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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

A batch o' halfway tongue-in-cheek questions

+ What was the problem with Leila Ransome on the Great Gildersleeve that allowed her to commit to marriage and yet leave two men literally in the ailse?  What is the psychological term for that?  After she did that twice, wouldn't you think Gildersleeve would have more brains than to fall in love (?) with a psycho like that?

+ If you were Connie Brooks (Our Miss Brooks) would you put up with a boss like Mr. Conklin?  I'd quit and I'd probably tell him off pretty good before I left.  And with a boyfriend(!) like Mr. Boyton, I'd just pick up and move 1000 miles away and start over.

+  What a drag it must have been for the Dragnet detectives to wake up every seven days and find themselves in a new department of the police division.  One week they are on the lookout for a missing baby - to heck with that, what about the 70 year-old lady who is bad check-passer?  Every week it changed: from homicide to juvenile etc.  Usually when you are doing a good job, your boss wants to keep you - in the case of Dragnet, Joe Friday is being shifted around like a bad employee.

+ Where in the world did Sgt. Preston (Challenge of the Yukon) live?  If you said "Canada," you deserve a punch in the nose.  I meant: what city?  Vancouver?  Moose Tongue?  Reindeer Liver?  Slippery Sidwalk?  Deranged Hockey Fan, Alberta?  Seriously, I don't remember a hometown for the man and his dog ever mentioned.   Love that show by the way.  How do you categorize it?  Western?  Adventure?  Juvenile? 

+ When did Randy Stone (Nightbeat) ever sleep?  He worked at night and in the daytime he was off chasing people around.  And one week he has a car and then next week he's taking a taxi.

+ How is it that Broadway (Damon Runyon Theater) knew every crook and seedy character in New York City, yet was never a criminal himself?

+ If the Milton Berle Show got into a fight with the Bob Hope Show, which one would win?

+ What kind of crazy people were Phil Harris and Alice Faye that their lives suddenly stop and they begin singing a song for no reason?

+ Who was cooler - Richard Diamond or Harry Lime?

+ Baby Snooks was such a bad child.  If there was a list written out of all the terrible things she's done, we'd be appallled.  Instead of being spanked, the lil tot ought to be put behind bars.

+ Name one male teenager in 1930-40's old-time radio that wasn't goofy?   Junior Riley wasn't totally goofy - but he's the only one I can think of - and I'm not sure he is even a teenager on the Life of Riley radio show.  David and Ricky Nelson were not goofy but it wasn't until 1950 that they even got onto the Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.

+ What was the purpose of the Saint whistling in the hallway or alley or where ever he was before every episode?  Wouldn't that alert the criminals?  (Okay, this one is spotty but I am trying to cover all the bases.)

+ You can name comedy radio shows where football, basektball and hockey aren't mentioned - but I'm pretty sure the subject of baseball was covered in all of them.  The one exception might be in Duffy's Tavern as I don't recall off the top of my head, any sports being mentioned.  And which character was the biggest baseball fan?  It has to be Molly McGee.  In one episode, she knew everything about baseball - she was amazing.

©Jimbo 2010/2011

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