Roddenberry episode of 'Have Gun, Will Travel'
Joseph Nebus
which was mentioned in the closing moments to have been written by Gene
Roddenberry, so if you're interested in his pre-Trek writing for a proper
western this is a chance to listen.
By their schedule it should be repeated today (4 Feburary) at
1:30 pm, 5:30 pm, and possibly 9:30 pm Eastern Time through the American
Concil for the Blind's Radio Treasure Trove,
http://www.abcradio.org/treasuretrove
There are a couple of interesting moments about what is required
to be a successful entertainer.
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Joseph Nebus
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OM
>I just caught an old-time radio episode of 'Have Gun, Will Travel'
>which was mentioned in the closing moments to have been written by Gene
>Roddenberry, so if you're interested in his pre-Trek writing for a proper
>western this is a chance to listen.
...Most of the popular oatburners on TV were recycled and tweaked for
rebroadcast on radio in the late 40s thru 1960, when the last of the
radio networks - See-BS - ceased providing original and/or adaptive
programming for their affiliate stations. Their focii shifted to news,
sports, religious and musical programming. It was the focus to news
that allowed radio to stay on top of the JFK assassination, and a
chunk of the funds previously assigned to program production were used
to fund a series of CONELRAD test drills that proved CONELRAD was a
joke and that a less funny joke - The Emergency Broadcast System - was
needed and quick. Although the FCC and other Civil Defense agancies
funded the lion's share of the CONELRAD and EBS programs, much of the
funding for testing came from the networks and their affilaites.
...As for the GR HGWT script in question, the one everyone wants is
"Helen of Azerbajnian" (SP?), which was the one he won the SWG award
for. That's out there on the DVDs, and it shows up on the binary
groups every month or so during a HGWT flood. One thing that hasn't
turned up is a copy of Chevron Theater featuring "The Secret Defense
of 117", which was GR's first SF sale, and featured Ricardo Montalban
as one of a pair of alien fifth columnists whose supervisors have come
to find out why Earth hasn't been conquered yet. Turns out Earth -
planet 117 - has a secret defense. It's called "love".
OM
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