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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 226


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	
	 Jack Ben Franklin
	 what is "otr"?
	 Radio Scripts
	 AFRTS makes a old time radio fan!
	 I Love a Mystery:  the Fear that Creeps
	 ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Size

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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 11:44:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Salmi <SALMI@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Message-id: <01I6BP0I6QIQ8Y4ZSC@[removed]>

REVIEW [removed]

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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 09:44:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: ulrich@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Jack Ben Franklin
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

In OTR Digest #225, JackBenny@[removed] wrote:

>"A penny saved is a penny earned."
>--Laura Lee
>International Jack Benny Fan Club

Shouldn't that be "A Benny saved is a Benny earned"?

--Charles

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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 13:44:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Randy Minnehan <rminneha@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: what is "otr"?
Message-ID: <[removed]@login>

Hi [removed]

   A couple of otr digests ago, Jack Mann made the comment "I know ZERO
HOUR isn't [removed]"  I'd just like to comment of this.  I know it's been
discussed here before, but I feel the term "otr" is in the eye of the
beholder.  Yeah, ZERO HOUR is from 1974, and for some of you this seems
like yesterday, but in my book, a radio show made 22 years ago IS otr. I
also consider THE CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATRE and NIGHTFALL and even
VANISHING POINT otr.  All of these are in the past, they're not making
them anymore, and I consider them to be "old-time radio".  I wasn't around
for the "golden days of radio" and these shows I've just mentioned are
from MY "days gone by" or "remember when" time period.  Like I said, I
think it's in the eye of the beholder.  My thoughts, my opinions.

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|Randy Minnehan - rminneha@[removed]|
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 14:12:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Charlie Matkin <cmatkin@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Radio Scripts
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Donald Dortmund asked about sources for Radio Scripts. My former partner in
New Orleans Radio Theatre, Inc. is closing out his extensive supply of
scripts. You may contact him as follows:

John Barber
[removed] Box 70711
New Orleans, LA 70116

(504) 943-6091
Charlie Matkin

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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 19:19:40 -0400
From: Weteach2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: AFRTS makes a old time radio fan!
Message-ID: <960625191935_564019069@[removed]>

Greetings!

 I want to introduce myself and thank you for this service.  This is the
first E-mail group I've tried and I'm sure enjoying it.  My wife and I are in
the 20/30 range and I was the one to introduce her to OTR when we got married
3 years ago.
 
 I grew up an army brat.  Moving every 3 years was the way I was raised.  My
first exposure to OTR was through the AFRTS (Armed Forced Radio and
Television Service) when my father was stationed in Germany   I was in 11th
grade and we were living on the "economy" (off post in a small German
community.)  With no friends nearby and no American TV, my main form of
entertainment was laying in bed and listening to the radio: 
  
 "Jello again, this is Jack Benny [removed]"
 "A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of [removed]"
 "Raise the flag for Hudson High [removed]"
 "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?"

 I would do odd jobs to save up for 98 cent cassette tapes and record these
shows.  That's how my collection of 500+ cassettes and many reel-to-reels
began.  Now that I'm married, I don't spend as much time on my hobby as I
used to, but I look forward to dimming listening to OTR shows with the baby
that's on the way.  It's part of Americana that I want to see passed on for
many generations to come!

Phil & Christine

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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 18:25:07 -0600
From: Chet Cox <CHCOX@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: I Love a Mystery:  the Fear that Creeps
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

(Before we start, I'm doing this during a break at work.  No references
nearby, and written at a breakneck pace.  If I misspell some names or get
some minor fact wrong, I apologize.  That said, let's go!)

Received the new *I LOVE A MYSTERY* serial arc, "the Fear that Creeps
Like a Cat" last night and can safely say that it's worth every penny of
the $[removed] + postage it'll set you back.  No, it's not perfect.  But it _is_ a
very effective ILAM show.

When we listened to "the Thing that Cries in the Night" (I'll say it again, did
Morse have a thing for long titles?) five years ago, we laughed loud and
long during the opening episode.  "Doc" Long (what the heck _was_ his
real first name?) was overpleased with himself for outfighting a mountain
lion.  We often wished we could hear the adventure which Doc, Jack, &
Reggie conversed about, each in their own distinct way.  "The Fear that
Creeps Like a Cat" is that lost adventure, and it begins with our boys
getting in over their heads quite literally.  (glub, gulp)  Alexander Archer
is missing, declared dead.  The Big-Time Insurance Company doesn't
want to pay the $1,000,000 claim - therefore they hire the Three
Comrades to find ol' Alex.  Our boys quickly learn that there have been
_other_ insurance investigators which met a grim fate ahead of them.  
And find themselves led from deep waters over narrow cliff trails,
through tunnels, to an impossible castle on a sunken island.

One has to stop and wonder about this insurance company.  Sure, the
$1,000,000 would be $10,000,000 to $100,000,000 by today's
standards, but how much money have they been throwing away on their
investigators?  Obviously, two things have to be true:  1 - they don't
insure their own investigators, and 2 - they haven't called on Johnny
Dollar.

Les (Jack) Tremayne's voice does show some sign of age, and there is
some shakiness from time to time.  This is more than compensated by the
range of emotions he projects.  Russell Thornton, IMHO, got the "tough
guy" aspect of Jack Packard down pat -- but he never went beyond that.
 Jack, per Thornton, had no real depth to his [removed] he felt,
alternatively, annoyed or angry.  Even when he laughed, he didn't sound
_amused_.  Tremayne's Jack not only seems more rounded, but there
are times he actually sounds a bit afraid.  This may be sacrilege to ILAM
fans of Jack's presentation as the Ultimate Tough Guy.  Nonetheless, it
adds suspense -- the menace seems more real when even Jack is
concerned.

"Doc" is portrayed by Tony Clay and honest to my gran'ma if he don't
sound a lot like Jim Bowes (sp?)!  If you're not familiar with ILAM or Jim
Bowes, lemme jes' say that Doc's the only one of the bunch who doesn't
have much of an accent.  Speaks real normal-like, y'hear?  His character
is defined as interested in fights, poker, and pretty women -- pretty much
in that order.  Many of ILAM's adventures begin because of Doc and his
impetuousness.  He's a reactor, not one who thinks before acting, and
considers the consequences of any action only when held down by
Jack &/or Reggie.

Reggie doesn't come off quite as well in this version.  Part of that may be
the fact that a new actor, Bresee, was brought in at the 11th hour to
re-dub the part.  It's noticeable if you know what to listen for (and now
I've spoiled it for you!) or if you have a trained ear.  Most OTR fen have
trained their ears, so I doubt I've really spoiled it for any of [removed]  Reggie
does come across less like a dandy (which was much of the humour in
the past, when this *dandy* would punch out a Hulk) and more like an
acquaintance of James Bond'[removed] a David Niven.
The story is just what you expect from Carlton Morse.  Chilling at times,
thrilling at times, yet he always remembers to pause from time to
[removed] only to catch our breath, but to make the suspenseful sections
- well, more suspenseful.  And, as always, it seems evident that Morse
didn't always know where he was going until he got there.  There are
the usual inconsistencies (not as many as in *Thing that Cries in the
Night*) as we go along.  As usual, he gets us there so fast we usually
don't notice.

It's fun.  It's violent!  It's the return of a long-loved favorite, and it's the last
hope we have for new episodes.  With the Morse estate, actors,
overhead, etc eating up costs, it would take a very large number of sales
to make further new episodes worth the time and effort.  I don't hold out
any realistic hopes -- but I will be ordering further copies.  It's available
from Jim Harmon at 634 So. Orchard Dr, Burbank, CA 91506.  Sorry, but
this is the ONLY ILAM set of tapes he can sell yuh.  I think he'd ask for
around $4 for postage & handling.  Can't say as I blame him.

'Til next time, remember that using 1/3 or less of the Ovaltine which the
directions call for (about 1 tsp or less) still gives you that "good for yuh!"
chocolatey taste, without all the brown scum floating to the top of yore
milk.


 
*jeep!
~~~~Chet
---------------------------------------------------
"Man is that he might have joy," so
pull a prank on a co-worker today.
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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 18:07:09 -0500 (CDT)
From: AIRWAVES MEDIA <rrb@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed] (Old Time Radio)
Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Size
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

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