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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 303

Table Of Contents: 

	 Boston Blackie
	 Re: otr on TV
	 Death of Radio/12 cassettes
	 who was she?
	 Who wrote Citizen Kane?
	 A Tale Well Calculated to Keep You in Suspense!
	 WCBS, WABC, etc.
	 Jean Shepherd
	 Re:  TV Lone Ranger

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Date: 27 Aug 96 17:09:00 -0400
From: amo@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Boston Blackie
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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Does anyone know where I can obtain a log for
Boston Blackie?

Arlene Osborne amo@[removed]

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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 17:41:39 -0400
From: Neubacher@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: otr on TV
Message-ID: <960827174138_511052152@[removed]>

William Conrad - Gunsmoke on Radio plus many other programs
Cannon, Nero Wolf, Jake and the Fat Guy etc on TV

Gale Gordon was also on Fibber McGee and Molly as Mayor Latrivia, and Wally
the weatherman

Bill Neubacher
NEUBACHER@[removed]

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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 16:50:57 -0500 (CDT)
From: Rhiman Rotz--IU Northwest <rrotz@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Death of Radio/12 cassettes
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	In all the talk about what happened to the OTR audience, so
far no one has mentioned what I think is the *real* reason why people
turned to TV in droves:  status.  I am old enough to remember the
coming of television to my part of the world (I was six years old in
1949).  What I mostly remember is that my father couldn't *stand*
it when his brother-in-law got a TV set (one of the Zeniths with the
round screen -- honest, I actually watched Uncle Miltie on it), and
couldn't wait till he got one.  Here in the US, as soon as a new
gadget is invented, people buy one to impress others, then the others
have to have one and so on.  Soon (as one poster at least implied) it
was just very low status ("un-cool," we'd
say a bit later) to be listening to radio rather than watching TV.
	As for the 12 cassettes for Mars question Andy Blatt asked:
Chuck Schaden says he always answers that type of question with
the "Lux Radio Theatre," and I've thought about it and he makes a
pretty good point.  You get good drama, famous stars, kind of a 
bonus in that you get reminded of good movies while you're listening
to radio, usually quite respectable acting and production, and so
on.  So I always try to take a couple of those along with me on long
car trips and I'm sure I'd take some to Mars.
		-- Rhiman Rotz

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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 21:13:58 -0500 (EST)
From: MORTN2HHC@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: who was she?
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Hi Gang,

Who was Mrs. Calabash?

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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 19:30:18 -0600
From: Chet Cox <CHCOX@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Who wrote Citizen Kane?
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Dick Lupoff sez:  They had an interview with Houseman in which he
talked about "Citizen Kane," and the fact that he'd basically written the
script, with input from Welles. But Welles was such a megalomaniac, he
insisted on grabbing script credit for the film. >>>

Does this mean that screenplay writer Herman Manischwetz (sp?) did
nothing after all?  [removed]

*jeep!
~~~Chet-EL

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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 20:37:49 -0700
From: Jim Kitchen <jkitchen@[removed]>
To: Old Time Radio Digest <otr@[removed]>
Subject: A Tale Well Calculated to Keep You in Suspense!
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I just listened to "Pearls are a Nuisance" starring Ray Milland original 
broadcast 4/20/50, a light hearted story written by Raymond Chandler and 
adapted for radio by Ronald MacDougal.  At the end of the program, 
Harlow Wilcox thanked Readers of Radio Mirror magazine for voting 
Suspense the Best Mystery Program for the second year in a row!  Top 
quality stories starring famous Hollywood personalities made Suspense an 
outstanding program which lasted for 20 years from 1942 to 1962.  Truly, 
an old time radio classic!! 

Jim Kitchen

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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 23:57:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: WCBS, WABC, etc.
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 12:51:56 -0500
> From: Joe Salerno <jsalerno@[removed]>
> To: "'[removed]@[removed]'" <[removed]@[removed]>
> Subject: WABC
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> 
> I have a transcription dated 1938, taken down by a private studio from =
> station WABC in NYC. I'm a little confused bythis apparent conflict of =
> info, and I thought ABC didn't even exist until the early 40s- IO =
> couldbe wrong on that one.
> 
> Maybe someone can add somerthing to this? Or just subtract =
> someconfusion.

OK, one more time.  One upon a time there was a radio station in New York
called WABC.  It was the CBS flagship station.  Once upon a time there was
another radio station in New York called WEAF.  It was the NBC Red Network
flagship station.  Once upon a time in New York there was another radio
station called WJZ.  It was the NBC Blue Network flagship station.

Once upon a time, the government made NBC sell the Blue Network.  In 1943
or so, the Blue Network became the American Broadcasting Company (ABC).
Its flagship station in New York was still WJZ.

Then, in 1946, WEAF became WNBC.  A few hours later, WABC became WCBS.  A
few years later, WJZ became WABC.  So the station that used to be WABC
changed its call letters and is not WABC any longer.  And a station that
didn't used to be WABC changed its call letters and became WABC.  It's as
easy as ABC.<g>

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A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                                      617/367-0468
15 Court Square                                   lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2573                    [removed]~lawyer/
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 03:34:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: MAX SCHMID <mschmid@[removed]>
To: airwavesOTR <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Jean Shepherd
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	I'm curious whether anyone knows about Jean Shepherd's syndicated
shows.  In how many markets was he heard?  I'm aware of rebroadcasts in 
Boston, Florida, and possibly Chicago (or some other mid-western market).
Does anyone know of others?
	I am also interested in trading for any shows I don't have, and I have
many available for sale or trade, or I'll trade OTR for them.  
	For those who have never had the pleasure of hearing him, Shep is 
a master storyteller and humorist (Garrison Kiellor wishes he was Shepherd!)
He would often ramble off in many directions and then tie all the loose ends
up into a neat package by the end of the broadcast.  He was heard on WOR in
NYC from about 1959 to 1976.  He often told tales of his boyhood and the 
adventures with his pals Flick and Schwartz, and often peppered his stories
with names of characters from Paul Rhymer's world of Vic & Sade.
	At some point, he established a pre-satellite distribution "network"
by which interested stations (I assume these were non-commercial, but not 
sure) would rebroadcast the shows after all commercials had been removed.
The earlier examples I've heard of these seem to vary in length from 35-40
minutes, but by 1976 they were down to a tight 30" format.  The distribution
system, which I assume was by mail, was known as "bicycling", a reference 
to early movie distribution in which reels were carried by messenger boys on
bicycles from theatre to theatre to save money on prints.
	His stories were frequently featured in Playboy in the sixties 
and seventies, and he had a few best-selling compilations of these stories.
(I'm looking for any of these as well, will buy or trade).  There were a few
PBS movies made from his work, followed by a series called Jean 
Shepherd's America, in which he visited various cities.  He later did a show
for New Jersey Public TV, which may have been called "On The Road".
	His hit movie "A Christmas Story" was followed up last year by a flop
called It Runs in the Family (or A Summer Story, and also It Runs in My 
Family), which is still shown occasionally on Showtime, etc.
	There are two webpages devoted to him as well, that have been 
mentioned here previously.
	And in the NYC area, you can hear one show a week, starting between
5:15 and 5:30 AM Tuesday mornings at the tail-end of a rather good (IMHO)
radio show called Mass Backwards.
	I would appreciate hearing any additions, corrections, and leads 
to more material, either here or in private e-mail.  Many thanks.  -Max

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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 08:13:02 -0400
From: Michael Carraher <carraher@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re:  TV Lone Ranger
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Alan Chapman wrote:

>Michael --- The Lone Ranger TV narrator WAS Fred Foy.  In fact, Fred tells
>an anecdote of how he taped his narrationin Detroit (he was still
>working at WXYZ) and air-mailed it to Hollywood each week. He never met any
>of the TV cast until he met Clayton Moore at a convention many years after
>the program went out of production.

Sorry, Alan there WAS another narrator.  Originally, he did the opening
narration ("A firey [removed]") and plot narration in specific episodes. 
At some point, Fred Foy's voice was used for the opening, and plot
narration within the story-line was dropped (a narrator on TV show is
not really that necessary).  When the program ceased production and went
into syndicated re-runs, Fred Foy's voice was used for the opening on
all episodes (including the earlier ones).  But within the episode, you
can still hear the voice of the original (uncredited) narrator. 
Narration was not used in all episodes, and was being used occasionally
by the time John Hart left the program and Clayton Moore returned.  By
the time Wrather bought the character from George W. Trendle (and the
program was filmed in color), the narrator was no longer used (also
dropped was the musical bridges used in the radio show from Republic
Pictures, except for the William Tell Overture).
The Lone Ranger is currently broadcast on Encore 2 (Westerns), two
episodes each afternoon starting about 4 [removed] ET (times vary).  Episodes
-- including the pilot/origin story -- are available on video.  Hear for
yourself.
Now, regarding the TV narrator:  Who was that man?




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