This Tuesday overnight, August 13 into 14 from 1 to 3am in THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY, the final Arch Oboler SHADOW script for Orson Welles, another taste in The Dustbin of THEATRE FIVE, which turned 60 this week, a little satire with a promo record for CHICKENMAN from 1966, and another lost episode of JEAN SHEPHERD from Friday July 15, 1975 “Hexes and Curses.” The program is heard on WBAI-NY 99.5 FM and on the stream at wbai.org.

We might as well start with the third and final Arch Oboler script for the Orson Welles version of THE SHADOW in 1938!

THE SHADOW via syndication on Dept 18 1938 #26 “Professor X” for B.F. Goodrich Tires. A criminal is bankrolling a mad scientist who is working on an electronic disintegration machine. He plans to "send living flesh by wire." Starring Orson Welles as Lamont Cranston, Margot Stevenson as Margo Lane, Alan Devitt, Arthur Vinton, Dwight Weist, written by Arch Oboler, produced and directed by F. Bourne Ruthrauff, organist Rosa Rio, announcer Ken Roberts.

THEATRE FIVE from the ABC Network on March 17, 1965 #163 "Across The River To Grandfather's House." Who killed grandfather? Why does no member of the family ever leave the house? Starring Alan Bunce, Alice Ghostly, Court Benson, James Monks, written by Robert Cenedella, script editor Jack C. Wilson, music composed by Alexander Vlas-Daczenco, conducted by Glenn Osser, produced and directed by Warren Somerville, audio engineers Edward Saltzman & Marty Folia, sound effects by Ed Blainey, exec producer Lee Bowman, announcer Fred Foy.

Big thanks to Joe Webb and the entire team of Old Time Radio Researchers who worked on, an have just released, the 60th anniversary set of the series.
https://archive.org/details/T5-60thAnniversary

CHICKENMAN Promo recording - We ran out of time to play this last week, but here it is – well worth the wait!! - will try to get to it next week!! Thanks to David Lennick of Lennick's Lacquers for sharing it!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/639821642871020

Another lost JEAN SHEPHERD program from the Piletic collection!
From Friday August 15, 1975 “Hexes and Curses”

news top, then theme Sign in Dry Cleaners: "drop pants for immediate attention."
first line: Gonna raid that joint one day I'll tell ya.

Have you been cursed??

WOR ID, Lady Schick Hair Dryer, EX-Bier, European Health Spa

Crime: something the other guy does.
Yankee Stadium curse during World Series Vs White Sox
"Horns, horns" Woman puts curse on pitcher.
Shep wears Italian charm to reverse horns curse.

WOR ID again, Royal Biscayne Beach Hotel, Squibb Theragran, Jack & Roger for New Bonds, General Tire, Aeromexico

Hare Krishna in baseball cap, keys locked in car
Is U.S. cursed?? NYC cursed by Duluth Minnesota
Shep describes how to make the horns
Once given, nearly impossible to take back.

Shep tells how to defend against horns.