A LONG OVERDUE HISTORY AND APPRECIATION OF ABC RADIO'S 1964-1965 AUDIO SERIES (This blog presents the chronological history of T5 and is best enjoyed by reading the very first post and proceeding to the next one, and then the next one, etc.)
The 60th anniversary of the series is on August 3, 2024. This link provides background about how a hobby-wide crowd-sourced collaboration has resulted in a new set of T5 recordings. More than 90% of the recordings have been replaced with better recordings. A "missing" recording has also been found!
Recordings are available in lossless FLAC and convenient 128 mp3 formats.
Complete details are at https://sites.google.com/view/theatre-5-60th-anniversary-set/home
On Saturday, August 3, 2024, the streaming station Stay Tuned America will have a 12 hour marathon of 35 T5 episodes. The event begins at 12 Noon Eastern US time. There are three main ways to stream the event through a browser:
The main feed is at https://classicairwaves.com:8020/sta.mp3
TuneIn https://tunein.com/radio/STA--Stay-Tuned-America-s142585/
OR on your smartphone or tablet, open your Audacy or TuneIn app and search for "Stay Tuned America"
This presentation was made February 11, 2022 for the Metropolitan Washington OTR Club monthly meeeting, held via Zoom conference
To hear the
after-presentation Q&A go to https://youtu.be/ALra1IYp_p4?t=7010
(the link is set to jump to that section of the MWOTRC meeting video)
Slides can be downloaded at https://www.slideshare.net/drjoewebb/theater-five-presentation-by-dr-joe-webb-02112022
Thank you again to the MWOTRC! http://www.mwotrc.com and especially to research collaborators Karl Schadow and Nick Palmer.
Believe it or not, each of those four names were correct at one time or another as far as ABC Radio, their publicity gurus, and the newspapers and trade magazines were concerned (and even their internal memos!). Whatever name is used, it's an underappreciated radio drama venture that ABC attempted in 1964 and 1965, and it deserves more attention among classic radio fans and collectors.