Interesting that the only obituary I have found so far, Washington Post Obit does not list his time as announcer on The Shadow, which is easily the show we hear him most often working on.  

"Mr. Roberts who was born Saul Trochman on Feb. 22, 1910, in Manhattan died on June 19 at New York Presbyterian Hospital. He was 99. Ken Roberts was father of Broadway and film actor Tony Roberts."

 Greg

 

KEN ROBERTS 

 

 

 

 

If you didn't get the email alert or haven't yet visited the weekly schedule page, here are the links to week of June 28th to July 4th, 2009.

  Sirius 118 XM 164 PDF Version and the Excel Version 

I will post some more pictures soon, but here are some advance highlights; 

Super 4th - Man of Steel Marathon - a two hour long Superman special running to celebrate Independence Day 

A Patriotic Block with James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy and Bette Davis in An American is Born. 

Lovely Lady Suspense Hour - Two actress celebrating birthdays will be heard in separate Suspense episodes.

Lena Horne is 92 on June 30th and Olivia de Havilland is 93 on July 1st. 

 

 

Greg

While the October Friends of Old Time Radio http://www.lofcom.com/nostalgia/fotr held in Newark, NJ is still tentative as far as my possible attendance, I will be attending the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention being held August 27th - 29th in Aberdeen, Maryland (about 30 miles north of Balitimore). You can learn more about it at this website http://www.midatlanticnostalgiaconvention.com/

I plan on being there Friday afternoon to watch the Old Time Radio show re-creation and then will be meeting folks and conducting interviews on that Saturday (8/29) morning into the afternoon. 

 There are some fun folks there as it also celebrates television and films in addition to radio. Among the confirmed guests are James Best (Dukes of Hazzard), Lee Meriwether (Catwoman on Batman) Oscar winner Celeste Holm and radio and TV actor Bob Hastings (McHales Navy, All In The Family, Archie Andrews, X Minus One) 

 

 

Greg

 

The email alert is up and running and thousands of you are joining. Some folks are having trouble when they click the link, we are working on that, but it still works for them as an alert because you can still go directly to the schedule page on the blog. 

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In addition to the usual themed comedies that debut on Father's Day (from Jack Benny, Father Knows Best, The Life of Riley) I am bringing back last year's My Father's Father's Day Picks. This year Dan Bell stays with his preferred Western genre with Gunsmoke, The Six Shooter and Frontier Gentleman with a Dragnet tossed in. Also we mark Phil Harris (June 24th, 1904) and voice wiz Paul Frees (June 22nd, 1920) birthdays. 

Photos: Dan Bell; Phil Harris; Paul Frees. 

 

Here are some more requested photos;

Betty Lou Gerson; Harry Bartell, Larry Dobkin



J. Scott Smart; Vic Perrin; Jack Kruschen



Cathy Lewis; Grace Matthews (with Bret Morrison)

Still getting the email alert up and running but here are the links;

Sirius 118 XM 164 PDF Version and the Excel Version

 

 

 

 

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Above are the schedule links to the week or June 7th to the 13th, 2009 on Radio Classics. 

I am still gathering folks for the Schedule By Mail and hope to have it up and running soon. 

Highlights for the upcoming week included celebrating Garland on the 87th anniversary of her birth with an hour long Lux Radio Theatre version of "Morning Glory". I had planned to use The Wizard Of Oz but the 70th anniverary of the classic film's release is coming up later this summer, so I want to save it for that. 

Also I am bringing back a two hour special honoring one of the best voices on the channel, Gerald Mohr with episodes of Suspense, Philip Marlowe, and the Screen Director's Playhouse. 

And yes, another Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar marathon and this one is new to the channel (The Alder Matter from August 1956). 

Photos Below: Judy Garland, Gerald Mohr

 
Promised Photos Below: Peggy Webber (in the 1958 film "The Screaming Skull") directing her group C.A.R.T Acting Group;

Dragnet Photos Below: Barton Yarborough (Ben Romero) & Jack Webb (Joe Friday); Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) Alexander as a silent film child star.

Photos Below: Vic & Sade Cast; Lum & Abner (Chester Lauck & Norris Goff)

Photos Below: Everett Sloane; Hans Conreid, J. Carroll Naish.

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As I mentoned in the previous post this is a new format, which includes fewer repeats during the week, while maintaining the rotating schedule. 

Also if you would like to get the schedule each week by email when it is ready you can sign up Schedule By Mail 

 Greg.

 

 

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Hey Gang,

As I write this on Monday, Memorial Day there are lots of good things coming up for Radio Classics.

First, to make the acquistion of the weekly printable schedule even easier, I have created a way for you to get it sent to you by email as soon as it is ready. Here is the link - Schedule By Mail  

Secondly, thanks to the influx of "new" episodes and series from our content provider, the schedule rotation will be altered beginning the first week of June (actually May 31st since we begin on Sundays). The shows will still rotate with some repeats, but there will be fewer repeats during the week, which should be welcome for all.

Longtime XM listeners need to be aware that a specific episode will not repeat as much, so you'll need to play close attention to the schedule, so you make sure you are able to hear your "can't miss" shows. I will attempt to continue to "rest" an episode for at least one year after it finishes it's weeklong run. 

Finally, some highlights for this week's schedule; we have birthday tributes to both Bob Hope and John Wayne as well as the ongoing Memorial Day Week special featuring Lux Radio Theatre's version of Wake Island, Hope on The Cavalcade of America and a special program produced by the military and known as The Fighting A.A.F. 

  Photos: Bob Hope & Paulette Goddard (The Ghost Breakers); John Wayne with Montgomery Clift (Red River). 

 

Photos: 1942 Film Wake Island (Left to Right) MacDonald Carey, Brian Donlevy and Robert Preston (L to R). In Second Picture (Left To Right) Carey, Preston & Donlevy.


Greg

The actress who played Lois Lane on the Superman radio series as well as voicing Ellen Deering on Philo Vance, Detective and Della Street on Perry Mason (among other series) has passed away. According to news reports Joan Alexander died on May 21st, 2009. She was 94.

  Photo: Below - Joan Alexander with Jackson Beck (Left) & Bud Collyer (Middle)

 
Photo: Below Joan Alexander with John Larkin (Perry Mason)

Hey gang, lots of you have been asking me for photos of actor John Brown, who played both Gillis and Digger O'Dell on The Life of Riley; boyfriend Al on My Friend Irma, Broadway on The Damon Runyan Theatre and so much more. So here you go. You can see even more here

  Photos: John Brown

 

Brown with Gracie Allen

Brown with Marie Wilson (Irma)

  Greg