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Podcast: Breaking Walls: The Podcast on the History of American Network Radio Broadcasting
Episode: BW - EP146—007: December 1973 With Rod Serling And The Zero Hour—Mutual Broadcasting Takes Over
Description: Associated Press, December 21st, 1973, New York City.
“The script appears strange at first. Its directions are for the ear, not the eye, and say things like: "DOORBELL ON. FOOTSTEPS. DOOR OPENED. TRAFFIC IN BG."
"That traffic noise is 25 years old," laughs Jimmy Dwan, a veteran CBS sound effects man. "You can hear a doorman shouting on it somewhere. That doorman, he's been dead twenty years." Dwan's recorded sound effects are old, but not his script. It's of 1973 vintage, written solely for radio.
“Yes, radio.
“It's part of a brave new effort by two networks to bring back, in limited form, the go...