Old Time radio

[likethebeer]

Dr. Kildare: "Mrs. Stanford's Angina Pectoris" 07/20/50

Goddamn it - having been an RN, mom thought Dr. Kildare was stupid. It's just a silly show and I hate the fact that listening to this show makes me miss mom!
(a) It's not in that goofy, surreal, universe of weird old Time Radio.
(b) And, again, mom didn't care for the show.

Dumbass stuff. >:(

Journey Into Space: "Operation Luna 01" 09/21/53

Anachronisms with space travel in old programs are so amusing. They're starting off going into space, and have to sit on their launch couches while doing so.

And the complete lack of training for things, like, dealing with no gravity.

And there's one point where the ship's leader just brings up mutiny, then drops it. I'm offended!

And drinking tea & having cigarettes.

.... Oops, they just got hit by a meteor. They seem ok, though. Good thing, the guy who designed the spacesuits has volunteered to wear them outside. Since they've never been tested before.

I'm finding this "make fun of the things they got wrong about spaceflight" much more enjoyable than I would have anticipated.

Comments

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

I was just listening to a show on "To The Best of our Knowledge" about Marshall McLuhan. The radio producers should have enlisted him to prophesize about future technologies. In the 1960s-1970s, he predicted the internet, crowd sourcing, the loss of privacy in the "electric age," and lots more. It seems he was right about 80% of the time and not too far off even when he was wrong. The irony is that he never felt comfortable in the 20th century and would have loved to have had less technology and less mass culture/counterculture.

http://marshallmcluhanspeaks.com/prophecies/

Marshall MacLuhan

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

I heard that program yesterday, too.

Re: Marshall MacLuhan

[(Anonymous)]

The show was much better than my synopsis of it. I understandard that he taught at UW - Madison briefly(!) He started realizing that the generation he was trying to teach was raised by Television and learned differently than his generation. This experience supposedly inspired him to analyze the role of media in perception.