Showing posts with label Dear Adolph. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dear Adolph. Show all posts
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Dear Adolph - the scripts
You guys have hopefully heard the very fine radio program from the war years, Dear Adolph? Only 6 programs were made and all are available.
Digging around, I just found a book where all the scripts are stored: We Stand United and Other Radio Scripts.
I also put this book in the book section of the blog.
Here's the Billboard review of the program in question:
Digging around, I just found a book where all the scripts are stored: We Stand United and Other Radio Scripts.
I also put this book in the book section of the blog.
Here's the Billboard review of the program in question:
Friday, March 25, 2011
Barely surviving: Great shows with not enough episodes
There are thousands of series of shows out there that none of us have heard. You'd be surprised to know just how many there are. Most we will never hear because they are lost forever. And some just have a few surviving episodes, enough to whet our appetite and make us want more.
Here's my short list of those I have heard but wish there were more:
Dr. I.Q. - The Mental Banker: There are just 3 known surviving episodes but all are fun to the max. The silver dollars, the candy bars and "I have a lady in the balcony."
Dear Adolph - All surviving episodes exists - but there were only 6 made. A stirring program about actual letters written to Hitler by people in various walks of life.
Here's an sample of the last episode, "Letter From a Foreign-born American":
Johnny Madero, Pier 23 - Essentially an intentional rip-off of Pat Novak For Hire (they could be twin brothers) by the same writers, using Jack Webb as Johnny Madero! There are only 2 surviving episodes but aside from the name and the opening/closing, this is Pat Novak For Hire, period.
Incredible But True: There are actually quite a few of these available but they are so short (about three and a half minutes long) and zip by so fast, you miss it as soon as it's gone. A really cool show that if they had made a thousand episodes and all were available, it still wouldn't be enough.
©Jimbo 2010/2011
Here's my short list of those I have heard but wish there were more:
Dr. I.Q. - The Mental Banker: There are just 3 known surviving episodes but all are fun to the max. The silver dollars, the candy bars and "I have a lady in the balcony."
Dear Adolph - All surviving episodes exists - but there were only 6 made. A stirring program about actual letters written to Hitler by people in various walks of life.
Here's an sample of the last episode, "Letter From a Foreign-born American":
Johnny Madero, Pier 23 - Essentially an intentional rip-off of Pat Novak For Hire (they could be twin brothers) by the same writers, using Jack Webb as Johnny Madero! There are only 2 surviving episodes but aside from the name and the opening/closing, this is Pat Novak For Hire, period.
Incredible But True: There are actually quite a few of these available but they are so short (about three and a half minutes long) and zip by so fast, you miss it as soon as it's gone. A really cool show that if they had made a thousand episodes and all were available, it still wouldn't be enough.
©Jimbo 2010/2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Billboard vs Jimbo: Dear Adolph
Wow Billboard did a pretty good job at analyzing this show although what must be said in no uncertain terms is that professional actors read and act out actual letters (spruced up a bit) by Benet.
The letters and the show come off quite well. You can hear the pain in the heart of the mother who wants her son back and that kind of thing.
It makes for pretty good radio in my opinion. It's too bad there were only six shows made.
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