www.jackbenny.org

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVMzDTCcCoQ

("New 'Old Time' Radio"... 1970's ?)

I enjoy CBSRMT quite a bit. Like any anthology, it's hit or miss, but I think it's sometimes unfairly criticized through a lens of nostalgia, i.e., it just wasn't as "good as the old days". People think the writing's a little off, but, really, if you listen to a lot of LIGHTS OUT or INNER SANCTUM, the scripts here are generally no worse and frequently a LOT better! E.G. Marshall was a good host too.

Himan Brown would have reached the century mark this July 21: he missed it by only a month and a half.
Radio is apparently good for the soul (and imagination).

Jhammes wrote:Himan Brown would have reached the century mark this July 21: he missed it by only a month and a half.
Radio is apparently good for the soul (and imagination).

Speaking of the century mark, Norman Corwin passed that milestone on May 3.

Oh, gosh! Those CBS Radio Mystery Theater shows are as well made as radio ever got. I have often wondered if they pulled out a bunch of production people from the old days to make that series. OTR ended a little over a decade before that show was produced.

I did notice that E.G. Marshall pronounced "drama" the same way Jack Benny did--not DRAH-ma, but with a flatter Midwestern sort of initial "a" sound. Sort of like "dramma," rhyming with "gramma."

I remember seeing a magazine ad for it at a doctor's waiting room circa 1975... maybe Time magazine?
I never got into it much (Basically, I wanted it to be "Suspense.")
But once I did realize that I had heard Staats Cottsworth working with Robert Dryden, in the 1970s (CBS Radio Mystery Theater), in the mid-1950s (CBS Radio Workshop) and in the late 40s/early 50s (Casey Crime Photographer.)