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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 276
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <jerryhaendiges@cha ]
      RE: Suspense's recycled scripts       [ "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@[removed] ]
      SUSPENSE                              [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Re: Suspense's recycled scripts       [ Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed]; ]
      12-3 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Re: Suspense's Recycled Scripts       [ Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed]; ]
      Re: Suspense's Recycled Scripts       [ Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed]; ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
      Hear the December Birthday personali  [ rscherago@[removed] ]

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    Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 22:24:41 -0500
    From: Jerry Haendiges <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

    Hi Friends,

    Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you
    may listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage
    Radio Theatre," Big John Matthews and Steve "Archive" Urbaniak's "The
    Glowing Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same Station."  Streamed in
    high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at [removed]
    Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    ALL STAR PARADE OF BANDS
    5-7-55    "Louis Armstrong"
    Host: Fred Collins
    NBC United States Treasury Department

    THE FREE COMPANY
    Episode 6    3-30-41    "The Ox-Bow Incident"
    Host and Star: Burgess Meredith.
    Stars: Harry Cary, Tim Holt, Bill Davidson.
    Author: Walter Van Tilberg Clark
    CBS Sustained Sundays 2:00 - 2:30 pm
    Stories of The Bill Of Rights

    TOWN HALL TONIGHT
    "The Fred Allen Show"
    Episode 57 11-6-35 "Wild Women Of The Wilderness"
    NBC Ipana - Sal Hepatica Wednesdays 9:00 - 10:00pm
    Stars: Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa
    Announcer: Ken Roberts
    With: James Melton
    ==================================

    HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

    FAMILY THEATRE
    (MBS) 07/13/49 "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville.
    Stars Dane Clark, and Henry Hull. Celeste Holm is hostess.

    DR. SIXGUN
    (NBC) 09/23/54 "The Harvey Fraser Story"

    THE CINNAMON BEAR
    (Syndicated) 11/29/37
    This is the first chapter of the 71-year old children's Christmas radio
    serial.
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    THE GLOWING DIAL

    Happy Thanksgiving!

    The Answer Man - "Thanksgiving Questions"
    originally aired November 23, 1944 on WOR / MUTUAL
    Starring: Albert Mitchell as The Answer Man.
    Sponsor: Trommer's White Label Beer

    Family Theater - "Home For Thanksgiving"
    originally aired November 27, 1947 on MUTUAL
    Starring: Paul Henreid, Joan Leslie, Charles Boyer hosts, Tony LoFrano
    announcing.
    Sustained

    Casey: Crime Photographer - "After Turkey, The Bill"
    originally aired November 27, 1947 on CBS
    Starring: Staats Cotsworth, Jan Miner, John Gibson, Tony Marvin announcing.
    Sponsor: Anchor-Hocking Glass Corporation

    Anthology - "The Story Of Thanksgiving"
    originally aired November 21, 1954 on WRCA, NY
    Starring: Agnes Moorehead, Fred Waring Glee Club, New England
    Conservatory Alumni Chorus, Fleetwood announcing.
    Sustained

    The Adventures Of Sam Spade - "The Terrified Turkey Caper"
    originally aired November 24, 1950 on NBC
    Starring: Steven Dunne, Lurene Tuttle, Dick Joy announcing.
    Produced, Edited & Directed by William Spier (Suspense).
    Music by Lud Gluskin.
    Sustained
    ==================================

    If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

          Jerry Haendiges

          Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
          The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
          Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on
    the Net

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    Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 22:25:16 -0500
    From: "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  RE: Suspense's recycled scripts

>     Subject:  Suspense's recycled scripts

>     I have posted a spreadsheet of these with Suspense broadcast
>     dates and titles

    To your spreadsheet you can add
    On Stage
    01/08/1953	Beirut by Sunrise	by Richard Chandlee

    Suspense
    05/31/1955	Beirut by Sunrise by Richard Chandlee

    Signing off for now,

    Stewart

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    Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 22:25:36 -0500
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  SUSPENSE

    To answer Joe's question, there are probably a few more episodes that were involved with script repeats.
    Many radio programs are still elusive. For all we know, half a dozen episodes of The Thin Man were
    incorporated into SUSPENSE scritps in later years. So much more is still being discovered and unearthed
    thanks to long hours of research, so the exact number will probably grow as the years pass.

    Many script writers reused the same plots and changed the names of fictional characters so they could
    come up with a new script quickly. INNER SANCTUM, for example, the script writers would change the sex
    of the main protagonist from male to female and the names of the characters assuming the radio audience
    would not remember. Sometime even the titles were changed. Sometimes a Mr. District Attorney script became
    a Public Defender script.

    In short, the scripts could be reused in their entirety or partial with major revisions. I have no doubt
    there will be more discovered in the coming years.
    Martin

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    Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 22:25:48 -0500
    From: Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Suspense's recycled scripts

    Stewart Wright advised me of another (it was in Martin G's book and I missed
    it!)

    On Stage
    01/08/1953    Beirut by Sunrise by Richard Chandlee

    Suspense
    05/31/1955    Beirut by Sunrise by Richard Chandlee

    My spreadsheet at
    [removed]
    has been updated accordingly

    Thanks Stewart!
    JWW

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    Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 22:25:58 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-3 births/deaths

    December 3rd births

    12-03-1857 - Joseph Conrad - Kiev, Russian Empire - d. 8-3-1924
    author: Many of his works adapted for radio
    12-03-1873 - Atwater Kent - Burlington, VT - d. 3-4-1949
    inventer and radio manufacturer: Maker of Atwater Kent radios
    12-03-1889 - Ferdinand Munier - San Diego, CA - d. 5-27-1945
    actor: Rene Michon "Count of Monte Cristo"
    12-03-1897 - George Riley - Rochester, NY - d. 5-30-1972
    comedian: "Furlough Fun"
    12-03-1897 - Reed Brown, Jr. - Texas - d. 7-26-1962
    actor: Capt. Gordon Wright "Roses and Drums"
    12-03-1900 - Lester Matthews - Nottingham, England - d. 6-6-1975
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    12-03-1902 - Bill Slater - Parkersburg, WV - d. 1-25-1965
    emcee: ""Uncle Jim's Question Bee"; "Twenty Questions"; "Dunninger Show"
    12-03-1902 - Bob Beaupre - d. 12-xx-1985
    newscaster: WJOY Burlington, Vermont
    12-03-1904 - Roberto Marinho - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - d. 8-6-2003
    Owner of Brazil's Organizaces Globo radio
    12-03-1907 - Connee Boswell - Kansas City, MO - d. 10-11-1976
    singer: (The Boswell Sisters) "Kraft Music Hall"; "Chesterfield Supper
    Club"
    12-03-1908 - Anna Sten - Kiev, the Ukraine - d. 11-12-1993
    actor: "March of Time"; "Stagedoor Canteen"
    12-03-1909 - Dana Suesse - Kansas City, MO - d. 10-16-1987
    composer: "Good News of 1938"
    12-03-1913 - Bill Green - Massachusetts - d. 3-13-2005
    pianist: "Matinee with Bob and Ray"; "Stumpus"
    12-03-1914 - Mort Lawrence - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-27-1967
    actor: "Boston Blackie"; "The Falcon"; "Under Arrest"
    12-03-1915 - Robert H. Forward - San Diego, CA - d. 1-30-2001
    director: "And Sudden Death"; "Special All-Star Revue"
    12-03-1916 - Rabon Delmore - Elmount, AL - d. 12-4-1952
    guitar, singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    12-03-1916 - Whitfield Connor - Rathdowney, Ireland - d. 7-16-1988
    actor: Harry Davis "When a Girl Marries"
    12-03-1917 - Kermit Slobb - d. 2-21-2004
    writer: "Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy"
    12-03-1923 - Frank Guarrera - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-23-2007
    operatic baritone: "Metropolitan Opera Audition of the Air"
    12-03-1927 - Isabelle Lucas - Toronto, Canada - d. 2-24-1997
    guest panelist: "Quote-Unquote"
    12-03-1927 - Lloyd Barry - NYC
    actor: "Big Town"; "The Shadow"; "When A Girl Marries"
    12-03-1943 - Jennifer Harmon - Pasadena, CA
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    12-03-1944 - Malcolm Brodrick - NYC
    actor: Peter Marriott "The Marriage"

    December 3rd deaths

    03-13-1914 - Bob Haggart - NYC - d. 12-3-1998
    bass: "The Bob Crosby Show"; "Eddie Condon's Jaxx Concerts"
    03-17-1906 - Michael O'Shea - Hartford, CT - d. 12-3-1973
    actor: "Textron Theatre"; "Radio Reader's Digest"; "Philip Morris
    Playhouse"
    03-21-1915 - Hank D'Amico - Rochester, NY - d. 12-3-1965
    clairinetist: "Rumpus Room"; "Saturday Senior Swing"
    06-22-1925 - Basil Beardsley - d. 12-3-1991
    disk jockey: WJER Dover, Ohio
    06-30-1913 - Harry Wismer - Port Huron, MI - d. 12-3-1967
    sportscaster: "Harry Wismer Sports Show"; "Champion Roll Call"
    07-08-1934 - Marty Feldman - East London, England - d. 12-3-1982
    comedian, writer: "Round the Horne"; "We're In Business"
    07-29-1876 - Maria Ouspenskaya - Tula, Russia - d. 12-3-1949
    actor: "Towards the Century of the Common Man"; "Treasury Star Parade"
    07-29-1922 - Johnny Barricks - d. 12-3-2005
    disk jockey: WKAY Glasgow, Kentucky
    08-07-1902 - Charles Cornell - Budapest, Hungary - d. 12-3-1993
    composer: "Boston Blackie"; "Date with Judy"
    08-08-1917 - Ann Francine (Francine) - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-3-1999
    singer: "Hour of Charm"
    08-16-1904 - Wesley Beans - d. 12-3-1992
    baritone: KFSG Los Angeles, California
    08-30-1926 - Jeff Brown - NYC - d. 12-3-2003
    actor: "Little Blue Playhouse"
    11-13-1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson - Edinburgh, Scotland - d. 12-3-1894
    author: Several of his works adapted for radio
    12-05-1918 - Ralph Blizard - Kingsport, TN - d. 12-3-2004
    fiddler: At age 12 formed "The Southern Ramblers"; Appeared on many
    Tri-cities radio stations

    Ron

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    Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 23:52:46 -0500
    From: Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Suspense's Recycled Scripts

    Based on the synopsis in Martin's book INNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES, a script
    titled "The Enchanted Ghost," broadcast on INNER SANCTUM on December 26, 1949
    and repeated on December 25, 1950 was recycled for SUSPENSE as "Yuletide
    Miracle" on December 17, 1961.

    I've never compared the two, but I've been told that "The Unforgiving
    Corpse," the INNER SANCTUM broadcast of May 28, 1951, is the same script as
    "The Lunatic Hour," from SUSPENSE on June 17, 1962.

    Randy

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    Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 23:52:56 -0500
    From: Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Suspense's Recycled Scripts

    Here are two more John Roeburt scripts, originally performed on INNER
    SANCTUM, whose synopses in Martin's book sound an awful lot like Roeburt
    scripts with different titles that were done on SUSPENSE in 1961 and 1962:

    INNER SANCTUM: "Death Is a Magician," from July 12 1948 and SUSPENSE: "Memory
    of a Murder," from March 25, 1962.

    INNER SANCTUM: "Murder by Consent," from December 18, 1950 and SUSPENSE: "Man
    Trap," from November 26, 1961.

    Note that "Memory of a Murder" is already identified as a TALES OF FATIMA
    script from July 23, 1949.

    Something to investigate.

    Randy

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    Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 02:12:02 -0500
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

    For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
    Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
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    over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
    of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
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    it's always a good time!

    For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
    week and every week!

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    Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 23:30:45 -0500
    From: rscherago@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Hear the December Birthday personalities

    December's birthdays:
    William Spier - December 5, 1906
    Virginia Payne - December 7, 1909
    Margaret Hamilton - December 9, 1902
    Don McNeill - December 23, 1907
    John Cromwell - December 23, 1887

    You can hear complete one-hour programs featuring interviews with these
    famous people as well as examples of their work at [removed] -
    Your host is Dick Bertel.

    We have over 140 complete one-hour programs, plus other features as heard on
    WTIC in Hartford, CT, in the 1960s and 1970s, and earlier. All are available
    free for downloading. No registration, no cookies. Just enjoy.

    Bob Scherago
    Webmaster and former WTIC engineer

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