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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2001 : Issue 262
A Part of the [removed]!
ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Who was that young [removed] [ Ga6string@[removed] ]
THE CLOCK [ "Ian Grieve" <ian@[removed] ]
re: radio expessions [ "Lee, Steve (DEOC)" <slee@[removed]. ]
Parley Baer's Chester [ AandG4jc@[removed] ]
Re: Gene Roddenbury [ Fred Berney <berney@[removed]; ]
Re: John Dehner [ Fred Berney <berney@[removed]; ]
OTR Expressions [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@ ]
"The Falcon" Log [ "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed] ]
Re: Gene Roddenbury [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
About Mount Lee [ Harry Bartell <bartell@[removed] ]
Re: Rio Volt [ "Larry Cohen" <[removed]@[removed] ]
Tain't Funny McGee [ "glen" <gschroeder10@[removed]; ]
Re: Expressions [ Ga6string@[removed] ]
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Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:22:28 -0400
From: Ga6string@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Who was that young [removed]
...playing a cook named Johnson in "Short Order," a very entertaining
Suspense episode w/Joseph Kearns and Gerald Mohr?
That's right: None other than Conrad Binyon.
Just listened to that episode today, for the first time in a while. Good
stuff!
Bryan Powell
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Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 22:26:44 -0400
From: "Ian Grieve" <ian@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: THE CLOCK
Dan wrote:
Would anyone know whether there were two versions made of this series?
The reason I`m asking is that a couple of the programs I have listened
to seem to have a decidedly british tone.
G'day Dan, Close. It is Australian. The first 74 (I think) episodes were
Australian. It is also listed on Log sites as British so the confussion is
wide spread, which just goes to show that Australians don't have an accent.
I like the series and many of the people who acted in the series are still
acting in film, TV and stage even today.
I am collecting the series and also noting the actors/actresses as I listen.
But as a youngun I can only list the ones they mention at the end unless
they are a very recognisable voice. [removed] has a little
information on the series, from memory they list is as Grace Gibson
Productions 52 episodes, but does not give any real information about it.
In the early days of radio in Australia the announcers and actors either had
a British background hence the 'British tone' you detect, or were required
to have a very 'proper' voice in order to work in radio (apart from comedy
or Mo, Roy Rene would have been out of work)so it is easy to confuse the
program as British. Let me know if you want to learn more about the series.
Ian Grieve
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Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 22:26:43 -0400
From: "Lee, Steve (DEOC)" <slee@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: re: radio expessions
Re: radio expessions
Just when the readership feels that all significant expressions have been
stated, Mr. Peavey will no doubt say "Well,now, I wouldn't say that." Can
you imagine "What a revoltin' development this would be?"
Steve Lee
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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:31:52 -0400
From: AandG4jc@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Parley Baer's Chester
Out of all the roles that Parley Baer has played over the years the one
that most people will not remember him for is Chester on Gunsmoke. I read an
interview recently with Mr. Baer and he talks about how Chester was the best
role that he ever had. He said that he found it strange that Denis Weaver
said that the role of Chester Goud (Chester's last name was Proudfoot on the
radio vertion of Gunsmoke) was very confinding and wanted very badly to
forsake the role.
Parley played Chester as an older gentlemen were as Weaver's video
vertion was a young man with a limp. (I wounder where that limp came from)
The radio Chester was a bit of a bungler but still likeable. But unfortunitly
People will rember him as Mayor Pike dealing with another deputy who was a
bungler yet lovable.(Barney on The Andy Griffieth Show)
Allen
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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:31:50 -0400
From: Fred Berney <berney@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Gene Roddenbury
I was listening to a couple of "Have Gun, Will Travel" tapes the other
night and the credit for the writer was Gene Roddenbury. I'm assuming this
is THE Gene (Startrek) Roddenbury.
If so, I didn't realize that he wrote for radio and for Have Gun, Will
Travel. Interesting.
Fred
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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:31:49 -0400
From: Fred Berney <berney@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: John Dehner
I noticed that when the announcer gives the credits at the beginning of
Have Gun, Will Travel, the star is announced as "Mr. John Dehner".
Anybody know why the "Mr." is included?
Fred
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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:32:14 -0400
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: OTR Expressions
Jim Cox, commenting on Fred Berney's suggestion on OTR expressions,
notes,
Fred Berney asks if we remember expressions from radio that, perhaps,
became part of the nation's vernacular.
He then lists several that I remember fondly, but which, IMHO, haven't
become part of the nation's vernacular. Not that the expressions don't
stir fond memories, which they do, but because a majority of the current
crop of under-40 folk hasn't heard of the expressions, or even the
programs.
One of the better expressions from the old days was "'Taint funny,
McGee," said frequently by Molly, but I haven't heard it for at least 20
years, save on OTR recordings.
"The Shadow knows," seems to hang in there, but others have seemed to
fade. However, "I'm a baaaad boy," and variants, said by Lou Costello on
the Abbott and Costello show, had usage outside of the radio shows.
Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.
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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:31:46 -0400
From: "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: "The Falcon" Log
Arlene Osborne asked;
Does anyone know where I can find a log for The Falcon?
Yes, I have a complete log of The Falcon" from 1950 through 1952.
If you wish to find out more information on the series, you may go to
my
Website, The Vintage Radio Place at <[removed]>. Go down to the "Main
Table of Contents" and click on "Vintage Radio Logs." Then just click on
"The Falcon," or any of the other over 500 logs listed there to view,
download or print out the log(s). All programs with catalog or location
numbers are available for purchase there also on CD, Cassette and other
formats.
You may also find this series listed in my on-line CD / cassette
catalog
which is located at <[removed]> OTRSite On-Line Catalog. To
use this catalog, your browser must be Frames compliant and you should be
running at a resolution setting of 800x600 or higher for best viewing
(although lower resolution settings may be used).
I hope this helps. If you have any other questions, please feel free to
contact me.
Jerry Haendiges <jhaendiges@[removed];
[removed] The Vintage Radio Place
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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:40:41 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Gene Roddenbury
At 12:54 AM -0400 8/13/01, Fred Berney is rumored to have typed:
If so, I didn't realize that he wrote for radio and for Have Gun, Will
Travel. Interesting.
He didn't. Listen [removed] wrote the script for the _television_ HGWT,
but it was "adapted for radio" by John Dawson. Although Mr. Roddenberry does
have legitimate radio writing credits for these episodes, he never wrote
directly for radio.
Remember that initially, when produced by Norman Macdonnell, the shows
were rewrites of the television scripts, but starting with the productions of
Frank Paris, the stories were new adventures of the man with the famous
calling card written "especially for Have Gun Will Travel."
Working log at:
[removed]
...and, of course, there's that wonderful book by Martin Grams, Jr.
Charlie (who notes that he writes a whole lot for a dead guy;
what with two "new" series on the [removed])
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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 16:10:54 -0400
From: Harry Bartell <bartell@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: About Mount Lee
Re: Mount Lee:
It was the site of experimental television.
Although I can remember almost nothing about the program (I don't think
it was a dramatic milestone) I do remember the purple and green makeup
for black and white transmission.
Harry Bartell
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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 16:10:47 -0400
From: "Larry Cohen" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Rio Volt
I own a Rio Volt and have to say that it is the greatest thing since swiss
cheese!!!! On 1 CD I put 145 OTR Shows and the one disc lasted me my entire
vacation. Also the software for it is upgradeable. because of the
portability of it, I am now moving my MANY hours of OTR over to CD Rom so
that I can take it with me wherever I go.
Larry Cohen
Anchorage, Alaska
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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 18:27:21 -0400
From: "glen" <gschroeder10@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Tain't Funny McGee
Hi all.
In talking about otr sayings that have stuck through the years made me think
of "tain't funny McGee." Me and a friend of mine who is also an otr fan use
that line a lot. For instance, if one of us tells the other a bad or corny
joke, the other instead of laughing will reply "tain't funny McGee." Another
one that he uses sometimes when someone says something funny to him or tells
a better joke he uses the line from Jack Benny, "You wouldn't say that if my
writers were here." That's the first two that came to mind. I'm sure there
are more, but it's amazing how long these lines have been around.
Glen Schroeder
MadisonWI
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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 18:27:19 -0400
From: Ga6string@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Expressions
As I read Jim Cox's post, I was surprised to realize how many of those
expressions were familiar to me not from OTR, but from their appearance in
1940s/50s Warner Brothers cartoons!
Bryan
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