Subject: [removed] Digest V2012 #132
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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2012 : Issue 132
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      re: DRAGNET                           [ <klanza3@[removed]; ]
      Dragnet Redux                         [ Derek Tague <thatderek@[removed]; ]
      8-15 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:20:10 -0400
    From: <klanza3@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  re: DRAGNET

    I'm a big DRAGNET fan, and I'm almost postive that DRAGNET radio scripts were
    brought over to TV in more than a few instances.

    As for LA based crimes adapted to radio shows, I'm almost positive Jack
    Webb's ego,(and Chief
    Parker's) would not allow outside LA influence unless the story was so common
    that it could be set almost anywhere.

    regards,
    "only the names have been changed to protect the innocent"
    Ken Lanza

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    Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:20:15 -0400
    From: Derek Tague <thatderek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Dragnet Redux

    In answer to Ron Vickery's query about whether DRAGNET adapted radio episodes
    onto TV: the classic "for instances" involve the two Christmas-themed
    episodes ".22 Rifle for Christmas" and "The Big Little Jesus." Both debuted
    on radio and were later broadcast on 1950s TV with the latter being done yet
    again in the late 1960s.

    BTW, I have the script for a "Dragnet" episode that was adapted for stage,
    licensed to local theatre groups, and published by the Samuel French Company.
    Co-incidentally, it was a stage adaptation of an episode that aired yesterday
    (13th) on Antenna-TV in which a guy is reported to have committed suicide but
    the ballistics investigator (played by a veteran radio actor Olan Soule)
    determines it was murder.

    Turns out, the guy's elderly mother-in-law became enraged and shot him for
    grabbing the book she was reading and throwing it into the fireplace. The
    book Friday and Gannon retrieve from the fireplace was the Holy Bible.

    "That's about the size of it."

    Derek Tague

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    Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:20:21 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-15 births/deaths

    August 15th births

    08-15-1879 - Ethel Barrymore - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-18-1959
    actor: Hattie Thompson "Miss Hattie"
    08-15-1885 - Edna Ferber - Kalamazoo, MI - d. 4-16-1968
    author: "Cavalcade of America"; "Cables from Lisbon"; "Campbell
    Playhouse"
    08-15-1888 - Albert Spalding - Chicago, IL - d. 5-26-1952
    violinist: "Forecast"; "Pause That Refreshes . . . On the Air"
    08-15-1894 - Harry Akst - NYC - d. 3-31-1963
    writer: "The Barry Gray Show"
    08-15-1897 - Aben Kandel - d. 1-28-1993
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-15-1897 - Charles Tobias - NYC - d. 7-7-1970
    songwriter: (Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree) "Music for Millions";
    "Great Moments to Music"
    08-15-1898 - Monroe Upton - d. 8-6-1990
    announcer, writer, comedian: KFRC San Francisco
    08-15-1901 - Ned Washington - Scranton, PA - d. 12-20-1976
    songwriter: "Dick Aurandt Show"
    08-15-1901 - Sam Perrin - d. 1-8-1998
    writer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Phil Baker Show"; "Tommy Riggs and
    Betty Lou"
    08-15-1903 - Burke Bivens - Kirbyville, TX - d. 11-6-1967
    saxophonist: Wayne King Orchestra
    08-15-1903 - Jerry Cady - d. 11-7-1948
    writer: "Major Hoople"
    08-15-1907 - Margaret Brayton - d. 5-29-1992
    actor: "Burns and Allen"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-15-1909 - Hugo Winterhalter - d. 9-17-1973
    pop-music conductor, arranger: "Johnny Desmond Program"; "Musical
    Showcase"
    08-15-1910 - Johnny Roventini - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-30-1998
    commercial announcer: (Call for Phil-lip Mor-ress) "Ferde Grofe Show";
    "Johnny Presents"
    08-15-1910 - Signe Hasso - Stockholm, Sweden - d. 6-7-2002
    actor: "Charlie McCarthy Show"; "Hollywood Star Time"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    08-15-1912 - Robert Lewis Shayon - NYC - d. 6-28-2008
    along with Edward R. Murrow created "You Are There"
    08-15-1912 - Wendy Hiller - Bramhall, Cheshire, England - d. 5-14-2003
    actor: Queen Vic "Original Dramatic Work"
    08-15-1914 - Eve Alwyn - Christ Church, New Zealand - d. 11-16-2005
    actor: WEAT West Palm Beacg, Florida
    08-15-1916 - Van Patrick - d. 9-29-1974
    detroit lions play-by-play: "Jean Shepard Show"
    08-15-1918 - David Baskerville - Freehold, NJ - d. 12-27-1986
    nbc staff composer and conductor: "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"
    08-15-1919 - Huntz Hall - NYC - d. 1-30-1999
    comedian: (The Dead End Kids) "Texaco Star Playhouse"
    08-15-1921 - Bob Banner - Ennis, TX - d. 6-15-2011
    director: "John Brown's Body"
    08-15-1923 - Baby Rose Marie - Lower East Side, NYC
    singer: (Radio's first genuine child star) "Baby Rose Marie"
    08-15-1924 - Phyllis Schlafley - St. Louis, MO
    commentator: "America Wake Up"
    08-15-1924 - Robert Bolt - Sale, England - d. 2-20-1995
    writer: "The Last of the Wine"
    08-15-1925 - Bill Pinkney - Dalzell, SC - d. 7-4-2007
    singer: (Drifters) "Grand Ole Opry"; "Camel Rock and Roll Dance Party"
    08-15-1925 - Oscar Peterson - Montreal, Canada - d. 12-23-2007
    jazz pianist: "Oscar Peterson and Art Tatum"
    08-15-1925 - Rose Maddox - Boaz, AL - d. 4-15-1998
    country singer: "Faron Young Show"; "Country Hoedown"
    08-15-1931 - Joe Feeney - Grand Island, NE - d. 4-16-2008
    irish tenor: Got start at station WOW in Omaha, Nebraska
    08-15-1933 - Bobby Helms - Bloomington, IN - d. 6-19-1997
    singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    08-15-1935 - Joey Jay - Middletown, CT
    baseball pitcher: "Tops in Sports"
    08-15-1944 - Linda Ellerbee - Bryan, TX
    disk jockey and newscaster for WVON Chicago

    August 15th deaths

    01-10-1917 - Jerry Wexler - The Bronx, NY - d. 8-15-2008
    record producer: "Sound Stage"
    01-10-1924 - Max Roach - New Land, NC - d. 8-15-2007
    jazz drummer: "Bands for Bonds"; "Jazz Alive"; "Newport Jazz Festival"
    03-04-1888 - Fred Smith - Clarksburg, IN - d. 8-15-1976
    announcer: (America's first Ambassador of the Radio) "Newsacting"
    03-26-1907 - Clarence Stroud - Kaufman, TX - d. 8-15-1973
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    04-04-1897 - Albert Bagdasarian - d. 8-15-1968
    newscaster: WNBZ Saranac Lake, New York
    04-04-1906 - John Cameron Swayze - Wichita, KS - d. 8-15-1995
    host. panelist: "Monitor"; "Who Said That?"
    05-03-1920 - Nina Bara - Buenos Aires, Argentina - d. 8-15-1990
    actor: Tonga "Space Patrol"
    05-26-1887 - Paul Lukas - Budapest, Austria-Hungary - d. 8-15-1971
    actor: Albert Einstein "Quick and the Dead"
    05-30-1921 - Roy Neal - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-15-2003
    actor: "The Lost Continent"
    06-01-1909 - Ray Heatherton - Jersey City, NJ - d. 8-15-1997
    singer, host: "Old Gold Hour"; "Musical Cruise with Spearmint Crew"
    07-18-1906 - Clifford Odets - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-15-1963
    playwright: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"; "Cresta Blanca Hollywood
    Players"
    07-24-1911 - Raymond Edward Johnson - Kenosha, WI - d. 8-15-2001
    actor: Raymond your host "Inner Sanctum Mysteries"; Don Winslow "Don
    Winslow of the Navy"
    07-28-1903 - Duane Thompson - Red Oaks, IA - d. 8-15-1970
    actor: Telephone Operator "Hollywood Hotel"
    08-26-1891 - Frayne Baker - d. 8-15-1968
    newscaster: KFYR Bismarck, North Dakota
    09-10-1920 - Bob "Shamrock" Shannon - West Allis, WI - d. 8-15-2000
    announcer, host: "Mayor of the Town"; "The Man Says Yes"
    09-21-1907 - Jack Mather - California - d. 8-15-1966
    actor: Cisco Kid "Cisco Kid"
    10-23-1904 - Ford Bond - Louisville, KY - d. 8-15-1962
    announcer: "Cities Service Concert"; "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round";
    Highways in Melody"
    11-04-1879 - Will Rogers, Sr. - Oolagah,  Oklahoma Territory - d.
    8-15-1935
    humorist: (America's Greatest Humorist) "Gulf Headliners"
    11-28-1916 - Richard Tregaskis - Elizabeth, NJ - d. 8-15-1973
    author, war correspondent: (Guadalcanal Diary) "Lux Radio Theatre"

    Ron

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