The Overnightscape Underground

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1:23:36 – Dave in Kentucky with the middle five chapters of the I Love a Mystery adventure The Thing that Cries in the Night, plus a Hop Harrigan update, “Chairy” on Jeopardy, the Barnums, what Carlton E. Morse sounded like, narration in the dialogue, Hollywood then and now, voicing the demon, a Bob Marley song parody, red herrings, silencers or suppressors, fair play in the detective story, last-minute rewrites, Walter Paterson, Michael Raffetto, Barton Yarborough, Dragnet, One Man’s Family, writing characters out of shows, partial and total nudity in the theater of the mind, and Undergarments Which Must Not Be Named.

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Show art: Mercedes McCambridge, NBC Radio promotional photo, date unknown.

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1:15:31 – Dave in Kentucky with Part One of an I Love a Mystery adventure, The Thing that Cries in the Night, plus Jean Sibelius, Valse Triste, Vanilla Fudge, Russell Thorson, Jim Boles, Tony Randall, The Odd Couple, The Fear that Creeps Like a Cat, The Great Gildersleeve, Gildy and Mr. Peavy, Hop Harrigan, Mercedes McCambridge, Orson Welles, Linda Blair, The Exorcist, Pee-wee’s Playhouse, Carlton E. Morse, One Man’s Family, Stuff the Lady’s Hatbox, Riders Radio Theater, Riders in the Sky, Ranger Doug, Too Slim, Woody Paul, Joey the Cow Polka King, Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage, Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch, the Emery Theater, Bob and Ray, Scooby-Doo, The Three Musketeers, John Dickson Carr, Douglas Greene’s The Man Who Explained Miracles, and practically nothing else.

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Show art: Russell Thorson, Jim Boles and Tony Randall, the featured cast of Mutual’s I Love a Mystery series, circa 1949.

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1:54:40 – Dave in Kentucky with the conclusion of Hop Harrigan’s Riddle of the Ghostly Avengers, plus Descartes, dualists vs. identity theorists, epiphenomenalism, a priori and a posteriori knowledge, causality, materialism, geocentrism vs. the Copernican theory, scientists who do the bidding of others, high crimes and misdemeanors, narcissism and the Presidency, decorating for Christmas, accents, Booked for Safekeeping, cops then and now, Time’s Person of the Year, child abuse, impending disasters, folk tales and their morals, preserving Old-Time Radio, culture shock for seniors, devils known and unknown, looking ahead to 2020, and very little else.

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Show art: Plainclothesman (Inspector Fry?) chats with uniformed patrolmen in front of the Orleans Parish courthouse.

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2:00:43 – Dave in Kentucky with more of Hop Harrigan’s Riddle of the Ghostly Avengers, plus:  Irish cops, drunks and brawlers, fear of flying, righteous vs. self-righteous indignation, more stereotypes, David Goodis, Dark Passage, Bogart & Bacall, The Fugitive, Cassidy’s Girl,  Dumas’ Count of Monte Cristo, Devil Doll with Lionel Barrymore, the Kettering Bug, the Flying Pancake and other Flying Wings, Area 51, Glenn Campbell’s Groom Lake Desert Rat, New Orleans airport, John Moisant, Louis Armstrong, Satchmo & Keb’ Mo’, Lake Pontchartrain, and a tiny, tiny bit more.

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Show art: New Orleans Airport, circa 1947.

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2:06:41 – Join Dave in Kentucky for the first part of a new three-part Hop Harrigan adventure, which is surprisingly NSFW. Dave’s curmudgeonly commentary is also somewhat NSFW, but then Dave is no more unsafe for work than work is unsafe for Dave, so no harm, no foul.

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Show art: Mitsubishi A6M “Zero” in flight.

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1:41:58 – The action really picks up speed as this juvenile aviation serial finally gets off the ground! Be in on the denouement as Hop brings in the suspects for a final showdown, and find out if you too were smarter than a fifth grader! Does the plot hang together, or do all the show’s writers need to hang separately?

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Show art: Beechcraft Bonanza Model 35, circa 1947.

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1:47:19 – Join Hop, Tank, Gail Nolan, Bill King and Dave in Kentucky for the “Middle Six” chapters of the Hop Harrigan adventure “The Mystery of the Vanishing Men.” Dave has solved the “Mystery of the Missing Millions,” but is still left wondering why this aviation serial has such trouble getting off the ground!  There’s plenty of interesting propaganda assuring us that “America Needs Flyers,” though, so “Don’t Forget to Listen!”

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Show art: Earn your wings by listening to Hop Harrigan!

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1:51:53 – A brand-new Onsug show featuring classic radio serials, complete and in the proper sequence, collected and introduced by Dave in Kentucky.  First up:  Hop Harrigan in “The Mystery of the Vanishing Men” from July of 1947.  Part One includes the first six episodes of this 18-episode serial, with Dave’s comments interspersed.

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(Show art by Collectie SPAARNESTAD PHOTO/Wiel van der Randen, via Nationaal Archief. on Flickr, Attribution.)

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1:03:00 – Song of the Germans (“Deutschland Uber Alles”) and the State Anthem of the Soviet Union, the origins of Antifa in Weimar Germany, communism, anarchism, H.L. Mencken, Fascism, National Socialism, Hitler, Mussolini, Spike Jones, Goebbels, Mr. Spock, Himmler, Goering, Marx, Hegelian dialectic, Rolling Stones, Street Fighting Man, Beatles, Revolution, John Lennon, the New Left, The Internationale, the Spanish Civil War, Popular Front vs. National Front, Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Father Charles Coughlin, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Gary Cooper, Spanish Republicans vs. U.S. Republicans, Lux Radio Theater, The Angel Wore Red, Ava Gardner, Dirk Bogarde, Joseph Cotten, Vittorio de Sica, Ingrid Bergman, feeling the earth move, MacGuffins, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Maltese Falcon, Humphrey Bogart vs. Ricardo Cortez, Dashiell Hammett, gunsels, Una Merkel, wearing shorts to church, Deus ex Machina, MST3000, proxy wars, Hitler-Stalin nonaggression pact, Mission to Moscow, Song of Russia, The North Star, HUAC, Hollywood blacklists, Joe McCarthy, Walter Duranty, Bill Stern, Paul Harvey, Mademoiselle from Armentieres, Paul McCartney, James Corden, Ellery Queen, Frederic Dannay, Manfred Lee, Nunnally Johnson, Goffredo Lombardo, The Dirty Dozen, Frank Nora, Doc Sleaze, Giallo, self-replicating robots, Strawberry Fields Forever, Blazing Saddles, simulations of reality, the Problem of Pain, Gnosticism and the Demiurge.

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56:43 – Do the dead listen to The Overnightscape?  Why else would Frank Edward Nora be mentioned in a reading by Dave and Lisa’s psychic medium?  Was Dave in Kentucky’s apron-string theory confirmed or denied? Did Dave’s grandpa object in principle to rural electrification, farm planning, crop allotments and the like, or was he simply an inveterate procrastinator? Find out the answer to some of these questions (perhaps) on this episode of The Closet Excavationist.

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Released August 2019 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com).