This Tuesday overnight, April 23 into 24 from 1 to 3am in THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY, we hear more from ARCH OBOLER, including the complete Stereo LP “DROP DEAD, AN EXERCISE IN HORROR!” from 1962, the next from the series ARCH OBOLER'S PLAYS, and another lost episode of JEAN SHEPHERD from April 22, 1975 “Games (non-sport).”

It is broadcast on WBAI-NY 99.5 FM and on the stream at wbai.org.

ARCH OBOLER's DROP DEAD! (An Exercise In Horror) 1962 Capitol Records ST-1763

Side One:

Introduction To Horror

I'm Hungry (Movie-type Horror)

Taking Papa Home (Suspense-type Horror)

The Dark (Radio-tape Horror)

Side Two:

A Day At The Dentist's (Comedy-type Horror)

The Posse (T.V.-type Horror)

Chicken Heart (Science Fiction-type Horror)

The Laughing Man (The Ultimate In Horror)

Written, directed, and narrated by Arch Oboler, with Barney Phillips, Bea Benaderet, Bill Phipps, Chet Stratton, Edgar Barrier, Forrest Lewis, Harold Peary, Jack Johnstone, Jack Kruschen, Jerry Hausner, Junius Matthews, Larry Dobkin, Mercedes McCambridge, Olan Soule, Ralph Moody, Sam Edwards, Virginia Gregg

Originally released in 1962 as a mono pressing “Arch Oboler - Drop Dead! An Exercise In Horror!”

ARCH OBOLER'S PLAYS Syndicated revival series via the AFRTS on July 13, 1964 #2 "Visitor From Hades." One day, the devil calmly walks in and sits down in the living room...to watch. Writer, host producer, director Arch Oboler, Lurene Tuttle, Bill Phipps, Paula Winslowe, announcer Byron Kane.

 

Lost JEAN SHEPHERD from WOR-NY on Tuesday April 22, 1975 "Games (non-sport)"

A friend still working on a ship model he got in 1966.

Salute to a new emerging art form from ABC: non-Sport sport

Kids sport: Long-distance spitting

Ken Samples of Salem OR catches strawberries shot from slingshot in his mouth

Cowflop throwing contest in OK

It's spring - a time of unease, due to season change.

Herd instinct - Man's desire to monopolize - games are a natural offshoot

ID @ 16:42

Urge to compete

Clean-up week at Morton School - every Spring, Arbor Day (last Friday in April)

Tennis - a Sport of affluence

Money Button @ 26:26

American Kosher Franks with free Baloney!

National Airlines - Fly Me!

Golf - another money game that requires space

Games reflect the environment - Ice Skating in Canada

Broomsticks - Stickball in NYC, Hitting bottlecaps in sandy vacant lots in Indiana

34:58 The Commercial Game! Grand Union, Ringling Bros Circus at MSG, TSS Dept Store, Finn Air-Peter Lind Hayes & Mary Healy, Buddy's Place Nightclub, NY Magazine, Time Magazine.

Golf - you only opponent is yourself.

Tennis - you can belt the other guy! - and no personal danger like in Baseball

Kid game - Flipping broomsticks into holes