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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2016 : Issue 20
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Research interest in OTR              [ <[removed]@[removed]; ]
  The Long Pregnancy                    [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
  RE: Truth or Consequences             [ "scherago" <scherago@[removed]; ]
  Re: Truth or Consequences             [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 11:30:43 -0400
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Subject:  Research interest in OTR
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 From today's Atlantic:
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 Saving Historic Radio Before It's Too Late- first of its kind Library of
Congress project aims to identify, catalogue, and preserve America's rapidly
deteriorating broadcast history.

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 11:30:50 -0400
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  The Long Pregnancy

Ted says he was watching Johnny Carson the other night and heard of a soap
opera pregnancy that lasted a very long time, over a year. He asks if this
was true, if so what series, and when did it air.

While I don't know the answer to his specific questions, we must realize that
radio time was seldom in the same time zone as real life. In a kids'
adventure program Captain Midnight might take off from Washington, DC and
land in darkest Africa two minutes later, according to your kitchen clock.
Tom Mix and Tony might gallop over 300 miles of prairie in the same amount of
"real" time.

Reversing this, on a soap opera, a short visit to a hospital room might well
take three weeks according to the calendar on your refrigerator. Actors who
were due for a two week vacation could be written out of an ongoing
conversation only to return to hear the conclusion of that same conversation.
Alice Reinheart, who played Chichi on Life Can Be Beautiful, once excused
herself from a household conversation to go take a shower.  She did not
return to the show for two weeks but when she did, she resumed her
participation in that same conversation. And not one listener had checked off
her absence on their calendar and wondered how a shower could take that long.
This was make-believe, folks, and time expanded or contracted at the whim of
the radio writer. And it was only one wonderful element of the magic of
dramatic radio.

Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 11:31:46 -0400
From: "scherago" <scherago@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  RE: Truth or Consequences

A Joseph Ross wrote:

Again with Truth or Consequences being a quiz show.  Now, I didn't hear
the show in the 1940s, I first heard it (and saw it on TV) in the 1950s,
but as I saw it, the show was, at least in part, a spoof of quiz shows.

I used to listen to T or C in the 40s when I was a mere child (?) and
even then I realized it was a spoof. Contestants would be asked
ridiculous questions, and almost always got them wrong, because the
questions were jokes. Then the contestant had to perform some crazy
stunt, often outside the studio. It was always one of my favorites. I
sometimes think about their namesake town in New Mexico and wonder how
many people there even realize how it got its name!

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 11:32:25 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Truth or Consequences

 the show was, at least in part, a spoof of quiz shows.

   So, would that make it an anti-quiz show (as in anti-hero)?  :)

   Joe Mackey

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