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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2014 : Issue 19
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  "The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok"  [ Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed]; ]
  Wild Bill Hickock                     [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]

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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:18:41 -0500
From: Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed];
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Subject:  "The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok" TV Start
 Date

Jack French said

The television version ("The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok") was syndicated
for local [removed] broadcasting so the dates are a little muddy. Brooks & Marsh
contend it was produced from 1951 to mid-50s with 113 total episodes. When it
was actually first screened may not be know but it was in early 1951.

According to Broadcasting Magazine, Kellogg's began airing the TV version of
"The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok," sponsored by Kellogg's Corn Pops
cereal, on April 15, 1951, on twenty-four West Coast stations and expanding
into other markets during the rest of the year.

Randy

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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:20:11 -0500
From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
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Subject:  Wild Bill Hickock
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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 20:56:10 -0500
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];


When it
was actually first screened may not be know but it was in early 1951. In any
case, it did not reach network status until CBS broadcast it in 1955 and ran
for three years there. Later ABC also aired it from 1957 to 1958.

According to _Total Television_ by Alex McNeil, it ran in syndication
from 1951-56.  The reference doesn't usually take account of rerun
appearances.

Logical supposition would be that the two versions were intended to begin at
the same time.

I agree.

Hopalong Cassidy had a similar history, but different. The radio versions
were "in the can" but producers couldn't get them aired until the TV version
(recorded at the same time) gathered momentum. Then both were on the air
during the same period.

Again, going by _Total Television_, the TV version began on NBC in June
1949 when Boyd acquired the rights to all of his movies and edited them
into 30- and 60-minute shows.  It ran that way until December 1951.
Boyd then filmed an additional 52 episodes, which ran in syndication in
1951-1952 and continued in syndication through 1954.

This brings to mind a story I once heard about what must have been this
latter filming.  Boyd was in his 60s at the time, and one script called
for him to climb up to a second floor porch.  No way he could do that at
his age, so it was decided that he would climb down, and the film would
be run backward.  This worked, but there was a problem:  a horse in the
scene dropped manure during the filming, and when the film was run
backwards, .. well you can guess the rest.  They took care of this by
matting in a fence to cover the horse's business.

There were also a few TV shows that spawned a later radio version, including
Have Gun-Will Travel, My Little Margie, Howdy Doody, etc.

Howdy Doody was actually more complicated.  Bob Smith was the early
morning DJ on WNBC in New York, when he was offered an additional
Saturday morning slot hosting a game show for children.  The show was
called "Triple-B ranch," standing for "Big Brother Bob." Unfortunately
no recordings of the show are known to exist.

Smith created a country-bumpkin character called Elmer, who would appear
for a brief routine of hayseed humor.  Elmer would greet Smith with
"Well Howdy Doody!"   Kids coming to the show to participate in the
games, or just be in the audience, were disappointed when Smith just
spoke in a different voice as Elmer (this was radio, after all).  They
wanted to _see_ "Howdy Doody."  So Smith stopped calling the character
Elmer and called him Howdy Doody, since that was what the kids were
calling him.  And if the kids wanted to see Howdy Doody, he talked to
the TV people about a puppet show.

He went to the TV people on a Tuesday, and they said, "You're on
Saturday."  This was too soon to make a puppet, so while other puppets
appeared, Howdy Doody was hiding in a desk drawer, too shy to come out,
for the first two shows.

So Howdy Doody started as part of a local radio show.  Then a few years
later, a Saturday morning Howdy Doody radio show was done on NBC, I
think starting in 1951. It ran until September 1954, when Smith had a
heart attack.  The TV show continued until September 1960.

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