Favoriting Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from June 3, 2024 Favoriting

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Join us for two hours of old time radio dramas, as we present four different pulp fiction stories, every week! Noir Stories with everymen getting wrapped up in dangerous adventures! Sea-faring Tales that are as two-fisted as they are filled with romance! Mysterious Magicians from the Far East, or maybe a Science Fiction yarn from the Atomic Age! Dimestore Radio Theater offers a chance to engage in Theater of The Mind, and enter a world of incredible tales from both yesterday and tomorrow!

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Favoriting June 3, 2024: Episode #97

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Rogue's Gallery  "Little Drops of Rain"   Favoriting 08 November 1945  NBC   
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The Adventures of Rocky Jordan  "Strangers, Three"   Favoriting 5 December 1948  Santana Productions   
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Les Elgart 

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Unpublished History  Radio in the 1920s (Part 12)   Favoriting Radio In The 1920s  Self-Released  2024 
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The Blue Beetle  "Thoroughbreds Always Come Through, Part 2"   Favoriting 19 June 1940  Mutual–Don Lee Network   
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X-Minus One  "Star Bright"   Favoriting 10 April 1956  NBC Radio   
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Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:09pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello.
Avatar 🎸 8:57pm
Imaginos:

Ahoy
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @8:57
Thanks for dropping in tonight!
Avatar 🎸 9:01pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @9:01
Always a pleasure
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: ""Little Drops of Rain"" by "Rogue's Gallery"
The sound isn't too bad tonight, but I did do a little EQ on the sound, to improve it a bit. The Rogue's Gallery episodes are very hit-or-miss, as they are all preserved via fan recordings, which were better and or worse, depending.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: ""Little Drops of Rain"" by "Rogue's Gallery"
We don't have a recording of the episode from the week before, but this opening implies that Rogue was hospitalized last week, and apparently, was dating a woman named Liza.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:06pm
Austin Rich:

Dick Powell was well known for singing, and had a little career as a crooner. This song foreshadows Dick Powell's turn as the singing detective in Richard Diamond, later.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:08pm
Webhamster Henry:

Hi Radio Fans!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:08pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:08
Webhamster Henry! Thanks for joining us.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:09pm
Austin Rich:

If memory serves, the June Allyson movie they were talking about seeing (in the earlier scene) was this one:

en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:10pm
Webhamster Henry:

$500 was a big chunk of change!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:11pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:10
$8,661.55 in 2024 dollars.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:12pm
Webhamster Henry:

Down he goes!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:12pm
Austin Rich:

Who had 12 Minutes for Rogue getting knocked out?
Avatar 🎸 9:13pm
Imaginos:

I keep drifting off but I'm going to try to stick it out tonight.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:13pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:13
I understand. Sometimes, staying up late enough to DO the show is a little too late for me.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:14pm
Webhamster Henry:

You know, I could probably make an online poll for the knockout bets and formalize it!
Avatar 🎸 9:15pm
Imaginos:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:14
That would be fun
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:15pm
Austin Rich:

I believe that is Gerald Mohr playing the other man in this episode. (He seems to appear in a lot of "Rogue's Gallery" episodes, but is best known to many as the voice of Philip Marlowe in the radio version of, "The Adventures of Philip Marlowe."
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:16pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:14
Ha! That would be pretty funny.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:19pm
Webhamster Henry:

Has there ever been one of these shows where the first suspect is in fact the actual murderer?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:20pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:19
Sometimes. I bet you would find some interested data if you started plotting how often that happened.
Avatar 🎸 9:21pm
Imaginos:

Looks like I am not going to make it after all. But I will see you tomorrow
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:21pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:21
Sleep well!
Avatar 🎸 9:21pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @9:21
Thank you
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:28pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: ""Little Drops of Rain"" by "Rogue's Gallery"
Ha! Rogue was too slow, and she had another man in the wings. You snooze, you loose.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:29pm
Webhamster Henry:

"How come a guy that's so smart gets hit on the head so often?" My question too!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:30pm
Austin Rich:

This veteran ad regarding the GI Bill is a vintage spot, that aired with the show in 1945.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:32pm
Austin Rich:

Aside from, "Bold Venture" and "The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen," which did start in the US, "Rocky Jordan," is one of the few other shows that take place outside of the US. There are a few others, but most old radio from this era is set in the US.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:34pm
Webhamster Henry:

They throw the money around so much in these shows!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:35pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:34
I guess you're supposed to be impressed, but I just keep thinking that people are not careful with their money.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:41pm
Webhamster Henry:

There are some silly voices in this show!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:42pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:41
I think the "international" setting is supposed to make you think there's some leeway with the voice acting.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:12pm
Webhamster Henry:

I knew "Star, Bright" from reading it when I was a kid. It's great fun, and I think could be adapted into something a little better. the oft-produced "Zero Hour" with similar sci-fi kids was turned into a not very good TV series "The Whispers" . Well, the kids were great, the plot and adults were not.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:14pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:12
It does sort of have a "Zero Hour" flavor to it. I like this one a lot, but the first time I heard it, I think I sided with the kids, and the last time I listened, I started feeling more for the dad. Getting older is weird.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:14pm
Austin Rich:

I wonder what a "Sleeping Porch" was?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:14pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Austin Rich @10:14
Woah! I had no idea:

en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Austin Rich @10:14
"The idea gained popularity in the early 1900s and became common in much of the United States."
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Austin Rich @10:14
we had a sleeping porch at our house and summer house!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:16pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Austin Rich @10:15
Well, It was not very common anywhere I lived. But I wonder if that is because our summer months are short, and not that hot, by comparison?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:16pm
Austin Rich:

The image of this guy, turning to his family to interpret the nonsense that he was listening to is... very relatable.
  🎸 10:17pm
Heather:

Sleeping porches are so cool! I've always wanted one but alas. I was just going to say maybe it's regional? Do yall have basements where you are?

Also, hi! Tuned in and doing crafts here!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:17pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:15
Now all I can think about is getting a sleeping porch.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:18pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather @10:17
Thanks for listening.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:19pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather @10:17
It depends. Some places have them, others don't. We don't have one now, but we did at our last house, here in the same town. The last two cities I've lived in were similar: some houses had them, some didn't.
  🎸 10:21pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @10:19
I learned only a few years ago that we NEED basements here because of the frost line and hard winters. If your house isn't dug into the ground some, it'll crack off the ground. Explains all the weird little basically crawl space basements I've seen around here!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:24pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather @10:21
We have a crawl space in our current house for the same reason. But it is not big enough to store anything, or use as a basement. We have a lot of plumbing down there, and the plumbers are not happy to go down there, as possums have made nests everywhere.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:24pm
Webhamster Henry:

Asbestos FTW!
  🎸 10:26pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @10:24
Yes that's common here. I have seen people manage to stuff boxes in the spaces. With the spiders.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:27pm
Webhamster Henry:

Well this is a real crooked racing scheme!
  🎸 10:28pm
Heather:

Very Max with the TV stuff there...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:28pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather @10:26
I can't fit down in our crawl space, let alone store things down there. It's only just big enough to crawl around, and there's mud and water leaks down there.
Avatar 🎸 10:30pm
David Shortell:

↳ Austin Rich @10:14
What's Zero Hour? The 1957 airplane-based thriller starring Dana Andrews?
It's also the name of a weekly radio show on Milwaukee's WMSE, though it's actually three hours long.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:30pm
Austin Rich:

Looks like we'll go over by about two minutes this week. Sorry everyone!
  🎸 10:30pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @10:28
At the old house, my ex had his recording studio in the basement. Anyone tall had to stand with their head between the joists. We did get water down there which wasn't... great.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:31pm
Austin Rich:

↳ David Shortell @10:30
It was one of the first X-Minus One stories, where a group of kids are playing a game, "Zero Hour," that they learned from an invading alien.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:32pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather @10:30
Our crawl space is about two - three free tall, max, at the highest points. I would have to get covered in mud to even get into it.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:33pm
Austin Rich:

↳ David Shortell @10:30
joshuajames.substack.com...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:33pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Austin Rich @10:31
A Ray Bradbury classic!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:34pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:33
I sold a signed Bradbury collection today at work. I really wanted to keep it for myself.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Song: ""Star Bright"" by "X-Minus One"
The actual story is completely epistolatory.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:36pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:35
I thought that might be the case. Even the presentation is mostly through letters.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:36pm
Webhamster Henry:

www.gutenberg.org...
  🎸 10:37pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @10:32
My parents have a portion of the basement like that, dirt floor, even, and my dad crawls around fixing things from there sometimes. Shudder. So many spiders. No possums, though. That I know of.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:37pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:36
I've been meaning to read through all the stories that they used on Dimension X and X-Minus One. I've read some, but it's been years for those.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Austin Rich @10:37
You need a big pile of old Galaxy Magazines!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather @10:37
There's been a possum nest under our house for a while. There's so much poop and stuff down there that it's not pleasant.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:39pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:38
We have some for sale at work. (I work in a rare book room with signed first editions, etc.) But I think they're mostly free online, and I usually can't afford the stuff we sell.
  🎸 10:40pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @10:38
Ahhh. I love possums but not in the house! Or under the house, for that matter!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:41pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Austin Rich @10:39
Virtual copies make do!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:42pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather @10:40
They're actually good for the yard, and they control pests and keep other beasts away from our yard and garden. So they get the crawl space, and we benefit from their lifestyle.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:43pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:41
I think I found most of them online before. I just need to track them down again.
  🎸 10:44pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @10:42
As long as you're not the ones doing the crawling....
They're cute, too. I like seeing them around. I reiterate, though, not in my house!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:46pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather @10:44
I mean, if you want to fight the animals for a space you can't sit up in so you can roll around in the mud, then you can do it. Since I can't even get in there to use the space, it's not really part of our house.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:46pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Austin Rich @10:43
One of them I was reading was explaining the greenhouse effect and how fragile it was in its true science section!
Avatar 🎸 10:46pm
David Shortell:

↳ Song: ""Star Bright"" by "X-Minus One"
Möbius should not be confused with Mœbius: the illustrator of such bandes dessinées as Blueberry, The Incal, Arzach and The Airtight Garage.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:47pm
Austin Rich:

I have been watching this story happen in the world around me. The kids now understand technology better than me, and they are smarter than I was at their age.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:47pm
Austin Rich:

↳ David Shortell @10:46
He's got such great style! I love his work.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:50pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:46
I've been wanting to get a set of old Analog back-issues. Most of them are very affordable, and you get some great weird old stories by some interesting writers.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:50pm
Webhamster Henry:

Peek-a-boo was somewhat more ominous in Zero Hour!
Avatar 🎸 10:52pm
David Shortell:

↳ David Shortell @10:46
And neither of them should be confused with Morbius, the villain Walter Pidgeon played in "Forbidden Planet".
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:52pm
Webhamster Henry:

Light years ago eh? made the Kessel run in just 12 parsecs!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:53pm
Austin Rich:

↳ David Shortell @10:52
Ha!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:54pm
Austin Rich:

"We didn't cross a single street!"

Kids. The most frustrating litigators.
Avatar 🎸 10:55pm
David Shortell:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:52
I can't believe a whole movie ("Solo") was made to explain that non-sequitur!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:56pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ David Shortell @10:55
Well, space is time, but still...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:56pm
Austin Rich:

↳ David Shortell @10:55
I feel like at least 50% of that film was made to explain as many lines like that as possible.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:57pm
Webhamster Henry:

Welcome to the Multiverse, Pete!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:58pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:57
The backbone of modern comics and comics movies... all in this pulp story from the 50s.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:59pm
Austin Rich:

Thanks for listening everyone! See ya next time.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:00pm
Webhamster Henry:

I think this is Norman Rose speaking....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:01pm
WR:

Thank you! Austin! and WHH for keeping the playlist lively,
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:02pm
Webhamster Henry:

Don't touch that dial!
Sometime, I'll fire up a zoom call..
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