatre.

6/17

1942   Suspense, known as radio's outstanding theatre of thrills,
debuted on CBS. The program kept millions of loyal listeners in suspense
for the next 20 years (and three months).

6/18

1939   CBS aired The Adventures of Ellery Queen for the first time. An
interesting twist came near the end of the program when the show was
stopped to allow a panel of experts to guess the solution of the night's
mystery.

1961   Gunsmoke was broadcast for the last time on CBS. The show had
been on for nine years. It was called the first adult Western. The star
of Gunsmoke was William Conrad.

6/19

1934   The [removed] Congress established the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC). The task of the commission was to regulate radio
broadcasting.

Joe

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:30:34 -0400
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Lee Wiley programme search
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Hi. I'm trying to find any available programmes featuring 30s and 40s jazz
singer Lee Wiley. Any help greatly [removed] from Scotland. Graeme

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