Subject: [removed] Digest V2018 #21
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Date: 3/10/2018 10:18 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2018 : Issue 21
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      MY True Story                         [ jmeals@[removed] ]
      Re: Assisted Living Shows             [ Chuck Hofstetter <chashof@[removed]; ]
      Old Shadow episode                    [ London Mitchell <LondonMitchell@out ]

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    Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 13:15:37 -0500
    From: jmeals@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  MY True Story
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    My thanks to everyone who responded on and off site to my inquiry regarding
    MY TRUE STORY and how the show, which began in 1943, survived until Feb. of
    1962.
    A newspaper ad for WTOL which appeared in the Toledo Blade on March 20, 1961
    promotes MY TRUE STORY as a 55 minute program which runs between 1:00-2:00
    PM. Apparently the show expanded to 55 minutes in its last year or so.

    The ad proclaims "IT'S BACK!" My guess runs that WTOL dropped the Mutual
    program then reinstated it when many listeners complained. Sadly, it is hard
    to locate recordings of MY TRUE STORY from the last years of the show's run.

    While some sources disagree with him, I tend to go with Dunning's assertion
    that the program ran until Feb. 1, 1962. Until that date, folks who enjoyed
    listening to radio drama as they went about their daily tasks could listen to
    MY TRUE STORY which continued for over a year after CBS axed its soap operas
    on Thanksgiving week 1960.

    As noted in a previous post, I have never heard an episode of MY TRUE STORY.
    But here is an overdue tip of the hat to a show that survived in an
    environment hostile to radio drama. And kudos to Mutual for providing radio
    drama longer than any other network except CBS!

    Jim Meals

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    Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 13:15:53 -0500
    From: Chuck Hofstetter <chashof@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Assisted Living Shows

    In reply to shows for assisted living [removed] I am 76 , not in assisted
    living, and go to sleep listening to OTR every night.
    I am a little surprised no one listed two of the best radio programs to air
    [IMHO].
    The Bing Crosby Show and  The Phil Harris / Alice Faye Show with the
    marvelous Eliot Lewis as Remley.
    If one can get thru a program with out laughing out loud; You're A HARD Man
    McGee.

    Chuck Hofstetter
    chashof@[removed]

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    Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 13:17:21 -0500
    From: London Mitchell <LondonMitchell@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Old Shadow episode

    I started collecting Old Time Radio 50 years ago with one program. I was able
    to swap that program for others and, probably as many of you, built the
    collection one trade at a time, program by program. That initial program was
    an episode of The Shadow, "The Mystery of Mad Man's Deep."  My original tapes
    have long since eroded, but I would love to get my hands on that episode
    again. Anyone know if it is in circulation?

    London Mitchell
    londonmitchell@[removed]

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