On the Wednesday overnight, Oct 07 into Oct 08 at midnight in THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY, we hear two stories about aliens taking over humanity – first “The Mimic” from EXPLORING TOMORROW in 1958, then the original story “Who Goes There” by John W. Campbell – yes, it's THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD, in stereo, from the revival of the SUSPENSE series that started on Sirius Radio in 2012. INNER SANCTUM will return next week. I think we can squeeze in THE STRANGE DR WEIRD, not so sure about BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR, tune in and see! And of course we have a lost JEAN SHEPHERD episode from the Hines Collection on Oct 11, 1962 “It's MY Material!” This one is not to be missed!!

EXPLORING TOMORROW from Mutual on March 19, 1958 #15 “The Mimic” by Robert Silverberg. Host: John W. Campbell Jr., with Mason Adams.

• The Premise: A man returns to Earth on leave after spending five years working and traveling out in deep space.

• The Conflict: When he reunites with his sister, she begins to feel that something is off—suspecting that the man who came back is not quite her real brother.

SUSPENSE Revival series for Sirius Radio
#17 "Who Goes There?" c. 2012
The classic story from 1938 by John W Campbell that is the basis for “The Thing from Another World”

adapted by John C. Alsedek & Dana Perry-Hayes, produced by John C. Alsedek.

An Antarctic research expedition finds something frozen deep in the ice cap—something that is still alive.

Cast & Characters

• Steve Moulton as McReady

• Daamen J. Krall as Blair

• Daniel Hackman as Doc Copper

• Sean Hackman as Norris

• Christopher Duva as Connant

• Jeff Kirshner as Barclay

• John C. Alsedek as Van Wall

• Rocky Cerda

THE STRANGE DOCTOR WEIRD from Mutual net aircheck, syndicated on an RCA transcription on January 09, 1945 #10 "Murder Ship" for Adam Hats. A good story about a pair of murderers trapped in an air pocket inside a sunken ship. Host: Maurice Tarplin, written by Robert A. Arthur & David Kogan, director Jock MacGregor.

BEYOND THE GREEN DOOR 1966 #12 “Drake and the Abominable Snowman”
Narrator Basil Rathbone, written by Robert Sheckley for NBC Monitor


Lost JEAN SHEPHERD from the Hines Collection
from WOR-NY on Monday October 11, 1962
“It's MY Material!”

Being bugged has reached an artform.

All-straight plays and Hitler musical (shades of The Producers!)

Guitar music

Ladies Home Journal reports Saturdays Are Special-Insurance Ad

This is WOR, speaking of Umbrella men.

Guitar continues, more Saturday story

He has been on in NY since 1954, on in the East since 1950. I use the air for my own ends, not to transmit other people's ideas. What I do on the radio is officially mine, I am working as hard as any writer.

Shep a character in a book, using his actual quotes. Also ripped off in The New Yorker cartoons. Listeners should try to spot Shep's work ripped off by others.

Famous TV personality gets into Time Mag for best quote, taken directly from Shep's show a week ago! Night club comic steals Shep's stuff for Ed Sullivan show.

Night club comics encouraged to repeat best bits, but radio performers shouldn't repeat anything they have previously said.

Ed: eng.

A book about men going off to war, taken straight from Shep's show. You can't copyright what you do on the radio, but you can copyright a book.

The Alienation problem.

We believe that you can do anything with the right technique.

All machines now have names. Machines develop human traits. (Predicts AI to some extent)

John Sherwood in The Evening Star. He reads about a pet cemetery, with better eulogies than the human cemetery next door. A mongrel is not a mongrel, but a blend!

(some kind of quartet music under all this)

Show just ends with theme, no real close