Favoriting Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from April 10, 2023 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 April 10, 2023: Episode #51

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Box 13  "The Clay Pigeon"   Favoriting 7 August 1949  Mayfair Productions 
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Bold Venture  "The High Price of Treason"   Favoriting 25 June 1951  Santana Productions 
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Music behind DJ:
Stan Kenton 

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Ken Burns  Empire of The Air Part 3   Favoriting Empire Of The Air: The Men Who Made Radio  PBS DVD Video 
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Chandu The Magician  "Chandu's Rescue"   Favoriting 2 September 1948  Mutual–Don Lee Network 
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X-Minus One  "And The Moon Be Still As Bright"   Favoriting 22 April 1955  NBC Radio 
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Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:40pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Ahoy
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WR:

Hi,
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Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:01
Greetings & Salutations!
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Austin Rich:

↳ WR @9:02
WR! Now we are ready to dimestore!
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Austin Rich:

↳ Song: ""The Clay Pigeon"" by "Box 13"
We only have ONE more Box 13, after this episode!
  9:04pm
Charles:

listenin'
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @9:03
Awww. That was a great show
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Charles @9:04
Charles! Party Time, Excellent.
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Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:04
It has been fun to re-listen, and to space them out like I did. When I listened to them before, I plowed through all the episodes in a couple weeks. This leisurely pace is quite enjoyable.
Avatar 🎸 9:05pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Buzzardo approved
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Ever look up its addresses on Google maps?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:07pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:07
Oh, I never thought to! Interesting.
  9:08pm
Charles:

Amazing show
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Reminds me of The Old Ones
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:10pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Charles @9:08
This episode is one of my faves. I like the way it unfolds.
Avatar 🎸 9:13pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Wonder when old style phone numbers stopped
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:14pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:13
It was before 1980; as long as I've had to memorize numbers, they've been at least seven digits.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:15pm
Austin Rich:

This offers and interesting timeline: en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:16pm
Webhamster Henry:

I love how Paul Frees always plays Paul Frees.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:16pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:16
And he's EVERYWHERE! I love it when I spot him in something.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @9:15
Interesting stuff
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:18pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Austin Rich @9:16
I'm actually catching this live for a change - I'm completely stuck on the Archive.org stockpile of OTR. and, it's nice to hear more recent radio drama too.
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WR:

Knock out number one.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:20pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:18
Oh, excellent! I'm a sucker for OTR too, and this seemed like the best way to listen to shows - some I loved, some that are new to me. And it's been fun to make silly commercials and stuff, too.
Avatar 🎸 9:20pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

I wish X Minus One or a similar show had done a version of ed comics Judgment Day
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Austin Rich:

↳ WR @9:19
He recovered pretty well, too.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:21pm
Webhamster Henry:

I see you are doing one of the Bradburys from X-minus-1. Someone did a nice Bradbury radio collection here: archive.org...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:22pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:21
Oh, wow! This is fantastic. I was just talking about how his stories appeared on other shows, but I was never always sure which ones. What an excellent resource.
Avatar 🎸 9:25pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Wild goose?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:26pm
Austin Rich:

I'm gonna miss the music from this show. It really did use the music in cinematic ways.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:27pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:25
"You're cooking a wild goose? Invite me over. I meet the goose. I'll even eat the goose. I usually try to be polite like that." - Groucho, in another universe.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:28pm
Austin Rich:

Shot in the hand? Ouch!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:29pm
Austin Rich:

"I've got to explain a few things to my secretary." That sounds like code if I've ever heard it.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @9:28
Unless you're Eric Draven.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:30pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:29
I was thinking about The Crow the other day. The movie version is almost like a film set in The Fringes.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:30pm
Austin Rich:

This episode aired on August 7th, originally. My sister's birthday.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @9:30
I could see that.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:34pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Song: ""The High Price of Treason"" by "Bold Venture"
The foley in this show sounds like coconuts
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:34pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: ""The High Price of Treason"" by "Bold Venture"
I used one name when announcing this episode, but it is also known as, "The High Price of Treason," among other names. Bold Venture, as mentioned previously, would often retitle the same episode, seemingly "inflating" the number of episodes available. It's not clear if Santana Productions did this, as a way to offer more episodes than were recorded, or if stations did this, to make it seem like there was a new episode coming, when it was actually a repeat. Again, hard to know which was actually happening, but: multiple names have led to a lot of confusion with Bld Venture.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:35pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:34
Unfortunately, by comparison, Box 13 is such a high quality show, and Bold Venture is... just fine. Mayfair Productions clearly took a lot of care with their shows... and Santana was making shows, too.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:38pm
Austin Rich:

Sailor mentions a kind of skiing in her joke quip:

en.wiktionary.org...
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Austin Rich:

↳ Austin Rich @9:38
I guess, not so much skiing, as a method of walking in skis, uphill. I've never actually been skiing, so I only know the word in association.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:41pm
Austin Rich:

I like his "hop, skip and jump," line. They usually give Slate some excellent lines.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Don't know how far you got reading my fic, but Desdinova had twins named Vega and Aquila.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:46pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:44
Both stars, yes? (In the sky, I mean.)
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @9:46
A star and a constellation
Avatar 🎸 9:48pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Both related to birds
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:49pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:48
My boss is starting a Gene Wolf book club, so I'm gonna read "Shadow & Claw." I just got the book this weekend.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

It's quiet tonight
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:51pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:50
Like, the sound of the show? I guess I could turn it up.
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WR:

so he calls all Cuban males, Chico?
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @9:51
I mean the chat
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Austin Rich:

↳ WR @9:51
I was wondering that. Like, as in Chico Marx?
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WR:

Chico is Spanish for boy...
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Austin Rich:

↳ WR @9:52
Ahhhhh. I didn't realize. (I'm not familiar with Spanish. But that totally makes sense, now that I think about it.)
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ WR @9:52
Like Chico and the Man?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:57pm
Austin Rich:

His line about Kate being too old when she gets out of prison is similar to the last thing his character says to a similar female, in Bogart's, "The Maltese Falcon."
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:59pm
Austin Rich:

And, yet again, they make out at the end of the episode.
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WR:

It is an exciting festival promo. I'm hyped!
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Barno in Akron:

Roll call!
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

The fifties was mainly about adventure dealing with traveling
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

New frontier was the watchword of the day
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
Austin Rich:

Whoops! Looks like our show will go over by a few minutes this week. Hope no one minds.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:16pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:08
Certainly, that was very attractive to most people looking for entertainment. Travel was expensive, and hard. And hearing about it on the radio was exciting and fun.
Avatar 🎸 10:16pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Yacht races. Nowadays they have a boat race in New England called the Figawi race
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:17pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:16
Boat racing really does seem like something from another era. Like, isn't it easier to do with computers and stuff now?
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @10:17
Too easy almost. Not as glorious as the days when Imaginos set sail from Lost Christobel.
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Webhamster Henry:

↳ Song: "Empire of The Air Part 3" by "Ken Burns"
Relevant to this show: www.wfmu.org...
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Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:19
That's what I was thinking. I can only imagine using stars to navigate.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @10:20
With sextant and compass and telescope
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:22pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:20
Oh, yes. This documentary is from the 90's, and is very north American, in terms of it's narrative. I like the doc, because it's totally about how American's just steal stuff from each other. A more comprehensive story would only mention these folks, sort of in passing.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:24pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Austin Rich @10:22
With this radio-ified show, you have to imagine the "Ken Burns Effect"
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Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:24
Oh, totally! There's almost no footage, except in the interview clips with modern commentators. That 90s era of Burns Docs all look exactly the same... it's so weird.
Avatar 🎸 10:28pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Getting sleepy. Going to turn in. But will be around tomorrow.
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Austin Rich:

For the entire run of Chandu (that we have heard so far), the episodes have aired daily, beginning in the summer. We have now reached the period where the kids are no longer on Summer Break, and listening to Chandu will become harder and harder. (Chandu was on in the evenings as a family show, but because it was on in the evenings, often limited who could tune in.) Certainly this didn't stop most dedicated fans from still listening, but moving into the fall, they were starting to drop off.
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Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:28
Sleep well! We'll see you again tomorrow.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:33pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Song: ""Chandu's Rescue"" by "Chandu The Magician"
Ya big porcupine.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:33
I love those kinds of comments.
  10:41pm
swivs:

Hotchy motchy! It’s ON!
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Austin Rich:

↳ swivs @10:41
Howdy swivs!
  🎸 10:47pm
Heather Z:

Old fashioned chicken pox party was LIT!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:48pm
Austin Rich:

As I understand it, this recording is actually an "audition" show, sort of like a pilot. It has a date of April, 22nd, and it's possible that it might have been broadcast on that date. But, more likely, this was just made as a proof of concept, to make sure that their debut episode - two days later - could be pulled off without a hitch. As I understand it, "No Contact" was the first new episode that listeners actually heard in 1955.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:48pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @10:47
This was totally what it was like when I went over to spend the week with my neighbor's kids, when I got it.
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WR:

Very disciplined crew.
  🎸 10:49pm
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @10:48
I think all our parents also had giant drunken brawls while the kids got the pox? I had a fever so my memory is fuzzy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:52pm
WR:

Quoting poetry to drunken marauders?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:53pm
Austin Rich:

According to other records I've found, this particular audition recording was finally broadcast, for listeners to hear, later that year, in September. (As I understand it: they actually aired the audition recording.) That I know of, those are the only two instances of this exact story being duplicated anywhere in the X-Minus One line-up, but I do know that occasionally, local stations would re-air their fave episodes during any off-weeks. For our purposes, I will play it twice: now, and in the September slot, later in the running order.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:53pm
Austin Rich:

↳ WR @10:52
"Squwak. It's a living."
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:54pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @10:49
Probably. I was too hypnotized by Cosmos to care.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:56pm
Austin Rich:

Norman Rose was the Dimension X announcer, and had the nickname, "The Voice of God," as he announced many other shows, too. While they got him for this audition recording, it was known that he couldn't do it in an on-going basis, and Fred Collins would take over the job moving forward.

The "Minus One" referenced in the name of the show is Norman Rose, and the "X" referenced in the name is the proceeding show we already heard: Dimension X.
Avatar 🎸 10:58pm
David Shortell:

Was this particular Martian Chronicle adapted in NBC's three-episode 1980 miniseries ?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:58pm
WR:

The narration is very poetic.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:58pm
Austin Rich:

The reference to "hot dog stands" is in reference to a story from the Martian Chronicles, about a hot dog vendor that sets up on Mars.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:58pm
Austin Rich:

↳ David Shortell @10:58
I don't recall that series! Maybe?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:59pm
Austin Rich:

↳ WR @10:58
Agreed. Bradbury rules.
  🎸 11:01pm
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @10:59
Thirded!
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Austin Rich:

We have about four more minutes! Sorry for going over!
  🎸 11:03pm
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @11:02
Yay for bonus radio time!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:04pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @11:03
This audition tape is actually a couple minutes longer than the average X-Minus One episode, t'boot!
  🎸 11:05pm
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @11:04
I'm here for it! I did, long ago, listen to a lot of X Minus One but so long ago, I've forgotten a lot. It's lovely to hear again.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:06pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @11:05
We will hear them all, one week at a time!
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WR:

Thank you! Austin!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:07pm
Austin Rich:

↳ WR @11:06
Thank you, WR!
  🎸 11:07pm
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @11:06
I'm excited!! Thanks for a great show, as always!!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:07pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @11:07
Thank you.
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Webhamster Henry:

Have a happy Mid Valley Mutation Fest!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:08pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @11:08
Thank you! Tune in and join us!
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