July 7, 2008 - 751127 - The Dead, Dead Ringer

[wadenjulie]

This week's CBSRMT Show of the Week is presented
by forum member wadenjulie:

751127 The Dead, Dead Ringer 32kbps (http://rapidshare.com/files/128020921/CBSRMT_-_751127_0386_The_Dead__Dead_Ringer.mp3) (16MB)

written by Ian Martin; starring Don Scardino, Evie
Juster, Leon Janny, Jackson Beck .

Encode quality: Excellent
Episode #386
Commercials and News: Yes
Station: KIXI Seattle
Preview: Yes (The Frammis)

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[CardsFan]

When the policeman decides, with little justification, to help the woman and pose as her husband, it reminded me of the scene in "Amazon Women on the Moon" in which a spaceman says "It's only a hunch...." and then proceeds to remove his helmet on an alien planet.

I enjoyed the part where the cop decides to store the body in the freezer.

[Morton Miller]

I like the extended news broadcast before and after the show . . . more on that later.

Maybe real cops don't follow "type" at all, but I'm sorry . . . the voice of Howie the Cop just didn't work for me. He sounded like a shoe salesman, or a piano teacher, or a Quaker pastor. (My appologies to all salesmen, teachers and pastors.) He sounded like, in a room of a hundred people, the gentlest soul in the whole group. But then again, Columbo isn't your typical hard-nosed cop either.

The news and commercials were very good, and today I miss the public service announcements so common back then; I guess these days radio stations don't have to do them and we, the public, don't need them. ???

But I almost choked on my coffee at the beginning! Right after E.G.'s intro and before Act I we get the commercials. An ad for Miller beer which was pretty typical at the time; followed by a short-story Public Service announcement. Poor boy begging for food (won't you help him?) and then this; "George W. is an alcoholic, but wishes he wasn't."

I know that I shouldn't spend so much time on commercials, when RMT stories really are the main thing here; and I shouldn't get political . . . but gawd I found that funny!

Morton