Old Time radio
Cisco Kid: "A Spanish Shawl"So, these two men rob this father and daughter & shoot the father. The Cisco Kid finds the woman in her wagon, with her father shot & - while the bullet won't come out - Pancho can take that bullet out no problem. Yup. I'm glad that Pancho can do operations in a wagon with no anesthesia or antiseptics & everything will just be fine.
"Maybe there is a way to thank you after all, Cisco," the Senorita says. I'm guessing in real life she wouldn't just kiss him once.
Good thing it's all solved and the patent ending comes. Sancho says something dumbass, and the Cisco Kid "Oh, Sancho!" And Sancho answers, "Oh, Cisco!"
Burns and Allen: "Good Help Is Hard to Find" 02/02/1943Yay! I hope I can transcribe some crazy-ass Gracie this evening.
Well, now the band's playing "Brazil", which I only know because of Pink Martini (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJMW185ucwk).
Crime Classics: "Sudden Death of James Fisk" 06/29/1953James Fisk was apparently killed by either his lover, or his lover's lover (Crime Classics deals with the lead-up to this), and the lovers really aren't making any move to hide their affair (it was the champagne in the slipper that let me realize that).
In the meantime, Fisk and the lover's lover are apparently spending the time throwing each other in jail (the story takes place in 1872 - makes me really appreciate things like gathering evidence against someone).
Radio City Playhouse "The Unguarded Moment" 08/29/1949A psychiatrist is having a bad day, b/c one of his patients is going to go off with his pushy mother (when they're so close to cracking his problems); and meanwhile the psychiatrist's wife is leaving him. But, in the end (and after talking to his secretary), his patient comes back and the guy goes home to find his wife has stayed. That's the part that I really didn't believe in (but maybe that's just me in life).
Boston Blackie: "Building Fire" 08/20/19461/2 of a partnership lets his insurance laps (after being warned by the insurance agent), then - whaddya know - sets fire to the building. Thing is, he'd wanted to run off with his business partner's wife & was using the fire as a way to bankrupt his business partner & run off with the man's wife (because she's all into the money). Problem is, the wife went to the building when the fire was set. The arsonist (murderer) goes back to the wreckage looking for the woman's body, but it turns out she's alive! She keeps calling & threatening to go to the cops. Finally she threatens to come & kill him & he goes to the cops & confesses to be saved.
Turns out the person calling him was Boston Blackie's female friend (the chick who always shows up) was the one doing the calling. The business partner's wife had died in the fire, but BB had persuaded the cops (particularly Faraday, who always gives BB sh*t, which goes both ways) to not let the arsonist/murderer know about it in order to make him crazy.
Inner Sanctum: "Terror by Night" 09/18/1945Uh-oh: prison break. And a crazy warning siren. And, watch it: "he'd rather kill than eat" the man on the radio warns us. Looks like the escaped prisoner better eat the narrator (a woman of course).
Well, she was stopped by a cop who told her to go to a mechanic's. I guess the cop should have gone to the mechanic's place, since he's been killed (neck slit from ear-to-ear). And now she's with the suspected killer in his coupe (cute: she's pronouncing it "coup-ay").
Yay - The Lipton Tea Lady is talking to the creepy host who always makes macabre jokes.
Ah! This was one of those stories in which a good thing happens: during the time that the narrator tells the story, she thinks that the man driving the car is the killer. They stop off at a house after getting stuck in the mud, go to a doctor's house & she thinks that the killer will attack. It turns out, at the end, that the driver is the good guy and the bad guy has tied the doctor in the basement. The driver (John Taylor) didn't tell her what was going on, because he thought she was the killer's girlfriend (they both have red hair). But, it's ok, because when she wakes up with nightmares, her husband (the driver, John Taylor) takes her in his arms.
"Maybe there is a way to thank you after all, Cisco," the Senorita says. I'm guessing in real life she wouldn't just kiss him once.
Good thing it's all solved and the patent ending comes. Sancho says something dumbass, and the Cisco Kid "Oh, Sancho!" And Sancho answers, "Oh, Cisco!"
Burns and Allen: "Good Help Is Hard to Find" 02/02/1943Yay! I hope I can transcribe some crazy-ass Gracie this evening.
Well, now the band's playing "Brazil", which I only know because of Pink Martini (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJMW185ucwk).
Crime Classics: "Sudden Death of James Fisk" 06/29/1953James Fisk was apparently killed by either his lover, or his lover's lover (Crime Classics deals with the lead-up to this), and the lovers really aren't making any move to hide their affair (it was the champagne in the slipper that let me realize that).
In the meantime, Fisk and the lover's lover are apparently spending the time throwing each other in jail (the story takes place in 1872 - makes me really appreciate things like gathering evidence against someone).
Radio City Playhouse "The Unguarded Moment" 08/29/1949A psychiatrist is having a bad day, b/c one of his patients is going to go off with his pushy mother (when they're so close to cracking his problems); and meanwhile the psychiatrist's wife is leaving him. But, in the end (and after talking to his secretary), his patient comes back and the guy goes home to find his wife has stayed. That's the part that I really didn't believe in (but maybe that's just me in life).
Boston Blackie: "Building Fire" 08/20/19461/2 of a partnership lets his insurance laps (after being warned by the insurance agent), then - whaddya know - sets fire to the building. Thing is, he'd wanted to run off with his business partner's wife & was using the fire as a way to bankrupt his business partner & run off with the man's wife (because she's all into the money). Problem is, the wife went to the building when the fire was set. The arsonist (murderer) goes back to the wreckage looking for the woman's body, but it turns out she's alive! She keeps calling & threatening to go to the cops. Finally she threatens to come & kill him & he goes to the cops & confesses to be saved.
Turns out the person calling him was Boston Blackie's female friend (the chick who always shows up) was the one doing the calling. The business partner's wife had died in the fire, but BB had persuaded the cops (particularly Faraday, who always gives BB sh*t, which goes both ways) to not let the arsonist/murderer know about it in order to make him crazy.
Inner Sanctum: "Terror by Night" 09/18/1945Uh-oh: prison break. And a crazy warning siren. And, watch it: "he'd rather kill than eat" the man on the radio warns us. Looks like the escaped prisoner better eat the narrator (a woman of course).
Well, she was stopped by a cop who told her to go to a mechanic's. I guess the cop should have gone to the mechanic's place, since he's been killed (neck slit from ear-to-ear). And now she's with the suspected killer in his coupe (cute: she's pronouncing it "coup-ay").
Yay - The Lipton Tea Lady is talking to the creepy host who always makes macabre jokes.
Ah! This was one of those stories in which a good thing happens: during the time that the narrator tells the story, she thinks that the man driving the car is the killer. They stop off at a house after getting stuck in the mud, go to a doctor's house & she thinks that the killer will attack. It turns out, at the end, that the driver is the good guy and the bad guy has tied the doctor in the basement. The driver (John Taylor) didn't tell her what was going on, because he thought she was the killer's girlfriend (they both have red hair). But, it's ok, because when she wakes up with nightmares, her husband (the driver, John Taylor) takes her in his arms.