The Shady Aviator - Episode 50

How many times have you found yourself tied to a chair on the bridge of a zeppelin, listening to some clown spout off about his radio show, while he lets a spy escape with the secret plans? Listen to find out! 

The Shady Aviator, episode 50 of This Gun in My Hand, was launched and flown into the ground by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. Who’s the featured protagonist in this episode? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. The “literal spin-off” referred to in the opening line of this episode was a bullet, spinning because of the rifling (spiral grooves) inside the barrel of Falk’s H&K VP70z pistol. I’m not planning to launch a new podcast any time soon.

2. Arch Oboler was a radio writer, most famous today for his “Chicken Heart” episode of Lights Out. Depending who you believe, George Trendle and/or Fran Striker created The Lone Ranger. Tokutaro Hayashi (aka Raymond Toyo) was the first actor to voice Kato on the Green Hornet radio show.

3. Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities is available on PDF for $2.99 at
https://www.drivethrufiction.com/product/335675/Little-Heist-in-the-Big-Woods-and-Other-Revisionist-Atrocities

4. "Zeppelin v. Pterodactyls" was a rough idea that died in development hell at Hammer Film Productions Ltd. Someone developed a poster for their 1970 pitch, but it never moved much further than that. https://airminded.org/2007/05/25/the-movie-that-time-forgot/
Hearing about it decades later, I created two video mashups of Zeppelin vs. Pterodactyls: a live action version cobbled together from 1930s cliffhanger serials, and a cartoon version.
https://youtu.be/f2PkY3zSuw4
https://youtu.be/nZi2cqSnjJk
There have also been fan-made comic strips, t-shirts and a live stage reading of a script based on the original treatment.

5. Brazen Hearts, Fresh, On Sticks was a bloody goblin love story audio drama I put out as a podcast from Feb 2006 to June 2008. It’s still there! Go have a listen! http://brazenhearts.blogspot.com/2008/06/

Credits:
The opening music clip is from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music is from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Sound Effect Title: wind.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/nelstayade/sounds/525292/

Sound Effect Title: House Front Door Inside 3.wav
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/people/saturdaysoundguy/sounds/388027/#

Sound Effect Title: R10-56-Footsteps on Metal Staircase.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/480641/

Music title (used for Red Herring Patrol commercial): Close Call
By ROZKOL
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/ROZKOL/Rust_Symptoms/ROZKOL_-_Rust_Symptoms_-_01_Close_Call

Sound effect of PCHAAW activating taken from the instrumental track titled: In the Pursuit of More Money and Better Drugs
By ROZKOL
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/ROZKOL/III_Cats_Cradle/ROZKOL_-_III_Cats_Cradle_-_02_In_the_Pursuit_of_More_Money_and_Better_Drugs

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Popular Comics No. 98 (April 1944), in public domain, pencils and inks maybe by Zack Mosley.