If there are any Old Time Radio listeners in this group I would be
interested in your input. Using creativity, production, acting,
writing and your totally unobjective personal taste as the criteria,
rank your top ten old
time radio programs. Mine a

1. The Adventures of Harry Lime
2. Crime Classics
3. Mr. President
4. Suspense
5. Frontier Gentleman
6. The Whistler
7. Gunsmoke
8. I Was a Communist For the FBI
9. You Are There
10.Unit 99

Points will be awarded inversely e.g. 10 points for a #1 ranking, 9
points for #2, etc. Totals will be calculated weekly for one month or
however long interest in the topic remains.

Leader in the clubhouse:
The Adventures of Harry Lime: 10 points.

Incidentally a fantastic website devoted to Old Time Radio is
http://www.otrcat.com/index.php/ I have no stake in the site, just
feel they deserve a plug for their contribution to keeping the OTR
hobby alive and well. One could spend many evenings reading the well
written
synopses and histories of hundreds of OTR programs produced during
that wonderful era.

On Thursday, August 2nd, 2012, at 21:16:53h -0400, Truth Teller wrote:

If there are any Old Time Radio listeners in this group I would be
interested in your input.

I am surprised that Dimension X / X Minus One does not get a place
in your top ten list.

In terms of production and acting quality, the NBC University Theater
of the Air should also be included.


Here is a list of OTR stations available over the Internet.

Additions and corrections are always welcome.


20th Century Radio http://74.53.80.173:6006
Abacus.fm OTR Crime http://50.7.241.10:8006
Alltime Oldies Radio Theater http://64.150.176.87:8232
Audio Noir http://208.53.138.125:8242
Conyers Old Time Radio http://redmanstreams.com:8740
Goldradio Old Time Radio http://184.154.145.114:8097
Heat Wave Radio OTR Crime Classics http://69.175.14.27:80
Heat Wave Radio OTR Family Classics http://208.53.158.48:8288
KK-JA Radio 1610 AM http://208.79.238.78:8010
Mystery Play Internet Radio http://173.193.223.145:8088
Old Time Radio Fan http://www.otrfan.com:8000/stream
Old Valve Radio http://www.oldvalveradio.com:8002
Old-Time Radio 1710 AM http://grace.fast-serv.com:9022
OTR Now http://www.live365.com/play/259299
OTR Now CrimeTime http://www.live365.com/play/258711
Sound Stages Radio http://streamgeeks.com:14042
WNAR-AM 1620 http://live.wnar-am.com:8500
Yesterday USA http://www.live365.com/play/294686

On Aug 3, 7:12 am, J G Miller wrote:


I am surprised that Dimension X / X Minus One does not get a place
in your top ten list.

In terms of production and acting quality, the NBC University Theater
of the Air should also be included.

I was afraid this would happen - the thread is about one's PERSONAL
favorites. It is not intended to be an arbitrary list that would
elicit "how can you possibly leave _______ out!" responses. I'm not
an expert on professional radio broadcasting standards, just an Old
Time Radio fan. So do you have a list of favorites or not?

On Saturday, August 4th, 2012, at 09:59:32h -0400, Truth Teller wrote:

I was afraid this would happen - the thread is about one's PERSONAL
favorites.

Yes and Dimension X / X Minus One and NBC University Theater of the Air
are amongst my personal favorites otherwise I would not have mentioned
them.

Myself and I suspect the vast majority of the readers of this newsgroup
have insufficient motivation or time to draw up a definitive top ten list
accurately rated according to all the criteria which you have specified.

Lists of one's favorite top tens are entirely pointless anyways,
and the thing which is of interest and value to others, which you
appear to be intent on squashing, is meaningful discussion of why
shows should be on a top ten list.

So do you have a list of favorites or not?

I do but not in any definitive order which you are obviously not interested
in, nor why those shows would be on my list or anybody else's list.

On Saturday, August 4th, 2012, at 09:59:32h -0400, Truth Teller wrote:
I was afraid this would happen - the thread is about one's PERSONAL
favorites.

Yes and Dimension X / X Minus One and NBC University Theater of the Air
are amongst my personal favorites otherwise I would not have mentioned
them.

Well, put my vote in for Dimension X as a personal favorite as well, but
then again I also always liked Johnny Dollar, which is kind of cheesy but
still great fun.

Myself and I suspect the vast majority of the readers of this newsgroup
have insufficient motivation or time to draw up a definitive top ten list
accurately rated according to all the criteria which you have specified.

There is an old time radio newsgroup still, isn't there?
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

On Tuesday, August 7th, 2012, at 10:14:15 -0400, Scott Dorsey wrote:

but then again I also always liked Johnny Dollar, which is kind of
cheesy but still great fun.

I have heard some of those, and yes you are right, cheesy but fun.
Another similar show to that is Richard Diamond, Private Detective.

There is an old time radio newsgroup still, isn't there?

alt.radio.oldtime, but not at all active except for messages from the
anti-semite conspiracy theory fringe who are now trying to muscle in
on this newsgroup.

In case you do not understand that last comment, here is what
the original poster Truth Teller has been posting in another
radio newsgroup alt.radio.networks.cbc


Newsgroups: alt.tv.networks.cbc,alt.radio.networks.cbc
Subject: Three Jew Sympathy Tales In One Newscast
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 21:57:43 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:

On Aug 6, 11:15Â*am, J G Miller wrote:
On Sunday, August 5th, 2012, at 19:19:53h -0700, Truth Teller
proclaimed:

On Jul 19, 10:46Â*am, J G Miller wrote:
On Thursday, July 19th, 2012, at 07:17:16h -0700, Kixi asked:

In the case of that group being Muslims, from Iran Press TV ...

...

Â* Â* Typical Zionist lemming.

Incidentally, are you trying to imply that Press TV, an organ of the
Islamic Republic of Iran is publishing pro-zionist propaganda?

No. I am stating, not implying, that YOU are a Zionist lemming.