Escalating Pitch - Episode 73

What shameless criminal plans to disrupt the bake-off at the department store? Will Falk arrive in time, or will The Cherry Pachyderm get in the way with his endless pitches for Falk’s radio show? Listen to find out!

Escalating Pitch, episode 73 of This Gun in My Hand, was pitched and escalated 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. What’s the big idea? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. The ad was inspired by BBC costume dramas such as Middlemarch, Wives and Daughters, Cranford, Return to Cranford, Lark Rise to Candleford, The Paradise, North and South (by Mrs. Gaskell, not the US Civil War miniseries), Pride and Prejudice.

2. Latthew Morressier, aka “The Cherry Pachyderm,” first appeared in episode 24, “Consulting Defectives.”

3. Batman wore several versions of his costume in different rainbow colors in Detective Comics, Volume 1, Number 241 (March 1957). https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Detective_Comics_Vol_1_241

4. Flavia de Luce is an eleven year old girl in 1950s England who solves mysteries using her knowledge of chemistry and poisons, in a series of novels by Alan Bradley.

5. Opinions expressed by fictional characters do not represent those of Robert Thomas Northrup, especially what should go in chili.

Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was 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.

“British Drama” Song Title: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629
Composed by Henry Purcell, 1692.
Performed by Carl Pini, John Tunnell, Anthony Pini and Harold Lester.
License: Public Domain
https://musopen.org/music/11140-the-fairy-queen-z629/

Sound Effect Title: Escalator
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/carlopatrao/sounds/631545/

Sound Effect Title: bustle in the pub
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/organicmanpl/sounds/403285/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a photo titled “Berlin, Stadtbahnhof Alexanderplatz.” Attribution: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-C1114-0006-013 / Junge, Peter Heinz / CC-BY-SA 3.0. License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany.