While finishing up the interviews yesterday I ran across some interview answers from Franklin McMahon, who had drawn the pictures for the Mary Frances Rhymer book, "The Small House Halfway Up in the Next Block."
Well, I didn't know this until just now, but McMahon was much more than I ever knew. I invite you to look at his Wikipedia page.
Diggin' up trash and talky talk on the best radio show, ever.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Yikes
I went to add a bunch of stuff under the announcers page - looks like I left it a mess yesterday. Dunno how that happened! But it's much better now and I added a lot of stuff.
God bless my mess.
Things may be messy now and then. Hopefully it will all get worked out.
Working on that dog gone map! This might take a while or maybe I can find a solution of some sort...
God bless my mess.
Things may be messy now and then. Hopefully it will all get worked out.
Working on that dog gone map! This might take a while or maybe I can find a solution of some sort...
Ted MacMurray the show's producer...
Wasn't Fred MacMurray the actor.
But Paul Rhymer called Ted MacMurray "Fred" all the time, just to mess with him.
Over time, he became "Fred" to everyone.
Conversely, Fred Stembottom eventually became "Ted" on the show - thanks to Rhymer's sly sense of humor!
But Paul Rhymer called Ted MacMurray "Fred" all the time, just to mess with him.
Over time, he became "Fred" to everyone.
Conversely, Fred Stembottom eventually became "Ted" on the show - thanks to Rhymer's sly sense of humor!
Pelter Unbleat's imaginary brother
I found out this weekend that Pelter Unbleat's imaginary brother --- was a REAL character on the show. He was played by Butler Mandeville, who also played Pelter Unbleat, I suppose (but don't know) in "Series 3."
My research shows that he often played in daytime series in Chicago (soap operas) so adding him to the cast would not have been hard to do.
I also found out the names of a few other actors who played real characters, including Mr. Gumpox, who I mentioned in a post the other day. Cliff Soubier voiced him. The other actors aren't exactly household names today but may have been well known character actors in the mid 1940's.
I'll be adding those shortly.
Also working on the map - that's going to be a headache.
My research shows that he often played in daytime series in Chicago (soap operas) so adding him to the cast would not have been hard to do.
I also found out the names of a few other actors who played real characters, including Mr. Gumpox, who I mentioned in a post the other day. Cliff Soubier voiced him. The other actors aren't exactly household names today but may have been well known character actors in the mid 1940's.
I'll be adding those shortly.
Also working on the map - that's going to be a headache.
Blue Tooth under the davenport
In the episode where Blue Tooth is under the davenport, one thing seems to have escaped me until now -duh- and that is that Sade is upset when she finds out he's inside. The real reason she is mad is because she's been talking about people behind their backs and he heard every word. Did he go and tell the neighbors who went and told their moms? You know darn well he did.
We know stuff like that happened to Sade before. In the episode 41-xx-xx Sade Can Keep a Secret, her blabbin' has made others mad at her. And you know there were other times.
I am wonderin' how I missed this fact until now?
We know stuff like that happened to Sade before. In the episode 41-xx-xx Sade Can Keep a Secret, her blabbin' has made others mad at her. And you know there were other times.
I am wonderin' how I missed this fact until now?
Crawling into a big barrel and swearing
In the episode, Trial Visit, which I posted today, Russell is said to talk about crawling into a big barrel of Bibles and making a solemn promise.
Well while fixing the sound on the episodes, I came across a nearly identical statement by Rush in 40-03-25 Smelly Clark's Big Date. There he also talks about crawling into a barrel of Bibles and swearing.
Well while fixing the sound on the episodes, I came across a nearly identical statement by Rush in 40-03-25 Smelly Clark's Big Date. There he also talks about crawling into a barrel of Bibles and swearing.
More additions to the left-hand side
I hope to add the following additions this week to the now notorious left-hand side of The Crazy World:
+ Photos for as many of the cast as possible. This would include multiple photos and maybe some you have never seen before. These will be under the star's BIO, etc...
+ A Vic and Sade Museum. This may or may not happen. Don't ask me what it will be because at this very second, I don't really know. But I do know every graphic I have ever uploaded is kept by Blogger and I can retrieve it if I want. So there may be a museum - or maybe not.
+ Just curious, have you seen the Hartzell bio I got from the Lum and Abner Society? It's comprehensive (look under 'Hartzell.') By the end of the year, I will have more Hartzell surprises... but I can't tell you about it now.
+ I need to update the nicknames for Rush. And I also have the nicknames for Russell, so there's another page that has to be done. I hope to have these done soon.
+ I need to finish The Best of Vic and Sade. Those are the YouTube videos. I don't know if I will get to those this week.
+ I may make a video called, "How to use this website." Or maybe I won't.
+ I need to finish fixing the sound on the first 50/75 episodes. I hope to have that done this week. Maybe today. (I may do that after writing this post.)
+ I have characters that do not appear in the audio portion of episodes, nor in the Schwarz episodes. These characters - some classic - "have no home." So, what to do with them? I suppose I'll put them in the Character site and designate them as having no episode attached to them. I'm not sure what happened - maybe Schwarz ran out of time or didn't complete her notes but there's a "hole" of characters that have no episode attached to them.
There are also plots to characters I already have that have no episode, so they can't be linked to. I can just add those to the Character website and somehow designate that there is nothing to link back to.
+ I still want to do a map. This will be the 3rd map I have done. The last map was okay but it was too small to write things on (ran out of room.)
The new idea is to take a screen shot from Google Earth and turn that into a digital "pencil drawing." I will print that out, make notes on it by hand, then scan it. That seems to be the only way I can make the map the way I want, since I'm not an expert with graphic programs and I don't really know anyone who is or if I do, they don't want to seem to help.
+ I still have plenty of scripts and script episodes to post. These will be the last episodes posted.
+ I still have 4-5 "second hand story" episodes, with audio that I got from the interviews. These will be posted, probably this week.
+ I have a Mel Allen audio interview to post. He was an announcer at one time for V&S. Although in the interview, he fails to mention V&S!
+ I may put links to all V&S stuff found in Google Books - you can go right to the reference. But I may not... I haven't really had time to think about it.
+ I do have a link to find the latest V&S stuff posted on the internet. Yes, my site comes up as the first 3 or 4 things on there but looking under that, people are talking about V&S. Every now and then, it's something cool. Be on the lookout for that.
+ I'm going to write a long piece on V&S before the end of the year. It may be the longest thing I've ever written (unless you count this or my other websites.)
+ There are other things cookin' but I can't tell you. You'll find out somewhere around the end of the year.
+ Also, I hope to use this blog as more of an expression of trivia I find. Right now, you are seeing me rattle off what I am doing. I'm sure that's boring.
And the fact of the matter is, I have tons of stuff I have found. Whether it comes out here or in The Crazy World, it's coming out...
So eventually, this will become a "trivia" website - not like "game show" trivia but "hey, here's what I found out" trivia. It's just right NOW I am busy. And what's on my mind is finishing. I can be a very driven, obsessive person. GET OUT OF MY WAY! (Just kidding.)
Now off to work!
+ Photos for as many of the cast as possible. This would include multiple photos and maybe some you have never seen before. These will be under the star's BIO, etc...
+ A Vic and Sade Museum. This may or may not happen. Don't ask me what it will be because at this very second, I don't really know. But I do know every graphic I have ever uploaded is kept by Blogger and I can retrieve it if I want. So there may be a museum - or maybe not.
+ Just curious, have you seen the Hartzell bio I got from the Lum and Abner Society? It's comprehensive (look under 'Hartzell.') By the end of the year, I will have more Hartzell surprises... but I can't tell you about it now.
+ I need to update the nicknames for Rush. And I also have the nicknames for Russell, so there's another page that has to be done. I hope to have these done soon.
+ I need to finish The Best of Vic and Sade. Those are the YouTube videos. I don't know if I will get to those this week.
+ I may make a video called, "How to use this website." Or maybe I won't.
+ I need to finish fixing the sound on the first 50/75 episodes. I hope to have that done this week. Maybe today. (I may do that after writing this post.)
+ I have characters that do not appear in the audio portion of episodes, nor in the Schwarz episodes. These characters - some classic - "have no home." So, what to do with them? I suppose I'll put them in the Character site and designate them as having no episode attached to them. I'm not sure what happened - maybe Schwarz ran out of time or didn't complete her notes but there's a "hole" of characters that have no episode attached to them.
There are also plots to characters I already have that have no episode, so they can't be linked to. I can just add those to the Character website and somehow designate that there is nothing to link back to.
+ I still want to do a map. This will be the 3rd map I have done. The last map was okay but it was too small to write things on (ran out of room.)
The new idea is to take a screen shot from Google Earth and turn that into a digital "pencil drawing." I will print that out, make notes on it by hand, then scan it. That seems to be the only way I can make the map the way I want, since I'm not an expert with graphic programs and I don't really know anyone who is or if I do, they don't want to seem to help.
+ I still have plenty of scripts and script episodes to post. These will be the last episodes posted.
+ I still have 4-5 "second hand story" episodes, with audio that I got from the interviews. These will be posted, probably this week.
+ I have a Mel Allen audio interview to post. He was an announcer at one time for V&S. Although in the interview, he fails to mention V&S!
+ I may put links to all V&S stuff found in Google Books - you can go right to the reference. But I may not... I haven't really had time to think about it.
+ I do have a link to find the latest V&S stuff posted on the internet. Yes, my site comes up as the first 3 or 4 things on there but looking under that, people are talking about V&S. Every now and then, it's something cool. Be on the lookout for that.
+ I'm going to write a long piece on V&S before the end of the year. It may be the longest thing I've ever written (unless you count this or my other websites.)
+ There are other things cookin' but I can't tell you. You'll find out somewhere around the end of the year.
+ Also, I hope to use this blog as more of an expression of trivia I find. Right now, you are seeing me rattle off what I am doing. I'm sure that's boring.
And the fact of the matter is, I have tons of stuff I have found. Whether it comes out here or in The Crazy World, it's coming out...
So eventually, this will become a "trivia" website - not like "game show" trivia but "hey, here's what I found out" trivia. It's just right NOW I am busy. And what's on my mind is finishing. I can be a very driven, obsessive person. GET OUT OF MY WAY! (Just kidding.)
Now off to work!
Bernadine is Bernardine
Louie Johnson, a fellow Vic and Sade enthusiast and one who was a part of the Barabra Schwarz group, told me a while back that despite Flynn's name being printed 'Bernadine' in several places, her name is in fact, 'Bernardine.'
After some research, I see he's right. The problem is "Bernadine" must be printed in my website at least 500 times.
I've changed each one up to 1941. I'll try and change a year every day until I am finished (or at least by the end of the week.)
You see? This job is never ending. There are other names that are spelled wrongly too (or differently from the scripts:)
Rhymer - Donohoe Me - Donahue
Rhymer - Trogle Me - Trogel
Rhymer - Jordal Me - Jordle
And there are about 500 more. I don't know how many I will wind up fixing. Right now, the only important one to fix is 'Bernardine.'
After some research, I see he's right. The problem is "Bernadine" must be printed in my website at least 500 times.
I've changed each one up to 1941. I'll try and change a year every day until I am finished (or at least by the end of the week.)
You see? This job is never ending. There are other names that are spelled wrongly too (or differently from the scripts:)
Rhymer - Donohoe Me - Donahue
Rhymer - Trogle Me - Trogel
Rhymer - Jordal Me - Jordle
And there are about 500 more. I don't know how many I will wind up fixing. Right now, the only important one to fix is 'Bernardine.'
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Ta-da! Interviews all done
With the recent completion of Johnny Coons and dividing his interview up properly, I have completed this big step!
Franklin McMahon
The illustrator for the Mary Frances Rhymer book of scripts answered a couple of questions in an interview.
You can find his stuff at The Crazy World under Announcers. You might find him easier though by going to OTR Audio Interviews.
Interview up for Ed Roberts
The interview is up and dispersed for Ed Roberts. You can find him under Announcers.
Not much more to go.
Bugged
None of the interviewed cast, announcers or special guests in 2 to 3 hours of commercial-free interviews remembers David Whitehouse's name. He's barely mentioned at all.
That bugs me.
Another round of Hartzell questions
Added another Hartzell interview (some of the questions Bill Idelson and he shared the answer) and since he talked a bunch about Rhymer, added his answer to a Rhymer page.
If I am not finished today, I'll certainly be finished by tomorrow morning.
Announcer Bob Brown's interview
Announcer Bob Brown's interview has now been uploaded and you can find out his thoghts on the show and especially his thoughts about Rhymer.
His complete offering is under "announcers" on the Crazy World but he's easier to find at thet OTR Interview site.
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