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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2020 : Issue 75
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Finding A Date For Ralphie            [ <skallisjr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 18:01:03 -0500
    From: <skallisjr@[removed];
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    Subject: Finding A Date For Ralphie

    An interesting point on the movie, /A Christmas Story/.  One of the to
    things that Ralphie really yearns for is a Little Orphan Annie Decoder.
    He manages to get one, finally, and deciphers a message that was
    broadcast from the  /Little Orphan Annie/ radio program.
    By this time, not only is much of Old-Time Radio unknown by many, but
    neither is Little Orphan Annie.
    In the movie, Ralphie deciphers a message that turns out to be a "lousy
    commercial," the sort of message that was never broadcast.
    What's interesting is that the "decoder" appeared genuine, though I
    understand that it was a somewhat oversized replica.  What's noteworthy
    is that the "Decoder" was presented as the Radio Orphan Annie Secret
    Society Speedomatic Decoder Pin.
    That particular premium allows us to determine the supposed time that the
    movie was supposed to be taking place. That premium was the "decoder" for
    the season that tan from the Autumn of 1939 to the Spring of 1940 --  the
    last season that Ovaltine sponsored the radio adventure serial.  (A minor
    point: the letter and number scales on the "Decoder" were at its outer
    edge.  The way Ralphie was holding and jiggling it, he never could have
    deciphered the message.)
    That at least establishes the time period that the movie was supposed to
    have taken place.

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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