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  • The Avengers , The diplomia of death
    Britain's most successful television thriller series - THE AVENGERS. (A.B.C. TELEVISION). Based on the television series which has thrilled millions, Douglas Enefer's new novel, presenting those same characters you have come to know on the television screen, brings the kind of reading pleasure that is only rarely available. Those characters who have thrilled millions on television, now between the covers of a thrill-a-page novel.
    29 min
  • Great Classics, A Tale of two cities
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    A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is one of Dickens’ two historical novels, the other being Barnaby Rudge, the two cities in question are Paris and London at the time of the French Revolution. Perhaps unsurprisingly Dickens seems to disdain the aristocracy. The heroic nobleman, Charles Darnay, renounces his status in opposition to his uncle, the Marquis de St Evremonde, and the evils of oppression he represents. Meanwhile, Dr Manette the physician has become aware of the Marquis’ ill-practice through a young peasant and his sister who have been hideously treated. After Darnay leaves France, he falls in love with Manette’s daughter, Lucie, and they are married. The story continues after Darnay’s happiness with Lucie as he returns to France during the Terror to save a servant. Darnay is arrested and condemned to death. The final section of the novel is concerned with the question of whether he will survive or be punished for his noble act of rescue, and whether or not the Englishman Carton who resembles Darnay will be able to save his life. It is a story of great sacrifices being made for the sake of principle. The novel is notable for its vivid representation of France during this troubled time and was modelled on Carlyle’s The French Revolution. Although contemporary critics saw it as humourless, it has become popular since then due to film and dramatic adaptations.
    13 min
  • Dr Kildare
    Dr. James Kildare was a fictional character, the primary character in a series of American theatrical films in the late 1930s and early 1940s, an early 1950s radio series, a 1960s television series of the same name and a comic book based on the tv show. The character was invented by the western fiction author, Frederick Schiller Faust.
    The character began the film series as a medical intern; after becoming a doctor he was mentored by an older physician, Dr. Leonard Gillespie. After the first ten films, the series eliminated the character of Kildare and focused instead on Gillespie.
    27 min
  • Abbott & costello , Susquehan hat comp
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    Bagel Street, aka. Susquehanna Hat Company routine, with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, taken from "In Society"
    This is a classic vaudeville routine, and highly popular with the fans of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. During the filming of In Society, Lou wanted to include this routine in the movie. However, because the movie was already on a tight shooting schedule, since Universal Pictures wanted to release this film before MGM's Abbott and Costello movie "Lost in a Harem," the producers refused. Lou was unwilling to give up on the idea, so he filmed and directed this segment himself.
    The routine involves Abbott and Costello helping out a friend, Derby Dan, owner of a hat shop, by delivering some hats to the Susquehanna Hat Company on Bagel Street (later, when doing the same routine on the Abbott and Costello television show, it was changed to Fleugel Street).
    27 min
  • The lone Ranger , The Raiders
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    The Lone Ranger was an early, long-running radio and television show based on characters created by George W. Trendle of Detroit, Michigan and developed by writer Fran Striker of Buffalo, New York. Their inspiration may have come from The Lone Star Ranger, a novel by Zane Grey. The basic premise is that a masked cowboy in the Old West gallops about righting injustices, usually with the aid of a clever and laconic American Indian called Tonto. Karl May's tales of Old Shatterhand and Chief Winnetou may have influenced the creation of the concept; but the main source for the Lone Ranger and many other masked heroes of the 1920s, 1930s, and on into the 21st century is Zorro.
    31 min
  • The Avengers , The Shot in Dark
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    Between 1971 and 1973 the TV series scripts were adapted for radio for broadcast in South Africa, which did not have television until 1976. The Tara King episodes had the character effectively renamed Emma Peel. Donald Monat played Steed, and Diane Appleby, Mrs Peel. The stories were adapted into between 5 and 7 episodes of approximately 15 minutes each (including adverts) and stripped across the week on the SABC.
    Currently 19 complete serials survive, all from original reel-to-reel off-air recordings, as well as three episodes of "Escape In Time", from a mixture of sources.
    29 min
  • Red Skelton Photography
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    Richard “Red” Skelton was born in Vincennes, Indiana in 1913. He worked as a circus clown and a medicine show pitchman before hitting the burlesque circuit in the 1920’s, performing impersonations and pantomime.
    Skelton performed several times on Rudy Vallee’s Royal Gelatin Hour before joining NBC’s 1939 variety series Avalon Time. Broadcast from Chicago, Avalon Time featured country singer Red Foley and Skelton’s wife and gag writer, Edna Stillwell.
    32 min
  • Lum and abner lum to dine 41-12-19
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    Lum and Abner, an American radio comedy which aired as a network program from 1932 to 1954, became an American institution in its low-keyed, arch rural wit. One of a series of 15-minute serial comedies that dotted American radio at its height as America's number one home entertainment---others included Amos 'n' Andy, Easy Aces, The Goldbergs, and Vic and Sade---Lum and Abner included various elements of each but yielded something as singular as the others and became somewhat more of an institution.
    The creation of co-stars Chester Lauck (as Columbus "Lum" Edwards) and Norris Goff (as Abner Peabody), Lum and Abner was as low-keyed as Easy Aces, as cheerfully absurdist as Vic and Sade, and raised The Goldbergs ethnic focus by amplifying the protagonists' regional identities. As the co-owners of the Jot 'em Down Store in the then-fictional town of Pine Ridge, Arkansas, who were always stumbling upon moneymaking ideas only to get themselves fleeced by nemesis Squire Skimp, before finding one or another way to redeem themselves, Lum and Abner played the hillbilly theme with deceptive cleverness: the hillbillies just knew the slickers were going to get theirs, sooner or later, and either didn't mind or knew more than they let on that the slickers getting theirs was a matter of fortunate circumstance.
    12 min
  • Duffys Tavern
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    32 min

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