Category: Elder Folk
Hi all!
So. A friend of mine is really interested in OTR, and he introduced me. I was just wondering - does anyone else like that kind of stuff? Shows like 'Our Miss Brooks,' 'The Aldrich Family,' 'The Halls of Ivy' stuff like that?
-Scratch
I'm really selective about the ones I like, but I can get my hands on most of the shows. If you let me know what you're after, I will do my best to find it for ya.
Yeah, I'd say I'm a fan, although my taste seems to be more for the horror and sci-fi shows than anything else.
yeah, i like the horror/sci-fi ones too, but i'm more into the commedic ones.
i'm not really looking for any; we've got a site where we can get a lot of them. i just wanted to see who all was interested. :)
I love the shadow, lone ranger, have gun will travel, dragnet gang busters and many more. I never could enjoy the comedy ones for some reason spy adventure, westerns and some thrillers.
I was going to listen to The Shadow, but never got arund to it. D: I should, I know; my friend adores it. D:
I like some of the comedies but not all of them. Fibber McGee, Jack Benny, Goon Show, Fred Allen, that sort of thing I like. Kind of lukewarm on the more sitcom things like Life of Riley and all that, and never got into stuff like the Aldrich Family all that much. The exception to the sitcoms is Our Miss Brooks.
hahaha, Our Miss Brooks is cool, and so is Fibber McGee. I'm more in to the horror too though, like The Hermit's cave. I love inner sanctum, and CBS Mystery Theater.
I have loved OTR since I was thirteen--I am now twenty. Mostly into the commedy and kids' shows of that era, and game shows. Will listen to horror and scifi and the like but not often. Much prefer the commedy.
I will be 26 in October and I love old time radio. A good site to listen to old time radio online is http://www.otr.net
You have to have real audio player or the equivalent which can be found on http://www.whitestick.co.uk
Why stream the shows when you can download many of them for free and legally at archive.org? I have all 1400 episodes of the CBS mystery theater, and will listen to each and every one before I die. I have a ways to go though, since I just finished number 80. x-1, Our Miss Brooks, innersanctom, Suspense, and escape are among my favorites, although I have a collection of many others that totals somewhere in the neighborhood of 20000. Gunsmoke was another I enjoyed, but more for its relatively advanced sound ingeneering than some of the content.
Wow Scot,
I haven't yet found a good website to download good old time radio from. I will give archive.org a try though. thanks.
Archive.org is good, as is zootradio.com. I love zootradio - that's where I've gotten a lot of my OTR shows from. You have to sign up for Zootradio (you don't for Archive.org), but both sites are free.
I love the kids shows like, for example, Adventures of Superman (they're easy to listen to, funny (whether intentionally or not), and fun when I don't want to have to do a lot of thinking). And then there's stuff like the Green Hornet, Suspense, the Shadow, Fibber McGee (I love Fibber McGee), Nero Wolf ... Oh, and X Minus One and Box 13. I can't think of any more off the top of my head. Oh well.
:) Alison
I love OTR. I haven't as much lately, but when I was younger I listened to everything I could get my hands on. I haven't heard as many of the scifi ones though I want to, but I loved the mysteries. The suspense type shows I was always so so on, just depended on the show and episode. Some of the commedy I still find rather amusing and fun.
lol, I <3 Life of Riley. I also enjoy The Whistler, the Challenge of the Yukon, and Suspense.
I've heard a little of the Superman show, and I think I heard somewhere that there was a Little Orphan Annie show. Does anyone know that to be fact?
I also have a cassette of OTR bloopers that is absolutely hilarious. I'll try and find out the name of it so you guys can see if it's available online.
Namaste,
Becky
Ooh! OTR bloopers? I've always kind of wondered what kind of screw-ups people made on those shows (besides the tiny screw-ups they don't bother to edit out). That's pretty neat!
This is what I found on Little Orphan Annie:
"1930-1942
When we think of Annie, we imagine a little red-haired girl singing "The sun will come out tomorrow." Would it surprise you that she is actually a crime-fighting,
bullet-dodging, Nazi-submarine-destroying, Ghost-chasing tyke who packs a mean punch? This is the Little Orphan Annie.
Notoriously sponsored by Ovaltine and later Quaker Puffed Wheat Sparkies, this show was as equally popular with adults as it was with children. The Little
Orphan Annie old time radio show is unforgettably heard on the movie, "A Christmas Story."
Little Orphan Annie was the first late-afternoon children's serial and was the mould that set up all the succeeding juvenile radio serial dramas. The old
time radio show was based on the 1924 comic strip by Harold Gray for the Chicago Tribune. When Gray first came up with the concept of the strip, he originally
had a boy in the main role, and it was named Little Orphan Otto! Gray decided to change the protagonist to a girl because all the other comic strips were
of boys solving mysteries. This is what made the show exceptional. In the show, with the help of Daddy Warbuck, a war profiteer and a father figure for
Annie, and her faithful dog, Sandy, they fought crime and solved mysteries, all before dinner and bedtime. ..."
I've actually never heard of it before, but hey, there you go. :)
Alison
Wow. Thanks for the info!
I'm a british otr collecter and nerd, the goon show being my favourite. you guys checked out
http://tennesseebillsotr.com
i've never seen so much otr in my 10 years of being facinated with it.
I love the Whistler, Suspense, Pat Novak for Hire, Mystery Theatre...
Thanks for the suggestion of archive.org. Off to browse there, now. I already make good use of it for public domain books; it never occurred to me to check OTR.
I have a friend who's really into old time radio. I' like to start listening to it myself. Do any modern radio shows like that exist, either on the regular radio or on an online station? I loved one Podcast from New Zealand called Claybourne. Forgive spelling. Anyway, tit was scifi and absolutely incredible! It originally heired in the 90's and I caught it a few years ago. I' love to check out the Twilight Zone on radio, since I adore all the television series.