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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 257


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 Radio City Playhouse
	 An invitation ...
	 In search of even more Superman info.
	 Re: Suspense on TV
	 The Lottery
	 [Fwd: Speed Gibson]
	 SUSPENSE ON TV
	 When Radio Was Programming

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Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 10:52:56 +0000
From: "George S. Cole" <gscole@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Radio City Playhouse
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

If any of you dealers out there have "Radio City Playhouse" on 
cassette, please notify me by E-mail so that we can do some business.

George s. Colw

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Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 11:22:31 -0500
From: Lou Genco <lgenco@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: An invitation ...
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

New subscribers to the Internet OTR Digest are invited to visit the
award-winning Original Old-Time Radio WWW Pages, and peruse the megabytes of
information related to old time radio.  Enjoy using today's computer
technology to reflect upon "the" entertainment medium of yesteryear.

Lou
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WWW page on "Old Time Radio":                   [removed]
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Date: 21 Jul 1996 11:42:36 CST
From: [removed]@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: In search of even more Superman info.
Message-Id: <m0ui1aE-000YQvC@[removed]>

Hi, all Fred said that he sent a lot of box tops in for those superman
premiums. So did you get the walkie talkie and did it really really
work? Does anyone have the complete story line for the Superman episodes
with Batman and Robin?

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Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 18:36:48 GMT
From: rwright@[removed] (Richard Wright)
To: [removed]@[removed], marty_dzik@[removed]
Subject: Re: Suspense on TV
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

>After listening to a Suspense episode in my collection, they mentioned that
>"if you have television in your area" to tune-in to the Suspense show on tv. 
>Does anyone have any details on this?  When was is on, time, day [removed] Also
>are there any shows available on videocassette?


According to _The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable
TV Shows 1946--Present_  Sixth Edition by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh

Suspense
  Dramatic Anthology
First Telecast: March 1, 1949
Last Telecast: September 9, 1964
Broadcast History:
  Mar 1949--Jun 1950, CBS Tue 9:30--10:00 (OS)
     [OS means off during summer months]
  Aug 1950--Aug 1954, CBS Tue 9:30--10:00
  Mar 1964--Sept 1964, CBS Wed 8:30--9:00

Host:	Sebastian Cabot (1964)

The television plays were broadcast live from New York and featured
many well-known Hollywood and Broadway [removed] the stories dealt
with people in dangerous and threatening situations of one kind or
another. Some were adaptations of classic horror tales like _Dr Jekyll
and Mr Hyde_, done in 1950 with Raph Bell in the lead role and again a
year later with Basil Rathbone. A version of _Suspicion_ starred
Ernest Truex and his wife, Sylvia Field.  William Prince had the lead
in _The Waxworks,_ John Forsythe in Robert Louis Stevenson's _The
Beach of Falsea,_ and Peter Lorre in _The Tortured [removed] Frequent
performers during the live run of the series were Nina Foch, Mildred
Natwick, Tom Drake, Barry Sullivan, and horror veterans Boris Karloff,
John Carradine, and Henry Hull.

Not all of the stories were of the horror genre. Though the works of
Poe and Lovecraft were adapted frequently, there were straight
mysteries by Charlotte Armstrong and Quentin Reynolds, among others.

In the spring of 1964, almost a full decade after the live version of
_Suspense_ left the air, a new series of filmed _Suspense_ dramas
arrived on CBS with Sebastian Cabot as host (there had never been a
regular host for the live show). Some of the stars of the new
[removed] Marshall, James Daly, Basil Rathbone, and Skip
Homeier--were returning home, as they had also starred in episodes of
the live series in the 1950s. By the end of June, however, there were
no new episodes being produced. Although it was still called
_Suspense,_ and Sebastian Cabot remained as host, all of the telecasts
aired from July to September were actually reruns from _Schlitz
Playhouse of [removed]


>From _Harry and Wally's Favorite TV Shows_ by Harry Castelman & Walter
J. Podrazik
Suspense--30 min (23 ep B&W; 1964 CBS) The 1964 revival of _Suspense_
(the only video version still available).

However,  I have no info on what episodes are available on video



There were also two other similarly titled but unrelelated TV shows---

Suspense Playhouse--60 min--CBS--May 24, 1971 to July 5, 1971--Pilot
films that were rebroadcasts of series projects originally aired via
_Premiere_ (proposed dramas for the 1968-69 season) which included
such pilots as _Lassiter_ with Burt Reynolds and _Call to Danger_ with
Peter Graves (which became Mission: Impossible).

Suspense Theater--60 min--Syndicated 1969--Anthology--Retitled
episodes of _The Bob Hope Chrysler Theatre_ and _The Kraft Suspense
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Richard
aka rwright@[removed]

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Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 19:05:50 -0500 (EST)
From: MORTN2HHC@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Lottery
Message-id: <01I7CG0U9FB69381GT@[removed]>

Hi gang,

I just finished hearing Marion Seldes reading "The Lottery" by
Shirley Jackson.  I was wondering if there is a otr show that
dramatized it.  It sent chills up and down my spine just
listening to her.  I can imagine what it would have been like
with appropriate sound effect etc.

                              Mort

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Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 17:42:04 -0700
From: Jack Mann <jmann@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: [Fwd: Speed Gibson]
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

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To the Digest: A while back I asked for info on Speed Gibson in order
to do a log. One person who responded was Jay Hickerson, and I'm for-
warding his note. I'm still interested in Speed, however. Does anyone
have any dates for these shows?
Jack
[removed] Under the heading "Favorite Lines" comes the following from the
Pat Novak For Hire show titled "Go Away, Dixie" aired sometime in 1949:
"...the door to my apartment opened and the place began to get kinda
crowded. From where I sat the crowd looked good. She sauntered in moving
slowly from side to side like 118 pounds of warm smoke."

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Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 10:47:09 -0400
Message-ID: <960714104709_433880292@[removed]>
To: jmann@[removed]
Subject: Speed Gibson

Jack.  Jim Stringham has already written a complete log on Speed Gibson.
 Jim's address is 220 Denver Ave., Lansing, MI 48910  (517) 393-3462.  I am
selling the Speed Gibson Log and the Ghost Corps log which he also did for $2
to cover copying and postage.  If you want information on other logs, books
and a newsletter I write, please e-mail me your mailing address or FAX
number.  Jay Hickerson, Box 4321, Hamden, CT 06514  (203) 248-2887 FAX (203)
281-1322. 


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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 00:58:03 -0400
From: Tom Kleinschmidt <tomkle@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: SUSPENSE ON TV
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

>Marty Dzik wrote:
>Hello:
>After listening to a Suspense episode in my collection, they mentioned
>that "if you have television in your area" to tune-in to the Suspense show
>on tv. Does anyone have any details on this?  When was is on, time, day
>[removed] Also are there any shows available on videocassette?

Marty and all,

        The SUSPENSE TV series ran for almost 5 years from 1949 to 1954. I
have 4 episodes on videotape in my collection. Those 4 are very uneven
shows, two are very much like the radio series with a bit of surprise
ending. The other two are rather weak. All of the shows suffer from the
early days of live TV's problems with very cheap sets and props. The TV
versions of LIGHTS OUT and INNER SANCTUM were very much the same. They're
still interesting to watch and since the SUSPENSE show ran 5 years it must
have had some good shows. There was also another short lived series called
SUSPENSE in the early 1960's, but I don't know if it was based on the radio
series.


Tom

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Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 10:41:33 -0700
From: [removed]@[removed] (Donald Dortmund)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: When Radio Was Programming
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

  I have this list from Chuck Schaden's OTR Radio Guide  (in Chicago)
  
  
  When Radio Was
  M-F
  7-22 Six Shooter              Charlie McCarthy pt1
  7-23 Charlie McCarthy pt2     SGT Preston
  7-24 Suspense                 Fibber McGee pt1
  7-25 Fibber McGee pt2         Damon Runyon Theatre
  7-26 Lone Ranger              Lum & Abner
  7-29 The Shadow               Great Gildersleeve  pt1
  7-30 Great Gildersleeve  pt2  Hermit's Cave
  7-31 Boston Blackie           Our Miss Brooks pt1
  

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