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What happens when a childhood dream refuses to let go? In this episode, I sit down with cartoonist and Lum and Abner historian Donnie Pitchford to explore how old-time radio, comic strips, and a love for storytelling shaped his life. Donnie shares how he grew up inspired by classic radio shows like Lum and Abner, pursued art despite setbacks, and eventually brought the beloved Pine Ridge characters back to life through a modern comic strip and audio adaptations. We talk about creativity, persistence, radio history, and why imagination still matters in a visual world. If you care about classic radio, cartooning, or staying true to your calling, I believe you will find this conversation both inspiring and practical. Highlights: 00:10 Discover how a childhood love of Lum and Abner sparked a lifelong dream of becoming a cartoonist. 08:00 Hear how college radio and classic broadcasts deepened a passion for old time radio storytelling. 14:33 Understand how years of teaching broadcast journalism built the skills that later fueled creative success. 23:17 Learn how the Lum and Abner comic strip was revived with family approval and brought to modern audiences. 30:07 Explore how two actors created an entire town through voice and imagination alone. 1:00:16 Hear the vision for keeping Lum and Abner alive for new generations through comics and audio. Top of Form Bottom of Form About the Guest: Donnie Pitchford of Texas is a graduate of Kilgore College, Art Instruction Schools, Stephen F. Austin State University and the University of Texas at Tyler. He has worked in the graphic arts industry and in education, teaching at Hawkins High School, Panola College, and Carthage High School at which he spent 25 years directing CHS-TV, where student teams earned state honors, including state championships, for 20 consecutive years. In 2010, Donnie returned to the endeavor he began at age five: being a cartoonist! The weekly “Lum and Abner" comic strip began in 2011. It is available online and in print and includes an audio production for the blind which features the talents of actors and musicians who donate their time. Donnie has created comic book stories and art for Argo Press of Austin, illustrated children's books, written scripts for the "Dick Tracy" newspaper strip, and produced the science fiction comedy strip "Tib the Rocket Frog." He has collaborated with award-winning writers and cartoonists George Wildman, Nicola Cuti, John Rose, Mike Curtis, Joe Staton, and others. In 2017, Donnie began assisting renowned sculptor Bob Harness and currently sculpts the portraits for the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame plaques. Awards include the 1978 Kilgore College "Who's Who" in Art, an Outstanding Educator Award from the East Texas Chapter of the Texas Society of CPAs in 1993, the CHS "Pine Burr" Dedicatee honor in 2010, and a Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2018 from Spring Hill High School. In 2024, Donnie was inducted into the City of Carthage Main Street Arts Walk of Fame which included the placement of a bronze plaque in the sidewalk and the Key to the City. Donnie and his best friend/wife, Laura, are members of First Methodist Church Carthage, Texas. Donnie is a founding officer of the National Lum and Abner Society and a member of Texas Cartoonists, Ark-La-Tex Cartoonists, Christian Comic Arts Society, and the National Cartoonists Society. 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Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us. Michael Hingson  01:21 Well, hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of unstoppable mindset. I've been looking forward to this one for a while. We have Donny Pitchford as our guest today. You're probably going, who's Donnie Pitchford? Well, let me tell you. So years ago, I started collecting old radio shows. And one of the first shows that I got was a half hour episode of a show called Lum and Abner, which is about a couple of characters, if you will, in Pine Ridge, Arkansas. And I had only heard the half hour show sponsored by frigid air. But then in 1971 when ksi, out here in Los Angeles, the 50,000 watt Clear Channel station, started celebrating its 50 year history, they started broadcasting as part of what they did, 15 minute episodes of lemon Abner. And I became very riveted to listening to lemon Abner every night, and that went on for quite a while. And so I've kept up with the boys, as it were. Well, a several years ago, some people formed a new Lum and Abner society, and Donnie Pitchford is part of that. I met Donnie through radio enthusiast of Puget Sound, and yesterday, USA. And so we clearly being interested in old radio and all that, had to have Donnie come on and and talk with us. So Donnie, or whatever character you're representing today, welcome to unstoppable mindset. Donnie Pitchford  02:58 Huh? I'm glad to be here. Michael Hingson  03:00 He does that very well, doesn't he? It's a Donnie Pitchford  03:04 little tough sometimes. Well, I'm really glad to be here. Thank you. Michael Hingson  03:10 Well, I appreciate the audio parts of lemon Abner that you you all create every week, and just the whole society. It's great to keep that whole thing going it's kind of fun. We're glad that that it is. But let's, let's talk about you a little bit. Why don't you start by telling us about the early Donnie, growing up and all that. I'm assuming you were born, and so we won't worry about that. But beyond that, think so, yeah. Well, there you are. Tell us about tell us about you and growing up and all that, and we'll go from there. Donnie Pitchford  03:42 Well, I was born in East Texas and left for a little while. We lived in my family lived in Memphis, Tennessee for about seven years, and then moved back to Texas in 1970 but ever since I was a kid this I hear this from cartoonists everywhere. Most of them say I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was five years old. So that's in fact, I had to do a speech for the Texas cartoonist chapter of the National Cartoonist Society. And that was my start. I was going to say the same thing, and the President said, Whatever you do, don't do that old bit about wanting to be a cartoonist at age five. Everybody does that, so I left that part out, but that's really what I wanted to do as a kid. And I would see animated cartoons. I would read the Sunday comics in the Memphis Commercial Appeal, and then at some point, my dad would talk about radio, and my mother would talk about listening to radio. We would have the reruns of the Lone Ranger television show and things like Sky King and other programs along those lines, and my parents would all. Way say, Well, I used to listen to that on the radio, or I would hear Superman on the radio, or Amos and Andy or whatever was being rerun at that time, and that fascinated me. And I had these vague memories of hearing what I thought were television programs coming over the radio when I was about two years old. I remember gunshots. I remember, you know, like a woman crying and just these little oddball things. I was about two years old, and I kept thinking, Well, why are we picking up television programs on my mother's radio? Turns out it was the dying gasps of what we now call old time radio. And so at least I remembered that. But when I was about, I guess eight or nine we were, my dad took me to lunch at alums restaurant in Memphis, and I saw that name, and I thought, What in the world? So what kind of name is that? And my dad told me about London Abner, and he said it reminds me. It reminded him of the Andy Griffith Show or the Beverly Hillbillies. I said, I'd love to hear that. He said, Ah, you'll never hear it. He said, those were live they don't exist, but years later, I got to hear them. So yeah, but that's how I grew up wanting to be a cartoonist and coming up with my own characters and drawing all the time and writing stories and that sort of thing. Michael Hingson  06:24 So when did you move back from Memphis to Texas? Donnie Pitchford  06:28 July 2, 1970 I just happened to look that up the other day. How old were you then? I was 12 when we came back. All right, so got into, I was in junior high, and trying to, I was trying to find an audience for these comic strips I was drawing on notebook paper. And finally, you know, some of the kids got into them, and I just continued with that goal. And I just, I knew that soon as possible, you know, I was going to start drawing comics professionally. So I thought, but kept, you know, I kept trying. Michael Hingson  07:06 So you, you went on into college. What did you do in college? Donnie Pitchford  07:11 Well, more of the same. I started listening to some old time radio shows even as far back as as high school. And I was interested in that went to college, first at a college called Kill Gore College, here in East Texas, and then to Stephen F Austin State University. And I was majoring in, first commercial art, and then art education. And I thought, well, if I can't go right into comics, you know, maybe I can just teach for a while. I thought I'll do that for a couple of years. I thought it wouldn't be that long. But while I was at Stephen F Austin State University, the campus radio station, I was so pleased to find out ran old time radio shows. This was in 1980 there was a professor named Dr Joe Oliver, who had a nightly program called theater of the air. And I would hear this voice come over the radio. He would run, he Well, one of the first, the very first 15 minute lemon Abner show I ever heard was played by Dr Oliver. He played Jack Benny. He played the whistler suspense, just a variety of them that he got from a syndicated package. And I would hear this voice afterwards, come on and say, It's jazz time. I'm Joe Oliver. And I thought, Where have I heard that voice? It was, it's just a magnificent radio voice. Years later, I found out, well, I heard that voice in Memphis when I was about 10 years old on W, R, E, C, radio and television. He was working there. He lived in Memphis about the same time we did. Heard him on the campus station at Nacogdoches, Texas. Didn't meet him in person until the late 90s, and it was just an amazing collection of coincidences. And now, of course, we're good friends. Now he's now the announcer for our audio comic strip. So it's amazing how all that came about. Well, I Michael Hingson  09:16 I remember listening to sort of the last few years of oval radio. I think it was, I don't remember the date now, whether it's 57 or 50 I think it's 57 the Kingston Trio had come out with the song Tom Dooley, and one day I was listening to K and X radio in Los Angeles. We lived in Palmdale, and I heard something about a show called suspense that was going to play the story of Tom Dooley. And I went, sounds interesting, and I wanted to know more about it, so I listened. And that started a weekly tradition with me every Sunday, listening to yours truly Johnny dollar and suspense, and they had a little bit of the FBI and peace and war. Then it's went into half and that that went off and Have Gun Will Travel came on, and then at 630 was Gun Smoke. So I listened to radio for a couple of hours every week, not every Sunday night, and thoroughly enjoyed it. And so that's how I really started getting interested in it. Then after radio went off the air a few stations out in California and on the LA area started playing old radio shows somebody started doing because they got the syndicated versions of the shadow and Sherlock Holmes with Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson. And I still maintain to this day that John Gielgud is the best Sherlock Holmes. No matter what people say about Basil Rathbone and I still think Sir John Gielgud was the best Sherlock Holmes. He was very, very good. Yeah, he was and so listen to those. But you know, radio offers so much. And even with, with, with what the whole lemon Abner shows today. My only problem with the lemon Abner shows today is they don't last nearly long enough. But that's another story. Donnie Pitchford  11:11 Are you talking about the comic strip adaptation? Okay, you know how long, how much art I would have to 11:21 do every week. Michael Hingson  11:25 Oh, I know, but they're, they're fun, and, you know, we, we enjoy them, but so you So you met Joe, and as you said, He's the announcer. Now, which is, which is great, but what were you doing then when you met him? What kind of work were you doing at the time? Donnie Pitchford  11:45 Well, of course, there was a gap there of about, I guess, 15 years after college, before I met him. And what ended up happening my first teaching job was an art job, a teaching art and graphic arts at a small high school in Hawkins, Texas, and that was a disaster. Wasn't a wasn't a very good year for me. And so I left that, and I had worked in the printing industry, I went back to that, and that was all during the time that the National London Abner society was being formed. And so I printed their earliest newsletters, which came out every other month. And we started having conventions in MENA, Arkansas and in the real Pine Ridge and the my fellow ossifers As we we call ourselves, and you hear these guys every week on the lemon Abner comic strip. Sam Brown, who lives in Illinois, Tim Hollis, from Alabama. Tim is now quite a published author who would might be a good guest for you one day, sure. And just two great guys. We had a third officer early on named Rex riffle, who had to leave due to various illnesses about 1991 but we started having our conventions every year, starting in 1985 we had some great guests. We brought in everybody we could find who worked with lemon Abner or who knew lemon Abner. We had their their head writer, Roswell Rogers. We had actors, I'm sure you've heard of Clarence Hartzell. He was Ben withers, of course, on the Old Vic and Sade show. He was Uncle Fletcher. We had Willard Waterman, parley Bayer, some of their announcers, Wendell Niles. And my memory is going to start failing me, because there were so many, but we had Bob's, Watson, Louise curry, who were in their first two movies. We had Kay Lineker, who was in their third movie. The list goes on and on, but we had some amazing when did Chester lock pass away? He passed away? Well, Tuffy passed away first, 1978, 78 and Chet died in 1980 sad. Neither of them, yeah, we didn't get to media. Yeah, we didn't meet either one of them. I've met Mrs. Lock I've met all of chet's children, several grandchildren. We spoke to Mrs. Goff on the phone a time or two, and also, tuffy's got toughie's daughter didn't get to meet them in person, but we met as many of the family as we could. Michael Hingson  14:32 Still quite an accomplishment all the way around. And so you you taught. You didn't have success. You felt really much at first, but then what you taught for quite a while, though, Donnie Pitchford  14:45 didn't you? Yes, I went back to the printing industry for about a year, and in the summer of 85 about two weeks before school started, I had got a call that they needed someone to teach Broadcast Journalism at. Carthage High School, and we had a department called CHS TV. I ran that for 25 years. I taught classes. We produced a weekly television program, weekly radio program. We did all kinds of broadcasts for the school district and promotional video. And then in the last I think it was the last 10 years or so that I worked there, we started an old time radio show, and we were trying to come up with a title for it, and just as a temporary placeholder, we called it the golden age of radio. Finally, we said, well, let's just use that, and I think it's been used by other people since, but, but that was the title we came up with. I think in 19 I think it was in 93 or 9495 somewhere in there. We started out. We just ran Old Time Radio, and the students, I would have them research and introduce, like, maybe 45 minutes of songs, of music, you know, from the 30s, 40s, maybe early 50s, big band and Sinatra and Judy Garland and you name it. Then, when the classes would change, we would always start some type of radio program that was pre recorded that would fill that time, so the next class could come in and get in place and and everybody participated, and they went out live over our cable television channel, and we would just run a graphic of a radio and maybe have some announcements or listing of what we were playing. And we did that for several years, usually maybe two or three times a year. And then in I think it was 2004 or so, we had an offer from a low power FM station, which was another another county over, and we started doing a Sunday night, one hour program each week. And I think we ended up doing close to 300 of those before I left. And so we got old time radio in there, one way or the other. Michael Hingson  17:03 Well, I remember. I remember, for me, I went to UC Irvine in the fall of 1968 and by the spring the last quarter of my freshman year, I had started getting some old radio shows. So started playing shows, and then in the fall, I started doing a three hour show on Sunday night called the Radio Hall of Fame, and we did radio every night. And what I didn't know until, actually, fairly recently, was our mutual friend Walden Hughes actually listened to my show on Sunday, and so did the gas means actually, but, but we had a low power station as well, but it made it up, and so people listened to it. And I've always been proud of the fact that during the fact that during the time I ran the Radio Hall of Fame, I'd heard of this show called 60 minutes with a guy named Mike Wallace, but never got to see it. And then it was only much later that I actually ended up starting to watch 60 Minutes. Course, I always loved to say I would have loved to have met, met Mike Wallace and never got to do it, but I always said he had criminal tendencies. I mean, my gosh, what do you think he was the announcer on radio for the Green Hornet, a criminal show, right? Sky King, a lot of criminals. Clearly the guy. Anyway, I would have been fun to meet him, but, Donnie Pitchford  18:31 and his name was Myron. Myron Wallach at the time. Wallach, you're right. I think that's right. Michael Hingson  18:37 But it was, it was fun and and so I've actually got some Sky King shows and green Hornets with him. So it's, it's kind of cool, but Right? You know, I still really do believe that the value of radio is it makes you imagine more. I've seen some movies that I really like for that the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers with Kevin McCarthy back in 1955 I thought was such a good movie because they didn't show the plants taking over the humans. It was all left to your imagination, which was so cool, and they changed all that in the later remake of it with Leonard Nimoy, which I didn't think was nearly as good, not nearly as suspenseful. But anyway, that's just my opinion. But radio, for me was always a and continues to be a part of what I like to do. And so I've been collecting shows and and enjoying and, of course, listening to lemon Abner, So what made you decide to finally end teaching? Donnie Pitchford  19:38 Well, you know, I could only do that so long. I was getting I was getting very tired, getting kind of burned out, and I had to have a change. There's something had to change. And I was able to take a few years early and retire, and I still the whole time I had a. That it was like a haunting feeling. I, you know, I wanted to be a cartoonist. I would pray, you know, you know, Lord, is there some way can I, can I get out of this? And can I do what I really want to do? And I had some mentors that was finally able to meet people that I would write letters to as a kid, a cartoonist and comic book editor named George Wildman was one of them. He was nice enough to answer my letters when I was a kid, and I'd send him drawings, and he would encourage me, or he would send little corrections on there, you know. And another one was a gentleman named high Eisemann, who passed away recently at age 98 on his birthday, but men like this inspired me, and that it kept at me through the years. I finally met George in 1994 at a convention of the the international Popeye fan club. And I'm I'm at high the same way, and also a writer named Nicola Cuddy, who wrote some Popeye comics. I met him the same way, same event, we all became friends, and I had a good friend named Michael Ambrose of Austin, Texas, who published a magazine devoted to the Charlton Comics company. Sadly, he's deceased now, but Mike and I were talking before I retired, and finally I got out of it. And he said, now that you're out of that job, how would you like to do some art? I said, That's what I want to do. So he gave me the opportunity to do my first published work, which was a portrait of artist George Wildman. It was on the cover of a magazine called Charlton spotlight, then I did some work for Ben Omar, who is bear Manor media publisher for some books that he was doing. One was Mel Blanc biography that Noel blank wrote, did some illustrations for that. This was all happening in 2010 and after that. So I was getting it was getting rolling, doing the kind of work I really wanted to do. And there's a gentleman named Ethan nobles in Benton, Arkansas, who wanted to interview me. I'd gotten, I don't know how he I forgot how he got in touch with me. Maybe he heard me on yesterday USA could be wanted to interview me about London Abner. And so he was starting a website called first Arkansas news. And somewhere in early 2011 we were talking, and I said, you know, you want this to be an online newspaper, right? He said, Yes. I said, What about comics? He said, I hadn't thought about that. So I said, Well, you know, you're a big Lum and Abner fan. What if we could we do a Lum and Abner comic strip? He said, Well, who would Where would I get? Who would do? And I said, Me. So I drew up some proposals, I drew some model sheets, and we did about four weeks of strips, and got approval from Chester lock Jr, and he suggested there's some things he didn't like. He said, The lum looks too sinister. He looks mean. Well, he's mad. He said he's mad at Abner. This won't happen every week. He said, Okay, I don't want LOM to be I said, Well, you know, they get mad at each other. That's part of the that's the conflict and the comedy Michael Hingson  23:30 at each other. Yeah. Donnie Pitchford  23:33 So we, we ironed it all out, and we came up with a financial agreement, and had to pay royalties and one thing and another, and we started publishing online in June 2011, and about six weeks later, the MENA newspaper, the MENA star in MENA, Arkansas, which was the birthplace of Lyman, Abner, Chet Locke and Norris Goff, they picked it up, and then we had a few other newspapers pick it up. And you know, we're not, we're not worldwide, syndicated in print, but we're getting it out there. And of course, we're always online, but and the first Arkansas news went under three or four years later, and so now we have our own website, which is Lum and Abner comics.com so that's where you can find us Michael Hingson  24:24 online. So where's Pine Ridge? Donnie Pitchford  24:28 Pine Ridge is about 18 miles from Mena, Arkansas. MENA is in western Arkansas, and Pine Ridge is about 18 miles east, I believe I'm trying to picture it in my mind, but it's it's down the road, and it actually exists. It was a little community originally named for a postmaster. It was named waters, waters, Arkansas, and in 1936 the real. At cuddleston. He was a real person who owned a store there in waters, and was friends with the locks and the golfs with their parents, as well as Chet and Tuffy. But he proposed a publicity stunt and an actual change of name to name the community Pine Ridge. So that's how that happened. Michael Hingson  25:24 Now, in the original 15 minute episodes, who is the narrator? Donnie Pitchford  25:28 Well, it depends what era their first one trying to remember. Now, Gene Hamilton was an early announcer in the Ford days, which was the early 30s. We don't have anything recorded before that. Charles Lyon was one of the early announcers, possibly for for Quaker Oats. I don't have any notes on this in front of me. I'm just going on memory here. Memory at the end of a long week. Gene Hamilton was their Ford announcer. Carlton brickert announced the Horlicks malt and milk did the commercials when they 1934 to 38 or so. Lou Crosby took over when they were sponsored by General Foods, by post them, the post them commercials, and Lou stayed with them on into the Alka Seltzer era. And his daughter, the celebrity daughter, is Kathie Lee Crosby, you may remember, right, and she and her sister Linda, Lou were a couple of our guests at the National lemon Avenue society convention in 1996 I think let's see. Crosby was Gene Baker came after Crosby, and then in the 30 minute days, was Wendell Niles. Wendell Niles, yeah, in the CBS the 30 minute series and Wendell. We also had him in Mina, super nice guy when it came, when it got into the later ones, 1953 54 I don't remember that announcer's name. That's when they got into the habit of having Dick Huddleston do the opening narration, which is why we now have Sam Brown as Dick Huddleston doing that every week. Michael Hingson  27:27 So was it actually Dick Huddleston? No, it Donnie Pitchford  27:30 was North golf, tough. He always played the part of Dick Huddleston. Okay, the only, the only time that, as far as I know, the only time the real dick Huddleston was on network radio, was at that ceremony in Little Rock Arkansas, when they changed the name of the town that the real dick Huddleston spoke at that event. And we actually, we discovered a recording of that. I was just gonna ask if there's a recording of that there is. Yeah, it's on 12 inch, 78 RPM discs. Wow. And they were probably the personal discs of lock and golf, and they weren't even labeled. And I remember spinning that thing when Sam Brown and I after we found it, it was down in Houston, and we brought them a batch of discs back, and I remember spinning that thing and hearing the theme song being played, I said, this sounds like a high school band. And suddenly we both got chills because we had heard that. I don't know if it was the Little Rock High School band or something, but it's like, Can this be? Yes, it was. It was. We thought it was long lost, but it was that ceremony. Wow. So that was a great find. Michael Hingson  28:45 Well, hopefully you'll, you'll play that sometime, or love to get a copy, but, Donnie Pitchford  28:50 yeah, we've, we have we played it on yesterday, USA. Oh, okay, so it's out there. Michael Hingson  28:57 Well, that's cool. Well, yeah, I wondered if Dick Huddleston actually ever was directly involved, but, but I can, can appreciate that. As you said, Tuffy Goff was the person who played him, which was, that's still that was pretty cool. They were very talented. Go ahead, Donnie Pitchford  29:19 I was gonna say that's basically tough. He's natural speaking voice, yeah, when you hear him as Dick Huddleston, Michael Hingson  29:24 they're very talented people. They played so many characters on the show. They did and and if you really listen, you could tell, but mostly the voices sounded enough different that they really sounded like different people all the time. Donnie Pitchford  29:41 Well, the fun thing are the episodes where, and it's carefully written, but they will, they will do an episode where there may be seven or eight people in the room and they get into an argument, or they're trying to all talk at the same time, and you completely forget that it's only two guys, because they will overlap. Those voices are just so perfectly overlapped and so different, and then you stop and you listen. So wait a minute, I'm only hearing two people at a time, but the effect is tremendous, the fact that they were able to pull that off and fool the audience. Michael Hingson  30:15 I don't know whether I'd say fool, but certainly entertained. Well, yeah, but they also did have other characters come on the show. I remember, yes, Diogenes was that was a lot of fun listening to those. Oh yeah, yeah, that was Frank Graham. Frank Graham, right, right, but, but definitely a lot of fun. So you eventually left teaching. You decided you accepted jobs, starting to do cartoons. What were some of the other or what, well, what were some of the first and early characters that you cartooned, or cartoons that you created, Donnie Pitchford  30:50 just, you mean, by myself or Well, or with people, either way, I did some things that were not published, you know, just just personal characters that I came up with it would mean nothing to anybody, but a little bit later on, I did a little bit of I did a cover for a Popeye comic book. Maybe 10 years ago, I finally got a chance to work with George Wildman, who was the fellow I talked about earlier, and it was some of the last work he did, and this was with Michael Ambrose of Argo press out of Austin, Texas. And we did some early characters that had been published by Charlton Comics. They had, they had characters, they were, they were rip offs. Let's be honest. You know Harvey had Casper the Friendly Ghost. Well, Charlton had Timmy, the timid ghost. There, there was Mighty Mouse. Well, Charlton Comics had atomic mouse, so and there was an atomic rabbit. And Warner Brothers had Porky Pig. Charlton had pudgy pig, but that was some of George's earliest work in the 1950s was drawing these characters, and George was just he was a master Bigfoot cartoonist. I mean, he was outstanding. And so Mike said, let's bring those characters back. They're public domain. We can use them. So I wrote the scripts. George did the pencil art. Well, he inked the first few, but Mike had me do hand lettering, which I don't do that much. So it was that was a challenge. And my friend high Iseman taught lettering for years and years, and so I was thinking, high is going to see this? This has to be good. So I probably re lettered it three times to get it right, but we did the very last story we did was atomic rabbit and pudgy pig was a guest star, and then George's character named brother George, who was a little monk who didn't speak, who lived, lived in a monastery, and did good deeds and all that sort of thing. He was in there, and this was the last thing we did together. And George said, you know, since I've got these other projects, he said, Do you think you can, you can ink this? So that was a great honor to actually apply the inks over George's pencil work. And I also did digital color, but those were some things I worked on, and, oh, at one point we even had Lum and Abner in the Dick Tracy Sunday comic strip, and that was because of a gentleman named Mike Curtis, who was the writer who lived in Arkansas, was very familiar with Lum and Abner, and he got in touch with me and asked, this was in 2014 said, Would it be possible for me to use Lum and Abner in a Sunday cameo? So I contacted the locks. First thing they first thing Chet said was how much I said, I don't think they're going to pay us. I felt like, Cedric, we hunt, no mom, you know. And I felt like he was squire skimp at the time, yeah, but I said, it's just going to be really good publicity. So he finally went for it, and Lum and Abner had a cameo in a Sunday Dick Tracy comic strip, and about four years later, they honored me. This was Mike Curtis, the writer, and Joe Staton, the artist, who was another guy that I grew up reading from as a teenager, just a tremendous artist, asked if they could base a character on me. And I thought, what kind of murderer is he going to be? You know, it was going to be idiot face or what's his name, you know. So no, he was going to be a cartoonist, and the name was Peter pitchblende. Off, and he was, he said his job was to illustrate a comic strip about a pair of old comedians. So, I mean, who couldn't be honored by that? Yeah, so I don't remember how long that story lasted, but it was an honor. I mean, it was just great fun. And then then I had a chance to write two weeks of Dick Tracy, which was fun. I wrote the scripts for it and and then there's some other things. I was able to work with John rose, a tremendously nice guy who is the current artist on Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. We did a story, a comic book story, on Barney Google on Snuffy Smith in a magazine called Charleton spotlight, and I did the colors, digital coloring for that. So just these are just great honors to me to get to work with people like that. And Nick Cuddy, I did some inking, lettering coloring on some of his work. So just great experience, and Michael Hingson  36:02 great people, going back to atomic rabbit and pudgy pig, no one ever got in trouble with, from Warner Brothers with that, huh? Donnie Pitchford  36:09 Well, not, not on atomic rabbit, however, pudgy pig created a problem because George was doing some art, and I think somebody from Warner Brothers said he looks too much like Porky, so the editor at the time said, make one of his ears hang down, make him look a little different. But pudgy didn't last long. Pudgy was only around maybe two or three issues of the comic book, so, but yeah, that's George. Said they did have some trouble with that. Michael Hingson  36:44 Oh, people, what do you do? Yeah, well, I know you sent us a bunch of photos, and we have some of the Dick Tracy ones and others that people can go see. But what? What finally got you all to start the whole lemon Abner society. Donnie Pitchford  37:07 Oh, well, that goes back to 1983 right, and I'll go back even farther than that. I told you that my dad had mentioned lemon Abner to me as a kid. Dr Joe Oliver played a 15 minute lemon Abner show on KSA you at Stephen F Austin State University. That got me. I was already into old time radio, but it was the next summer 1981 there's a radio station, an am station in Gilmer, Texas Christian radio station that started running Lum and Abner every day. First it was 530 in the evening, and then I think they switched it to 1215 or so. And I started listening, started setting up my recorder, recording it every day. And a friend of mine named David Miller, who was also a radio show collector, lived in the Dallas area, I would send them to him, and at first he wasn't impressed, but then suddenly he got hooked. And when he got hooked, he got enthusiastic. He started making phone calls. He called Mrs. Lock chet's widow and talked to her. He spoke to a fellow who had written a number of articles, George Lily, who was an early proponent or an early promoter of lemon Abner, as far as reruns in the 1960s and it was through George Lilly that I was put in touch with Sam Brown in Dongola, Illinois, and because he had contacted Mr. Lilly as well. And before long, we were talking, heard about this guy named Tim Hollis. Sam and I met in Pine Ridge for lemon Abner day in 1982 for the first time, and hit it off like long lost friends and became very good friends. And then in 84 I believe it was Sam and Tim and Rex riffle met again, or met for the first time together, I guess in Pine Ridge. And I wasn't there that time. But somehow, in all of that confusion, it was proposed to start the national lemon Abner society, and we started publishing the Jot them down journal in the summer of 1984 Michael Hingson  39:43 and for those who don't know the Jotham down journal, because the store that lemon Abner ran was the Jotham down store anyway, right? Donnie Pitchford  39:50 Go ahead, yes. And that was Tim's title. Tim created the title The Jotham down journal, and we started publishing and started seeking information. And it started as just a simple photocopy on paper publication. It became a very slick publication. In 1990 or 91 Sam started recording cassettes, reading the journals, because we were hearing from Blind fans that said, you know, I enjoy the journal. I have to have somebody read it to me. This is before screen readers. And of course, you know this technology better than I do, but before any type of technology was available, and Sam said, Well, I'll tell you. I'll just start reading it on tape and I'll make copies. Just started very simply, and from then on, until the last issue in in 2007 Sam would record a cassette every other month, or when we went quarterly, four times a year, and he would mail those to the the blind members, who would listen to those. And sometimes they would keep them, and sometimes they would return them for Sam to recycle. But incidentally, those are all online now, Michael Hingson  41:03 yeah, I've actually looked at a few of those. Those are kind of fun. So the London Avenue society got formed, and then you started having conventions. Donnie Pitchford  41:14 Yes, yes. First convention was in 1985 and we did a lot of things with we would do recreations. We would do a lot of new scripts, where, if we had someone that we got to the point where we would have people that hadn't worked with lemon Abner. So we would have lemon Abner meet the great Gildersleeve. Actually, Willard had worked on the lumen Abner half hour show at some point. I believe les Tremain had never worked directly with them, but he was well, he was in some Horlicks malted milk commercials in the 1930s and of course, the Lone Ranger was never on the London Abner show and vice versa, until we got hold of it. So we had Fred Foy in 1999 and he agreed to be the announcer, narrator and play the part of the Lone Ranger. So we did Lum and Abner meet the Lone Ranger, which was a lot of fun. We had parley bear, so Lum and Abner met Chester of Gun Smoke. And those were just a lot of fun to do. And Tim, Tim would write some of them, I would write some of them, or we would collaborate back and forth to come up with these scripts. Did love and amner, ever meet Superman? No, we never got to that. That would have been great. Yeah, if we could have come up with somebody who had played Superman, that would have been a lot of fun. We had lemon Abner meet Kathie Lee Crosby as herself. Yeah, they met Frank brazzi One time. That must be fun. It was a lot of fun. We had some people would recreate the characters. We had the lady who had played Abner's daughter, Mary Lee Rob replay. She played that character again, 50 years later, coming back home to see, you know, to see family. Several other things, we had London Abner meet Gumby one time. Of all things, we had Dow McKinnon as a guest. And we had Kay Lineker come back and reprise one of her roles, the role she played in the London Abner movie. Bob's Watson did that as well. Some years we didn't have a script, which I regret, but we had other things going on. We had anniversaries of London Abner movies that we would play. So whatever we did, we tailored it around our guest stars, like Dick Beals, Sam Edwards, Roby Lester, gee whiz. I know I'm leaving people out. Michael Hingson  43:52 Well, that's okay, but, but certainly a lot of fun. What? Yes, what? Cartoonist really influenced you as a child? Donnie Pitchford  44:01 Oh, wow. I would say the first thing I saw that got my attention was the Flintstones on on prime time television, you know, the Hanna Barbera prime time things certainly Walt Disney, the animation that they would run, that he would show, and the behind the scenes, things that would be on the Disney show, things like almost almost anything animated as a kid, got my attention. But Walter Lance, you know, on the Woody Woodpecker show used to have, he'd have little features about how animation was done, and that that inspired me, that that just thrilled me. And I read Fred lachel's Snuffy Smith Chester Gould's Dick Tracy. Tracy, which that was a that's why the Dick Tracy connection, later was such a big deal for me. Almost anything in the Sunday comics that was big. Foot. In other words, the cartoony, exaggerated characters are called, sometimes called Bigfoot, Bigfoot cartooning, or Bigfoot characters. Those were always the things I looked for, Bugs Bunny, any of the people that worked on those some were anonymous. And years later, I started learning the names of who drew Popeye, you know, like LZ seagar, the originator, or bud sagendorf or George Wildman, and later high eysman. But people like that were my heroes. Later on, I was interested in I would read the Batman comics, or I would see Tarzan in the newspaper. I admired the work of Russ Manning. Michael Hingson  45:49 Do you know the name Tom Hatton? Yes, I do. Yeah. Yes. Tom did Popeye shows on KTLA Channel Five when I was growing up, and he was famous for, as he described it, squiggles. He would make a squiggle and he would turn it into something. And he was right on TV, which was so much fun. Donnie Pitchford  46:09 We had a guy in Memphis who did the same thing. His name was, he's known as Captain Bill, C, A, P, you know, Captain Bill. And he did very much the same thing. He'd have a child come up, I think some, in some cases, they're called drools. Is one word for them. There was a yeah, in Tim hollis's area, there was cousin Cliff Holman who did that. And would he might have a kid draw a squiggle, and then he would create something from it right there on the spot, a very similar type of thing, or a letter of the alphabet, or your initials, that sort Michael Hingson  46:43 of thing. Yeah. Tom did that for years. It was fun. Of course, I couldn't see them, but he talked enough that I knew what was going on. It's kind of fun. My brother loved them, yeah? So later on, when you got to be a teenager and beyond what cartoonist maybe influenced you more? Donnie Pitchford  47:03 Well, I would have to say George, probably because I was corresponding with him, right? Also, I would see the work of Carl Barks, who created Uncle Scrooge McDuck and the Donald Duck comics and all that. His stuff was all in reprint at that time, he was still living, but I didn't know he could be contacted. I didn't try to write to it, right? Years later, years later, I did get an autograph, which was, was very nice. But those people, a lot of people, Neil Adams, who did Batman, the guys at Charlton Comics, Steve Ditko, who was the CO creator of spider man, but he had a disagreement with Stan Lee, and went back to Charlton Comics and just turned out 1000s of pages, but his work was was inspirational. Another was Joe Staton, who was working at Charleton comics, who I got to work with on several projects later on, and I would say just all of those guys that I was reading at the time. Pat Boyette was another Charlton artist. I tend to gravitate toward the Charlton company because their artists weren't contained in a house style. They were allowed to do their own style. They didn't pay as much. But a lot of them were either older guys that said, I'm tired of this, of the DC Marvel system. I want to just, you know, have creative freedom. Charlton said, come on. And so they would work there and less stress, less money, probably one guy named Don Newton started there and became a legend in the industry at other companies. So I found all of those guys inspiring, and I felt I could learn from all of them. Michael Hingson  48:59 Well, you always wanted to be a cartoonist. Did you have any other real career goals, like, was teaching a goal that you wanted to do, or was it just cartooning it? Donnie Pitchford  49:07 Well, it was just a secondary, you know, as I said, when I started, I thought, I'll just do that for a few years. You know, I didn't know it was going to be like 27 but I we had a lot of success. We had, I had some student groups that would enter video competitions. And for 20 straight years, we placed either first, second or third in state competition with one Summit, one entry, another or another every year. And that was notable. I mean, I give the kids the credit for that. But then about five or six of those years, we had what we call state championship wins, you know, we were like the number one project in the state of Texas. So, you know, we had some great success, I think, in that so a lot of years there, I really, you know, that was a blessing to me. Was that career, you. Well, it just, it just got to be too much time for change. After a while, Michael Hingson  50:05 was art just a talent that you had, and cartoon drawing a talent you had, or, I don't remember how much you said about did you have any real special training as such? Donnie Pitchford  50:14 Well, all of my training was, I just couldn't afford to go to a specialized school. You know, at one time, the Joe Kubert School opened just about the time I graduated high school, it was in New Jersey. I just couldn't make that happen, so I went to state colleges and universities and did the best I could. I took commercial art classes, drawing classes, design classes, even ceramics, which came in very handy when I did some sculpting here in the last eight or nine years and worked as an assistant to a sculptor named Bob harness who lives here in Carthage, but I never had any actual comic strip slash comic book training, so I learned as much of that as I could from guys like George wild. And then after I started the lemon Avenue comic strip, an artist named Joe, named Jim Amish, who worked for Marvel, did a lot of work for the Archie Comics. And tremendous anchor is his. He's really a tremendous anchor, and does a lot of ink work over other artists pencils. Jim would call and say, he said, I want to give you some advice. I'm like, okay, at 3am he's still giving me advice. So I'd go around for two or three days feeling like a failure, but then I would, I would think about all the lessons, you know, that he had told me. And so I learned a lot from Jim and tremendous, tremendous guy. And I would listen to what high, sometimes high would call up and say, Why did you use that purple beg your pardon. So it was fun. I mean, those fellows would share with me, and I learned a great deal from those guys. Michael Hingson  52:11 Are you in any way passing that knowledge on to others today? Donnie Pitchford  52:16 I don't know that I am. I've had an offer or two to do some teaching. I just don't know if I'm if I'm going to get back into that or not. Yeah, I'm so at this point, focused on, quote, unquote, being a cartoonist and trying to make that, that age five dream, a reality, that I'm not sure I'm ready to do that again. And you know, I'm not, I'm not 21 anymore. Michael Hingson  52:45 I didn't know whether you were giving advice to people and just sort of informally doing it, as opposed to doing formal teaching. Donnie Pitchford  52:51 Well, informally, yes, I mean, if anybody asks, you know, I'll be glad to share whatever I can. But yeah, I'm not teaching any classes at this point. Michael Hingson  53:01 Well, you have certainly taken lemon Abner to interesting places in New Heights. One, one thing that attracted me and we talked about it before, was in 2019, lemon Abner in Oz. That was fun. Donnie Pitchford  53:17 Well, the credit for that goes to Tim Hollis. Tim wrote that as a short story years ago when he was first interested in lemon Abner. And I don't know if he ever had that published through the International oz society or not. I don't remember, but Tim later turned that into a radio script when we had a batch of guests. This was in 2001 we had, let's see Sam Edwards, Dick Beals, Roby Lester and Rhoda Williams. And each of them had done something related to Oz, either the children's records or storybook records or animation or something. They were involved somewhere in some type of Oz adaptation. So Tim turned his short story into a radio script that we performed there at the convention. So that was a lot of fun. And then he suggested, Why don't I turn that into a comic strip story? So that's what we did. But that was fun, yeah, and we used the recordings of those people because they had given us permission, you know, to use a recording however we saw fit. The only problem is we had a mistake. The fellow that was running the sound had a dead mic and didn't know it. Oh, gosh. So some of them are bit Off mic in that audio, but we did the best. I did the best I could Michael Hingson  54:40 with it's it sounded good. I certainly have no complaints. 54:45 Thank you for that. Michael Hingson  54:47 I I said no complaints at all. I think it was really fun and very creative. And it's kind of really neat to see so much creativity in terms of all the stuff that that you do. As a cartoonist, me having never seen cartoons, but I learned intellectually to appreciate the talent that goes into it. And of course, you guys do put the scripts together every week, which is a lot of fun to be able to listen to them well. Donnie Pitchford  55:17 And that's what that was, the audience I hoped that we would would tap into right there and it, it was guys like you that would would talk to me and say, What am I going to do? You know, I can't see it. So that's why the audio idea came about. And it's taken on a life of its own, really. And we've got Mark Ridgway, who has created a lot of musical cues for us that we use and Michael Hingson  55:45 who plays the organ? Donnie Pitchford  55:47 That's Mark Ridgway. It is Mark, okay, yes, yes. And it's actually digital, I'm sure. I think it's a digital keyboard, Michael Hingson  55:55 yeah, but it is. It's a, it's a really good sounding one, though. Donnie Pitchford  55:59 Yes, yes. There are a few cues that I did, which probably are the ones that don't sound so good, like if we ever need really bad music. If you remember the story we did, and I don't remember the name of it, what do we call it anyway? Lum tries to start a soap opera. Think this was about a year ago. Yeah, and Cedric is going to play, I don't remember it was an organ or a piano, and I don't remember what he played, but whatever it was, I think was Mary Had Michael Hingson  56:32 a Little Lamb, Mary's, Mary Had a Little Lamb on the piano. Sort of kind played. Donnie Pitchford  56:35 It was played very badly, well that, yes, it was on purpose. When mom plays lum tries to play the saxophone. That was me, and I hadn't played this. I used to play the sax. In fact, I played in a swing orchestra here in Carthage, Texas for about five years back in from the early 90s. And so I had this idea, and I hadn't played the horn probably since, probably in 20 years, and his. So I got it out, and I thought, you know, it's gonna sound terrible because it needs maintenance, but it doesn't matter. It's lump playing it, so I got to play really badly. Michael Hingson  57:14 It was perfect. It was perfect, Donnie Pitchford  57:16 yeah, because it had to sound bad. Michael Hingson  57:19 How do y'all create all these different plots. I remember so many, like the buzzard, you know, and, oh yeah, that was fun. And so many. How do you come up with those? Donnie Pitchford  57:28 Well, I used to get some really good ideas while mowing the yard. Don't ask me, why? Or I get ideas. I get ideas in the weirdest thing, weirdest places. Sometimes I have ideas in the shower. You know, I said, I better write this down. Sometimes I'll wake up in the middle of the night with an idea, but there the ideas just come to me. Yeah? The buzzard was fun. I'd had that one. Pretty creative. Yeah, the one about, the one about, let me see. Oh, there was one we did, where wasn't the buzzard? What was that other one? I called the Whisper? Yeah, there was a strange voice that was coming lum thought it was coming from his radio. And he turns his radio off, and He still hears it, and it was a villain who had somehow hypnotized everyone so that they wouldn't see him and he would use his voice only. And then there's a character I came up with, and let me see Larry Gasman played it, and I called him Larry John Walden, and he was the only guy he was blind. He was the only guy that wasn't hypnotized because he couldn't see the you know, I use the old thing about the watch in front of the eyes. I mean, he was the only guy that wasn't hypnotized, so he wasn't fooled by the whisper, and he could track him, because his hearing was so acute that he was able to find him. In fact, I think he could hear his watch ticking or something like that. So he was the hero of that piece. But, well, I just, I just think up ideas and write them down. Tim Hollis has written some of the scripts, maybe three or four for me, I've adapted some scripts that London Abner did that were never broadcast or that were never recorded. Rather, I've adapted a few, written several, and I keep saying, Well, when I completely run out of ideas, I'll just have to quit. Michael Hingson  59:32 Well, hopefully that never happens. What? What are your future plans? Donnie Pitchford  59:38 Well, right now, there's nothing major in the works other than just maintaining the strip, trying to continue it, trying to make it entertaining, and hopefully doing a little work on the website and getting it into the hands of more people. And I'd like to increase. Least newspaper coverage, if at all possible. And because this thing doesn't, you know, it's got to pay for itself somehow. So you know, I'm not getting rich by any means. But you know, I want to keep it fun. I want to keep having fun with it. Hopefully people will enjoy it. Hopefully we can reach younger readers, listeners, and hopefully lemon Abner can appeal to even younger audiences yet, so that we can keep those characters going. Michael Hingson  1:00:29 Yeah, there's so much entertainment there. I hope that happens now in the the life of Donnie Pitchford. Is there a wife and kids? Donnie Pitchford  1:00:40 Yes, there's a wife of almost 40 years. We unfortunately don't have any children. We've almost feel like we adopted several children all the years we were teaching. We we've adopted several cats along the way. And so, you know, we've had cats as pets for almost ever, since we were married. But that's she's, she's great, you know, she's, she's been my best friend and supporter all these years. And we were members of first Methodist Church here in Carthage, Texas, and doing some volunteer work there, and helping to teach Sunday school, and very involved and active in that church. Michael Hingson  1:01:19 So I have a cat, and I hear her outside, not outside the house, but outside the the office here, she wants me to go feed her, and we, we shaved her yesterday because her hair gets long and Matt's very easily. So she got shaved yesterday. So she's probably seeking a little vengeance from that too, but, but my wife and I were married 40 years. She passed away in November of 2022 so it's me and stitch the cat and Alamo the dog, and Karen is monitoring us somewhere. And as I tell everyone, I've got to continue to be a good kid, because if I'm not, I'm going to hear about it. So I got to be good. But it's a lot of fun. Well, I want to thank you for being with us today. This has been a lot of fun. I've learned a lot, but it's just been great to have another podcast talking about old radio shows. And you said again, if people want to reach out, they can go to lemon Abner comics.com if people want to talk to you about doing any kind of cartooning or anything like that. What's the best way they can do that? Donnie Pitchford  1:02:24 Well, they can go to the London Abner dot lumen, Abner comics.com website, and there's a contact a link right there at the top of the page. So yeah, they can contact me through that. Probably that's the easiest way to do it. Michael Hingson  1:02:37 Okay, well, I want to thank you again for being here, and I want to thank all y'all out there. That's how they talk in Texas, right? It's all y'all for everybody. Donnie Pitchford  1:02:46 Well, some of them do, and some of them in Arkansas do too. Well, yeah. Michael Hingson  1:02:49 And then there's some who don't, yeah, y'all means everything, and it Speaker 1  1:02:54 don't, yeah, I don't think squire skimp says it that way. Michael Hingson  1:02:58 Well, Squire, you know, whatever it takes. But I want to thank you all for being here, and please give us a five star rating wherever you're listening or watching the podcast. Donnie would appreciate it. I would appreciate it, and also give us a review. We'd love to get your reviews, so please do that. If you can think of anyone else who ought to be a guest, and I think Donnie has already suggested a few. So Donnie as well, anyone else who ought to come on the podcast, we'd love it. Appreciate you introducing us, and you know, we'll go from there. And I know at some point in the future, the Michael hingson Group Inc is going to be a sponsor, because we've started that process for lemon. Abner, yes, thank you. Thank you. So I want to, I want to thank love and Squire for that 1:03:45 years. Well, it's been my pleasure. Michael Hingson  1:03:50 Well, thank you all and again, really, seriously, Donnie, I really appreciate you being here. This has been a lot of fun. So thank you for coming. Donnie Pitchford  1:03:58 Thank you. 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Comedy on a FridayFirst,  a look at this day in History.Then, Lum and Abner,  originally broadcast February 27, 1949, 77 years ago, Who Called Lum?  Abner has taken a phone message for Lum, but has forgotten who called. Lum is determined to find out who it was. Followed by The Lucky Strike Program starring Jack Benny, originally broadcast February 27, 1955, 71 years ago, Jack's TV Breaks.  Jack tries to watch the wrestling matches on television. Then, The Aldrich Family starring Ezra Stone, originally broadcast February 27, 1940, 86 years ago, Carrier Pigeons.  The Aldrich's have just hired a maid named Martha. Henry's raising rabbits in the cellar. Henry and his pal Tommy are now raising carrier pigeons. Followed by X Minus One, originally broadcast February 27, 1957, 69 years ago,  Real Gone starring Al “Jazzbo” Collins.  The story of Ralph Therian and his unusual art medium.Finally,  Claudia,  originally broadcast February 27, 1948, 78 years ago,  The Renovation Begins.   Will reality match the estimate? The house can feel!  Kathryn Bard and Paul Crabtree star.  Thanks to Richard G for supporting our podcast by using the Buy Me a Coffee function at http://classicradio.streamCheck out Professor Bees Digestive Aid at profbees.com and use my promo code WYATT to save 10% when you order! Find the Family Fallout Shelter Booklet Here: https://www.survivorlibrary.com/library/the_family_fallout_shelter_1959.pdfhttps://wardomatic.blogspot.com/2006/11/fallout-shelter-handbook-1962.html

Söyleşi: Faruk Ekici | Gündüzleri adliyede avukat, akşamları ise bağımsız sahnelerde tiyatrocu olan Baver Karahancı; hem yazıp oynadığı Hiç Dünya, yazarı olduğu Bir Düşte İki Berduş ve oyuncu kadrosunda yer aldığı Tanıdığım Tüm Erkekler oyunlarıyla seyirci karşısına çıkıyor.Karahancı; varoluşsal meseleleri karanlık bir mizahla ele alan oyunlarını, hukukun somut kuralları ile sahnenin kurgusal yapısı arasında kurduğu bağı, sahnede peşine düştüğü biçim arayışlarını ve günümüz koşullarında bağımsız tiyatro yapmanın zorluklarını T24'e anlattı.KÜNYE:Hiç Dünya ▼Yazar: Baver KarahancıYönetmen: Emre DökücüOyuncular: Baver Karahancı, İlayda Güler, Serhan AlbenKostüm-Dekor Tasarımı: İrem DilaverIşık Tasarımı: Can KılınçHareket Tasarımı: Süda KöseDanışman: İrem DilaverAfiş Tasarımı: Elif KadayıfAsistanlar: Burak Gençalp, Emre YeşilYapım Koordinatörü: Merve DağlıoğluYapım Asistanı: Süda KöseYapım: Neon TiyatroTanıdığım Tüm Erkekler ▼Yazar: Sarp PolatYönetmen: Emre Dökücü Oyuncular: Aydan Akboğa, Baver Karahancı, Can Kılınç, Serhan Alben, Tolgahan Ener, A. Volkan IşıkDekor: Merve YörükKostüm: İrem DilaverHareket Tasarımı: Gülnara GolovinaIşık Tasarımı: Can KılınçMüzik: Tuna ÖztürkAfiş Tasarımı: Elif KadayıfYapım Koordinatörü: Merve DağlıoğluYapım Asistanı: Olcay YurdakanIşık Operatörü: Güray DoğruAsistanlar: Burak Gençalp, Yunus Emre YeşilYapım: Neon TiyatroBir Düşte İki Berduş ▼Yazar: Baver KarahancıYönetmen: Ahmet BaltaOyuncular: Gökay Müftüoğlu, Utku GüçoğluMüzik: Utku GüçoğluHareket Tasarım: Salih UstaDekor ve Kostüm: Gökay MüftüoğluIşık Tasarım: Ammar ÖzçelikIşık Kumanda: Emir İnciAfiş ve Oyun Fotoğrafları: Emre MollaoğluAsistan: Tarık Emir Altıntaş

Comedy on a FridayFirst, a look at the events of the day.Then, Jack Benny, originally broadcast February 20, 1949, 77 years ago, Jack wants to appear on the Ford Theater.  Guests Fletcher Markle and Jack Warner try to talk Jack out of doing, "The Horn Blows At Midnight" on "The Ford Theatre."Followed by The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, originally broadcast February 20, 1949, 77 years ago, Invitation to Dinner.  Ozzie accepts a dinner invitation from a man whose name he can't remember. Then, Lum and Abner, originally broadcast February 20, 1949, 77 years ago, Raising Money to go to Convention.   The boys try to attend a convention in Leavenworth, Kansas, by borrowing $200 from a finance company. Followed by The Charlie McCarthy Show, originally broadcast February 20, 1944, 82 years ago,  Edgar's Birthday.  . A classic routine with Charlie and guest W.C. Fields. A confrontation in a barbershop. Finally, Claudia, originally broadcast February 20, 1948, 78 years ago, Bluff's Homecoming.  Bluff returns from the hospital.  Kathryn Bard and Paul Crabtree star. Thanks to Debbie B. for supporting our podcast by using the Buy Me a Coffee function at http://classicradio.streamCheck out Professor Bees Digestive Aid at profbees.com and use my promo code WYATT to save 10% when you order! 

295 MixFix lifts off with modern festival energy, blends nostalgic pop?house reworks, and drives through sax?charged anthems, disco?revivals, and late?night club edits — featuring Jauz, Bob Marley & Robin Schulz, LUM!X, Madonna, Purple Disco Machine, Dua Lipa, and more. The post 295 MID DAY MIX FIX appeared first on Ed Unger Music.

Lum & Abner || (46) Restocking of Jot 'em Down Store Begins; (47) Squire to Cash Check; (48) Newspaper Reports on Abner; (49) Insurance Money Donated; (50) Listeners to Cast Their Votes | February 18-22, 1935 01:15 .. Restocking of Jot 'em Down Store Begins15:57 .. Squire to Cash Check29:50 .. Newspaper Reports on Abner43:27 .. Insurance Money Donated57:04 .. Listeners to Cast Their Votes: : : : :You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are through my duane.media PayPal account:https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MSL7S8FKCSL94My other podcast channels include: MYSTERY x SUSPENSE -- DRAMA X THEATER -- COMEDY x FUNNY HA HA -- VARIETY X ARMED FORCES -- THE COMPLETE ORSON WELLES.Subscribing is free and you'll receive new post notifications.Thank you for your support.https://otr.duane.media | Instagram @duane.otr#comedyclassics #oldtimeradio #otr #radioclassics #jackbenny #fibbermcgeemolly #bobhope #lucilleball #martinandlewis #grouchomarx #abbottandcostello #miltonberle #oldtimeradioclassics #classicradio #duaneotr::

Nejí ryby, kromě tuňákové pizzy a do kafe si sype cukr. Takhle začalo ráno s Lumírem Olšovským, který nemá jen jednu profesi. Je to skvělý herec, zpěvák, taneční, dabér, ale i režisér. Sám říká, že prostě dělá divadlo z různých stran. „Jeden den na jevišti trdluji a nechám se režírovat a druhý den sedím za pultem a radím, jak mají tancovat jiní," vysvětluje a s úsměvem dodává, že nejraději odpočívá tím, že nedělá vůbec nic. Poslechněte si celý rozhovor.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Carlton Brickert reminds listeners of 1935 to send in for their promotional flashlight. Down in the empty store, Lum and Abner talk about the trouble they are in over Abner's…

This is Baila N Beats on DataTransmission Radio presented by @dj.komo_official. Today we've got a guest mix from Nezor, a DJ Contest applicant for Heaven & Hill 2026, taking place on June 6th near Düsseldorf, Germany. Expect festival pressure @heavenandhill.festival open-air atmosphere, big systems, and that hands-up energy from day to night. Lock in — this is @nezor_music right now. Enjoy this episode of BAILA N BEATS. Tune in with DT Radio and enjoy! This radio-Show drops today at 6PM (UK) and 7PM (Germany). ⚡️Like the Show? Click the [Repost] ↻ button so more people can hear it!

Retrouvez notre nouveau format d'émission dédiée à l'imaginaire : Les Chroniques.Afin de mieux développer nos critiques littéraires, BDs et autres supports, nous vous présentons quelques ouvrages : résumé, genre, synthèse et critique.Au menu de cette première, nous vous présentons : Lum'en de Laurent Genefort, Trois Nuits de Stéphane Arnier, La Terre qui monte de David Camus, Les Champs de la Lune de Catherine Dufour et la BD Je suis un ange perdu de Jordi Lafebre.Bonne écoute.

Horlicks. Demand it by name. Don't accept substitutes. There is none equal to this quality, nourishing food stuff. Lum has announced he will be starting a fund-raising project to raise…

Vrcholové legendy, žhavá novinka od Albi. Sesadí z trůnu Guards of Atlantis II? Je převod počítačových her do deskové podoby touto hrou definitivně označen za nemožný? Nebo ještě panují nějaké pochybnosti? A co na to Ivo, Lumír a Michal?   Discord: https://discord.gg/jQwDqzp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deskoherniinkvizice/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deskoherniinkvizice/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@deskoherniinkvizice6797 Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Learn More and Earn CEUs with The Movement System: https://www.themovementsystem.com         References: Oranchuk, D., Storey, A., Nelson, A. and Cronin, J. Scientific basis for eccentric quasi-isometric resistance training: a narrative review. J Strength Cond Res. 2019; 33 (10): 2846-2859. Lum, Danny et al. "Comparing the Effects of Long-Term vs. Periodic Inclusion of Isometric Strength Training on Strength and Dynamic Performances." Journal of strength and conditioning research vol. 37,2 (2023): 305-314. doi:10.1519/JSC.0000000000004276 Schaefer, L., Hoff, M. and Bittmann, F. Measuring the adaptive force. Eur J Transl Myol. 2015; 27 (3): 152-159. Lum D, Haff GG, Barbosa TM. The relationship between isometric force-time characteristics and dynamic performance: a systematic review. Sports. 2020;8:63. Lum, D., Barbosa, T.M., Joseph, R. et al. Effects of Two Isometric Strength Training Methods on Jump and Sprint Performances: A Randomized Controlled Trial. J. of SCI. IN SPORT AND EXERCISE 3, 115–124 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42978-020-00095-w Lum D, Joseph R. Relationship between isometric force-time characteristics and dynamic performance pre- and post-training. J Sports Med Phys Fit. 2020;60(4):520–6.

Horlick's. Feeling run down in the middle of the morning, or afternoon? Carry a few Horlicks tablets with you for a quick pick up. Little did Lum and Abner realize…

Lum and Abner 35-02-06 (0038) Election for President

Éter Lumínico Tracklist •⁠ ⁠Toco - Roy Rosenfeld •⁠ ⁠Time - Pachanga Boys (Progress) •⁠ ⁠Signal - Cristoph (Extended Mix) •⁠ ⁠Midnight Rembler - Fideles •⁠ ⁠Conjunction - Dosem •⁠ ⁠Luminize (Graziano Raffa Remix) - Kamilo Sanclemente •⁠ ⁠Requiem for a Dream - Space Motion •⁠ ⁠Psycho Vibes - Mareveg •⁠ ⁠Loss of Wisdom - Rauschhaus •⁠ ⁠Oddity de ID & ID Éter Lumínico es un viaje sonoro a través de frecuencias profundas, melodías envolventes y atmósferas cósmicas. Una sesión pensada para fluir sin interrupciones, donde cada transición construye un paisaje emocional y energético en constante expansión. Entre sonidos etéreos, progresiones melódicas y pulsos hipnóticos, esta sesión invita a desconectar del tiempo y sumergirse en una experiencia de luz, espacio y movimiento. Una exploración musical que conecta lo profundo con lo lumínico. Mixed by lucaramusic

Back from a long winter's nap, The PDLTTYLDOI crew returns for another edition of FANUARY IN JANUARY, where we record a bunch of guest-suggested episodes in a row! We're starting with the webcomic Foreach, which is about gaming, escapism, loops, nature, nurture, and turtles all the way down. Highly recommended you check it out here: https://foreach.neocities.org/ Author Interview with Lum starts at 48:32 and ends at 59:14 Send us your episode ideas: pleasedontcast@gmail.com https://forms.gle/KhZbXa9T9VFr6pcF8

Sponsored by Horlicks: nourishing, easy to digest, a fine weight control lunch for overweight people. The Southwest Oil company is no more. Lum and Abner are surprised to learn they…

Lum has been cold towards Professor Sloane, but since the new observatory is to be named for him, Lum's attitude has changed. In the store, Abner helps Lum pack for…

Love letter woes have corrected themselves, but Lum is still cooking up ideas on making the widow Abernathy fall in love with Prof Sloane. With Grandpap's help, Abner writes a…

Mousey Knocks out Lum

Out to get rid of the new school teacher, Prof Sloane, Lum thinks the schoolmaster would flee if the widow Abernathy was after him with romantic intentions. Today he and…

Lum and Abner 1953-12-24 - Everyone Helps Decorate Christmas Tree

A proper Grumpy Old Coaches Christmas Special with Simon Ward joined by Steve Lumley and Marc Laithwaite, plus Bethany Ward back in the hot seat(and, as ever, dropping a couple of absolute show-stoppers). We kick off with the state of triathlon participation and what Marc is seeing on the ground as an organiser, including the way athletes are now leaving entries later and how that makes it harder to predict numbers. From there we zoom out and compare triathlon to what's booming elsewhere, especially road running, open water swimming and cycling. Next up, we dig into why running is flying right now, particularly half marathons and marathons. We talk simplicity, cost, time commitment, and why formats like Parkrun, plus the rise of newer fitness events, are pulling people in. We also go properly into the youth pathway problem. Marc shares the TryKidz work in primary schools and why the missing piece is not enthusiasm or delivery, it's the “what next?” step after the taster day. Then we take on Ironman age group qualification. The principle seems fair, but the real-world experience can be confusing, with Beth mentioning a calculator tool a friend built to help make sense of it. And because it's Christmas, we finish with a proper 2025 debrief and 2026 goal setting session. Steve's return to long-distance racing at 60, Beth's Ironman Austria recap (including the WhatsApp group drama and a very honest observation about what people pay attention to), plus Simon's Bosphorus swim from Asia to Europe and why destination events just hit different. Then it's onto 2026 with Hyrox, ultras, swims, 70.3 plans, gravel adventures, and Beth trying to bundle unfinished 2025 business into one slightly chaotic solution involving a horse.   Key takeaways Triathlon may have bottomed out, but recovery depends on costs, accessibility, and the on-ramp for newcomers. Road running's growth makes sense: low barrier, low faff, easy to fit around life. Destination events (point-to-point swims, iconic routes) create memories, not just results. Youth participation is fixable, but only if there's a clear next step after “try it” days. Ironman qualification can be fairer in theory, but the system has to be understandable and consistent to earn trust.   Some memorable quotes “If you want anybody to care, you either win or you almost don't make it.” “Fitness is very specific, isn't it? You're fit for purpose.” “I started off with low expectations, and I was not disappointed.” Listener action steps If you're feeling stuck or bored, plan a destination event for 2026 (swim point-to-point, iconic route, a proper adventure). If triathlon feels like too much right now, there's no shame in leaning into a 70.3, open water swims, or running while life is busy. Coaches and clubs: if you're working with juniors, build a clear next step after “intro sessions” so kids have somewhere to go next. Have a brilliant Christmas, enjoy the food and the downtime, and don't try to “win Christmas” by smashing training when your body is begging for a breather. The Grumpy Old Coaches will be back next year, and the mission rolls on: 500 episodes first… then a million downloads. Steve Lumley is back in the market for athletes. You can contact Steve via his email, TriCoach.Lum@gmail.com   Marc Laithwaite runs The Endurance Store, an independent running and triathlon store in West Lancashire, and Croston Cycles, just down the road from The Endurance Store! Epic Events organise swim, cycle, run, and triathlon events throughout the North West.  Www.theendurancestore.com  https://www.crostoncycles.com/ Www.epicevents.co.uk Marc also talked about his charity: TryKidz (triathlon introduction days in primary schools, NW England)   Join the SWAT Inner Circle   And if you want structure, accountability, and a tactical plan for staying strong, mobile, and resilient all year round, the SWAT Inner Circle is where you'll find the support to stay Battle Ready for life's adventures. CLICK HERE TO START YOUR MISSION   Connect with me HERE: You can find link for the following channels - Website, Facebook, podcast, Instagram, YouTube   Check out my Instagram  and YouTube  channel Website: www.simonward.co.uk Email: Simon@thetriathloncoach.com Sign up for Simon's weekly newsletter Sign up for Beth's weekly newsletter Download Simon's Free ‘Battle Ready Lifestyle' Infographic — https://simon-ward.kit.com/battlereadylifestyle Join the Unstuck Collective – for Beth's weekly inspiration and coaching insights (not a chat group; replies welcome via DM).

Comedy on a TuesdayFirst, a look at the events of the day.Then, My Favorite Husband starring Lucille Ball and Richard Denning,  originally broadcast December 16, 1949, 76 years ago.  There are only seven shopping days until Christmas. What is George planning to give Liz for Christmas?Followed by The Abbott and Costello Show, originally broadcast December 16, 1948, 77 years ago, Time For a Change.  Sam Shovel appears in, "The Case Of The Baby-Sitter Who Neglected His Work," or, "It Was Time For A Change."Then, The CBS Radio Workshop,  originally broadcast December 16, 1956, 69 years ago, The Big Event.   A fantasy about the world crisis created when the "Law of Averages" is repealed for twenty-four hours.  William Redfield and Ralph Bell star.  Followed by Dr. IQ,  originally broadcast December 16, 1940, 85 years ago.  The program originates from the Albee Theatre, Cincinnati. The first question (for 11 silver dollars): "How many fur pelts can be gotten from one fox within three years?" Hint: it's a trick question.   *BONUS*  Here's a link to the first show of the 1958-59 run of the show, hosted by the late Tom Kennedy!  He hosted a bunch of game shows, including You Don't Say, Split Second, Name That Tune, and Password Plu,s following Allen Ludden stepping away from the show due to stomach cancer.   Kennedy passed away in 2020 at the age of 93.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GvJR5ZhKRUFinally, Lum and Abner, originally broadcast December 16, 1942, 83 years ago, Cedric to Marry.  It looks like Cedric is going to have to get married tomorrow!Thanks to Bill B. for supporting our podcast by using the Buy Me a Coffee function at http://classicradio.streamCheck out Professor Bees Digestive Aid at profbees.com and use my promo code WYATT to save 10% when you order! If you like what we do here, visit our friend Jay at http://radio.macinmind.com for great old-time radio shows 24 hours a day

Comedy on a SundayFirst, a look at the events of the day.Then, The Lucky Strike Program starring Jack Benny,  originally broadcast December 14, 1952, 73 years ago, The Gopher Trap.  Jack goes Christmas shopping for a gopher trap for Don Wilson, to the frustration of Mel Blanc. Followed by The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, originally broadcast December 14, 1943, 82 years ago.  Gracie tries to get guest Kay Kyser married to her friend Tootsie Sagwell.  Then, the Kraft Music Hall starring Bing Crosby,  originally broadcast December 14, 1944, 81 years ago.  The traditional Christmas Show.  Jerry Colonna does his famous, "Can't You Hear Me Calling, Caroline?" Bing sings a medley from, "Holiday Inn."Followed by the Aldrich Family starring Bobby Ellis, originally broadcast December 14, 1952, 73 years ago, Roadside Refreshment Stand.   An outdoor refreshment stand in December doesn't earn enough to buy the boys a car. When Henry meets tired travelers at the stand, he decides to rent a family from Illinois rooms for the night in the Aldrich house.Finally, Lum and Abner, originally broadcast December 14, 1942, 83 years ago, Wedding Mix-Up.  Cedric has gotten another letter from W.  Lum suggests a plea of insanity!Thanks to Bill B. for supporting our podcast by using the Buy Me a Coffee function at http://classicradio.streamCheck out Professor Bees Digestive Aid at profbees.com and use my promo code WYATT to save 10% when you order! If you like what we do here, visit our friend Jay at http://radio.macinmind.com for great old-time radio shows 24 hours a day

Westerns and Drama on a SaturdayFirst,  a look at this day in History.Then, Gunsmoke starring William Conrad, originally broadcast December 13, 1952, 73 years ago, Post Martin.  Beautiful Catherine Blair arrives in Dodge to visit her brother Martin, who's in jail to be tried for murder and cattle rustling. Followed by Have Gun Will Travel starring John Dehner, originally broadcast December 13, 1959, 66 years ago, Out Of Evil.   Paladin has been hired by wealthy Mr. Tarpley to recover $10,000 stolen by his daughter's boyfriend, Johnny Yeager. Then, Inner Sanctum Mysteries, originally broadcast December 13, 1948, 77 years ago, Murder Faces East starring Karl Swenson.  An oriental idol promises riches and wealth in return for a murder. There is about three seconds of another broadcast in the middle of the program.Followed by Suspense, originally broadcast December 13, 1945, 80 years ago, The Argyle Album starring Robert Taylor.   Blackmail evidence causes multiple murders. Finally,  Lum and Abner, originally broadcast December 13, 1943, 82 years ago, Squire Will Drop The Charges.   Squire Skimp has agreed to drop the charges against Abner...but there's a catch!Thanks to Richard G for supporting our podcast by using the Buy Me a Coffee function at http://classicradio.streamCheck out Professor Bees Digestive Aid at profbees.com and use my promo code WYATT to save 10% when you order! Find the Family Fallout Shelter Booklet Here: https://www.survivorlibrary.com/library/the_family_fallout_shelter_1959.pdfhttps://wardomatic.blogspot.com/2006/11/fallout-shelter-handbook-1962.html

Grandpap reads tidbits from the almanac to Abner. Somehow, Grandpap thinks Abner knows the fat men who won a bicycle race. Lum reports that though it's the first day of…

In the Jot Em Down store, Lum tells Abner why he is wore to a frazzle. He spent several hours with the new school teacher last night. What he thought…

Westerns and Crime on a Saturday First, a look at the events of the day.Then, Gunsmoke starring William Conrad,  originally broadcast December 6, 1952, 73 years ago, I Don't Know.   Little Danny Birch brings Marshal Dillon and Chester out to the ranch...and a secret about his father. Followed by Have Gun Will Travel starring John Dehner, originally broadcast December 6, 1959, 66 years ago, Mistaken Identity.  Paladin is mistaken for another gunfighter. Then, The Challenge of the Yukon starring Paul Sutton, originally broadcast December 6, 1950, 75 years ago, The Indian Sign.  An escaped convict is stirring up trouble with the Indians.  Followed by Calling All Cars,  originally broadcast December 6, 1933, 92 years ago, The Burma White Case.   Tom White and his blonde girlfriend, Burma White, go on a crime spree. Finally, Lum and Abner, originally broadcast December 6, 1944, 81 years ago, Third Day of Hunger Strike.   It's the third day of Abner's hunger strike, and he's losing weight!Thanks to Bill B. for supporting our podcast by using the Buy Me a Coffee function at http://classicradio.streamCheck out Professor Bees Digestive Aid at profbees.com and use my promo code WYATT to save 10% when you order! If you like what we do here, visit our friend Jay at http://radio.macinmind.com for great old-time radio shows 24 hours a day

Comedy on a FridayFirst,  a look at this day in History.Then, Thirty Minutes in Hollywood starring George Jessell, originally broadcast December 5, 1937, 88 years ago.  George and guest George Raft do a satire of "Gangbusters" called, "Gagbusters."Followed by You Bet Your Life starring Groucho Marx, originally broadcast December 5, 1951, 74 years ago.   The secret word is Door.  Groucho's first contestants are a football player and a foreign-born girl. Then, The Lucky Strike Program starring Jack Benny, originally broadcast December 5, 1954, 71 years ago.  Jack goes Christmas shopping for oil paints for Don Wilson. Followed by Lum and Abner, originally broadcast December 5, 1948, 77 years ago, Trip to the Hospital.  The boys decide to go into the hospital at the County Seat to see Charlie Redfield.  But Abner gets the hiccups...Finally,  Claudia, originally broadcast December 5, 1947, 78 years ago, The Shiner.  Claudia gets a black eye!  Kathryn Bard and Paul Crabtree star.Thanks to Richard G for supporting our podcast by using the Buy Me a Coffee function at http://classicradio.streamCheck out Professor Bees Digestive Aid at profbees.com and use my promo code WYATT to save 10% when you order! Find the Family Fallout Shelter Booklet Here: https://www.survivorlibrary.com/library/the_family_fallout_shelter_1959.pdfhttps://wardomatic.blogspot.com/2006/11/fallout-shelter-handbook-1962.html

After failing to meet the new teacher at the train station, Lum wants to make an impression, especially since he's head of the school board. Will the young lady fall…

The school board is looking to hire Mousey Gray as the new school teacher. Today, Lum tells Abner how the meeting went, and that the board is looking to get…

Comedy on a SundayFirst, a look at the events of the day.Then, The Great Gildersleeve starring Harold Peary,  originally broadcast November 30, 1941, 84 years ago, The Canary Won't Sing.  Gildersleeve has won a canary named Napoleon, but he's no stool pigeon, he won't sing!Followed by The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, originally broadcast November 30, 1951, 74 years ago,  Thorney's Gift.  Thorney bought a gift for his wife but he wants Ozzie to hold it for him so she doesn't find it.  Then  The Fitch Bandwagon starring Phil Harris and Alice Faye, originally broadcast November 30, 1947, 78 years ago, Phil's Hobby.   After Phil falls out of a tree, he's encouraged to take up crocheting. However, he winds up with an electric train set. Followed by The Aldrich Family starring Bobby Ellis, originally broadcast November 30, 1952, 73 years ago, Henry's Father is Sick. Henry's father is sick. Some people think that Henry's father is sicker than he is.  Finally, Lum and Abner, originally broadcast November 30, 1942, 83 years ago, Mousey Gray is Drafted.   The boys are out of trouble for a change. Mousey announces that he's been drafted, after telling Gussie to jump in the lake!Thanks to Bill B. for supporting our podcast by using the Buy Me a Coffee function at http://classicradio.streamCheck out Professor Bees Digestive Aid at profbees.com and use my promo code WYATT to save 10% when you order! If you like what we do here, visit our friend Jay at http://radio.macinmind.com for great old-time radio shows 24 hours a day

Westerns on a SaturdayFirst,  a look at this day in History.Then, The Six Shooter starring James Stewart, originally broadcast November 29, 1953, 72 years ago,Sheriff Billy.  Sheriff Bill Riddle is the law in Dawson. He faces down an escaped killer without a gunfight...and with good reason. Followed by Gunsmoke starring William Conrad, originally broadcast November 29, 1952, 73 years ago, Kitty.  Marshal Dillon insists on bringing Kitty to a Dodge City dance, despite what the "decent" folk think.Then, Have Gun Will Travel starring John Dehner, originally broadcast November 29, 1959, 66 years ago, Bitter Vengeance.  Paladin is tricked into the Mojave desert by the widow of the man he once shot. She plans to watch him suffer as he dies of thirst. Followed by Jack Benny, originally broadcast November 29, 1936, 89 years ago, Buck Benny Rides Again. The cast does, "Buck Benny Rides Again."Finally, Lum and Abner, originally broadcast November 29, 1943, 82 years ago, Squire Injured in Fall.   It's showtime at The Lum and Abner Theatre...and Squire Skimp falls down in the aisle!Thanks to Richard G for supporting our podcast by using the Buy Me a Coffee function at http://classicradio.streamCheck out Professor Bees Digestive Aid at profbees.com and use my promo code WYATT to save 10% when you order! Find the Family Fallout Shelter Booklet Here: https://www.survivorlibrary.com/library/the_family_fallout_shelter_1959.pdfhttps://wardomatic.blogspot.com/2006/11/fallout-shelter-handbook-1962.html

 Yesterday Today returns to the air with a special Thanksgiving episode00:00 Lum & Abner36:07 Abbott & Costello01:05:30 Amos & Andy01:33:51 Outrohttps://archive.org/download/251124-thanksgiving-special-americas-homecoming/251124%20Thanksgiving%20Special%20-%20America%27s%20Homecoming.mp3

Cedric enters the store to complain to Abner about his new boss, Mousey Gray. As Abner returns with his own complaints about Lum's management style, a stranger has entered the…

Thanksgiving shows on a SundayFirst,  a look at this day in History.Then, Good News of 1940 with host Edward Arnold, originally broadcast November 23, 1939, 86 years ago, Here comes the Pilgrims.   Daddy's been called to jury duty, and tries to explain it to Baby Snooks. Guest Raymond Walburn ("The Deacon") tries his confidence game with turkeys.  Walter Huston appears in, "Bright World," by Arch Oboler. "Here Comes The Pilgrims," a Thanksgiving comedy sketch "99 and 44/100 percent Puritan." Followed by The Aldrich Family starring Bobby Ellis, originally broadcast November 23, 1952, 73 years ago, Thanksgiving Turkey. It's Thanksgiving time and there's only one turkey left. Both the Aldrich and Brown families want it.  Then, Jack Benny, originally broadcast November 23, 1941, 84 years ago, Thanksgiving Day Dinner.  Guest Alice Faye joins the rest of the gang for Thanksgiving dinner at Jack's. Finally, Lum and Abner, originally broadcast November 23, 1942, 83 years ago, top Ten Chumps of 1942.   The boys try to figure out how to pay the bills from the Mars expedition. Who is the biggest chump? It's worth $750 to find out. Thanks to Richard G for supporting our podcast by using the Buy Me a Coffee function at http://classicradio.streamCheck out Professor Bees Digestive Aid at profbees.com and use my promo code WYATT to save 10% when you order! Find the Family Fallout Shelter Booklet Here: https://www.survivorlibrary.com/library/the_family_fallout_shelter_1959.pdfhttps://wardomatic.blogspot.com/2006/11/fallout-shelter-handbook-1962.html

Thanksgiving shows on a SaturdayFirst, a look at the events of the day.Then, The Great Gildersleeve starring Harold Peary, originally broadcast November 22, 1942, 83 years ago,  Thanksgiving Dinner.  Gildersleeve tries to get a "B" ration book. Followed by The Harold Peary Show, originally broadcast November 22, 1950, 75 years ago, Thanksgiving Play. Honest Harold is directing and starring in, "The Story Of Miles Standish, A Story Of Thanksgiving." Then, Dr Christian starring Jean Hersholdt, originally broadcast November 22, 1939, 86 years ago, Prelude to Thanksgiving.  A young girl wants Dr Christian to talk to her mother about not being so “quaint” and let her live her own life.  But her Tomboy ways end up backfiring on her. Followed by Tarzan starring Lamont Johnson, originally broadcast November 22, 1951, 74 years ago, The Story of African Thanksgiving.  . A beautiful French girl starts a battle of wills between Sheik Hazara and Tarzan.Finally, Lum and Abner, originally broadcast November 22, 1945, 80 years ago, Thanksgiving Dinner.  There's nothing like a holiday...even for women! Thanks to Laurel for supporting our podcast by using the Buy Me a Coffee function at http://classicradio.streamCheck out Professor Bees Digestive Aid at profbees.com and use my promo code WYATT to save 10% when you order! If you like what we do here, visit our friend Jay at http://radio.macinmind.com for great old-time radio shows 24 hours a day

Thanksgiving programs on a FridayFirst,  a look at this day in History.Then, Lum and Abner, originally broadcast November 21, 1948, 77 years ago, Ezra Seestrunk's Cousin Rowena Has Thanksgiving Dinner With Lum.  Lum tries to impress Miss Rowena on Thanksgiving, with a mansion and servants. Followed by Maxwell House Coffee Time starring Dick Powell, originally broadcast November 21, 1940, 85 years ago, Thanksgiving show.   Jack Benny wants the premiere of Love Thy Neighbor to be in his hometown of Waukeegan.   Daddy tells Baby Snooks about Thanksgiving.  Then, Jack Benny, originally broadcast November 21, 1943, 82 years ago, Jack Dreams He's a Turkey.  Jack buys a live turkey for Thanksgiving, then dreams that he's a turkey!Followed by The Great Gildersleeve starring Willard Waterman, originally broadcast November 21, 1951, 74 years ago,  Inviting Thanksgiving Guests.  Who should be invited for dinner at Thanksgiving?Finally, Claudia, originally broadcast November 21, 1947, 78 years ago, An Available Apartment. A neighbor's tragedy means a new apartment.   Kathryn Bard and Paul Crabtree star.Thanks to Richard G for supporting our podcast by using the Buy Me a Coffee function at http://classicradio.streamCheck out Professor Bees Digestive Aid at profbees.com and use my promo code WYATT to save 10% when you order! Find the Family Fallout Shelter Booklet Here: https://www.survivorlibrary.com/library/the_family_fallout_shelter_1959.pdfhttps://wardomatic.blogspot.com/2006/11/fallout-shelter-handbook-1962.html

As we look in on Pine Ridge, we find Lum and Abner are still trying to plan where to spend a few days on vacation. Mousey and Cedric are to…

Still looking for a place to spend their vacation, Lum and Abner discuss landmarks to see. Taking a note from their famous, fictitious book, Gilbert the Boy Traveler, Lum suggests…

It's time for a change of pace, and as Lum and Abner take time away from the store, they discover a new business in town. Popping into Dick Huddleston's store,…

Comedy on a SundayFirst, a look at the events of the day.Then, Jack Benny, originally broadcast November 16, 1941, 84 years ago, He Fumbled The Ball. The cast does a football drama titled, "He Fumbled The Ball" or "Who Tickled The Tackle?"Followed by Abbott and Costello, originally broadcast November 16, 1944, 81 years ago, Return to PS 15.  Lou gets a telegram from his home town, Paterson, New Jersey. P.S. 15 wants him to perform in the school play. Abbott explains why "lower" is "higher." The story of Romeo and Juliet. Then, The Aldrich Family starring Bobby Ellis, originally broadcast November 16, 1952, 73 years ago, The Debating Team.  Henry joins the debating team to impress Ellen. Followed by Amos ‘n' Andy, originally broadcast November 16, 1952, 73 years ago, 10,000th Broadcast.  The 10,000th broadcast of the series. Recollections about how Amos and Andy came to New York, how they met The Kingfish, how Amos met his wife, how Andy met and later was sued by Madam Queen.Finally, Lum and Abner, originally broadcast November 16, 1942, 83 years ago, Trouble Getting Rocket.  The rocket has been taken out of the observatory. A horse of a different color!Thanks to Laurel for supporting our podcast by using the Buy Me a Coffee function at http://classicradio.streamCheck out Professor Bees Digestive Aid at profbees.com and use my promo code WYATT to save 10% when you order! If you like what we do here, visit our friend Jay at http://radio.macinmind.com for great old-time radio shows 24 hours a day

Westerns on a SaturdayFirst,  a look at this day in History.Then,  Have Gun Will Travel starring John Dehner, originally broadcast November 15, 1959, 66 years ago, Fair Fugitive.  Paladin agrees to transport a prisoner for the Texas Rangers, but she's a beautiful Hungarian lady...and an old friend of Paladin's!Followed by Gunsmoke starring William Conrad, originally broadcast November 15, 1959, 66 years ago, The Square Triangle.  Eva Morely causes the death of three men. There aren't many women like her! Then, Gene Autry's Melody Ranch, originally broadcast November 15, 1952, 73 years ago, Carved Initials on a Tree.  Gene tells the story of how John and Martha came to carve their initials on a tree. Followed by The Six Shooter starring Jimmy Stewart, originally broadcast November 15, 1953, 72 years ago,  Escape from Smoke Falls.  A killer escapes from jail at Smoke Falls and shoots the sheriff. Two rivals both try to recapture him, with Britt Ponset riding with one of them. Finally, Lum and Abner, originally broadcast November 15, 1944, 81 years ago, Call Supposedly from Texas.  Abner is calling everyone in Pine Ridge from the Johnson farm, telling them that he's in Texas. Thanks to Richard G for supporting our podcast by using the Buy Me a Coffee function at http://classicradio.streamCheck out Professor Bees Digestive Aid at profbees.com and use my promo code WYATT to save 10% when you order! Find the Family Fallout Shelter Booklet Here: https://www.survivorlibrary.com/library/the_family_fallout_shelter_1959.pdfhttps://wardomatic.blogspot.com/2006/11/fallout-shelter-handbook-1962.html

Back on a regular routine in the store, Abner gets the chance to go on a hunting trip. Lum won't let him go, since he's trying to get the books…

A web of lies has been exposed, and Lum knows the whole ordeal with the baby has all been a plot of Squire to get their store. All the players…

A Funny SundayFirst,  a look at this day in History.Then, Jack Benny, originally broadcast November 9, 1952, 73 years ago, Jack Goes to the Doctor.   Jack visits the doctor for a vitamin shot.Followed by The Aldrich Family starring Bobby Ellis, originally broadcast November 9, 1952, 73 years ago, The New Suit.   Henry wants a new suit. Homer has a checked suit that he never wears. Mrs. Aldrich and Mrs. Brown have an idea. Then, The Edgar Bergen Show, originally broadcast November 9, 1952, 73 years ago with Marilyn Monroe.  The whole country is agog because Charlie McCarthy is finally going to marry guest Marilyn Monroe. Followed by Lum and Abner, originally broadcast November 9, 1949, 76 years ago,  Lum Writes an Opera.  Lum has written an opera, the story of Samson and Delilah. Finally, Lum and Abner, originally broadcast November 9, 1942, 83 years ago, Varnishing the Rocket.  Abner and Cedric are varnishing the rocket ship...or are they?Thanks to Richard G for supporting our podcast by using the Buy Me a Coffee function at http://classicradio.streamCheck out Professor Bees Digestive Aid at profbees.com and use my promo code WYATT to save 10% when you order! Find the Family Fallout Shelter Booklet Here: https://www.survivorlibrary.com/library/the_family_fallout_shelter_1959.pdfhttps://wardomatic.blogspot.com/2006/11/fallout-shelter-handbook-1962.html

The shows from Sunday, November 8, 1959, 66 years agoFirst, a look at the events of the day.Then, Suspense, originally broadcast November 8, 1959, 66 years ago,  The Last Trip starring Ralph Bell and Eugene Francis.   A woman and her lover plan to place a bomb aboard the plane on which her husband will be flying. It's a sort of...birthday present. Followed by Have Gun Will Travel starring John Dehner, originally broadcast November 8, 1959, 66 years ago, Brother Lost.   Paladin and the beautiful Marietha Fulton travel to Gila Bend to find her lost brother. Miss Fulton is kidnapped and killed...and Paladin is shot!Then, Gunsmoke starring William Conrad, originally broadcast November 8, 1959, 66 years ago, Cavalcade.  The secret life of Doc Adams...in reality Calvin Moore, a murderer!  Followed by Yours Truly Johnny Dollar starring Bob Bailey, originally broadcast November 8, 1959, 66 years ago, The Larson Arson Matter.   Johnny's hired to protect a small-time gangster from threats on his life and home.Finally, Lum and Abner, originally broadcast November 8, 1943, 82 years ago, Lum And Abner Lose Help.  Squire Skimp has hired Grandpappy Spears and his piano, and the boys' carpenters and projectionist!Thanks to Laurel for supporting our podcast by using the Buy Me a Coffee function at http://classicradio.streamCheck out Professor Bees Digestive Aid at profbees.com and use my promo code WYATT to save 10% when you order! If you like what we do here, visit our friend Jay at http://radio.macinmind.com for great old-time radio shows 24 hours a day

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