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1) Same Time, Same Station, by Ron Lackmann
Same Time, Same Station. By Ron Lackmann. Facts on File, 1996.
There are so many obvious errors in this book that the reader is advised to treat every entry as suspect unless it can be verified by at least two other sources. Only the most obvious are listed below.
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The.
Adventures of Superman, The.
Amazing Mr. Malone.
Cole, Alonzo Dean
Gunsmoke
Obler, Arch
Price, Vincent
Errata Price brought his velvety, precise speaking voice to radio with a major role on a mystery-adventure series called The Croupier.
Errata His last film, however, was the Whales of August.
Saint, The
Errata On a typical episode…Templer [sic] solved the murder of a thug who, with a group of fellow gangsters, had stolen an old car that had $400,000 hidden in it.
Errata …but it was Vincent Price – the actor who played the role in the late 1950s
The Shadow
Errata All had their own idea about how the character should be played, but Basil Rathbone’s interpretation, which he recreated in many films, is the most memorable.
Correction Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce first played Holmes and Watson in 1939 in the movie The Hound of the Baskervilles and then embarked on the series of 13 more Holmes movies as well as the Sherlock Holmes radio program. Since they made their movie debut in these roles before their radio debut, Rathbone did not ‘recreate’ the radio role for the films, but rather the reverse.
Source The Films of Sherlock Holmes.
Errata ….Clark Kent, Superman and his co-workers….fight crime in Gotham City.
Correction Superman and his co-workers fight crime in Metropolis. Occasionally Batman and Robin would visit from Gotham City – but the heroes always returned home.
Source Comic books, movies and radio programs for both Superman and Batman.
Errata A duplicate entry. This first entry makes no mention of the fact that Mr. Malone was created by mystery writer Craig Rice. It does state that the program is also known as Murder and Mr. Malone, and under that title this information is given.
Source The book itself, also knowledge of the characters created by Craig Rice.
Errata Cole, Alonzo Dean.
Correction Cole's middle name is Deen, not Dean.
Source The publishers of the book 'The Witch's Tale,' which is a compilation of scripts from the radio series. (An easy mistake to make, actually.
Errata The cast of Gunsmoke is shown in a photograph. The book says that Georgia Ellis and Howard McNear are sitting, and William Conrad and Parlay Baer are standing.
Correction Howard McNear stands, Parlay Baer sits.
Source Recognize the actors via the old Andy Griffith television program.
Errata His name is mispelled Obler in the entry on him, and everywhere else in the book that he is mentioned.
Correction Oboler is the correct spelling, not Obler. This mistake appears in a few other reference books as well.
Source ''Great American Broadcast,'' other reference works.
Errata Price appeared in several plays, such as Angel Street (1941), before he debuted in films.
Correction Price made his film debut in Service Deluxe in 1938, and had made several movies before taking a year off to star on the Broadway stage in Angel Street in 1941.
Source The Complete Films of Vincent Price, by Lucy Chase Williams, Citadel Press.
Correction The Croupier was a pilot for a supernatural anthology series and Price was only in the first episode of the short-lived series, entitled The Roman.
Source Radio Showcase catalog description; Vincent Price, edited by Gary and Susan Svehla, Midnight Marquee Press.
Correction Price made several films after this one, including Edward Scissorhands.
Source The Complete Films of Vincent Price, by Lucy Chase Williams, Citadel Press.
Errata Sophisticated, urbane private detective...Simon Templer
Correction Simon Templar (named after the Knights Templar) was never a private detective. He was the Robin Hood of modern crime and helped people out of jams because he felt like it.
Source The books written by Leslie Charteris, listening to The Saint radio programs.
Correction Entitled Old Man’s Car, an innocent old man, a not-so-innocent widow, and eventually a thug, are murdered for the car, which contains the clue to where $400,000 is hidden.
Source Old Man’s Car, available through Radio Showcase.
Correction Vincent Price played the role of the Saint from J uly 9, 1947 to May 20, 1951.
Source The book contradicts itself in this entry. The dates for the run of The Saint state that it went off the air in 1951, yet the text below says, ‘late 1950s.’ (To me, the late 1950s means from 1956 to 1959). Vincent Price – His Radio Appearances by Martin Grams, Jr. in Vincent Price, edited by Gary and Susan Svehla, Midnight Marquee Press, 1998.
Errata (1)The series, created by Harry Charlot……(2) In the early episodes, the Shadow character alternated between being both villainous and heroic.
Correction Originally, The Shadow was merely the name of the announcer for publisher Street and Smith’s program, Detective Story which made its debut in 1930. The character was so popular that Street and Smith decided to create a magazine using that character’s name – who was always a hero, and always Lamont Cranston, and written by Walter Gibson under the psuedonym Maxwell Grant. The popularity of this magazine caused The Shadow radio program to debut in 1937.
Source The Shadow Scrapbook.
