Oz and Ends

Musings about some of my favorite fantasy literature for young readers, comics old and new, the peculiar publishing industry, the future of books, kids today, and the writing process.

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Showing posts with label radio drama without pictures. Show all posts

08 February 2025

“I just didn't know how to steer it”

By the spring of 1932, two years after Buddy McDonald first acted in an Our Gang movie, there had been some big changes at the Hal Roach Stu...

21 January 2020

The First Whiff of Gunsmoke

In the late 1940s the head of CBS, William Paley, asked his staff to develop a radio drama based on the concept of “Philip Marlowe in the ea...

07 November 2019

The Real Legacy of He Walked by Night

He Walked by Night didn’t influence The Third Man , but it definitely did influence American popular entertainment. To start with, it app...

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