Coming up this week on the old-time radio snack wagon.

How was things, I asked the uncle real gay and carefree?

I was shining like the sun overhead one minute

and hit by a clap of thunder and a bolt of lightning the next.

You're going to the wedding, Davy?

I tell you, boy, I kind of wish it was you the girl was married.

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first. Well, today marks the start of the last era in yours truly Johnny Dollar as Mandel Kramer

takes over in the lead role. And he would continue in that role till the end of the series.

And certainly he was a good choice

if what you wanted was someone who knew the radio business. He had started in radio back in the

early 40s, so he'd been doing radio programs for 20 years. In fact, radio was essentially his entire career up until the late 50s when he took on the role of Bill Marceau on the long-running soap, Edge of Nine.

He did a lot of character work through most of his career. He was best known for the role of Harry Peters on Counter Spy,

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