Favoriting Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from April 17, 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 17, 2023: Episode #52

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Box 13  "Round Robin"   Favoriting 14 August 1949  Mayfair Productions 
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Bold Venture  "Russian Roulette"   Favoriting 2 July 1951  Santana Productions 
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Ken Burns  Empire of The Air Part 4   Favoriting Empire Of The Air: The Men Who Made Radio  PBS DVD Video 
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Chandu The Magician  "Roxor Is Alive"   Favoriting 3 September 1948  Mutual–Don Lee Network 
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X-Minus One  "No Contact"   Favoriting 24 April 1955  NBC Radio 
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Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello.
Avatar 9:01pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Ahoy!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
Austin Rich:

The show art this week is a photo of Alan Ladd and Sylvia Picker recording an episode of Box 13.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:01
Greetings!
  9:02pm
Charles:

Oh no.. I've been dreading this day.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
WR:

Hi, will be listening while shuffling digital forms. Where did I put that 1099-SA...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Charles @9:02
Yeah. Unfortunately, this is the last episode of Box 13. Fortunately, with 52 episodes and evergreen content, this show was syndicated for YEARS after stopped making new episodes. In the 80's, when I was first listening to radio, Box 13 was still in rotation. They would just start over again, with episode one, after the last one would air. You wouldn't get a repeat for a full year.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
Austin Rich:

↳ WR @9:03
Good luck!
  9:06pm
Charles:

Still playing in the 80s, crazy!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:06pm
Austin Rich:

Suzy's line made me think there would be a little pay-off when we get to the end.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:07pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Charles @9:06
I'm not sure if it was always on, uninterrupted. But it was one of the first radio dramas I heard, after I got my radio when I was 10. And it was on for quite some time, afterwards.
  9:09pm
Charles:

Hey I got my first radio at 10 too, high five!
Avatar 9:09pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

A hot potato I bet.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:10pm
Austin Rich:

You still hear a fair amount of old radio dramas on AM radio, or in small towns. It's easy-to-find content, and can help fill the hours of a young station, or one that has trouble filling a full schedule.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:11pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Charles @9:09
I got a radio that had a built in cassette deck. It could record the radio, or the air through a built in mic. And I got a box, that could hold 10 cassettes, and I got several tapes from my mom. with the promise I could copy some of her albums. That was a big birthday: I got my own room, too! (To listen to the radio as loud as I wanted.)
  9:12pm
Charles:

The english channels here have them but there's very few of those on the french ones. I only listened to a few english ones here and there before Dimestore.
  9:12pm
Charles:

↳ Austin Rich @9:11
The very first Lava Lamp Lounge eh?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:13pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Charles @9:12
I suspect there must be some French radio dramas, and probably good ones! But I do have a slight language barrier, so I've never explored them.
Avatar 9:13pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Spec Op
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:14pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Charles @9:12
Indeed! Though at the time I didn't have any lamps yet. And not much music.
Avatar 9:17pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Thing about final episodes is the hero doesn't have to survive.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:18pm
Austin Rich:

I do feel a little silly about the "Bird Brain Beer" jokes, as I have come to discover that biologists no longer consider birds "dim." (It's a long story... there's a NOVA episode about it.) Suffice it to say: while the phrase "bird-brained" is still in use, it's not accurate, anymore.

Regardless... I was looking for bird phrases, and... that one is quite common.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:19pm
Austin Rich:

Charles! You're in this episode!
  9:19pm
Charles:

↳ Austin Rich @9:19
It did make me smile, this being the final episode :)
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:20pm
Austin Rich:

For the first time in the series, someone else has a Box near Dan's box... Box 18!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:22pm
Austin Rich:

I do like the idea of detectives showing up in other detective-ish stories. Every detective story I've written usually has the "too many detectives" trope.
Avatar 9:22pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

In the red... Blood red.
  9:22pm
Charles:

↳ Austin Rich @9:18
I can't think of an animal that's actually dim. I guess you'll have to go with Human Brain Beer.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:24pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Charles @9:22
Ha! I guess biologists used to think birds were dim, and that their brains were too small. Essentially: they were more instinct than thought and problem solving. However, most modern science has discovered that this was mostly based on some very biased observations, by a few biologists who were not really fond of birds.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:28pm
Austin Rich:

"I always save the explanations for my secretary."

Yeah, it's the last episode. Just phone it in...
Avatar 9:28pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Birds make some very good homes.
  9:30pm
Charles:

Goodnight Suzy...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:30pm
Austin Rich:

So, Box 13 fans: How should the show have "ended"? This is really just another installment, really. And even this ending suggests that there will be more next week... but, really, only re-runs.

So: what should have happened?
  9:32pm
Charles:

Dan stops procrastinating and starts writing his book about all the stuff that happened to him in the last year.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:33pm
Austin Rich:

I always wanted Suzy to have gotten the bug for solving mysteries, and in reality... Dan's books aren't selling that well, anyway.

I wanted her to suggest that they start a real detective business together, inspired by the other Dick they ran into.
  9:34pm
Charles:

↳ Austin Rich @9:33
Setting up shop in that kid's tree house. Lower rent.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:34pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Charles @9:32
Yeah. The idea that he's writing books about all his adventures is never actually shown, only implied. I like the idea that Dan is secretly rich, sold a couple books, but has had writers block, so the Box 13 is to try and help give him something to do until he has a new idea.
Avatar 9:35pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Gaslighting.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:36pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: ""Russian Roulette"" by "Bold Venture"
Bold Venture, like Box 13, doesn't really have stories connected to the time of year. Regardless, this episode aired a couple days before the Fourth of July, so I suspect listeners had that on their minds while they were listening.
  9:36pm
Charles:

Bogie and Bacall are there to cheer me up at least.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:37pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Charles @9:36
And our next show in the Box 13 slot is pretty great.
  9:37pm
Charles:

↳ Austin Rich @9:37
Yes, that's the good thing about endings. New beginnings.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:40pm
Austin Rich:

Slate's line about not wanting another girl around, because he already has Sailor puts into perspective the backstory that Sailor is the daughter of an old friend of his, and he has promised to take care of Sailor... and has also fallen for her. The idea that he has to "take care of another girl" is mostly a laugh line; Slate takes care of Sailor as much as she takes care of him.
Avatar 9:41pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Very intriguing
Avatar 9:42pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Fifteen minutes on the sea can mean miles
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:45pm
Austin Rich:

My biggest complaint about Bold Venture: while the boat is the namesake of the show, they often go many episodes without having any stories connected to the boat. This one sticks out because the boat actually figures into the story.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:46pm
Austin Rich:

I do love when radio shows listen to the radio.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:48pm
Austin Rich:

Charles makes an appearance again, but using "Charlie" this time.
Avatar 9:49pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Starting to doze off. Going to bed.
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Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:49
Sleep well. Until next time...
  9:53pm
Charles:

That episode's insane
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:53pm
Austin Rich:

"Always pass a gun butt first."

I feel like there was joke left un-used with that line.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:53pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Charles @9:53
Yeah. This episode sort of goes bonkers at the half-way point.
  9:57pm
Charles:

Shannon has a lot in common with swiss cheese the more the show goes on.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:57pm
Austin Rich:

"Lean on me Slate. I'll see you get home."

That's the kind of romance you want in life.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:57pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Charles @9:57
Ha! Yeah, he is the definition of perforated.
  10:04pm
Charles:

Hello! Cheers!
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Maulydaft:

Candy Madson whoo hooo!
  10:07pm
Charles:

Congrats Austin! You should play some Slayer to celebrate.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:10pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Charles @10:07
That is a good idea! I do like some Slayer, and I've got a few albums. But at 2 AM, people who are requesting Slayer are just drunk and call 100 times in a row. It's sweet, but...

O dear! A little "blip" there with the voice over. My bad!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:11pm
Austin Rich:

At the end of the 19th Century, "Wireless" was the hot new technology that all the nerds were into, in the same way that "internet" was the hot new technology at the end of the 20th Century.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:12pm
Austin Rich:

Both "wireless" / radio and the internet were "connecting" technologies, that allowed people to communicate in new ways, and in ways that transformed our culture, too.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:25pm
WR:

Many years ago I read the Erik Barnouw History of Broadcasting trilogy and another book, Mass Communication, I think, that was expanded to become Tube of Plenty. Very much shaped my view of mass media. Interesting to me to hear the interview and dramazation bits Burns pulled together for the series you are excerpting.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:26pm
Austin Rich:

↳ WR @10:25
Hmmmm. I should track those down. I'm always curious about what different people have to say about radio.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:32pm
Austin Rich:

While we did roll out X-Minus One last week, that episode is considered the pilot, and this is considered the "first episode" of the show. It's unclear if the pilot aired before this episode did - probably not - but the pilot episode DID air later in the run, when they needed a filler between episodes. For our purposes here, I put the pilot first... but original listeners in 1955 heard THIS episode first.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:33pm
Austin Rich:

Remember 1982, when the galactic barrier was discovered?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
Austin Rich:

"No Contact" was used twice during the Dimension X run of the series, but this version is with different actors in different roles, with different sound FX, and some scenes are slightly different.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:37pm
WR:

↳ Austin Rich @10:26
The volume 1 and 2 will be of primary interest for radio. 1 being the development of the technology. Volume 2 the growth of networks. Volume 3 is more focused on the advent of TV.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
Austin Rich:

↳ WR @10:37
Well, TV is still pretty interesting. Though, I loose interest in that subject quickly.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:40pm
Austin Rich:

"No Contact" was from a story by George Lefferts & Ernest Kinoy, and the script was by George Lefferts. Usually, that pair "adapted" well known short stories into radio scripts, so the fact that this is their original story is probably why it gets re-used so often. Still, both of these men were sci-fi writers in their own right. However, they were better known for their radio work.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:42pm
Austin Rich:

First man to the moon in 1962? Interesting prediction...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:45pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Austin Rich @10:42
The idea that they would be sending men on interstellar trips by 1987... as originally predicted in 1950... seems pretty rapid to me. When I think about the future now, from 2023, I still think interstellar travel like this is... quite a ways away.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:49pm
Austin Rich:

The SFX of that "condition red" alarm... the "Ar-oooga" sound... is really the main thing that has aged poorly in this show.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:51pm
WR:

I remember us hearing this story before. They used a script from the previous series? Funny, I cant remember the out come. I'm always like that.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:53pm
WR:

Ah, remember now, he's a Voltan.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:53pm
Austin Rich:

↳ WR @10:51
This show will re-use almost all of the old scripts from Dimension X, but they will be updated / modified in small ways.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:55pm
Austin Rich:

We're getting close to the end. Thanks everyone for tuning in! Sad that Box 13 is over... but excited to see the show move on to something new.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:55pm
WR:

But like I said, I don't remember details, you can tell me a joke once a year and I will laugh just as much each time.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:56pm
Austin Rich:

↳ WR @10:55
I'm the same. There's usually a point where it suddenly comes back to me... but I enjoy the journey each time, for some reason.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:57pm
Austin Rich:

I've used that name - Starcloud - a number of times. It's one of my favorite "ship names."
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:59pm
WR:

Ah, Charlie is a Voltan too?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:59pm
Austin Rich:

This might be one of the most "cold war" stories I can think of.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 11:00pm
Austin Rich:

We're almost done... but... Don Pardo Announcer!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 11:01pm
WR:

↳ Austin Rich @11:00
Oh, right, didn't think of that, but Voltans = Commies. Reds instead of Blues. LOL.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 11:01pm
Austin Rich:

↳ WR @11:01
Pretty on the nose.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 11:02pm
WR:

Thank you! Austin!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 11:02pm
Austin Rich:

↳ WR @11:02
Thank you!
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