tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post5827837698975256406..comments2024-03-27T22:27:16.556-04:00Comments on It's About TV: Around the dialMitchell Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-3887489313817625482018-02-16T23:11:50.945-05:002018-02-16T23:11:50.945-05:00Great job describing it!!! Wish tere were kinescop...Great job describing it!!! Wish tere were kinescopes of it to see what it's look like!!!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12502707360040238028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-23376555215553216162018-02-16T22:40:09.970-05:002018-02-16T22:40:09.970-05:00I have to tell you about the Dick Tracy cartoon sh...I have to tell you about the <i>Dick Tracy</i> cartoon show.<br /><br />The stations that bought the cartoons used them as elements for a locally produced daily half-hour - at least that's what we had in Chicago.<br />WGN - Channel 9 - bought the cartoons, and created a daily half-hour, using a host that they'd just hired away from Channel 2: Ray Rayner.<br />The <i>Tracy</i> show was set in the Crimestopper Cruiser, manned by Sgt. Henry Pettibone (Rayner) and a dog puppet named Tracer (after a viewer contest).<br />Between the cartoons, Sgt. Pettibone and Tracer were involved in continuing storylines pitting them against bizarre villains, all the while taking phone calls from various characters.<br /><i>All of these characters</i> - on the phone, at the door, and Tracer - were voiced by a very talented guy named Ron McAdam.<br />The stories featured villains like Reggie Marplot (who sounded like Robert Newton as Long John Silver) and Dexter Ashley Montague (who sounded like middle-period Roddy McDowall).<br />Calling in on the phone would be Sandy VanElmy, who would do a newscast to Sgt. Pettibone, with occasional inserts from correspondent Wells Droppin (if you remember NBC's reporters from the '60s, the names may ring a bell, sort of).<br />The <br />stories would run a week or two, sometimes more - and what I remember was that they were a helluva lot funnier than the cartoons ever were.<br />I always suspected that Rayner and McAdam may have done their share of improvising here (don't know for sure).<br />I bring it up here for the record; I don't know how your local station may have handled these cartoons, but I can only hope that you had guys as talented as Ray Rayner and Ron McAdam for backup.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05527404061764217504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-35904076337562811242018-02-16T10:44:01.037-05:002018-02-16T10:44:01.037-05:00Thanks, Mitchell. I'm looking forward to the B...Thanks, Mitchell. I'm looking forward to the Blogathon.Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.com