The Glowing Dial - Show # NET06

Here's our first tribute to my personal favorite, Jack Benny. The guy had it all, great cast, great timing, great writers. This was radio and so many wonderful things could happen with just a little sound effect. Aside from being a Jack Benny tribute, it's also our Christmas show for 2003, so we selected 5 of Jack's Christmas episodes. Happy Holidays!

Show # NET06  (Premiered December 15, 2003)
The Jack Benny Program -  “Christmas Shopping In New York”, 12/11/38, NBC
The Jack Benny Program -  “Christmas Open House At Jack’s”, 12/24/39, NBC
The Jack Benny Program -  “Christmas Shopping – Rochester’s Missing”, 12/22/40, NBC
The Jack Benny Program -  “Addressing Christmas Cards”, 12/7/52, CBS
The Jack Benny Program -  “Cactus Christmas Tree”, 12/20/53, CBS

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The Glowing Dial - Show # NET05

This episode is strictly for laughs as we feature 5 of the most memorable comedy shows from radio's golden age.

Show # NET05  (Premiered November 24, 2003)
The Burns and Allen Show – "Gracie Pretends To Be Bill Goodwin’s Wife", 11-1-45, AFRS
The Jack Benny Program - # 503  "Larry Adler", 2-13-44, AFRS
Duffy’s Tavern – "Eddie The Waiter Wants To Quit", 11-9-45, AFRS
Fibber McGee and Molly - # 521  "Football Game Anniversary", 10-7-47, NBC
The Phil Harris - Alice Faye Show – "How To Repair A Living Room" (w/audience warm-up), 10-23-53, NBC

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The Glowing Dial - Show # NET04

This episode features 2 audition shows plus a few other rarities.

Show # NET04  (Premiered November 3, 2003)
Strange Wills - # 27  "The Silver Buckles", date unknown, SYNDICATED
Dick Cole - # 7  "Laura Gets Jealous", 1942, Syndicated
Bunco Squad - [Audition]  "The Case Of The Bookworm", 4/20/1950
The Hunters - [Audition]  "You Take Balistics, 11/29/1948, CBS
Coca-Cola Top Notchers - "Ty Cobb Interviewed", 3/19/1930, NBC

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The Glowing Dial - Show # NET03

This is our War Of The Worlds 65th Anniversary show. You'll see below that we have a good selection of material to listen to from the original Mercury Theatre version to the excellent updated version done by the staff of WKBW radio in Buffalo, NY plus some nice extras thrown in for good measure such as the time Orson Welles met his idol H.G. Wells. We end the show with our own little tongue-in-cheek homage to Orson and company starring myself, Steve "Archive" Urbaniak and my good friend Greg Barker as the doomed announcer. We probably won't win any awards for our performances but we had fun doing it. It was my first shot at multi-track editing with Adobe Audition. At one point, I had 13 separate tracks going at once! Enjoy and keep watching the skies.

Show # NET03  (Premiered October 13, 2003)
Mercury Theatre On The Air - "The War Of The Worlds", 10/30/38, CBS
excerpt from press conference with Orson Welles, 10/31/38
excerpt from NBC interview with Orson Welles as he remembers WOTW 40 years later
excerpt from Theatre Of The Imagination: The Story Of The Mercury Theatre
H.G. Wells meets Orson Welles, 10/29/40, KTSA, San Antonio, TX
WKBW's adaptation of The War Of The Worlds, 10/30/71, WKBW, Buffalo, NY
The Glowing Dial's tongue-in-cheek homage to The War Of The Worlds

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The Glowing Dial - Show # NET02

Here's our first tribute to Quiet Please, a show that was very under-appreciated when it aired back in the late 40s. Created and written by Willys Cooper, the man who brought us Lights Out, the show starred former announcer Ernest Chappell as "the man who spoke to you". The series was very creative, some stories were romantic, some were funny and some were downright scary. These shows really require the listener to pay attention. I hope you enjoy the series as I do.

Show # NET02  (Premiered September 22, 2003)
Quiet Please - "Other Side Of The Stars", 5/8/49, ABC
Quiet Please - "Pavanne", 6/18/49, ABC
Quiet Please - "Prest-O, Change-O, I'm Sure", 8/16/48, MUTUAL
Quiet Please - "The Time Of The Big Snow", 1/2/49, ABC
Quiet Please - "The Man Who Knew Everything", 3/6/49, ABC

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The Glowing Dial - Show # NET01

This is the first episode we did after returning in 2003 after a long hiatus. At this point, we had left Yesterday USA Radio (on good terms) and were making the show available on my website, The Glowing Dial Page as well as being carried soon thereafter by Stay Tuned America and Jerry Haendiges' Olde Tyme Radio Network. This updated version of the show was greatly expanded time-wise and each episode would usually run almost 3 hours! Click on individual series titles to be taken to Jerry Haendiges' log for that particular series. Click the link at the bottom to hear the show.

Show # NET01  (Premiered September 1, 2003)
Love Thy Neighbor Preview, 1940, Paramount Studios
Linit Bath Club Revue - "Judge Allen's Court Of Justice", 1-22-33, CBS
The Hall Of Fantasy - # 12  "The Night The Fog Came", 3-16-53, MUTUAL
Globe Theatre - # 140  "A Night To Remember", 1944, AFRS
Guest Star - # 10  "Fibber McGee and Molly", 1947, U.S. Treasury Dept.
Mystery In The Air - "The Lodger", 8-14-47, NBC

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The Glowing Dial - Fill-In Show # F01

Okay folks, here is the first attempt at posting an episode. So sorry it took so damned long but life and health interfered many times since the initial posting on this blog.

This is the first fill-in episode we did for Yesterday USA Radio back in the fall of 1996. We feature "Strange - Ghost Train", an episode of "Can You Top This?" and "The Hermit's Cave - Hansen's Ghost". The link below will take you to our podOmatic page.

The Glowing Dial - Fill-In Show # F01