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2009 SPERDVAC OLD-TIME RADIO CONVENTION NEWS
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Here is the latest news about the 2009 SPERDVAC Old-Time Radio Convention,
Friday, May 1, 2009 through Sunday, May 3, 2009 at Beverly Garland's Holiday Inn, 4222 Vineland Ave., North Hollywood, CA 91602
Parking: SPERDVAC will validate hotel parking for only $5 per car per event. Overnight parking for hotel guests is $13 per car per day. Bring your ticket to the SPERDVAC registration table to be validated and pay for parking.
Volunteers Needed: We need volunteers to help relieve some of our hard workers at the registration table on both Friday and Saturday during the day. Please contact Bobb Lynes at iairotr@hotmail.com (phone: 323-256-5879) if you can help for part of either day.
Our Stars: We are still booking more personalities and special features for the convention.
Here are the panel guests and re-creation actors so far:
Read Gregg Oppenheimer's Blog for descriptions of some of the shows we'll be presenting at this year's convention.
| TENTATIVE CONVENTION SCHEDULE: |
| Friday, May 1: |
| 12:00 noon |
Authors Panel, with
Martin Grams, Bob Mills and Jim Harmon
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| 01:20 p.m. |
“The Green Hornet” Panel, presented by
Martin Grams
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| 02:30 p.m. |
Re-creation of The Bickersons, starring
Stuffy Singer and Gloria McMillan
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| 03:15 p.m. |
“Rudy Vallee” Panel, presented by Eleanor Vallee
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| 04:35 p.m. |
I Love a Mystery, starring Bob Hastings,
Robert Easton, Heather Woodruff Perry, Susan Silo, Gloria McMillan, Ron Cocking, Warren Jones, and David Dubov, with live musical accompaniment by famed organist Bob Mitchell - directed by Tim Knofler
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| 05:15 p.m. |
Happy Hour
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| 06:30 p.m. |
Dinner Banquet
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| after dinner |
The Great Gildersleeve, starring Shirley Mitchell, Chuck McCann, Gloria McMillan, Eddie Carroll, Janet Waldo, Stuffy Singer, June Foray, Dick Beals, John Harlan, and Ron Cocking, with live musical accompaniment by famed organist Bob Mitchell - directed by Gregg Oppenheimer
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Burns and Allen with Jack Benny, starring Eddie Carroll, Janet Waldo, Gregg Berger, Chuck McCann, and John Harlan - directed by Gregg Oppenheimer
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Saturday, May 2:
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| 09:30 a.m. |
“Lux Radio Theatre” Panel, hosted by Frank Bresee, with Dick Beals, Barbara Fuller, Gladys Holland,Gloria McMillan, Stuffy Singer and Bob Birchard
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| 10:50 a.m. |
Radio Bloopers and Outtakes, presented by Gregg Oppenheimer
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| 12:00 noon |
“I Love a Mystery” Panel, hosted by Bob Mills, with Tim Knofler, Martin Grams, Rick Ferguson, Bob Easton, and Bob Hastings
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| 01:00 p.m. |
“Talk Radio” Panel, hosted by Bob Mills, with Ira Fistell and Ray Briem
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| 02:30 p.m. |
“Singers” Panel, hosted by Chuck Southcott and Ray Briem, with Gogi Grant, Al Martino, Peter Marshall, and Marilyn King
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| 04:00 p.m. |
Re-creation: Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders, starring Ivan Cury, Tommy Cook, Jan Merlin, Dick Beals, Gloria McMillan, Jim Harmon, Bobb Lynes, Barbara Watkins and Ron Cocking - directed by Barbara Harmon.
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| 04:40 p.m. |
Re-creation: The Life of Riley, starring Tommy Cook, Gladys Holland, Sy Prescott, Jan Merlin, Bobb Lynes, Barbara Watkins, Walter Jesella and Stuart Lubin - directed by Barbara Watkins
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| 05:15 p.m. |
Happy Hour
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| 06:00 p.m. |
Dinner Banquet - emceed by Leonard Maltin
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| after dinner |
60th Anniversary Re-creation: Dragnet, starring Herb Ellis, Kenneth Mars, Barbara Fuller, Ivan Cury, Gene Reynolds, Gladys Holland and John Harlan - directed by Herb Ellis
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75th Anniversary Re-creation: The Lux Radio Theatre presents “Casablanca,” starring Darryl Hickman, Terry Moore, Stuffy Singer, Sy Prescott, Tommy Cook, Doris Singleton, Eddy King, Ron Gans, and Stuart Lubin - directed by Frank Bresee
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Re-creation: The Baby Snooks Show, starring Marilyn King, Harold Gould, Tommy Cook, John Harlan, Gloria McMillan and Ron Cocking - directed by Gregg Oppenheimer
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| Sunday, May 3: |
| 09:30 a.m. |
Sunday Brunch
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| 10:30 a.m. |
“From Radio to Cartoons” Panel, with Dick Beals, June Foray, and Janet Waldo.
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