Speaker 1: It's Nights with Dan Ray. I'm Bill bas Boston's new.
Speaker 2: Radio our number three two hours left to twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: My guest Kemeira and me Morgan White Junior. We have
Speaker 2: found a way to keep you occupied as the minutes
Speaker 2: keep dwindling away from twenty twenty four. It's a game
Speaker 2: I call Morgan's Hall of Fame. Only two ways to
Speaker 2: get in. One. You had to be the star, one
Speaker 2: of the stars of a prime time TV series. In
Speaker 2: the old days, primetime began at seven point thirty and
Speaker 2: somewhere in the early to mid seventies they bumped it.
Speaker 2: Primetime began at eight and ended at eleven. So your
Speaker 2: TV series had to be in that window. And you
Speaker 2: had to be part of a TV series for ten
Speaker 2: years minimum, either like ten years straight through. Jim Rorness
Speaker 2: he counts because he was on Gunsmoke is Major Major
Speaker 2: Marshall Matt Dylan Major Math for Major Map, so he
Speaker 2: was there for twenty years, so that incorporates ten years,
Speaker 2: and that was a primetime series. There are many, many, many,
Speaker 2: many more people we've given some who when you add
Speaker 2: there being in two, three, four series or more, you
Speaker 2: get to that figure of ten let's go to Lake
Speaker 2: Placid in Ken's former home state of New York and
Speaker 2: speak to.
Speaker 3: Dave Greg Thank you, Dave. I want to say, William Daniels.
Speaker 2: That is a good one.
Speaker 4: Tell us how elsewhere kid?
Speaker 3: And oh the other one.
Speaker 2: Boy meets World and Captain Nice.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, so he would he would count because he
Speaker 3: was a talking in the car.
Speaker 5: Right, mm hmm.
Speaker 2: That's a primetime series, Morgan.
Speaker 3: Was that ever a hospital.
Speaker 2: Outside of that? The hospital as you looked at the
Speaker 2: TV series that was a series of apartments in the
Speaker 2: South end of Boston, but it had that, it had
Speaker 2: that look that they got away with calling it Saint
Speaker 2: Elgia's Hospital.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Morgan. Interested tonight?
Speaker 2: Is that all you wanted?
Speaker 3: Yes, that's all.
Speaker 2: Why are you home tonight?
Speaker 3: I don't go out anymore. I listened to BV all
Speaker 3: the time.
Speaker 2: Thank you for that, and I appreciate your honesty. Thank you.
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: Ran, what about Yes?
Speaker 4: What about your friend? I can't think of his name,
Speaker 4: the man from Uncle that you had on so often.
Speaker 2: David McCallum, he would count. He played a character named Ducky.
Speaker 2: David McCallum would count with the Man from Uncle. The
Speaker 2: Invisible Man, which was a show that ran only like
Speaker 2: a year or two, but just counting the thirteen fourteen
Speaker 2: seasons that he was on NCIS that would count just
Speaker 2: to him? Right there?
Speaker 4: Is it okay to for a couple more?
Speaker 2: Please do.
Speaker 4: Richard Deacon?
Speaker 2: I have him as well? Go ahead?
Speaker 4: And Andy grif Yeah, leave it to Beaver and the
Speaker 4: Dick Van Dyke Show.
Speaker 2: And was there another one for Tred Deacon?
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't think so, but I could be wrong.
Speaker 4: Andy Griffith, Andy.
Speaker 2: Griffith counts for a number of shows speaking Andy Griffith
Speaker 2: with Rob and he counts obviously for the two main
Speaker 2: shows of Matt Locke and The Andy Griffith Show. And
Speaker 2: he had a show for one season where he was
Speaker 2: the headmaster of a California high school called Headmaster, and
Speaker 2: as well Holly Ron Howard would count as well because
Speaker 2: he had four are a five series, but just being
Speaker 2: unhappy days alone would count for him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll give you one more.
Speaker 2: Don Knutts, help me get to ten with Don Knotts.
Speaker 2: Pardon give me his ten years?
Speaker 4: Andy Griffiths, all right?
Speaker 2: And after season five.
Speaker 4: Three, yeah, and three's company.
Speaker 2: There you go. He was there for five seasons, so
Speaker 2: that's ten and he had kind of a truncated season
Speaker 2: with Matt Locke.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, he was on that show. Yeah yeah, yeah, Okay,
Speaker 4: but I think I think Griffiths did that as a
Speaker 4: favor to him to put him, to put him in
Speaker 4: that show because it was a so so part.
Speaker 2: I thought, well, you know the funny thing about that
Speaker 2: and me, he has played this up. He would do
Speaker 2: identical scenes that he did with Andy Griffith on The
Speaker 2: Andy Griffith Show and Matlock. There was a scene where
Speaker 2: Barney thought he could do judo or karate and almost
Speaker 2: move from move. They recreated that on Matlock, or the
Speaker 2: scene where Barney said, Andy, I got some big news.
Speaker 2: It's big, it's big, big, big big, and he did
Speaker 2: the exact same setup of Matlock. And yeah, it was cute,
Speaker 2: and those of us who liked Trivia kind of tip
Speaker 2: our hat to that. But let's go to New York
Speaker 2: again and speak to Christian. Christian, good evening, Happy New Year.
Speaker 3: Yes, how you doing, gentlemen. I just wanted to say,
Speaker 3: I'm a forty seven year old black man and I
Speaker 3: remember distinctly growing up in the eighties watching all of
Speaker 3: these great men who are no longer hear before the
Speaker 3: Baby Booners, the Greatest Generation, and the sound generation. I remember,
Speaker 3: I remember, Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, so many people.
Speaker 2: You're right with every one of those names. But the
Speaker 2: product that I'm asking for tonight are people who had
Speaker 2: ten plus years on TV in prime time, and those
Speaker 2: people none of them work for that parameter.
Speaker 3: No, I'm just I'm just I'm just I'm just trying
Speaker 3: to make a I'm just making a comment. I'm paying
Speaker 3: how much of these people I'm trying to say, I.
Speaker 2: Thank you doing that, but I need you to stick
Speaker 2: to the subject at hand.
Speaker 3: Well, only when I could think I could think of
Speaker 3: a few. Let me see, let me see Norman Well
Speaker 3: you have you have? You have Norman Well, you got
Speaker 3: Norman Well you.
Speaker 2: Have wait wait wait do you.
Speaker 3: Mean Norman Norman Sell? You got Sam Waterson of Law
Speaker 3: and Order.
Speaker 2: That count Sam Waterston because there was another for twenty years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, let me try. Let me let me see you. Well,
Speaker 3: some they don't know, don't, Yeah, don't don't dis connect
Speaker 3: the call because I know I know.
Speaker 2: Disconnect.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So we got Sam Watterson.
Speaker 2: Sam Waterston as Jack McCoy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm trying to think.
Speaker 2: Man, all you had to do is come up with one.
Speaker 2: Anything else is a bonus.
Speaker 4: Audrey.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The honey Jackie Gleason, Jackie.
Speaker 2: Wait wait, back up, back up, Jackie Gleason does not count.
Speaker 2: Honeymooners was one season. The Jackie Gleason's Variety Show was
Speaker 2: five seasons. You need to get ten seasons. The Honeymooners
Speaker 2: ran one.
Speaker 3: The honey Year The Honeymooners was from from the fifties,
Speaker 3: and then he had this show in the sixties and
Speaker 3: seventies on.
Speaker 2: That Variety Show. Now on the Variety Show they did
Speaker 2: Honeymooners skits, but the original Honeymooners ran one year. Thirtyis okay?
Speaker 3: What about Ted Night Okay, what's the name of that show?
Speaker 2: Mary Tyler Moore, and he had the Night Show to.
Speaker 3: Comfort You're too close to Comfort?
Speaker 2: Yep, yep, so that counts you get another.
Speaker 3: Gold Yeah, the Golden Girls and.
Speaker 2: The Golden Girls ran for nine seasons. Betty White counts
Speaker 2: because nine, but add five or four from Mary Tayler
Speaker 2: Moore gives your thirteen, so that counts. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And what was to show? Something in Cleveland.
Speaker 2: Hot in Cleveland Hot in Cleveland.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, it was that and that one too. Can
Speaker 3: I finish make my comment?
Speaker 2: Yes, Christian, go ahead.
Speaker 3: I mean you guys should I mean, I mean, you
Speaker 3: guys give me a hell of a lot of credit
Speaker 3: because I mean, if you look at it, I'm a
Speaker 3: gen X guy and gen Z. They're never gonna know
Speaker 3: these these great actresses, They're never gonna know them because
Speaker 3: they're you know, they're they're they're the generation of social
Speaker 3: media and stuff like that. That's why I mentioned these
Speaker 3: guys because these guys really touched my eyes watching him
Speaker 3: on TV. All these great actors born in the teens,
Speaker 3: in the nineteen teens and the twenties, you know, they're
Speaker 3: they're pretty much none left. The oldest Yeah yeah, the
Speaker 3: oldest term generation is the people born in the forties.
Speaker 3: Pretty much that's still around.
Speaker 2: And you said you are black man forty seven years old.
Speaker 2: I'm a black man and I used to be forty seven,
Speaker 2: but I'm much older. And Christian, I gotta say goodbye
Speaker 2: because I have to take a break. Happy New Year
Speaker 2: to you. Thank you for the call, all right, and
Speaker 2: as people hear me say this time, you know I'm
Speaker 2: late for my break. I'm supposed to take it at
Speaker 2: ten fifteen, but no, it's ten seventeen here on night
Speaker 2: Side forty four degrees.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray Live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio tick.
Speaker 2: We keep getting closer to the year twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: And before I go to the phone, I want to
Speaker 2: tell you we have one open line and ken Meyer
Speaker 2: and I are playing a little game. You have to
Speaker 2: have two qualifiers. One, you have to be an actor
Speaker 2: in a prime time series. That's one of the two qualifiers.
Speaker 2: Prime Time was between it is now between eight and eleven.
Speaker 2: It used to be between seven thirty and eleven. As well.
Speaker 2: You have to have had ten years service on TV.
Speaker 2: It could be in one TV show like the previous
Speaker 2: caller mentioned Sam Waterston, who played the character of Jack
Speaker 2: McCoy for over twenty years in Lauren Order. So if
Speaker 2: you can think of somebody who had one series or
Speaker 2: a number of series where their work on TV spanned
Speaker 2: ten seasons or more. Florence and Grovelan, how are you?
Speaker 6: Florence A very good Morgan and good evening to you
Speaker 6: and Karen good Eving want to ask you did anyone
Speaker 6: mention Tom Bardsley not yet. Okay. He had three series
Speaker 6: that I know of.
Speaker 2: What are they?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 6: Well, he had a series called I Believe Father.
Speaker 2: Doning Father do Histories?
Speaker 6: Yeah, and he had Happy Days and Murder.
Speaker 2: She wrote Happy Days eleven years and he was a
Speaker 2: reoccurring character in Jessica's Town or Murder she wrote he was.
Speaker 6: So does he count?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah?
Speaker 6: Okay, I thank you and Morgan if she left me?
Speaker 6: Can I say happy year to Ken? To you, Nancy
Speaker 6: and Jack? Okay?
Speaker 2: How come Ken gets top billing? He's here and I'm.
Speaker 6: Here if you want to know why, Morgan, you want
Speaker 6: to know why, because very very short while back, I
Speaker 6: had mentioned Jack first and then the guests, and you
Speaker 6: didn't like that. Do you recall it?
Speaker 2: And I'm teasing that.
Speaker 6: I've got a pretty good memory, as you know.
Speaker 2: As do I. I'm only doing this. I'm doing this
Speaker 2: for stick. I could care less if you mentioned Ken first, second, third,
Speaker 2: or fourth. Well I mentioned fourth. She should be upset
Speaker 2: about that, shakes her head.
Speaker 6: No, No, because Nancy will agree that Ken is the guest.
Speaker 3: He is.
Speaker 6: All right? Correct?
Speaker 1: Correct?
Speaker 5: Ken?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 6: All right? Uh yeah, I thought of Tom and I
Speaker 6: didn't because I only came in at nineteen thirty, so
Speaker 6: okay to can't you? And so I wasn't sure, you know,
Speaker 6: if someone had already mentioned him.
Speaker 2: Were you at some wild party tonight for a New
Speaker 2: Years before the show?
Speaker 6: No? No, just just just a neighbor.
Speaker 2: You weren't dancing wildly with a lampshade on your head.
Speaker 6: No, I don't do those things. Oh all right, yeah,
Speaker 6: and you know I don't have my spouse. I think
Speaker 6: you've heard me mention that, you know, he'sed de seized.
Speaker 6: And but I got my sons, you know, and of
Speaker 6: course they go out with their better hobs to celebrate,
Speaker 6: you know, and which is good? Which is right?
Speaker 2: You're celebrating with us?
Speaker 6: And so yeah, so I thought I would get me
Speaker 6: in there for a few minutes to have my little piece,
Speaker 6: my little say. And I do wish you all a
Speaker 6: happy new year. I hope twenty twenty five is a
Speaker 6: good year, a better year than twenty twenty four in Florence.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 6: Let's oh yeah, it's gotta be good, a good number.
Speaker 6: All right, Yeah, thank you, good day, Happy New Year,
Speaker 6: and good.
Speaker 3: Night, good night, good night.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna throw it a few more. Let
Speaker 2: me get my piece of paper where I can read it.
Speaker 2: Bob Denver, Oh yeah, everybody forgets. He had four different
Speaker 2: TV series. He was on Dobie Gillis, he was on
Speaker 2: Gilligan's Island, he was on a show called The Good Guys,
Speaker 2: and the show one year that was basically Gilligan's Island
Speaker 2: in the late eighteen sixties called Dusty's Trail People seven
Speaker 2: people lost on a stage coach and trust me, eventually
Speaker 2: the stage coach has caught in a town. Eventually that
Speaker 2: was the plotline. So that's why Bob Denver is in
Speaker 2: my Hall of We mentioned June Lockhart, Lucy obviously, James
Speaker 2: Garner with just two of his series of his four series,
Speaker 2: Rockford Files and Maverick. Also he was in another series
Speaker 2: where he was a sheriff called Nichols and well, let
Speaker 2: me move on to one more because I have a
Speaker 2: break creeping up on me when we leave. James garn
Speaker 2: Tim Allen, and here's an unusual thing about Tim Allen.
Speaker 2: He had Home Improvement where he played a father married
Speaker 2: with three sons, then Last Man Standing where he played
Speaker 2: a father married with three daughters, and both of those
Speaker 2: series ran for eight seasons. So Tim Allen counts, try
Speaker 2: to squeeze one more on before I have a break
Speaker 2: to take Lou and match p line one. Lou good
Speaker 2: evening her.
Speaker 4: More?
Speaker 7: And okay about how about Blonde Green?
Speaker 2: Oh we mentioned him. Don't even go there.
Speaker 7: I just jumped on.
Speaker 4: Okay, Tom Selleck.
Speaker 2: We mentioned him as well, you're doing this for almost
Speaker 2: ninety minutes.
Speaker 4: I just got on.
Speaker 7: Uh you, said Mary Tyler Moore. I heard you say
Speaker 7: that Ud Skelton.
Speaker 2: No one said red Skeleton. That's a good one.
Speaker 7: Oh good, thank you.
Speaker 2: Because he had overlapping years with both CBS and NBC
Speaker 2: where he was on eleven seasons.
Speaker 7: Right, all right, I gotta I got a question for more.
Speaker 7: It's a little off topic, but it's said bugging me
Speaker 7: is let's a late late middle sixties. Yes, there was
Speaker 7: a show in the radio and it was on like
Speaker 7: an obscure station. And the gentleman I think his name,
Speaker 7: his last name was Maya.
Speaker 3: And he had a tour.
Speaker 7: No that he had a call in show that you
Speaker 7: could only you could call in but he couldn't.
Speaker 2: Was Mayor Mayor and he was on y Hunter w
Speaker 2: U n R radio. He was on midnight two.
Speaker 4: A m Yes, yes, uh, his.
Speaker 2: Name was save again Ken.
Speaker 4: That was his name. Name was Kenny or Kenny Kenny
Speaker 4: mayor Maya. Okay, death and I know Ken Mayer was
Speaker 4: on with Larry Yeah, right, right, and okay, one more question?
Speaker 7: What you know.
Speaker 2: They have one question? We answer it. We have one
Speaker 2: more for that one?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: What you what's your one more?
Speaker 7: Will Besy like when from twelve to five there's there's
Speaker 7: nothing wrong but the news, right correct?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 7: Why don't they put like reruns of of all the
Speaker 7: old timers, you know, Larry Glick and all those guys,
Speaker 7: and you know, to put them on instead of just
Speaker 7: do that.
Speaker 2: On Sunday nights.
Speaker 4: They I don't.
Speaker 2: Know they do that on Sunday nights late night.
Speaker 7: Okay, let's try to get it for the whole week.
Speaker 7: If that's it a year, and thank you so much.
Speaker 2: To you, Lou. I'll try to see if I can
Speaker 2: tell management what to do. Time and temperature here on
Speaker 2: nights ten thirty forty four.
Speaker 1: Degrees, It's Nightside with Dan Ray on WBS Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Ken Mayer is here. He is my guest. I'm Morgan's
Speaker 2: filling in for Dan Dan, We'll be back tomorrow tomorrow
Speaker 2: here on Nightside, and let's go to Lynn Mass and
Speaker 2: speak to Tim. Tim. Good evening, Welcome to Night's Side,
Speaker 2: Happy new.
Speaker 5: Year, Thank you, sir. I hope you have having a
Speaker 5: good night. There's two people I thought of. They're both
Speaker 5: from the same show, Dennis Franz and Gordon Clapp and
Speaker 5: White PD Blue. I'm pretty yeah, I'm pretty sure they
Speaker 5: are on more than like six certain seasons or something,
Speaker 5: you know, right. And the funny thing is, I never
Speaker 5: really watched the show when it was on, but I
Speaker 5: watch it now in you know, Netflix or whatever whatever
Speaker 5: streaming service I have.
Speaker 2: That is so true for a lot of you know,
Speaker 2: they came and they went, they didn't pay attention to them,
Speaker 2: but now you've learned to kind of like them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly. So to figure out out my two cents worth?
Speaker 2: And how come you're home tonight, Well, I.
Speaker 5: Had a few things to do, but I am exhausted.
Speaker 5: I'm not going to welcome the new year. I'm hitting
Speaker 5: the sack early because I got a Philly busy day tomorrow,
Speaker 5: so I'm going to bed soon. But yeah, just just
Speaker 5: chilling out.
Speaker 2: Good to get some extra shut eye.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 4: Enjoying the show.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Tim, Thank you, Bob and Lunenberg. You're next
Speaker 2: here on night Side.
Speaker 3: Hey, Hey, good evening, Morgan, good evening, good evening.
Speaker 4: I've got one.
Speaker 3: I've got one. I think they had ten years of service,
Speaker 3: would be Sherman Helmfully, that's.
Speaker 2: A good show, and the cast of the Jeffersons moving on.
Speaker 3: Up Jeffersons and A and Amen, that was his show.
Speaker 2: Yes he did, but he nailed it with the Jeffersons alone,
Speaker 2: but adding good measure. Amen, and you've got a winning
Speaker 2: name there for yourself.
Speaker 4: Awesome.
Speaker 3: I do have another one, but I'll leave it to
Speaker 3: the callers from the same circle beyond.
Speaker 2: Somebody mentioned her earlier with Maud and Golden Girls.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, I got one more, did.
Speaker 4: Betty White?
Speaker 2: Someone? And Betty White was mentioned earlier as well.
Speaker 3: Well, we got Shervin Hails anyway. Okay, that's about all
Speaker 3: I can think of right now, Charles, think us something else.
Speaker 3: But thank you very much, Bob, thank you, Thanks tonight,
Speaker 3: take care.
Speaker 2: And let's take our break. Lines are wide open six two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty eight eight eight, nine, two nine, ten thirty,
Speaker 2: So let's take our break. I know it's a bit
Speaker 2: early the time in temperature ten thirty seven and forty
Speaker 2: four degrees.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Way Live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Sight Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: We have one open line. Whoever takes that last line,
Speaker 2: I promise you'll get a chance to speak with Ken,
Speaker 2: because I know that you're incentive for wanting to call
Speaker 2: in tonight and speak with Ken Myrier Hall of Fame
Speaker 2: broadcaster me. I'm just an afterthought. I want to now
Speaker 2: speak to Anna and Medford. So Anna show off and
Speaker 2: give us one or two good names.
Speaker 8: Okay, well, happy birth Happy Birthday, Happy New Year to
Speaker 8: both of you.
Speaker 4: To my birthday is in August.
Speaker 8: Okay, well I'm way early then or late, so anyway,
Speaker 8: I want to mention a couple of women, and my
Speaker 8: first one was Mary McDonald from both Major Crimes and
Speaker 8: Battlestar Galactica.
Speaker 2: Good good name, very good name.
Speaker 8: And Patricia Heaton.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she was eight years with Tim Allen on
Speaker 2: Give me a second. I've got a mental block on
Speaker 2: the title Tim the Two Man.
Speaker 8: TA yeah right.
Speaker 2: But she also had two other shows of her own.
Speaker 4: She was Everybody Goes from Raymond.
Speaker 8: Yes and also and also The Middle.
Speaker 2: Yes, I like the Middle. I don't know why, but
Speaker 2: I like that show.
Speaker 8: I know, I just didn't get enough credit. Yeah, but
Speaker 8: I don't know if anyone mentioned Jean Smart or Jane Leaves.
Speaker 2: No one mentioned Jean Smart because Jean Smart was in
Speaker 2: Designing Women, right, and what was the because on Designing Women,
Speaker 2: I think that was on six seasons? And what was
Speaker 2: her own show.
Speaker 8: She's in Hacks right now. It's an HBO show that counts. Yeah,
Speaker 8: and then Jane leaves Frasier.
Speaker 3: Primarily, I'm going back to Jean Smart.
Speaker 2: I always thought she was just one of those quietly
Speaker 2: attractive women and Designing women and give me the other
Speaker 2: she she played the next door neighbor in the Brady
Speaker 2: Bunch movie.
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know if.
Speaker 2: You remember that. She was just one of those quietly
Speaker 2: sexy women.
Speaker 9: Yeah she did.
Speaker 8: She had a good guest shot on Fraser once. I
Speaker 8: remember that too, and she was like and there she
Speaker 8: got to be sexy too.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, Anna, you did a good job. Thank
Speaker 2: you for helping me expand the Hall of Fame people,
Speaker 2: And why are you home tonight?
Speaker 8: Another Quesson who doesn't want to brave the roads really,
Speaker 8: I don't blame me. Whoever else is driving here.
Speaker 2: When I was married, and that would be through the
Speaker 2: seventies into the eighties, my ex and I would have
Speaker 2: a lobster dinner at home and a beverage to help
Speaker 2: wash it down, and that was the way we celebrated
Speaker 2: New Year's So I understand, and being an entertainer on
Speaker 2: a couple occasions, I had to go out and entertain
Speaker 2: on your years, and I dreaded doing it, but you know,
Speaker 2: sometimes you got to make the money with the money's
Speaker 2: there to be made. Anything else or is that it?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 3: That is it?
Speaker 8: And thank you very much, Anna.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. By Happy New Year. There goes Anna.
Speaker 2: Here comes Phil somewhere in Cape card Hello.
Speaker 3: Phil, Hello Morgan, how are you.
Speaker 2: Hello?
Speaker 9: Ken? How's the broadcast?
Speaker 4: Hello?
Speaker 9: Anyway, I came to the show a little late. I
Speaker 9: don't know if he's mentioned this name because I don't
Speaker 9: know the mathematics of all his shows, but he was
Speaker 9: in several series. Bill Bixby, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: When Ken and I first talked about this subject, because
Speaker 2: Bill Bixby was in his mathematics, who was in fourth
Speaker 2: series my favorite Martian?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Remember that?
Speaker 2: Three years The Magician.
Speaker 9: I forgot about that one. I forgot about Father of course, yes.
Speaker 2: At seven and The Incredible Hulk four years eleven.
Speaker 9: Yep, yep, yeah, I forgot about the Magician show. But yeah,
Speaker 9: that that's all. Like I said, I was a little
Speaker 9: late to the to the show. So that's the only
Speaker 9: name I can come on with.
Speaker 4: That's a good one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it's.
Speaker 9: Well, I used to work with you. I used to
Speaker 9: work with you a lot because I used to work
Speaker 9: for First Night and you'd always have your show at
Speaker 9: the hind Center years ago, and I did that for
Speaker 9: a number of years. But uh, you know, I'm back,
Speaker 9: I'm retired on the Cape, and uh there's a First
Speaker 9: Night little celebration. Yes I shouldn't say little.
Speaker 5: It's pretty big over and Chatham. But I walk around
Speaker 5: with a cane now, so I just I just kind
Speaker 5: of lay low, I.
Speaker 2: Understand, because I should be walking around with a cane,
Speaker 2: balance myself a little more to the left when I
Speaker 2: need it.
Speaker 4: Very good. Okay, Well, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2: Phil, thank you for making the call, and happy New
Speaker 2: Year to you.
Speaker 4: Okay, Happy new to both by all right, thank you, Ken.
Speaker 2: We've exhausted all the phone calls. I could do something
Speaker 2: to say something, which you get one or two calls
Speaker 2: to push the buttons on the phone. But I'm going
Speaker 2: to interview you.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm available.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you don't mind, No, I don't mind. Tell
Speaker 2: people what get you in the radio?
Speaker 4: Well, I always, I always liked it. Radio was I
Speaker 4: thought in his heyday. When I came into the world
Speaker 4: and I used to listen old time radio was still active,
Speaker 4: and I, you know, grew up with shows what the
Speaker 4: Lone Ranger and Sergeant Preston and Nick Carter Master Detective
Speaker 4: And even in school I still kept track of radio shows.
Speaker 4: In fact, my mother god Bosser, used to tape two
Speaker 4: soap operas during the week there were ro Massive Ellen
Speaker 4: Trent and our Dale Sunday, and I would then come
Speaker 4: home on the weekend in Wilston school, so I was
Speaker 4: able to follow what was going on. And when I
Speaker 4: got close to graduation, I knew that I wanted to
Speaker 4: get into radio, and where I was in school, they
Speaker 4: were all for it, but they didn't have the knowledge
Speaker 4: or the contacts to help carry it out. And I had,
Speaker 4: through a series of events, become friendly with the program
Speaker 4: director at WHIM in Rochester, which was a big station
Speaker 4: like wb Z, and he suggested that I go to
Speaker 4: Graham Junior College in Boston, which handled broadcasting. I had
Speaker 4: a broadcasting setup, so he wrote me a letter of recommendation.
Speaker 4: I went to Graham and graduated and became very friendly
Speaker 4: with a gentleman who worked at Graham and WEI At
Speaker 4: whom you knew, named Dick Walsh. And my parents and
Speaker 4: I came to Boston in the summer of nineteen seventy
Speaker 4: because I wasn't getting anywhere trying to find a job,
Speaker 4: and there was a member of the board of trustees
Speaker 4: at Graham named Lamont Thompson, and we got in touch
Speaker 4: with him, and he arranged for me to go to
Speaker 4: WI and meet the program director over there and talked
Speaker 4: to him, and I did. His name was Bill Schupert,
Speaker 4: and it so happened that he and Dick Walsh used
Speaker 4: to work together at that station when it first became
Speaker 4: all news. So Bill Schupert called him on the phone
Speaker 4: and a rapport was built up and through the vocational
Speaker 4: Rehab service in Rochester and the patients of WBZ, I
Speaker 4: got hired. While I was interviewed by Bill Schupert, he
Speaker 4: said is there anyone you'd like to meet? And I said, yeah,
Speaker 4: Guy Manilla. So they brought me downstairs to his office
Speaker 4: and we talked for a while, and I found out
Speaker 4: later that Manila asked Lemon Thompson, he said, what do
Speaker 4: you think? And Thompson said, this station's big enough and
Speaker 4: this kid deserves a chance. And I'll always be grateful
Speaker 4: to Guy Manila for that. I think it helped a
Speaker 4: great deal in my getting a job there. And three
Speaker 4: or four days of just hanging around the station for
Speaker 4: a while, finally Bill Schupert said, I want you to
Speaker 4: start working with Larry Glick. And of course everybody listened
Speaker 4: to Larry Glick, you know, And so I started working
Speaker 4: with him, and you know, as Paul Harvey used to say,
Speaker 4: the rest is history. I worked with Larry. One of
Speaker 4: the big shrials of my life was when WBZ celebrated
Speaker 4: their fiftieth anniversary and broadcasting in nineteen seventy one and
Speaker 4: Jerry Williams hosted a to midnight, five nights a week,
Speaker 4: all old time radio people, each one and a half
Speaker 4: hour long. We had people like Bob Hope, are at Link, Litter,
Speaker 4: Jerry Colowna, Oh gosh, it's so hard for me to
Speaker 4: remember them all now. But about a year ago, Terry
Speaker 4: and I were in Pennsylvania and visited Bob Oakes, who
Speaker 4: was the program director at the time, and I said
Speaker 4: to him, I said, Bob, how did you know or
Speaker 4: what made you think that I could I could handle
Speaker 4: a presentation like that? And he said, I just knew
Speaker 4: how to stop talent. So that was one of the
Speaker 4: big thrials of my life. I'll never forget that. There's
Speaker 4: some of the stuff on YouTube. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 4: the interview that Jerry did with Bob and Ray, the
Speaker 4: one that he did with Buffalo Bob Smith, and the
Speaker 4: one that he did with Art Linkletter are all on YouTube.
Speaker 4: And I got a kick out of it because and
Speaker 4: I had forgotten about it. Jerry called me into the
Speaker 4: studio on the last broadcast to talk a little bit
Speaker 4: about the show. And it's hard to believe that it's
Speaker 4: over forty years ago, and you know, that's what I
Speaker 4: sounded like, but it was. It was really something. And
Speaker 4: of course Bezy had and still does have quite a signal.
Speaker 4: And then in nineteen seventy five, we did an old
Speaker 4: radio weekend down on the Cape at Dumphy's Hyenas Resort
Speaker 4: and it was busy. They called it Bez's Big Broadcast
Speaker 4: of seventy five and we had the radio people live
Speaker 4: doing their shows. Brett Morrison was there and did the Shadow,
Speaker 4: Julie Stevens was there and did the Romance of Helen Trent.
Speaker 4: We had people impersonating Fred Allenman and Jack Benny, and
Speaker 4: we had Don Wilson and Dennis Day from the Jack
Speaker 4: Benny Show, and Kenny Delmar who was the announcer and
Speaker 4: also Senator Claghorn there as well doing the show.
Speaker 3: And it was just.
Speaker 4: Something that I'll never forget.
Speaker 2: I got to start you here because of time, but
Speaker 2: I've had you join me on BZ Radio. Oh I'm
Speaker 2: going to say a dozen times plus ten the many years,
Speaker 2: and you've always hit a home run every time I've
Speaker 2: had you on tonight, no exception. I want to thank
Speaker 2: you for coming on and may I wish you in
Speaker 2: front of thirty eight states and parts of Canada. May
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five be a bang up year for you, Ken.
Speaker 4: And I feel the same way about you, Morgan. I
Speaker 4: hope that it's an excellent year and we'll all win
Speaker 4: the lottery and retire.
Speaker 2: You're here, people, listening. I've got another hour. Because Elvis
Speaker 2: Presley was born during the first week of January, you
Speaker 2: all can remember that. I've got Big Elvis joining me
Speaker 2: after the news here on night side time. Ten fifty eight.
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