Subject: [removed] Digest V2018 #57
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Date: 10/5/2018 4:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2018 : Issue 57
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Death Valley Days                     [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]
      People are Funny                      [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]
      Re: Captain Midnight premiums in Ova  [ <skallisjr@[removed]; ]
      Dominic Cancila and Ovaltine          [ Radioclass <radioclass@[removed] ]

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    Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 14:56:52 -0400
    From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Death Valley Days
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>     Death Valley Days was renamed Death Valley Sheriff in 1944 and The
>     Sheriff in 1945. And Ruth Woodman continued to write the scripts. She
>     even wrote scripts when Death Valley Days became a TV show. Buy some 20
>     Mule Team Borax in commemoration.

    And when Death Valley Days was a TV show, near the end of its run, it
    was hosted by Ronald Reagan, until shortly before he started running for
    governor of California in 1966.

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

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    Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 14:57:19 -0400
    From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  People are Funny
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>     Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 21:41:19 -0400
>     From: Joe Mackey<joemackey108@[removed];

>       From Those Were The Days

>     10/1

>     1942   People Are Funny went on the air with host Art Baker.

    According to Art Linkletter, in his book "People are Funny," the show
    was originally created by him and John Guidel, and was initially
    co-hosted by Linkletter and Art Baker.  At some point, Art Baker said
    that he felt that the two were incompatible, and either he or Linkletter
    had to go.  Since it was a new show that had not yet established itself,
    and Linkletter was a newcomer to network radio, while Art Baker was a
    more established personality, Linkletter left the show.  At some later
    time, possibly after the show was renewed for a full season, they felt
    able to let Art Baker go and make Art Linkletter the sole host, as he
    continued to be for the rest of the show's run on radio and television.

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

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    Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 15:01:42 -0400
    From: <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Captain Midnight premiums in Ovaltine
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    Dominick Cancilla asks,

>     The recent movie The House with a Clock in Its Walls involves a
>     character who is a fan of the Captain Midnight show. There is a
>     scene in the film where the boy gets a bottle of Ovaltine and dumps
>     it out to get a decoder badge. Were decoder premiums ever actually
>     placed in products like this? My impression was that they were
>     always mail-away items.

    The Captain Midnight "decoders," actually known as Code-O-Grsphs, were
    indeedmail-away items, as were all the premiums  from the radio show.
    The Code-O-Graphs were issued in 1941 and 1942.  The shortage  of metal
    because of wartime restrictions, prevented models from being issued for
    1943 and 1944, but they resumed in 1945 through 1949.  Through 1946, they
    were in the form of badges.  The last three were pocket items.
    Having premiums within sponsors ' products was something prevalent in the
    television  age.

    Stephen A Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 15:02:26 -0400
    From: Radioclass <radioclass@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Dominic Cancila and Ovaltine

    "The [removed] children's radio series Little Orphan Annie (1931'<<196>>"1940) and
    Captain Midnight (1938'<<196>>"1949), and the subsequent Captain Midnight TV series
    (1954'<<196>>"1956), were sponsored by Ovaltine. They had promotions in which
    listeners could save proofs-of-purchase from Ovaltine jars to obtain radio
    premiums, such as "secret decoder ring" badges, or pins that could be used to
    decode messages in the program. Children from the time may remember that
    "Ovaltine" is an anagram for "Vital One"."

    Anne Walker

     ***** WARNING! UNHANDLED BAD CHARACTER!!!!!

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