Comments on: The Triumph of Rochester http://www.greatdetectives.net/detectives/triumph-of-eddie-anderson/ The great ones are back in action. Tue, 21 May 2013 15:18:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: nickmagoo http://www.greatdetectives.net/detectives/triumph-of-eddie-anderson/comment-page-1/#comment-1478 nickmagoo Sun, 13 Feb 2011 06:19:14 +0000 http://www.greatdetectives.net/detectives/?p=2984#comment-1478 The Jack Benny Program, which I was lucky to see in reruns as a kid in rural Virginia in the mid 1970s, had a profound effect on me, both in terms of humor and in some way race relations. I loved Jack, but I wanted to BE Rochester (or Andy Griffith…or Hawkeye Pierce) – I recall regaling my parents and their friends with my impersonations of both Jack and Rochester. “Oh boss, COME now!” was a frequent retort to my dad.

In the past year I’ve listened to the entire run of JB radio shows almost obsessively online, and amazingly a local station is currently running 2 JB tv shows every Sunday night. What I’ve discovered is quite often they just reworked a radio show, some from a decade or more earlier, and reshot it for tv – usually quite well – but it’s funny to watch the programs now with a firm grasp of their origins in radio.

I’ve also been branching out to other old time radio in the process, and I must thank you for the great detective shows and commentary – so few old time radio podcasts give any context for the programs and it is much appreciated. One show I’d like to recommend (which, like most others, I discovered at Archive.org) is Rocky Jordan. While not a straight detective series, it has all the elements of one, and the exotic locale of Cairo adds a certain something to the proceedings. Good stories, wonderful acting and great atmosphere make for a usually excellent listen. Thanks again, Nick

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