Old Time radio

Radio City Playhouse: "Interval" 11/27/49

A guy is sent off with a black satchel on a train from work with no notice, going to LA. It turns out the satchel has $800k in it (I'm guessing that was embezzled). Weird thing is that it all works out (because fortunately he told his very pregnant wife that he'd call her around midnight and if not to call someone else).

Every once in awhile I hear the name Tom Collins and remember that there was a person named that, not just a drink.

Dragnet: "Big Betty" 11/23/50

The swindler gets the name of a recently deceased person, comes to the house with a (cheap) engraved pen/pencil set &/or watch, & says the deceased person ordered it, & gets the victims to overpay for it. Good, creepy, racket involving: reading the obituaries; having cheap pen & pencil sets & watches; and an engraving set.

Aw - and Joe Friday (& his partner) had to work on New Year's Eve to catch Elizabeth McGraw, who was behind the swindle.... And Elizabeth sounded like many drunk people before and after on New Year's.

Murder at Midnight: "The Creeper" 11/25/46

Is The Creeper a woman? Or a really stupid man.

If it's this old woman who just showed up, she needs to hang out with someone, because she really can't shut up.

oh, but the female character who has spent most of the episode running away from people b/c she's freaked out will most probably end up being a victim of The Creeper.

Pretty sure thing is that this show pretty much makes you distrust all strangers.

... bad idea in Old Time Radio: telling someone they're crazy.

... well, after all the creepy, annoying people on the program The Creeper was the locksmith that the woman called, because, of course, she was terrified. Then he killed her while she was talking to her husband (who just called to tell her in part that the police "now think it is a locksmith!"). "Stop me... before I kill again!"

And, when signing off the program, the program's host, Norman Gilliland, said that everyone the woman encountered was "creepy". -yay!- (I love getting validation on my thoughts by Norman).

X-Minus One: "The Vital Factor" 11/30/55

Mr. Krauter hates people and has a special buzzer that is set for certain people's offices; when he rings it, people come running. Reminds me of what they say about Mrs. Wright (she had a buzzer).

wow - this guy's a big jackass. Reminds me of Donald Trump. And Mrs. Wright.

Anyway, he has people lined up to design a rocket ship to go into outer space. But, since no one has come up with anything yet, they can only go so far in building the rocket ship. He's got the news out on what he wants and is waiting for someone to come along (as Mr. Krauter says, "Money and determination will buy anything"). So far it's called "Krauter's Folly".

... dammit - all of the experimentation that went on resulted in, as is noted here, a "car that runs on 4¢ worth of gasoline" - it would be nice.

I bet the man who walked in who will now be inventing the rocket is an alien.

And, nicely, Mr. Krauter has just been shot. Fortunately, enough people have hated Krauter over the years that he wears a bullet proof vest.

man, Mr. Krauter's a bigger asshole than all of those assholes from the last radio show ("The Creeper"), combined.

Yes! The man who invented the rocket is an alien. A Martian, actually, and he reveals that he wanted to go home. Hopefully Mr. Krauter will meet other men on Mars who are equally unimpressed by his assholishness.

And, yeah, I'm really happy just that a fictional character got what he deserved. I'll take that.