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Date: 7/24/2006 1:22 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 200
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      7-24 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      in the last OTR digest                [ "Walden Hughes" <walden1@yesterdayu ]
      Jack Webb                             [ "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed]; ]
      OTR places                            [ KC0PWA <oldradiotimes@[removed]; ]
      Archive of American Television inter  [ Bhob Stewart <bhob2@[removed]; ]
      It's beginning to look a lot like Ch  [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      how many Buck Rogers OTR Episodes ex  [ "Dave Adams" <daveadams-hollywood@c ]
      Frank Edwards 'Stranger than Science  [ Bill KA2EMZ <ka2emz@[removed]; ]
      Re: On-topic, but off-season          [ "MICHAEL BIEL" <mbiel@[removed]; ]
      Lone Ranger comic book                [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@c ]
      The Arms Of Webb                      [ "MICHAEL BIEL" <mbiel@[removed]; ]
      more on married detectives            [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
      re: more on married detectives        [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
      Can anybody help?                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 01:26:35 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-24 births/deaths

    July 24th births

    07-24-1802 - Alexandre Dumas - Aisne, France - d. 12-5-1870
    writer: "The Count of Monte Cristo" based on Dumas' novel
    07-24-1853 - William Gillette - Hartford, CT - d. 4-29-1937
    actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"
    07-24-1875 - Frank Moulan - NYC - d. 5-13-1939
    comedian: :Roxy and His Gang"
    07-24-1878 - Lord Dunsany - London, England - d. 10-25-1957
    writer: "The Columbia Workshop"
    07-24-1890 - Basil Ruysdael - Jersey City, NJ - d. 10-20-1960
    announcer: "Beggar's Bowl"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Cavalcade of America"
    07-24-1898 - Amelia Earhart - Atchinson, KS - d. 7-2-1937
    aviatrix: "Amelia Earhart", "Cities Service Concerts"
    07-24-1901 - Mabel Albertson - Lynn, MA - d. 9-28-1982
    actor: (Sister of Jack Albertson) "The Phil Baker Show"
    07-24-1904 - Delmer Daves - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-17-1977
    movie writer/director: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    07-24-1907 - Glenn Riggs - East McKeesport, PA - d. 9-12-1975
    announcer: "Musical Varities"; "Hop Harrigan"; "Boston Blackie"
    07-24-1911 - Jane Hoffman - Seattle, WA - d. 7-26-2004
    actor: "The Author's Studio"
    07-24-1911 - Raymond Edward Johnson - Kenosha, WI - d. 8-15-2001
    actor: Raymond your host "Inner Sanctum Mysteries"; Don Winslow "Don
    Winslow of the Navy"
    07-24-1913 - Hollace (Vivien) Shaw - Fresno, CA - d. 3-2-1976
    singer: "Blue Velvet"; "Vic Damone and Hollace Shaw Show"
    07-24-1914 - Frank Silvera - Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies - d.
    6-11-1970
    actor: "X Minus One"
    07-24-1914 - Vicent Bogert - New York - d. 11-28-1978
    writer: "Duffy's Tavern"
    07-24-1915 - Lloyd Marx - d. 5-26-1988
    composer, conductor: "Capitol Family Hour"; "Original Amateur Hour"
    07-24-1916 - Bob Eberly - Mechanicsville, NY - d. 11-17-1981
    singer: (Jimmy Dorsey Band)
    07-24-1919 - Jerry Wayne - Buffalo, NY - d. xx-xx-1997
    vocalist: Lover "Happy Island"; "Your All-Time Hit Parade"
    07-24-1921 - Billy Taylor - Greenville, SC
    host: "Mildred Bailey Show"; "Bing Crosby Show"; "Genius of Duke"

    July 24th deaths

    01-12-1892 - Ed McConnell - Atlanta, GA - d. 7-24-1954
    host, actor: Smilin' Ed McConnell Show"
    03-05-1920 - Virginia Christine - Stanton, IA - d. 7-24-1996
    actor: "Confession"; "Gunsmoke"
    03-23-1917 - Oscar Shumsky - Philadelphia, PA - d. 7-24-2000
    violinist: "Voice of Firestone"
    04-02-1934 - Brian Glover - Sheffield, England - d. 7-24-1997
    actor: George Hackett "An American Werewolf in London";
    "[removed]"
    05-14-1914 - Foy Willing - Bosque County, TX - d. 7-24-1978
    singer: (Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage) "Roy Rogers
    Show"
    06-10-1898 - Dorothy Day - NYC - d. 7-24-1975
    actor, writer: "The House Beside the Road"
    07-14-1904 - Isaac Bashevis Singer - Radzymin, Poland - d. 7-24-1991
    yiddish storyteller: "Earplay"
    07-18-1872 - Fred Sullivan - London, England - d. 7-24-1937
    actor: Kirby Willoughby "Arnold Grimm's Daughter"; Mitchell Frazier
    "Story of Mary Marlin"
    09-08-1925 - Peter Sellers - London, England - d. 7-24-1980
    comedian: Hercules Grytpype-Thynne, Major Dennis Bloodnok, others
    "Goon Show"
    10-22-1905 - Constance Bennett - NYC - d. 7-24-1965
    interviewer, panelist: "Constance Bennett Calls on You"; "Leave It to
    the Girls"
    12-13-1905 - Jay Jostyn - Milwaukee, WI - d. 7-24-1977
    actor: Max Tilley "Life of Mary Sothern"; Mr, District Attorney "Mr.
    District Attorney"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    Home state of Joe DuVal

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    Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:03:14 -0400
    From: "Walden Hughes" <walden1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  in the last OTR digest

    Hi Everybody,

    we had two interesting request for info.

    1.  Dan Hefele   ask about music information on the Hollywood bowl.  Dan you
    might want to call your local library and ask which of your libraries
    specialize  in music.  I know for example here in Orange county California
    the Cypress    library is the reference library for all music question for
    my system.  Maybe you have one near you in [removed]

    2.  Ted ask about the story Angel.  I know what was on Family Theater but I
    do not recall the dates.  Take care,

    Walden

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    Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:06:19 -0400
    From: "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Jack Webb

    Re Andy Blatt's post ... I suppose I'm the umpteenth to point out
    that it was Mark VII Limited that came at the close of Jack
    Webb's productions, not Mark IV.

    Other comment about Webb's acting and delivery. I bought it with
    him as a cop and in the movie , "The [removed]" ... but as a jazz
    musician in "Pete Kelly's Blue's" - naw, I don't think so. And I
    agree with Craig that characters/actors later on seemed to be
    just speaking lines, not really acting. The overall tone of the
    Dragnet of the '60s of preachy and hard to take.

    Bob Cockrum

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    Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:06:43 -0400
    From: KC0PWA <oldradiotimes@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  OTR places

    Every now and then people submit the names of places
    around the country named after an OTR reference. One I
    haven't seen listed before: Goodman Ace Hardware (of
    the Ace Hardware chain) at 12th and Broadway in Kansas
    City, MO. I took a pic of it yesterday. I'm sure few,
    if any, patrons recognize the reference.
    Ryan

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    Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:11:46 -0400
    From: Bhob Stewart <bhob2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Archive of American Television interviews

    Those multi-part Archive of American Television video interviews
    covering radio/TV/theater history are best accessed from their blog:
    [removed]

    More than 90 of their video interviews are now available online.
    Here's the full list of all 475 interviews:
    [removed]

    A similar resource is the Museum of Television & Radio which
    videotapes their seminars/interviews about radio/TV history and then
    makes those tapes available for viewing on their Library monitors in
    both LA and New York. Now, at long last, the MT&R is putting some
    (okay, very little) of that material online. Here, for instance, are
    clips from discussions about Gertrude Berg (11/16/05) and NPR
    (11/10/05): [removed]

    Bhob @ [removed]

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    Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:11:27 -0400
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
     (in July!)

    Dear Ted-

    Not sure when Loretta Young first did it; but these factoids, snatched from
    the Web a while back, might be of interest?

    "It was in 1939 that Tazewell wrote "The Littlest Angel," when a Christmas
    poem or story was needed in case a radio show planned for actor Ronald Colman
    fell through. Tazewell's script was not used for another year, when actress
    Edna  Best picked it up for "Manhattan at Midnight." The next year it was read
    by  Helen Hayes."

    Best,
    -Craig "sometime 'Scrooge' " Wichman

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    Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:25:52 -0400
    From: "Dave Adams" <daveadams-hollywood@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  how many Buck Rogers OTR Episodes exist?

    Hello Friends,

    I've been collecting OTR programs for some time, first through Radio Spirits
    and it's various predecessors, and now by simply scouring the net. Buck
    Rogers is one of my favorite shows, I enjoy them immensly. Unfortunately I
    can't find more than a dozen or so no matter where I look. I have an
    incomplete set of a series revolving around the "Gyro Cosmic Reletivator"
    and a few episodes of "The Mechanical Mole" (these seem to be transcribed at
    the wrong speed and sound slowed down). but so far I only have been able to
    find duplicates of these same few shows online.

    Are there other series from the Buck Rogers show avaulable that I am just
    not finding online, and any clues where I might look?

       I get such a kick out of these, I sure would like to locate other stories
    with the cast in those parts.

    -Dave -sweltering in LA's high desert fire zone

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    Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:26:08 -0400
    From: Bill KA2EMZ <ka2emz@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Frank Edwards 'Stranger than Science'

    I am curious if anyone has any information regarding Frank Edwards
    'Stranger than Science' radio program, mainly what network carried it
    and what years.
    If any of this show has survived I'd be most curious.

    Thanks,

    Bill Bergadano

    "Before you say anything about someone walk a mile in their shoes; that
    way you are a mile away and you have their shoes"

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    Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:27:21 -0400
    From: "MICHAEL BIEL" <mbiel@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: On-topic, but off-season

    Ted asks if Loretta Young also broadcast "The Littlest Angel" which she had
    recorded for Decca Records.  Confusion might arise because the World
    Broadcasting System, which in the mid 40s was taken over by Decca,
    distributed the Decca album with an extra disc that would enable a station
    to play the recorded version as if it was a complete program.  So an
    individual listing that a station had aired the program is not enough.  You
    need an indication that it was on a simultaneous network on multiple
    stations.

    Michael Biel  mbiel@[removed]

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    Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:26:24 -0400
    From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Lone Ranger comic book

    Can't say anything about the quality or how faithful it will be to the
    radio version, but The Lone Ranger returns to comics with his own title
    this September. (Advertised as "THE must-read comic of 2006".) You can
    read about it, and see scans of the first several pages, at
    [removed].

    Heigh yo, Silver!
    Kermyt

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    Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:28:28 -0400
    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
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    Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same Station."  Streamed in high-quality audio,
    on demand, 24/7 at [removed]
    Several new additions to our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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    =======================================

    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    June Allyson
    "Everybody's Girl Next Door"

    OLD GOLD COMEDY THEATER
    Episode 32    6-10-45    "Tom, Dick and Harry"
    Stars: June Allison, Bill Williams, Reginald Gardner and Don De Fore
    NBC OLD GOLD CIGARETTES Sundays 10:30 - 11:00 pm
    HOST: Harold Lloyd
    ANNOUNCER: Bob Williams
    MUSIC: Carl Hoff

    SCREEN DIRECTOR'S PLAYHOUSE
    Episode 14    4-10-49    "Music For Millions"
    Stars: June Allyson
    Film's Director: Henry Coster

    LUX RADIO THEATER
    Episode 694   3-13-50    "Little Women"
    Stars: June Allyson, Margaret O'Brien, Peter Lawford and Janet Leigh

    ==================================

    HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

    THE WHISPERER
    (NBC)    7/8/51    1st Show - "Marijuana In Central City"
    Stars: Carlton Young.

    THE LONE RANGER
    (NBC-Blue)    12/4/42
    "Heading North" Brace Beemer/John Todd.

    YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR
    (CBS)    5/22/56
    "Final chapter of "The Perling Matter" as Pecos.

    ====================================

    THE GLOWING DIAL

    Big John and Steve turn The Glowing Dial Page into a "Webb Page"
    in EPISODE NET 45 of The Glowing Dial
    by featuring five shows, all starring Jack Webb.

     The Jack Webb Show - "Slim Slade: Western Bandleader"
    originally aired April 17, 1946 on ABC West Coast & KGO
    Starring: Jack Webb, John Galbraith, Clancy Hayes, Nora McNamara, Phil
    Bovero & the Raggedaires.
    Sustained

     Johnny Modero, Pier 23 - "Fatal Action"
    originally aired June 26, 1947 on MUTUAL
    Starring: Jack Webb, Gale Gordon, Bill Conrad, Elaine Burke, Bob Holden,
    Herb Butterfield, Irvin Lee, Herb Rawlinson, Tommy La Frano announcing.
    Sustained

    Pat Novak For Hire  - "Fleet Lady"
    originally aired March 6, 1949 on ABC West Coast & KGO
    Starring: Jack Webb, Tudor Owens, Raymond Burr, Virginia Gregg, Tol Avery,
    Stacy Harris, Hugh Thomas, Carlisle Bibbers, George Fenneman announcing.
    Sustained

    Jeff Regan, Investigator - "The Lawyer and The Lady"
    originally aired December 4, 1948 on CBS West Coast
    Starring: Jack Webb, Herb Butterfield, Larry Dobkin, Carole Matthews, Lou
    Krugman, Marvin Miller, Herb Vigran, Mary Lansing, Bob Stevenson announcing.
    Sustained

    Pete Kelly's Blues - "Gus Trudeaux"
    originally aired August 15, 1951 on NBC
    Starring: Jack Webb, William Conrad, George Fenneman announcing.
    Sustained

    ==================================

    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: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:28:17 -0400
    From: "MICHAEL BIEL" <mbiel@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The Arms Of Webb

    Andy Blatt mentioned that he "grew up watching all the Jack Webb produced TV
    shows
    including Dragnet" and remembered  "Jack's production company, Mark IV
    Productions, where the sweaty arm with a mallet in the fist stamps out the
    name in the stone."  Since this was brought up here in the OTR Digest, I'll
    mention this here instead of the Kine-L.  The sweaty arms were Jack's, and
    he was stamping in metal, not stone.  Stone would shatter.  At least you
    realized that he was not using a chisel, because most of the times people
    say that he was chiseling in stone.

    Michael Biel   mbiel@[removed]

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    Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:14:02 -0400
    From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  more on married detectives

    There was a discussion here lately about married detectives, or rather
    the lack thereof. Here's a few addenda. Radio shows and movies, of
    course, were not always very faithful to the literary origins of some
    gumshoes. Mike Shayne, for example, was married for the first half
    dozen of his books. According to Thrilling Detective
    ([removed]), "their
    relationship is much like what would have happened if Sam Spade had
    married Pam North". She got killed off, however, when the rights were
    sold to the movies.

    Several people mentioned that the Saint was a playboy who didn't need a
    wife. In the books, however -- at least in the one very early book that
    I've read -- he was very strongly attached to one woman, I think her
    name was Pat. (Just checked wikipedia -- it's Patricia Holm.) They
    never married but they were certainly very close; he wasn't simply a
    playboy then.

    Sherlock Holmes, of course, never married. Somebody here mentioned how
    he considered Irene Adler "THE woman." There's a rumour that he did
    have one brief sexual liaison with her, which produced a child. That
    child was born and raised in Europe, but emigrated to the US and, like
    his father, because a well-known detective, as well as a profound
    misogynist in his own right. And, like his father, had his own radio
    series. If you haven't guessed it yet, I'm refering to Nero Wolfe. This
    idea has apparently been floating around since 1956, but there's no
    evidence that Rex Stout ever endorsed it
    ([removed]).

    Pfui!
    Kermyt

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    Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:14:28 -0400
    From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  re: more on married detectives

    I had one more point to mention on the subject of married detectives. I
    haven't read the last couple of Philip Marlowe novels yet (been saving
    them, like pre-war champaign, for a special occasion), but I understand
    he gets married in the final book. (Poodle Springs, which was
    incomplete when Chandler died and which was finished years later by
    Robert Parker. I'm sure if the marriage is Chandler's invention or
    Parker's.)

    Kermyt

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    Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:06:57 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Can anybody help?

    I received this e-mail, can anyone help?

    My name is Jim Stout and I live in Madison, WI. I am trying to find a
    recording of an old time radio show named
    "Roads of The Sky."  It ran from July 2 to November 21 of 1930. It
    was broadcast by NBC, including WTMT of Milwaukee. The episode I am
    looking for features a distant relative of mine named William B.
    Stout and is entitled "Why Airplanes Fly". Any idea where I might
    find a recording?

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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