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Jack Webb: Pat Novak and Jeff Regan Quips & Quotes

"It was a pretty room, if you like dead women on your rugs. She was stretched out in a pale, yellow dressing gown, as quiet as an April morning and twice as pretty." - Pat Novak, Private Investigator 490423 Rita Malloy "The veins stood out in his face and made a pattern as if he slept on an alligator bag instead of a pillow." "He was crumpled up against the desk and she was staring down at him as if she forgot to water the plants." - 490604 Agnes Botton "The sky was the color of a bruised spot on a man's arm." "He was crumpled up against the desk and she was staring down at him as if she forgot to water the plants." - 490604 Agnes Botton Jeff Regan: "All kinds of people have followed me at one time or another - and I have followed all kinds of people. This had a professional feel to it. "I stood there, listening... remembering my automatic in the suitcase back at my hotel. "It only took him seco

Bishop's Wife starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Nivens - Old Time Radio Show

  Lux Radio Theater   "The Bishop's Wife"  from May 11, 1953 This is my favorite Cary Grant film. Its difficult to beat a combination of  Cary Grant , David Niven and Loretta Young all in the same movie! In the film,  Cary Grant  plays an angel who comes down to earth to help Bishop David Niven.  Loretta Young   plays "The Bishop's Wife". Enjoy this special Christmas radio broadcast of  Lux Radio Theater script of "The Bishop's Wife" from 1953:

McGee Goes Incognito

The Milwaukee Journal – Aug 10, 1941    Fibber McGee and Molly are just plain Jim and Marion Jordan this summer as they enjoy their air vacation. The top comedians are show above in McGee version of gardening at their San Fernando valley (Calif.) home McGee Goes Incognito HOLLYWOOD, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. JimJordan , at their home in Hollywood suburb, packed up their trailer for the annual vacation trip. But they seemed sunk in gloom. So the kids rallied them. “Gee, Pop,” said their son, “you and Mom don’t act like yourselves.” “That’s right,” said Sis. “Every year when you pack up to go traipsing around you’re so gay. But now.” It was true, too—true those annual vacation jaunts through the western mountains had always perked up the Jordans. They’d get to thinking about the streams they’d fish, the places they’d camp, sometimes by themselves, sometimes in auto camps with jolly people all around. “Just good friendly folks,” Jim Jordan always used to say to

AMOS 'N' ANDY Christmas Radio Episode, 1941

AMOS 'N' ANDY Christmas Radio Episode, 1941 (15 minute version of story.) In this special Christmas broadcast of Amos and Andy , Amos tells Arbadella the true meaning of Christmas. This version aired shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor and doesn't include the "special doll for Arbadella" subplot,which I have always thought was nothing more than filler. In my mind, this is the best version of their Christmas radio show !

Favorite Radio Mystery Theater Christmas episodes

'Tis the season to enjoy some favorite Radio Mystery Theater   Christmas Radio Shows episodes: 1975-12-24 0402 Christmas Carol (A) E.G. Marshall spotlights as Scrooge in this dramatic retelling of Charles Dickens' classic... 1977-07-25 0688 Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (The) The gift of a Christmas goose with a valuable jewel inside and an old hat send Sherlock Holmes...  1980-06-09 1092 That Magic Touch Christmas works a miracle for a beautiful divorcee and her cold and standoffish husband... 1980-12-25 1140 Holiday Visit (A) En route to visit her parents for Christmas, a couple is waylaid by a highway accident...

Bob Hawk Quiz Whiz

The Milwaukee Journal – Apr 27, 1941         Bob Hawk Quiz Whiz SOME persons may shine at answering questions on a radio contest of wits—when they are seated by their own firesides. They can make allowances for themselves, conceding this and that, and there is nobody to contradict them. But let these same people step on a stage before a microphone, with one eye on the adlibbing Bob Hawk and the other on a large and enthusiastic audience. Then their knees are wabbly and their brains befogged, as the master of ceremonies of the radio game show “ Take It Or Leave It ” volleys questions at them. However, as Bob says, this broadcast is offered in the spirit of good fun and not as any real test of an individual’s intelligence. A simple question begins each series. Occasionally it baffles a nervous contestant, who is more or less in a daze through the thought of his voice being heard by millions, including his friends and his employer, and also because of the prese

Aimee McPherson Scandal

Aimee Semple McPherson Scandal Uses  court documents, affidavits, articles and other well referenced materials in considerable detail to explore the missing weeks and subsequent events of Aimee Semple McPherson in 1926. Kenneth Ormiston actually left the Temple several months before the Mrs. McPherson disappearance.  Most accounts erroneously imply he left at the same time Mrs. McPherson disappeared.  Moreover, Ormiston presented himself to the police headquarters  May 27 to deny he had "went into hiding" he also indicated his name connected to the evangelist was a gross insult to a noble and sincere woman.  He gave a detailed description of his movements since May 19.  He took other assignments, about two weeks before Aimee McPherson 's January 11, 1925 trip to Europe [Cox Page 37-38] Shortly thereafter, on June 23, Mrs. McPherson stumbled out of the desert in Agua Prieta, Sonora, a Mexican town across the border from Douglas, Arizona. The Mexican couple she ap