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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 465

Table Of Contents: 

	 Sheldon Leonard
	 Sheldon Leonard
	 Sheldon Leonard cont.
	 Phillip Marlowe Reviews
	 Re:Reel to Reel tape
	 [removed] Boone
	 An old radio
	 otr on cd
	 Re: Michael Bentine
	 Re: "The Cold Equations"
	 Re: payola

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 11:40:50 -0500
From: IDickerson@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Sheldon Leonard
Message-ID: <961201114049_1422072941@[removed]>

For Dick Lupoff and anyone else interested, Sheldon Leonard did have a number
of supporting roles in the radio adventures of THE SAINT:

as Frank in "No Hiding Place" (aka "Murder Plot in Prison", "The Nancy
Pacheck Case", "Murder Plot", "Everyone Wants to Kill Tommy") alongside
Vincent Price. Broadcast 19th November 1950

as Max in "The Chiseling Chimpanzee" (aka "The Monkey", "Don’t Monkey With
Murder", "Monkey Business") alongside Vincent Price. Broadcast 10th December
1950	

as Sam in "Simon Minds the Baby" (aka "The Fight", "The Champ's Kid")
alongside Vincen Price. Broadcast 17th December 1950

as the Barker in "The Carnival Murder" (aka "The Carnival", "Under the
Carnival") alongside Vincent Price. Broadcast 4th February, 1951.

as Dugan in "The Bride Who Lost Her Groom" (aka "The Missing Bridegroom")
alongside Vincent Price. Broadcast 11th Feb. 1951.

as Frank in "The Big Swindle" (aka "The Amnesia Victim", "Mr Sugar")
alongside Vincent Price. Broadcast 25th Feb. 1951	

as Eddie in "The Lady Who Leaned" (aka "The Missing Gun", "Mady North", "The
Lady Has a Gun") alongside Vincent Price. Broadcast 22nd April 1951

as Maxey in "The Girl with the Built-In Springs" alongside Vincent Price.
Broadcast 13th May 1951

as Sam in "The Funny Man" alongside Tom Conway. Broadcast 10th June 1951

as Julius in "Satan's Angels" (aka "The Missing Angel", "The Angels and the
Missing Second Trombone") alongside Tom Conway. Broadcast 8th July 1951

as Red in "The Perfumed Blonde Case" alongside Tom Conway. Broadcast 5th
August 1951.

as Joe in "The Round-Robin Murders" alongside Tom Conway. Broadcast 16th
September 1951

and as Canto in "The Bracelet" the very last episode which was broadcast on
21st October 1951.

By the way, the more alternative titles there are, the easier the episodes
are to get hold of.

Frustratingly I came across his autobiography a couple of years ago in a
Barnes & Noble in Boston, but decided not to purchase it in favor of
exporting a larger number of peanut-butter related products across the
Atlantic instead. Ahhhhh, the foolishness of youth!

And no, I can't even remember the title of the book. Perhaps one of the other
digesters can help?

Best wishes,

Ian Dickerson,
Honorary Secretary, The Saint Club

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 09:44:13 -0800
From: "JACK MANN" <jmann@[removed]>
To: <otr@[removed]>
Subject: Sheldon Leonard
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Hi Digesters:
As a partial answer to Dick Lupoff's question about
Sheldon Leonard, here's a partial list of his radio
credits:
Jack Benny  ("Psst! Hey, Bud")
Johnny Fletcher (Sam, Johnny's sidekick)
Judy Canova Show (Joe Crunchmiller, the cab driver)
The McCoy (The police Lt.)
On Stage (Anthology)
And LOTS more, I'm sure.

Of course, he did a lot of TV and movie stuff, but this is
an old-time RADIO Digest (PLEASE!!!)

Jack



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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 10:34:37 -0800 (PST)
From: "Trail Mix [K. Sabo]" <ksabo@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Sheldon Leonard cont.
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Bigkids@[removed] wonders:

> All of which -- pardon me for nostalgizing like this, it's the day after
> Thanksgiving and one's thoughts turn to past pleasures -- makes me wonder how
> many others remember Sheldon Leonard. And who, if any among us, knows
> anything about him.
 
> Anyone know his biography? What were his radio credits? What's available on
> cassette?

[removed] this is why I've recently subscribed to this great list, tidbits such as 
this.

I assume Sheldon Leonard's radio career is non-trivial. I admit to not having 
a clue and hope someone will cover this aspect of the gentleman's career in-
depth for we clueless folk. I do however know a little bit about the gentleman's
career as a producer.

Among the strongest series produced by the gentleman was _I Spy_ [1965], 
starring Bob Culp and Bill Cosby. This series is notable for among other 
things being the first to feature an African American in a lead. Leonard's 
business savy, probably honed through his radio career, marks another notable 
point about _I Spy_. At a time when "residuals" were basically unknown 
and effectively no one thought people would be watching repeats of '60s TV 
well into the 1990s, Mr. Leonard is one of the few who opted to maintain 
posession of his show after NBC was through with it. To this day _I Spy_ 
is distributed by his own company, and he makes money from it as he does with 
all of his shows for which he was able to negotiate the same deal.  *Smart* 
[removed] a man with some vision.

Out here in Los Angeles, local independent KDOC airs _I Spy_ regularly, and in
this year's KDOC Open House broadcast aired a short 1996 interview with him
as well as other stars from station faves (Robert Conrad, Robert Clary).
I have a copy but have yet had the time to watch it. I'll do so and holler
if any astounding revelations make themselves known.

Further _I Spy_ discussion should probably go over to NOSTALGIA-L due to 
subject matter, but I am *eagerly* awaiting more on Leonard's radio career.


             Very happy to be here,
                                -Kristin Sabo

....  ksabo@[removed] ..................................................
                                                           Kristin C. Sabo
     "You're lucky that you're sacred, because         owner: WILDWEST2-L and
            you certainly haven't got any talent."            NOSTALGIA-L
                                                        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
                  ~Artie, _THE WILD WILD WEST_           WILDWEST2-L@[removed]
                                                         NOSTALGIA-L@[removed]
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Date: 01 Dec 96 13:42:59 EST
From: "Norman G. Cox" <[removed]@[removed]>
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Phillip Marlowe Reviews
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Phillip Marlowe, Adventures of.  Review #11 of 15
Starring Gerald Mohr.  From the cassette lending library of North American Radio
Archives (NARA)

NARA Cassette 7224 Side A, 4/18/50.  The Angry Eagle

This week Gerald Mohr  is back but last week's sponsor is gone.  Tonight Phillip
poses as a reporter to help out a fight trainer friend who's having trouble with
his fighter.  High in the hills above Santa Monica, at the training camp, the
boss is murdered and clues lead to the person he was hired to help.  Howard
McNear is part of the good supporting cast.

NARA Cassette 7224 Side B, 4/25/50.  The High Collared Cape 

Phillip settles in for the rainy evening with a good book and a drink but a
ballerina sticks her dainty toe into his doorway and hires him to find a missing
friend.  He soaks up a bit of culture at a recital hall and chases down a
blackmailer.  That has to be Hans Conried doing his Mad Russian impersonation
but he's not listed in the credits.  Anyone agree with me? 

That's 30 for tonight
NGC
Norman Cox

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Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 15:07:07 -0500
From: Ron Baron <rbaron@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re:Reel to Reel tape
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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>Anybody have suppliers of new and used reel to reel tape on 7 inch reels?
>My used finds are few & far [removed]
>Ran out of tape and had to go back to cassette till I find more tape.
>Just so used to those reels turning!
>Help???
Basically, used reels have gone the way of the Pterodactyl.
Since the government stopped using reels, they don't have any to auction off.
I currently do have new reels though.
They are Ampex 641, 1800' on 7" reels.  They are in the Ampex box and shrink
wrapped.
They are $[removed] each with a minimum order of 20.
Price includes all P&H.
anyone interested in ordering can e-mail me for further ordering info.

rbaron@[removed]

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 15:12:39 -0500
From: Alan Chapman <[removed]@[removed]>
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: [removed] Boone
Message-ID: <199612011512_MC1-C87-64D9@[removed]>

>FE Boone and Speedy Riggs were the North Carolina Tobacco Auctioneers that
>were on the Jack Benny Lucky Strike commercials.

Almost right!  Both were tobacco auctioneers featured on the Lucky Strike
Commercials -- but only [removed] "Speed" (not Speedy) Riggs from NC --
Greensboro, to be precise.  [removed] Boone was from Lexington, KY. 
The commercials announced them that way:  "[removed] Boone of Lexington,
Kentucky .. "  "[removed] Speed Riggs of Greensboro, [removed]" and so forth.

Alan Chapman

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Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1995 16:06:19 +0500
From: cbholm@[removed] (c holm)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: An old radio
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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My father just got an older radio this summer and I'm trying to put a date
on it.  If anyone could help I'd appreciate it.

The radio is a Philco Transistor radio.  I think the model number is T802-124.  
It has a brown leather body with a grill on the front.  AM dial and the
words Philco and Eight Transistors on the front.

Thanks

Christopher Holm
Va Tech - Industrial and Systems Engineering
cbholm@[removed]

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Date: 01 Dec 96 18:30:52 EST
From: Michael Berger <[removed]@[removed]>
To: otr <otr@[removed]>
Subject: otr on cd
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Can anyone suggest some retail outlets in San Francisco which sell OTR shows on
CDs?

New topic: although the extended analysis of Jack Webb was fascinating, wonder
if he was ever interviewed in depth, either in print or sound. Does anyone have
any references to such material?

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Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 17:14:30 -0600
From: "Daevid MacKenzie, UltimaJock!" <mached16@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Michael Bentine
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"MACHARG, KEN" <kmacharg@[removed]> wrote:

> Goons founder Michael Bentine dies at 74
>     LONDON, Nov 27 (Reuter) - Michael Bentine, a founder member
> of the anarchic Goons team that transformed British comedy, has
> died of prostate cancer at the age of 74.

>     Bentine, whose grandfather was elected President of Peru,
> was brought up in England and conquered a chronic stammer to
> become a rocket physicist, Shakespearean actor, journalist and
> author of 14 books.
>     But he achieved lasting fame as founder of the Goons radio
> show with Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe.

...probably just as famous (and, considering most of his work on "The 
Goon Show" appears to have escaped the BBC's own archives, of wider 
access to modern-day audiences) is Bentine's hilarious voice-over 
narration to "The Do-It-Yourself Cartoon Kit," the ?1959 animated 
advertising [removed]

paix au naturel.
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** Daevid MacKenzie
** MACHED16@[removed], ultimajock@[removed]
** [removed]
** The two most common elements in the Universe are hydrogen and
** [removed] ELLISON
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Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 16:37:03 -0600
From: "Daevid MacKenzie, UltimaJock!" <mached16@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: "The Cold Equations"
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Dick Lupoff wrote:

> Actually, "The Cold Equations" was originally a *story*, you know, like
> *words*, lots of *words,* that appeared in the old *Astounding Science
> Fiction.* From there it went into several anthologies, thence to radio, and
> now (apparently) to the SciFi Channel.
> 
> My recollection is that the author was Tom Godwin, a science fiction writer
> with an otherwise fairly undistinguished career. But that one story was/is of
> course a classic.

...for whatever this is worth, I distinctly recall "The Cold Equations" 
being one of the stories Harlan Ellison, while the show's creative 
consultant, hand-picked to be made into an episode of the 1980s CBS-TV 
revival of "The Twilight Zone," which I think is still being syndicated 
(the Sci-Fi Channel terms of exclusivity, I believe, applies only to the 
1959-64 original series)...

paix au naturel.
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** Daevid MacKenzie
** MACHED16@[removed], ultimajock@[removed]
** [removed]
** The two most common elements in the Universe are hydrogen and
** [removed] ELLISON
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Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 16:53:13 -0600
From: "Daevid MacKenzie, UltimaJock!" <mached16@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: payola
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Mark Kinsler wrote:

>   The "payola" scandals of the l950's were an artifact of early Top-40
> radio.  Local disk jockeys were accepting payments from record companies
> to play certain records on their shows, it seems.  Precisely why this was
> so scandalous wasn't obvious to me then or now, but it was a big deal.

...nor was this actually restricted to Top-40 radio---it seems to me 
that this practice also went into deciding which tunes made the cut on 
some of the big band network broadcasts of the '30s and '40s, too, the 
money being paid by the music [removed]

> Dick Clark, who was perhaps the only nationally-known "dj", was somehow
> wound up as well.  At least one headline referred to his particular
> practices as "Clarkola".

...Clark, as he writes in his autobiography "Rock, Roll & Remember," 
once even came out in favour of payola in Billboard a couple of years 
before the [removed], apparently, his own dealings in the form 
were more in terms of ownership of record companies (most notably Swan), 
while some of his associates on "American Bandstand" later admitted 
their own grabbing of [removed] I suspect that Symphony Sid Torin and 
Wolfman Jack could have made serious claims to the "nationally-known" 
tag at that time, [removed] Alan Freed [removed]

paix au naturel.
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** Daevid MacKenzie
** MACHED16@[removed], ultimajock@[removed]
** [removed]
** The two most common elements in the Universe are hydrogen and
** [removed] ELLISON
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