Subject: [removed] Digest V2003 #10
From: "OldRadio Mailing Lists" <[removed]@[removed];
Date: 1/8/2003 3:03 PM
To: <[removed]@[removed];

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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2003 : Issue 10
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Dragnets old and new - article        [ "Michael Hayde" <mmeajv@[removed]; ]
  Re: News Broadcasts                   [ Fred Berney <berney@[removed]; ]
  log                                   [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
  Re: Real Audio Converter              [ Paulurbahn@[removed] ]
  Inner Sanctum Book                    [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
  Inner Sanctum Mysteries               [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ lois@[removed] ]
  OTR SCAM?                             [ "Ian Grieve" <austotr@[removed]. ]
  First chapter of WORDS AT WAR         [ Howard Blue <khovard@[removed]; ]
  Re: Perry Mason                       [ John <JOHN007@[removed]; ]
  Perry Mason                           [ David Lowell <davlor1@[removed]; ]
  The Aldrich Family                    [ Jerry Bechtel <[removed]@[removed] ]
  Re: Imagination Theater               [ BryanH362@[removed] ]
  48 Indians on Radio                   [ "mike ray" <mikeray42@[removed]; ]

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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 18:30:13 -0500
From: "Michael Hayde" <mmeajv@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Dragnets old and new - article

Excellent article in today's Washington Post:

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There's actually a picture of Jack Webb and Bart Yarborough, a fair amount
of mentions that DRAGNET was once a radio series, and nary a mistake in the
text.  It also deals with the upcoming Dick Wolf version, which
unfortunately (based on the quotes from Exec Producer Walon Green) looks
like it will be less than advertised.  Green practically confesses that the
show is called "Dragnet" because of the market value of the title.

Michael

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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 21:28:07 -0500
From: Fred Berney <berney@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: News Broadcasts

Today I ran across a tape I had completely forgotten about. Back in the
late 1970's or very early 1980's, I had put together a tape made up of News
Broadcast.

While search through my collection for an dramatic radio shows I may have
missed, I realized that I had recorded a number of news broadcast that took
place before the shows I had been recording. Some where those short Monitor
spots and others were the top of the hour 5 minute news shows.

So, today, someone had phoned in an order for a few CDs and one of the
catalog numbers was this News Broadcast tape. Since it had never been
converted to CD, it gave me a chance to listen to it. There was a short
clip of Ronald Reagan saying that Nixon should not resign. News stories of
problems in the middle east. And then there was the recording I had made
the day Kennedy was shot.

I forgot that I did that. It starts with the voice of President Eisenhower
talking to reporters and saying that if needed he would be on call. Then it
is followed by reports of people who were in Texas and saw the shooting.

I haven't gone through all of it yet. Tomorrow I'll play the last hour, but
you talk about bring back the past. I remember when the news of the
shooting was first broadcast and I was so stunned that I didn't even think
of turning on the tape recorder.

Then as the day went on and I realized that both radio and TV were going to
do continuous coverage, I put a tape in my recorder and started rolling. I
may have a lot more than I included on this tape, but even if I don't this
is like one of those "day in history" recordings. I just let the recorder
run as reporter after reporter was switch on the air.

I remember some discussing on this list a while back of the assassination
coverage and at the time I forgot that I had recorded some of it.

Fred
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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 22:18:54 -0500
From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  log

Hi Everybody, a friend ask me to help him find a log of radio shows of Amos
and Andy, and Abbott and Costelo.  Can any body help?  Take care,

Walden Hughes

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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 00:49:49 -0500
From: Paulurbahn@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Real Audio Converter

I have some OTR shows in RA and RAM format. Is there a program that will
convert these to MP3 or WAV files?
Paul Urbahns

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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 01:16:40 -0500
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Inner Sanctum Book

NOW MY SHAMELESS PITCH:
In answer to a few e-mailed queries the past few weeks, my up-coming book,
INNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES: BEHIND THE CREAKING DOOR is going to be released in
April (this is definite!), and set to premiere at Bob Burchett's Cincinatti
Old-Time Radio Convention. (E-mail Bob at haradio@[removed] for info about
the convention).

Everyone who has pre-ordered their copy of the officially authorized INNER
SANCTUM book during the past few months to take advantage of that "pay no
postage" offer (the special offer expired in September), please feel assured
your book WILL be mailed to you - I'm only awaiting it's arrival so I can
start mailing the copies to you.  A few people have expressed the concern
that they paid back in August and September, but failed to notice the fliers
that stated it would be released in April.  Please have patience, I know
it's been a few months, but it's only a matter of weeks now.  The book is
worth the wait.

Statistics:  The book is about 450 pages thick and covers all aspects of the
program, from the paperback and hardcover mystery novels, the radio series,
the television series, the movies (documented by Gregory William Mank),
mystery magazine, and other assortments regarding the INNER SANCTUM. Yes, it
includes an episode guide for both radio and television, with plots, casts,
writer credits, etc.
Cost is $[removed] plus $[removed] postage.
Inner Sanctum Book, Po Box 189, Delta, PA 17314.
[removed] will not sell the book until mid-to-late April (for all you book
worms who like to buy only from Amazon), and as far as I understand,
Amazon's retail price for the Inner Sanctum book is supposed to be something
around ten dollars more than most [removed]
Just clearing the air so anyone else who was intending to e-mail and ask
"where's my book?" can feel assured - it's coming soon.
Martin Grams, Jr.

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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 01:18:11 -0500
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Inner Sanctum Mysteries

Joe Mackey wrote:

1941 - The NBC Blue network presented the first installment of The Squeaky
Door. You might not remember the show by its original title, but how about
when it became known as Inner Sanctum?

NO, NO, NO . . . I have come across many reference books that continue to
list INNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES as THE CREAKING DOOR, and in this error (which
I'm sure isn't Joe's fault - just the source that supplied that error to
Joe) "The Squeaky Door"????

For the record:
Those reference works are very much mistaken.  The name of the program, from
the very start was INNER SANCTUM MYSTERY, because when Himan Brown came up
with the concept of the show in late 1940, he contacted Simon & Schuster who
was then publishing a series of monthly mystery novels under that by-line,
asking if he could borrow the name "Inner Sanctum Mysteries" from them.  The
arrangement was mutual for both parties.  Himan Brown could use the name as
long as one of S&S's mystery novels was "pitched" to the radio audience
after each drama.  This boosted sales of the Inner Sanctum novels, which in
turn, helped expand the listening audience for the radio program.

Those mystery novels were first published in 1930 (three in that year), and
by 1941, twelve novels were published every year, one for every month.  Such
big-name authors as Craig Rice, Cornell Woolrich, and Anthony Boucher had
their mystery novels released as part of the "Inner Sanctum" byline.
(George Sanders and Gypsy Rose Lee had a couple released but those were
actually ghost-written.)

To help clarify:
The same concept (a creaking door opening and closing each program) was done
in Australia beginning January 28, 1952. Months after the program began
airing in Australia, there was a dispute about the fees due for the program,
since copyrighted scripts from the American program were being dramatized
without permission from both the author or the creators, so Macquarie (the
company producing the Australian series) got out of the situation by
renaming the program "The Creaking Door." Everything remained the same, even
using new original stories by Australian scriptwriters and adaptations of
short stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Louis Stevenson, so [removed]
copyrights would not be infringed upon.

>From 1962 to 1963, the English Radio Service also began broadcasting a few
of the scripts from the American series.  Very little is known about this
broadcast run.  Subsequently, a South African version of this series was
produced three years after entitled THE CREAKING DOOR, and this program was
heard from 1966 to 1968.  Many of these recordings circulate among
collectors and are popularly listened to (though all of those scripts were
originally written for the 66-68 program, they didn't use scripts from the
American series).

Going back to the American INNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES series (which was for
many years actually entitled INNER SANCTUM MYSTERY - note the actual title),
Inner Sanctum was never intended to be called The Squeaky Door or The
Creaking Door here in the States.  If only reference books would correct
that . . .

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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 04:52:07 -0500
From: lois@[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
and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
over six years, same time, same channel!

Our numerous "regulars" include one of the busiest "golden years" actors in
Hollywood; a sound man from the same era who worked many of the top
Hollywood shows; a New York actor famed for his roles in "Let's Pretend" and
"Archie Andrews;" owners of some of the best OTR sites on the Web;
maintainer of the best-known OTR Digest (we all know who he is)..........

and Me

Lois Culver
KWLK Longview Washington (Mutual) 1941-1944)
KFI Los Angeles (NBC) 1944 - 1950
and widow of actor Howard Culver

(For more info, contact lois@[removed])

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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 09:33:38 -0500
From: "Ian Grieve" <austotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OTR SCAM?

G'Day folks, just a heads up.  There have been several people who have
contacted me regarding a person/persons in Australia offering some very hard
to get shows from South Africa.  I have also heard from several people who
have tried to conduct trades with the person/persons involved.  Please be
careful and do not release any material important to you until the other
person has honoured their part of the bargain.  Anyone concerned they may be
in discussions already, can contact me direct.

I have not been contacted directly by the person/persons involved and have
no direct knowledge hence my reluctence to name names and give more detail.
They are also offering a large number of Australian shows that I put into
general circulation in 2001 as well as the usual George Edwards shows that
everyone has.

Ian Grieve
Australian OTR Group

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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 09:34:24 -0500
From: Howard Blue <khovard@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  First chapter of WORDS AT WAR

	Chapter 1 of WORDS AT WAR can be viewed at Scarecrow Press's, website.
If you decide to order the book, you can save $5 over the publisher's
price by ordering it from: Khovard@[removed].

	To view the chapter, click on:
[removed];Site=scarecrowpress&Title=Words%20at%20War

							Howard Blue

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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 10:16:56 -0500
From: John <JOHN007@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Perry Mason

The discussion on Perry Mason prompts me to give the radio series
another try.
I find very interesting the comments that in the radio series Mason was
much more of a detective.  I have recently been viewing the TV shows on
the Hallmark channel, and I have noted with great enthusiasm that the
earliest shows feature Mason as much more of a detective/investigator
than just a courtroom attorney, as he became as the TV series
progressed.

Some of the early shows feature him stumbling onto bodies in apartments,
out and about (on location!) questioning people, [removed] a much more
"active" Mason (and a lively and interesting program) than in later
episodes in the series which were generally done in the studio and
featured about half of each episode in the courtroom.  I seem to recall
one of those early TV episodes that barely has a courtroom at all --
only about the last five minutes just to wrap things up.   Quite
different from the later episodes.

So it's very intriguing to learn that this was also true of the radio
series!

Happy Listening!
John

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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 12:42:36 -0500
From: David Lowell <davlor1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Perry Mason

I've read many many of the Perry Mason mysteries over the years and well
remember the afternoon radio program, which I would hear in the afternoon
when I was not in school.  I really feel that the actor who portrayed Perry
Mason on radio sounded like I would have expected the Perry Mason of the
novels to have sounded.  I was quite disappointed in Raymond Burr's
portrayal.  I would have expected a more suave personality with a lot more
warmth; Raymond Burr was humorless and rather cold.  And of course, he
became quite heavy over the years, again not fitting the tall, handsome
Perry Mason of the novels.  In later years, Raymond Burr's portrayal of
Parry Mason as a judge was more acceptable.
David Lowell

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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 12:43:30 -0500
From: Jerry Bechtel <[removed]@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Aldrich Family

Help. I've been trying to collect the entire series of The Aldrich
Family and have run out of resources. As a kid I never missed an episode
of the Aldrich Family nor Archie Andrews. I have found 216 titles and
have recorded 166 of them for my listening pleasure. I would REALLY
appreciate anyone who could lead me in the direction of increasing my
collection. I've only been able to find 14 Archie Andrews shows but I
think there must be more out there somewhere. I guess I'm old fashioned
but I prefer to settle in with my newspaper and an evening beside my
replica old radio with a built in cassette player. Terry & the Pirates,
Superman, Captain Midnight, Tom Mix, The Aldrich Family, Inner Sanctum,
Life of Riley, Lights Out, then Gangbusters! Followed by a cup of
Ovaltine! What an evening! The youngsters don't know what they missed!

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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 12:43:04 -0500
From: BryanH362@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re:  Imagination Theater

Jim French wrote:

We're celebrating around here because we are
moving to a bigger station with a program format much
more agreeable to radio drama here in Seattle, KIXI-AM
880.

KIXI is a great station . Bob Brooks (the program director ) is a really nice
guy and he has been a very successful program director from what I hear. Our
OTR club in Seattle
(The Radio Enthusiasts of Puget Sound) has been allowed to produce a few
radio dramas that KIXI has broadcast. It was fun working with the team at
KIXI. Bob Brooks appears to have had his appetite wet for radio drama . I am
sure he is more than thrilled to have the relationship with Jim French and
Imganination Theater. It really is a good match. Jim French
and the group  provide a real high quality production.
I hope to hear some of the fine KIXI staff utilized on Imagination Theater.
Frank Shiers, Dan Murphy and Bob Brooks have appeared in radio dramas and all
are great! It will be really great to hear Twilight Zone and Imagination
Theater back to back .

The only bad thing ?  The station Jim French left also aired
When Radio Was.  I wonder if WRW  will find a new home also?

-Bryan

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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 13:29:23 -0500
From: "mike ray" <mikeray42@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  48 Indians on Radio

Yesterday Brian Johnson talked about the two different stadiums that the
Indians played at. He talked about how, that when they became a very good
team they played at Municipal Stadium. The Indians won the AL Pennet and the
World Series in 1948. Does anyone know which radio station carried the Tribe
in 48? I Have
not been able to find that piece of info. For the record,  I have a copy of
Game 5 (in Cleveland) and Game 6 (in Boston) on CD of the 1948 world series.
As well as a memorial tribute to the great Lou Boudreau. If anyone is
interested, you can contact me off the digest.
Best regards,
Mike Ray

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