Subject: [removed] Digest V2003 #231
From: "OldRadio Mailing Lists" <[removed]@[removed];
Date: 6/10/2003 9:03 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2003 : Issue 231
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  "Moral"/religious radio shows         [ C Van Cleave <cvc@[removed]; ]
  MIKE HAMMER                           [ oldpdb@[removed] (Paul Barringer) ]
  Stereo pipe organ                     [ W4CU@[removed] ]
  Happy birthday Hal Stone              [ Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed]; ]
  Happy birthday, Hal                   [ "Robert W. Paine" <macandrew@prodig ]
  Today in radio history                [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  June 11th birthdays                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  OTR Television [removed]            [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]

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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 00:39:35 -0400
From: C Van Cleave <cvc@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  "Moral"/religious radio shows

My radio recreation group has a script of a Hallmark Playhouse rendition
of "One Foot in Heaven".  It's semi-biographical (I guess nowadays we'd
call it a docudrama) about a Methodist preacher named Spence sent to the
then-wilds of Nebraska to bolster an ailing congregation.  His son,
Hartzell Spence, wrote the original story -- he's conceived (off-mike,
natch!!) in the course of the story -- and it's your typical Reader's
Digest heartwarming story.

Speaking of Gunsmoke, we just worked up a script "The Mortgage".  It's
definitely a mind twister, as the only gunshots are in the opening
credits, the bad guy is a real Ebenezer Scrooge, and Kitty and the boys
save the day (!!!).  Oh, and Chester gets to pretend he can afford to
pay $8000 for a piece of land.  (That's got to be about $800,000 or $8
million nowadays ...)

E-mail me off list and I'll pull the scripts and see if I can get you
air dates.

Cynthia

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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:35:22 -0400
From: oldpdb@[removed] (Paul Barringer)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  MIKE HAMMER

During the time 1949 thru 1953 I was in the [removed] Navy stationed  on the
high seas of Korea.

During this time the hottest mystery writer was Mickey Spillane the
author of the many Mike Hammer novels.

On board ship when somebody was lucky enough to receive a copy of one of
his books they would share it with the rest of the crew.

By the time you got your turn, it was dog- earred, tattered and torn.

You ask, what has this to do with radio, well while I was away Mutual
Radio Network had a series called, The Mickey Spillane Mystery: That
Hammer Guy.

I never knew about this until just recently.

The series was broadcast sometime in 1953.

Is there anyone on this list that knows about circulation of this
series, and if it is available on tape.

A couple of side notes:

Actor Darren McGavin who was the first to play Mike Hammer on TV,
1958-1960,  also played Casey Crime Photographer on TV.

McGavin was doing two TV shows during the same time, the other was
Riverboat, 1959-1960

Mickey Spillane, the blood and guts, babes and booze writer also wrote
two childrens books, quite a suprise for someone known for the violent,
fast action books he penned.

Spillane won the 1979 Junior Literary Guild award for one of his
childrens books titled "The Day The Sea Rolled Back"

Sorry for the extra info, but thought it might be interesting to some.

Thanks in advance for any help locating the radio series.

Later

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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:35:30 -0400
From: W4CU@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Stereo pipe organ
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I remember at KSTP, Minneapolis/St. Paul in 1959 we did a weekly pipe organ
program with organist Leonard Leigh (now deceased). Leonard came up with the
idea of simulcasting with our AM station KSTP (1500 KHz) and asked people to
move a radio to the right of their TV.  We miked the chamber for stereo and
did
several shows this way.  John Reinke,  former kSTP-TV engineer.

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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:35:42 -0400
From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Happy birthday Hal Stone

I, too would like to send birthday greetings out to
Hal "Jughead" (and more recently "Johnny Dollar")
Stone.  Hope the day's an enjoyable one.

Rick

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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:34:41 -0400
From: "Robert W. Paine" <macandrew@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Happy birthday, Hal

(In my best (?) George Burns voice) -

HappybirthdaytoyouHappybirthdaytoyouHappybirthdayHappybirthdayHappybirthdayt
oyou.
Boom.

And many, many [removed]

  Macandrew

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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:34:51 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-net <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Today in radio history

   From [removed] --

   1909 - An SOS signal is transmitted for the first time in an
emergency when the Cunard liner SS Slavonia is wrecked off the Azores.

   From Those Were The Days --

   1924 - The first political convention on radio was presented by NBC.
Graham McNamee provided coverage of the Republican National Convention
from Cleveland, OH.

   Joe

--
Visit my homepage: [removed]

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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 15:25:54 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  June 11th birthdays

Those who were born on the 11th of June include:

06-11-1900 - Lawrence Spivak - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-9-1994
moderator, panelist: "Meet the Press"
06-11-1913 - Rise Stevens - NYC
singer: "Rise Stevens Show"; "Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre"
06-11-1914 - Gerald Mohr - NYC - d. 11-10-1968
actor: Philip Marlowe "Adventures of Philip Marlowe"; Jacque Monet "Our Miss
Brooks"
06-11-1919 - Richard Todd - Dublin, Ireland
singer: "Rinso-Spry Vaudeville Theatre"; "Your Hit Parade"

Those who died on the 11th of June include:

02-12-1898 - Wallace Ford - Batton, England - d. 6-11-1966
actor: "Hollywood on the Air"; "Royal Gelatin Hour"
05-26-1907 - John Wayne - Winterset, IA - d. 6-11-1979
actor: Dan O'Brien "Three Sheets to the Wind"
07-06-1882 - Ralph Morgan - NYC - d. 6-11-1956
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-20-1907 - Al Rinker - Tekoa, WA - d. 6-11-1982
singer (member of "The Rhythm Boys) "Paul Whiteman Presents"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Hometown of [removed] Kaltenborn and Spencer Tracy

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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:59:21 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  OTR Television [removed]

   We've seen something of a resurgence lately of shows from old-time radio
being re-made and re-done for television. Dragnet, re-worked by Dick Wolf and
next season to be renamed "[removed] Dragnet" (do I sense "[removed] Dragnet" close
behind?) has been discussed here, as has the relatively recent "Lone Ranger"
remake, brought to you (but not picked up as a series) by the WB, best known
for their confused muddle of the Superman legend filled with the required
teen angst, "Smallville." Next season brings us "Tarzan and Jane" (I've seen
the pilot, and trust me - Burroughs wouldn't recognize _any_ of this muddled
nonsense no matter how great it is to see the ominous Mitch Pileggi from "The
X-Files").

   This got me [removed] it were done RIGHT, whatever the heck that
[removed] OTR show would you like to see re-made for today's television
audience? Which shows do you think would translate well to the small screen?
And which shows wouldn't work at all, no matter how faithful to the original
(or even _because_ they were faithful to the original)?

         Charlie

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