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Mon 15 Nov, 2021 12:15 pm
I remember as a kid having a favorite radio character that all the other kids considered one of their favorites also.
His name, as far as we were concerned, was: The Long Ranger.
Any of you remember him?
@Frank Apisa,
Why, yes – I really liked the "Long Ranger" as well!
@Frank Apisa,
Frank Apisa wrote:
I remember as a kid having a favorite radio character that all the other kids considered one of their favorites also.
His name, as far as we were concerned, was: The Long Ranger.
Any of you remember him?
Are you older then even myself as I do remember the black and white TV of the long ranger but off hand no radio shows.
@BillRM,
BillRM wrote:
Frank Apisa wrote:
I remember as a kid having a favorite radio character that all the other kids considered one of their favorites also.
His name, as far as we were concerned, was: The Long Ranger.
Any of you remember him?
Are you older then even myself as I do remember the black and white TV of the long ranger but off hand no radio shows.
I'm 85...so I am going to guess I am older.
The entertainment of my very young days were radio days. Along with The Long Ranger...there was Sky King, Superman, The Shadow, Tom Mix, The Green Hornet, Sgt. Preston.
@Frank Apisa,
Yes you are older by 12 years and having just fallen in love once more I am feeling like a damn teenager once more on top of that.
I go back to 3 channels TV and needing to have an antenna mounted on the roof that could be rotated between New York area and the Phil area to get those channels.
Ah yes. Brace Beemer was the Lone Ranger when I was a kid and John Todd was Tonto. I remember all of those shows - The Fat Man, Dragnet, The Life o Riley, Ozzie and Harriet, The Great Gildersleve, Baby Snooks, I Love a Mystery, Inner Sanctum, Suspense, The Cisco Kid - so many more. Straight Arrow, Superman, Blackhawk, Little Orphan Annie - Gunsmoke.
@Frank Apisa,
I dated the Green Hornet's daughter.
@hightor,
hightor wrote:
Why, yes – I really liked the "Long Ranger" as well!
We are talking about the porn movie, right?
Who was that masked man?!
When I was at primary school we were taught about all the good the British Empire did, how people like David Livingstone brought light to the dark continent and civilised the savages.
Films like North West Frontier and Zulu helped to reinforce that message.
By the time I reached secondary school things had changed. We learned about the Indian mutiny and other less savoury aspects of British rule.
Yet the truth isn't one extreme or another it's more nuanced. I recently heard some BAME kids being interviewed about the British Empire and what they thought about.
Overall they thought it was a good thing because otherwise they wouldn't be British citizens.
@Frank Apisa,
The first time I heard of Tom Mix was when I read the Riverworld novella. I still don't think I've ever seen him in anything.
One programme that really stood out was Escape Into Night, about a sick girl who draws a picture of a house in her scrapbook.
When she dreams she goes to that house and starts to regret some of the things she had draw .
It was a kid's programme but it gave me nightmares.
Things do change, England have just put 10 goals past San Marino and automatically qualifies for the World Cup.
@izzythepush,
Some of Tom Mix's films have been lost or destroyed. Many were silent. I don't recall if he made talkies. I think I read his voice was not right. I used to see him in a serial on early TV. I don't recall who played him on the radio.
izzythepush wrote:
The first time I heard of Tom Mix was when I read the Riverworld novella. I still don't think I've ever seen him in anything.
One programme that really stood out was Escape Into Night, about a sick girl who draws a picture of a house in her scrapbook.
When she dreams she goes to that house and starts to regret some of the things she had draw .
It was a kid's programme but it gave me nightmares.
@edgarblythe,
In the novelette he turns out to be a dead ringer for Jesus Christ.
@izzythepush,
I read a biography of Mix written by his wife, Olive Stokes Mix, quite a few years ago. He and another cowboy actor was a pallbearer for Wyatt Earp. His popularity today is just a reflection of public sentiment from the past in my opinion. He killed himself by speeding down a road with a deep dip. When the car went down his head hit the car overhead and broke his neck.
@edgarblythe,
Talking of radio, when I was a kid they brought back the radio series Dick Barton special agent.
It wax something my parents listened to during the war. I remember liking it but I was a kid.
They did make a film, it's on YouTube. I saw the first five minutes but it was ridiculous. One of Barton's assistants was a Scotman called Jock.
In the film they're driving along in the car while Jock is dressed in full Highland kit complete with Tam O Shanter playing the bloody bagpipes.
They played a radio serial once that I think was of British origin, in which one of the planets was actually a spaceship. It lasted a lot of episodes.
One of my best favorite radio shows was the whistler.
"I am the Whistler. And I know many strange things hidden in the hearts of men. I know the terrors of which they dare not speak. For I walk by night."
@edgarblythe,
A famous radio advert destroyed a leading cigarette brand with the line, "You're never alone with a strand," which associated the brand with having no friends.
@BillRM,
BillRM wrote:
Yes you are older by 12 years and having just fallen in love once more I am feeling like a damn teenager once more on top of that.
I go back to 3 channels TV and needing to have an antenna mounted on the roof that could be rotated between New York area and the Phil area to get those channels.
Same with me. Central New Jersey. Three channels...mostly the ones from NYC. We were rather poor...and we did not get a TV until I was 12 or 13. Radio shows between 5 and 6 o'clock in the evening was the standard for almost all of us back in the day.
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:
Ah yes. Brace Beemer was the Lone Ranger when I was a kid and John Todd was Tonto. I remember all of those shows - The Fat Man, Dragnet, The Life o Riley, Ozzie and Harriet, The Great Gildersleve, Baby Snooks, I Love a Mystery, Inner Sanctum, Suspense, The Cisco Kid - so many more. Straight Arrow, Superman, Blackhawk, Little Orphan Annie - Gunsmoke.
Loved all of those, Edgar. Especially Baby Snooks and The Life of Riley. "What a revolting development this is"...is still a phrase I use often today. Only the old geezers get it.
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