Perceptive Friends of RUSC

If you downloaded the episode of Fibber McGee and Molly which was added to RUSC on the 18th January you may have noticed that it was only ten minutes long. OOPS! Sorry for that. I have now replaced it with the complete half hour version thanks to friend of RUSC James Williams so if you click on the link Money In A Shoebox you can hear the full version.

If you downloaded the episode of Fibber McGee and Molly which was added to RUSC on the 18th January you may have noticed that it was only ten minutes long. OOPS! Sorry for that. I have now replaced it with the complete half hour version thanks to friend of RUSC James Williams so if you click on the link Money In A Shoebox you can hear the full version.

Thanks to another friend of RUSC Paul Manning I have also been able to add a better copy of the recent Sherlock Holmes addition Adventure of the Tolling Bell. This one is free from the whoops chirps and yips so click on the link to go directly to this better quality version!

I received an e-mail from friend of RUSC Tim Fawcett recently who said, "Have you noticed that "Valentine Matter" from Johnny Dollar and "Big John McMasters" from Nightbeat are almost word-for-word the same script? Four years apart in airing and they each claim different writers - I just wondered if that happened more than we think in OTR?"

Well it seems that it did. Recently I added a Suspense episode entitled Four Hours To Kill and then while reviewing the Whistler episode, which will go live on RUSC on the 3rd February, entitled Search For Maxine I couldn't help noticing the similarities! The Whistler episode was originally aired on the 13th March 1949 and tells the story of a Newspaperman who visits his cousin Walter to ask for the loan of some money for an investment and the Suspense episode was originally aired a year later on the 12th January 1950 but with Theodore visiting his brother Walter to ask for a loan. The stories are exactly the same except each is told in its series format. However in this instance both series gave credit to the same writer, Harold Swanton.

I guess the writers and producer never knew then that their stories would be heard again over fifty years later by us perceptive and fanatical OTR listeners!

Happy listening my friends,

Ned Norris