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Post by Salzmank on Dec 30, 2020 17:50:08 GMT
In the spirit of the “what did you just watch” and “what are you reading” threads.
Last night I was listening to a New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes episode with John Stanley as Holmes. The program originally starred Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson. Tom Conway replaced Rathbone for 1947 and then was replaced with Stanley. Alfred Shirley replaced Bruce. (Confusing enough?)
The episode was an adaptation of one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s best Holmes tales, “The Adventure of the Illustrious Client,” which pits the Great Detective against one of his wickedest adversaries, Austrian wife-killer Adelbert Gruner. It was genuinely excellent for most of its length—but petered out to an anticlimactic ending. Too bad. Still, it was fun, and even though Stanley was clearly chosen because his voice was remarkably similar to Rathbone’s, he was a first-class Holmes. (Alfred Shirley, alas, was not half the Watson Bruce was.)
How about you?
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 31, 2020 1:09:22 GMT
The last thing I listened was an episode of The Saint "Nineteen Santa Clauses" but then I realized I had heard it before.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2021 6:30:02 GMT
Hitchhiker's Guide.
Honestly, once it gets to Tertiary, it excels in sound quality but it drops off in story quality for me.
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Post by needysboy on Jan 5, 2021 21:23:24 GMT
On Christmas Eve, I listened to Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge. A very fine show. I can see why he had a great reputation as an actor.
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Post by mattgarth on Jan 8, 2021 20:46:44 GMT
On Christmas Eve (after viewing the annual IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE), I always listen to the Suspense episode with Robert Taylor:
"The House in Cypress Canyon" (can scare the bejeebers out of you)
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 18, 2021 3:15:30 GMT
On Christmas Eve (after viewing the annual IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE), I always listen to the Suspense episode with Robert Taylor: "The House in Cypress Canyon" (can scare the bejeebers out of you) That is a spooky one. Listening to it again now.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 18, 2021 3:29:28 GMT
Jim Backus does one of the background voices when the Milk man is attacked.
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Post by mattgarth on Jan 18, 2021 6:43:13 GMT
Jim Backus does o) ne of the background voices when the Milk man is attacked. And Howard Duff is the detective (named 'Sam") who the real estate agent tells the tale to. Duff would shortly thereafter portray 'Sam Spade' on the radio series.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 1, 2021 5:04:00 GMT
2 Suspense episodes. "Drive-In" with Judy Garland and "Overdrawn" with William Powell.
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Post by Salzmank on Mar 4, 2021 2:45:17 GMT
The other day I listened to two comedies on Radio Classics, The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show’s “The Song Writers” and Our Miss Brooks’ “Rival Football.” I’m not usually big on radio comedies—and I don’t usually like Our Miss Brooks at all—but both of these were fast-paced and very funny.
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 4, 2021 20:03:21 GMT
I wasn't aware there had been a radio version of Our Miss Brooks.
I read it was on at the same time as the tv show and continued one year after the tv show ended.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Aug 22, 2021 21:42:25 GMT
LA Theatre Works radio broadcast of Arthur Miller's The Price
Directed by: Martin Jenkins
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Amy Irving, Timothy West, Harris Yulin
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Post by needysboy on Sept 25, 2021 0:36:41 GMT
The past couple of weeks I've been listening to "The Strange Dr. Weird."
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Post by gadreel on Oct 2, 2021 6:54:41 GMT
Just listened to the doors in the bath
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Post by Salzmank on Feb 18, 2022 19:05:52 GMT
I have an episode of The Life of Riley playing in the background, and it isn’t good, but I find it interesting because the jokes that work best are those that out of context don’t even sound like jokes. In particular: “Well, I’m putting up the dough for it” and “Let’s be gay.”
The first is Junior saying he’s paying for Riley’s education, spoofing the parent-child relationship; the second is Digby O’Dell the friendly undertaker, intoning in his sepulchral voice.
Therein lies an important lesson for aspiring joke writers.
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Post by mattgarth on Feb 22, 2022 19:13:42 GMT
In the spirit of the “what did you just watch” and “what are you reading” threads. Last night I was listening to a New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes episode with John Stanley as Holmes. The program originally starred Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson. Tom Conway replaced Rathbone for 1947 and then was replaced with Stanley. Alfred Shirley replaced Bruce. (Confusing enough?) The episode was an adaptation of one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s best Holmes tales, “The Adventure of the Illustrious Client,” which pits the Great Detective against one of his wickedest adversaries, Austrian wife-killer Adelbert Gruner. It was genuinely excellent for most of its length—but petered out to an anticlimactic ending. Too bad. Still, it was fun, and even though Stanley was clearly chosen because his voice was remarkably similar to Rathbone’s, he was a first-class Holmes. (Alfred Shirley, alas, was not half the Watson Bruce was.) How about you? In the mid-1950s, John Gielgud (Holmes) and Ralph Richardson (Watson) performed several of Doyle's short stories on BBC radio. I have a few of them on cassette and shared a couple with my high school Mystery and Science Fiction high school students back in the day.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Mar 6, 2022 21:57:33 GMT
L. A. Theatre Works radio broadcast of Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting
Director: Sheldon Epps
Cast: Edward Asner as Branch Rickey David Downing as Clancy Hope (Elder) Tommy Hicks as Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson Carl Lumbly as Paul Robeson Sterling Macer as Jackie Robinson Charlie Robinson as Joe Louis Rugg Williams as Clancy Hope |
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Post by Stammerhead on Mar 12, 2022 14:56:38 GMT
Halfway through this...
The Diary of Samuel Pepys (BBC)
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Post by Stammerhead on Mar 12, 2022 14:59:33 GMT
And I listened to this one yesterday...
Rendezvous With Rama (BBC)
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Post by Stammerhead on Apr 11, 2022 15:06:15 GMT
A BBC Radio adaptation of Marnie. A lot shorter and less melodramatic than the film version.
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