Old Time radio

The Green Hornet: "Charity Takes It on the Chin" 02/21/42

If you've not heard The Green Hornet a lot, you may not know that Flight of the Bumblebee is used as a theme song. And I just realized that they use Flight of the Bumblebee to make up tons of time to tell the actual plot of the story.

Our Miss Brooks: "Cure That Habit" 01/15/50

The Superintendent of Schools is coming to visit the school, which has got Miss Brooks excited, because that means that the Principal, Mr. Conklin, might get in trouble & get fired.

Mr. Conklin has got a case of the hiccups, and someone's coming with the School Superintendent who works for a business to try to cure alcoholism and thinks Mr. Conklin is involved in it.

Looking at the Baroque plot, I would think it were written later, not all the way back in 1950.

Did I mention the story is taking place on Friday the 13th?

So, because of all the things that usually happen on Our Miss Brooks: Mr. Conklin's office has 4 kittens, a snake and a frog; Mr. Conklin gets bitten by the (non-poisonous) snake, thinks he needs alcohol on it; & someone spins him around in a chair to try to cure his hiccups, which makes him dizzy. So when the Superintendent of schools comes (with the guy from the anti-alcoholism institute), Mr. Conklin is dizzy, talking about wild animals in his office, and is given alcohol by a student.

It all gets figured out of course (as well as who wrote the man with the AA place; a joke played by a student).

Escape: "When the Man Comes, Follow" 04/09/49

"Why, he sent me to NY to pick up a Stradivarius. And I had to wait 2 weeks before the guy left it away from him so I could make off with it."

The narrator's boss (who asked him to steal the Stradivarius) is blind. For one.

Ah, the boss's brother is dying (shot) but tells them that, "when the man comes, follow." Looks like they're going off to Arizona.... The only thing that's missing from this story is a dame.

Oh, but someone in this search party (for a treasure in the desert) has been hit, so at least one element is in place.

So: this searching for a treasure has been cursed, and will always lead to double-crossing. Everyone shoots everyone, leaving one last man (who's not double crossed people), & the last water keg has been shot so that all the water has gone on the ground. And "when the man comes, follow," has to do with a shadow that appears, that you have to follow to the direction of the treasure.

X-Minus One: "Project Mastodon" 06/05/56

Ah: a man coming from a country (Mastodonia) that no one has heard of. So, since this is X-Minus One, I imagine that this man is an alien.... Oh, or it could be that the man is in one is now the U.S., but in the past (when you would have had Mastodons).... Yup: they're in the United States, 50,000 years before.

Now, we've got problems with calculating correct times for going forward & backward with time machines - if you're not just right, you can be off by a quarter of a century. Which is what happens: they guys go back 50,000 years, their time machine has a problem, and it takes them a month to fix it. But in our time, 25 years passes.

Weird Circle "The Vendetta" 09/12/43

A story that has an old vendetta, starcrossed lovers, and the man, at the end, killing himself when he thinks his love is dead. "Don't!" I yelled. "Haven't you ever heard of Romeo & Juliet? Oh... dummy. He died, she was actually alive. He really needed a Sassy Gay Friend: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwnFE_NpMsE