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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgawBNuQisoQGrdtzchthW23zzJcrYXXijov_e3C_3jd5KkUENDY0gOq7OJ-6OT-4NcGvUT3EkQOXIvnPrvLgaeU8ok69YswzmcjMBBasvOXz5pstVGSuR6FkpHdpm_B8iDW_M8Po0h-ko/s1600/Innerad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgawBNuQisoQGrdtzchthW23zzJcrYXXijov_e3C_3jd5KkUENDY0gOq7OJ-6OT-4NcGvUT3EkQOXIvnPrvLgaeU8ok69YswzmcjMBBasvOXz5pstVGSuR6FkpHdpm_B8iDW_M8Po0h-ko/s1600/Innerad.jpg" width="137" /></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_Sanctum_Mystery" target="_blank">Inner Sanctum Mystery</a>, also known as Inner Sanctum, a popular old-time radio program that aired from January 7, 1941 to October 5, 1952, was created by producer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himan_Brown" target="_blank">Himan Brown</a> and was based on the generic title given to the mystery novels of Simon and Schuster. In all, 526 episodes were broadcast.<br />
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This anthology series featured stories of mystery, terror and suspense, and its tongue-in-cheek introductions were in sharp contrast to shows like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspense_(radio_drama)" target="_blank">Suspense</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whistler" target="_blank">The Whistler</a>. The early 1940s programs opened with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Edward_Johnson" target="_blank">Raymond Edward Johnson</a> introducing himself as, "<i>Your host, Raymond," </i>in a mocking sardonic voice. A spooky melodramatic organ score (played by Lew White) punctuated Raymond's many morbid jokes and playful puns. Raymond's closing was an elongated <i>"Pleasant dreeeeaams, hmmmmm?</i>" His tongue-in-cheek style and ghoulish relish of his own tales became the standard for many such horror narrators to follow, from fellow radio hosts like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Chappell" target="_blank">Ernest Chappell</a> (on Wyllis Cooper's later series, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet,_Please" target="_blank">Quiet, Please</a>) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Tarplin" target="_blank">Maurice Tarplin</a> (on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Traveler" target="_blank">The Mysterious Traveler</a>).<br />
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When Johnson left the series in May 1945 to serve in the Army, he was replaced by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McGrath_(actor)" target="_blank">Paul McGrath</a>, who did not keep the "Raymond" name and was known only as "Your Host" or "Mr. Host". (Berry Kroeger had substituted earlier for a total of four episodes). McGrath was a Broadway actor who turned to radio for a regular income. Beginning in 1945, Lipton Tea sponsored the series, pairing first Raymond and then McGrath with cheery commercial spokeswoman Mary Bennett (aka the "Tea Lady"), whose blithesome pitches for Lipton Tea contrasted sharply with the macabre themes of the stories. She primly chided the host for his trademark dark humor and creepy manner.<br />
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Other established stars in the early years included Mary Astor, Helen Hayes, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas, Claude Rains, Frank Sinatra, Orson Welles. Most of the lead and supporting players were stalwarts of New York radio. These included Santos Ortega, Larry Haines, Ted Osborne, Luis van Rooten, Stefan Schnabel, Ralph Bell, Mercedes McCambridge, Berry Kroeger, Lawson Zerbe, Arnold Moss, Leon Janney, Myron McCormick, Ian Martin, and Mason Adams. Players like Richard Widmark, Everett Sloane, Burgess Meredith, Agnes Moorehead, Ken Lynch, Anne Seymour, and Santos Ortega also found fame or notability in film or television.<br />
Of more than 500 programs broadcast, only about 200 remain in circulation, sometimes minus dates or titles.<br />
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A series of six low-budget Universal Horror movies starring Lon Chaney, Jr. and based on the radio show was produced in the 1940s: Calling Dr. Death (1943), Weird Woman (1944), Dead Man's Eyes (1944), The Frozen Ghost (1945), Strange Confession (1945) and Pillow of Death (1945).A Film Classics release Inner Sanctum was made in 1948.<br />
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The 1954 syndicated television series featured Paul McGrath as the off-camera host/narrator. The TV shows were produced at the Chelsea Studios in New York City.<br />
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In the 1970s, with his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio_Mystery_Theater" target="_blank">CBS Radio Mystery Theater</a> series, Himan Brown recycled both the creaking door opening, and to a lesser extent, the manner of Raymond. The hosts were <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._G._Marshall" target="_blank">E. G. Marshall</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Grimes" target="_blank">Tammy Grimes</a>. In later repeats during the 1990s, Brown himself mimicked Raymond's "<i>Pleasant dreeeeaaams, hmmmmm?</i>" for the familiar closing.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615612702033102027.post-26726282687889387732020-07-05T18:12:00.003-07:002020-07-05T18:12:29.906-07:00The Weird Circle<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/Weird_Circle_otr&playlist=1" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe> <br />
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<a href="http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/digitaldelitoo/dd2jb-weird-circle.html">The Weird Circle</a> premise is noteworthy: an anthology of classic, supernatural mystery thrillers from the pens of the world's best known and respected supernatural fiction authors. The scripts--with rare few exceptions--acquit themselves well for the genre. <br />
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The supernatural thriller genre was highly popular throughout the mid-1930s, right on through the mid-1950s over Radio.<br />
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The program was reportedly recorded out of RCA's New York Studios, and almost immediately licensed to both NBC-Red/RCA [WEAF] and the Mutual Broadcasting System [WOR and W-G-N], consisting of two, 39-script seasons of 25-minute productions, for local sponsors and networks alike. As illustrated in the Provenances section, NBC [RCA] created their own set of transcription disks as well, as did the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS).<br />
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Sponsors varied as the series was picked up throughout affiliate stations across the U.S. One incarnation of note was Ogden Fine Cut Tobacco's sponsorship of The Weird Circle, packaged as the Odgen's Playhouse. Ogden's Playhouse didn't air the run in transcription order over U.S. stations. It aired other features under the Ogden's Playhouse banner as well. In Canada however, Ogden's Playhouse aired The Weird Circle series weekly without other intervening productions. Other sponsors of note were the Farr Ice Cream Company [West Coast], 7-Up [Arizona], and Remar's Bread [West Coast].<br />
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The Weird Circle's earliest airing appears to have been over Chicago's W-G-N, a founding Mutual Broadcasting System station, as a sustaining program for its first season (the program aired as two syndicated seasons of productions). Previous difficulty in nailing down the program's episode sequence and earliest broadcast run are probably contributing factors in the poor results of past efforts to document this otherwise highly collectable program.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615612702033102027.post-71601164446311636822020-06-20T18:25:00.000-07:002020-06-20T18:29:25.677-07:00The Whistler<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/OTRR_Whistler_Singles&playlist=1" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe> <i></i><br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whistler">The Whistler</a> was an American radio mystery drama that ran from May 16, 1942, until September 22, 1955. It was sponsored by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Oil_%26_Gas">Signal Oil Company</a>: "That whistle is your signal for the Signal Oil program, The Whistler." The program was adapted into a film noir series by Columbia Pictures in 1944.<br />
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The stories followed a formula in which a person's criminal acts were typically undone either by an overlooked but important detail or by their own stupidity. On rare occasions a curious twist of fate caused the story to end happily for the episode's protagonist. Ironic twist endings were a key feature of each episode. The Whistler himself narrated, often commenting directly upon the action in the manner of a Greek chorus, taunting the criminal from an omniscient perspective.<br />
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Each episode of The Whistler began with the sound of footsteps and a person whistling. (The Saint radio series with Vincent Price used a similar opening.) The haunting signature theme tune was composed by Wilbur Hatch and featured Dorothy Roberts whistling with an orchestra.<br />
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A character known only as the Whistler was the host and narrator of the tales, which focused on crime and fate. He often commented directly upon the action in the manner of a Greek chorus, taunting the characters, guilty or innocent, from an omniscient perspective. The stories followed a formula in which a person's criminal acts were typically undone either by an overlooked but important detail or by the criminal's own stupidity. An ironic ending, often grim, was a key feature of each episode. But on rare occasions, such as "Christmas Bonus" broadcast on Christmas Day 1944, the plot's twist of fate caused the story to end happily for the protagonist.<br />
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Bill Forman had the title role of the Whistler for the longest period of time. Others who portrayed the Whistler at various times were Gale Gordon, Joseph Kearns, Marvin Miller (announcer for The Whistler and The Bickersons and later the actor who portrayed Michael Anthony on TV's The Millionaire), Bill Johnstone (who had the title role on radio's The Shadow from 1938 to 1943) and Everett Clarke. Cast members included Betty Lou Gerson, Hans Conried, Joseph Kearns, Cathy Lewis, Elliott Lewis, Gerald Mohr, Lurene Tuttle and Jack Webb.<br />
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Writer-producer J. Donald Wilson established the tone of the show during its first two years, and he was followed in 1944 by producer-director George Allen. Other directors included Sterling Tracy and Sherman Marks with final scripts by Joel Malone and Harold Swanton. Of the 692 episodes, over 200 no longer exist. In 1946, a local Chicago version of The Whistler with local actors aired Sundays on WBBM, sponsored by Meister Brau beer.<br />
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The Whistler was adapted into a film noir series of eight films by Columbia Pictures. The "Voice of the Whistler" was provided by an uncredited Otto Forrest. In the first seven films, veteran actor Richard Dix played the main character in the story—a different character in each film. In the eighth film, made after Dix's retirement, Michael Duane played the main character.<br />
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The Whistler – 1944, directed by William Castle<br />
The Mark of the Whistler – 1944, directed by William Castle<br />
The Power of the Whistler – 1945, directed by Lew Landers<br />
Voice of the Whistler – 1945, directed by William Castle<br />
Mysterious Intruder – 1946, directed by William Castle<br />
The Secret of the Whistler – 1946, directed by George Sherman<br />
The Thirteenth Hour – 1947, directed by William Clemens<br />
The Return of the Whistler – 1948, directed by D. Ross Lederman<br />
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A syndicated TV version of The Whistler was produced and aired for a brief period in 1954. The Whistler was voiced by William Forman.<br />
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In the 1990 film The Two Jakes, set in Los Angeles in the late 1940s, the opening narrative of The Whistler can be heard on the car radio as private detective J.J. Gittes (played by Jack Nicholson) cruises the streets.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615612702033102027.post-3964409730647927042020-06-10T22:42:00.000-07:002020-06-10T22:42:08.135-07:00Lights Out<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/LightsOutoldTimeRadio&playlist=1" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe> <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwMQgmxQK8LPD0HRsLULHC8ClK-t_L08Rpek6iMdMwPuLANeZJKuitkwUQg6YxLpYRkrX6XLjxk-SaG-NAZ1dKgHieLMZaofhO2o0rS4t-a7PNx70te7PtcdY2TbNwSflbazzyo-BVwfo/s1600/L-O.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwMQgmxQK8LPD0HRsLULHC8ClK-t_L08Rpek6iMdMwPuLANeZJKuitkwUQg6YxLpYRkrX6XLjxk-SaG-NAZ1dKgHieLMZaofhO2o0rS4t-a7PNx70te7PtcdY2TbNwSflbazzyo-BVwfo/s320/L-O.jpg" width="178" /></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_Out_(radio_show)" target="_blank">Lights Out</a> is an American old-time radio program devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural. Created by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyllis_Cooper" target="_blank">Wyllis Cooper</a> and then taken over by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_Oboler" target="_blank">Arch Oboler</a>, versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. Lights Out was one of the earliest radio horror programs, predating <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspense_(radio_drama)" target="_blank">Suspense</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_Sanctum_Mystery" target="_blank">Inner Sanctum</a>.<br />
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<b>The Wyllis Cooper era</b> <br />
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In the fall of 1933, NBC writer Wyllis Cooper conceived the idea of "a midnight mystery serial to catch the attention of the listeners at the witching hour." The idea was to offer listeners a dramatic program late at night, at a time when the competition was mostly airing music. At some point, the serial concept was dropped in favor of an anthology format emphasizing crime thrillers and the supernatural. The first series of shows (each 15 minutes long) ran on a local NBC station, WENR, at midnight Wednesdays, starting in January 1934. By April, the series proved successful enough to expand to a half hour. In January 1935, the show was discontinued in order to ease Cooper's workload (he was then writing scripts for the network's prestigious Immortal Dramas program), but was brought back by huge popular demand a few weeks later. After a successful tryout in New York City, the series was picked up by NBC in April 1935 and broadcast nationally, usually late at night and always on Wednesdays. Cooper stayed on the program until June 1936, when another Chicago writer, Arch Oboler, took over. By the time Cooper left, the series had inspired about 600 fan clubs. <br />
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<b>The Arch Oboler era</b> <br />
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When Cooper departed, his replacement—a young, eccentric and ambitious Arch Oboler—picked up where he left off, often following Cooper's general example but investing the scripts with his own concerns. Oboler made imaginative use of stream-of-consciousness narration and sometimes introduced social and political themes that reflected his commitment to antifascist liberalism. <br />
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Although in later years Lights Out would be closely associated with Oboler, he was always quick to credit Cooper as the series' creator and spoke highly of the older author, calling him "the unsung pioneer of radio dramatic techniques" and the first person Oboler knew of who understood that radio drama could be an art form. <br />
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Like Cooper, Oboler was much in demand and highly prolific. While working on Lights Out, he wrote numerous dramatic sketches for variety shows (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chase_and_Sanborn_Hour" target="_blank">The Chase and Sanborn Hour</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Vall%C3%A9e" target="_blank">Rudy Vallee</a>'s programs), anthologies (Grand Hotel, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Nighter_Program" target="_blank">The First Nighter Program</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Rich" target="_blank">The Irene Rich Show</a>) and specials. In August 1936, singer Vallee, then the dean of variety show hosts, claimed that Lights Out was his favorite series. Oboler occasionally redrafted his Lights Out scripts for use on Vallee's and other variety hours. A version of Oboler's "Prelude to Murder" starring <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lorre" target="_blank">Peter Lorre</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_de_Havilland" target="_blank">Olivia de Havilland</a> was scheduled to air on a November 1936 Vallee broadcast. Other Lights Out plays that turned up on various late 1930s variety programs included "Danse Macabre" (with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Karloff" target="_blank">Boris Karloff</a>), "Alter Ego" (with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Davis" target="_blank">Bette Davis</a>) and "The Harp." <br />
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Oboler met the demand by adopting an unusual scripting procedure: He would lie in bed at night, smoke cigarettes, and improvise into a Dictaphone, acting out every line of the play. In this way, he was able to complete a script quickly, sometimes in as little as 30 minutes, though he might take as long as three or four hours. In the morning, a stenographer would type up the recording for Oboler's revisions. Years later, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Serling" target="_blank">Rod Serling</a>, who counted radio fantasists like Cooper, Oboler, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Corwin" target="_blank">Norman Corwin</a> among his inspirations, would use a similar process to churn out his many teleplays for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone_(1959_TV_series)" target="_blank">The Twilight Zone</a>, a series that in many respects was to television what Lights Out was to radio.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615612702033102027.post-72925802315824554902020-06-09T20:09:00.004-07:002020-06-09T20:09:37.014-07:00Blackstone, the Magic Detective<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/Blackstone_The_Magic_Detective&playlist=1" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe> <br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLu01_-V9cmiQJa0ACgQk36FCnTRX_3S0nIrs2GzJBN2QmlyzyAd0JlPAV94fw6A0Cb3bhzpIXJMgHuY2TMja8x-CnKWNp-ryd8Ds4ygwO3vR0YdOq-9Kgezd19he6-PaR0xS_x8Mtiws/s1600/Blackstone47.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLu01_-V9cmiQJa0ACgQk36FCnTRX_3S0nIrs2GzJBN2QmlyzyAd0JlPAV94fw6A0Cb3bhzpIXJMgHuY2TMja8x-CnKWNp-ryd8Ds4ygwO3vR0YdOq-9Kgezd19he6-PaR0xS_x8Mtiws/s320/Blackstone47.jpg" width="216" /></a>Blackstone, the Magic Detective was a 15-minute radio series based on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_C._Stoner" target="_blank">Elmer Cecil Stoner's</a> short-lived comics series <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone,_Master_Magician" target="_blank">Blackstone, Master Magician</a>. The program aired Sunday afternoons at 2:45pm on the Mutual Broadcasting System from October 3, 1948, until March 26, 1950. <br />
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Starring <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0422015/" target="_blank">Edwin Jerome</a> as "the world's greatest living magician," the radio series was based on real-life magician <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Blackstone,_Sr." target="_blank">Harry Blackstone, Sr.</a><br />
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The series was announced by Don Hancock from October 1948 through June 1949, and Alan Kent from July 1949 through to the end of the series in March, 1950. The background organ music was supplied by Bill Meeder. Scripts were mostly by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_B._Gibson" target="_blank">Walter B. Gibson</a>, the ghostwriter of Blackstone's books, and Nancy Webb, who worked with Gibson on Chick Carter, Boy Detective. <br />
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The show usually opened with Blackstone (Ed Jerome) and his assistant Rhoda Brent (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran_Carlon" target="_blank">Fran Carlon</a>) talking with a friend of theirs, either Don Hancock or Alan Kent (played by the episodes' announcers in-character as themselves) or John (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Osborne" target="_blank">Ted Osborne</a>). A past adventure of Blackstone's would come up in conversation, and that mystery story was then dramatized as a flashback. <br />
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After the mystery's climax, the narrative returned to the three main characters as Blackstone performed a magic trick. After a commercial break handled by the announcer, Blackstone returned to demonstrate and explain the trick so that listeners could perform it for the amusement of their friends.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi18DLiXHZjSMia-1-yGLQ9iy5YWn4RT38lMvqjlXkhAjg1Nco7pN4zQUaAPfECMyUZsefwPNbB_ZO_X6IY1Dgc3XdNpuzAUC2NKlk5mSt0nQ-jJC9fXJkxFGPhfBkWXhoxx7CNXjjTL7c/s1600/Mtarplin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi18DLiXHZjSMia-1-yGLQ9iy5YWn4RT38lMvqjlXkhAjg1Nco7pN4zQUaAPfECMyUZsefwPNbB_ZO_X6IY1Dgc3XdNpuzAUC2NKlk5mSt0nQ-jJC9fXJkxFGPhfBkWXhoxx7CNXjjTL7c/s1600/Mtarplin.jpg" width="292" /></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Traveler">The Mysterious Traveler</a> was an anthology radio series, a magazine and a comic book. All three featured stories which ran the gamut from fantasy and science fiction to straight crime dramas of mystery and suspense.<br />
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Written and directed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Arthur,_Jr.">Robert Arthur</a> and David Kogan, the radio series was sponsored by Adams Hats. It began on the Mutual Broadcasting System, December 5, 1943, continuing in many different timeslots until September 16, 1952. The lonely sound of a distant locomotive heralded the arrival of the malevolent narrator (portrayed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Tarplin">Maurice Tarplin</a>), who introduced himself each week in the following manner: <br />
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<i>"This is the Mysterious Traveler, inviting you to join me on another journey into the realm of the strange and terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip, that it will thrill you a little and chill you a little. So settle back, get a good grip on your nerves and be comfortable—if you can!" </i><br />
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Cast members included <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Beck">Jackson Beck</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Clark">Lon Clark</a>, Roger DeKoven, Elspeth Eric, Wendell Holmes, Bill Johnstone, Joseph Julian, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Miner">Jan Miner</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santos_Ortega">Santos Ortega</a>, Bryna Raeburn, Frank Readick, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_van_Rooten">Luis van Rooten</a>, Ann Shepherd, Lawson Zerbe and Bill Zuckert. Sound effects were by Jack Amrhein, Jim Goode, Ron Harper, Walt McDonough and Al Schaffer. <br />
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"Behind the Locked Door," a popular, much-requested episode which took place in total darkness, was repeated several times during the years. Two archaeologists discover a century-old wagon train that had been sealed in a cave following a landslide. When their Native American guide is mysteriously and brutally attacked, the two, now lost in the darkness, conclude that the descendants of the wagon train are still living in the cave. <br />
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Only 75 of the original 370 Mysterious Traveler episodes still exist. The popularity of the series spawned other supernatural shows, such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sealed_Book">The Sealed Book</a>. With scripts by a Mysterious Traveler writer and Tarplin as host-narrator, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strange_Dr._Weird">The Strange Dr. Weird</a> was a nearly identical program. <br />
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Grace Publishing's 1951-52 Mysterious Traveler digest-sized magazine ran for five issues with cover paintings by famed pulp illustrator Norman Saunders. The publisher was David Kogan, and managing editor Robert Arthur also contributed many stories. <br />
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Trans-World Publications' one-shot Mysterious Traveler Comics #1 (Nov. 1948) had a direct tie-in with the radio series, including the story "Five Miles Down," taken directly from an episode scripted for the radio program. Only a single issue was published.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlton_Comics">Charlton Comics</a> published a separate Tales of the Mysterious Traveler comic book for 13 issues from 1956 to 1959, followed by two more issues in 1985 shortly before the company went under. Steve Ditko illustrated many stories in this title. Stories intended for future issues saw print in Renegade Press's Murder. In 1990, Eclipse Comics published a large-format paperback collecting 19 Ditko stories from the Charlton title. Some of those stories were reprinted in Pure Imagination's Steve Ditko Reader. <br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Traveler">Via Wikipedia</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615612702033102027.post-39095613879353173162020-06-06T08:58:00.000-07:002020-06-06T08:58:08.253-07:00Nightfall<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/Nightfall-cbcRadioProgram-episodesMp3Format&playlist=1" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe> <br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL9avjAS64Qb1saVmrxyJbR3BbSViophyFlwC_AvP-NrEOgHWmgjSzaXvhTtFFB3RNRg9SR74CZH5s1Zfa6j-cE3d2eZ0W4g8lgHxChfr7xMrWAh5sog66rDcdkHEp11jkD6KoWAyfrHI/s1600/nightfall+Spot-Ad-81-10-04.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL9avjAS64Qb1saVmrxyJbR3BbSViophyFlwC_AvP-NrEOgHWmgjSzaXvhTtFFB3RNRg9SR74CZH5s1Zfa6j-cE3d2eZ0W4g8lgHxChfr7xMrWAh5sog66rDcdkHEp11jkD6KoWAyfrHI/s320/nightfall+Spot-Ad-81-10-04.png" width="179" /></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_(radio_series)" target="_blank">Nightfall</a> is the title of a radio drama series produced and aired by CBC Radio from July 1980 to June 1983. While primarily a supernatural/horror series, Nightfall featured some episodes in other genres, such as science-fiction, mystery, fantasy, and human drama. One episode was even adapted from a folk song by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Rogers" target="_blank">Stan Rogers</a>. Some of Nightfall's episodes were so terrifying that the CBC registered numerous complaints and some affiliate stations dropped it. Despite this, the series went on to become one of the most popular shows in CBC Radio history, running 100 episodes that featured a mix of original tales and adaptations of both classic and obscure short stories. <br />
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Nightfall was the brainchild of producer Bill Howell, who was best known at the time for his work on CBC Playhouse and the cult favorite adventure series, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Chase:_Secret_Agent_of_Space" target="_blank">Johnny Chase: Secret Agent of Space</a>. (Howell later went on to be executive producer of CBC Radio's highly-popular series, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_Project" target="_blank">The Mystery Project</a>, which ran from 1992 to 2004.) When CBC Radio was revamped and given an expanded budget in 1980, Howell approached the newly appointed head of radio drama, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Douglas_Rubes" target="_blank">Susan Rubes</a>, about his idea for a supernatural/horror anthology series that would push the envelope. Though not a fan of the horror genre, Rubes recognized a hit when she saw one and gave Howell the green light to begin production. <br />
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Bill Howell served as executive producer of Nightfall at CBC Toronto for the first two seasons. The reins were passed for the third season to veteran CBC Radio producer Don Kowalchuk (Doctor Bundolo's Pandemonium Medicine Show) at CBC Vancouver. <br />
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Nightfall featured two hosts during its run. The Toronto years (1980–1982) were hosted by "the mysterious Luther Kranst", a character created by Bill Howell's devious imagination and played by character actor Henry Ramer. For its Vancouver run (1982–1983), Don Kowalchuk worked with voice actor Bill Reiter to develop the character of Frederick Hende.<br />
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Nightfall episode plot summaries can be found here - <a href="http://www.otrplotspot.com/nightfall.html">http://www.otrplotspot.com/nightfall.html</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615612702033102027.post-7448209999489214062020-06-03T12:49:00.000-07:002020-06-03T12:49:38.813-07:00The Black Museum<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd7UUg-I8eM8roH4bZzm3A9PkcbbKZpR5VtceuN_MphBw6FPmRtASz5SKeXaYSVaZPnbkXMHLU0ddCUN8demxQhuB3yKm-6_Oj7GDAP8_fwKANeBakKvJHWpIrmaHgo7aD0eh_I3hXep0/s1600/03_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd7UUg-I8eM8roH4bZzm3A9PkcbbKZpR5VtceuN_MphBw6FPmRtASz5SKeXaYSVaZPnbkXMHLU0ddCUN8demxQhuB3yKm-6_Oj7GDAP8_fwKANeBakKvJHWpIrmaHgo7aD0eh_I3hXep0/s1600/03_01.jpg" width="258" /></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Museum" target="_blank">The Black Museum</a> was a 1951 radio crime-drama program independently produced by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Alan_Towers" target="_blank">Harry Alan Towers </a>and based on real-life cases from the files of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_Yard" target="_blank">Scotland Yard</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Museum" target="_blank">Black Museum</a>. Ira Marion was the scriptwriter, and music for the series was composed and conducted by Sidney Torch. Although often mistakenly cited as being produced for the BBC, the series was produced and syndicated commercially by Towers throughout the English-speaking world.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles" target="_blank">Orson Welles</a> was both host and narrator for stories of horror and mystery, based on Scotland Yard's collection of murder weapons and various ordinary objects once associated with historical true crime cases. The show's opening began:<br />
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<i>"This is Orson Welles, speaking from London."</i><br />
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<i>"The Black Museum... a repository of death. Here in the grim stone structure on the Thames which houses Scotland Yard is a warehouse of homicide, where everyday objects... a woman’s shoe, a tiny white box, a quilted robe... all are touched by murder."</i> <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUfVmT3PyUUGxwXo0BdxWZ8MPMVBF_CeKQIvk1xoxWPiJPtKjl9DRQ-rxeZaddTR2awNG0s6ZzWTADBiV-6JdSe6mSXtjjFvzj5PTT-PAXxfX1Kne_v-S0DQ9vGvihzVN8YCfopSKoRJg/s1600/radio_blackmuseum.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUfVmT3PyUUGxwXo0BdxWZ8MPMVBF_CeKQIvk1xoxWPiJPtKjl9DRQ-rxeZaddTR2awNG0s6ZzWTADBiV-6JdSe6mSXtjjFvzj5PTT-PAXxfX1Kne_v-S0DQ9vGvihzVN8YCfopSKoRJg/s1600/radio_blackmuseum.jpg" /></a>Walking through the museum, Welles would pause at one of the exhibits, and his description of an artifact served as a device to lead into a wryly-narrated dramatized tale of a brutal murder or a vicious crime. In the closing:<br />
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"<i>Now until we meet again in the same place and I tell you another tale of the Black Museum"</i>, Welles would conclude with his signature radio phrase, <i>"I remain, as always, obediently yours". </i><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv4UbtQuKza3uIpr7Cw6Bem2xDfvULpQVT-cuJnitHQvK2Y-VdfPEZUFzgAT8Crmij1QwXQtB6KMwgR6UYIJyXhScsrdC0cuHFmxif4ms3d1AC0cvv_X0VyN9bDMzjvjpBQjcqG5Ydflo/s1600/bobbylight.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv4UbtQuKza3uIpr7Cw6Bem2xDfvULpQVT-cuJnitHQvK2Y-VdfPEZUFzgAT8Crmij1QwXQtB6KMwgR6UYIJyXhScsrdC0cuHFmxif4ms3d1AC0cvv_X0VyN9bDMzjvjpBQjcqG5Ydflo/s1600/bobbylight.jpg" width="221" /></a>With the story themes deriving from objects in the collection (usually with the names of the people involved changed but the facts remaining true to history), the 52 episodes had such titles as "The Tartan Scarf" and "A Piece of Iron Chain" or "Frosted Glass Shards" and "A Khaki Handkerchief". An anomaly to the series was an episode called "The Letter" as this was the only story not about murder, but about forgery.<br />
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In the United States, the series aired on the Mutual Network between January 1 and December 30, 1952.<br />
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Beginning May 7, 1953, it was also broadcast over Radio Luxembourg sponsored by the cleaning<br />
products Dreft and Mirro. Since the BBC carried no commercials, Radio Luxembourg aired sponsored programs at night to England.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQho_MJtfHJNPY1g5OiTPl5Ab_EVpzyYRSv2PWxioK2yTH4DU9pHcZBpcEInaSdwqbsn_8oLvZ94eBgpGLOAADHdF2an0JMzMWanwUcur0j9sQkRQF9fefKqO1Mib6VcMkaxXqEz2I9js/s1600/BM-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQho_MJtfHJNPY1g5OiTPl5Ab_EVpzyYRSv2PWxioK2yTH4DU9pHcZBpcEInaSdwqbsn_8oLvZ94eBgpGLOAADHdF2an0JMzMWanwUcur0j9sQkRQF9fefKqO1Mib6VcMkaxXqEz2I9js/s1600/BM-2.jpg" width="215" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXPP9UMJ5foChx99zbiQirvx9SAA2VKzK0G1D9r1642Y3Z9nYrYe5-LQTI67eEHezUnxo9G3sgHndxqFKwl8yomXLeJVEZjuokDLUHMKcUZm0KScSYBwLr_yKJZN8oSXgGQVasHjevz3g/s1600/BM1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXPP9UMJ5foChx99zbiQirvx9SAA2VKzK0G1D9r1642Y3Z9nYrYe5-LQTI67eEHezUnxo9G3sgHndxqFKwl8yomXLeJVEZjuokDLUHMKcUZm0KScSYBwLr_yKJZN8oSXgGQVasHjevz3g/s1600/BM1.jpg" width="131" /></a>In the United States, there was a contemporary program called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehall_1212_(radio_show)" target="_blank">Whitehall 1212</a> written and directed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyllis_Cooper" target="_blank">Wyllis Cooper</a> and broadcast by NBC, which was similar in scope to The Black Museum. It was hosted by Chief Superintendent John Davidson, curator of the Black Museum. It used many of the same picked cases as The Black Museum, and it nearly mirrored its broadcast run. The two shows<br />
were different in the respect that while Whitehall 1212 told the story of a case entirely from the point of view of the police starting from the crime scene, The Black Museum was more heavily dramatized and played out scenes of the actual murders and included scenes from the criminal's point of view.<br />
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Two episodes, "The Car Tire" and "The Gas Receipt," were the same story with minor differences between the two. Another pair of episodes, "The Baby's Jacket" and "The Spectacles," were based on the same case, as were "The Tan Shoe" and "The Leather Bag."<br />
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Four famous murder cases were dramatized on The Black Museum: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_George_Haigh" target="_blank">John George Haigh</a>, the "Acid Bath Murderer"; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Joseph_Smith" target="_blank">George Joseph Smith</a>, the "Brides in the Bath Murderer"; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimlico_Mystery" target="_blank">Adelaide Bartlett</a>, whose husband died from chloroform poisoning; and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Maybrick" target="_blank">Florence Maybrick</a>, who allegedly used arsenic from fly-paper to murder her husband <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Maybrick" target="_blank">James Maybrick</a> (who was recently suspected of being <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper" target="_blank">Jack the Ripper</a> courtesy of the 1993 publication of The Diary of Jack the Ripper).<br />
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In "Open End Wrench" it's mistakenly stated that the culprit was executed in Dartmoor. No 20th-century executions were carried out in Dartmoor. Built during the Napoleonic Wars to contain French and American POWs, it was, after lying idle from 1815 to 1850, later commissioned as a convict gaol and used for dangerous long-term prisoners only.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615612702033102027.post-19804454009351626092020-05-18T07:49:00.000-07:002020-05-18T07:52:06.223-07:00Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/Barrie_Craig_Confidential_Investigator&playlist=1" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe><br />
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<b>Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator</b> was a detective drama heard on NBC Radio from October 3, 1951, to June 30, 1955.<br />
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Detective Barrie Craig (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gargan" target="_blank">William Gargan</a>) worked alone from his Madison Avenue office. Unlike his contemporaries Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Craig had a laid-back personality, somewhat cutting against the popular hard-boiled detective stereotype. Others in the cast included Ralph Bell, Elspeth Eric, Parker Fennelly, Santos Ortega, Arnold Moss, Parley Baer, Virginia Gregg, and Betty Lou Gerson.<br />
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Don Pardo was the announcer.<br />
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Gargan also starred in the role in an unsuccessful 1952 TV pilot written and directed by Blake Edwards. It was presented on ABC's Pepsi-Cola Playhouse as "Death the Hard Way" (October 17, 1954).<br />
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A few years earlier Gargan had played a similar character in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Kane,_Private_Eye" target="_blank">Martin Kane, Private Eye</a>.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615612702033102027.post-71768440025306728682020-05-11T07:40:00.000-07:002020-05-11T07:40:26.836-07:00Quiz Kids<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/QuizKids&playlist=1" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe> <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHFEP4lUFjjN-eOzm7dVMxOheaOgyhax5HzL0aEIlXJjec_jf4X9aKplkxAF4JO2DC55GdeQS7lCRSJijXZ5SZWhPJJNE5fthB0m2Llxsjt4Sys4Kso4jgxGlkjYCaRoOcMYXDMueFYj0/s1600/Quiz_kids_1940s_card.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHFEP4lUFjjN-eOzm7dVMxOheaOgyhax5HzL0aEIlXJjec_jf4X9aKplkxAF4JO2DC55GdeQS7lCRSJijXZ5SZWhPJJNE5fthB0m2Llxsjt4Sys4Kso4jgxGlkjYCaRoOcMYXDMueFYj0/s400/Quiz_kids_1940s_card.jpg" width="400" /></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiz_Kids">Quiz Kids</a> was a popular radio and TV series of the 1940s and 1950s. Created by Chicago public relations and advertising man Louis G. Cowan, and originally sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alka-Seltzer" target="_blank">Alka-Seltzer</a>, the series was first broadcast on NBC from Chicago, June 28, 1940, airing as a summer replacement show for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Templeton" target="_blank">Alec Templeton Time</a>. It continued on the radio for the next 13 years. On television, the show was seen on NBC and CBS from July 6, 1949, to July 5, 1953, with Joe Kelly as quizmaster, and again from January 12 to September 27, 1956, with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton_Fadiman" target="_blank">Clifton Fadiman</a> as host. <br />
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The premise of the original show involved Kelly asking questions sent in by listeners and researched by Eliza Hickok and Rachel Stevenson. Kelly often said that he was not an intellectual and that he could not have answered any of the questions without knowing the answer from his flashcard. Yet he was remarkably kind and affable and put even novice young contestants at ease immediately. The answers were supplied by a panel of five children, chosen for their high IQs, strong academic interests, and appealing personalities, as well as such qualities as poise, quickness, and sense of humor. One of the first Quiz Kids was seven-year-old nature expert Gerard Darrow. For the initial premiere panel, he was joined by Mary Ann Anderson, Joan Bishop, Van Dyke Tiers, and Charles Schwartz. <br />
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Other Quiz Kids of the 1940s were Joan Alizier, Lois Jean Ashbeck, Claude Brenner, Geraldine Hamburg, Mary Clare McHugh, war refugee Gunther Hollander and math experts <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_J._Kupperman" target="_blank">Joel Kupperman</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Llewellyn_Williams" target="_blank">Richard Williams</a>. Panelists rotated, with the three top scorers each week joined by two others the following week; they were no longer eligible to participate once they reached the age of 16.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615612702033102027.post-86586508442969243032020-05-10T18:20:00.000-07:002020-05-10T18:20:05.006-07:00The Shadow<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ_w5ZLe9WkYEhO7YsJPQTb2MBmzWR8JQKS7qPqdyINIWntJg6VFvoCl_qcI2DhFqJEZ9TWuq8uvq1kJqpVA34mEELqx2ZupQXbaSI2feRIlPu322PSKrOuJmdouV1QTeYTMBpgSbzQZc/s1600/WellesShadow.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673143616389482466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ_w5ZLe9WkYEhO7YsJPQTb2MBmzWR8JQKS7qPqdyINIWntJg6VFvoCl_qcI2DhFqJEZ9TWuq8uvq1kJqpVA34mEELqx2ZupQXbaSI2feRIlPu322PSKrOuJmdouV1QTeYTMBpgSbzQZc/s400/WellesShadow.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 400px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 323px;" /></a>Easily one of the most beloved old-time radio programs in my house is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow" target="_blank">The Shadow</a>. It was one of my dad's favorites growing up, and he passed that love on to my brother and I. Growing up when I did in the '70s and '80s, of course, these programs were no longer on the radio, so my interest in old-time radio began with seeking out AM radio stations rebroadcasting these shows, and buying them on <a href="http://www.radiospirits.com/">cassette tapes</a>.<br />
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Today with the advent of the internet and the availability of so many shows in MP3 format for free online, it has been really great to indulge my love of these wonderful old gems.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiROqgif-VNX8yZcVxWWshaxnlBDfKzT3n9iHtthQBYasAwztQGtsSw5i7Hc4nrR4BM8qYRnk2bil_c0JPbWZfVw_-Bwulc58n1PvA2k2sQvqp5cBTb7OzT2DfqIgw9gomTAMo6msCjQLY/s1600/380715.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673143605320802274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiROqgif-VNX8yZcVxWWshaxnlBDfKzT3n9iHtthQBYasAwztQGtsSw5i7Hc4nrR4BM8qYRnk2bil_c0JPbWZfVw_-Bwulc58n1PvA2k2sQvqp5cBTb7OzT2DfqIgw9gomTAMo6msCjQLY/s400/380715.jpg" style="float: right; height: 400px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 282px;" /></a>The Shadow is a collection of serialized dramas, originally in pulp magazines, then on 1930s radio and then in a wide variety of media, that follow the exploits of the title character, a crime-fighting vigilante in the pulps, which carried over to the airwaves as a "wealthy, young man about town" with psychic powers. One of the most famous pulp heroes of the 20th century, the radio drama is well-remembered for those episodes voiced by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles" target="_blank">Orson Welles</a>.<br />
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Introduced as a mysterious radio narrator by David Chrisman, William Sweets, and Harry Engman Charlot for Street and Smith Publications, The Shadow was fully developed and transformed into a pop culture icon by pulp writer Walter B. Gibson.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ9vM23O_VOW9P5Xxpyyu2jQYhQ6xO87LKvxGSHOfsnQ0Hvg_6AipMMAtCR9xWbvLiPyoZXmcJgKCKelDx-pOodltcOmgdfnNgavRkcGZXBzrM62FCohcdHeoOQUnW_eP7sEJMt0RpRso/s1600/420601.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673143611464468914" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ9vM23O_VOW9P5Xxpyyu2jQYhQ6xO87LKvxGSHOfsnQ0Hvg_6AipMMAtCR9xWbvLiPyoZXmcJgKCKelDx-pOodltcOmgdfnNgavRkcGZXBzrM62FCohcdHeoOQUnW_eP7sEJMt0RpRso/s400/420601.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 400px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 281px;" /></a>The Shadow debuted on July 31, 1930, as the mysterious narrator of the Street and Smith radio program Detective Story Hour. After gaining popularity among the show's listeners, the narrator became the star of The Shadow Magazine on April 1, 1931, a pulp series created and primarily written by the prolific Gibson.<br />
Over the years, the character evolved. On September 26, 1937, The Shadow radio drama officially premiered with the story "The Deathhouse Rescue", in which the character had "the power to cloud men's minds so they cannot see him." This was a contrivance for the radio; in the magazine stories, The Shadow did not have the ability to become literally invisible.<br />
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The character and look of The Shadow gradually evolved over his lengthy fictional existence.<br />
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As depicted in the pulps, The Shadow wore a black slouch hat and a black, crimson-lined cloak with an upturned collar over a standard black business suit. In the 1940s comic books, the later comic book series, and the 1994 film starring Alec Baldwin, he wore either the black slouch hat or a wide-brimmed, black fedora and a crimson scarf just below his nose and across his mouth and chin. Both the cloak and scarf covered either a black doubled-breasted trench coat or regular black suit. As seen in some of the later comics series, the hat and scarf would also be worn with either a black Inverness coat or Inverness cape.<br />
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But in the radio drama, which debuted in 1937, The Shadow became an invisible avenger who had learned, while "traveling through East Asia," "the mysterious power to cloud men's minds, so they could not see him." This revision of the character was born out of necessity: Time constraints of 1930s radio made it difficult to explain to listeners where The Shadow was hiding and how he was remaining concealed. Thus, the character was given the power to escape human sight. Voice effects were added to suggest The Shadow's seeming omnipresence.<br />
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In order to explain this power, The Shadow was described as a master of hypnotism, as explicitly stated in several radio episodes.<br />
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For more information regarding The Shadow on the radio, in pulp magazines, comic books, comic strips, television, video games, and motion pictures (including the 1994 feature film starring Alex Baldwin, see below.) check out the extensive Wikipedia page <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow">here</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUwjpiBqURfAjKC6RVvGvWWBYTKe0ZlfZRA808_d_pVny86HLNqoH7_6OSyyaskznKJS-Hv6k3YbFmeYJcg3QmoZBY0qvD_RhoCqPtIt9Zi0Y9ELXTzvFUYhWHRKVYpVy70c_MLQN2pKg/s1600/Alinkletter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUwjpiBqURfAjKC6RVvGvWWBYTKe0ZlfZRA808_d_pVny86HLNqoH7_6OSyyaskznKJS-Hv6k3YbFmeYJcg3QmoZBY0qvD_RhoCqPtIt9Zi0Y9ELXTzvFUYhWHRKVYpVy70c_MLQN2pKg/s320/Alinkletter.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_are_Funny" target="_blank">People Are Funny</a> is an American radio and television game show, created by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Guedel" target="_blank">John Guedel</a> that ran from 1942 to 1960 in which contestants were asked to carry out stunts.<br />
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The series began in 1938 when Guedel made an audition recording, and the following year, his concept of a comedy stunt show aired in Los Angeles as Pull Over, Neighbor, later reworked into All Aboard. Watching a bored, unreceptive audience listening to an after-dinner speaker, Guedel scribbled, "People are funny, aren't they?" on a napkin, and he had his title.<br />
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On October 1, 1943, Baker was replaced by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Linkletter" target="_blank">Art Linkletter</a>, who continued for the rest of the series. For a memorable stunt of 1945, Linkletter announced that $1,000 would go to the first person to find one of 12 plastic balls floating off California. Two years later, an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwajalein_Atoll#Other_islands_in_the_Kwajalein_atoll" target="_blank">Ennylageban Island</a> native claimed the prize.<br />
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As the popularity of the program escalated, a movie musical titled <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Are_Funny_(film)" target="_blank">People Are Funny</a> was released in 1946, offering a fictional version of the show's origin in a tale of rival radio producers. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Reed" target="_blank">Phillip Reed</a> appeared as Guedel, with Linkletter and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Langford" target="_blank">Frances Langford</a> portraying themselves. Also in the cast were <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Haley" target="_blank">Jack Haley</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Walker" target="_blank">Helen Walker</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozzie_Nelson" target="_blank">Ozzie Nelson</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Vall%C3%A9e" target="_blank">Rudy Vallée</a>. One outstanding moment in the film is a Spanish dance number performed by Lupe Mayorga (aka Lillian Molieri) to the song "I Love My Marimba."<br />
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The radio series moved to CBS from 1951 to 1954, returning to NBC from 1954 to 1960.<br />
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Episodes are available on Hulu - <a href="http://www.hulu.com/people-are-funny" target="_blank">People are Funny</a>.<br />
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Although the series ended on April 1, 1960, the network aired encores until April 13, 1961, making People Are Funny the first game show to air repeats. On March 24, 1984, a "reconstituted" version of People Are Funny with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip_Wilson" target="_blank">Flip Wilson</a> as host returned to NBC where it was telecast until July 21.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Roy_(comedian)" target="_blank">Derek Roy</a> was the host of a 1955 British version.<br />
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The series was satirized in the 1959 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros." target="_blank">Warner Bros</a>. cartoon, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Are_Bunny" target="_blank">People Are Bunny</a>. The Art Linkletter character was named Art Lamplighter, and the show was entitled People are Phoney, in which contestant <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daffy_Duck" target="_blank">Daffy Duck</a> became one of his unfortunate victims.<br />
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People Are Funny is mentioned in the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies_Room_(Mad_Men)" target="_blank">Ladies Room</a>" episode of the series <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Men" target="_blank">Mad Men</a>, and later a clip from the show is seen on a TV set in the background.<br />
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An expanded radio dramatization of the original Star Wars trilogy was produced in 1981, 1983, and 1996. The first two radio series, based on Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, were produced and broadcast by National Public Radio (NPR) as part of NPR Playhouse. A dramatization of Return of the Jedi was produced by most of the same team and it was also broadcast on NPR.<br />
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The radio serials were made with the full cooperation of George Lucas, who, in exchange for a dollar each, sold the rights to KUSC-FM, the public radio affiliate at his alma mater, the University of Southern California (USC). Lucas also permitted the use of original sound effects and music from the films.<br />
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In the 1980s, radio drama was in decline in the United States. An associate dean of the University of California School of the Performing Arts, Richard Toscan, was keen to champion this art form. Toscan was supported by John Houseman, the producer responsible for Orson Welles's 1938 radio production of The War of the Worlds. He began with the dramatization of short stories by Raymond Carver on KUSC-FM, a campus radio station affiliated to NPR. Following this production, Toscan collaborated with Houseman and NPR producer Frank Mankiewicz on a project to revive the fortunes of NPR Playhouse, the umbrella title for drama productions on NPR. At the suggestion of one of Toscan's students, Joel Rosenzweig, they developed an idea for adapting the 1977 epic space opera film, Star Wars, for radio. The popularity of Star Wars would certainly attract new, younger listeners, but they feared that the production costs would be prohibitively high; however, the production team's academic connections proved to be advantageous; USC was the alma mater of the writer and director of Star Wars, George Lucas, and Lucasfilm quickly granted the rights to KUSC, including the rights to the use of original Star Wars music and sound effects, for a token fee of one dollar.<br />
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Despite Lucasfilm's generous offer, NPR was still faced with the costs of writing scripts, hiring actors, and renting studio space. With no funding available to cover the $200,000 budget, NPR entered into a co-production deal with the British broadcaster, the BBC, which had a long tradition of radio drama production. The BBC provided a production team, including director John Madden, and in exchange received broadcasting rights in the United Kingdom. From the outset, the NPR producers felt that the script would lend itself well to an episodic treatment, drawing on the format of the 1930s movie serials such as Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers that had originally inspired Lucas when he wrote Star Wars.<br />
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The American science-fiction novelist Brian Daley was brought in to write the script. Daley had access to Lucas's early drafts of the Star Wars scripts and expanded the narrative to include material that had been cut from the final edit of the film so that the 13-episode radio adaptation ran approximately four hours longer than the film version. Casting the audio serial was not as easy as had been hoped; while the producers were able to secure the actor's Mark Hamill and Anthony Daniels from the original film, Harrison Ford was unavailable as he was filming Raiders of the Lost Ark at the time, and his place was taken by Perry King, an actor who once auditioned for the part of Han Solo in the 1977 film.<br />
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Led by Mankiewicz, NPR's promoted the Star Wars serial with a successful publicity campaign, attracting coverage in Playboy, The New York Times, and Time, who hailed the production with the headline, "Radio drama is making a resounding comeback". Star Wars was launched at a special NPR event at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, in which the drama was played under a starry light show. Broadcasts began in March 1981 to critical acclaim, and the drama instantly attracted 750,000 new listeners, representing a 40 percent increase in NPR audiences and a quadrupling of the network's youth audience. On the basis of this success, KUSC went on to produce popular adaptations of the sequel, The Empire Strikes Back. An adaptation of Return of the Jedi followed over a decade later, and it was produced by many of the same people who produced the KUSC/NPR productions.<br />
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The Star Wars radio dramas were authorized adaptations of Lucas's scripts, and they were originally considered canon. Commentators argued that, while the radio dramas varied somewhat from the film scripts, they should be considered canon insofar as they did not directly contradict the films; however, in 2012, The Walt Disney Company acquired Lucasfilm and the rights to Star Wars.[5] In 1994, Lucasfilm's continuity editor, Allan Kausch, stated that "'Gospel', or canon as we refer to it, includes the screenplays, the films, the radio dramas, and the novelizations." In 2014 Lucasfilm announced that previous works which were set in the Expanded Universe (including comics, novels, and videogames) were to be re-branded as Star Wars Legends, and only the Skywalker saga and The Clone Wars film and television series were to be considered canon, in addition to new spin-off works.<br />
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The first radio drama relates the backstory which immediately precedes the narrative of the original 1977 film, and this backstory overlaps with the Legends novels Jedi Dawn, Rebel Dawn, and the 2016 film Rogue One. Commentators have since noted that the canon story which is introduced in Rogue One conflicts with episode 2 of the radio drama, "Points of Origin". In the radio drama, the Death Star plans are obtained after a rebel attack on an Imperial convoy; rebel agents then transmit the Death Star plans from the planet Toprawa to the Tantive IV. In Rogue One, the plans are transmitted from Scarif, where they were archived, to Admiral Raddus's flagship, the Profundity. The plans are then taken on board the docked Tantive IV, which launches before Darth Vader can recapture them.<br />
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In 2015 another adaptation of A New Hope was published, The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy. The author, Alexandra Bracken, stated that she was reading the Expanded Universe to try to "sneak elements in" to the canon and adapted material from the radio drama.<br />
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Star Wars is a 13-part (5 hour, 57 minute) radio serial originally broadcast on National Public Radio on March 9, 1981. It was adapted by Brian Daley from the 1977 film, and directed by John Madden, with music by John Williams and sound design for Lucasfilm by Ben Burtt. The serial was recorded in 1981 at Westlake Recording Studios in West Hollywood, California.<br />
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Daley adapted the script partly using material from earlier drafts of Lucas's scripts, and restored several scenes cut from the final edit of the film, as well as adding original new scenes created especially for the audio version. The narrative of the first two episodes takes place entirely before the opening scene of the 1977 film and expands the background to events leading up to the capture of the Tantive IV spacecraft above the planet Tatooine. Episode 1, largely based on cut scenes from the original, explores the life of Luke Skywalker on Tatooine. During the story, Luke's skyhopper (a vehicle seen in the background in Luke's garage during the film) is damaged during a desert race; Luke sees the distant Star Destroyer battle in the sky; and he is reunited with his childhood friend, Biggs Darklighter. Episode 2, made up of material written entirely by Daley, provides backstory to Princess Leia's acquisition of the Death Star plans from agents of the Rebellion on the planet Toprawa. In scenes set on the planet Alderaan, Leia discusses the plans with her father, Prestor Organa, and determines to go in search of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Later episodes mostly follow the storyline of the film, but additional scenes expand the narrative. In one scene, Han Solo has a meeting with an agent of Jabba the Hutt called Heater; this dialogue is based on a scene in which Solo meets a humanoid Jabba in the docking bay, cut from the original film but later reinstated in the 1997 Special Edition in modified form. In another episode, Daley inserts a conversation in which Admiral Motti attempts to convince Grand Moff Tarkin to leverage the Death Star as a political tool.<br />
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When the series was re-issued on NPR several years later, it was retitled The New Hope (as opposed to the official alternate title, A New Hope), keeping in line with the subtitles of the episodes of the original trilogy films.<br />
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Episode titles:<br />
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"A Wind to Shake the Stars"<br />
"Points of Origin"<br />
"Black Knight, White Princess, and Pawns"<br />
"While Giants Mark Time"<br />
"Jedi that Was, Jedi To Be"<br />
"The Millennium Falcon Deal"<br />
"The Han Solo Solution"<br />
"Death Star's Transit"<br />
"Rogues, Rebels and Robots"<br />
"The Luke Skywalker Initiative"<br />
"The Jedi Nexus"<br />
"The Case for Rebellion"<br />
"Force and Counter Force"<br />
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Several actors reprised their roles in the film. Mark Hamill and Anthony Daniels returned to reprise their roles as Luke Skywalker and C-3PO, respectively.<br />
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Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker<br />
Ann Sachs as Princess Leia Organa<br />
Perry King as Han Solo<br />
Bernard Behrens as Obi-Wan Kenobi<br />
Brock Peters as Lord Darth Vader<br />
Anthony Daniels as C-3PO<br />
Keene Curtis as Grand Moff Tarkin<br />
John Considine as Lord Tion<br />
Stephen Elliott as Prestor (Bail Organa)<br />
David Ackroyd as Captain Antilles<br />
Adam Arkin as Fixer<br />
Kale Browne as Biggs Darklighter<br />
David Clennon as Motti<br />
Anne Gerety as Aunt Beru<br />
Thomas Hill as Uncle Owen<br />
David Paymer as Deak<br />
Joel Brooks as Heater<br />
John Dukakis as Rebel<br />
Stephanie Steele as Camie<br />
Phillip Kellard as Customer No. 2<br />
The supporting cast included James Blendick, Clyde Burton, Bruce French, David Alan Grier, Jerry Hardin, John Harkins, Scott Jacoby, Meshach Taylor, Marc Vahanian, John Welsh, and Kent Williams. Ken Hiller provides the narration.<br />
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The Empire Strikes Back<br />
Genre Radio drama<br />
Running time 4 hours 15 minutes<br />
Country of origin USA<br />
Language(s) English<br />
Home station NPR/KUSC<br />
Starring <br />
Mark Hamill<br />
Anthony Daniels<br />
Billy Dee Williams<br />
Ann Sachs<br />
Perry King<br />
Bernard Behrens<br />
Brock Peters<br />
Written by Brian Daley<br />
Directed by John Madden<br />
Produced by Tom Voegeli<br />
Executive producer(s) Jon Bos<br />
Narrated by Ken Hiller<br />
Recording studio A&R Studios, New York City<br />
Original release February 14, 1983 – April 25, 1983<br />
No. of episodes 10<br />
Audio format Stereo<br />
Opening theme Star Wars Main Theme<br />
The success of the first series led to a 10-part, four hour 15 minute series based on the 1980 film The Empire Strikes Back, again written by Daley and directed by Madden. It was recorded in 1982 at A&R Studios, New York City.[4][13] The series debuted on NPR on February 14, 1983.<br />
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Like the preceding series, The Empire Strikes Back expands on the movie's story and incorporates new scenes such as an Imperial attack on a Rebel convoy taking place before the film's original opening scene and a tense conversation between Solo and Skywalker when the two are stranded in the Hoth wastelands.<br />
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National Public Radio's promoted the series in part by getting Craig Claiborne to create his version of Yoda's rootleaf stew recipe, which the Jedi Master serves Luke in the hut on Dagobah. The recipe ran in magazines and newspapers across the country.[14]<br />
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Episode titles:<br />
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"Freedom's Winter"<br />
"The Coming Storm"<br />
"A Question of Survival"<br />
"Fire and Ice"<br />
"The Millennium Falcon Pursuit"<br />
"Way of the Jedi"<br />
"New Allies, New Enemies"<br />
"Dark Lord's Fury"<br />
"Gambler's Choice"<br />
"The Clash of Lightsabers"<br />
Cast<br />
Billy Dee Williams reprised Lando Calrissian, and John Lithgow played Yoda at the same time Madden was directing Lithgow in the play Beyond Therapy. Hamill and Daniels returned to voice Skywalker and C-3PO.<br />
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Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker<br />
Perry King as Han Solo<br />
Ann Sachs as Princess Leia Organa<br />
Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian<br />
Bernard Behrens as Obi-Wan Kenobi<br />
Brock Peters as Lord Darth Vader<br />
John Lithgow as Yoda<br />
Anthony Daniels as C-3PO<br />
James Eckhouse as Beta<br />
Peter Friedman as Dak<br />
Ron Frazier as Deck Officer<br />
Merwin Goldsmith as General Rieekan<br />
Peter Michael Goetz as Ozzel<br />
Gordon Gould as Veers<br />
Paul Hecht as The Emperor<br />
Russell Horton as 2-1B<br />
James Hurdle as Controller<br />
Nicholas Kepros as Needa<br />
David Rasche as Piett<br />
Alan Rosenberg as Boba Fett<br />
Jay O. Sanders as Imperial Pilot<br />
Don Scardino as Wedge<br />
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The supporting cast again included David Alan Grier and also included Sam McMurray, Steven Markle, Stephen D. Newman, John Pielmeier, Geoffrey Pierson, Gary Tacon, and Jerry Zaks. Ken Hiller provides the narration.<br />
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Return of the Jedi<br />
Return of the Jedi<br />
Return of the Jedi Logo<br />
Genre Radio drama<br />
Running time 4 hours 15 minutes<br />
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Starring <br />
Joshua Fardon<br />
Perry King<br />
Ann Sachs<br />
Anthony Daniels<br />
Bernard Behrens<br />
Arye Gross<br />
Paul Hecht<br />
John Lithgow<br />
Brock Peters<br />
Written by Brian Daley<br />
Directed by John Madden<br />
Produced by Tom Voegeli, Julie Hartley<br />
Narrated by Ken Hiller<br />
No. of episodes 6<br />
Audio format Stereo<br />
Opening theme Star Wars Main Theme<br />
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NPR's plans for a Return of the Jedi radio serial were put on hold when federal funding for NPR was dramatically reduced; however, NPR was never the producer of the radio series nor was it ever granted the rights to produce the radio adaptations nor did NPR fund any of the radio productions. Plans for a Jedi radio adaptation fell apart in the 1980s due to a disagreement (believed to be financial) between KUSC, Los Angeles (the producer of the two previous radio adaptations, and to whom the rights were granted for the production) and Lucasfilm. NPR was granted limited rights to air the two previous radio series because KUSC, Los Angeles provided the radio adaptations to NPR as part of NPR's National Program Service that allows any NPR member station rights to air the series as part of the annual dues already paid (rather than the 3rd party Extended Program Service where KUSC could have charged each station a fee for rights to air cutting out NPR).[citation needed] It was not until 1996 that a six-part adaptation of Return of the Jedi was made by Highbridge Audio, the company that had released the first two series on tape and CD. The production returned to the Westlake Recording Studios, where the original series had been recorded.<br />
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Like the preceding series, Return of the Jedi expanded its story by incorporating new scenes. One depicts Luke Skywalker constructing a new lightsaber on Tatooine, based on a deleted scene from the movie. A scripted scene between C-3PO and Boba Fett in Jabba the Hutt's palace was rejected by Anthony Daniels, who felt that the golden droid should not be on friendly terms with a bounty hunter. Fett was replaced by the dancer "Arica" (actually Mara Jade in disguise) from Timothy Zahn's Tales from Jabba's Palace short story.<br />
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The audio play's adapter Brian Daley died only hours after its recording was concluded; "additional material" was contributed by John Whitman, who introduced changes that were required so the series could have continuity with the newly developed plan for the prequels, as well as changes that were identified by its director and cast. The series was dedicated to the memory of Brian Daley.<br />
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The show's cast recorded a special get well message for Daley after the author left the studio, unaware that he would never hear it. The message is included as part of the collector's edition box set.<br />
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Episode titles:<br />
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"Tatooine Haunts"<br />
"Fast Friends"<br />
"Prophecies and Destinies"<br />
"Pattern and Web"<br />
"So Turns a Galaxy, So Turns a Wheel"<br />
"Blood of a Jedi"<br />
Cast<br />
The adaptation used many of the original radio cast, though Joshua Fardon took over as Luke and Arye Gross replaced Billy Dee Williams as Lando. Ed Begley Jr. was the voice of Boba Fett and Edward Asner, speaking only in Huttese, voiced Jabba the Hutt. The only actor who starred in all the feature films, as well as all three radio dramas, was Anthony Daniels.<br />
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Joshua Fardon as Luke Skywalker<br />
Perry King as Han Solo<br />
Ann Sachs as Princess Leia Organa<br />
Anthony Daniels as C-3PO<br />
Bernard Behrens as Obi-Wan Kenobi<br />
Arye Gross as Lando Calrissian<br />
Edward Asner as Jabba The Hutt<br />
Paul Hecht as The Emperor<br />
John Lithgow as Yoda<br />
Brock Peters as Lord Darth Vader<br />
Ed Begley Jr. as Boba Fett<br />
Samantha Bennett as Arica<br />
David Birney as Anakin Skywalker<br />
Peter Dennis as Moff Jerjerrod<br />
David Dukes as Bib Fortuna<br />
Peter Michael Goetz as General Madine<br />
Ian Gomez as Salacious Crumb<br />
Martin Jarvis as Barada<br />
Jon Matthews as Wedge<br />
Natalia Nogulich as Mon Mothma<br />
Mark Adair Rios as Admiral Ackbar<br />
Yeardley Smith as 9D9<br />
Tom Virtue as Major Derlin<br />
The supporting cast included Rick Hall, Andrew Hawkes, Sherman Howard, Karl Johnson, John Kapelos, Ron Le Paz, Joe Liss, Paul Mercier, Steven Petrarca, Jonathan Penner, Gil Segel, Nia Vardalos and Ron West. Ken Hiller provides the narration.<br />
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Other broadcasts and releases<br />
Existing radio promos, deleted scenes, and additional music tracks are available which originated on previous releases of this collection and in the NPR broadcast versions.<br />
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"Radio Promo No. 1 – Anthony Daniels"<br />
"Radio Promo No. 2 – Ann Sachs"<br />
"Radio Promo No. 3 – Mark Hamill"<br />
"Additional Music"<br />
"Star Wars Radio Drama – Alternate Take of 'Your Father's Lightsaber'"<br />
""Star Wars Radio Drama – Alternate Take 'Bail and Leia'"<br />
"Return of the Jedi Radio Drama – Alternate Take 'Speederbike Chase'"<br />
"The Making of The Radio Dramas"<br />
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Spin-off merchandise<br />
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In 2013, two special sets of Topps trading cards were released called Star Wars Illustrated, which featured illustrations of scenes from the first Star Wars radio drama. The Topps artwork was also used to illustrate two collectors' editions of the Original Radio Drama released at the same time by HighBridge Audiobooks.<br />
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International broadcasts and releases<br />
In July 1981, the Star Wars radio adaptation was broadcast by BBC Radio 1.<br />
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--via <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_(radio_series)" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a><br />
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You can also listen via <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/star-wars-the-original-radio-drama/id1441329098" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/y4i3k-7b5aa/Star-Wars-The-Original-Radio-Drama-Podcast" target="_blank">Podbean</a>, and <a href="https://youtu.be/0-29uKdckL4" target="_blank">YouTube</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615612702033102027.post-89751894920961952592020-05-01T15:42:00.000-07:002020-05-01T15:42:14.349-07:00Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"The man with the action-packed expense account, America’s fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Johnny Dollar".<br />
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For over twelve years, from 1949 through 1962 (including a one year hiatus in 1954-1955), this series recounted the cases of Johnny Dollar. The name of the show derives from the fact that he closed each show by totaling his expense account, and signing it "End of report... <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yours_Truly,_Johnny_Dollar" target="_blank">Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar</a>".<br />
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As originally conceived, Johnny Dollar was a smart, tough, wisecracking detective who tossed silver-dollar tips to waiters and bellhops. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Powell">Dick Powell</a> starred in the audition show, recorded in 1948, but withdrew from the role in favor of other projects. The role went instead to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Russell_(actor)">Charles Russell</a>. The show, for which Powell auditioned, was originally titled "Yours Truly, Lloyd London," although the name of the show and its lead character were apparently changed before the audition tape of December 6, 1948, was actually recorded.<br />
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The final episodes of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and Suspense, airing on CBS, are often cited as the end of the golden age of radio. The last episode of Johnny Dollar, "The Tip-Off Matter", ended at 6:35 p.m. Eastern Time on September 30, 1962, followed immediately by the final broadcast of Suspense.<br />
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With the first three actors to play Johnny Dollar — radio actor Russell and movie tough-guy actors <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_O%27Brien">Edmond O'Brien</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lund">John Lund</a> — there was little to distinguish Johnny Dollar from other detective series at the time (Richard Diamond, Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade). While always a friend of the police, Johnny wasn't necessarily a stickler for the strictest interpretation of the law. He was willing to let some things slide to satisfy his own sense of justice, as long as the interests of his employer were also protected. The series ended in September 1954.<br />
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CBS Radio revived Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar in October 1955 with a new leading man, a new director, and a new format. The program changed from a 30-minute, one-episode-per-week affair to a 15-minute, five-nights-a-week serial (Monday through Friday, 8-8:15pm EST) produced and directed by radio veteran Jack Johnstone. The new Johnny Dollar was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Bailey_(actor)">Bob Bailey</a>, (pictured) who had just come off another network detective series, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_George_Do_It_(radio)">Let George Do It</a>. With a new lead and 75 minutes of air time each week, it became possible to develop each storyline with more detail and with more characters. Almost all of the Johnny Dollar serials were presented by CBS Radio on a sustaining basis (unsponsored, with no commercials); only two of the 55 serials take time out for a sponsor's message.<br />
Bob Bailey was exceptionally good in this format, making Johnny more sensitive and thoughtful in addition to his other attributes. Vintage-radio enthusiasts often endorse Bailey as the best of the Johnny Dollars, and consider the 13-month run of five-part stories to be some of the greatest drama in radio history. The serial scripts were usually written by Jack Johnstone, "John Dawson" (a pseudonym for E. Jack Neuman), Les Crutchfield, or Robert Ryf, Blake Edwards also contributed several scripts and the show was always produced and directed by Johnstone. The show featured an excellent stock company of supporting actors, including Virginia Gregg, Harry Bartell, Vic Perrin, Lawrence Dobkin, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, John Dehner, Barney Phillips, Lillian Buyeff, Tony Barrett, Don Diamond, Alan Reed, and Forrest Lewis. Movie character actors appeared occasionally, including Jay Novello, Hans Conried, Frank Nelson, Leon Belasco, William Conrad, Edgar Barrier, and Billy Halop.<br />
In late 1956 CBS Radio retooled the show, which reverted to a weekly half-hour drama, airing on late Sunday afternoons. Bob Bailey continued in the leading role until 1960 (and wrote one episode, <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1262387/OTR/571222_568_The_Carmen_Kringle_Matter.mp3">"The Carmen Kringle Matter"</a>).<br />
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The final episodes of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and Suspense, airing on CBS, are often cited as the end of the golden age of radio. The last episode of Johnny Dollar, "The Tip-Off Matter", ended at 6:35 p.m. Eastern Time on September 30, 1962, followed immediately by the final broadcast of Suspense.<br />
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Sources-<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Dollar">Wikipedia</a><br />
<a href="http://www.archive.org/details/OTRR_YoursTrulyJohnnyDollar_Singles">Archive.org</a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1OtLrzU3xHM04JS4WF-SUK2tdtt8xhWpQHHJgUwALeY3UXkM8D7SIfUstG5pSImadWO0e6Zl6djq_ZtFHoFnykHDrkFdE1msO2_Top6mM6D49c1NDrX7LCQQ1tBl48saKZatHeWKltmo/s1600/RadioAd6_op_800x1056.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676046611410878466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1OtLrzU3xHM04JS4WF-SUK2tdtt8xhWpQHHJgUwALeY3UXkM8D7SIfUstG5pSImadWO0e6Zl6djq_ZtFHoFnykHDrkFdE1msO2_Top6mM6D49c1NDrX7LCQQ1tBl48saKZatHeWKltmo/s400/RadioAd6_op_800x1056.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 400px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 303px;" /></a>In 1935, George W. Trendle, the WXYZ co-owner and managing partner who had spearheaded the development of <a href="http://vint-rad.blogspot.com/2011/11/hi-yo-silver-away.html">The Lone Ranger</a>, sought to bring on air a similar series. Trendle sought to create a series that would "show that a political system could be riddled with corruption and that one man could successfully combat this white-collar lawlessness." Liking the acoustic possibilities of a bee sound, Trendle directed it be incorporated into the show. The team experimented with names, with Trendle liking The Hornet, but that name had been used elsewhere and could have posed rights problems. Colors including blue and pink were considered before the creators settled on green.<br />
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The vigilante nature of her hero's operation quickly resulted in the Green Hornet being declared an outlaw himself, and Britt Reid played to it. The Green Hornet became thought of as one of his city's biggest criminals, allowing him to walk into suspected racketeers' offices and ply them for information, or even demand a cut of their profits. In doing so, the Green Hornet usually provoked them to attack him to remove this competitor, giving him license to defeat and leave them for the police without raising suspicion as to his true motives.<br />
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He would be accompanied by his similarly masked chauffeur/bodyguard/enforcer, who was also Reid's valet, Kato, initially described as Japanese, and by 1939 as Filipino of Japanese descent. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, references to a Japanese heritage were dropped.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTBR_mEyYaXVT1NSnOljczR8g7GgRFneKBCZbHRSOFuIon-poF4V5Xs2hhszZSYNjjGKtgPZRAYSxruE2XD6zqzpQ8oRXWT99BOIsHqdW9mUyDOdJykxtA4PJg70b8zg_CBjM0k5wUV3g/s1600/thegreenhornet.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676046590208371618" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTBR_mEyYaXVT1NSnOljczR8g7GgRFneKBCZbHRSOFuIon-poF4V5Xs2hhszZSYNjjGKtgPZRAYSxruE2XD6zqzpQ8oRXWT99BOIsHqdW9mUyDOdJykxtA4PJg70b8zg_CBjM0k5wUV3g/s400/thegreenhornet.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 400px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 284px;" /></a>The series originated on January 31, 1936, on WXYZ, the same local Detroit station that originated its companion shows The Lone Ranger and Challenge of the Yukon. Beginning April 12, 1938, the station supplied the series to the Mutual Broadcasting System radio network, and then to NBC Blue and its successors, the Blue Network and ABC Network, from November 16, 1939, through September 8, 1950. It returned from September 10 to December 5, 1952. It was sponsored by General Mills from January to August 1948, and by Orange Crush in its brief 1952 run.<br />
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Distinguished by its use of classical music for themes and for bridges between scenes, The Green Hornet was "one of radio's best-known and most distinctive juvenile adventure shows". The series detailed the adventures of Britt Reid, a debonair newspaper publisher by day, a crime-fighting masked hero at night.<br />
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The opening sequence of the radio show originally began with the announcer proclaiming that the Green Hornet "hunts the biggest of all game! Public enemies that even the G-Men cannot reach!", referring to FBI agents. Bureau chief J. Edgar Hoover objected to the line's implication that some crime-fighting was beyond the abilities of the FBI, and it was changed to "public enemies who try to destroy our America!"<br />
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The radio show used Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" as its theme music, blended with a hornet buzz created on a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin">theremin</a>.<br />
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One relatively minor aspect of the character that tends to be given limited exposure in the actual productions is his blood relationship to the Lone Ranger, another character created by Striker. The Lone Ranger's nephew was Dan Reid. In the Green Hornet radio shows, the Hornet's father was likewise named Dan Reid, making Britt Reid the Lone Ranger's great-nephew.<br />
In the November 11, 1947, radio show episode "Too Hot to Handle", Britt tells his father that he, Britt, is the Green Hornet. After Dan's initial shock and anger, Dan refers to a vigilante "pioneer ancestor" of theirs that Dan himself had ridden alongside in Texas. As he expressed pride in and love for his son, the Lone Ranger theme briefly played in the background.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9T00qJy5GcgEa9ErVz98qcraQeeHgKqxDAOeMzcTQqdmq2I2th3jW0V09MAsJl2lWymWRRZUMIzkSByQt4iLaMv33ALu0KnDqAewLrB75x-zP-6JOOsW7mKchASLc_5vJ_Pcy8VPZgZM/s1600/greenhornetstrikesagain.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676046596370321874" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9T00qJy5GcgEa9ErVz98qcraQeeHgKqxDAOeMzcTQqdmq2I2th3jW0V09MAsJl2lWymWRRZUMIzkSByQt4iLaMv33ALu0KnDqAewLrB75x-zP-6JOOsW7mKchASLc_5vJ_Pcy8VPZgZM/s400/greenhornetstrikesagain.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 400px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 284px;" /></a>The Green Hornet was adapted into two movie serials: <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/quigs">The Green Hornet</a> and <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/The.Green.Hornet.Strikes.Again">The Green Hornet Strikes Again!</a>. Disliking the treatment Republic gave The Lone Ranger in two serials, George W. Trendle took his property to Universal Pictures and was much happier with the results. The first serial, titled simply The Green Hornet and released in 1940, starred Gordon Jones in the title role, albeit dubbed by original radio Hornet Al Hodge whenever the hero's mask was in place, while The Green Hornet Strikes Again! of 1941 starred Warren Hull. Keye Luke, who played the "Number One Son" in the Charlie Chan films, played Kato in both. Also starring in both serials were Anne Nagel as Lenore Case, Britt Reid's secretary, and Wade Boteler as Mike Axford, a reporter for the Daily Sentinel, the newspaper that Reid owned and published. Ford Beebe directed both serials, partnered by Ray Taylor on The Green Hornet and John Rawlins on The Green Hornet Strikes Again!, with George H. Plympton and Basil Dickey contributing to the screenplays for both serials. The Green Hornet ran for 13 chapters while The Green Hornet Strikes Again! had 15 installments, with the Hornet and Kato smashing a different racket in each chapter. In each serial, they were all linked to a single major crime syndicate which was itself put out of business in the finale, while the radio program had the various rackets completely independent of each other.
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The Green Hornet was a television series shown on the ABC U.S. television network. It aired for the 1966–1967 television season and starred Van Williams as both the Green Hornet and Britt Reid, and Bruce Lee as Kato.
Williams and Lee's Green Hornet and Kato appeared as anti-heroes in the second season of the live-action 1960s Batman TV series, in the two-part episodes "A Piece of the Action" and "Batman's Satisfaction".
A film version of The Green Hornet was released on January 14, 2011, starring Seth Rogen. This film, in my personal opinion, was a bastardization of the source material. A slap in the face to true fans of the character. Only earning mention on this blog for the very fact that it was such an utter embarrassment, and to urge you to avoid at all cost.
For now, the character lives on, for true fans, in the pulp magazines, comics, movie serials, television episodes, and radio shows. Linked above is a selection of some of those radio programs, I hope you enjoy.
For more detailed information, visit the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Hornet">Green Hornet Wikipedia page</a>, or the page devoted to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Hornet_(radio_series)">Green Hornet radio program</a>.</div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Powell" target="_blank">Dick Powell</a> starred in the Richard Diamond, Private Detective radio series as a light-hearted detective who often ended the episodes singing to his girlfriend, Helen (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Gregg" target="_blank">Virginia Gregg</a>). Other regular cast members included <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Begley" target="_blank">Ed Begley</a> as Rick's friend and former partner on the police force, Lt. Walter Levinson, and Wilms Herbert as Walt's bumbling sergeant, Otis. It began airing on NBC Radio on April 24, 1949, picked up <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexall" target="_blank">Rexall</a> as a sponsor on April 5, 1950, and continued until December 6, 1950. Many of the shows were either written or directed by Edwards. Its theme, "Leave It to Love", was whistled by Powell at the beginning of each episode. <br />
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With <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank">Camel cigarettes</a> as a sponsor, it moved to ABC from January 5, 1951, to June 29, 1951, with Rexall returning for a run from October 5, 1951, until June 27, 1952. <br />
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Substituting for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_%27n%27_Andy" target="_blank">Amos 'n' Andy</a>, it aired Sunday evenings on CBS from May 31, 1953, until September 20, 1953. <br />
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Private Detective, which premiered in the summer of 1957 on CBS. It returned to CBS in January 1958 for the second season and in February 1959 for the third season, again on CBS. In the fall of 1959, the fourth and final season aired on NBC. <br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Janssen" target="_blank">David Janssen</a>, prior to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fugitive_(TV_series)" target="_blank">The Fugitive</a>, starred as Diamond, a former officer of the New York Police Department and a hard-boiled private detective in the film noir tradition. His secretary, "Sam," was shown only from the waist down to display her beautiful legs. Initially, these were the legs of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Tyler_Moore" target="_blank">Mary Tyler Moore</a> for seven episodes, but later the legs of other actresses were seen. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Taylor_(American_actor_and_director)" target="_blank">Don Taylor</a> played the title role in a 1956 television pilot, broadcast as an episode of the anthology series <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_Hall_of_Stars" target="_blank">Chevron Hall of Stars</a>.<br />
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He first appeared in 1933 in a radio show conceived either by WXYZ radio station owner George W. Trendle or by Fran Striker, the show's writer. The show proved to be a huge hit, and spawned an equally popular television show that ran from 1949 to 1957, as well as comic books and movies. The title character was played on radio by George Seaton, Earle Graser, and most memorably Brace Beemer. To television viewers, Clayton Moore was the Lone Ranger. Tonto was played by, among others, John Todd, Roland Parker, and in the television series, Jay Silverheels.<br />
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Departing on his white stallion, Silver, the Lone Ranger would shout, "Hi-yo, Silver! Away!" As they galloped off, someone would ask, "Who was that masked man anyway?" Tonto usually referred to the Lone Ranger as "Ke-mo sah-bee", meaning "trusty scout" or "trusted friend." These catchphrases, his trademark silver bullets, and the theme music from the William Tell overture are indelibly stamped in the memories of millions who came of age during the decades of the show's initial popularity or viewed the television series.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjob3m_84otNtw9Lf1jEGPpHQ_OJgjDkVZCr59FJ49PfTr2ibMbKyaOwkQPGX2w0hpWGuV7lW6A_QaNbzeF9sxWHGRC-exMM1GIDcmujlOWPdY2QtcK-E9Kx4Hoq7f5FU7ZFP6mLzhSToo/s1600/the-lone-ranger.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673435422074495170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjob3m_84otNtw9Lf1jEGPpHQ_OJgjDkVZCr59FJ49PfTr2ibMbKyaOwkQPGX2w0hpWGuV7lW6A_QaNbzeF9sxWHGRC-exMM1GIDcmujlOWPdY2QtcK-E9Kx4Hoq7f5FU7ZFP6mLzhSToo/s400/the-lone-ranger.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 400px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 269px;" /></a>While details differ, the basic story of the origin of the Lone Ranger is the same in most versions of the franchise. Six Texas Rangers are ambushed by a band of outlaws led by Barthalamo "Butch" Cavendish. Later, a Native American named Tonto stumbles on the scene and recognizes the lone survivor, John Francis Reid, as the man who had saved his life some time in the past. He nurses Reid back to health. The two men dig six graves for Reid's comrades, among them Reid's brother, Captain Daniel Steven Reid who is the Captain of the Texas Rangers. John Reid fashions a black mask using material from his brother's vest to conceal his identity, so that Cavendish will think there were no survivors. Even after the Cavendish gang is brought to justice, Reid continues to fight evil under the guise of the Lone Ranger.<br />
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I believe...<br />
that to have a friend, a man must be one.<br />
that all men are created equal and that everyone has within himself the power to make this a better world.<br />
that God put the firewood there, but that every man must gather and light it himself.<br />
in being prepared physically, mentally, and morally to fight when necessary for that which is right.<br />
that a man should make the most of what equipment he has.<br />
that 'this government of the people, by the people, and for the people' shall live always.<br />
that men should live by the rule of what is best for the greatest number.<br />
that sooner or later...somewhere...somehow...we must settle with the world and make payment for what we have taken.<br />
that all things change but truth, and that truth alone, lives on forever.<br />
in my Creator, my country, my fellow man.<br />
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<br />The Lone Ranger was a TV show that aired for eight seasons, from 1949 to 1957, and starred Clayton Moore as the Lone Ranger and Jay Silverheels as Tonto. Only five of the eight seasons had new episodes. It was the ABC television network's first big hit of the early 1950s. Moore's tenure as the Ranger is probably the best-known treatment of the franchise. For the show's third season, Moore sat out due to a contract dispute and was replaced by John Hart. Moore returned for the final two seasons. The fifth and final season was the only one shot in color. A total of 221 episodes were made. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYFm8fUBOmHDseLwEKitpw2-tcRtd5eJ_08XzvT2R63xrWzUqC6XV-yI_2REg1DEVwHed5Jdk-dfhrapU3w1oCJlK4djsMLuVZUdmlxypSFyRz5HpSZ40CX9NkmACasH7CgClM7Wejbw8/s1600/60156.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673435424823935074" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYFm8fUBOmHDseLwEKitpw2-tcRtd5eJ_08XzvT2R63xrWzUqC6XV-yI_2REg1DEVwHed5Jdk-dfhrapU3w1oCJlK4djsMLuVZUdmlxypSFyRz5HpSZ40CX9NkmACasH7CgClM7Wejbw8/s400/60156.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 400px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 280px;" /></a>In 1948, Western Publishing, with its publishing partner Dell Comics, launched a <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/LoneRangerComicBooks-Part1">comic book series</a> that lasted 145 issues. This originally consisted of reprints from the newspaper strips (as had all previous comic book appearances of the character in various titles from David McKay Publications and from Dell). However, new stories by writer Paul S. Newman and artist Tom Gill began with issue #38 (August 1951). Some original content was presented as early as #7 (January 1949), but these were non-Lone Ranger fillers. Newman and Gill produced the series until its the final issue, #145 (July 1962). The Dell series came to an end in 1962. Later that same year, Western Publishing ended its publishing partnership with Dell Comics and started up its own comic book imprint, Gold Key Comics. The new imprint launched its own Lone Ranger title in 1964. Initially reprinting material from the Dell run, original content did not begin until issue #22 in 1975, and the magazine itself folded with #28 in 1977. The Lone Ranger has also seen incarnations on the silver screen, most recently in the 1981 box-office failure, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_the_Lone_Ranger">The Legend of the Lone Ranger</a> starring Klinton Spilsbury. <br />
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Walt Disney Pictures announced in September 2008 that Johnny Depp would be portraying Tonto in the latest adaptation entitled 'The Lone Ranger' with a projected release date of May 31st, 2013. Sources: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Ranger">Wikipedia</a>, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/The_Lone_Ranger_Page_01">Archive.org</a>, and <a href="http://www.comics.org/issue/18629/">Comics.org</a> <br />
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Episodes of the Lone Ranger television show can be viewed on <a href="http://www.hulu.com/the-lone-ranger">Hulu</a>.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellery_Queen" target="_blank">Ellery Queen</a> is both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn, New York—Daniel Nathan, alias <b>Frederic Dannay</b> (October 20, 1905 – September 3, 1982) and <b>Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky</b>, alias <b>Manfred Bennington Lee</b> (January 11, 1905 – April 3, 1971)—to write, edit, and anthologize detective fiction. The fictional Ellery Queen created by Dannay and Lee is a mystery writer and amateur detective who helps his father, a New York City police inspector, solve baffling murders.<br />
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Ellery Queen was created in 1928 when Dannay and Lee entered a writing contest sponsored by McClure's Magazine for the best first mystery novel. They decided to use as their collective pseudonym the same name that they had given their detective. Inspired by the formula and style of the Philo Vance novels by S. S. Van Dine, their entry won the contest, but before it could be published, the magazine closed. Undeterred, the cousins took their novel to other publishers, and <b>The Roman Hat Mystery</b> was published in 1929.<br />
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<b>The Roman Hat Mystery</b> established a reliable template: a geographic formula title (The Dutch Shoe Mystery, The Egyptian Cross Mystery, etc.); an unusual crime; a complex series of clues and red herrings; multiple misdirected solutions before the final truth is revealed, and a cast of supporting characters including Ellery's father, Inspector Richard Queen, and his irascible assistant, Sergeant Velie. What became the most famous part of the early Ellery Queen books was the "Challenge to the Reader." This was a single page near the end of the book declaring that the reader had seen all the same clues Ellery had, and that only one solution was possible. According to novelist/critic Julian Symons, "The rare distinction of the books is that this claim is accurate. There are problems in deduction that do really permit of only one answer, and there are few crime stories indeed of which this can be said."<br />
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In a successful series of novels and short stories that covered 42 years, "Ellery Queen" served as a joint pseudonym for the cousins Dannay and Lee, as well as the name of the primary detective-hero they created. During the 1930s and much of the 1940s, that detective-hero was possibly the <b>best known American fictional detective</b>. Movies, radio shows, and television shows were based on Dannay and Lee's works.<br />
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The two writers, particularly Dannay, were also responsible for co-founding and directing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellery_Queen%27s_Mystery_Magazine" target="_blank">Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine</a>, generally considered one of the most influential English-language crime fiction magazines of the last sixty-five years. They were also prominent historians in the field, editing numerous collections and anthologies of short stories such as The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes. Their 994-page anthology for The Modern Library, 101 Years' Entertainment: The Great Detective Stories, 1841–1941, was a landmark work that remained in print for many years. Under their collective pseudonym, the cousins were given the Grand Master Award for achievements in the field of the mystery story by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Writers_of_America" target="_blank">Mystery Writers of America</a> in 1961.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helene_Hanff" target="_blank">Helene Hanff</a>, best known for her book <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/84,_Charing_Cross_Road" target="_blank">84 Charing Cross Road</a>, was a scripter for the television series version of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Ellery_Queen" target="_blank">The Adventures of Ellery Queen</a> (1950–1952), which began on the DuMont Television Network but soon moved to ABC. Shortly after the series began, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hart_(actor)" target="_blank">Richard Hart</a>, who played Queen, died and was replaced in the lead role by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Bowman" target="_blank">Lee Bowman</a>. The series returned to DuMont in 1954 with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Marlowe" target="_blank">Hugh Marlowe</a> in the title role. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Nader" target="_blank">George Nader</a> played Queen in The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen (1958–1959), but he was replaced with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Philips" target="_blank">Lee Philips</a> in the final episodes.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lawford" target="_blank">Peter Lawford</a> starred in a television movie, Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You, in 1971. Veteran actor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Morgan" target="_blank">Harry Morgan</a> played Inspector Queen, but in this film he was described as Ellery's uncle (perhaps to account for the fact that Morgan was only eight years Lawford's senior, or for Lawford's English accent). This film is loosely based on Cat of Many Tails.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-KY5rxAST5rl44QUzeEeT_wJbSjT2kc8dCxlKR_kiJ9fNgDd8qLQQOt3uZqVTDyO0SqyZMmmYdF9wymsboUB44iqLODVYQ3MzdNuJj9rQaY4XgZJ4cW509y8VXdkfXMMtSLro1A9IcMs/s1600/eq-fpcenter2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-KY5rxAST5rl44QUzeEeT_wJbSjT2kc8dCxlKR_kiJ9fNgDd8qLQQOt3uZqVTDyO0SqyZMmmYdF9wymsboUB44iqLODVYQ3MzdNuJj9rQaY4XgZJ4cW509y8VXdkfXMMtSLro1A9IcMs/s1600/eq-fpcenter2.jpg" width="281" /></a>The 1975 television movie Ellery Queen (a.k.a. "Too Many Suspects"—a loose adaptation of The Fourth Side of the Triangle) led to the 1975–1976 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellery_Queen_(TV_series)" target="_blank">Ellery Queen television series</a> starring <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Hutton" target="_blank">Jim Hutton</a> in the title role (with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wayne" target="_blank">David Wayne</a> as his widowed father). The series was done as a period piece set in New York City in 1946-1947. Sergeant Velie, Inspector Queen's assistant, was a cast regular in this series; he had appeared in the novels and the radio series, but had not been seen regularly in any of the previous television versions. Each episode contained a "Challenge to the Viewer" with Ellery breaking the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_wall" target="_blank">fourth wall</a> to go over the facts of the case and invite the audience to solve the mystery on their own, immediately before the solution was revealed. Each episode of the 1975 television series featured a number of Hollywood celebrities. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Arden" target="_blank">Eve Arden</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Burns" target="_blank">George Burns</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Collins" target="_blank">Joan Collins</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roddy_McDowall" target="_blank">Roddy McDowall</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Berle" target="_blank">Milton Berle</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Lombardo" target="_blank">Guy Lombardo</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Vall%C3%A9e" target="_blank">Rudy Vallée</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Ameche" target="_blank">Don Ameche</a> were among the guests. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Levinson" target="_blank">Richard Levinson</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Link" target="_blank">William Link</a>, the creators of the series had won a Special Edgars Award for creating the Columbo and Ellery Queen TV series.<br />
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In 2011, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leverage_(TV_series)" target="_blank">Leverage</a> episode "The 10 Li'l Grifters Job", <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Hutton" target="_blank">Timothy Hutton</a>'s character Nate Ford appears at a costumed murder mystery party as Ellery Queen, in a homage to the actor's late father, Jim.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615612702033102027.post-4785778444044323012020-02-11T09:47:00.002-08:002020-02-11T09:47:42.280-08:00Jack Webb<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Jack Webb (April 2, 1920 – December 23, 1982) was an American actor, television producer, director, and screenwriter, who is most famous for his role as Sgt. Joe Friday in the Dragnet franchise (which he created). He was the founder of his own production company, Mark VII Limited.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspense_(radio_drama)">Suspense</a>, one of the premier drama programs of the Golden Age of Radio, was subtitled "radio's outstanding theater of thrills" and focused on suspense thriller-type scripts, usually featuring leading Hollywood actors of the era. Approximately 945 episodes were broadcast during its long run, and more than 900 are extant.<br />
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In the earliest years, the program was hosted by "The Man in Black" (played by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kearns">Joseph Kearns</a> or Ted Osborne) with many episodes written or adapted by the prominent mystery author <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dickson_Carr">John Dickson Carr</a>.<br />
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Jeff Regan, Investigator was one of the three detective shows <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Webb" target="_blank">Jack Webb</a> did before Dragnet (see also <a href="http://vint-rad.blogspot.com/2015/11/pat-novak-for-hire.html" target="_blank">Pat Novak For Hire</a> and <a href="http://vint-rad.blogspot.com/2015/11/johnny-modero-pier-23.html" target="_blank">Johnny Modero: Pier 23</a>). Originally a Summer radio series, it debuted on CBS in July 1948. Webb played Jeff Regan, a rough-and-tough private eye working for the Los Angeles-based International Detective Bureau, run by Anthony J. Lyon. Regan introduced himself on each show "I get ten a day and expenses...they call me the Lion's Eye." <br />
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Regan handled rough assignments from Lyon, with whom he was not always on good terms. He was tough, tenacious, and had a dry sense of humor. The voice of his boss, Anthony Lyon, was Wilms Herbert. The show ended in December 1948 but was resurrected in October 1949 with a new cast; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Graham_(voice_actor)" target="_blank">Frank Graham</a> played Regan (later Paul Dubrov was the lead) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Nelson_(actor)" target="_blank">Frank Nelson</a> portrayed Lyon. This version ran on CBS, sometimes as a West Coast regional, until August 1950. Both versions were 30 minutes, but the day and time slot changed several times. A total of 29 episodes from this series are in trading currency. <br />
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The origins of Dragnet can be traced to a semi-documentary film, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Walked_by_Night">"He Walked by Night"</a> from 1948, in which Webb had a small role. Both employed the same Los Angeles Police Department technical adviser, used actual police cases and presented the case in "just the facts" manner that became a hallmark of Dragnet. It is interesting to note that Webb employed that format in other radio series, some pre-dating the film mentioned above.<br />
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Dragnet was a long-running radio and television police procedural drama, about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from an actual police term, a Dragnet, meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects. Dragnet was perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural drama in American media history. The series gave millions of Americans a feel for the boredom and drudgery, as well as the danger and heroism, of real-life police work. Dragnet earned praise for improving the public opinion of police officers.<br />
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Actor and producer Jack Webb's aims in Dragnet were for realism and unpretentious acting. He achieved both goals and Dragnet remains a key influence on subsequent police dramas in many media. The show's cultural impact is demonstrated by the fact that even after five decades, elements of Dragnet are known to those who have never heard nor seen the program. The ominous four-note introduction to the brass and tympani theme music, titled Danger Ahead, is instantly recognizable as well as the shows opening narration:<br />
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The original Dragnet starring Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday ran on radio from June 3rd, 1949 to February 26th, 1957; and on television from December 16th, 1951 to August 23rd, 1959, and from January 12th, 1967 to April 16th, 1970. All of these versions ran on NBC. There were two Dragnet feature films, a straight adaptation starring Jack Webb in 1954, and a comedy spoof in 1987. There were also television revivals, without Webb, in 1989 and 2003.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615612702033102027.post-38436757807986183932019-12-24T17:52:00.002-08:002019-12-24T17:52:22.982-08:00Merry Christmas from VINTRAD- Vintage Radio Blog!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Svs-a1iw9eY2LtfobU9oRNY9l_8_oxfvyS6NbSyBgQhdjyNcJ-H8lKBORxe_9Id6U0Edxq0rFD9rMuJfRvJU-jqqRYI3zU8tt39u7MsiBrUkIqh-oyk4a8PrN48NlRGbmBFzxGcoyUA/s1600/hilf-santa-santa-claus.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Svs-a1iw9eY2LtfobU9oRNY9l_8_oxfvyS6NbSyBgQhdjyNcJ-H8lKBORxe_9Id6U0Edxq0rFD9rMuJfRvJU-jqqRYI3zU8tt39u7MsiBrUkIqh-oyk4a8PrN48NlRGbmBFzxGcoyUA/s320/hilf-santa-santa-claus.png" width="320" /></a></div>This Christmas, our hope is that you are able to take a few moments for yourself and enjoy this variety of Christmas themed old time radio programs chosen especially for you!<br />
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Best Wishes for a very Merry Christmas to each and every one of you! Thank you for your continued support!<br />
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Lux Radio Theatre: Miracle On 34th Street - December 20, 1948 <br />
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Kraft Music Hall with Bing Crosby: Christmas Show - December 21, 1944 <br />
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The Pepsodent Show starring Bob Hope w/ Bing Crosby - December 24, 1946 <br />
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The Big Show starring Louis Armstrong, Bob Hope, Martin & Lewis, Deborah Kerr and Bing Crosby - December 17, 1950 <br />
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Life Of Riley: Riley's First Christmas - December 20, 1947 <br />
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Our Miss Brooks: Christmas Re-Gifting Mix-Ups - December 20, 1953 <br />
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The Shadow: The Stockings Were Hung - December 24, 1939 <br />
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Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Christmas Bride - December 21, 1947 <br />
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The team's first known radio appearance was on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Smith">The Kate Smith Hour</a> in February 1938. Initially, the similarities between their voices made it difficult for listeners (as opposed to stage audiences) to tell them apart due to their rapid-fire repartee. The problem was solved by having Costello affect a high-pitched childish voice. "Who's on First?" was first performed for a national radio audience the following month. They stayed on the program as regulars for two years, while landing roles in a Broadway revue, The Streets of Paris, in 1939. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfsCZfW2BSFwHXq-xUYsA8fHneYVDbntz8BAF22Xo24U44B9qRLH7tTAffYfD8JI9LgG-Q48wswNxg2Dc3EODM1WSKTp7kGcf2Sq2Bzty8d1TjWXefPfVo3rPUiUTof6MfMyjKdPh0tVY/s1600/abbott-and-costello.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfsCZfW2BSFwHXq-xUYsA8fHneYVDbntz8BAF22Xo24U44B9qRLH7tTAffYfD8JI9LgG-Q48wswNxg2Dc3EODM1WSKTp7kGcf2Sq2Bzty8d1TjWXefPfVo3rPUiUTof6MfMyjKdPh0tVY/s320/abbott-and-costello.jpg" width="254" /></a></div>In 1940 Universal Studios signed them for the film One Night in the Tropics. Cast in supporting roles, they stole the show with several classic routines, including "Who's on First?" The same year they were a summer replacement on radio for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Allen">Fred Allen</a>. Two years later, they had their own NBC show. <br />
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After working as Allen's summer replacement, Abbott and Costello joined <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Bergen">Edgar Bergen</a> and Charlie McCarthy on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chase_and_Sanborn_Hour">The Chase and Sanborn Hour</a> in 1941, while two of their films (Buck Privates and Hold That Ghost) were adapted for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lux_Radio_Theater">Lux Radio Theater</a>. They launched their own weekly show October 8, 1942, sponsored by Camel cigarettes. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFjFNFjlX6wMApwspR3eEqK8c1OSZ03E-Z9cbGqQrN2E8KYGrHM0R9dTpANPcH2_YiDhuitUosEL7gW3LIXidkNqUryDIKeo84O-yHFsb-N90C-3pCrlLhB-2VmIQJc4tuyqugzRVgo9Q/s1600/AbottAndCostello.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFjFNFjlX6wMApwspR3eEqK8c1OSZ03E-Z9cbGqQrN2E8KYGrHM0R9dTpANPcH2_YiDhuitUosEL7gW3LIXidkNqUryDIKeo84O-yHFsb-N90C-3pCrlLhB-2VmIQJc4tuyqugzRVgo9Q/s320/AbottAndCostello.jpg" width="320" /></a>The Abbott and Costello Show mixed comedy with musical interludes (by vocalists such as Connie Haines, Ashley Eustis, the Delta Rhythm Boys, Skinnay Ennis, and the Les Baxter Singers). Regulars and semi-regulars on the show included Artie Auerbach ("Mr. Kitzel"), Elvia Allman, Iris Adrian, Mel Blanc, Wally Brown, Sharon Douglas, Verna Felton, Sidney Fields, Frank Nelson, Martha Wentworth, and Benay Venuta. Ken Niles was the show's longtime announcer, doubling as an exasperated foil to Abbott and Costello's mishaps (and often fuming in character as Costello routinely insulted his on-air wife). Niles was succeeded by Michael Roy, with announcing chores also handled over the years by Frank Bingman and Jim Doyle. The show went through several orchestras during its radio life, including those of Ennis, Charles Hoff, Matty Matlock, Matty Malneck, Jack Meakin, Will Osborne, Fred Rich, Leith Stevens, and Peter van Steeden. The show's writers included Howard Harris, Hal Fimberg, Parke Levy, Don Prindle, Eddie Cherkose (later known as Eddie Maxwell), Leonard B. Stern, Martin Ragaway, Paul Conlan, and Eddie Forman, as well as producer Martin Gosch. Sound effects were handled primarily by Floyd Caton. Guest stars were plentiful, including Frank Sinatra, The Andrews Sisters, and Lucille Ball. <br />
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In 1947 Abbott and Costello moved the show to ABC (the former NBC Blue Network). During their time on ABC, the duo also hosted a 30-minute children's radio program (The Abbott and Costello Children's Show),which aired Saturday mornings, featuring child vocalist Anna Mae Slaughter and child announcer Johnny McGovern.<br />
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More on Abbott and Costello at: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbott_and_Costello">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbott_and_Costello</a> <br />
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Abbott & Costello: Christmas Shopping for Lou's Girlfriend - December 14, 1944 <br />
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Abbott & Costello: Lou's Christmas Party - December 20, 1945 <br />
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Abbott & Costello: Christmas Program - December 24, 1947 <br />
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Abbott & Costello: Sam Shovel - I'm All Yours in Buttons and Bows - December 23, 1948 <br />
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The program often featured celebrity guest stars but always hooked them around the misadventures, get-rich-quick schemes and romantic missteps of the title establishment's malaprop-prone, metaphor-mixing manager, Archie, portrayed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gardner" target="_blank">Ed Gardner</a>, the writer/actor who co-created the series. Gardner had performed the character of Archie, talking about Duffy's Tavern, as early as November 9, 1939, when he appeared on NBC's Good News of 1940. <br />
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In the familiar opening, "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," performed either solo on an old-sounding piano or by a larger orchestra, was interrupted by the ring of a telephone and Gardner's New Yorkese accent as he answered, "Hello, Duffy's Tavern, where the elite meet to eat. Archie the manager speakin'. Duffy ain't here—oh, hello, Duffy."<br />
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Owner Duffy was never heard nor seen, either on the radio program or in the 1945 film adaptation or the short-lived 1954 TV series. Archie constantly bantered with Duffy's man-crazy daughter, Miss Duffy (played by several actresses, beginning with Gardner's real-life first wife, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Booth" target="_blank">Shirley Booth</a>), and especially with Clifton Finnegan (Charlie Cantor, later <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Raymond" target="_blank">Sid Raymond</a>), a likeable soul with several screws loose and a knack for falling for every other salesman's scam. Eddie the Waiter was played by Eddie Green; the pianist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fats_Pichon" target="_blank">Fats Pichon</a> took over the role after Green's death in 1950. Hoping to take advantage of the income tax free status of Puerto Rico for future projects, Gardner moved the radio show there in 1949.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibF2w7x1_zD2OMSdjpgLjYQqK9KO_iRwGHX2gNeZrT70fdVleXPejy89Ap5sjBCFMU4eRcxSMXEndHWjcUdJ0YaJgy7R1msEED0hBFL3_1DgHHaF669hTvMpvtQ_QLR54ndhQEa7FL_ck/s1600/duffys-ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibF2w7x1_zD2OMSdjpgLjYQqK9KO_iRwGHX2gNeZrT70fdVleXPejy89Ap5sjBCFMU4eRcxSMXEndHWjcUdJ0YaJgy7R1msEED0hBFL3_1DgHHaF669hTvMpvtQ_QLR54ndhQEa7FL_ck/s1600/duffys-ad.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiemzX9o-IuXRTrD9C5weQLE1f_vlhQZt98zv3UoD__ojwgMPeAuSYKz1SU7-OC0dM-xJcqUd9cbMEtLtnjY3lUD_8G03-puLgKL9wA9whAySQjySTbURCaPkYv6v9TCKmLIOYs-S8MdTY/s1600/300px-Duffysmovie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiemzX9o-IuXRTrD9C5weQLE1f_vlhQZt98zv3UoD__ojwgMPeAuSYKz1SU7-OC0dM-xJcqUd9cbMEtLtnjY3lUD_8G03-puLgKL9wA9whAySQjySTbURCaPkYv6v9TCKmLIOYs-S8MdTY/s320/300px-Duffysmovie.jpg" width="211" /></a>Radio's Duffy's Tavern didn't translate well to film or television. Burrows and Matt Brooks collaborated on the screenplay for the 1945 film, Ed Gardner's Duffy's Tavern, in which Archie (with regulars Eddie and Finnegan) was surrounded by a throng of Paramount Pictures stars playing themselves.<br />
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The 1954 syndicated TV series, co-produced by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Roach,_Jr." target="_blank">Hal Roach, Jr.</a>, lacked leading name guest stars and, according to writer Larry Rhine, it was weighted by Gardner's inability to adapt to camera work: "He couldn't act, and he wouldn't learn camera... He thought he could do TV, so he left radio, but he was a bad actor and knew it." The series failed to gain viewer support. <br />
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Duffy's Tavern: Christmas Program with Monty Woolley - December 22, 1944 <br />
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Duffy's Tavern: The Cast Does 'A Christmas Carol' - December 21, 1945 <br />
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Duffy's Tavern: Charles Coburn Plays Santa Claus - December 22, 1950 <br />
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