Subject: [removed] Digest V2002 #419
From: "OldRadio Mailing Lists" <[removed]@[removed];
Date: 10/27/2002 8:58 PM
To: <[removed]@[removed];

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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2002 : Issue 419
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  FOTR Con Saturday                     [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
  Bob Hope and The Shadow Sets          [ George Aust <austhaus1@[removed] ]
  Re: Halloween Shows                   [ Eric J Cooper <ejcooper2002@[removed] ]
  Re: Halloween Shows                   [ Eric J Cooper <ejcooper2002@[removed] ]
  TWILIGHTZONE ON RADIO                 [ "Ian Grieve" <austotr@[removed]. ]
  RCA RCD128 Boombox                    [ "Don Belden" <[removed]@[removed]; ]
  Zero Hour Commercial Release          [ Henry Howard <hhoward@[removed] ]
  RE: FOTR Convention photos            [ "Irene Heinstein" <IreneTH@[removed] ]
  Scary Shows                           [ John Mayer <mayer@[removed]; ]
  Apology                               [ Bill Harris <radioguy@[removed] ]
  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK SCHEDULE for  [ HERITAGE4@[removed] ]
  Today on otr history                  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Re: Scary OTR                         [ Ga6string@[removed] ]
  Re: Halls of Ivy                      [ N&B Brickman <nbb@[removed]; ]
  Re:Twilight Zone Radio Dramas         [ James Hunt <jameshunt@[removed] ]
  Re: Twilight Zone Radio/Zero Hour     [ Eric J Cooper <ejcooper2002@[removed] ]
  Robert Clary                          [ "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@earthli ]
  FOTR Highlights                       [ "Michael J. Daumer" <mjdaumer@netni ]
  SPERDVAC Convention                   [ Larry Gassman <lgsinger@[removed] ]
  Halloween listening                   [ Tony Baechler <tony@[removed]; ]
  Line Up                               [ Kenneth Clarke <kclarke5@[removed]; ]

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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 00:40:20 +0000
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  FOTR Con Saturday

Folks;

    The biggest day of the FOTR Con is now history!

    The day started with a panel on blindness and OTR, followed by a 
hilarious One-On-One with Harlan "It's Hal, Darnit!" Stone. Next was the 
game show 20 Questions, and then the Living Audio Repitory Company 
performed a modern audio play, "It's Boys, Is It." A panel on Hedda Hopper, 
followed by one on Ellery Queen, were next, topped off by the always 
well-attended Singers, Musicians, and Big Bands [removed] standing 
room only! Finally for the afternoon, my personal favorite Ruth Last 
performed the lead in a recreation of "Sorry Wrong Number," likely one of 
the most well-known scripts ever performed.

    The evening started with cocktails and dinner, and the awards 
presentation (including a surprise award of the Ultimate Ray Stanich Award 
to Jay [removed], Jay, no award was ever more 
well-deserved!), and then a recreation of Nero Wolfe, starring Tommy Cook 
and Bill Hayes as Wolfe and Archie, a mini-singers panel hosted by Stu 
Weiss, and the Anthony Tollin-directed Have Gun, Will Travel starring 
Arthur Anderson as the Man Called Paladin.

    Nothing left but a few drinks tonight with friends, and tomorrow's 
breakfast and informal panel. I realy hate to leave tomorrow!

          Charlie

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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 00:24:35 +0000
From: George Aust <austhaus1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Bob Hope and The Shadow  Sets

When Lynn Wagar posted the other day about the Radio Spirits sets of Bob
Hope and The Shadow being at Target stores for $[removed], I was very
grateful because I was just about to order them from the catalog at
$[removed] I had my wife pick them up for me which worked out fine since
she's at target every three and a half hours anyway.
           I had just started recording my new acquisitions in my OTR log
book when  Jim Plummer posted about picking up the new sets at Sam's
Club for [removed] ea in either cassettes or CD's. I panicked. I loaded the
car up with my new sets from Target (still unopened) along with the
receipt and headed off to Sam's Club. I had just been ther a week before
and they had no OTR recordings at all, but sure enough there they were,
and as Jim had said in different packaging.
            But wait a minute!  These were smaller sets! Only 12 hours of
programs versus 20 hours in the sets from Target. Then I looked at the
shows themselves and I didn't remember some of the shows listed at all.
I bought the $[removed] sets of Bob Hope and The Shadow and went out to the
car and compared them to the sets from Target. They are a completely
different set of shows. The smaller sets are actually a little better
buy than the larger set. Anyway I ended up with both. They also had
other sets at both stores and now I'm going to have to back and check
those out too.
         It doesn't make any difference to me about the type of packaging
or whether or not the cassettes fall out because I don't keep them in
the albums/boxes anyway. I put them onto my specially built shelves
which are filed both alphabetically and by date so that they are easy
for me to lay my hands on them quickly when I want them. I store the
albums in the garage. For what I don't know.
          Anyway while lucky others are at FOTR convention I still manage
to have a little excitement in my life:-)

George Aust

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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 00:24:49 +0000
From: Eric J Cooper <ejcooper2002@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Halloween Shows

Best Halloween OTR Tricks and/or Treats:

"The Hitchhiker" (Suspense 1942, Mercury Summer Theatre 1946)

"Cat Wife" (Light's Out ,1938)

"The Thing On The Fourble Board"  (Quiet Please 1948)

and for comedy:

The Chase and Sanborn Hour (10/30/38)

Eric Cooper

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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 00:24:57 +0000
From: Eric J Cooper <ejcooper2002@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Halloween Shows

Best Halloween OTR Tricks and/or Treats:

"The Hitchhiker" (Suspense 1942, Mercury Summer Theatre 1946)

"Cat Wife" (Light's Out ,1938)

"The Thing On The Fourble Board"  (Quiet Please 1948)

and for comedy:

The Chase and Sanborn Hour (10/30/38)

Eric Cooper

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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 00:25:30 +0000
From: "Ian Grieve" <austotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  TWILIGHTZONE ON RADIO

In issue 418 Trina asked about Twilight Zone Radio.

Trina when Carl posted the link to the site, I jumped on and had a look and
ended up ordering both sets.  I have listened to two of the stories so far
and I have enjoyed them.  I think they are worth the price, I went for the
CD versions.

Ian Grieve

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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 00:25:39 +0000
From: "Don Belden" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  RCA RCD128 Boombox

RCA RCD128 Boombox

I just purchased an RCA RCD128 boombox from Best Buy in Denver for $[removed]
yesterday.

It plays regular CDs, CD-Rs, tapes, has a clock, and AM and FM radio with
automatic setting capability. It operates on AC or DC [9 D cells], and has
an equalizer & base amplification. There is a connection for earphones.

I have not found an OTR file that it won't play. The lowest encoded files
that I have are 24 kbps and it plays these and of course those encoded at
higher kbps.

RCA says that it will also play CD-Rows, but I haven't tried any in it.

Don in Denver

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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 07:57:07 +0000
From: Henry Howard <hhoward@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Zero Hour Commercial Release

 >Do any of you remember a radio series called "The Zero Hour"?

HighBridge Company released six programs on cassette.
Unfortunately the stock is gone unless you can find it on a
store shelf or warehouse.   The programs were:

The Zero Hour
Hosted by  Rod Serling

Program One
The Desperate Witness
Richard Crenna, Julie Adams and Keenan Wynn
HighBridge Company  1 56511 139 7   Cassette

Program Two
Face of the Foe
Jessica Walter, Judy Carne, Joseph Campanella and Richard Dawson
HighBridge Company  1 56511 140 0

Program Three
The Two of Them Are Dean
Earl Holliman, Nina Foch and Danver Pyle
HighBridge Company  1 56511 149 4

Program Four
But I Wouldn't Want To Die There
Brock Peters, Nehemia Persoff and Marge Redmond
HighBridge Company 1 56511 159 1

Program Five
The Heir Hunters
Edgar Bergen, Joanne Worley and Ken Berry
HighBridge Company  1 56511 193 1

Program Six
Wife of the Red-Haired Man
Patty Duke, John Astin, Howard Duff, Harold Gould and Benny Ruben
HighBridge Company 1 56511 216 4

HighBridge Company
1000 Westgate Drive
St. Paul, MN 55114

           Henry Howard
radiodrama digest moderator
      [removed]

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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 07:59:02 +0000
From: "Irene Heinstein" <IreneTH@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  RE:  FOTR Convention photos

Thanks for the pictures, Charlie.   I wish you had a closeup of Hal's ring
on his right hand.   It looks like turquoise, which I guess is the gem of
choice for former easterners who end up in the desert.    I bet Hal said one
of those drinks was for his wife.

~Irene

[ADMINISTRIVIA: Yeah, but who listens to him?  ;)

I have literally _hundreds_ of pics to go through, and promise by Monday 
afternoon to have a pagefull of pics up. As to when the "real" pics pages 
get [removed], let's remember that the Cincy con pics haven't gone live 
[removed]  --cfs3]

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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 07:59:13 +0000
From: John Mayer <mayer@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Scary Shows

A show that scared the bejeezus out of me as a kid, and that scared my 
nephew in turn after me (he has grown into a radio buff whose OTR memories 
are of listening to my casettes) was the _Suspense_ show "On a Lonely Road" 
which starred, I believe, Cary Grant. A classic Hallowe'en-ish tale of an 
ill-considered short cut, car trouble and an escaped lunatic. I recall my 
nephew, ten or twelve at the time, saying, "It's not like watching tv; when 
I turn out the lights I'm THERE on that road!"

He was also very fond of the afore-mentioned "Thing on the Fourble Board." 
A particular scene that creeped me out for years after I heard it was an 
abbreviated dramatization of _Wuthering Heights_; I think it might have 
been on _the Haunting Hour_, or was it _The Witching Hour_. The scene where 
Heathcliff brooding in his room after the death of his beloved, is 
irritated by the sound of a dead branch scraping against his window and, 
finally, in annoyance, gets up and opens the window to break the branch 
off. Reaching out he grabs an icy hand: "Heathcliff, let me [removed] It's 
soooo coooold out [removed]"

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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 07:59:23 +0000
From: Bill Harris <radioguy@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Apology

  "Ed Ellers" <ed_ellers@[removed]; says:

 > That post I made about color video tape at NBC was an error -- it was
 > supposed to go to another mailing list.  In the process of changing the
 > address (so it would go to that list rather than only to Joe) I somehow got
 > this list's address rather than the one I meant to use.  So if anybody's

As long as we're on the subject, if anyone is interested in seeing
one of
these early video recording machines that was installed at NBC, I
put a picture of one up at:

[removed]

Bill H.

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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 07:59:37 +0000
From: HERITAGE4@[removed]
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK SCHEDULE for
  week starting: 10/27/02

Old Time Radio at it's best with Jerry Haendiges and Tom Heathwood.  New shows
start every week on Sundays in hi-end streaming audio at:
[removed]          Tune in  24/7  - anytime.

HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE with Tom Heathwood - 90 minutes
1. LOOKING BACK AT HALLOWEEN, 1938 -  Tom examines the controversies about
the programs on CBS and NBC that night.  Ken Piletic joins in with some
synchonized recordings and explains one view of the apparent enigma, and Tom
relays Elizabeth's McLeod's thoughts.
2. THE CHASE & SANBORN HOUR    10/30/38 - NBC - The "other" show on the
air the night of WOTW. Highlights of a 1st gen. recording with:  Don Ameche,
Dorothy Lamour, Nelson Eddy and Guest: Madeleine Carroll. Was this top-ranked
show so distasteful that night that everyone tuned to CBS instead and thought
the
country had been invaded?

SAME TIME, SAME STATION with Jerry Haendiges - 2 Hours
1. THE GREAT FILDERSLEEVE   NBC  4/20/49  "Haunted House"  Hal Peary.
2. MACABRE   1/1/62    "The Crystalline Man"
3. FATHER KNOWS BEST    10/29/53     "Halloween Blues"
4. LIGHTS OUT    10/20/42   "Poltergeist"

Enjoy - Happy Halloween !!      Tom & Jerry

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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 07:59:45 +0000
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Today on otr history

 >From Those Were The Days --

RADIO DAY -- Marconi, Fessenden, and De Forest were the catalysts.
However, it was an engineer for Westinghouse Electric who, in 1916, was
broadcasting music from his garage (in Wilkinsburg, PA, a suburb of
Pittsburgh) over a wireless (amateur radio station 8XK) who really got
the whole thing started. A newspaper article about the broadcasts caused
such interest that the head honchos at Westinghouse decided to build a
real radio station.

It took until this day in 1920 for the Westinghouse radio station to
receive a license to broadcast. The license for KDKA, Pittsburgh came
from the [removed] Department of Commerce. Although the license was
officially issued on this day, KDKA did not start their broadcast
operations for a week (they had to wait until the license was posted in
the station). On November 2, 1920, the station aired the returns of the
Harding/Cox
election ... the first radio programming to reach an audience of any
size ... approximately 1,000 people.

And so we salute this day as the official birthday of mass-appeal radio.

1947 - This is Nora Drake premiered on NBC. Nora solved domestic, social
and child-raising problems until January 2, 1959.

1947 - "The one, the only Groucho" Marx appeared as quizmaster on You
Bet Your Life for the first time -- on
ABC. George Fenneman was Groucho's eternal straight man. Fenneman stayed
with Marx during the program's run on radio (1948 - 1959) and TV (1950 -
1961). By the way, who is buried in Grant's tomb?

   Joe

-- Visit my home page: [removed]~[removed] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 07:59:54 +0000 From: Ga6string@[removed] To: <[removed]@[removed]; Subject: Re: Scary OTR IMHO, no Halloween is complete without a listen to the Suspense episode, "The House on Cypress Canyon," broadcast Dec. 5, 1946. One of the best!!! Bryan Powell ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 19:23:29 +0000 From: N&B Brickman <nbb@[removed]; To: <[removed]@[removed]; Subject: Re: Halls of Ivy Ron, I will assume that you are referring to the new Halls Of Ivy 2-CD set, with 88 radio episodes and 10 TV soundtracks. The newly-discovered episodes on the CDs are in 48/44 mp3 format, but most of the others are in the traditional 32/22 mp3. Probably more than half of the episodes on the CDs have been digitally enhanced / filtered relative to their analog sources. I personally disagree with the sometime-heard view that says mp3 is not a good preservation medium. Certainly no analog media is particularly good for long-term preservation (reel-to-reel, 8-track, LP records, cassette tapes, wire recorders, etc.) - all are at end-of-life. Digital media automatically stops the analog generational degradation that OTR dealers know so well. Also, audio quality at 32/22 mp3 (11 KHz bandwidth) should be able to challenge the quality of the original older radio broadcasts. Those who think 16-bit wav files (also available as audio CDs) are the only way to preserve audio are of course entitled to their view. I would just urge them to also provide all episodes in compressed mp3. For the Halls of Ivy mp3 CDs, you can easily convert from mp3 to 16-bit wav with most any computer-based mp3 player and a CD burner, and I think some CD burner software will now directly convert from mp3 format to CD audio. Mp3, however, lets one archive up to 90 half-hour OTR episodes on one CD. Regards. Norman Brickman - - - - - - - - - - - - - >Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 00:01:35 -0400 >From: Ronald Staley <mrvintageradio@[removed]; >To: [removed]@[removed] >Subject: [Approved: ostiei6ifte] Halls of Ivy >Is it possible to trace the source of the Halls of Ivy to make genuine >cds rather than MP3s of same. >mp3 is not a good preservation medium. >let me know. >ron staley ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 19:23:38 +0000 From: James Hunt <jameshunt@[removed]; To: <[removed]@[removed]; Subject: Re:Twilight Zone Radio Dramas >From ,jameshunt@[removed]. Sunday, October 27, 7AM,CST Trina Preston was inquiring about "The T wilight Zone Radio Dramas". She listed the email address of the website, which I have had in my files for at least two months. I visit there regularly. If Trina will do the same, as well as any interested parties, she will find the answers to her questions. Bottom line. This is a Projected New Series-Yet To Be-But There Are Plans, according to what I read on the site's pages, to Broadcast These Shows On Radio Stations-Coast-To-Coast-in the near future. As a matter of fact, there Is a link that urges visitors to reference frequently for a list of stations who will be carrying the series the week of October [removed] As of a few minutes ago that page Is Still Blank. This, in my opinion, Is of no significance-in any context. These Will Be/Are New Radio Dra matizations of The Classic Scrips From TV's "Twilight Zone". They Are Hosted by Stacey Keach (Jr) -tv's "Mike Hammer. Some of the actors appearing-Jane Seymour, Lou Diamond Phillips, Ed Begley, Jr., Blair Underwood, James Keach, [removed] Trina is correct about two volumes of the shows being sold-via the website-in cd or cassette formats. I plan to but have not-as yet ordered these. "The Twilight Zone R adio Hour" Is the brainchild of Carl Amari-formerly of R adio Spirits. He is the Executive Producer-through his production company, "Falcon Picture". His right hand man is Bob Frescia, who was in a similar capacity at "RS". I was wondering if these folks were represented at the FOTR Convention-via the dealers room. Anyone know? Don Hunt ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 19:24:01 +0000 From: Eric J Cooper <ejcooper2002@[removed]; To: <[removed]@[removed]; Subject: Re: Twilight Zone Radio/Zero Hour My understanding from looking at [removed] is that Carl Amari's main interest is to market these shows on CD and that they are audio adaptations of the TV scripts. As for The Zero Hour, briefly, this was the first of several attempts to revive the "lost" art of radio drama during the nostalgia boom of the early seventies. There were two distinct series of Zero Hour shows, first was a weekly story divided into in five parts (one chapter per night), the second series was five 18 min episodes (with commercials 24 mins) per week, each episode complete in itself. Series One aired in syndication between Sept 3rd and December 15th,1973 then went to the old Mutual Broadcasting System from December 18th,1973 until around March 1974. The second series aired from approx April to July 1974. The OTR connection to the Zero Hour is solid with most of the surviving West Coast radio actors taking roles along with some TV and movie names. Eric Cooper ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 19:25:22 +0000 From: "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@[removed]; To: <[removed]@[removed]; Subject: Robert Clary Clary's book was published about a year ago or so I believe, but I haven't seen it in paperback yet. Joe Salerno [ADMINISTRIVIA: Picked up a copy at the FOTR Con; obviously haven't had the chance to actually _read_ the book. Hey, just walked in the door! ;) --cfs3] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 19:26:45 +0000 From: "Michael J. Daumer" <mjdaumer@[removed]; To: <[removed]@[removed]; Subject: FOTR Highlights I just wanted to express my appreciation to our illustrious listmeister for posting highlights and pictures from FOTR. I really enjoyed the photo's. Please post more, with captions. How about a group picture with Digest subscribers? Wish I could have been there! Mike [ADMINISTRIVIA: Based on the number of people I talked to this weekend, that would be a really crowded photograph. There were a LOT of subscribers present! --cfs3] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 19:27:03 +0000 From: Larry Gassman <lgsinger@[removed]; To: <[removed]@[removed]; Subject: SPERDVAC Convention Hi, Melinda and i will be attending the Saturday banquet of the SPERDVAC Convention near the airport inLos Angeles on Saturday, November 2nd. John and his girlfriend Kris will attend most of the convention as well. It's not to late so make your plans and get your money in now. I have nothing to do with any aspect of the convention, and haven't seen much publicity on the overall line up so I would enjoy reading about what will be happening. if someone responsible for planning it would send along a report to the digest, it would be very helpful. Thanks. Larry Gassman ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:29:55 -0500 From: Tony Baechler <tony@[removed]; To: [removed]@[removed] Subject: Halloween listening Hello. I would suggest the first series of "Adventures by Morse." All are available on audio CD, cassette and mp3. Many are in outstanding sound. Specifically, I recommend the 10 episode story, "City of the Dead." I could provide audio CDs but not in time for October 31. This is a long story with each episode running about 25 minutes but is well worth it. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:47:12 -0500 From: Kenneth Clarke <kclarke5@[removed]; To: [removed]@[removed] Subject: Line Up I recently saw an offer for some cassettes of an OTR program called Line Up with Bill Johnstone. Is this the same Bill Johnstone who portrayed the Shadow? When was the program on the air? What was the program about? Any information any of you can provide will be appreciated. Kenneth Clarke -------------------------------- End of [removed] Digest V2002 Issue #419 ********************************************* Copyright [removed] Communications, York, PA; All Rights Reserved, including republication in any form. If you enjoy this list, please consider financially supporting it: [removed] For Help: [removed]@[removed] To Unsubscribe: [removed]@[removed] To Subscribe: [removed]@[removed] or see [removed] For Help with the Archive Server, send the command ARCHIVE HELP in the SUBJECT of a message to [removed]@[removed] To contact the listmaster, mail to listmaster@[removed] To Send Mail to the list, simply send to [removed]@[removed]