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July-September 2017 Saturday 7-1 This is Your FBI "The Fraudulent Healer" 6/29/1951 The Marine Story "Lord Selkirk's Castle" 3/17/1948 Sunday 7-2 Suspense "Sundown" 5/4/1958 Gunsmoke "Dirty Bill's Girl" 10/28/1956 Monday 7-3 The Life of Riley: Babs' Date With Lieutenant Carew, 7/16/1944 Jack Benny Program, guest George Jessel, Part 1, 7/4/1954 Tuesday 7-4 Jack Benny Program, guest George Jessel - Part 2 Frontier Gentleman "Holiday" 11/9/1958 Wednesday 7-5 The Shadow "Murder at Dead Man's Inn" 9/12/1948 Captain Midnight "Meeting Fang" 11/8/1939 Thursday 7-6 Dimension X "Child's Play" 6/24/1951 Lum & Abner: Mousey Wants to Go On Flight to Mars, 10/27/1942 Friday 7-7 Boston Blackie "Copy of the Diamond Bracelet" 10/11/1945 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Silver Blue Matter" Pt 4, 5/10/56 Saturday 7-8 A Day in the Life of Dennis Day: Dennis Donates For New Gym, 6/30/48 Phil Harris & Alice Faye Show: Movie Contract for Phyllis - Pt 1, 11/20/49 Sunday 7-9 Phil Harris & Alice Faye Show: Movie Contract for Phyllis - Part 2 Sherlock Holmes "The Case of the Everblooming Roses" 5/16/1948 Monday 7-10 Jack Carson Show "Baby On The Doorstep" 4/9/1947 Fibber McGee & Molly: Aviation Show - Part 1, 6/4/1946 Tuesday 7-11 Fibber McGee & Molly: Aviation Show - Part 2 New Adv. of Nero Wolfe "Case of the Disappearing Diamonds" 3/9/1951 Wednesday 7-12 Academy Award Theatre "My Sister Eileen" 5/18/1946 Baby Snooks: Buying Shoes, 3/27/1941 Thursday 7-13 Inner Sanctum "Skeleton Bay" 2/5/1946 The Couple Next Door: Looking At Lakefront Property, 2/14/1958 Friday 7-14 Lights Out "The Archer" 4/13/1943 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Silver Blue Matter" Part 5, 5/11/1956 Saturday 7-15 Meet The Meeks: Meeks Turn Gangster, 1/24/1948 The Great Gildersleeve: Leroy Gets a New Teacher, Part 2, 9/9/1945 Sunday 7-16 The Great Gildersleeve: Leroy Gets a New Teacher, Part 2 Philip Marlowe "Last Laugh" 4/2/1949 Monday 7-17 The Charlie McCarthy Show, 10/5/1952, guest Rosemary Clooney Burns & Allen, 2/5/1948, Gracie Wants A Fur Coat - Part 1 Tuesday 7-18 Burns & Allen, Gracie Wants A Fur Coat - Part 2 The Witch's Tale "The Puzzle" 9/7/1934 Wednesday 7-19 Mutual Radio Theater Hour "The Lovers" host Cicely Tyson, 5/8/1950 Thursday 7-20 Wild Bill Hickok "Gunsmoke Pass" 2/1/1952 Lum & Abner "How to Build a Rocket Ship" 10/28/1942 Friday 7-21 Big Story: 16 Year Old Misfit Kills Out Of Fear, 1/5/1949 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Laughing Matter" Part 1, 6/11/1956 Saturday 7-22 X Minus One "The Defenders" 5/22/1956 Baby Snooks: Getting Gas, 12/3/1942 Sunday 7-23 Inner Sanctum "Song of the Slasher" 4/24/1945 The Strange Dr. Weird "The Knife of Death" 2/20/1945 Monday 7-24 Archie Andrews: Going To Bed Early, 11/13/1948 The Life of Riley: Riley Proves His Manhood - Part 1, 12/15/1950 Tuesday 7-25 The Life of Riley: Riley Proves His Manhood - Part 2 Broadway Is My Beat: Howard Crawford, 8/5/1951 Wednesday 7-26 Gunsmoke "Who Lives by the Sword..." 2/26/1956 Suspense "The Country of the Blind" 12/13/1959 Thursday 7-27 CBS Radio Workshop "Celestial Omnibus" 8/18/1957 The Couple Next Door: Betsy Runs Away, 2/17/1958 Friday 7-28 Mr. District Attorney "Case of the Priceless Miniature" 12/10/41 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Laughing Matter" Part 2, 6/12/56 Saturday 7-29 Mail Call: Wedding Night with Laurel & Hardy, 11/24/1943 My Favorite Husband: Liz Learns to Swim - Part 1, 6/11/1950 Sunday 7-30 My Favorite Husband: Liz Learns to Swim - Part 2 Molle Mystery Theater "Murder Without Crime" 5/3/1946 Monday 7-31 Danny Kaye Show "Case Of The Murdered Meatball" 2/24/1945 The Jack Benny Program, guest Groucho Marx - Part 1, 2/20/1944 Tuesday 8-1 The Jack Benny Program, guest: Groucho Marx - Part 2 Man From Homicide "The Drowned Girl Case" 8/6/1951 Wednesday 8-2 Hopalong Cassidy "The Boss of Vinegar Bend" 3/10/1951 Captain Midnight: Delores Tries to Kill Ivan Shark, 11/10/1939 Thursday 8-3 Murder At Midnight "Terror Out of Space" 6/21/1946 Lum & Abner: Manage Trip to Mars, 10/29/1942 Friday 8-4 Nick Carter, Master Detective "Case of the Vanishing Postman" 8/26/45 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Laughing Matter" Part 3, 6/13/1956 Saturday 8-5 It's Higgins, Sir "A Day on the Farm" 8/14/1951 The Great Gildersleeve: Leroy's Problem - Part 1, 11/4/1945 Sunday 8-6 The Great Gildersleeve: Leroy's Problem - Part 1 Mysterious Traveler "Operation Tomorrow" 4/11/1950 Monday 8-7 Our Miss Brooks "Peanuts, the Great Dane" 5/22/1949 Fibber McGee & Molly: The Amusement Park - Part 1, 6/17/1941 Tuesday 8-8 Fibber McGee & Molly: The Amusement Park - Part 2 The Sealed Book "Design For Death" 6/13/1945 Wednesday 8-9 Screen Director's Playhouse, 3/20/1949 "The Perfect Marriage" Baby Snooks, 9/3/1942 "The Camp Report" Thursday 8-10 The Whistler "Evening Stroll" 2/19/1950 The Couple Next Door: Helping Mrs. Haines, 2/18/1958 Friday 8-11 Richard Diamond, Private Detective "Dixon Case" 3/14/1952 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Laughing Matter" Part 4, 6/14/56 Saturday 8-12 Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show: Alice's New Car, 3/19/1950 Burns & Allen: Gracie the Detective - Part 1, 3/6/1947 Sunday 8-13 Burns & Allen: Gracie the Detective - Part 2, 3/6/1947 The Adv. of Sam Spade "The Vendetta Caper" 3/30/1951 Monday 8-14 The Red Skelton Show, 1/28/1949 "March Of Dimes Fairy Tale" The Jack Benny Program, 4/2/1950 "Vacation In Palm Springs" Part 1 Tuesday 8-15 The Jack Benny Program "Vacation In Palm Springs" Part 2 Damon Runyon Theatre, 6/12/1951 "That Ever Loving Wife of Hymies" Wednesday 8-16 The Shadow, 4/4/1948 "The Ghost That Gleams" The Adv. of Superman, 1/21/1947 "Drought in Freeville" Part 1 Thursday 8-17 Frontier Gentleman, 4/13/1958 "The Trial" Lum 'n' Abner, 11/2/1942 "Squire Treasurer For Mars Expedition" Friday 8-18 Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, 3/16/44 "Case of the Strange Display" Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, 6/15/1956 "The Laughing Matter" Part 5 Saturday 8-19 Archie Andrews, 8/21/1948 "Picnic Lunch" The Life of Riley, 5/7/1944 "Dog Catcher" Part 1 Sunday 8-20 Sunday 8-20 The Life of Riley "Dog Catcher - Part 2" Pat Novak "Doreen Wilde" 3/27/1949 Monday 8-21 Life With Luigi: Luigi Stands Up to Pasquale, 6/13/1950 Fibber McGee & Molly: Sugar Substitute - Part 1, 5/5/1942 Tuesday 8-22 Fibber McGee & Molly: Sugar Substitute - Part 2 The Weird Circle "The Rope of Hair" 4/16/1944 Wednesday 8-23 Gangbusters "The Golf Course Murder" 8/7/1948 The Adv. of Superman "Drought in Freeville" Part 2, 1/22/1947 Thursday 8-24 CBS Radio Workshop "Young Man Axelbrod" 9/22/1957 The Couple Next Door "Meeting With Mr. Rogers" 2/19/1958 Friday 8-25 Mr. and Mrs. North "Two Deaths For a Hero" 5/25/1954 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Indestructable Mike Matter" Pt 1, 6/4/56 Saturday 8-26 Our Miss Brooks "Conklin Causes A Fight" 9/25/1949 Phil Harris & Alice Faye Show "Jury Duty" Part 1, 2/20/1949 Sunday 8-27 Phil Harris & Alice Faye Show "Jury Duty" Part 2 Murder at Midnight "Death Is No End" 6/2/1947 Monday 8-28 Dimension X "The Parade" 8/25/1950 Space Patrol "The Lady from Venus" Part 1, 12/20/1952 Tuesday 8-29 Space Patrol "The Lady from Venus" Part 2 Duffy's Tavern, guest Marlene Dietrich, 3/9/1949 Wednesday 8-30 Hopalong Cassidy "The Cold Country" 2/24/1951 The Adv. of Superman "Drought in Freeville" Part 3, 1/23/1947 Thursday 8-31 Mutual Radio Theater Hour "Turnabout" (host Leonard Nimoy) 5/9/1950 Friday 9-1 This Is Your F.B.I. "The Cross Country Fugitive" 3/14/1952 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Indestructable Mike Matter" Pt 2, 6/5/56 Saturday 9-2 Alan Young Show: Raising Rabbits, 2/13/1945 The Burns & Allen Show: Shocked by High Price Groceries Pt. 1, 9/25/1947 Sunday 9-3 The Burns & Allen Show: George is Shocked by High Price Groceries Pt. 2 Dark Venture "Ten Dollar Bill" 8/5/1946 Monday 9-4 Casey, Crime Photographer "The Blonde Lipstick" 11/6/1947 Nightbeat "Big John McMasters" Part 1, 3/4/1951 Tuesday 9-5 Nightbeat "Big John McMasters" Part 2 Jack Carson Show: Taking Care Of The Baby, 4/16/1947 Wednesday 9-6 Nick Carter, Master Detective "The Case of the Sick Statue" 8/12/1945 The Adv. of Superman: Drought in Freeville - Part 3, 1/23/1947 Thursday 9-7 Gunsmoke "Twenty-Twenty" 7/16/1955 Captain Midnight: Patsy and Chuck Explore The Cave, 11/13/1939 Friday 9-8 Lights Out "Man in the Middle" 8/25/1945 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Indestructable Mike Matter" Pt 3, 6/6/56 Saturday 9-9 Jack Benny Program: Massage With Chicken Fat, 9/5/1954 The Great Gildersleeve: Leroy is Expelled - Part 1, 9/16/1945 Sunday 9-10 The Great Gildersleeve: Leroy is Expelled - Part 2 Green Hornet "Unexpected Meeting" 8/23/1945 Monday 9-11 Fort Laramie "The Talented Recruits" 7/08/1956 Have Gun, Will Travel "Bonanza" Part 1, 8/23/1959 Tuesday 9-12 Have Gun, Will Travel "Bonanza" Part 2 The Aldrich Family "Muscle Building Course" 11/06/1941 Wednesday 9-13 Man Called X "The Disappearing Cryptographer" 11/25/1950 The Adv. of Superman "Drought in Freeville" Part 5 Thursday 9-14 My Friend Irma: Irma Gets Fired, 3/21/1949 Lum & Abner: Plan Their Landing On Mars, 11/03/1942 Friday 9-15 Inner Sanctum "The Unburied Dead" 5/16/1949 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Indestructable Mike Matter" Part 4 Saturday 9-16 Life of Riley: Junior's Baseball Uniform, 5/01/1948 The Red Skelton Show: Red Goes to the Fights, Part 1, 11/11/1941 Sunday 9-17 The Red Skelton Show: Red Goes to the Fights - Part 2 Top Secret "Story of the Unknown Mission" 7/30/1950 Monday 9-18 Richard Diamond, Private Det, 3/30/1951 "The Carnival" Tales of the Texas Rangers, 8/5/1950 "Quick Silver - Part 1" Tuesday 9-19 Tales of the Texas Rangers "Quick Silver - Part 2" The Charlie McCarthy Show, 4/11/1954, guest Jo Stafford Wednesday 9-20 The Shadow, 1/4/1948 "The Chill Of Death" Adv. of Superman, 1/28/47 "Drought in Freeville" Part 6 Thursday 9-21 Suspense, 10/29/1961 "Death of an Old Flame" The Couple Next Door, 2/20/1958 "Waiting Outside The Department Store" Friday 9-22 Bulldog Drummond, 4/16/1945 "Case of the Double Death" Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, 6/8/56 "The Indestructable Mike Matter" Pt 5 Saturday 9-23 Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show, 10/1/1950, 1st Show Of The Season Burns & Allen, 8/26/1940 "George is Being Sued" Part 1 Sunday 9-24 Burns & Allen, 8/26/1940 "George is Being Sued" Part 2 The Aldrich Family, 9/28/1952 "Jealous of a Jock" Monday 9-25 Kraft Music Hall, 10/16/1947, guest Bing Crosby Fibber McGee & Molly, 10/6/1942 "Otis Cadwallder May Visit" Part 1 Tuesday 9-26 Fibber McGee & Molly, 10/6/1942 "Otis Cadwallder May Visit" Part 2 Whisperer, 9/9/1951 "Woman On Ice" Wednesday 9-27 CBS Radio Workshop "Space Merchants" Part 1, 2/17/1957 The Adv. of Superman "Drought in Freeville" Part 7, 1/29/1947 Thursday 9-28 Mutual Radio Theater Hour "The Lover of Silence" 4/18/1980 Friday 9-29 Rocky Fortune "Pintsized Payroll Bandit" 10/27/1953 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Long Shot Matter" Part 1, 6/25/1956 Saturday 9-30 Duffy's Tavern: Testimonial Dinner with George Jessel, Rudy Vallee, 11/5/47 Jack Benny Program "Charley's Aunt" guest Dorothy Kirsten, Part 1, 4/25/1948 Sunday 10-1 Jack Benny Program "Charley's Aunt" with Dorothy Kirsten - Part 2 Nightbeat "The Girl from Kansas Barbara Fuller" 6/5/1950
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Lux Radio Theater version of Casablanca with original cast members
If clips above will not play, Click here and access the entire old time radio library as a subscriber. If you cannot hear programs because your computer does not have the latest Flash Player, you can get it free from get.Adobe.com/flashplayerNote: Turner Classic Movies had a marathon showing of all of "The Whistler" movies followed by Red Skelton's "Whistling In" movie trilogy and even a Lum & Abner movie
32 page American Flyer Trains by A.C. Gilbert for 1948 presented by Superman!
Fred Foy 1-hour interview (Lone Ranger, Sgt. Preston, Green Hornet)
Note: radio episodes of Chandu The Magician had no relation to the Boris Karloff movie of the same name, in which Karloff plays Chandu as a villain
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Paul Harvey delved into the forgotten or little-known facts behind stories of famous people and events. Harvey's widely known The Rest of the Story has been broadcast since 1946, similar to the weekly story segment of Bill Stern's Sports Newsreel. Substitutes when Paul was away or ill included Mort Crim (1980-84), Gil Gross, Doug Limerick and Paul Harvey, Jr. Paul Harvey 1966 broadcast (more audio on Paul Harvey page). ABC Radio Networks notified affiliates that ABC News Radio's Gil Gross and Doug Limerick will fill the three daily slots of Paul Harvey News & Rest Of The Story but it only lasted about a year after Paul Harvey's passing. Gil Gross also had a 2-hour interview program. Paul Harvey reads a letter from God
Robert L. Ripley's radio series ran from 1930 to his death in 1949. Music was provided by 1930s band leader Ozzie Nelson and vocalist Harriet Hilliard--who later became sitcom stars, believe it or not!
Peg Riley on "The Life of Riley" (ABC Radio: 1944-1945; NBC Radio: 1945-1951) was played by Paula Winslowe (1910-1996), who had previously been the voice of Bambi's mother in the Disney animated movie, and later played Mrs. Conklin in the TV version of Our Miss Brooks (1953-58) as well as reprising her (uncredited) role as Bambi's mother in Disney cartoon short No Hunting (1955)
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Turner Classic Movies is doing movies based on radio series this year including Fibber McGee, Gildersleeve, I Love A Mystery, The Whistler, Crime Doctor, etc.
Blake Edwards created Richard Diamond for radio, then later the hard-boiled private eye tv-series "Peter Gunn"
Jack Benny Show broadcasting live
Part 2 of Jack Benny broadcast
Jack sneaks onto Groucho's quiz show as a contestant
Beverly Sills died 7-2-07 from cancer complications. Beverly Sills spoofing opera on the Danny Kaye Show
Gracie Allen vs. the Tax Auditor
(he leaves in confusion) Gracie Allen was born in 1895 but her birth certificate was lost in the 1906 San Francisco Fire/Earthquake so she always gave 1906 as her birthdate
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This is Wally Ballou reminding you to Hang by your thumbs.
I love a mystery so welcome again through the squeaking door
Note: Stan Freberg hosted "When Radio Was" for 10 years, after previous host Art Fleming passed away suddenly. His final broadcast as host was 10/6/06. The new host from then until June, 2007 was Chuck Schaden. Greg Bell, program director and host of XM Radio’s very popular old-time radio channel, "Radio Classics", has been named as the new host. Chuck Schaden has interviewed some of the radio stars (recorded in the 1970s, see broadcast archive).
Superman 1950s TV intro, now a major motion picture
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Fun fact:
Jimmy Stewart's The Six Shooter only lasted one season (he wouldn't accept a tobacco company as sponsor), and he made the Hitchcock movie "Rear Window" the same year.
Walter B. Gibson co-created and wrote the Shadow novels. When he left The Shadow magazine after asking for more money, he became head script writer for radio's Nick Carter, Master Detective for awhile.
X Minus One/Dimension X had no big-name guest stars because most of the weekly budgets were used to purchase broadcast rights to the latest sci-fi stories
Morton Downey "The Irish Nightingale" was a popular singer on 1930s radio (and TV host of 1950s Star Of The Family), heard alternate nights on a 5-day a week radio broadcast from his New York nightclub. His son Morton Downey, Jr., went instead into talk radio with a spoof of bombastic Wally George on a California radio station - when he left radio in 1988 to do a TV-version of his show, the Sacramento station replaced him with someone named Rush Limbaugh.
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Jack Benny vs. the Floor Walker (Frank Nelson)
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Gracie Allen's Roast Beef Recipe
1 small roast beef
Take the 2 roasts and put them in the oven. Turn oven on. When the little one burns, the big one is done.
In addition to starring in both the radio & TV versions of "Life With Luigi" J. Carrol Naish portrayed Dr. Daka, the first villain to go up against Batman on the silver screen, in "The Batman" (1943 serial). He also appeared in two episodes of Lux Theater after it moved to TV
Life Of Riley was originally co-created by Gummo Marx for his brother Groucho as The Flotsam Family. But the sponsor saw William Bendix in a 1942 movie and cast him instead.
Marcus Brace Beemer (born in 1903) and John Todd (born as Fred McCarthy in 1877) played The Lone Ranger & Tonto on radio. They also both had to lie about their age to serve (separately) in WW1. Beemer was too young (15) to enlist and Todd too old (30). The War Department says Beemer was the youngest U.S. serviceman in WW1; he was wounded while serving in France. By the way, Arthur Godfrey was almost killed in an auto accident in the 1930s, yet learned to walk and fly his own plane. When he was turned down for WW2 enlistment as a Navy flier due to the old injury, he asked friend FDR for help. The President told an Admiral to accept Godfrey since he couldn't walk at all yet was serving as Commander in Chief!
The greeting "How" may not be a Hollywood invention. There is an actual Indian greeting which sounds similar "A-Hau," which means Peace be with you or All is well. The first Texas Rangers used muzzle-loading single-shot rifles. But their first hand guns were actually a 5-shot revolver, not a 6-gun!
Jack Benny was born on Valentine's Day, and Robert L. Ripley was born on Christmas Day, believe it or not! In 1974, Jack Benny & George Burns were cast in The Sunshine Boys but George became ill and was replaced by Walter Matthau, then George got better and Jack suddenly died.
In the 1930s, comic strip Terry & the Pirates had many storylines in which Japan (changed to "the invaders" by nervous newspaper editors) attacked China and then Pearl Harbor. This storyline was also adapted for the radio series Captain Midnight, also before the real attack on Pearl Harbor! Fran Stryker wrote the life output of Shakespeare every 15 weeks: How he did it
NBC/GE chimes were G-E-C musical notes, for General Electric Co. NBC's special alert 4 chimes was used for Hindenberg crash, Pearl Harbor, and WW2 bulletins
Fun facts:
When a pitcher, catcher & umpire get into an argument, it's called a "rhubarb." This term dates back to live radio drama when angry crowds would be represented by 5 or 6 actors saying "rhubarb" over and over. Nick Carter, Master Detective predated Sherlock Holmes by a couple of months--the American detective appeared in his own Street & Smith magazine just before the first Holmes appearance in Strand Magazine. Walter B. Gibson, co-creator of The Shadow in print, wrote for radio's Nick Carter during WW2.
Countdown to blast-off X-5,4,3,2,X-1...Fire
It's Sunday night and time for Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy
Who is it? The Fatman or The Falcon...The Green Hornet strikes again
The Shadow knows (old radio script)
The Jack Benny Program, There's always room for Jello...Sold: American!
Welcome to the Hermit's Cave...Duffy ain't here
Welcome to the Black Museum (Orson Welles) That was the end of Harry Lime
I'm the first person they look for and the last they want to meet (Gunsmoke, TV version can be seen on Encore Westerns)
Henry? Henry Aldrich...Hi ya, Baldy...Up, Up and away!
I carry a badge. Hi-Ho Silver. I am The Whistler. Yes King, this case is closed. A tale calculated to keep you in Suspense!
Join the new 1940 Flight Patrol with Captain Midnight. Flash! Ethiopia surrenders to Mussolini
Turn your lights out, everybody. If you are easily frightened, turn your radio off now.
It is I, Digby Odell, the friendly undertaker By golly, I believe that's our ring...don't open that closet. Heavenly days!
Mr. Keen, tracer of lost persons. How do you do? Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. This is your FBI
Suspense radio series history on Wikipedia
Who're you gonna vote for?
I wonder what The Lone Ranger would sound like in Jamaica
There was even a radio version of Doc Savage By Lester Dent
Lester Dent bio on YouTube
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(guests include Groucho Marx, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone & Boris Karloff)
CBS Radio Theater (these are big MP3 audio links so save it to your computer or ipod if you are on a slow dialup) series by Hyman Brown, creator of the original Inner Snctum radio series
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