Thursday Night - Old Time Radio

Hi once again,
This is your host of “What Once Was Radio,” john Beaulieu inviting you to join me
again Thursday night at 9:00 P.M. eastern and 6:00 P.M. on the west coast, as I present
two Thanksgiving shows.
The first show is from the series Doctor Christian from November 22nd of 1939. we
will hear A “Prelude To Thanksgiving,” and the second show is from the Tarzan series
dated November 22nd, 1951. This show is called “African Thanksgiving.”

The Shadow: “The Poison Death”, starring Orson Wells as The Shadow
Escape: “Bloodbath”, starring Vincent Price

Thursday Evening We Will Take A Stroll Down Memory Lane
As we stroll down, we will listen to Mr. Chameleon, starring Karl Swenson and we
will hear the episode from, The Case of Murder and The Million Dollar Smile. Then,
continuing our journey along, we’ll listen to That Hammer Guy, starring Larry Haines
as Mickey Spllane’s rough and tumble Private Detective, Mike Hammer, from, and The
Lillian Martin Case.
Fred Bertelsen

We shall start our formal discussion of the Conference at 8:30 EDT, 5:30 pacific
time. You will hear the many folks who were a part of this weekend, as they relive
and share their memories of the Conference.
As someone who has chaired 17 OTR conferences over the years, I can >say that without
a doubt, this was one of the best that I’ve ever attended.
The conference weekend will be one that we will never forget and we want to share
those wonderful memories with you.

this week we will hear a Green Hornet and a Sherlock homese show.

Join me for two great shows the first being Destination Freedom with the story The
Rhyme Of The Ancient Dodger a baseball story that is true but heard in a different
way than you may have ever heard it told, and then we will listen to the General
Electric show featuring Bing Crosby and his special guests. Who will his guest be
on this show come in and listen and you will hear!

The program opens with radio advertising from the listeners’ viewpoint. Find out
what the listeners liked and disliked about radio commercials during the golden age.
Rounding out the hour is an unusual non-broadcast. Hosted by Edward R. Murrow, he
tries to persuade the people of Standard Oil of New Jersey in sponsoring the New
York Philharmonic radio program. Was he successful? Come to the Commercial Corner
and find out.

Sherlock Holmes has had many incarnations both on radio and in movies. As early as
the late 1890’s Americans had an idea of how he looked and sounded as there was already
an early edition of “The Hound Of The Baskervilles,” presented as an early Broadway
stage play. Here at “Cruising The Classics,” we too haven’t forgotten Sherlock Holmes
and this Thursday we shall present a full hour of Holmesean drama. If you’re thinking
it’s two Rathbone episodes we threw together no it’s not. But what is it?

This time on Radio Out Of The Past we’re going to salute the arrival of spring which
has finally reached most of the country. Two things that spring brings are color
and bugs. Accordingly, we will have two crime-fighting shows with the names of colors
and bugs in their titles. If you can’t guess the first show you are definitely not
paying attention. But can you figure the second offering?