1941: Kellogg's Ant Powder

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from 1986 Nostalgia Digest

Trivia time

Most OTR trivia fans know (and often say) that Have Gun Will Travel (1957) was the first - and only TV show that later became a radio show.  I've heard and read this a bunch of times - it must be true!

Well, it's not true at all.  The first TV show to later become a radio series was The Somerset Maugham Theater in 1951.

Mae West - really banned!

Mae West, who was just reading a scripting and acting, was of course banned from radio after the Adam and Eve sketch in the 1930's.

But did you know the FCC banned her name from being broadcast on radio for a long time after (about twenty years I think):

Radio Stars magazine 38-09 page 29

Many OTR Casts added

So far today, I've added the following OTR Casts:

Vox Pop (1936-194_)
Vox Pop (1943) 
Telephone Hour, The (1943)
Take It or Leave It (1943)
Thanks to the Yanks (1943)
That Brewster Boy (1944)
Thin Man, The (1943)
This is Fort Dix (1943)
3 Ring Time (1943)
Gay Nineties, The (1943)
Lum and Abner (1943)
Pepper Young's Family (1944)
Red Skelton and Company (1943)
Red Skelton Show, The  
Hour of Charm (1943) 

Norman Corwin set a wirlwind pace

Lum and Abner Write President Roosevelt

Some Lurene Tuttle

For Green Hornet OTR fans only!

Today's your lucky day, Green Hornet fans:

audio: A panel of people at an OTR convention discuss the Green Hornet

audio:  Al Hodge (The Green Hornet) discusses the show
 (1968)

New to you - crime shows you may want to try out

It's been a while since I have sat down with "new" programs to listen to.  No, they aren't new, just new to me.  There are so many programs available out there that there are so many little hidden gems that it makes it fun to try and sample a bit of everything.

I found the following programs in the OTRR library and I did this by first looking at an early 1950's radio/tv magazine and then notice a bunch of programs that I had either forgotten about or never heard of before.

• Top Secret  - I haven't heard much of this but it sounds like it is set during WWII.  A female spy does dirty work for... I don't know who.  The sound isn't great on any of this I've heard.  But, it's intriguing.
• Pursuit - An American show about Scotland Yard.   Again, I haven't heard much of these but I look forward to listening to more.
• The Silent Men - Soldiers from every facet of the service are involved in all kinds of secret stuff during WWII.  This isn't bad but it isn't great either (I've listened to about ten of them.) 
• Did Justice Triumph? - A This is Your FBI-type show except about the police.  Not quite as thick and realistic as Dragnet more like the aforementioned FBI show.  Not bad.
• Treasury Agent - I haven't heard this yet.
• Under Arrest - I haven't heard this yet.
• T-Man - There are only a couple of episodes available and I listened to them a long while back.  I thought they were good - but there are only a couple known episodes.