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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2014 : Issue 2
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
WHISTLER [ Dick Backus <rbackus22@[removed]; ]
1943 Christmas Show [ Robert Everest <erest@[removed]; ]
This week in radio history 5-11 Janu [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 10:08:41 -0500
From: Dick Backus <rbackus22@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: WHISTLER
Can anyone help me identify the Whistler episode (by date or title)
where a man must kill a doctor he doesn't know to get out of his
predicament.
He waits outside the doctor's house and when a couple emerges, he
shoots the man. It turns out the doctor is the woman.
Thanks, and Happy New Year to all,
Dick Backus
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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 10:13:12 -0500
From: Robert Everest <erest@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 1943 Christmas Show
Interesting story in the Baltimore Sun this week. The paper produced a
program from England back home to the mid-atlantic area for Christmas in
1943. Many local area flyers and ground crew member wished the folks back
home a season greeting along with some singing by the men. This was
rebroadcasted over a local radio station, the first time since the original.
Well one woman reported hearing her father for the first time and he greeted
her by name. She was only a few months old when her dad was sent oversea. A
nice Christmas present.
Rob
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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 10:13:18 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 5-11 January
From Those Were The Days
1/5
1935 We proudly remind you that Phil Spitalny's All Girl Orchestra was
featured on CBS this day on the program, The Hour of Charm. (ed -- And
who can ever forget Evelyn and her magic violin?)
1940 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) got its very first
demonstration of FM radio. The new medium, free of interference, static,
and noise in thunderstorms, was developed by Major [removed] Armstrong. The
first FM transmitter was put in operation in 1941.
1/6
1941 A young actor appeared for the first time in a new program on CBS
titled, The Home of the Brave. Along with others in the cast, this was
Richard Widmark's radio debut.
1950 Ronald Coleman starred as the president of Ivy College in The
Halls of Ivy.
1974 CBS radio returned to dramatic programming at night with the
first broadcast of Radio Mystery Theatre, hosted by [removed] Marshall. The
program debuted on 218 CBS network stations.
1/7
1926 A famous marriage that endured for many years is remembered this
day. It's the wedding anniversary of George Burns and Gracie Allen who
were married by a Justice of the Peace in Cleveland, Ohio.
1940 The gate to Gene Autry's Melody Ranch opened. "The singing
cowboy" would entertain on CBS radio for the next 16 years, other than
1942-45 when he was in the Army Air Corps.
1941 The NBC Blue network presented the first installment of Inner
Sanctum.
1950 Ernest Tubb made his first appearance at The Grand Ole Opry in
Nashville, TN. Ernest also did a 15 minute radio program each day that
became very popular in West Texas. So popular, in fact, that he bought
the radio station that had aired the program for years and years: KGKL
in San Angelo, Texas.
1/10
1943 The quiz show, The Better Half, was first heard on Mutual this
day. The program brought four married couples to compete in stunts
involving traditional concepts of "manhood" and "womanhood".
1/11
1947 Amazing Mr. Malone (aka Murder and Mr. Malone) starring Frank
Lovejoy, debuted on ABC.
Joe
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