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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 33
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Bob Carroll Jr.                       [ Mike Thompson <mthomp86@[removed]; ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@c ]
      Lone Ranger's first name              [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      Popeye Radio Show Information         [ oldtix@[removed] ]
      Ghost of Benjamin Sweet               [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      Radio to [removed]                        [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
      1-29 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Who Took Jack Webb's Cigarette?       [ Cheerfulcowboy@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:02:31 -0500
    From: Mike Thompson <mthomp86@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Bob Carroll Jr.

    Hi all--

    I just read that Bob Carroll Jr. passed away today
    after a brief illness. He was 88. While Bob is of
    course known best for his work on various Lucy TV
    shows from the '50s through the '80s, let's not forget
    he, Madelyn Pugh and Jess Oppenheimer wrote the
    scripts for most of the My Favorite Husband episodes
    (one of my favorite OTR comedies, btw).

    Mike

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    Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:02:38 -0500
    From: "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

    Hi Friends,

    Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you may
    listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage Radio
    Theater," Big John Matthews and Steve "Archive" Urbaniak's "The Glowing
    Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same Station."  Streamed in high-quality audio,
    on demand, 24/7 at [removed]
    Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    SCREEN GUILD THEATER
    Episode 203  7-17-44  "Make Your Own Bed"
    Stars: Jack Carson, Jane Wyman, Alan Hale

    GANGBUSTERS
    Episode 469 10-18-47  "The Devil And The Syndicate" Part 2

    GREAT PLAYS
    Episode 1  2-26-38  "The Birds"
    Author: Aristophanes

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    HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

    THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN
    MBS    2/13/48   Chapter 9 of "Batman's Great Mystery"

    THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN
    (Synd. Pendant)    2005   Chapter: "Escape" from The Last Son of Krypton.

    THE LONE RANGER
    MBS    12/18/42    "Law of the Apex"
    Brace Beemer and John Todd.

    ONE MAN'S FAMILY
    (Excerpt)    NBC    12/28/41
    Looking ahead at the beginning of WW II.

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    THE GLOWING DIAL

    Jack Benny Program - "Fred Allen"
    originally aired May 19, 1946 from New York on NBC
    Starring: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Eddie "Rochester"
    Anderson, Dennis Day, Don Wilson, Fred Allen.
    Sponsor: Lucky Strike

    The Quiz Kids - "Jack Benny"
    originally aired May 26, 1946 on NBC
    Starring: Richard Williams, Jack Lucal, Joan Bishop, Claude Brenner & Gerard
    Darrow as The Quiz Kids with special guest Jack Benny.
    Joe Kelly is the quizzer and Ken Carpenter is announcing.
    Sponsor: Alka Seltzer

    Jack Benny Program - "Murder At Romanoff's"
    originally aired January 8, 1950 on CBS
    Starring: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Eddie "Rochester"
    Anderson, Dennis Day, The Sportsmen Quartet, Don Wilson, Frank Nelson, Frank
    Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Rosalind Russell, Prince Michael Romanoff.
    Sponsor: Lucky Strike

    Command Performance - "Jack Benny"
    originally aired June 17, 1944 on AFRS
    Starring: Jack Benny, Bing Crosby, Georgia Gibbs, Harpo Marx, Gary "Yup"
    Cooper, Ann Miller, Ken Carpenter announcing.
    Unsponsored

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    If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

         Jerry Haendiges

         Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
         The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
         Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on the Net

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    Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:05:27 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Lone Ranger's first name

    On Saturday, January 27, 2007, at 11:33 PM, Joe Mackey wrote:

>     1936 - The Green Hornet was introduced by its famous theme song, The
>     Flight of the Bumble Bee. You may remember that the title character
>     was named Britt Reid. He was, in fact, supposed to be the great nephew
>     of John Reid, the Lone Ranger.

    Despite all evidence to the contrary, the myth about the Lone Ranger's
    first name being "John" refuses to go away.

    Terry Salomonson, the expert on all WXYZ shows who has the original
    disks of every episode of "The Lone Ranger," has advised us many times
    (most recently at the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention in Aberdeen,
    MD) that there is no mention in any of the scripts of "John" in
    connection with the surviving Reid brother who became the Lone Ranger.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:05:39 -0500
    From: oldtix@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Popeye Radio Show Information
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    For those who have not seen it, let me recommend a visit to a fantastic
    collector-produced website devoted to all things Popeye.  Long-time collector
    Bruce Shults has assembled the fruits of his 40-year pursuit of Popeye
    collectibles into a photo-packed source of knowledge.

    The website includes great images and information about the Popeye Wheatena
    radio show.  Check it all out at [removed]~thimbletheatre/.

    Rick Payne

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    Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:06:43 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Ghost of Benjamin Sweet

    On Saturday, January 27, 2007, at 11:33 PM, Kathy Hammel wrote:

>     Speaking of lost shows, does anyone know anything about a show called
>     "The Ghost of Benjamin  Sweet"?  In a September 1938 "Radio Guide" I
>     saw an article about it.   The lead ghost is played by Karl Swenson,
>     and Ed Latimer plays one of the side kick ghosts, Theobald Tubbs.  If
>     there are any existing episodes, I'd sure like to hear a show or two,
>     and would appreciate being pointed in their direction.

    Once again we turn to the pages of Jay Hickerson's invaluable "3rd
    Revised Ultimate History of Network Radio Programming" where we read on
    page 182:

    "Ghost of Benjamin Sweet, The  (written by Pauline Gibson and  Fred
    Gilsdorf)
    CBS, Fridays, 8 PM, duration March 25, 1938 to August 26, 1938.
    CBS, Sundays, 10 PM, duration September 4, 1938 to September 25, 1938.
    No known surviving audio copies"

    Apparently the article in "Radio Guide" did not create enough audience
    interest in the series' second chance on network radio and the show was
    yanked before the ink was dry in the magazine.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:24:11 -0500
    From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Radio to [removed]

    How about Red Skelton?  His radio show was very funny.  He made an excellent
    transition to television.  But you had to see him.  What he did on
    television, he could not have done on radio -- unless some narrator told you
    what he was doing!

    Ted Kneebone / 1528 S. Grant St. / Aberdeen, SD 57401
    [removed]~stmarkch/

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    Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:26:07 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-29 births/deaths

    January 29th births

    01-29-1874 - John D. Rockefeller, Jr. - Cleveland, OH - d. 5-11-1960
    rich person: "The Collier Hour"
    01-29-1874 - Owen Davis - Portland, ME - d. 10-14-1956
    writer: "The Gibson Family"; "Pulitzer Prize Plays"
    01-29-1880 - W. C. Fields - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-25-1946
    comedian: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    01-29-1885 - Leadbelly (Huddie Leadbetter) - Louisiana - d. 12-6-1949
    jazz musician: "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin street"
    01-29-1902 - Florence Rinard - d. 10-18-1984
    panelist: "Twenty Questions"
    01-29-1911 - Bryan Coleman - London, England - d. 7-4-2005
    actor: John H. Watson "BBC Light Programme"
    01-29-1913 - Daniel Taradash - Louisville, KY - d. 1-22-2003
    film writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
    01-29-1913 - Joe Parker - Venice, CA - d. 4-28-1970
    director: "Sara's Private Caper"
    01-29-1915 - Victor Mature - Louisville, KY - d. 8-4-1999
    actor: "Hollywood Star Playhouse"
    01-29-1916 - Bill Lawrence - Lincoln, NE - d. 3-2-1972
    newsman for the ABC network
    01-29-1917 - John Raitt - Santa Ana, CA - d. 2-20-2005
    actor, singer: "MGM Musical Comedy Theatre"
    01-29-1917 - Lloyd Perryman - Ruth, AR - d. 5-31-1977
    singer: (Sons of the Pioneers) "The Roy Rogers Show"
    01-29-1918 - John Forsythe - Penns Grove, NJ
    actor: "NBC Star Playhouse"; "Best Plays"
    01-29-1923 - Martin Ragaway - d. 4-20-1989
    writer: "The Abbot and Costello Show"; "The Milton Berle Show"
    01-29-1923 - Paddy Chayefsky - The Bronx, NY - d. 8-1-1981
    writer: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    01-29-1942 - Robin Morgan - Lake Worth, FL
    actor, Former president of NOW: "Cavalcade of America"
    01-29-1943 - Tony Blackburn - Guildford, England
    disc jockey: "Midday Spin"; "Junior Choice"

    January 29th deaths

    01-14-1914 - Harold Russell - North Sydney, Canada - d. 1-29-2002
    world war II hero, actor: "A Salute to the [removed]"; "NBC University
    Theatre"
    01-22-1899 - Anne Elstner - Lake Charles, LA - d. 1-29-1981
    actor: Stella Dallas "Stella Dallas"; Mary Weston "Wilderness Road"
    02-02-1875 - Fritz Kreisler - Vienna, Austria - d. 1-29-1962
    violinist, composer: "Telephone Hour"; "Concert Hall"; "Gospel In Song"
    02-10-1893 - Jimmy Durante - NYC - d. 1-29-1980
    comedian: (Da Schnozz) Claudius 'Brainy' Bowers "Jumbo Fire Chief
    Program"
    02-22-1925 - Stratford Johns - Pietermaritzburg, South Africa - d.
    1-29-2002
    actor: Pennington "Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile"
    03-12-1916 - Mandel Kramer - Cleveland, OH - d. 1-29-1989
    actor: Johnny Dollar "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
    04-11-1912 - John Larkin - Oakland, CA - d. 1-29-1965
    actor: Perry Mason "Perry Mason"; "Dimension X; " Ford Theatre"
    04-12-1904 - Frankie Masters - Saint Marys, WV - d. 1-29-1991
    music: "Edgar A. Guest"
    07-02-1892 - Jack Hylton - Great Lever, England - d. 1-29-1965
    bandmaster: CBS 1935-1936 Sundays at 10:30 PM Standard Oil
    07-09-1915- Joan Tompkins - d. 1-29-2005
    actor: Nora Drake "This Is Nora Drake"; Siri Allen "Against the Storm"
    07-25-1896 - Leo Russotto - d. 1-29-1978
    musical coach and arranger: "Roxy and His Gang"
    07-31-1908 - [removed] "Bill" Shadel - Milton, WI - d. 1-29-2005
    newscaster: Reported the D-Day landings for CBS
    09-03-1913 - Alan Ladd - Hot Springs, AR - d. 1-29-1964
    actor: Dan Holliday "Box 13"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Proudly We Hail"
    09-09-1930 - Martha Steinberg - d. 1-29-2000
    detroit radio: WQBH-AM
    10-27-1911 - Leif Erickson - Alameda, CA - d. 1-29-1986
    actor: Richard Rhinelander III "My Friend Irma"
    11-28-1894 - Frank Black - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-29-1968
    conductor: "Jack Benny Program"; "NBC String Symphony"; "Cities
    Service Concert"
    xx-xx-1885 - William Steinke - Slatinton, PA - d. 1-29-1958
    host: "Jolly Bill and Jane"; "No School Today"

    Ron Sayles

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    Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:21:39 -0500
    From: Cheerfulcowboy@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Who Took Jack Webb's Cigarette?
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    In the Sunday, January 28 "Highlights" section of TV Guide, there was an
    article called "Webb-Master" that said Jack Webb's TV persona "helped set  the
    tone for man TV cops who followed."  It featured a terrific color photo  of
    him
    with one hand up in the air like it was holding something. I'm pretty  sure
    that this photo originally showed Jack Webb holding a cigarette but it
    appears
    that TV Guide removed it.

    Gregory R. Jackson, Jr.

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