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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2017 : Issue 39
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Best Show Not Heard                   [ S Jansen <ilamfan@[removed]; ]
  Challenge of the Yukon                [ Karl Schadow <bluecar91@[removed] ]
  shows people wish to hear             [ Martin Fass <watchstop@frontiernet. ]
  Series not found in general circulat  [ Jack French <otrpiano@[removed]; ]
  Re: Best Show/Episode Not Heard Sinc  [ Stewart Wright <otrwash@[removed]; ]
  MP3 Players                           [ Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@sbcglo ]

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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 12:51:45 -0400
From: S Jansen <ilamfan@[removed];
To: OTR Bulletin Board <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Best Show Not Heard
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   I'm a sucker for mystery/adventure shows, so (besides any "I Love A
   Mystery" that hasn't been unearthed yet) I'd love to hear more than
   just the pilot episode of "Latitude Zero", or any of the "Peter Quill
   Crimson Wizard" episodes.

   Peter Quill was a hunchbacked crimefighter who used scientific means
   to overcome his enemies.  From what little info exists about the
   character, he sort of reminds me of Doc Savage (another favorite!).

   "Latitude Zero" was made into a rather terrible Toho film in 1969, but
   I know that the original book (or radio show, in this case) was better
   than the movie!

   Stephen

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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 12:52:04 -0400
From: Karl Schadow <bluecar91@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Challenge of the Yukon
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In OTR Digest #37, Joe cites 1938 as the year in which Challenge of the Yukon
commenced at WXYZ. According to the copyrighted scripts and various archives
at the Detroit Public Library, Sgt. Preston and King started their adventures
a year later, on January 3, 1939. The series was initially broadcast on a
Tuesday/Thursday schedule.

----Karl Schadow

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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 12:52:07 -0400
From: Martin Fass <watchstop@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  shows people wish to hear

I like to think people would be glad to have some of the following programs,
for example, if they knew such recordings were available.

I'm thinking of history, and typically unsponsored (sustaining?) programs
from the major networks in the forties and fifties, such as "Face the Nation"
and "Meet the Press" in their original formats, a number of other beautifully
produced unsponsored programs from Sunday mornings and afternoons, and others
which tended to appear on weekday evenings, such as "Conversation" on NBC.

Maybe a number of these can be heard if one should visit the various
broadcast museum centers or choice university libraries in several [removed]
cities and London?  Unfortunately, I can't expect to undertake such
[removed] I'd love to see these materials offered for purchase, or via a
series charging a subscription fee over the Internet.

Is any of this, or something similar, available?

--Martin Fass

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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 00:02:32 -0400
From: Jack French <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Series not found in general circulation
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My nomination to this thread is not by any means a best radio series. But
certainly more different episodes of it were broadcast then any other radio
program in the history of American broadcasting.

The show was Aunt Sammy, a 15 minute show aimed at rural housewives and
containing tips on cooking, gardening, sewing, canning, etc. It ran for 20
years, almost daily, in the period 1926-1946. All the scripts were prepared by
the Radio Division of the Department of Agriculture and distributed free to
every radio station that wanted to air the program, using their own local
talent. Sometimes this Aunt Sammy would be voiced by a station secretary or a
announcer's wife or a local nurse or perhaps the wife of the rural county
agent. Many local stations went through two or three different women as Aunt
Sammy during the two decades it was on the air.

At the beginning only 19 stations were airing the show but the number
increased rapidly so by the mid Thirties over 350 local stations throughout
the [removed] had their own Aunt Sammy at the mike, usually five times a week. Now
math is not my strong suit, but with these hundreds of stations airing it live
almost daily for umpteen years, it would seem that conservatively we're
talking about over 12 million different live broadcast [removed] of
which ever survived. Or at least not even one I could find. The vast
Department of Agriculture Library contains nearly every script but not one
audio recording, since nobody in the Department apparently ever asked for an
air check.

Probably several of these anonymous ladies who portrayed Aunt Sammy, for
personal pride or sense of history, got the station engineer to make an audio
copy of their show. However if they did, none have surfaced since 1946 and it
would seem unlikely that they will in the future.

Jack French

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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 00:05:15 -0400
From: Stewart Wright <otrwash@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Best Show/Episode Not Heard Since Initial
 Broadcast?

I have three series on my list:

THE MAN BEHIND THE GUN  (1942-1944)

  The William N. Robson directed CBS series that was, "dedicated to the
fighting men of the United States and the United Nations," presented "for the
purpose of telling you how your boys and their comrades-in-arms are waging
our war against Axis aggression."

  While a complete set of scripts for the series resides in the Library of
Congress, only 8 of roughly 75 shows from this Peabody Award-winning series
are in circulation.  We can only hope that more episodes of this fine series
eventually find their way into circulation.

THE VOYAGE OF THE SCARLET QUEEN  (1947-48)

  Mutual's sea-faring, high adventure series that it is fondly remembered for
its taut, action-packed scripts; great sound effects; stirring musical score;
sometimes over-the-top acting, and
memorable episode titles.

  For many years, all but two episodes (07 and 10) have been in circulation.
Very little was known about these two episodes; as no scripts had been found,
even the titles were uncertain.

  In 2016, scripts for the two missing episode were found in a California
archive.  Plot lines were published in the August and October, 2016 issues of
RADIO RECALL, the Journal of the Metro Washington Old-Time Radio Club.  They
can be found at: [removed]

  Hopefully, copies of the two missing broadcasts will turn up.

GUNSMOKE  (1952-1961)

  One of the greatest series of the Golden Age of Radio.  Five of the first
ten episodes are not in circulation.  They are:

05/03/1952 - Ben Thompson
05/17/1952 - Dodge City Killer
06/14/1952 - Jailbait Janet
06/21/1952 - Heat Spell
06/28/1952 - The Ride Back

  In 2007, the scripts for these episodes were found in an archive where they
had been misfiled for over 25 years.

Plot lines for each of these were written and reside on The Nostalgia Pages
GUNSMOKE Forum. Here are the links for them:

Plotline For Missing Episode: Ben Thompson
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Plotline For Missing Episode: Dodge City Killer
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Plotline For Missing Episode: Jailbait Janet
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Plotline For Missing Episode: Heat Spell
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Plotline For Missing Episode: The Ride Back
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  In 2007 the late Russ Hudson found a 1952 CBS promotional album that
included a roughly 8-minute segment of Ben Thompson.

  The Library of Congress has a complete copy of Jailbait Janet and a partial
copy of Heat Spell.

  It would be incredible if these five episodes would find their way into
circulation.

Signing off for now,

Stewart Wright

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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 00:52:39 -0400
From: Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  MP3 Players

I would like to find a table top style MP3 player with or without radio
that can play all night and remember where it was paused to continue the
next night. It needs to be able to play all the common low bit rate OTR
MP3 type files from an SD card or USB flash drive. It should be able to
be plugged in around the clock to standard 115 volt AC power.

I have worn out several MP3 CD players and table top radios as well as
having to burn new CDs every couple of years for the past 15 years or
more. Before that I wore out cassette players. There has to be a better
way of getting all night OTR.

Don

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