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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2006 : Issue 157
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Re: More on Barry Craig [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
Re: [removed] cops? [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
Remembering Conrad Gozzo [ RAY <noho321@[removed]; ]
6-6 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
Air Checks [ LPEVANS221@[removed] ]
September OTR Convention [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
Page Gilman dies [ HRRMIKES@[removed] ]
Dragnet's crooked cops [ Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed]; ]
Re: Dragnet question [ "Michael J. Hayde" <michaelhayde@ea ]
Skitch Henderson [ Larry Jordan <midtod@[removed] ]
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Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 20:37:03 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: More on Barry Craig
My friend Stew Wright wrote:
> At least four titles for the NBC series appear in various OTR books.
> 1. BARRIE CRAIG, CONFIDENTIAL INVESTIGATOR
> 2. BARRY CRAIG, CONFIDENTIAL INVESTIGATOR
> 3. BARRIE CRANE, CONFIDENTIAL INVESTIGATOR
> 4. BARRY CRANE, CONFIDENTIAL INVESTIGATOR
As Stew mentions, the very early press information seemed to call the show
"Barrie Crane, Confidential Investigator" though Larry Wolter writing in the
Chicago Trib either incorrectly wrote (or mispelled) it as "Barrie Crain,
Confidential Investigator" (9/25/51)
The [removed] Times displayed the ad as "Barrie Crane, Confidential Investigator"
on 10/17/1951 though the next week 10/25/51, the ad was changed to "Barrie
Craig, Confidential Investigator."
And though NY Times at the premier identified it as "Barrie Crane" by
10/28/51 it was changed to "Barrie Craig."
As early as 1951 through 1952, the LA Times was publishing the name as "Barry
Craig."
All of this goes back to a comment that Martin Grams Jr. made some time ago.
When researching these things, one needs to go beyond the books and
newspapers and if possible back to the scripts to get an idea on what may be
accurate. Even that sometimes shows inconsistencies.
Jim Widner
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Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 22:12:11 -0400
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: [removed] cops?
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In a message dated 6/5/06 7:42:30 PM Central Daylight Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:
I can't think
of an episode that involved a police officer who turned out to be
actually crooked. Does anyone know of a Dragnet episode that featured a
cop investigated and found guilty of a crime or misconduct?
I seem to vaguely remember (watch me be all wrong on this) a 1960s era
episode of the TV show in which the cop was found guilty and disciplined. I seem to
recall Friday giving him hell about the position he put his fellow cops in by
giving the department a black eye. But even during that 1967-70 run, an IA
matter usually favored the cop.
Dixon
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Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 22:12:30 -0400
From: RAY <noho321@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Remembering Conrad Gozzo
Conrad J. Gozzo (1922-1964) was an American trumpet
player.
Gozzo was a member of the NBC Hollywood staff
orchestra at the
time of his death in October, 1964.
Conrad [removed]:
"He was heard on many major live television shows
aired on the NBC network, originating from Hollywood,
including the Dinah Shore Show, between 1955 and
1964".
It was nice to read about Gozzo but it was better
hearing him play when I worked at NBC in Hollywood and
Burbank studios. I was a paige on most of the TV shows
then and remember Conrad Gozzo well: the loudest sound
in the band and he let everyone know it.
.....from the old NBC paige
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Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 22:12:39 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 6-6 births/deaths
June 6th births
06-06-1875 - Thomas Mann - Lubeck, Germany - d. 8-12-1955
writer: Had works adapted for "Treasury Star Parade"
06-06-1898 - Walter Abel - St. Paul, MN - d. 3-26-1987
actor: "Columbia Presents Shakespeare"; "Magic Key"; "Voice of the Army"
06-06-1900 - Arthur Askey - Liverpool, England - d. 11-16-1982
comedian: "Band Waggon"; "Music Hall"; "Does the Team Think"
06-06-1901 - Jan Struther - London, England - d. 7-20-1953
author: "Information Please"; "Mrs. Miniver"
06-06-1903 - Bert Lown - d. 11-21-1962
CBS Network executive, also a songwriter
06-06-1905 - John Gart - Russia - d. 9-28-1989
orchestra leader, organ: "Lawyer Tucker"; "Cloak and Dagger"; "Big Town"
06-06-1917 - Maria Montez - Barahona, Dominican Republic - d. 9-7-1951
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-06-1918 - Peter Donald - Bristol, England - d. 4-20-1979
actor, emcee: Ajax Cassidy "Fred Allen Show"; "Can You Top This?"
06-06-1932 - Billie Whitelaw - Coventry, Warwickshire, England
actor: Maddy Rooney "All That Fall"
June 6th deaths
01-01-1895 - Art Gillham - St. Louis, MO - d. 6-6-1961
piano playing vocalist: (Whispering Pianist) Plugged songs to sell
sheet music
03-07-1913 - Smokey Montgomery - Rinard, IA - d. 6-6-2001
banjo picker: (Member of the Light Crust Dough Boys) "Columbia's
Country Caravan"
04-25-1899 - Guinn (Big Boy) Williams - Decatur, TX - d. 6-6-1962
actor: "Biography In Sound"
08-10-1899 - Jack Haley - Boston, MA - d. 6-6-1979
comedian: "Log Cabin"; "Wonder Show"; "Sealtest Village Store"
08-29-1912 - Barry Sullivan - NYC - d. 6-6-1994
actor: Steve Canyon "Steve Canyon"; Simon Templar "The Saint"
09-17-1931 - Anne Bancroft - The Bronx, NY - d. 6-6-2005
actor: "Image Minorities"
11-11-1883 - Wilbur C. Tuttle - Missouri - d. 6-6-1969
writer: "Hashkdnife Hartley"
xx-xx-1882 - Katherine Emmet - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-6-1969
actor: Agatha Anthone "The Romance of Helen Trent"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Home state of Gene Morgan
Racine, Wisconsin
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Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 22:19:17 -0400
From: LPEVANS221@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Air Checks
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In Digest #155 Al Kopec asked where he might find air checks of Pittsburgh
baseball games. I suggest that you try the following:
AIRCHECK FACTORY
Wild Rose,
WI 54984-6214
Good luck.
Larry , WA8DDN
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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 00:03:24 -0400
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: September OTR Convention
THE MID-ATLANTIC NOSTALGIA CONVENTION (September 14 - 17, 2006)
Aberdeen Maryland
The Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention is getting close. For anyone planning
on attending, it was just brought to my attention that the Clarion Hotel
where the convention is being held just sold out of rooms put aside
specially for the convention attendees. There are still rooms available but
not at the discount price. They only put aside a large number of rooms at a
discount price if you reserved your room and told them you were attending
the convention. Anyone planning to stay at the hotel rather than a
neighboring hotel or motel, the phone number is 410-273-6300 but there is no
need to mention you're staying for the convention since that discount rate
is no longer available.
The RED ROOF INN next door to the CLARION still has rooms and the price is
about $62 or $65. Not sure exactly as their computer is raising the rates
slowly as the rooms become more scarce so the longer you delay, the more it
costs. Their phone number is 410-273-7800.
All of the neighboring hotel and motels are listed below if you want to find
a better rate.
SUPER 8 MOTEL 410-272-5420
DAYS INN 410-272-8500
TRAVELODGE HOTEL 410-272-5500
QUALITY INN 410-272-6000
HOLIDAY INN (the most expensive of the bunch) 410-272-8100
The old-time radio-related events have grown.
Edgar Russell will be directing at least one additional radio recreation to
be added to the lineup shortly.
Neil Ellis will present radio news broadcasts of JFK's assassination
coverage.
Michael Hayde will be presenting the history of the GRAND OLE' OPRY.
A presentation about Sam Spade in radio and print media.
and we're still on schedule for presentations about RADIO PREMIUMS, COCA
COLA SPOTLIGHT BANDS ON RADIO, the history of THE GREEN HORNET, DRGANET
spoofs, and FEMALE DETECTIVES ON RADIO.
Buck Biggers, co-creator of UNDERDOG, will be on hand to talk about the
cartoon series, and Wally Cox who voiced the animated character.
Charlie Summers will be directing an X-MINUS ONE script (a 1950s story that
never got done on the show back in the 1950s so it's a new story!) and it
has a surprise ending!
In the movie rooms, new old-time radio-releated film shorts have been added
including a 1944 COMMAND PERFORMANCE caught on film, the hilarious Philo
Vance mystery THE GRACIE ALLEN MURDER CASE with Gracie Allen as the comic
relief, the 1933 movie LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE, the 1941 movie HENRY ALDRICH,
EDITOR, the OUR GANG film short "Mike Fright" that takes place in a radio
station, the 1939 film CHARLIE McCARTHY, DETECTIVE, the 1948 movie THE LIFE
OF RILEY with William Bendix and John Brown reprising their radio roles, and
almost a dozen film shorts (one-reelers) taking place in a radio station and
featuring radio characters such as Uncle Don in the 1932 film short KORN
PLASTERED IN AFRICA, the 1930s film short RADIO HOOK-UP, and Harold Peary
making an appearance as The Great Gildersleeve in the 1944 film short ROAD
TO VICTORY.
Any and all information about [removed] can be found on the web-site.
Admission dues are discounted till July 1, less than a month from now. But
if you are going to book a room at a hotel or motel, I recommend you do not
delay!
[removed]
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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 09:23:54 -0400
From: HRRMIKES@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Page Gilman dies
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The "One Man's Family" Family club recently received this word from the
family of Page Gilman. Almost anyone reading this digest would know that he
was
the only Jack Barbour in the entire run of "One Man's Family" and that he has
been a good friend of OMFF, sharing many details from his incredible memory
and
also participating in two of our Family Reunions.
"This note is to notify you of Page Gilman's death. On June 1st he died
surrounded by seven of his children and the eight grandchildren who live in
Roseburg. He had been in ill health for sometime, but the joy of living never
left
him.
We will be having a celebration of his life on July 1st at 2:00 [removed] If
anyone wants to write a note with memories of him or any anecdotes, we will
read
them during his memorial.
As soon as his obit is published we will send you a copy." From Jenny
Gilman
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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 10:10:47 -0400
From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Dragnet's crooked cops
Chris Holm asked if a Dragnet episode ever featured a
cop investigated and found guilty of a crime or
misconduct.
Not that I can recall, but I'm pretty sure a dirty
cop (or at least one that took shortcuts with regard
to proper police procedure and deportment) has shown
up from time to time (though I can't recall any
specific episodes, off hand). However, these rare
dirty cops are always depicted as the exception, with
Friday saying something along the lines of, "people
like you make things harder for the rest of us, for
the hard-working men who put on that uniform every day
and risk their lives, etc. etc. etc."
I read somewhere that in the TV version (Dragnet 1967,
that is) that a pre-Adam 12 Kent McCord played a
crooked cop (or at least one heading down the wrong
road). I'm sure Friday's lecture to him was similar to
the one above.
So, to the best of my knowledge, no stories in which a
cop was found guilty of a crime, presumably the major
crime; but from time to time, a few cops were shown to
[removed] stumbled. At a guess, although Webb was a
strong supporter of the police, he probably felt it
necessary to show that police officers weren't
perfect. So he let a few have flaws. But nothing too
troublesome.
Rick
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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 12:34:32 -0400
From: "Michael J. Hayde" <michaelhayde@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Dragnet question
Chris Holm asked:
Does anyone know of a Dragnet episode that featured a
cop investigated and found guilty of a crime or misconduct?
Oh, you betcha: "The Big Cop." The radio version aired on August 2, 1951 and
the TV version appeared on January 1, 1953. Friday's not working in Internal
Affairs, [removed] he and Ben (Frank on TV) are working out of robbery and
trying to figure out how a gang of thieves keeps eluding the traps that have
been set. It turns out that a crooked cop is helping them out. When they
finally catch up to him, Friday reels off his [removed] and possibly
[removed] speech:
"You get this through your head, Mister: you're a bad cop. You wanna know
what that means? What it really means? This isn't a private affair. You're
a bad cop, Mister.
"You'll be all over the front pages tonight and tomorrow morning.
Everybody's gonna read about you. A bad cop. It makes great news. They're
not gonna read about four thousand-five hundred other cops. The guys who
walked their beats last night. The guys who risked their lives, who did
their jobs the way they were trained and the way they're hired to [removed]
They're not gonna read about the nintey-eight percent, Mister. They're gonna
read about you: one crooked, thieving cop. He worked with a burglary gang.
He had an apartment for a beautiful dame and he stole her a fur coat, and he
was a cop. And he had a nice wife and two fine children.
"Do you know what all this means? Every kid in school with a cop for a
father will have to fight his way out today because of you. Every woman with
a cop for a husband is gonna go shopping at a market today, and she'll have
to answer to the butcher and the grocer and every one of her neighbors
because of you. Every officer in this city and across the country is gonna
have to stand trial because of you.
"We could've piled up a hundred years of great policemen and great
detectives: men with honor and brains and guts, and you tore down every best
part of them. The people who read it in the papers, they're gonna overlook
the fact that we got you; that we washed our own laundry and we cleared this
thing up. They're gonna overlook all the good. They'll overlook every last
good cop in the country.
"But they'll remember you, because you're a bad [removed]"
I've not heard this episode because it was one of the "lost" DRAGNETs. Last
month, I saw that somebody had it included on a DRAGNET .mp3 set, so perhaps
it's been found. The TV version was used for training officers in various
police departments; even the Army requested a print. A reviewer for TV-Radio
Life wrote: "Few will forget the memorable [removed] Friday's long speech
to the policeman is one that should be memorized by every man who dons the
blue uniform."
In the 1967-70 revival, there was an episode where a Lieutenant working out
of Vice was taking bribes from a gambling ring, and Friday had to pretend to
go along in order to bring him - and the ring - down.
Michael
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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 20:59:19 -0400
From: Larry Jordan <midtod@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Skitch Henderson
I ran across a reference to the fact that Skitch Henderson had died
last November 2005. Somehow I missed that news, and I don't know
whether the OTR Digest covered it or not. I also discovered that
Skitch apparently hosted a radio show called "NBC Dance Band" which
was on the air in 1957. I read a telegram he sent someone and it was
signed Skitch, Bert and Dorothy.
I was wondering if anybody could fill me in on this show, when it was
on, how long the broadcasts were, the format, plus who Bert and
Dorothy were?
Thanks,
Larry Jordan
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