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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2008 : Issue 282
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  more radio avengers                   [ rand@[removed] ]
  Slim Pickens                          [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
  Howard McNear                         [ wayne_johnson@[removed] ]
  Fibber Film                           [ "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed]; ]
  Howard McNear vs. Slim Pickens        [ "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]
  12-10 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
  Central Florida Radio Site            [ JayHick@[removed] ]

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Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 21:44:48 -0500
From: rand@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  more radio avengers

For those of you collecting the South African radio series "The Avengers",
based on the popular 60s British television series, I happened on their
website the other day and they've done restoration work on two more of the
stories in the series that were posted for free download in October.

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I've been a big fan of the tv series for years and this radio series is a
fascinating "parallel universe".  At the time, television in South Africa
wasn't widely available and radio drama was still popular; South Africans
had become familiar with the tv show because episodes were turning up at
film exchanges (used sort of like video rental stores today).  The shows,
broadcast Monday through Friday in a serial form, were adapted from the
scripts of the tv shows with South African actors.

Randy

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Randy A. Riddle
Mebane, NC

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Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 21:45:22 -0500
From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Slim Pickens
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        Isn't it possible that "Slim Pickens" was the character's name and
not
that of the actor?  It could just be a coincidence that this character and
the
actor we know from "Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And
Love The Bomb" have the same name.  I've heard these particular episodes
and the voice is definitely that of Howard McNear.  I remember vividly his
role
as Doc on the "Gunsmoke" radio program among others.

        I also agree with a previous enthusiast that McNear had a very
distinctive
voice.  Several actors were known to have 'distinctive voices': Parley Baer,
Lionel
Barrymore, Orson Welles, and some might even list actresses like Agnes
Moorehead and Mercedes McCambridge among them.

Happy Holidays!

Kenneth Clarke

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Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 21:45:58 -0500
From: wayne_johnson@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Howard McNear

Gunsmoke is an obvious place to find McNear.  Hearing how he is as 'Doc' and
then knowing what he will portray in the years to come as Floyd always has
fascinated me.

I also have been interested in the earlier Johnny Dollar episodes with Edmund
O'Brien.  MacNear is in quite a few of those.  Seems like he is in quite a
few episodes of Johnny$ up until the end of the run including a few of the
5-part programs as well which were about the same time as he was playing Doc
on Gunsmoke.

Another actor in the same catagory: Joseph Kearns.  I only knew of him from
Dennis the Menace re-runs and had no idea why he was replaced on the show
until a few years ago. Developing an interest in "Suspense" brought forth a
tremendous amount of his work and, to tell you the truth, he was pretty good
with accents and voices.  There is one episode with Ozzie and Harriet (the
title isn't coming to mind at present) where Kearns plays the bad-guy and has
a "Sydney Greenstreet" type of voice along with a nice accent.  I enjoyed his
character very much.  I've even heard him credited as the organist.

The "Queen" character actor (actress) in my opinion, however: Virginia Gregg.
I saw her a lot on Dragnet episodes and wondered why this same woman kept
appearing as different people.  A lot I knew at age 10, eh?  I think that it
would be easier to name what she DIDN'T do.

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Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 21:46:09 -0500
From: "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Fibber Film

Can anyone direct me to an online clip of the film featuring
Fibber McGee opening his closet and showing the sound effects man
making the noise? I don't really know if it's online; if not,
does someone know of a VHS tape or DVD featuring it? Thanks.

Bob Cockrum

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Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 21:46:56 -0500
From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Howard McNear vs. Slim Pickens

Hello again --

As long as this thread about Howard McNear shows no signs of abating, may I
extend it a bit further with the observation that if anyone wants to hear
him in a threatened-pilot situation (similar to the fix actor Slim Pickens
finds himself in Dr. Strangelove), give a listen to one or all of the
chapters of the serial "Speed Gibson of the International Secret Police,"
which featured Howard McNear playing against type as the intrepid agent and
daredevil pilot Clint Barlow, battling the international bad guy The
Octopus. Coincidentally, this year-long serial began the same year as the
Cinnamon Bear, 1937.

Jan Bach

P. S. I am indebted to Ken Pilatec without whom I would never have learned
of this fascinating (and educational) children's program. Thanks again, Ken!

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Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 23:18:32 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  12-10 births/deaths

December 10th births

12-10-1889 - Arthur Vinton - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-26-1963
actor: Killer Kane "Buck Rogers"; Commissioner Weston "The Shadow"
12-10-1889 - Ray Collins - Sacramento, CA - d. 7-11-1965
actor: Doc Will Hackett, "County Seat"; member of The Mercury Theatre
12-10-1893 - Lew Brown - Odessa, Russia - d. 2-5-1958
producer: "Music for Millions"
12-10-1903 - Una Merkel - Covington, KY - d. 1-2-1986
actor: Adeline Fairchild "Great Gildersleeve"; "Johnny Presents";
"Texaxo Star Theatre"
12-10-1906 - Harold Adamson - Greenville, NJ - d. 8-17-1980
song writer: "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood"
12-10-1907 - Rumer Godden - Eastbourne, England - d. 11-8-1998
novelist: "Woman's Hour"
12-10-1908 - Bill Spargrove - Belle Plaine, IA - d. 9-xx-1984
announcer: "Hollywood Byline"
12-10-1910 - Abraham Polonsky - NYC - d. 12-26-1999
writer: "Mecury Theatre on the Air"
12-10-1911 - Chet Huntley - Cardwell, MT - d. 3-20-1974
newscaster, producer: "Chet Huntley and the News"
12-10-1913 - Jean Dickenson - Montreal, Canada - d. 1-26-2007
singer: (Nightingale of the Airwaves) "American Album of Familiar Music"
12-10-1913 - Morton Gould - Richmond Hill, NY - d. 2-21-1996
conductor: "Music for Today"; "Original Amateur Hour"; "Cresta Blanca
Carnival"
12-10-1914 - Dorothy Lamour - New Orleans, LA - d. 9-21-1996
singer, actor: "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "Front and Center"; "Sealtest
Variety Show"
12-10-1919 - Alexander Courage - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-15-2008
music: "Broadway Is My Beat"; "Hollywood Soundstage"; "Romance"
12-10-1923 - Michael Gill - Winchester, England - d. 10-20-2005
producer: Joined BBC in 1954
12-10-1925 - Amaryllis Flemming - Chelsea, England - d. 7-27-1999
cellist: (Half sister to Ian Fleming) "Children's Hour"
12-10-1925 - Jean Byron - Paducah, KY - d. 2-3-2006
singer on radio in her native Kentucky
12-10-1960 - Kenneth Branagh - Belfast, North Ireland
actor: Renaissance Theatre Company in association with BBC Radio Drama

December 10th deaths

02-02-1901 - Jascha Heifetz - Vilnius, Lithuania - d. 12-10-1987
classical violinist: "Telephone Hour"; "Soldiers in Greaspaint";
"Concert Hall"
02-08-1907 - Phil Davis - Cincinnati, OH - d. 12-10-1985
musician: "Avalon Time"; "Scramby Amby"
02-25-1932 - Faron Young - Shreveport, LA - d. 12-10-1996
country singer: "Town and Country Time"; "Country Style [removed]"
03-08-1924 - Sean McClory - Dublin, Ireland - d. 12-10-2003
actor: "Favorite Story"; "NBC University Theatre"
03-11-1900 - Andy Sannella - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-10-1962
bandleader: "Campbell Soup Orchestra"; "Gillette Community Sing"
03-14-1869 - Algernon Blackwood - d. 12-10-1951
author: "Escape"
03-26-1907 - Leigh Harline - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 12-10-1969
music: "Eddie Bracken Show"; "Ford Festival of American Music"
03-29-1916 - Eugene McCarthy - Watkins, MN - d. 12-10-2005
[removed] senator: "Meet the Press"
05-05-1899 - Freeman F. Gosden - Richmond, VA - d. 12-10-1982
comedian: "Sam 'n' Henry"; Amos Jones "Amos 'n' Andy"
05-08-1895 - Bishop Fulton J. Sheen - El Paso, IL - d. 12-10-1979
preacher: "Catholic Hour"
05-28-1918 - Elizabeth Harrower - Alameda, CA - d. 12-10-2003
actor: "NBC University Theatre"
06-13-1894 - Mark Van Doren - Hope, IL - d. 12-10-1972
pulitzer prize winning poet: "NBC University Theatre"; "Invitation to
Learning"
07-15-1919 - Eve McVeagh - Ohio - d. 12-10-1997
actor: Harriet Beatty "Clyde Beatty Show"
07-19-1913 - Charlie Teagarden - Vernon, TX - d. 12-10-1984
trumpet: (Brother of Jack) "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street"
08-02-1892 - John Kieran - The Bronx, NY, New  - d. 12-10-1980
panelist: "Information, Please"
08-02-1912 - Ann Dvorak - NYC - d. 12-10-1979 - d. 12-10-1979
actor: "Movietone Radio Theatre"
08-05-1915 - Peter Lisagor - Keystone, WV - d. 12-10-1976
chicago daily news [removed] bureau chief: "Meet the Press"
08-26-1907 - Jack Berch - Sigel, IL - d. 12-10-1992
singer: "Kitchen Pirate"; "Sweetheart Serenade"; "Jack Berch Show"
09-03-1918 - Jimmy Riddle - Dyersberg, TN - d. 12-10-1982
harmonica: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Crustene Ranch Party"; "Roy Acuff Show"
09-05-1923 - Joan Wagner Beck - Clinton, IA - d. 12-10-1998
scriptwriter: "Voice of America"
09-26-1908 - Sylvia Marlowe - NYC - d. 12-10-1981
harpsichord virtuoso: "Lavender and New Lace"; "Sylvia Marlowe and
Richard Dyer-Bennet"
10-04-1884 - Damon Runyon - Manhattan, KS - d. 12-10-1946
short story writer: "Good News of 1940"; "Damon Runyon Theatre"
10-13-1903 - Patsy Moran - Pennsylvania - d. 12-10-1968
actor: Martha Hoople "Major Hoople"; Hilda "Junior Miss"
11-01-1915 - Bob Garred - Walla Walla, WA - d. 12-10-1956
announcer: "The Stanford Hour"; "I Want a Divorce"
11-06-1887 - Walter Johnson - Humboldt, KS - d. 12-10-1946
baseball great: Play-by-Play Washington Senators
12-11-1914 - Marie Windsor - Marysville, UT - d. 12-10-2000
actor: "Escape"; "Suspense"; "Lux Radio Theatre"

Ron

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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:12:01 -0500
From: charlie@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

A weekly [removed]

For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
real-time OTR talk!

Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
it's always a good time!

For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
week and every week!

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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:39:00 -0500
From: JayHick@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Central Florida Radio Site
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Got a call from Jim Maloy who runs this web site.   Thought it would be of
interest.   Jay

[removed] b" An extensive tribute site featuring station histories,
staff
bios, photos, memorabilia, and audio clips from Central Florida and Tampa
Bayb
s great radio stations of the past (and a few from the present).
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 Our web address is [removed].

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