Show #26 - Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show & Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

"What's a Rexall?"  Phil Harris wondered this on one of the early broadcasts of the Phil Harris-Alice Faye show, and you may be wondering too.  Find out in this Mother's Day episode of the Phil Harris-Alice Faye show, in which Phil enlists his buddy Remley to help buy Alice a present.

The second show on the Old Time Radio Express is episode 4 of 5 of "The Flight 6 Matter" on Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.  Dollar chases the suspects to Acapulco, and may get into more than he bargains for.

Show #25 - The Lone Ranger & Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

If there's an old time radio show that needs no introduction, it's The Lone Ranger.  I would hazard a guess that even folks who don't know old time radio associate the strains of The William Tell Overture with that masked man and his faithful Indian companion, Tonto.

Every generation from the '30's have had their version of the Lone Ranger, starting with the radio show, then comics, television, movies, and even video games (yes, there was a 1991 video game.  And to see how sophisticated the game was, take a look at this screen shot:)

I would suspect that the Lone Ranger and Tonto will be revived for the big screen for this generation at some point in the near future.  Indeed, Hollywood is very "green" - they recycle concepts and scripts as often as possible.

Following Brace Beemer and John Todd in their roles as the Lone Ranger and Tonto, we listen to part 3 of the Flight Six Matter on Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, with Bob Bailey starred as the title character.

Show #24 - Information, Please! & Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, part 2

This week on the Old Time Radio Express, we continue listening to "The Flight Six Matter" on Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, and listen to a 30 minute program of Information, Please!

I can think of no modern equivalent for Information, Please! on television.  It most reminds me of a program like the McLaughlin Group, a PBS show that I can remember my Grandpa Shelley watching regularly, but the only real similarity is that the show consists of a group of highly educated men sitting around discussing important things.  Information, Please! was a game-show of sorts, though, with the public submitting questions designed to stump the experts.  I don't know if the phenomenon of public interest in shows like Information, Please! and Quiz Kids - "high-brow" entertainment - has ever been duplicated.  These men on Information, Please! (Clifton Fadiman, Franklin P. Adams and John Kieran) were celebrities in their day.

On the Information, Please program on the OTR Express, guest Orson Welles joins the group with interesting results.

Our second program is the second installment of the Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar matter, "The Flight Six Matter", with new events that lead Johnny deeper into the rabbit hole...Enjoy!