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Date: 11/21/2018 4:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2018 : Issue 65
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      WGN Christmas Show                    [ Radioclass <radioclass@[removed] ]
      Live radio play A Christmas Carol in  [ DennyT49 <dennyt49@[removed]; ]
      Re: The Goldbergs                     [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]
      Re: Radio shows that originated on t  [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]

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    Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 18:24:54 -0500
    From: Radioclass <radioclass@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  WGN Christmas Show

    Leonard Kohl mentioned a radio program that was broadcast on WGN radio about
    30 years ago'

>     "Roughly about 30 years ago, WGN Radio in Chicago did a fictional "Christmas
>     News Broadcast" of the birth of Jesus in a humorous way

    Is this available anywhere?

    Anne

    [ADMINISTRIVIA: He did mention he thought it was on the WGN website:

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    Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 21:06:24 -0500
    From: DennyT49 <dennyt49@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Live radio play A Christmas Carol in Denver
     December 9th

    Our radio players troupe in Denver has been presenting old time radio plays
    live with a studio audience twice a year for the past six years using live
    mics, sound effects from the original radio broadcast, original commercials
    and on the air and applause lights.  This year we are performing a Christmas
    Carol as our holiday show on Sunday, December 9th at 2 [removed] at Advent
    Lutheran Church in Westminster, CO.  There is a suggested donation of $7.  We
    welcome any old time radio enthusiasts in the greater Denver area to attend
    our show! We have renown local storyteller and actor, Dan Keenan, in the lead
    role as Scrooge.  The Christmas Carol radio show we are recreating is the one
    originally broadcast on December 24th, 1939 on the CBS Campbell Playhouse
    featuring Orson Welles as the Narrator and Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge.

    If you could post this in the old time radio digest that would be wonderful!
    Thank you!

    Denny Thompson
    Broomfield, CO
    Director Advent Radio Players

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    Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:04:07 -0500
    From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: The Goldbergs
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>     11/20

>     1929 - The first broadcast of The Rise of the Goldbergs, with Gertrude
>     Berg as Molly, was heard on the NBC Blue network. Later, the title would
>     be shortened to The Goldbergs. ... The program continued until 1945 (it
>     returned for one season in 1949-1950).

    Over the years, this show gradually had the Goldbergs' children grow
    older and eventually moved from the original city setting to the
    suburbs.  Then, after the original radio show ended in 1945, The
    Goldbergs returned on television, in its original urban setting, with
    the children once again children.  The 1949-1950 radio show was a radio
    version of the television show, with the TV cast and urban setting.

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed] . 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 . Newton, MA 02459
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    Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:04:50 -0500
    From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Radio shows that originated on television

>     11/23

>     1958   One of the last drama programs on radio debuted. It was unusual
>     in that it followed the TV show of the same name. Have Gun Will Travel
>     was broadcast on CBS and starred John Dehner as Paladin.

    I wonder if there is a definitive list anywhere of the shows that
    started on television and then expanded to [removed]  The ones I can think
    of off the top of my head right now are Have Gun, Will Travel, Tom
    Corbett Space Cadet, Space Patrol, Howdy Doody, My Little Margie, and
    the 1949-50 version of The [removed]  I seem to have a vague
    recollection of a short-lived TV version of NBC's Monitor, but I may be
    imagining [removed]  I think the quiz show Strike it Rich may have been a TV
    to radio show, too, or maybe it began simultaneously in both [removed]
    Were there any other shows that did that?B  Possibly Our Miss Brooks?

    Howdy Doody and Space Patrol are actually special [removed]  Space Patrol
    began on local television in Los Angeles, then went national on [removed]
    The ABC radio version may have started first before the television
    version, but the show did start on television, albeit local television.

    Howdy Doody originated as a character called "Elmer" on a Saturday
    morning radio show for kids, hosted by Bob Smith on WNBC in New [removed]
    It was called "Triple-B Ranch," the triple-B standing for "Big Brother
    Bob."B  Elmer used to greet everyone with "Well, Howdy Doody," and the
    kids in the studio audience called him [removed]  They also were
    disappointed because they wanted to see "Howdy Doody," and all they saw
    was Smith speak with a different [removed]  That gave Smith two ideas:
    first they would call the character "Howdy Doody," rather than Elmer,
    and second, they would try to do television. Smith said that he went to
    the TV people on a Tuesday, and they said, "You're on this Saturday."B
    For the first two weeks, until they got a puppet made, Howdy Doody was
    hiding in a desk drawer, too shy to come out.

    The Howdy Doody show on television (originally titled "Puppet
    Playhouse") became something far different from the kids' game show that
    was the Triple-B [removed]  Eventually, around 1950, it added a Saturday
    morning radio version, which continued until Bob Smith's heart attack in
    1954.

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed] B7 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 B7 Newton, MA 02459
    [removed] B7 [removed] B7 [removed]

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