The Bob Crane Show: Reloaded

This episode is part of our special series, The Bob Crane Show Interview Collection. This is not an interview Bob conducted at KNX, but instead, a rare recording of Bobs appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. On July 2, 1969, Bob was a guest on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. The following clip is from that July 2, 1969, episode. To the best of our knowledge, only the audio version of this episode exists.

Bob Crane’s July 2, 1969, appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson heard in this episode is used with permission from the Carson Entertainment Group. Reproduction or distribution of this segment of The Tonight Show outside of this episode without authorization from the Carson Entertainment Group is prohibited.

© Carol Ford and Eric Senich
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Music used in this episode:
Quantum Jazz — "Jingle Jazz"
Kai Engel — "Curtains Are Always Drawn"
Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet"
Kevin MacLeod — "Impact Moderato"

Host Eric Senich ventures to Romania, where he chats up a storm about Bob Crane's roles in 'Arsenic and Old Lace,' 'Ellery Queen,' Rod Serling's radio mystery series 'Zero Hour,' and the radio suspense thriller 'The Flaw.' Oh, and he rescues Carol, too. Happy Halloween!

Co-Starring:
Darin Peters — Man in Wagon
Adam Reim — Nick
Mitchell Hadley — Eric's Brother

Very special thanks to Midnight Syndicate for their generosity in allowing us to use their music in this episode. Check out their entire music library at http://www.midnightsyndicate.com/

Also thanks to:
Koop Kooper
Host, The Cocktail Nation Radio Show
Sydney, Australia
https://cocktailnation.net/

Lou Milano
Co-Host, The Smith and Milano Podcast
https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-smith-milano-podcast

Paper Crane Apothecary
Owner: Zoe Taylor Crane
https://www.papercraneapothecary.com/Site_15/Paper_Crane.html

Watch Eric's Halloween parody movies that he and his brothers and friends made when they were kids growing up in Connecticut during the mid-1980s. Yes, the parody movies are real!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgfNm3Arf8qOcj52U5q-d0HE4cfLLHkkV

© Carol Ford and Eric Senich
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Once again, we take you behind the scenes at Stalag 13 and offer up some trivia about Hogan's Heroes. Only this time, in honor of Friday the 13th, a few spooky guests are along for the ride.

© Carol Ford and Eric Senich
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Music used in this episode:

Kevin MacLeod — “Impact Moderato” | “Classic Horror 1 – Horror”
Hicham Chahidi — “Pidem”
Peer Gynt — “Suite No. 1 Op 46 IV In the Hall of the Mountain King”
Mattia Cupelli — “Dark Piano Choir Tension Music – The Angel Of Death” | “Dark Choir Music”
Cory Gray — “Mystery T”
David Szesztay — “Waiting”
Lee Rosevere — “Grey Sunday”
F. Weinland — “Breaks in the Sun”
Sergey Cheremisinov — “North” | “Don’t Lie to Inner Child”
Ross Bugden — “Scary Horror Music – Haunted”
Gillicuddy — “A Garden and a Library”
Dmitri Shostakovich — “Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a (after String Quartet No. 8): II. Allegro molto” [Performed by the Hermitage Museum Orchestra and Pavel Bubelnikov]
Richard Wagner — “Ride of the Valkyries” [Performed by the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra]
Lobo Loco — “Cultural Exchange”
The United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps — “The Caissons Go Rolling Along”
J.S. Bach — “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor”

'The Bob Crane Show' Interview Collection will feature a different celebrity interview from Bob Crane's KNX radio show (c. 1961-1965). This episode is a little different in that Bob is being interviewed by comedian, actor, and radio host Del Moore. Bob sent this interview on a reel-to-reel tape to his cousin and Eric's father, Jim Senich, in the 1960s. We are happy to present Del Moore's interview with Bob Crane in this episode.

© Carol Ford and Eric Senich
All rights reserved. No part of this podcast may be reproduced without written permission.

Music used in this episode:
Lee Rosevere — "Memories Again"
Scott Grafton — "How It Fades"
Dexter Britain — "From Truth"

In this episode, we take a look at how Bob Crane got his start as an actor, tracing his acting career back to 1953 in Bridgeport, CT, and through the early 1960s.

© Carol Ford and Eric Senich
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Music used in this episode:
Lobo Loco — “Pianoman Is Not Sam”
Lee Rosevere — “Under Suspicion”
Ted Weems and His Orchestra — “Covered Wagon Days”
Circus Marcus —“Prface d’une Journe Ordinaire”
Sergey Cheremisinov — “Crystal Echoes” | “Don’t Lit To Inner Child” | “Escape” | “Seven Lights” | “North”
Kai Engel — “I Am Climbing on Air” | “Sunset” | “Beneath the Stronghold”
Gillicuddy — “A Garden and a Library”
Scott Gratton — “How It Fades”
Dexter Britain — “Train” | “Chasing Time” | “The Tea Party”

'The Bob Crane Show' Interview Collection will feature a different celebrity interview from Bob Crane's KNX radio show (c. 1961-1965). We are happy to present Bob Crane’s KNX interview with Rod Serling in this episode. This interview was owned by Bob Crane, has been made available through the gracious generosity of Robert Scott Crane, and is used with permission.

© Carol Ford and Eric Senich
All rights reserved. No part of this podcast may be reproduced without written permission.

Music used in this episode:
Gillicuddy — "A Garden and a Library"
Kai Engel — "For Better or Worse"
Tchaikovsky — "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" (in Bob Crane's interview)

On July 20, 2017, Eric Senich and Carol Ford were interviewed by Bill Dillane on NHTV, North Haven, CT. They discussed Bob Crane, Eric's family relation to Bob, and Bob's extensive work in radio. This episode presents the audio version of that television interview. For the video, visit NHTV.com.

NHTV Interview with Eric Senich and Carol Ford
© Bill Dillane and used with permission.

The Bob Crane Show: Reloaded
© Carol Ford and Eric Senich
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Bob Crane was born on July 13, 1928, in Waterbury, Connecticut, and spent his growing up years in Stamford, Connecticut. In this episode, we travel back to a time when circumstances weren’t always easy but daily life was simpler. We get to know Bob Crane as a child and teenager, and when he first started playing his beloved drums.

© Carol Ford and Eric Senich
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Music used in this episode:

Special thanks to Ben Reim and Adam Reim for providing their drumming talents for this episode.

Additional music:
Cory Gray - “Piano Sentiment I” | “Piano Sentiment 2,”
Joseph C Smith’s Orchestra - “Smiles"
Lobo Loco - “Pianoman Is Not Sam” | "Cultural Exchange"
Kai Engel - “Floret” | “Hopes and Dreams” | “Morning Placidity"
Hicham - “Genval"
Gillicuddy - “A Garden and a Library”
Jockers Dance Orchestra - “The Royal Vagabond”
Dexter Britain - “Happy Together” | “Losing Love” | “Train” | “Lost in Light” | “Seeing the Future"
James Joshua Otto - “One Step Enough”
Lee Rosevere - “Sunset”
Podington Bear - “Tracers”
Nuno Adelaida - “Never too Late to Change Anything"

June 29, 2017, marks the 39th anniversary of Bob Crane's unsolved murder. But Bob was more than just a murder victim, more than Colonel Hogan, and more than a media headline. In this episode, host Eric Senich, who is the son of Bob's cousin Jim Senich, discusses how Bob's murder has had a lasting impact on his immediate family.

© Carol Ford and Eric Senich
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Music used in this episode:
Kai Engel — “Rejecting the Sirens,” “Sunset,” “For Better or Worse,” “River"

'The Bob Crane Show' Interview Collection will feature a different celebrity interview from Bob Crane's KNX radio show (c. 1961-1965). We are happy to present portions of Bob Crane’s KNX interview(s) with Jerry Lewis in this episode. This interview was owned by Bob Crane and has been made available through the gracious generosity of Robert Scott Crane and is used with permission.

© Carol Ford and Eric Senich
All rights reserved. No part of this podcast may be reproduced without written permission.

Music used in this episode:
Dr. Turtle — "The Curator"
Nuno Adelaida — "Never Too Late to Change Anything"