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The Eternal Light: Honey on the Book (AWR0254)

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Batman Villains of Old Time Radio

We continue our look at actors who played villains in the 1966 Batman TV series. This week we turn our focus to Eli Wallach, a legendary character actor from plays like The Rose Tattoo, and films like The Magnificient Seven and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. During his career he won an Emmy, a Tony, and a BAFTA Award, as well as an honorary Oscar. He also portrayed Mr. Freeze in the final two episodes of season 2 of Batman in 1967, “Ice Spy” and “The Duo Defy.”

This week we present an episode of The Eternal Light.

Wallach plays Louis Rabinowitz, a Lithuanian-born immigrant who becomes a successful businessman but is driven by his love of learning and culture to become a philanthropist and patron of great arts and culture, dedicating his life to preserving culture and supporting Jewish institutions of learning.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 26, 1958

Originating in New York

Featuring:  Ronnie Liss; Joseph Julian; Dean Olmquist; Alice Yourman; Guy Repp; Harvey Hayes; Charles Webster; Patsy Bruder; Marion Carr; Roger De Koven; Joseph Bell

Narrator/singer: Theodore Bikel

We then take a look at the season two two-parter, “Ice Spy” and “The Duo Defy”, in which Mr. Freeze kidnaps a scientist who has discovered an instant freeze ray in order to blackmail the world.

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References:

Information on Louis M. Rabinowitz from Yale

TCM Tribute to Eli Wallach

To the Bat Poles: The Bat Scholar’s Review on this episode

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Let Yourself Go: Guest: Al Jolson (AWR0253)

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Batman Villains of Old Time Radio

We continue our look at actors who played villains in the 1966 Batman TV series. This week our focus is on Milton Berle, who played Louie the Lilac in two separate episodes during Batman‘s third season. We focus on Louie the Lilac’s first eponymous appearance.

We talk about Milton Berle’s extensive career, which included his position as the first TV superstar, earning the nickname “Mr. Television”. Berle’s career extended into the 21st Century but had its beginnings in vaudeville and radio, with a variety of programs throughout the 1930s and 1940s.

We play the only surviving episode of Berle’s 1944-45 comedy variety program, Let Yourself Go. 

Milton is planning for a summer vacation, but wants to hire a young crooner who won’t be a threat to his getting picked up in the fall. However, complications ensue when the legendary Al Jolson shows up to apply for the job.

Original Air Date: June 6, 1945

We then take a look at season 3 episode 7, “Louie the Lilac”, where Louie has a plan to control the future via the flower-power generation by taking over the mind of their leader, Princess Primrose. With Commissioner Gordon indifferent, it’s up to the terrific trio to foil his evil scheme.

Milton Berle segment from “The Comedy Hall of Fame Awards”

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Suspense: On A Country Road (AWR0252)

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Batman Villains of Old Time Radio

We continue our look at actors who played villains in the 1966 Batman TV series. This time we turn to Ida Lupino, who played Cassandra Spellcraft, alongside her then-husband Howard Duff, who played her bumbling sidekick Cabala in the 1968 episode, “The Enchanting Doctor Cassandra”.

We begin by featuring an episode of Suspense in which they appeared together.

A wife and her husband (Lupino and Duff) take a shortcut down a country road where a deranged woman has escaped from a mental institution and already killed. They then run out of gas and find a woman screamning at them demanding to be let in their car.

Original Radio Brodcast Date: May 10, 1959

We then take a look at the Season 3 Batman Episode, “The Entrancing Dr. Cassandra”, where Lupino plays the titular alchemist who has figured out the secret of invisibility and has a daring plan to take care of the Terrific Trio and rule Gotham City.

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