OVERLOOKED TELEVISION: ROCKY KING, INSIDE DETECTIVE

Veteran actor Roscoe Karns starred as Police Inspector Rocky King for the Dumont Network from 1950 through 1954 in one of the network's most popular live programs.  Earl Hammond (now perhaps best known as a voice-over artist for many children's television shows) played King's fellow police officer, Detective Sergeant Lane; if Lane ever had a first name, I don't know it.  Grace Carney, an occasional film and television actress, was the voice of King's wife, Mabel, with whom King would chat over the telephone at the end of each episode.

The following episode, from December 14, 1953, has King and Lane trying to save an innocent man scheduled to be executed in three hours. It was written by Frank Phares, who wrote for six other television series in the 1950s, and was directed by Wes Kenney, who later became executive producer for the soap opera The Young and the Restless.

Enjoy "Murder, Ph.D."


https://archive.org/details/Rocky_King_Detective

BYE BYE BLACKBIRD

From 1927, Josephine Baker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXQPrtJYCJs

INCOMING

• Isaac Asimov, Comets and Meteors.  Juvenile nonfiction.
• Steven Brust, Dragon.  A Vlad Taltos fantasy.
• Frank Defelitta, Golgotha Falls.  Horror.
• David Gordon, The Serialist.  Suspense.
• Heather Graham, Ghost Shadow and Ghost Moon. The first and third volumes in the Bone Island trilogy.  Also, Ghost Walk, paranormal romance that is not part of the Bone Island trilogy.
• Tarquin Hall, The Case of the Missing Servant.  A Vish Puri mystery.
• Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches. Fantasy, Book One of the All Souls trilogy.
• Ellen Hart, Hallowed Murder.  A Jane Lawless mystery.
• David Jacobs, 24 Declassified:  Head Shot.  Television tie-in novel.
• Alex Kava, Damaged.  A Maggie O'Dell mystery.
• Larry King & Thomas H. Cook, Moon Over Manhattan.  Another celebrity writes a mystery with the "help" of a well-known mystery novelist.
• Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Gallery.  A Faith Fairchild mystery.
• Candace M. Robb, The Lady Chapel.  An Owen Archer mystery set in 1365 York.
• Dorothy Simpson, Wake the Dead. An Inspector Luke Thanet mystery.
• Patricia Wentworth, Beggar's Choice.  Mystery.

MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU!

http://www.space.com/25743-star-wars-day-nasa-astronaut-video.html

CINCA DE MAYO DRINK

Here's a great drink to celebrate tomorrow's Cinca de Mayo:

http://www.delish.com/entertaining-ideas/holidays/cinco-de-mayo/tequila-drinks-recipes#slide-1

Actually, I think it's a great drink.  I don't drink myself, but it sounds good.  To be sure, why don't you have a dozen or so tomorrow?   Then if I see your name on Tuesday's Police Log, I'll know the drink has served its purpose.

Have a great Cinca de Mayo!

ANCIENT MEXICO

From the early 70s, a helicopter flyover across several pre-Columbian sites, Mayan including Chichen Itza, Uxmal, and Teotihuacan.  Narrated by Orson Welles.

https://archive.org/details/cusb_000046

HYMN TIME

Reverent Gary Davis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUaGsSrbam4