I tried to give famous radio soap Backstage Wife a chance, but even a short episode from 1945 was too
much for me. “The caveman locked his
house with a stone” was the immortal line from this particular episode!
I also tried to give Bobby
Benson and the B Bar B Riders a chance, given it was one of the
longest-running of the children’s serials (and I always wondered how a kid
could own and run a ranch). I think the
episode I heard, “The Ghost Rustlers,” was from early in the second run of the
series, 1952, as it gave quite a long (2 minute!) introduction to Bobby, who
had been adopted as a baby by a ranch owner.
His pals were cool-headed Tex Mason, the (inevitably) Irish cowhand
called Irish, and a Native American sidekick named Harka (?!), as well as Windy
Wales[1] (who
didn’t appear in this story). To my
surprise, Bobby Benson was conceived by
an immigrant Brit, Herbert Rice. I’m not
sure if the Bobby in this story was played by Ivan Cury or Herbert’s nephew Clive,
but I suspect the latter, given there was something not quite right about Bobby’s
accent (Clive was British). I expect
this was all fairly interesting stuff to (boys) in the early ‘50s, but for me
personally, one episode was enough.
Finally, I tried out Calling All Detectives which was
simplistic in the extreme and oozed commercial sponsors!
[1]
I thought this character was named Wendy and was a woman. No wonder they were putting “him” in charge
of the ranch!
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