Favoriting Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from March 7, 2022 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!

Monday 9 - 11pm (EDT) | On WFMU's Sheena's Jungle Room
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Favoriting March 7, 2022: Episode #7: A Pledge Drive Special! (Part 1)

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Box 13  "Short Assignment"   Favoriting 3 October 1948  Mayfair Productions 
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Celery Stalks At Midnight   Favoriting

 

 

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The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen  "The Ninth Niece in the Street of Weeping Women"   Favoriting (Read by Austin Rich)   
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Chandu The Magician  "Dorothy Is Rescued"   Favoriting 6 July 1948  Mutual–Don Lee Networ 
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Will Bradley 

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Dimension X  "The Lost Race"   Favoriting 20 May 1950  NBC Radio 
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Listener comments!

Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:56pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello!
Avatar 6:00pm
Otis:

Hi Austin & Constance, ready for Marathon adventures! Going to be fun!!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:01pm
Austin Rich:

It will! Our first VO will be in about 30 minutes! In the meantime, consider making a donation now, by clicking the banner on any WFMU page, and making a little donation!
Avatar 6:01pm
Constance De Witt:

Oh my! I love radio theater, I can listen to my favorite stars!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:02pm
Austin Rich:

Alan Ladd, staring as: Dan Holiday!
  6:02pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Click-clock, click-clock, real sinister-like. That's a fun line
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:03pm
Scott67:

G'day Austin & Audio Audience!
I'm excited for the Marathon Matinee!
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Avatar 6:03pm
Mr Fab:

Welcome back, Constance! The world has been a little less romantic since you left the airwaves.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:03pm
Austin Rich:

Ellen! Great to see you! And Scott67! Excellent!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:03pm
Austin Rich:

@MR. Fab: Always a pleasure to see you!
Avatar 6:04pm
Constance De Witt:

I'm a good girl, but I believe in freeform radio! Pledge, pledge, pledge!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:04pm
Scott67:

G'day kisses Constance!!
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Avatar 6:04pm
Constance De Witt:

Hello Mr. Fab! Well, you never know when romance will pop up... not tonight, though! Good evening my dear Scott!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:06pm
Austin Rich:

George Flitt! I wonder if this is a jab at "Jeff Regan, Investigator." The gimmick for that show is that Jeff works for "Anthony J. Lyon... The Lyon's Eye!" There's a lot of jokes on that show about Lions.

Flitt: Heart of a lion?
  6:06pm
Ellen Lovebug:

I really like Ladd's voice
Avatar 6:07pm
Otis:

$50... just $25 more and he could've had the Sheena premium CD, The Album.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:07pm
Austin Rich:

Alan Ladd does have the originally, laid back, deep mail voice. It sometimes sounds like he's phoning it in... but he's just playing, "cool as a cucumber..."
Avatar 6:07pm
Constance De Witt:

I think they might have used that car sound in many programs!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:07pm
Austin Rich:

"deep male voice..."
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
Austin Rich:

Flitt is glued to the WFMU Marathon, especially the shows on Sheena's Jungle Room.
Avatar 6:08pm
Mr Fab:

Yes, Otis! You all can get the Sheena's CD/download by clicking on PLEDGE NOW up top of the page, and it will walk you thru. New! Rare! songs n sounds by Sheena's own DJs. Album of the Year!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:10pm
Scott67:

I thought she said, " I'm Rigour Mortis."
  6:10pm
Ellen Lovebug:

I love the clarinet in the background
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:11pm
Scott67:

Keep from chilling himself.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:11pm
Austin Rich:

There is some great ambient background music on this show.
  6:12pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Think, Halliday, it may be an important clue! Love that almost-there intuition in terms of suspense. Ooh, a breath of air in the garden. Truthtelling, or a setup? haha
  6:13pm
Ellen Lovebug:

I actually have heard really good things about the new Cyrano movie from my cousins.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:13pm
Scott67:

She mooned him? She hardly knows him!
  6:14pm
Ellen Lovebug:

This seems like a distraction while someone might bother the nephew inside
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:14pm
Austin Rich:

As was the style at the time, the diegetic and non-diegetic music in this show often overlaps, where the show's "theme music" and transition music is reproduced by a band, or on the radio, or in a club, or some other setting of the show. A lot of film noirs would do this, where the music would switch from "in the movie" to " commenting on the movie."
Avatar 6:14pm
Mr Fab:

as phony as a China egg? Ha, what's that mean?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:15pm
Austin Rich:

Good question, Mr. Fab. I didn't notice that turn of phase, last time.
  6:15pm
Ellen Lovebug:

The drink likely had poison in it, I'd guess
Avatar 6:15pm
Constance De Witt:

Ouh!! A penthouse!
  6:16pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Remember the days of having to look for a phone?
  6:17pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Ominous
  6:18pm
Ellen Lovebug:

This all seems very obvious. Oh gosh, outrunning a train is iffy work
Avatar 6:20pm
Mr Fab:

Haha, yes, your pledges go to telescopes for mad scientists.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:20pm
Austin Rich:

And sealing wax for the Scarlet Queen!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:21pm
Scott67:

Maybe a reference to the fake eggs they put under broody hens.
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  6:23pm
Listener Robert:

Aspiring detectives have to tip well. Ever see "Dan Money" on SCTV? Cute take-off on Johnny Dollar, though not really much to do with it.
  6:24pm
Ellen Lovebug:

That was too obvious
  6:25pm
Listener Robert:

First I'll tell you all my plans.
  6:26pm
Ellen Lovebug:

So much exposition, so little time. Yay for the timely knock at the door
  6:27pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Triumph music!
  6:27pm
Ellen Lovebug:

I have to go back to work, but I'll try to tune in tomorrow. Love you
  6:29pm
Listener Robert:

That's why I was LOL at that passage in "Watchmen", wherein Veidt tells the heroes of his plot, and then...I wouldn't want to spoil if for you if you haven't read it.

Also see the Cheapass Game "Before I Kill You, Mr. Bond...."
Avatar 6:30pm
Mr Fab:

do we know who did the voice of the "little man"?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:31pm
Scott67:

CONSTANCE!!πŸ’‹πŸ’‹πŸ’‹πŸ’‹
Avatar 6:32pm
Otis:

Constance De Witt for WFMU!
Avatar 6:32pm
Mr Fab:

Constance De Witt, back from the late, great Sheena's show "The Torch Is Burning"!
Avatar 6:33pm
Mr Fab:

"Sex and Broadcasting: A Film About WFMU."
  6:33pm
Listener Robert:

My guess would be that Little Man Flit was an additional part playe by one of the other cast.
Avatar 6:36pm
Leland Meadows:

I am listening and I love Austin and Constance providing quality radio to the masses. I am making food for the DJs now in the kitchen, a vegetable meatloaf with homemade applesauce.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:41pm
Scott67:

I'm not married, but I usually listen with a can in my hand.
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Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
Scott67:

The phone line makes it sound like CGI Constance. β˜ŽοΈπŸ’»
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:44pm
Scott67:

Onya Derek! Beached as bro!
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Avatar 6:50pm
Otis:

That break was the Jam!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:52pm
Austin Rich:

Back to the chat! Thanks so much, Constance! That was lovely!
Avatar 6:52pm
Constance De Witt:

Thank you, Mr. Austin! And to everyone!
Avatar 6:53pm
Mr Fab:

for someone who has probably never touched a computer, you did great Constance!
Avatar 6:58pm
Constance De Witt:

Mr Fab, my hands are for fluffing pillows, tending to my roses, and organize finger food, not for technology!
Avatar 7:00pm
Mr Fab:

That was like watching a movie on fast-forward. Hey, bet we could get a lot of stories in if we always did it like this.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
Austin Rich:

If I could have tracked down the script, I might have done the whole story with voices. (Maybe I still will someday?) But for now... the summary was all I could find, quickly.
Avatar 7:02pm
Mr Fab:

Joke/parody commercial are the ONLY ads you'll ever hear on this show. WFMU accepts NO sponsors but you, good listeners.
  7:02pm
Listener Robert:

I still think you should write a script that fits that summary, preferably "creatively", then produce it for next year.
Avatar 7:04pm
Constance De Witt:

What about Roma Wines?!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
Austin Rich:

That's a good idea, Listener Robert. If I have time, I might try to write something to fit that story. But I'm a busy gent, as is.

I should have gotten some Roma Wines commercials ready!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
Austin Rich:

ACME Brand Sponsorship is, for some reason, the primary sponsorship for Dimestore Radio Theater.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:06pm
Austin Rich:

"There's always a market for dancing girls."

This was a kids show?
Avatar 7:06pm
Mr Fab:

were there any romance shows in the days of old time radio? Constance could host those. Sponsored by Roma wine (a subsidiary of ACME), of course.
Avatar 7:07pm
Mr Fab:

Cool, we're getting lots more Korla on the organ this episode.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
Austin Rich:

There were tons of soaps and romance shows. I haven't listened to many, but I'm sure they are pretty good.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
Austin Rich:

I love the episodes when Korla just gets to jam.
Avatar 7:09pm
Mr Fab:

actually, I do recall "The Torch Is Burning" did play some romance OTR soaps sometimes.
Avatar 7:11pm
Constance De Witt:

Oh yes, we sure did!
Avatar 7:26pm
Otis:

Wonderful fun pledge day in the Jungle Room!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
Scott67:

Smooches!!πŸ’‹πŸ’‹
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:28pm
Austin Rich:

There's more reasons to donate coming during this story! Listen to the end to hear how it all turns out!
Avatar 7:29pm
Constance De Witt:

Now, that's exciting programming!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:30pm
Austin Rich:

I forgot to mention, but the person who wrote the summary of The Scarlet Queen is Stewart Wright, who wrote that summary in 2016 for The Metropolitan Washington Old Time Radio Club.

More information here:

radiorecall.com...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:31pm
Austin Rich:

The references to the crumbled civilizations that were found on Mars seem like a nod to "The Martian Chronicles" to my mind.
Avatar 7:34pm
Mr Fab:

Yeah, I was definitely thinking Bradbury. But who did write this story?
  7:34pm
Listener Robert:

It's a common motif. You sure this wasn't BEFORE Bradbury's?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
Austin Rich:

Written by Murray Leinster. Let me do some more research...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:38pm
Austin Rich:

Martian Chronicles was a bunch of stories written over a long period of time, and collected in 1950, around the time that Dimension X first started.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:42pm
Austin Rich:

Looks like "Lost Race" was published in April, 1949. While it's possible that Leinster hadn't read any of Bradbury's fiction previously... but that seems unlikely.
  7:42pm
Listener Robert:

There might be an entry at TVTropes for "lost civilization".
  7:45pm
Listener Robert:

Jules Verne did it, Edward Bulwer-Lytton did it. Come to think of it, who DIDN'T do a "lost civilization" story?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:45pm
Austin Rich:

Lost Civilization on Mars?
  7:46pm
Listener Robert:

Anyplace. The setting is a trivial detail.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
Austin Rich:

In particular, this story has a lot in common with "Mars Is Heaven." (Finding hallucinations of families on another planet, among the ruins of a crumbled civilization.) Both stories share the "imagining family members" at times when something dangerous happens.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Is_Heaven!
  7:48pm
Listener Robert:

Did you ever see "The Thrill of It All"? The kids recognize all the TV plots, just the settings and costumes changed.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
Austin Rich:

"Mars is Heaven" was published before "The Lost Race." Eventually the actors on Dimension X do "Mars Is Heaven," too!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
Austin Rich:

We just had a listener make a $50 donation to Dimenstore Radio Theater! "This show is the jam!" Thanks so much! How cool is that!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
Austin Rich:

We've only got a few more minutes fo this story, and we'll have one more show next week, to push hard for the Marathon! Please, make a donation! Get the Sheena's Special CD! Become a S4L Member! You can make it all possible!
Avatar 7:53pm
Constance De Witt:

That is wonderful! Thank you, listener!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
Austin Rich:

A reference to "Volta," the planet the crew of the Starcloud were on their way to in a previous episode.
  7:57pm
Listener Robert:

Interesting -- connected stories!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
Austin Rich:

This is the... third? fourth? ... show to criticism atomic power. Hmmmm. Probably going to be a theme on Dimension X.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
Austin Rich:

... to offer a criticism of...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
Scott67:

I wanna draw Space pictures now!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
Austin Rich:

DO IT SCOTT67!
  8:00pm
Listener Robert:

I bet there was some allusion to this on "Lost" that I missed.
Avatar 8:00pm
Mr Fab:

thx Austin and Constance! And all who pledge.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
Austin Rich:

Thanks again! See ya'll next week!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
Scott67:

Thanks Austin & Constance!βœŒπŸ˜ŽπŸ’¨πŸŒ·πŸŒ·
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