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Dustbin of History!

Wed, Oct 25, 2023 1:00 AM

FANTASTIC 4, DICKENS' THE SIGNAL-MAN, JEAN SHEPHERD

Tonight in THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY on WBAI-NY 99.5 FM, and streaming on wbai.org, we will hear the 10th episode of the 1975 radio series THE FANTASTIC FOUR with Stan Lee & Bill Murray, a Charles Dickens classic from NIGHTFALL, and a never-before rebroadcast (maybe) episode of JEAN SHEPHERD for the Halloween season from 1973! It's heard Tuesday into Wednesday, October 24 into 25, from 1 to 3 am, on WBAI-NY 99.5 FM, and streaming on wbai.org.


FANTASTIC FOUR Radio Series 1975
Stan Lee as the Narrator
Bob Maxwell as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic
Cynthia Adler as Sue Storm/The Invisible Girl
Jim Pappas as Ben Grimm/The Thing
Bill Murray as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch
Jerry Terheyden as Doctor Doom


#10 “A Super-Skrull Walks Among Us” (based on Fantastic Four #18)


If you are a fan of this series, here's a solid interview with the producer: http://www.kleefeldoncomics.com/.../peter-b-lewis...


NIGHTFALL from CBCF net, Vancouver origination on Dec 17, 1982 #80 "The Signalman" by Charles Dickens, adapted by Otto Lowy. A railroad signalman is driven to the brink of madness by a spectral apparition at the mouth of a train tunnel. It seems to be trying to warn him of...what? Host: Bill Reiter (as "Frederick Hende"), Leon Parnow, Duncan Fraser, Desmond Smiley, William Samples, Gerry Stanley, executive producer Don Kowalchuk, SFX by Chris Cutress, produced and directed by Robert Chesterman.


Tonight's not-so-lost episode of JEAN SHEPHERD
from the Pete Delaney collection – he dates it Monday Oct 13, 1973
“The Bloody Finger in the Box Gag”
Other broadcast dates for this show:
March 1972 (possible first broadcast) called “Norbert's Bones & Dillinger's Severed Finger, Creepy Stories”
Nov 04, 1974
Sept 09, 1976 (as “John Dillinger's Finger), and syndicated in 1976 (my title “Gruesome-O-Mania, Dillinger's Finger”)
Here is Pete's own description:
Wild echo sound
This show is as evil as the black pit!
Crematorium ashes flown into England now require a VAT (Value Added Tax)
The Weekend
The Belgian named Norbert who collects the malodorous bones of Napoleonic soldiers from the battle of Waterloo.
A warning to listeners about the next 2 stories
Jean Shepherd & Sinful Street at the Carlton (now Count Basie) Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey, April 7, 1972. The show s a celebration of the Orpheum gravy boat riot and the coming of Spring
Shep, Flick, Schwartz and Brunner and Jack Martin walk home from school playing Kick The Can when Martin asks the quartet if they want to see something in the Martin basement.
S P O I L E R A L E R T !!!!
What Martin showed them was a finger from the hand of JOHN DILLINGER!
In the swamp next to the WGH school an old small shack had a hand nailed to an outside wall. The WGH principal, janitor and and an officer from the Hammond Police Department investigate.
A peeping Tom sees a lot more than naked bodies.

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