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brian1984_2001
April 27th, 2003, 09:32 PM
Rather than leaving posts on others' listening logs, I thought it would be appropriate to have a separate area to post responses to others' posts in their logs.

Vince's post on "Blizzard of Terror" inspired this. I loved this episode. It kept you guessing and it built the tension so well. This was one of the best, I thought.

vgarci
April 27th, 2003, 10:29 PM
I have some comments about Blizzard of Terror, too. I'm going to hang on because I thought it might make a great show of the week.

And btw, great idea concerning the response area because the logs can then be used strictly of hosting of shows.

vgarci
April 30th, 2003, 04:18 AM
Matt,
Great to have another member starting up a log!!!

Texas
May 2nd, 2003, 01:41 AM
From Brian's (quite apt) description of Casey Kasem's performance in "The ghost plane":

[quote:a8e73b133f]if you can get past him sounding like Shaggy in a bad mood[/quote:a8e73b133f]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

vgarci
May 2nd, 2003, 03:23 AM
Tex,
Got a kick out of your response.

Brian,
I can see why you are an author as your original line is a classic.

Texas
May 3rd, 2003, 11:04 PM
Brian...interesting factoid on "The coffin with the golden nails"...the dictator who tries to change himself has the last name of "Zorilla". That's the same last name of the dictator character in another latin American banana republic adventure called "The longest knife". Some RMT playwright liked that name.

vgarci
May 13th, 2003, 01:32 AM
Tex,
Great job on catching the dup name!!

Texas
May 15th, 2003, 12:24 PM
Thanks, Vince.

"The Breaking Point", IMHO, would be a good show of the week at some point. One of my favorites (though go back and carefully listen to "Chi Chi" the capuchin monkey, and it's amusing to realize the apparent source of the sound effect.)

Interesting thing about the actor (Nat Poulan, I think) in this show who played the brain surgeon who was "Chi Chi's" owner. He seemed to be the 1st choice for "brilliant scientist" roles, playing the Ph.D. / weapons specialist who made contact with "Deadly Darling Delores" on a top secret military research project, and also playing "Dr. John Gilbert", the scientist who tried to develop an invisibility formula (with tragic results) for the military in "I thought I saw a shadow".

Lagavulin
May 16th, 2003, 01:42 AM
I'm still orienting myself to the site contents, and excuse me if this exists already...

It occurs to me that organizing the listening logs by program title, rather than the listener would be more effective. One could look up the title of the program they just listened to, and read/post comments on the same program without having to hunt through everyone's logs for the title.

I understand that there is a kind of 'badge of honour' in posting the most logs smile.gif perhaps there is a way of recording that too

Anyway, looking forward to participating more in this forum in the days/years to come.

miles

vgarci
May 16th, 2003, 02:11 AM
Miles,
Interesting idea. I wonder if there is a way to properly index the shows. It seems each would have to be posted as an individual topic in order for alphabetical listing.

Lagavulin
May 16th, 2003, 02:15 AM
alphabetical, or chronologically according to episode number. The latter would eliminate confusion that may arise due to variences in name/title. There's a list posted at this site, isn't there? smile.gif

vgarci
May 16th, 2003, 02:22 AM
Yep, the main forum page has a list at the very bottom near links to other web sites. I wonder if we could create a single post where everyone had edit rights such that we could modify, add, re-alpha or re-chron and then repost.....hmmmmm.....just thinking out loud.

brian1984_2001
May 16th, 2003, 05:15 AM
That's one of those things that's up to Charlie. It would require some additional software on his part, It think.

Charlie doesn't advertise his site on other sites in which he participates, so I won't divert traffic from his. But I'm doing this sort of thing on Jason Carr's site. I also post compete descriptions for the crowd over on Yahoo.

If you all want to recreate that effort here, I'm all for it. But I have to warn you, it has been tried several times from what I can tell and never seems to quite get there. It is a mammoth undertaking.

I can tell you from other databases I've seen, information is sparse on 1980-1982 shows.

Charlie
May 16th, 2003, 09:57 AM
Well, the idea here is to let each person have a "journal" of listening and everyone else can look in to see their thoughts and feelings about the programs they are listening to.

I look through them once a week or so for something to read and it is entertaining.

If you want reviews on a particular program, use the "search" feature and type in a key word or two of the title of the program and you will get a listing of all reviews on that program. I've done that just for fun and found that there are multiple reviews of several programs and it is interesting to read them.

As far as doing a database on all of the programs, that would be fun, but as Brian said, that is being done on Jason Carr's site which is at http://www.mousetrap.net/~mouse/cbsrmt/rmtsearch.php

I don't want to see a big duplication of efforts but I am in favor of everyone that wants to review a program doing that. Brian does a lot of reviews as does Kurt, Vince, and I. But, the fun of it is reading what other people have to say about it. That's kind of the focus of the Show Of The Week Forum also, taking one program and having everyone pile on it to see what is said.

Feel free to share further thoughts on this.

Charlie

vgarci
May 17th, 2003, 06:19 AM
Dante101,
Got a kick out of your post. I haven't heard the episode you reference in your log but I'm wondering how I'll react.

brian1984_2001
May 28th, 2003, 09:55 PM
Lagavulin,

You thought "Brain Drain" was bad? You ain't heard bad until you've listened to "Appointment in Uganda". If it gets any worse than that, I don't want to hear it.

An honorable mention for bad is "Through the Looking Glass".

vgarci
May 30th, 2003, 04:08 AM
Lag,
At this rate, you've got a real shot at hitting Brian's number of logs!

vgarci
May 30th, 2003, 06:08 AM
Ethel,
You did it absolutely right. Great to see you start a log.

brian1984_2001
June 3rd, 2003, 04:25 AM
Texas,

Very nice telling of Jane Eyre. You summarized it well.

I have not yet really partaken of any of the classics like Jane Eyre or Les Mis.

Lagavulin
June 3rd, 2003, 12:51 PM
Matt -

I've been doing the same thing lately! Averaging 2 episodes per day for the last couple of weeks. Usually one in the morning when I'm jogging, or preparing my classes for the day. I try to fit in another in the evening. On the weekend while doing yard work, or cleaning the house I have the walkman on. My wife has become a CBSRMT widow. But even at this rate, It will take almost 2 years to get through them all!!!

That sounds like a challenge to me! :D

Now, if I could get all the old Coronation Street episodes on video...

haha

cheers
Miles

Texas
June 3rd, 2003, 07:52 PM
Brian, thanks.

I, like you, haven't really gotten into the "classics" of the RMT save for Conan Doyle or de Maupassant-inspired plays.

However, I heard this one night at my house circa 1979 and remembered liking it...after downloading it I truly loved it.

This victorian-era story had strong, rightly placed morality behind it. Of particular interest to me was the theme of [i:2413bc3276]sacrifice[/i:2413bc3276], and of the eventual good things that come to those who do the same.

Arnold Moss was such a talented actor...he could sound like he was doing dramatic overplay in a role (such as this one where he played the rich man "Mr. Rochester") then in a moment convey genuine, heart-tugging anguish.

As for the actress (I'll have to get her name later) she worked with the story/radio play in making Jane Eyre a takes-care-of-herself kind of gal without making her into the ridiculous "I'm as tough as any guy" caricatures so prevalent in female roles today. She was completely [i:2413bc3276]feminine[/i:2413bc3276] throughout the whole play, and one had to hurt for her when she learned the secrets of Mr. Rochester and his household. Consequently, (Warning: partial spoiler ahead) I personally felt buoyed with the happy ending that followed (and Miss Bronte's details in her book left out of the radio play but that E.G. let us know in his final words in the show.)

A rare treat - a gothic novel (with an element of the mysterious) with a happy ending - all made enjoyable as a radio play.

Lagavulin
June 4th, 2003, 01:16 PM
As I've been listening to, and rating the episodes, the majority of them are in the 7-9 range (out of 10). I was wondering if I was being too generous with the scoring, or whether it is just that most episodes in the series are of exceptional quality!

I think the it is the latter... after all, why else would we still be listening?

cheers
Miles

brian1984_2001
June 4th, 2003, 09:35 PM
Most of mine are between 7 and 8.5. I reserved a 9 for just a few old favorites and a couple new ones that really got me.

I gave a 1 to "Appointment in Uganda" because it so richly deserved it. I've done a few 4s and a few 5s and 6s to shows that were not completely ridiculous but were not good.

Texas
June 6th, 2003, 01:16 PM
Lagavulin,

You're absolutely right...[b:181d3e1e94]"Time and again" ROCKS!!!!![/b:181d3e1e94] :!: :!: :!: :!:

(BTW, it's also a [u:181d3e1e94]very[/u:181d3e1e94] good study of psychological (as opposed to chemical) addiction.)

Texas
June 11th, 2003, 11:50 PM
Looking forward to reading your review on "The walls of Jericho", Lagavulin. Just heard that this week.

I also want to know if you think the "Horla" make noises like air raid sirens... :wink:

Lagavulin
June 17th, 2003, 11:56 AM
Camille / Ethelmeertz

Have been enjoying reading your entries. Great to see your log file growing. One of the highlights of my day is reading the logs, and building my own smile.gif

cheers
Miles

Lagavulin
June 17th, 2003, 05:33 PM
Vince -

Nice to see the reviews of the Poe series. I love Poe and am waiting for the summer holidays to listen to them. I plan on loading up the MP3 player and sitting out on the dock late at night under the Northern Lights at the cottage and letting my mind go.

cheers
Miles

vgarci
June 20th, 2003, 07:58 AM
Lag,
I think you'll enjoy the Poe series. They aren't identical to the original stories but I actually like the adaptations and think they were great for radio.

brian1984_2001
July 3rd, 2003, 04:38 AM
Hey Texas,

Did Elspeth Eric write "Girl Talk"? This sounds like the drivel she wrote. A couple of her episodes were alright, but mostly they were garbage. For me to hear her name at the beginning of an episode is in itself a disappointment.

Now, when I hear Sam Dann you can count on a quality script and good characters.

Texas
July 3rd, 2003, 01:11 PM
Brian, I hear you, but amazingly this play was written by [b:aca6d2f282]Sam Dann[/b:aca6d2f282]. :bananadance: (The RMT's top playwright banana.) Even when playwright Sam Dann was bad, he was GOOD. smile.gif

A few more things on this one...I still can't resist it:

- This quote occured around the 41:00 mark after Dryden's "revolution" stuff:

[quote:aca6d2f282]

WILLIAMS: "James, do you remember the night at 'The rat?'"

DRYDEN: "Mmmmmm...what night?"

KEANE: "[i:aca6d2f282]What[/i:aca6d2f282] night? Honestly, the night Marcella introduced me to you."

DRYDEN: "Oh-ho-ho-ho...[i:aca6d2f282]that[/i:aca6d2f282] night."

KEANE: "You came over to the table and you sat down, you remember that?"

DRYDEN: "Mm-hmm...yes, I remember that."

WILLIAMS: "Do you remember what you said?"

DRYDEN: "If you want the truth...not a single word."

KEANE: "James, such an important night and you don't remember what you said?

DRYDEN: "Well, how could I remember? I was half drunk."
[/quote:aca6d2f282]

Oh, if only those guys who wrote that flick "The Big Chill" would have ended their show like that. :076:

- Brian, if the casting of Teri Keane and Ann Williams hadn't worked so well I'd think this was a [i:aca6d2f282]production[/i:aca6d2f282] mess-up. I mean, using 40s big band slow music (someone here who knows the genre better will recognize the tune right off...I think it was a Benny Goodman number) in a [i:aca6d2f282]60s bar called "The rat"?[/i:aca6d2f282]

And I've spoken highly of Dryden, one of my favorite RMT actors, before here. He may have been the cast's best foreign accent specialist, and his voice was certainly distinctive. But as a "60s(?) college revolutionary" type he sounded more like he was the guy in horn-rimmed glasses [i:aca6d2f282]teaching[/i:aca6d2f282] the econ class rather than dissing it. (Dryden also played a Texas-accented senatorial aide. Come to think of it, Ann Williams' character could have been Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (http://hutchison.senate.gov/).)

- [b:aca6d2f282]WARNING: Plot spoiler ahead.[/b:aca6d2f282]

As I said in the review, Keane's character is jealous of Williams' character for living the life she (Keane) wanted but never got to have, and she goes into the senator's office behind closed doors intending to shoot her. They have an intense dialogue, then Williams gets Keane to look in the mirror, whereupon she grabs the gun, they wrestle and the gun goes off.

Fortunately, no one gets hurt. (The aide hears the noise but Williams says "Oh, it was nothing.") Williams has the gun and GIVES IT BACK TO KEANE saying "I don't trust myself with this around you now." Then their dialogue essentially can be summed up:

KEANE: "All these years I wanted to be [i:aca6d2f282]you[/i:aca6d2f282]."

WILLIAMS: "Well all [i:aca6d2f282]these[/i:aca6d2f282] years I wish I could have been [i:aca6d2f282]YOU[/i:aca6d2f282]."

And in the end after the script I quoted above, they break up laughing. (I won't give the final detail away.) Dryden is amused but wonders what they find is so funny that they talked about in the senator's office (mostly at gunpoint). Keane's answer: "Oh....girl talk."

(In reality, I think they broke up listening to Dryden. :D )

- You Teri Keane-o-philes (and I'm becoming an RMT one) give yourself a treat sometime soon. Rack up on your .mp3 player, in order:

- 780920 - "The beheading"
- 791031 - "Who has seen the wind?"
- 780516 - "Girl talk"
- 780428 - "The house on Chimney Pot Lane"*

(*The last one's the only truly supernatural RMT type plot, and is as much the "Robert Hammond" or "Marian Seldes Show" as it is the "Teri Keane Show", unlike the first three where she's the central character. They're all four worth a listen in some type of order.)

brian1984_2001
July 5th, 2003, 05:09 AM
I can't believe my man, Sam Dann, wrote that horrible dialogue. I guess he wrote a couple clunkers, but through the years, he was the best.

vgarci
July 5th, 2003, 06:00 AM
[quote:bd73f65765="Lagavulin"]Episode 0105
The House of Seven Gables
June 13, 1974

Steming from the Salem witch hunts, two families are set in a generations old struggle. At the gallows the condemned curses the accuser claiming that the accusations were made solely to lay claim to his property. In the generations to follow, the families seek shrug off the label of witch, and the other indulges their greed and pride, until one generation where a man and woman from each side strike up a congenial relationship...

[b:bd73f65765]I enjoyed the old setting... actually visited Salem a number of years ago and had quite vivid images during this episode.[/b:bd73f65765][/quote:bd73f65765]

Lag, I visited Salem and the House of the Seven Gables a few years ago, too. I was compelled to listen to this story after reading the Nathaniel Howthorne book and visiting the location. Salem sure represents a time and location that is rich in content for the macabre.

Texas
July 27th, 2003, 01:40 PM
Lagavulin,

1. There've been a few "kinky" episodes (with RMT limitations, of course) of the series. "The stuff of dreams" was, from all I've heard, at the top of this short list.

2. In "The strange case of Lucas Lauder" it was a shame that Ralph Bell's character had to die. His college professor was one of my all-time favorite performances...and he was only in no more than 2/3 of the episode.

3. "The death-wisher" wasn't a perfect "10", but it was fun still.

Lagavulin
August 12th, 2003, 05:49 PM
Brian -

I listened to Appointment in Uganda a couple days ago and was horrified and the sheer nonsense that eminated from my headphones. Coming here to tell about it, I found the old post in response to Brain Drain... hehehe... you're right!!

[b:70ba4c19e7]314. Jul 24, 1975 Appointment in Uganda[/b:70ba4c19e7]

but it was, in my opinion, right in the middle of a string of boner episodes:

[b:70ba4c19e7]313. Jul 22, 1975 The Poisoned Pen [/b:70ba4c19e7]
(this was not predictable in any way only because there was no chance to predict. They gave away the entire episode in the introduction.)

[b:70ba4c19e7]317. Jul 30, 1975 He Moves in Mysterious Ways[/b:70ba4c19e7]
(this was just too sacharine sweet... no mystery to it at all)

[b:70ba4c19e7]318. Jul 31, 1975 Carmilla[/b:70ba4c19e7]
(extremely strange episode with Mercedes McCambridge, who could never convince me she was a beautiful 19 year old blond with that gravelly voice. This was basically an episode of a lesbian love affair.)

brian1984_2001
August 12th, 2003, 11:35 PM
I got to "Brain Drain" later, and it was damn close to being as bad as "Appointment in Uganda", but not quite.

I actually like "Camilla" as I sort of liked "He Moves in Mysterious Ways".

If you are into torturing yourself, listen to "Through the Looking Glass". God, that was painful!

brian1984_2001
August 18th, 2003, 02:29 AM
Miles, Vince, Charlie,

Where are you guys? Been awhile since any of you have made entries in your listening logs.

vgarci
August 18th, 2003, 04:00 AM
Brian,
I've been busier than a one armed wallpaper hanger with travel and work. I've been listening but I haven't taken the time to record my thoughts.

brian1984_2001
August 18th, 2003, 04:42 AM
I don't envy you having to travel. I'm lucky that I'll only have to do two trips this year.

Lagavulin
August 18th, 2003, 09:30 PM
Hi everyone... been a while since i've posted... doesn't mean i haven't been listening. between getting ready for the baby (due in about a month) and spending the summer at the cottage, haven't had the access to the internet.

I've got 30+ logs to catch up on and post - one of my goals for the end of the week while we're in town, then back out to the cottage for the last weekend before school starts.

have to enjoy the freedomand the holidays while i can - once school and the baby come, i'm thinking that will seriously cut into my listening time!

hahah

cheers
Miles

brian1984_2001
August 18th, 2003, 09:50 PM
It was when we had our second baby (19 months ago) that I really got into this hobby.

I had to stay close at hand during the day while my wife slept (she works nights). I listened on the computer whilst I took care of my daughter.

Is this your first, Miles?

Lagavulin
August 19th, 2003, 02:44 AM
Brian -

yes, this is our first... quite excited... ahve the hospital bag packed and sitting by the door. have a bin full of board books and CDs full of kids music, found some Dr Seuss stuff on mp3... will be a good start to listening in preparation for CBSRMT!

hehe
cheers
miles

vgarci
August 19th, 2003, 03:09 AM
Lag,
I had to laugh at your masterful plan to gently coax the baby into all that is good in the CBSRMT. Great plan! LOL!

Texas
December 26th, 2003, 01:22 AM
Brian 1984, since you just listened to "Raptures of the deep", try 771005, "the Sea Nymph". There's a lot of similarities but...Norman Rose is great as a sinister billionaire, while Paul Hecht is decent and at times (perhaps unintentionally) amusing as a southern-accented ex-Navy frogman. The characters are a bit better developed in this one.

brian1984_2001
December 30th, 2003, 04:41 AM
I will do that over the holiday weekend.

Thanks for the suggestion.

brian1984_2001
January 7th, 2004, 01:17 AM
[quote:2bd4c3d9f5] "Frontiers of fear" had Jerry Stiller communicating with his typewriter. This show has Teri Keane (again, in another fine performance) receiving messages from space on her television set. [/quote:2bd4c3d9f5]

Wasn't Jery Stiller's wife an occasional performer on the show? I can't remember her name.

vgarci
January 7th, 2004, 01:24 AM
Brian,
Jerry Stiller's wife is Anne Meara and she took part in program #249, 750401, The Killer Inside.

Texas
January 14th, 2004, 02:42 AM
Brian 1984,

Thanks! I'd been trying to remember what the title of the show you just reviewed was..."Search for Eden". I remembered it because it's one of the few times I'd heard Lloyd Battista do an accent other than his "hoarse Irish cop" character.

It's a shame...I remember when my Mom and Dad went to and were disappointed by a movie musical based on the search for Shangri-La, which is somewhat the same theme as this. Those stories have been tough to pull off in various productions as that movie and this episode.

brian1984_2001
February 11th, 2004, 09:35 PM
Kurt:

I agree that "The Only Blood" was a magnificent show. Complex characters, great story, nice twist. It's got it all.

Texas
March 17th, 2004, 12:58 PM
Brian 1984, just a thought...

It seems like "political correctness" started really invading the RMT around 1982 (and maybe the last day of '81, given "Too little, too late"). I've noticed it in some other episodes from 82 as well, in little elements that stood out in contrast to the earlier years.

Not discounting 1982, but that really did seem to be an element in the plays then.

brian1984_2001
March 17th, 2004, 10:08 PM
I think that element of preaching creeps in a lot when a show of any sort is in decline. Remember MASH. It degenerated from a very funny show into Alan Alda's anti-war platform.

E.R. used to be a show I enjoyed. But as the show has gone on and new plotlines are harder to come up with, they've resorted to the anti-war/America doesn't do enough for AIDS in Africa/HMO's and drug companies are evil plotlines.

Of course, Ronald Reagan taking office in 1981 could not have set well with liberals like E.G. Marshall and that whole New York crowd. Maybe it was just a response to that.

I hate politics in my entertainment. It doesn't matter if I agree with it or not. Politics (government relations) is a major facet of my profession and I try to leave it at the office.

Texas
March 17th, 2004, 10:31 PM
Brian, agreed.

Still, even given the nature of so many American actors and actresses to be on the politically liberal side, I was astounded to find out how E.G. self-identified as a liberal. I mentioned this on the SOTW "The deadly hour" thread that (IMO) his comments at the end of the RMT's "The picture of Dorian Gray" (given the subject matter) would have gone down with the ease of a garlic milkshake had he said them today.

I realize he may not have written them, but just [i:db5b28bcf0]saying[/i:db5b28bcf0] them might have been career suicide in this current day and age.

What stood out to me in at least a couple of 1982 episodes was how religion, or rather, American preachers, seemed to be viewed less favorably. I know this was in the age of televangelists, when many of them were starting to be viewed less favorably, but still, this was noticeable.

Texas
August 1st, 2004, 12:15 AM
Brian, my big ol' strong as an ox (and smart as the aeronautical engineer that he is) brother got hooked back in the day on the RMT courtesy of yours truly, and the episode which scared the stuffing out of him was "A horror story".

The music is well done, and it's a strange counterplay with Robert Dryden's voice, because as he narrates the show even though he's creepy he also sounds, er, quite "limp-wristed" (is the word I think I'm politely searching for).

Strangely, he reminded me a bit of a college fraternity brother of mine who last I heard was the vice president for treasury for a bank in Texas, so that type of speaking style isn't always a hindrance.

brian1984_2001
August 1st, 2004, 01:38 AM
yes, the narrator did sound a little light in the loafers. He was spooky and that may have been Dryden's finest performance.

I wonder what Elspeth was thinking when she wrote that one! It was way out of character for her. It might be my all time favorite episode now and Elspeth Eric wrote it!

Texas
August 9th, 2004, 07:21 PM
One last thing, Brian.

Based on your very recent good review, I downloaded and listened to "Strange new tomorrow". Interesting that this RMT episode was about one year earlier than the RMT's "Life blood" (http://www.cbsrmt.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=714) yet also featured Joplin, MO's own John Beal as a brilliant inventor who created a beautiful woman/humanoid who assumed the role of a younger female relative (though he/she identified her as his "wife" for her protection in "Strange new tomorrow").

Interesting parallels (and oppositions) in this episode, just as there were parallels and oppositions between "Life blood" and the [i:571d339e4b]Twilight Zone[/i:571d339e4b] episode "The lonely", which I'm sure inspired it. (Looks like that twzsite.com address I linked to on the "Life blood" SOTW thread is dead now. Pity...it was the best source for on-line TWZ scripts and images I'd found.)

Ross
August 9th, 2004, 10:34 PM
Twilight Zone rules! I have them all on DVD.

And yes, I have noticed several parallels over the years between RMT and TWZ.

- Ross

Texas
November 2nd, 2004, 04:06 PM
Brian,

I just saw you gave "The sea nymph" a 5.0. I was a bit surprised by that one, as I thought there was some rich character development on it. Then again, said development was mainly in Norman Rose's character. His performance reminded me of his role in one of the 1982 shows you reviewed where he played an old Louisiana plantation owner, once again vying illictly for a young woman's affections vs. a younger, principled character (again played by Paul Hecht, I believe).

Speaking of Hecht, in "Sea nymph" his was one of the most amusing (if unintentionally so) performances by I've heard...I think he was trying to do a working-class southern accent.

I agree that supernatural aspect seemed tacked on.

Kurt Wayne
August 2nd, 2005, 12:27 PM
Brian:

1. In "The Parade" (X minus one) isn't that where some of the kids get "ptomaine poisoning" from the candy thrown at the parade?

2. Neat to see some of the RMT'ers (William Griffis, Alexander Scourby) in these dramas.

brian1984_2001
August 2nd, 2005, 09:48 PM
Yes. The kids do get Ptomaine poisoning.

I am just loving X Minus One. It is much different than CBSRMT because the times were different.

I think I'm figuring out that I don't much care for Robert Heinlein. I've listened to two of his stories so far and didn't care for either one. I also read the short story "Waldo" and struggled to get to the end. It was sci-fi for engineers.

Chris Conlon
August 4th, 2005, 07:04 PM
Brian, it's interesting for me to read your evaluations of X Minus One, a program I actually know much better than CBSRMT (I grew up listening to tapes of it and collected over half the series when I was a kid---I've heard all of them now). X Minus One did an awful lot of comedies, which for me gets a bit tiresome; but on the other hand, two of my favorite radio shows of all time are X Minus One comedies: "How-2" and "Something for Nothing."

If you like X Minus One you'll like Dimension X, which came along a few years earlier. A number of programs done on X Minus One were actually remakes of Dimension X scripts ("No Contact," "Mars is Heaven," "Almost Human," etc.) In virtually every case I prefer the original Dimension X version, but that's just me. Both shows are among the greatest classics of OTR for sure.

brian1984_2001
August 5th, 2005, 01:35 AM
The only one I've heard so far that I don't like was "The Green Fields of Earth." It made me think of the time Spock jammed with the space hippies. I was surprised to find out it was a Heinlein story -- although I'm sure he didn't write the music.

Chris Conlon
August 5th, 2005, 01:51 AM
"Green Hills" has never been one of my favorites either, though I like some of the Heinelin adaptations, especially "Universe." My choice of the best non-comedy episodes would include "A Gun for Dinosaur," "With Folded Hands," and my all-time favorite X Minus One, Frederik Pohl's "Tunnel Under the World."

brian1984_2001
October 24th, 2005, 03:33 AM
Geez. I'm sort of sad to see my listening logs go away. I worked very hard on them for a very long time.

Rom
March 31st, 2006, 12:46 AM
For who ever is listining was i the only one in the seventies listining to the RMT. I live in new jersey and grew up listing to that program but no one i ever knew except my parents ever knew about it. Let me know if anyone else in new jersey ever grew up listining to that program.
ROM

vinnyv07
April 3rd, 2006, 08:09 PM
I'm from Staten Island....close enough....and I listened to RMT when I was a kid. But I think I found the show late in its run. I started taping the show and then I remember that it went off the air. I was so disappointed. Then of course as I discovered girls and sports the tapes were lost.

doublex
April 13th, 2006, 09:57 AM
Ron-

I lived in New Jersey (Wyckoff) from 1974-1977 and that's where I started listening to the show- 7 pm on WOR.

brian1984_2001
April 15th, 2006, 07:11 PM
There are dozens of encodes from WOR available, so you should enjoy going back in time.

Many of them have Fulton Lewis's commentaries on Watergate. If you're a history buff (and I am), these are invaluable!