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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 340

Table Of Contents: 

	 Re: SHADOW ANSWER [removed] Digest V96 #339 
	 sergeant preston
	 Baseball Shows
	 Baseball & OTR 
	 Electrical Transcriptions-Recorded Music
	 The Archers
	 Rembering [removed] Rose [removed]
	 (Fwd) The 5 o'clock block
	 Baseball Shows
	 Suspense(?) 

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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 21:59:57 -0400
From: SanctumOTR@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: SHADOW ANSWER [removed] Digest V96 #339 
Message-ID: <960918215955_525519470@[removed]>

In response to Michael Psarakis' question:  Gertrude Warner was the
longest-running Margot Lane in radio history, but only one of her 275 shows
is known to survive because SHADOW stopped being transcibed onto disk and
went to Ampex tape in 1949, which apparently was later re-recorded over.  The
series lost its longtime sponsor, Blue Coal, at the same time and continued
for its last five years under a variety of short-lived sponsorship agreements
and smaller budgets.  30 shows from the 1950s were sent to AFRS (Armed Forces
Radio Service) in 1953 and hopefully these will someday materialize.
 (Apparently the AFRS shows are categorized by genre and the 30 Shadow shows
are filed among more than 500 misc. mystery shows in Washington.)  Various
other factors worked together to sabotage the preservation of more SHADOW
broadcasts.   WOR and the Mutual Network went their separate ways as both
were sold, and Street & Smith Publications (the copyright holder and
publisher of THE SHADOW MAGAZINE) was purchased by The Conde Nast Company.
  Ruthrauff & Ryan, the [removed] advertising agency that produced the
series, was purchased in the early 1970s by the Irwin Wasey agency, which was
soon absorbed by the West Coast-based Interagency, causing many of the old
files to be destroyed rather than be moved.  Meanwhile, I've been told that
Blue Coal was purchased by the mob and run into the ground in some sort of
stock swindle.  As you can see, a variety of separate factors occurred to
prevent much of a paper trail surviving, let alone a disk and tape trail.
 CBS, NBC and ABC continue to the present day as pretty much the same
corporate entities they were.  I'm especially sorry that all the episodes
seem to have disappeared from Frank Readick's seasons as The Shadow (1930-35)
which were indeed transcribed at the time and rerun in syndication.   What
does survive, Readick's opening and closing signatures, were reused on all of
the Welles SHADOWS and I've always felt that Readick's openings and closings
were far and away the best in the history of the series.   Frank Readick's
portrayal of newsman "Carl Phillips" on the infamous "War of the Worlds"
broadcast remains the finest performance in radio's most famous broadcast.
 --  Anthony Tollin 

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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 21:47:43 EDT
From: inuit@[removed] (Michael R Blake)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: sergeant preston
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Hi

Iam looking for Sgt. Preston of the Yukon fans, anyone out there?
                             

                                          MIKE

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Date: 18 Sep 96 23:22:56 EDT
From: Norman Schickedanz <[removed]@[removed]>
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Baseball Shows
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Joe E. Brown starred in two "Lux Radio Theatre" shows about baseball.  One was
"Elmer the Great" on Oct. 5, 1936; intermission guests were Carl Hubbell and Lou
Gehrig.  The other was  "Alibi Ike" on Apr. 19,1937; Babe Ruth was an
intermission guest.  Both plays were based on stories by Ring Lardner.

Norm Schickedanz

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 00:48:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Paul Duggan <dixied@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Baseball & OTR 
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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     The Saint with Vincent Price had a story with a baseball pitcher named
Lefty
I think he was accused of throwing a game and his father had some to do with
him not
going thru with it.

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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 22:18:07 -0700
From: mcracken@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Electrical Transcriptions-Recorded Music
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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My two cents on the statement about music being recorded that was heard on a
radio show.  I recall many comments made on comedy shows that had music
about the head of the musicians union in that era, a James C. Petrillo I
believe. He was the brunt of many jokes.   I do not know very much about
him, but it would seem he ran a very tight union with the musicians and
wanted his due when necessary.  It may be the shows with recorded music on
them wanted it to be known that no live musicians provided the music heard.
Therefore no payment was necessary to the union.  The shows were just
covering their 6 o'clock. 

For what it is worth.

Mac

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 02:07:49 -0400
From: Ann A Davenport <[removed]@[removed]>
To: OTR Digest <otr@[removed]>
Subject: The Archers
Message-ID: <199609190208_MC1-98C-2929@[removed]>

Alan was looking for vendors that list THE ARCHERS.  I have quite a few of
them in my latest version of the RADIO MEMORIES catalog in the BBC section.
 This is something new as I have never had a BBC section before.  Alan, if
you would send me your mailing address, I would be happy to send you the
catalog as soon as it is ready for release (I plan to have it ready for the
convention in October).  Ted Davenport (Radio Memories)

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 01:57:13, -0500
Date: 19 Sep 96
From: DAVE@[removed] ( DAVID ALLAN   BOUCHER)
From: LJNF40A@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Rembering [removed] Rose [removed]
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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I was surprised there wasn't more comment about last weekends episode of
Remembering WENN.  

...the episode was about the black actor who became popular, but they
had to keep his race a [removed]

Anyone else see [removed] had a reactiom???

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Someone mentioned 'Rose Marie'....and to be quite honest, I don't know
about anything she did before 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' on TV.

Did she do some movies?  ...With that unmistakable voice, did she ever
do any radio?

Thanks!
--
Dave in Boston  (E-Mail: Dave@[removed])

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 07:24:50 +4:00
From: "Keith Sterling" <sterling@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: (Fwd) The 5 o'clock block
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Subject:       The 5 o'clock block
Reply-to:      sterling@[removed]
Date:          Mon, 16 Sep 1996 07:04:18 +4:00

Rerun of a recent posting which apparently got into Zmail instead of 
Email.

The recent posting about the kids shows at 5 PM apparently didn't 
apply to just the USA.  I recall that block in my school daze in 
Brandon Manitoba Canada.  I may have done some listening to KFYR
Bismark ND, but I have never seen a mention of 
"The Air Adventures of Jimmy Allen".  Was this a strictly 
Canadian show?  The rest of the guy and I would make a weekly visit 
to our closest British American gas station to pick up the weekly 
"Newspaper" about Jimmy and his cohorts.  B/A of course was the 
sponsor. It seems we had buttons, membership cards, decoder something 
or others, and even little balsa gliders. 
Does anyone recall the show.  Who played Jimmy?  Who produced it? 
etc.  I figure it ran in the mid to late 30's, maybe into the early 
40's but I don't recall that "our hero" ever joined any military 
forces.

So much from "The Air Cadet"

New Subject:      Chet, keep those pearls of "wisdom coming" we need 
them.

Keith Sterling

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 08:08:50 -0400
From: ryellen@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Baseball Shows
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MAX wrote
>Second pitch: 
>I have a few Jean Shepherd episodes from 1969 on the subject of baseball and 
>the Mets winning the pennant.  Shep was a great baseball fan.  Not OTR.
>"Strike two!"

Check out his 1/22/71 show where he tells the story of playing outfield in the
minor leagues and there are thousands of frogs in the outfield.

Flick [removed]

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 07:44:04 -0700
From: "Dennis L. Pearson" <dpearson@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Suspense(?) 
Message-Id: <m0v3kNS-000k05C@[removed]>
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I am trying to locate a copy of what I believe was a Suspense episode that I
heard sometime in the early fifties. The plot was centered around an old
reclusive woman who was observed by the villain through her window counting
what looked like money (coins).  I think the man was a traveling salesman,
but after all, it was fifty years ago and I was pretty young.  Anyway, the
bad guy plotted to kill the old woman and steal her money, but ended up in
the bottom of a well (I think).  

This episode has, obviously, stuck in my memory for some time.  Years ago I
wrote a short story using the same story line, but I'd like to see how much
of my story was from my own imagination and how much was from accurate
memory.  Does anyone have a copy of this episode on tape, or even
information about it and its original broadcast date.  Was it really Suspense?




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