Old Time radio

[likethebeer]

Rogue's Gallery: "Pamela Leeds Case"

How could I listen to Old Time Radio so long and not know that when someone doesn't open the door when they've been knocking that they're not sleeping, but dead? I must be tired or something.

Dimension X: "Beyond Infinity" 1950

When you shrink something down, time slows down - just remember that. And remember to always speak English, even if 10 million years pass at the subatomic level.

I'm still trying to figure why the "secret police" in this episode weren't so secret - they kept banging the door (they came in on Eva and Adam; Adam's father had created a shrinking machine although their problem with the secret police was that Eva & Adam where planning to be part of the revolution). So they hid by going atomic.

Weird Circle: "The Wooden Ghost"

What ever happened to people who were the aunt/uncle + guardians?

I'm not crazy about some guy who walks in, asks the uncle to sign a betrothment paper and won't listen to the uncle when he says he'd like to ask his niece how she feels about all this.

"Rose is engaged... to a dead man." A dead man who can rent carriages to go driving in (the plot takes place before automobiles). "He said he wanted to rent a carriage. And gave me a whole sack of gold." So, he's got lots of gold, but no good sense with his money (I'd think 1 gold coin should have done it).

"I am one who has waited the centuries for this night." The guy's going to a lot of trouble just to lose his virginity.

Oh, ok - it sounds like the guy is into the girl because she's the great-great-great-great-granddaughter of a woman he loved. And she's the direct descendant, and to set his ghost free, she's just got to say "I love you". Which she does, and nobody dies.

Murder at Midnight: "The Dead Hand"

Roger's playing the piano like only.he.can.play!!! (which sounds like it's sort of warbly and under water). But Lorna likes it and he's only doing it for Lorna!!! Even though he asked her to leave his husband.

Uh-oh - car crash. I'll bet Roger lost his hand.

Oops - Lorna's husband is a surgeon and he's the man who amputated it.

Roger is, as you can imagine, going insane (and will probably become murderous).

... yup. And it's 1946 but they've managed to graft on the hand of a dead man onto Roger.* It looks like he'll be playing "that concert" in no time.

Oh, ok: so the man that Roger killed had been a pickpocket; and the pickpocket's hand filched a cigarette box off his doctor. Ok, now Roger's gone asleep & the "dead hand" is also going to try to kill Roger.

Roger deserves it if you ask me.

And he choked himself. I think I read a Stephen King short story like that.

*that's actually not it - Roger was fooled by the doctor until they could get him committed; but this being Old Time Radio (and Roger's now a murderer), Roger's gotta die; so even though he thinks his grafted hand is the one that's doing it, he doesn't have a grafted hand. So he killed himself w/his other hand. Stabbed himself actually.

Comments

BBC Radio Play

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

I've got a hot tip on a BBC radio play i recommend for downloading. It's called "The Product." It takes place in 1960 and 1968, comparing Nixon to JFK and shows the dynamic of a true Kennedy believer piloting the helicopter that a journalist is riding on in Vietnam. The insights about how JFK won the election and how Nixon lost and how history affected the course of war are very well done.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ptw (downloadable through Thursday. They put up a new play Friday).

Those Brits do a pretty convincing American accent, except for one word as spoke by the Sergeant. If you can pick out that word, I'll buy you a beer...

Re: BBC Radio Play

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Thanks - I'll make a note of this. There are times when I don't want to listen to the news or anything else, would like some entertainment, but don't know what to listen to (except for Archive.org).

Re: BBC Radio Play

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

I wish BBC Radio had more than one week's archive. The radio play I recommended goes away tomorrow... (but often it's replace by an even better play). I have a bunch saved on my 'puter. Would be glad to share sometime, but not over the interwebs (copyrights and all)...