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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 300
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      10-20 births/deaths                   [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 21-27 Oct  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      FOTR, and what was the value of mone  [ Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed]; ]
      Missing ILAM Episodes                 [ "belanger" <belanger@[removed]; ]
      Is Lt. Danny Clover on Suspense?      [ Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed]; ]
      Another bit of [removed]                [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
      teresa brewer 1931-2007               [ afanofoldradio@[removed] ]
      10-21 births/deaths                   [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      NBC's first few weeks                 [ "Steve Jones" <stevpj@[removed]; ]
      "hall of fame award"?                 [ Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed]; ]
      Repeats and/or replays                [ Ken Greenwald <kgradio@[removed]; ]
      Re: The Coffin in Studio B            [ "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed]; ]
      The Shadow                            [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      LIGHTS OUT                            [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]

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    Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:41:54 +0000
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-20 births/deaths

    October 20th births

    10-20-1882 - Bela Lugosi - Lugos, Hungary - d. 8-16-1956
    actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"
    10-20-1882 - Margaret Dumont - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-6-1965
    actor: "Paramount Movie Parade"
    10-20-1884 - Thomas Chalmers - NYC - d. 6-12-1966
    actor: Sam Young "Pepper Young's Family"
    10-20-1884 - Thomas Hardie Chambers - NYC - d. 6-11-1966
    actor: Sam Young "Pepper Young's Family"
    10-20-1887 - Charles Warburton - Huddersfield, England - d. 7-19-1952
    actor: "Radio Guild"; "Great Plays"; "Front Page Drama"
    10-20-1889 - Robert Fiske - Griggsville, MO - d. 9-12-1944
    actor: Speed Robertson "Air Advs. of Jimmie Allen"
    10-20-1895 - Rex Ingram - Cairo, IL - d. 9-19-1965
    actor: "Free World Theatre"
    10-20-1897 - Adolph Deutsch - London, England - d. 1-2-1980
    arranger, conductor, composer: "Kraft Program"; "This Is Hollywood"
    10-20-1897 - William A. Bacher - d. 4-20-1965
    producer, director: "Al Jolson Show"; "Hollywood Hotel"; "Treasury
    Star Parade"
    10-20-1900 - Wayne Morse - Dane County, WI - d. 7-22-1974
    [removed] senator: "Rebuttal"
    10-20-1904 - Anna Neagle - Forest Gate, Essex, England - d. 6-3-1986
    actor: "Keep 'Em Rolling"; "Kate Smith Hour"; "Radio Tribute to the
    Kind and Queen"
    10-20-1905 - Frederic Dannay - NYC - d. 9-3-1982
    writer: "Adventures of Ellery Queen"; "The Shadow"; "Ford Theatre"
    10-20-1907 - Arlene Francis - Boston, MA - d. 5-31-2001
    panelist, actor: "What's My Line"; Ann Scotland,"The Affairs of Ann
    Scotland"
    10-20-1911 - Will Rogers, Jr. - NYC - d. 7-9-1993
    actor: Will Rogers "Rogers of the Gazette"
    10-20-1913 - Barney Phillips - St. Louis, MO - d. 8-17-1982
    actor: Ed Jacobs "Dragnet"; Somber Jones "Hawk Larabee"; "Gunsmoke"
    10-20-1913 - "Grandpa" Jones - Niagra, KY - d. 2-19-1998
    country singer, banjoist: "Grand Ole Opry"
    10-20-1914 - Fayard Nicholas - Mobile, AL - d. 1-24-2006
    dancer: (The Nicholas Brothers) "Big Broadcast of 1936"; "Ben Bernie
    Show"
    10-20-1920 - Dulcie Gray - Kuala Lampur, Malaysia
    author: Several of her novels were adapted for the BBC
    10-20-1922 - John Anderson - Clayton, IL - d. 8-7-1992
    actor: William Clark "Horizons West"
    10-20-1925 - Art Buchwald - Mount Vernon, NY - d. 1-17-2007
    humorist: "Monitor"
    10-20-1925 - Carolina Cotton - Cash, AR - d. 6-10-1997
    yodeler: (Yodeling Blonde) "Carolina Cotton Calls"; "Country Hoedown"
    10-20-1927 - Priscilla Lyon - Washington County, NC - d. 3-7-1980
    actor: Corliss Archer "Meet Corliss Archer"; Amy Foster "Those We Love"
    10-20-1931 - Mickey Mantle - Spavinaw, OK - d. 8-13-1995
    baseball great: "Hear It Now"; "Feature Project"
    10-20-1935 - Jerry Orbach - NYC - d. 12-28-2004
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    October 20th deaths

    11-02-1913 - Burt Lancaster - NYC - d. 10-20-1994
    actor: "Ford Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-05-1905 - Joel McCrea - South Pasadena, CA - d. 10-20-1990
    actor: Jace Pearson "Tales of the Texas Rangers"
    11-07-1883 - Solomon Lightfoot Michaux - Newport News, VA - d.
    10-20-1968
    preacher: "Elder Michaux's Happiness Church Service"
    11-23-1919 - Andrew Ackers - d. 10-20-1978
    orchestra leader: "The National Guard Show"
    11-29-1917 - Merle Travis - Muhlenberg County, KY - d. 10-20-1983
    singer, guitarist: "Hollywood Barn Dance"
    12-10-1923 - Michael Gill - Winchester, England - d. 10-20-2005
    producer: Joined BBC in 1954
    12-12-1904 - Pete Pumiglio - d. 10-20-1996
    musician: "The Ipana Troubadors"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:42:03 +0000
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 21-27 Oct

     From Those Were The Days --

    1932 - Fred Allen made his radio debut. His wife, Portland Hoffa,
    joined  him on the CBS broadcast. Allen's comedy-variety program was known
    as The  Linit Bath Club Revue. It then became The Salad Bowl Revue, then,
    The Sal Hapatica Revue, The Hour of Smiles, Town Hall Tonight, The Texaco
    Star Theatre and finally, someone with just a bit of sense, came up with
    The Fred Allen Show. The comedic legend stayed on radio for 17 years.

    10/24

    1929 - The Rudy Vallee Show was broadcast for the first time on NBC.
    Actually, the Rudy Vallee show had several different titles over the years,
    all of which were referred to by the public as The Rudy Vallee
    Show.  Megaphone-totin' Rudy and his Connecticut Yankees band were
    mainstays on radio into the late 1940s.

    10/25

    1937 - Stella Dallas made her debut on the NBC Red network. Stella hung out
    on NBC until 1955 with Anne Elstner in the title role for the entire
    run.  Stella Dallas was "A continuation on the air of the true-life story
    of  mother love and sacrifice, in which Stella saw her own beloved
    daughter,  Laurel, marry into wealth and society, and realizing the
    difference in  their tastes and worlds, went out of Laurel's life."

    10/26

    1935 - A talented twelve-year-old sang on Wallace Beery's NBC show. Judy
    Garland delighted the appreciative audience. The young girl would soon be
    in pictures and at the top of stardom.

    10/27

    Marconi, Fessenden, and De Forest were the catalysts. However, it was an
    engineer for Westinghouse Electric who, in 1916, was broadcasting music
    from his garage (in Wilkinsburg, PA, a suburb of Pittsburgh) over a
    wireless (amateur radio station 8XK) who really got the whole thing
    started. A newspaper article about the broadcasts caused such interest that
    the head honchos at Westinghouse decided to build a real radio station.

    It took until this day in 1920 for the Westinghouse radio station to
    receive a license to broadcast. The license for KDKA, Pittsburgh came from
    the [removed] Department of Commerce. Although the license was officially issued
    on this day, KDKA did not start their broadcast operations for a week (they
    had to wait until the license was posted in the station). On November 2,
    1920, the station aired the returns of the Harding/Cox election ... the
    first radio programming to reach an audience of any size ... approximately
    1,000 people.

    1947 - This is Nora Drake premiered on NBC. Nora solved domestic, social
    and child-raising problems until January 2, 1959.

    1947 - "The one, the only Groucho" Marx appeared as quizmaster on You Bet
    Your Life for the first time -- on ABC. George Fenneman was Groucho's
    eternal straight man. Fenneman stayed with Marx during the program's run on
    radio (1948 - 1959.

    Joe

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    Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:42:40 +0000
    From: Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  FOTR, and what was the value of money in
      the radio age?

    I was at the FOTR convention Thursday,
    my second time in the last three years after a 20 year hiatus before
    that. It still amazes me how vibrant the hobby is, with the great
    assistance of digital technologies that have brought us a new
    audience. The celebrity guests are so devoted to the convention and
    the fans it is quite the love fest. It is just marvelous to see. I'm sorry
    I was only able to go just for the one day.

    Personally, I was able to meet
    childhood "hero" Chuck McCann who mixes so well with the crowd
    and has great affection for the medium though not technically part of
    it. He is just a marvelous guest. Just overhearing his chatter
    with the other guests and their mutual acquaintances was entertaining.

    Many of you know that I write an
    economics column for a printing industry web site. In there, I deal
    with various issues like inflation. So with that in mind I always
    find it amusing when guests at the convention talk about what they
    were paid at various points in their careers and then hearing the
    oohs and ahhs from the audience about how little it was. It usually
    wasn't so little.

    The issue also comes up when listening
    to OTR. How many murders are committed to inherit a $50,000 estate,
    or to collect on a $10,000 insurance policy?

    With that in mind, I went to the Bureau
    of Labor, one of the first things I looked for was what Bing Crosby's
    salary was in 1931. His then $4,000 per week salary is $54,000 a week
    in today's dollars, a handsome $[removed] million annually. Think of what he'd
    be making today if he could only play shortstop :)

    At the convention, it was mentioned
    that Fred Ziv was pay non-star TV actors $80 per [removed] that would be
    about $625 a day in today's [removed] a very good [removed] if you could
    work
    regularly. If someone was getting $300 a week in 1955, that was $2300 a week.

    Here are some selected years and what
    to multiply them by if you hear of someone being murdered on Suspense
    for the insurance money, or someone being arrested by the FBI for
    stealing something that would seem petty by today's standards:

    1940: [removed] (so if it's $10,000,
    multiply it by [removed] and you get $149,000)

    1945: [removed]

    1950: [removed]

    1955: [removed]

    1960: [removed]

    Some may remember a note I wrote about
    this question concerning Johnny Dollar's expense account last year.
    Johnny's expense account today would be a lot different today,
    because technology has changed the nature of airfare. In fact, that
    was his biggest expense. But yes, he did pad his account, but that
    show is very funny when you hear the barrage of minor [removed] but
    keep these inflation numbers in mind when listening.

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    Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:42:53 +0000
    From: "belanger" <belanger@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Missing ILAM Episodes

         I've enjoyed OTR for decades, but there is still some of it's history
    I'm not up on. Here's what I don't understand about the poorly recorded or
    missing I Love A Mystery shows: Why are they missing in the first place? I
    understand that Carlton Morse had a separate guest house on his estate
    devoted to his career memorabilia collection.  As meticulous as Morse was
    in preserving his memorabilia, and with the power he had in dealing with
    the networks and advertisers, did he not have his own personal recordings
    of everything? And even if, for some reason, all of the west coast shows
    were not in his possession, there was the entire second opportunity with
    the east coast run! So why are they missing? Is it possible that the Morse
    Estate actually does have them all and just refuses to release tham?

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    Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:43:26 +0000
    From: Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Is Lt. Danny Clover on Suspense?

    Now that we're
    tired of the "is/'s" controversy, is Larry Thor playing Lt. Danny
    Clover (of Broadway Is/Broadway's My Beat) on a Suspense episode? If i'm
    remembering it right when I
    listened the other day, the lieutenant's name is never mentioned in the
    story, and is always referred to by his rank. I wonder if it was one of
    those inside jokes that we collectors love, or if it was planned to make
    the events more in keeping with the sense of NY that the other series was
    promoting. It was easy to have him play the part since he was on the
    program as announcer, anyway. Who better to play it, than someone
    already "active" on the NYC police force at the time? :) It is one of the
    better
    episodes of that part of Suspense's run.

    here's the radiogoldindex entry, which acknowledges the parallel:

    24211. Suspense. October 27, 1952. CBS net. "Allen In Wonderland".
    Sponsored by: Auto-Lite. A southern lawyer in New York quotes a bit of
    Lewis Carroll in a train station, and finds himself involved in Balkan
    intrigue! Larry Thor and Charles Calvert play New York policemen in the
    exact same accents they were using on their own show "Broadway Is My
    Beat," which was then on CBS! Richard Chandlee (adaptor), Truda Marson,
    Larry Thor (announcer, performer), Lucien Moraweck (composer), Lud Gluskin
    (conductor), Elliott Lewis (producer, director), Harlow Wilcox (commercial
    spokesman), Jack Kruschen, Joseph Kearns, Charles Calvert, Clayton Post,
    Cornel Wilde, Curt Singer (author), Edgar Barrier. 29:34. Audio condition:
    Excellent. Complete.

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    Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:44:20 +0000
    From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Another bit of [removed]

    There is one more very brief bit of ILAM from the Your Daytime Radio
    Newspaper of November 3, 1943.
    It is a 20-second spot announcement.  Here is what is looks like in my
    [removed]

    Your daytime radio newspaper (later called Crisco Radio Newspaper, with
    Bernardine Flynn and Durward Kirby):
    November 3, 1943. After program is promo for I Love a Mystery [20 seconds].

    Information from Brian Misiaszek: "It seems that the show in question is
    one of the interior episodes of the Hollywood version of MY BELOVED IS A
    VAMPIRE, which ran October 4 to November 5. This is a show which has only
    one surviving episode, the final one from the second run of the [removed]"

    I have this from an ET discarded by WNAX, Yankton, South Dakota.

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

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    Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:44:39 +0000
    From: afanofoldradio@[removed]
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  teresa brewer 1931-2007
    X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative
    X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain

    It has been announced that singer Teresa Brewer, who made regular
    appearences on the "Major Bowes Amatuer Hour" from 1938 to 1943, has died
    in New Rochelle, [removed] at age 76 of brain palsy on October [removed]

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    Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:44:56 +0000
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-21 births/deaths

    October 21st births

    10-21-1892 - Gummo Marx - NYC  - d. 4-21-1977
    comedian: (Marx Brothers) "American Review"
    10-21-1905 - Carleton Young - NYC - d. 11-7-1994
    actor: Dick Grosvenor "Stella Dallas"; Ellery Queen "Advs of Ellery
    Queen"
    10-21-1907 - Jack Holden - Alba, MI - d. 6-xx-1971
    announcer: "National Barn Dance"; "Uncle Ezra"
    10-21-1908 - Tommy Riggs - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 5-21-1967
    comedian: "Fleischmann Hour"; "Quaker Party with Tommy Riggs"; "Tommy
    Riggs and Betty Lou"
    10-21-1913 - Jack McElroy - Kansas - d. 3-2-1959
    announcer, host: "Bride and Groom"; "Breakfast at Sardi"s"
    10-21-1917 - Dizzy Gillespie - Cherow, SC - d. 1-6-1993
    musician: "This Is Jazz"
    10-21-1920 - Hy Averback - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-14-1997
    announcer, actor: "Sealtest Village Store"; "Bob Hope Show"; "Take It
    or Leave It"
    10-21-1923 - Jean Gillespie - Boston, MA
    actor: Martha Piper "Tales of Willie Piper"; Inza Burrage "Advs. of
    Frank Merriwell"
    10-21-1924 - Julie Wilson - Omaha, NE
    vocalist: "Hollywood Showcase"
    10-21-1927 - Ray Brenner - California - d. 6-5-1995
    writer: "The Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"

    October 21st deaths

    01-03-1918 - Maxene Andrews - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-21-1995
    singer: (Andrews Sisters) "Andrews Sisters Revue"
    04-25-1900 - Gloria Ann Simpson - Cleveland, OH - d. 10-21-1956
    actor: "The NBC University Theatre"
    05-03-1910 - Curt Massey - Midland, TX - d. 10-21-1991
    singer: "Show Boat"; "Curt Massey Show"
    07-04-1888 - Henry Armetta - Palermo, Italy - d. 10-21-1945
    actor: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
    07-06-1923 - Marie McDonald - Westchester, NY - d. 10-21-1965
    actor: "Duffy's Tavern"; "Maxwell House Coffee Time"; "Proudly We Hail"
    07-07-1887 - Raymond Hatton - Red Oak, IA - d. 10-21-1971
    actor: Football Coach "Jack Oakie's College"
    08-14-1897 - Lal Chand Mehra - Amritsar, India - d. 10-21-1980
    actor: "I Love A Mystery"; "I Love Adventure"
    11-04-1911 - Jack Rose - Warsaw, Russian Empire - d. 10-21-1995
    writer: "The Bob Hope Show"
    11-25-1893 - Jack Frost - Boston, MA - d. 10-21-1959
    producer: "The National Barn Dance"
    11-30-1907 - Happy Felton - Bellevue, PA - d. 10-21-1964
    actor: "Pot 'O Gold"; "Finders Keepers"; "Stop the Music"
    12-06-1904 - Elissa Landi - Venice, Italy - d. 10-21-1948
    actor: "I'm An American"; "Lux Radio Theatre"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:43:45 +0000
    From: "Steve Jones" <stevpj@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  NBC's first few weeks

    Hi

    I am very interested in the early history of the networks and have read a
    lot on the subject, but I would like some clarification on a couple of points.

    Firstly, as I understand it, NBC Red began in November 1926 and NBC Blue in
    January 1927. NBC Blue took over from the earlier RCA network. What I would
    like to know is, between November 1926 and January 1927, what network, if
    any, fed the stations that had been affiliates of RCA and would become part
    of NBC Blue?

    Also, why did NBC Blue about six weeks later than NBC Red, even though it
    was always the intention for NBC to have two networks? Was it because the
    AT&T lines weren't in place for the Blue until January 1927?

    Many thanks

    Steve

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    Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:41:32 +0000
    From: Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  "hall of fame award"?

    There already is one: the Allen Rockford Award, given for about 25 years at
    the Friends of OTR Convention. Many past recipients are regularly active on
    this very newsletter.

    [ADMINISTRIVIA: Your obedient servant is proud and humbled to be a past
    recipient of this award.  --cfs3]

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    Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:44:48 +0000
    From: Ken Greenwald <kgradio@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Repeats and/or replays

    For what it is worth:

    There are a number of radio shows on ET at PPB that have the air date on
    them and then, in bold red letters stamped across the label REPLAYED and
    the date of the replay inked in on a line. These shows are from various
    series. Can't remember which as PPB is shut down for now and I can't get in
    to reference what I speak of. Do bear in mind that the networks would not
    allow any transcriptions or tapes to be played on the air. That is, until
    ABC started doing it with "transcribed earlier for presentation at this
    more convenient time." By 1950, NBC and CBS were finally allowing tapes and
    ETs to be played across the network.
    Hope this helps.

    Ken Greenwald

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    Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:44:06 +0000
    From: "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: The Coffin in Studio B

     > I just listened to The Coffin in Studio B, from the 1946 revival of
     > Lights Out using scripts by Arch Oboler.

    Well, actually all the scripts for the 1946 LO revival seem to be by
    Wyllis Cooper, except for the version of Dickens' "The Signal Man"
    which is by another author, for some reason -- maybe Martin Grams
    knows why. The script was very likely first broadcast in the mid-1930s
    though I notice it's been slightly updated for the 1940s (there's a
    throwaway reference to Orson Welles who wasn't a prominent radio
    figure when Cooper was writing the series in 1934-6).

     > I would swear one of the leads is Ernest Chappell, but he's not
     > mentioned in the cast listing at the end. Instead, I think "Bob
    Murphy"
     > is named for that character. Could this have been a pseudonym, for
     > some reason? Can anybody verify whether or not that actually is
     > Chappell in the part?

    I don't think it's Chappell but another announcer/actor with a similar
    voice. This LO revival was done from Chicago and announcer Bob Murphy
    worked there at the time (on Quiz Kids, for example). You can see a
    sampling of Murphy's credits at [removed] Not sure where
    Chappell was at that time but I would guess he was based elsewhere,
    probably New York.

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    Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:19:30 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Shadow

    Jason Loviglio asked:

>     I have a Shadow question: Does anyone remember the episode where the Shadow
>     comes into the prison cell to interrogate a prisoner and drives him to
>     insanity and suicide in the process?

    Though I'm not an expert of THE SHADOW at all, I would guess it to be one of
    two episodes:
    A PASS TO DEATH  (Feb. 6, 1944)
    or GUEST OF DEATH  (Dec. 18, 1938)

    I could be wrong, but those are educated guesses.
    Martin

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    Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:19:41 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  LIGHTS OUT

    Kermit asked about "Coffin in Studio B" episode of LIGHTS OUT.

    I would not be surprised if that was Ernest Chappel in the role because the
    script was written by Wyllic Cooper, the same man responsible for QUIET,
    PLEASE (thus the connection).  I would like to point out, however, that
    there was an announcer named Bob Murphy, according to Jim Cox's wonderful
    book, RADIO SPEAKERS.  Robert Leo Murphy was connected with KSTP, St. Paul,
    Minn., before he joined Don McNeil and his gang in Chicago.  Initially a
    sportscaster at KSTP in 1937, from 1940 to 1942 be was a newscaster.  In the
    summer of 1949, Murphy was master of ceremonies on NBC-TV's "[removed] AMERICA"
    originating in Chicago, a how-to Thursday night half-hour focused on plants
    and animals.  So it's possible that it's a real announcer by that name, but
    also possible Ernest Chappel played the role of an announcer named Bob
    Murphy.  The mystery grows . . .

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