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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 408

Table Of Contents: 

	 NIGHTBEAT log
	 Amos 'n' Andy
	 Re: SPERDVAC Convention/AMOS 'N' ANDY
	 Tapes
	 FYI in the Chicago area
	 STAR WARS Radio Dramatization
	 Jack's $hopping $hows
	 Fw: Trojan Horse Virus

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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 00:12:23 PST
From: passage@[removed] (Frank M Passage)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: NIGHTBEAT log
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

                          N I G H T B E A T
                          -----------------

                             1949 - 1955


First Show Date: 02-06-50                    Last Show Date: ??-??-52
Number of Shows: ??                          Audition Shows: 05-19-49
                                                             01-13-50

Show Description:

NIGHTBEAT was a 1950 NBC adventure series in which Frank Lovejoy played
the part of Randy Stone, top reported for "The Chicago Star" newspaper.
Randy's Nightbeat assignment sent him to the streets of Chicago looking
for human interest stories and any chance of exposing criminals.

Nightbeat was produced and directed by Warren Lewis.  Supporting roles
were portrayed by Lorain Tuttle, Joan Banks, Herb Butterfield and Peter
Leeds.


List Comments:

There appears to be 2 different series, according to many catalogs.
There are a number of gaps in the show dates and the last show for
the second series is not known at this time.

Shows for which I don't know the broadcast date are shown after the
third series list.  This includes 2 shows that had a 1951 year but
no month or day.


List:

Date      Da  Num  Title                                 Src Key
--------  --  ---  ------------------------------------  ---------
05-19-49  Th       Audition Show w/ Edmund O'Brien        2    7
01-13-50  Fr       Ted Carter Murder Case (Audition)     1

Series 1           ------------------------------------

02-06-50  Mo   01  Zero                                  1234567
02-13-50  Mo   02  The Night Is A Weapon                 123456
02-20-50  Mo   03  A World All His Own                   123456
02-27-50  Mo   04  The Girl In The Park                  123456
03-06-50  Mo   05  Number Thirteen                       123456
03-13-50  Mo   06  Am I My Brothers Keeper               123456
03-20-50  Mo   07  Be Dead                               1
03-27-50  Mo   08  Flowers On The Water                  1
04-03-50  Mo       The Night Is A Weapon (Repeat)        1
04-10-50  Mo       I Know Your Secret                    123456
04-16-50  Su       A World All His Own (Repeat)          1
04-17-50  Mo       Tong War                              123456
04-23-50  Su       The Girl In The Park (Repeat)         1
04-30-50  Su       Am I My Brothers Keeper (Repeat)      1
05-01-50  Mo       Metallo, The Mental Marvel            123
05-08-50  Mo       The Elevator Caper                    123456
05-15-50  Mo       The Night Watchman                    12
05-22-50  Mo       I Wish You Were Dead                  123
05-29-50  Mo       Harland Mathews, Stamp Dealer         123
06-05-50  Mo       The Girl from Kansas                  123 5
06-12-50  Mo       Football Player & The Syndicate       123
06-19-50  Mo       Vincent And the Painter               123 5
06-26-50  Mo       Jimmy And Gus Reed                    1
                   The Juvenile Gangsters                 23 5
07-03-50  Mo       Loraine Adams Execution               1  4
                   Marty                                  23
07-10-50  Mo       Old King Death                        1
                   Twill Be the Death of Me               23
07-17-50  Mo       Molly Keller                          123 5
07-24-50  Mo       The Devil's Bible                      123
07-31-50  Mo       City At Your Fingertips               1234 6
08-07-50  Mo       Pop, The Blind Musician               1
08-14-50  Mo       Gunner's Last Fight                   1234 6
08-21-50  Mo       The Doctor's Secret                   1234 6
08-28-50  Mo       ?????
09-04-50  Mo       Old Home Week                         123456
09-11-50  Mo       The Hunted Becomes the Hunter          23456
09-18-50  Mo       Wanna Buy a Story?                     234 6
09-25-50  Mo       A Case of Butter                       234 6
                   >>> possibly no shows for 3 weeks <<<
                   >>> for changeover from Monday to <<<
                   >>> Friday?                       <<<
10-27-50  Fr       The Doctor's Daughter                  23  6
11-03-50  Fr       The Black Cat                          23  6
11-10-50  Fr       The Slasher (last of first series)     23  6

Series 2           ------------------------------------

03-04-51  Su       Big John McMasters                    1234 6
                      (1st show of new series)
                   >>> no shows found until 05-25-51 <<<
05-25-51  Fr       Fear                                   234 6
06-01-51  Fr       The Will of Mrs. Orloff                234
06-08-51  Fr       The Search for Fred                    234 67
06-15-51  Fr       Otto, The Music Man                     34 67
06-22-51  Fr       Sanctuary                               34 67
06-29-51  Fr       Byline For Frank                        34 67
07-06-51  Fr       ?????
07-13-51  Fr       Anton's Return                          34567
                   >>> no shows found until 12-27-51 <<<
12-27-51  Th       The Joys Of Fatherhood                  3
                   >>> no shows found until 05-08-52 <<<
05-08-52  Th       Long Live The Clown                     3  67
05-15-52  Th       The Death Of Riley                      3  6
05-22-52  Th       ?????
05-29-52  Th       The Jockey Brothers                     3  6
                   Jockeys Ben and Kennie Clark             4
06-05-52  Th       The Marvelous Machine                   3  6
06-12-52  Th       ?????
06-19-52  Th       Railroaded                            1 3  6
06-26-52  Th       The Reformer                          1 3  6
07-03-52  Th       The Old Itch                          1 3
07-10-51  Th       ?????
07-17-52  Th       The Taste Of Peaches                  1 3
07-24-52  Th       ?????
07-31-52  Th       Flight From Fear                      1 3
08-07-52  Th       Somebody Stop Annie                   1 3
08-14-52  Th       His Name Was Luke                     1 3
08-21-52  Th       John And Mary                         1
08-28-52  Th       ?????
09-04-52  Th       Bomb On The Denver Plane              1
09-11-52  Th       Larry Wilson, Understudy              1
09-18-52  Th       Policy Will Racket                    1
09-25-52  Th       The Bug Killers                       1 34
                       (last of series 2?)

Unknown            ------------------------------------

??-??-??           The Man Who Claimed To                1
??-??-??           Jukebox Romance                         3
??-??-??           The Big Lie                             3
??-??-??           Gusher James                            3  6
??-??-??           George Loves Julie                       4
??-??-??           Johnny Liggets Wife Pauline              4
??-??-51           The White Zombie                       2   6
??-??-51           The Most Careful Driver                2   6
??-??-??           Psychopath                                 6
??-??-??           Having a Baby                              6


Information Sources:

The information above was obtained from the following OTR vendor and
club catalogs.  Contact them directly for more information.

Key Source
--- ------------------------------------------------------------------
 1  Carr, Edward J., 216 Shaner Street, Boyertown, PA 19512
 2  BRC Productions (Bob Burnham), PO Box 2645, Livonia, MI 48151-0645
 3  Radio Showcase (Steve Kelez), [removed] Box 4357, Santa Rosa, CA 95402
 4  Radio Historical Association of Colorado, [removed] Box 1908, Englewood,
    CO 80150
 5  Nostalgia Recordings (Ken Mills), 907 Maple Ave., Ridgefield, NJ
    07657
 6  North American Radio Archives (NARA), 134 Vincewood Dr.,
    Nicolasville, KY 40356.
 7  Vintage Broadcasts. 42 Bowling Green, Staten Island, NY 10314

To be fair to all, this is not an endorsement of the above vendors
and clubs.  I receive nothing by mentioning them.  They help keep
OTR alive.  Please support them.


Other Logs:

This log is meant as a check list and source guide and is based on
vendor catalogs.  Other, more detailed, logs are available from:

* NIGHTBEAT Log, Jay Hickerson, Box 4321, Hamden, Ct 06514


Last Update: 10-24-96


I retain copyright, but this log may be freely copied provided that
the text is unchanged.  Please send error corrections or additional
information to:   Frank Passage, 109 Elmwood Road, Verona, NJ 07044
or via e-mail to passage@[removed]

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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 96 07:46:32 EDT
From: TBARNETT@[removed]
To:   otr@[removed]
Subject: Amos 'n' Andy
Message-Id: <m0vGOF7-000k05C@[removed]>

To: SMTP    --AHIPC2S  OTR Digest

From:    Tom Barnett
         EDS NAO/VDTO Finance and Personnel Systems Support
         (810)986-0389 (8-226) Internet:TBARNETT@[removed]

Subject: Amos 'n' Andy

I am just weighing in for what it is worth.

Yes, Amos 'n' Andy is regarded as the epitome of stereotyping and racism
today.  I heard Demond Wilson (Lamont on Sanford and Son) say that A n A
did serious damage to afro- americans.

I am really getting tired of all of this thin skinned, nose out of
joint whining from folks. Amos 'n' Andy IS a period piece. it IS
very funny. and it IS about people and human situations regardless of color.

Haven't we all seen Jewish and Irish and Southern people, etc. stereotyped just
as much (Mr. Kitzel, Mrs. Nussbaum?)

I listen to Amos 'n' Andy and am proud to do so. I will not be labeled as
insensitive for doing so, either.

As for specific favorite shows (RINSO moments?) Andy mistaken as the trunk
murderer is very funny. When Andy marries Madame Queen is a classic as is
when Kingfish sells Andy a house for $500 but doesn't sell the lot with it!

Happy listening,

Tom Barnett
"There are no Ordinary moments." -Dan Millman

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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 08:00:17 -0400
From: SanctumOTR@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: SPERDVAC Convention/AMOS 'N' ANDY
Message-ID: <961024080006_1548440881@[removed]>

Correction:  The SPERDVAC Convention DOES have a small dealers' room, but
they do not permit the sale of unlicensed tapes and the room is open Saturday
only.  Some nice premiums and radio magazines are always available and some
years vintage microphones have been on sale.  (I bought my 8-ball mike at
SPERDVAC years ago; also some nice SHADOW blotters.)  I'll have 2 tables
there this year, selling licensed Radio Spirits products and GAA's THE SHADOW
CHRONICLES.
     AMOS 'N' ANDY did not deal with racial issues but was the first show to
present blacks in all walks of life (cab drivers and conmen but also lawyers,
judges, doctors and policemen).   The show was phenomenally successful
(listened to each night by a THIRD of the American population -- not a third
of the radio listening audience but a THIRD of the entire population) because
it was funny and it dealt with the pursuit of money (a constant concern for
blacks AND whites during the depression years and the pursuit of romance and
love (another constant).  Like the serialized comic strips that AMOS 'N' ANDY
was patterned after, Gosden and Correll new how to hook their huge audience
and reel them in.  AMOS 'N' ANDY was radio's first situation comedy and is
less dated today (though more controversial) than many other OTR shows.  I
suggest all subscribers obtain Yale professor Melvin Patrick Ely's book, THE
ADVENTURES OF AMOS 'N' ANDY (available from Radio Spirits or through your
public library), and read the real story of the most popular series in
broadcasting history. -- ANTHONY TOLLIN  

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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 07:50:30 -0500 (CDT)
From: caldwell@[removed] (Wayne Caldwell)
To: rick_botti@[removed], otr@[removed] (otr mailing list)
Subject: Tapes
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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Rick
 I buy my tapes from a business called W-M Sales. They are in Duncanville,
Texas(just outside Dallas). They have the best prices I have found and they
will mail order to you.
 Call them for a catalog.  972-296-2773. I have nothing to do with W-M except I
buy all my tapes from them. Radio Shack also sales reel - reel.

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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 09:50:29 -0400
From: CardiacRx@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: FYI in the Chicago area
Message-ID: <961024095028_339940972@[removed]>

>From the Chicago Sun-Times (10/24/96):

>Dialing: Old-time radio goes spooky
>Carl Amari hosts two special Halloween episodes of ``When Radio Was'' this
>weekend on WMAQ-AM (670). From 10 [removed] to midnight Saturday, he'll air
``Inner >Sanctum Mysteries,'' ``Murder at Midnight'' and ``Mystery in the
Air.'' And from 10 >[removed] to midnight Sunday, Amari will premiere a digitally
restored and remastered >version of Orson Welles' 1938 classic ``The War of
the Worlds'' along with >``Suspense.''


[removed]
Bob (CardiacRx@[removed])

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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 09:47:29 -0700
From: John Cunningham <johnc@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: STAR WARS Radio Dramatization
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
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I don't want to turn the Digest into a sales billboard, but since the
STAR WARS adaptations have been mentioned several times lately, I wanted
to let folks know that I have a boxed set of the original SW Radio 
Dramatization for sale.  The packaging is in mint, pristine condition and 
would make a great Christmas gift for someone whom you would like to 
"turn on" to radio drama.   Please e-mail privately if interested and 
I'll give details.

Thanks.
John
johnc@[removed]

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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:26:46 -0400
From: AIC4Radio@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Jack's $hopping $hows
Message-ID: <961024112646_217274097@[removed]>

>>Pardon the question but, I have heard so much about the Jack Benny
>>Christmas cassette collection and I don't know what vendor is offering it.

It's us! Over here! You, hoo!
Adventures in Cassettes 1-800-328-0108

Sue Hamilton
AIC4Radio@[removed]
[removed]

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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 09:19:09 -0700
From: "JACK MANN" <jmann@[removed]>
To: <otr@[removed]>
Subject: Fw: Trojan Horse Virus
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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FOR MY DIGEST FRIENDS:

----------
>
> 
> DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF EXTENSION.
> 
> 
>      A NEW Trojan Horse Virus has emerged on the Internet with the name
>      [removed], so named as to give the impression that this file
> is   
>      a new version of the PKZIP software used to "zip" compressed
> files.   
>      DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS FILE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!! If you install
> or
>      expand the file, the virus WILL wipe your hard disk clean and
> affect
>      modems at [removed] and higher. This is an extremely destructive virus
>      and there is NOT yet a way of cleaning this one up.
> 
>           PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU KNOW.
> 
> 
> 
Jack Mann




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