Posted on 10/09/2016 2:22:51 PM PDT by Vision
Friends it's Sunday night again and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio Americana.
Info *tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow.
Official OTR Blog of "The Big Broadcast" thread:
Longtime radio personality and The Big Broadcast host Ed Walker passed away early on Oct. 26 at age 83. We invite you to leave your thoughts and remembrances.
Ed Walker spent 65 years on the radio. His last program was unlike any other.
Evening all, our first true Fall day here, lots of wind...
They created a new listener forum but didn’t post the schedule tonight so...we’ll see what happens...
Hope you are well...
WGN had a 1938 Shadow on last night with Orson Welles and Agnes Moorehead.
So late though, I only happened to wake up at the very end.
Moe interested in the debate tonight.
Let’s hope he kicks their ###.
Me too!
WGN plays OTR on Sat. and Sun. nights very late, midnight or 1 a.m. eastern time. Last night it started at 1 a.m. after their Cubs postgame show.
More accessible to me timewise is Toronto's AM 740 Theatre of the Mind from 10 to 11 eastern time on week nights. If it comes in clear enough!
I’ve never listened to the radio on my computer. I had XM radio for a while, and that’s when I listened most of my OTR, ‘cause they had it on 24/7. A lot of losers were mixed in though, like Lum and Abner.
(Apologies if you like Lum and Abner!)
You’re missing out. Here are two good 24/7 stations:
Also, try internet radio. Listen to any station that streams over the net just like a radio. I have a few, the Mondo is bedside:
https://gracedigital.com/category/internet-radio/
Antioch
9 PM Mystery/Thriller Replay
10 PM The Whistler Replay
11 PM Suspense Replay
20th Century
Schedule is down at the moment.
Did you know that Welles was so inconsistent with the intro (”Who Knows...”), that they ended up playing a recording, rather than relying on him?
No, never heard that...
I didn’t know that. And in his genius days too.
“The Hall of Fantasy,” a supernatural anthology series, is on WGN tonight. Never heard of it before. Tonight’s show is, “The Steps That Follow Me,” 1952.
Great show!
This couple goes into a crypt, and afterwards the custodian comes in and tells them that anyone who goes into the crypt gets killed by the dead man interred there, for violating the crypt (except for the custodian, who is tolerated because he maintains the crypt).
Then for the rest of the show the couple flees the dead man, until he finally gets them!
I think Welles would race in a cab from the Sunday matinee at his Mercury Theatre, straight into the studio, and would voice the scripts cold. (Should that be "coaled", or am I getting my sponsor years wrong?)
IIRC, one story was that during the intro, Welles dropped the "script", flutteringly scattering to the floor, in order to get a rise out of the producer, which he did. Welles then calmly pulled the actual script out of his back pocket.
I can see why the producer would freak out, if as I believe those were live broadcasts.
The tip-off for me to pre-recorded OTR shows in general is when they announce that it’s “transcribed.”
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