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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2009 : Issue 39
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Shadow Reprints [ Bob <hrkeller@[removed]; ]
Sketches [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
Soap operas [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:20:18 -0500
From: Bob <hrkeller@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Shadow Reprints
I'd like to thank Mr. Tollin for his work. His new editions are better than
the originals, and he has allowed me to read The Shadow without worrying
about the brittle, pulpy pages of my original copies falling apart as I
turned the pages.
Also thanks for running the feature on the lost shadow episode with photos of
Edmund MacDonald. He was one of my favorite killer "B" actors and I had
always figured it was him on some of the Shadow eps (and some Inner
Sanctums), so thanks for confirming his radio duties!
Regards
Bob Keller
Waukesha Wisc.
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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:20:32 -0500
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Sketches
The thread concerning "sketches" brought back a memory from my youth. When
I got to junior high school, our better equipped public school library
(compared to elementary school) included Sunday editions of The New York
Times among other publications that started to broaden my world. One of my
most fascinating discoveries, sort of enchanting as I think about it, was
the complete NYC local stations' radio guide for seven days. This, of
course, included virtually all of the network programs at the times they
were aired on the chains -- and not at some time recorded by our stations so
they could air a local program and play the network series back at a later
hour.
One of my memories of obsessing over at all of that (for I was a steady
library patron) was in finding the word "Sketch" beside Ma Perkins, Our Gal
Sunday, Just Plain Bill, Young Dr. Malone, Backstage Wife, Lorenzo Jones,
and so forth ad infinitum. Every last one of those "daytime dramas" (an
epithet CBS proffered regularly) was branded as a "Sketch." I assumed that
word maybe had origins in stage and vaudeville playlets but never knew.
For many of those shows, and lots of others listed which either we didn't
get locally or I had never heard, including an identifying label was useful
in letting me know know something about the type of series. As I later
began to encounter metropolitan dailies from other cities, I don't recall
seeing those designations. The Times made it easy for a novice to get a
grasp of what was going on and that may have been some of its intent.
Jim Cox
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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:58:49 -0500
From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Soap operas
My grandmother referred to the soap operas as her "stories." She listened
daily on their imposing console radio in the living room. I don't recall
the brand, but it had a glowing dial and many knobs. She and Grandpa
Kneebone had another console radio on the front porch in Sioux Falls on
Holly Street. There was a label on the chasis marked "television." Two
small inputs. But I never saw a TV set attached to that radio. Don't
recall the brand of that console, either.
Ted Kneebone. 1528 S. Grant St., Aberdeen, SD 57401. Phone: 605-226-3344.
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