Showing posts with label 1963. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1963. Show all posts
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Blood On The Prairie (half an episode) 1963
Blood On The Prairie
Episode 1 (2nd half only)
19th March 1963
(14 minutes)
Written & Produced by Charles Chilton.
The series was 13 episodes. This is the 2nd half of the first episode, the first half having being recorded over.
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Charles Chilton (who died last week at the age of 95) is of course best known for the radio serials Journey Into Space which ran from 1953 to 1958. Before this (from 1949 to 1953) he did 6 series of "Riders Of The Range" set in the old wild west. He returned to a wild west theme with Blood On The Prairie in 1963. Unfortunately whoever recorded this off air (in wonderful quality I might add) went and recorded over the first half of the episode, but this at least gives us a little taster of one of Chilton's other works.
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Mystery. Can you help?
Lucky Strike / Date With A Disc, c.1963
This one is mystery hopefully someone can solve.
The reel starts with the first ten minutes of a show called "Lucky Strike". After ten minutes the reel was stopped and you get a further 20 minutes of the show that was being recorded over, "Date With A Disc".
- It's the same person doing both shows.
- They can't be BBC shows, the BBC don't do advertising so would never have had a show called Lucky Strike.
- There were no Independent local stations in the UK in 1963 and the only other possibility would be Radio Luxembourg but it sounds nothing like a Luxy show and I'm sure a Luxy show sponsored by Lucky Strike would mention the sponsor more than just the once at the very start.
- There was a BBC show called Date With A Disc. It was hosted at this time by Alan Dell. The man in these recordings is not Alan Dell and this show sounds nothing like Date With A Disc. That also rules out Luxembourg who would never have copied the name of a current BBC show.
I'm pretty sure the person who recorded this worked in radio or in sound recording.
I can only think of 2 possibilities...
1. He was making these recordings for the fun of it, as a hobby.
2. He was recording them for hospital radio.
Does anyone recognise his voice?
Lucky Strike
Date With A Disc
This one is mystery hopefully someone can solve.
The reel starts with the first ten minutes of a show called "Lucky Strike". After ten minutes the reel was stopped and you get a further 20 minutes of the show that was being recorded over, "Date With A Disc".
- It's the same person doing both shows.
- They can't be BBC shows, the BBC don't do advertising so would never have had a show called Lucky Strike.
- There were no Independent local stations in the UK in 1963 and the only other possibility would be Radio Luxembourg but it sounds nothing like a Luxy show and I'm sure a Luxy show sponsored by Lucky Strike would mention the sponsor more than just the once at the very start.
- There was a BBC show called Date With A Disc. It was hosted at this time by Alan Dell. The man in these recordings is not Alan Dell and this show sounds nothing like Date With A Disc. That also rules out Luxembourg who would never have copied the name of a current BBC show.
I'm pretty sure the person who recorded this worked in radio or in sound recording.
I can only think of 2 possibilities...
1. He was making these recordings for the fun of it, as a hobby.
2. He was recording them for hospital radio.
Does anyone recognise his voice?
Lucky Strike
Date With A Disc
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