[rollei_list] Re: Test Message

"The Challenge of The Yukon"; was that related to Sgt.
Preston?

John

--- Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> ----- Original Message ----- 
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 10:21 AM
> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Test Message
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> 
> > What about Kato?  Wasn't he the driver of the
> Black 
> > Bueaty?, and the Shadow go for.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Test Message
> >
> >   I seem to remember "The weed of crime bears
> bitter
> > fruit".
> >
> > John
> 
>    Correct! My memory was not working very well this
> 
> morning. "The weed of crime bears bitter fruit,
> crime does 
> not pay, the Shadow knows... (shadow laugh).
>     Kato was from _The Green Hornet_ a show done at
> WXYZ in 
> Detroit using the same stock company as _The Lone
> Ranger_ 
> and _Challenge of the Yukon_.  WXYZ was independant
> but 
> originally sold its shows to Mutual. Sometime around
> mid or 
> late 1930's the NBC Blue network outbid Mutual and
> WXYZ 
> became a Blue affilliate. Blue became ABC as the
> result of 
> an anti-trust action in 1941 and WXYZ became an ABC 
> affiliate. ABC eventually bought the station. _The
> Lone 
> Ranger_ eventually returned to Mutual when it
> stopped being 
> popular enough for ABC to continue carrying it.
>     The _Green Hornet_ had several ties to the _Lone
> 
> Ranger_. Britt Read was the Lone Ranger's great
> grand 
> nephew, or something like that, was the actual
> identity of 
> the _Green Hornet_, had a non-anglo assistant
> (Kato), etc.
>     Having been born in Detroit I was an avid
> listener to 
> all three of the WXYZ kid shows. Like other shows
> the 
> openings and closings of the _Green Hornet_ changed
> over 
> time. The one I remember was "He fights the biggest
> of all 
> crime: Public enemies who try to destroy our
> America... The 
> Green Hornet".
>     The "Black Beauty" sound was a Valentino sound
> effect 
> record of a Deusenberg which was not used for
> anything else 
> at WXYZ, I have no idea of how the Hornet buzz was
> produced. 
> At one time I could remember the exact wording of
> the 
> narration of Britt and Kato going from Britt Read's 
> apartment "through a passageway built within the
> walls of 
> the appartment itself" and leading to an adjacent
> building 
> "although supposedly abandoned this building served
> as the 
> hiding place for the Hornet's sleek, superpowered
> car, the 
> Black Beauty. (Sound of car doors opening and
> closing and 
> car starting... guns engine...) "a section of the
> wall opens 
> and the gleaming Black Beauty speeds into the night
> (car 
> accelerates with gear changes and fades into
> distance). 
> This introduction was used in every program for
> several 
> years. If I tax my memory I may be able to remember
> it 
> whole.
>     WXYZ shows had a distinctive sound, perhaps
> because the 
> sound effects were done in a separate studio from
> the cast, 
> an unusual production technique at the time.
> 
> ---
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles, CA, USA
> dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  
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