I was listening to a old radio show called The Six Shooter (1953) which starred Jimmy Stewart. In this episode Howard McNear played the main episode character, an old prospector friend of Jimmy's. Jimmy Stewart plays a character called Britt Ponset, also known as The Six Shooter, in this short lived (one year) radio show. Howard had two mules he named Pierre and Evette. He makes a gold strike and gets robbed and shot and Britt has to convince him to have the will to live since Howard thinks he has nothing left to live for. He had spent his whole life looking for gold and now that he found it he doesn't feel like he has anything left to do with his life. At the end Britt is telling how Howard went to the Klondike and everyone was laughing at him saying he'd never find any gold there. LOL
Howard McNear, Parley Baer, and John Dehner (Aunt Bee's Medicine Man) all turn up in episode after episode of old time radio shows. All three of them have such distinctive voices that you can recognize them usually by the second word out of their mouths. John Dehner also had two very successful radio shows he starred in. Have Gun Will Travel (One of the very few radio shows to be created from a TV show. Most times they went the other way around.) and Frontier Gentleman in which he plays a newspaper reporter named J. B. Kendall. He works for the London Times and is on assignment in the old west. This was a very well done show and ranks in my top 3 favorite radio programs which include Gunsmoke (with William Conrad which preceded the television show) and The Six Shooter. All three have excellent scripts and at times weave real events or people from the old west into their stories. Which makes them feel more authentic. I was too young to hear most of these programs when the originally aired except for CBS Radio Mystery Theatre which aired from 1974 to 1982. I remember sneaking my transistor radio into bed to listening to it. But I never heard a complete episode since the only station I could pick up that broadcast the show was in Chicago and I was in Arkansas. Most times the show would fade in and out and I rarely every could keep up with the plot. I recently bought the entire collection, 1399 shows, on 4 DVD's and listen to an episode every day during my lunch hour at work. I spend most of my weekends listening to that and the many other episodes of Old Time Radio that I have downloaded from this web site I found recently. It has episodes and sometimes even complete collections of almost any old radio show you can think of. And they are all free since all these shows are now in public domain. In fact this site only contains public domain stuff. http://www.archive.org/details/oldtimeradio I know I'm gonna get a Rude from Alan or Paul since I have drifted so far off topic but Old time radio and Andy are two of my favorite things and I like to share when I can. Dapper Dan Your not talking to a jerk you know. _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
