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Date: 6/10/2005 6:04 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2005 : Issue 178
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Scary Moments                         [ "laurie platt" <laurie1125@hotmail. ]
      Scary Moments                         [ Radioclass <radioclass@[removed] ]
      Scary moments                         [ "Ivan G. Shreve, Jr." <iscreve@comc ]
      future of OTR                         [ "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@earthli ]
      Scary Show                            [ "Tom Bewley" <fords3137@[removed] ]
      Scary Radio                           [ "Mark E. Higgins" <paul_frees_fan@a ]
      6-10 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Scariest Radio Show                   [ "James Yellen" <clifengr3@[removed] ]
      Robert Cummings                       [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
      Hercule Poirot                        [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 12-18 Jun  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Scariest Moment                       [ Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed] ]

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    Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 20:54:54 -0400
    From: "laurie platt" <laurie1125@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Scary Moments

    The one that scares me is 'The Body Turned Inside Out'

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    Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 21:20:51 -0400
    From: Radioclass <radioclass@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Scary Moments

    Randy Story asked:

>     Hands [removed] is the most frightening radio program you have ever
>     heard?

    Two come to my mind.  Scariest was The House on Cypress Canyon from the
    Suspense broadcast of December 5, 1946.  Next scariest for me was Corridor of
    Doom with Boris Karloff heard on Inner Sanctum, October 23, 1945.

    Anne

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    Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 22:20:04 -0400
    From: "Ivan G. Shreve, Jr." <iscreve@[removed];
    To: "Old-Time Radio Digest (Plain Text Only)" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Scary moments

    Randy Story's inquiring mind wants to know:

>     Hands [removed] is the most frightening radio program you have ever
>     heard? The one that makes your blood run cold when you think of it.
>     The one that perhaps gave you nightmares.

    One of my favorite radio frights is essentially a "nightmare" -- it's the
    Lights Out episode "The Dream," which is a stream-of-consciousness piece
    about a woman who keeps experiencing the same recurring "night terror" over
    and over again.  Goosebumpily stuff, to be sure.

    I'm also chilled by Escape's "Evening Primrose," based on the story by John
    Collier.  Something about a netherworld existing after-hours in a department
    store just gives me the whim-whams.

    Ivan
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    Classic movies, television and old-time radio at Thrilling Days of
    Yesteryear! [removed]

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    Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 23:30:41 -0400
    From: "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@[removed];
    To: "OTR List" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  future of OTR

    OTR seems to be doing OK on satellite, does it not? I don't subscriber to
    either service yet, but I believe Sirius & XM both have a 24/7 OTR channel.
    Would anyone who does sub to these services care to comment on audio
    quality, variety, and how often they hear a program repeated?

    Joe Salerno

    [ADMINISTRIVIA: As both satellite services' OTR channels are programmed and
    operated by MediaBay's RadioClassics "division," they can be treated as the
    same. My personal and unfavorable review of XM's RadioClassics may be read at:

    [removed]

    --cfs3]

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    Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 23:31:26 -0400
    From: "Tom Bewley" <fords3137@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Scary Show
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    My girls who are now in their 40's will tell you that when they were ten and
    eleven years old the show that frightened them most was " The Thing on the
    Fourble Board".

    Tom Bewley

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    Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:51:37 -0400
    From: "Mark E. Higgins" <paul_frees_fan@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Scary Radio

        For my money, the scariest radio episode that I ever heard was an
    episode of "Crime Does Not Pay" entitled "Body of the Crime" - 11/14/49
    -  starring Parker Fennelly as a man who brutally murdered a mother and
    daughter because they wouldn't sell him their land (which he knew had
    oil).  To hear Titus Moody committing the crime, and later in court to
    hear the Pepperidge Farm guy defiantly stating that they couldn't
    convict him because they had no corpus delecti (hence the episode title)
    still creeps me out every time I hear it.  At the end of the show,
    Fennelly steps out of character to give the epilog.  It's one of a kind.

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    Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:52:07 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  6-10 births/deaths

    June 10th births

    H A P P Y  B I R T H D A Y  J U G H E A D !

    06-10-1889 - Sessue Hayakawa - Chiba, Japan - d. 11-23-1973
    actor: Freelance NHK Tokyo, Japan
    06-10-1891 - Al Dubin - Zurich, Switzerland - d. 2-11-1945
    lyricist: "Mutual-Don Lee Dedicatory Program"
    06-10-1895 - Hattie McDaniel - Wichita, KS - d. 10-26-1952
    actress: Beulah "Beulah"; Mammy "Maxwell House Showboat"
    06-10-1897 - Boris Kroyt - d. 11-15-1969
    violinist: (Member of the Budapest String Quaratet) "Library of Congress
    Concert"
    06-10-1898 - Norman Brokenshire - Murcheson, Ontario, Canada - d. 5-4-1965
    announcer: "Music That Satisfies"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    06-10-1901 - Fritz Loewe - Vienna, Austria - d. 2-14-1988
    composer: "Mitch Miller Show"
    06-10-1903 - Ernest Chappell - Syracuse, NY - d. 7-4-1983
    announcer: "Fabulous Dr. Tweedy"; "Quiet Please"; "Big Story"
    06-10-1909 - Larry LeSueur - d. 2-5-2003
    CBS news correspondent: "This Week in Europe"; "The World Today"
    06-10-1911 - Mary Lansing - LA - d. 9-30-1988
    actress: Betty Crane "The Greatest of These"; Julie Collins "The Guiding Light"
    06-10-1920 - Anne Burr - Boston, MA - d. 2-1-2003
    actress: Regina Rawlings "Backstage Wife"; "Nona Marsh "Wendy Warren and the
    News"
    06-10-1921 - Chuck Thompson - Palmer, MA - d. 3-6-2005
    sportscaster: Baltimore Orioles, Baltimore Colts
    06-10-1922 - Judy Garland - Grand Rapids, MN - d. 6-22-1969
    singer, actress: Romantic Interest "The Hardy Family"; "Good News of 1938"
    06-10-1926 - June Haver - Rock Island, IL
    vocalist: (Fio Rito Orchestra) "Hollywood Hotel"
    06-10-1931 - Hal "Harlan" Stone - Whitestone, Long Island, NY
    actor, author: Jughead Jones "Archie Andrews"; "[removed], Archie! Re-laxx!

    June 10th deaths

    01-07-1873 - Adolph Zukor - Ricse, Austria-Hungary - d. 6-10-1976
    film executive: "Time Capsule"; "Flashback"; "Cavalcade of Stars"
    03-09-1912 - Ned Le Fevre - IN - d. 6-10-1966
    actor: Ned Holden "The Guiding Light"; Jonathan Kegg "A Life in Your Hands"
    04-05-1900 - Spencer Tracy - Milwaukee, WI - d. 6-10-1967
    actor: "Good News of 1938"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-06-1910 - Alice Reinheart - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-10-1993
    actress: Anne Williams "Casey, Crime Photographer"; Jean Abbott "Abbott
    Mysteries"
    05-25-1919 - Lindsey Nelson - Campbellsville, TN - d. 6-10-1995
    sportscaster: "Monitor Preview"; "Biography In Sound"
    06-30-1898 - George Chandler - Waukegan, IL - d. 6-10-1985
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-12-1863 - Herschel Mayall - Bowling Green, KY - d. 6-10-1941
    actor: "The Lone Ranger"; "The March of Time"
    07-14-1904 - Nadia Reisenberg - Vilna, Lithuania - d. 6-10-1983
    pianist: "Benny Goodman Music Festival"
    08-25-1909 - Michael Rennie - Bradford, Yorkshire, England - d. 6-10-1971
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-30-1910 - Elinor Harriot - Duluth, MN - d. 6-10-2000
    actress: Ruby Taylor "Amos 'n' Andy"; Sally Gibbons "Story of Mary Marlin"
    09-09-1915 - Richard Webb - Bloomington, IN - d. 6-10-1993
    actor: "Family Theatre"; "Crime Does Not Pay
    10-20-1926 - Carolina Cotton - Cash, AR - d. 6-10-1997
    yodeler: "Hollywood Barn Dance"
    11-12-1920 - Richard Quine - Detroit, MI - d. 6-10-1989
    actor: "Doctor Christian"; "Mayor of the Town"; "Family Theatre"
    12-28-1890 - Frank Butler - Oxford, Oxfordshire, England - d. 6-10-1967
    actor: Dave Arnold "Mr. Chameleon"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:52:43 -0400
    From: "James Yellen" <clifengr3@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Scariest Radio Show

    When I was a kid, my all-time favorite show was Inner Sanctum. And I
    remember one episdoe, called "The Judas Clock" that really scared the
    bee-geesis out of me. I was afraid to listen to Raymond and his creaking
    door anymore after hearing that one. I switched to Gildersleeve!

    Check out my web site, THE WISTFUL RADIO CHRONICLES, Chapter 1: The
    Flim-Flammed Sibling Strikes Back." if you want to know more.

    Here's the URL: [removed]

    Thanks for listening,

    Jim Yellen

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    Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:51:29 -0400
    From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Robert Cummings

           I noticed in the births/deaths section the name
    of Robert Cummings.  My question is this the Bob Cummings
    from the classic television series "Love That Bob" or
    someone totally different?

    Another OTR Fan,

    Kenneth Clarke

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    Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 15:29:27 -0400
    From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
    To: OTR <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Hercule Poirot

    I've been listening recently to the mid-1940s Mutual series based on
    Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot. It's not bad--quite a bit better than
    I expected, actually. One of the episodes ("Rendezvous with Death,"
    7/12/45) is loosely based on her book "Murder on the Nile." It's
    essentially the same story, with all the subplots, red herrings, and
    local color (it's set on the Great Lakes) stripped out. Does anybody
    know if any of the other scripts from this series are based on original
    Agatha Christie stories?

    The first two episodes I heard both feature an older female secretary,
    who sort of assists Poirot in his cases. (Jack French might want to add
    her to a future edition of Private Eyelashes. How appropriate for an
    Agatha Award winner!) Can't remember her name right now. She was
    present from at least February through May, but she seems to have
    disappeared by the summer. I don't know if she returns later--future
    listening will tell. I guess this series ran for only one year--they
    may have tried to tinker with it a bit to make it more successful. (I
    noticed the theme music changed, from Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 to
    Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. When I looked up the series in Dunning,
    he didn't say anything about the music, or much of anything about the
    show itself.)

    Kermyt

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    Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:03:44 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history  12-18 June

     From Those Were The Days --

    6/12

    1947 - Sergeant Preston of The Yukon went national for the first time.
    The show, with the Canadian Mountie and his trusty dog, King, continued
    on the radio until 1955, beginning on WXYZ Detroit in 1938. Sgt. Preston
    was created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, who also created The
    Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet.

    1955 - The first network radio show to be produced with no script, The
    University of Chicago Round Table, was heard for the final time on NBC.
    The program was the first network radio program to win the coveted
    George Foster Peabody Award.

    1955 - "This is Monitor, a weekend program service of NBC Radio," was
    heard for the first time. Notables such as Bill Cullen, Ed McMahon, Hugh
    Downs, and Dave Garroway recited this line. It was a network cue to NBC
    radio stations across the nation who carried the long form news,
    entertainment and variety broadcast from New York City. Stations and
    listeners who were "on the Monitor beacon" were entertained for six
    hours or more each Saturday and Sunday night for nearly two decades.
    NBC's Monitor was one of the last live network radio programs on the air.

    6/13

    1944 - The wire recorder was patented by Marvin Camras.

    6/14

    1922 - A [removed] President was heard on the radio for the first time.
    President Warren G. Harding dedicated the Francis Scott Key Memorial and
    was heard on WEAR in Baltimore.

    1950 - Harold Peary played the leading role of The Great Gildersleeve
    one final time. Willard Waterman took Peary's place in the role.

    6/15

    1936 - Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler starred in Burlesque on the Lux Radio
    Theatre.

    6/17

    1942 - Suspense, known as radio's outstanding theatre of thrills,
    debuted on CBS. The program kept millions of loyal listeners in suspense
    for the next 20 years (and three months, for the purists <g> -ed)

    6/18

    1939 - CBS aired The Adventures of Ellery Queen for the first time. An
    interesting twist came near the end of the program when the show was
    stopped to allow a panel of experts to guess the solution of the night's
    mystery.

    1961 - Gunsmoke was broadcast for the last time on CBS. The show had
    been on for nine years. It was called the first adult Western. The star
    of Gunsmoke was William Conrad.

       Joe

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    Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 19:53:54 -0400
    From: Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Scariest Moment

    My scariest moment listening to radio happened when I was six  years old
    and discovered  "The Cinnamon Bear" for the first time.

    The moment occurred  at the end of  Episode 19 when Wintergreen the Witch
    threatens  to turn Judy and Jimmy Barton into bullfrogs.  She
    [removed]"And all you'll be able to do my 'pretties' is croak."
    Fortunately, Wintergreen is eventually captured and turned into a
    wreath----a fitting punishment, I believe.

    Dennis Crow

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