Obit: Sergeant Preston of the Yukon

Subject: Obit: Sargent Preston of the Yukon
From: kendall
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 10:34 AM

For those who remember Richard W. Simmons, he died at the age of 89. I remember the program well. One of my favorites on radio.

Subject: RE: Obit: Sargent Preston of the Yukon
From: mack/misophist
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 10:57 AM

I remember too. They don't make voices like that any more.

Subject: RE: Obit: Sargent Preston of the Yukon
From: EBarnacle1
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 11:13 AM

And his dog, King.

Let us return to a simpler day, when good was good and the authorities only sought to suppress by honest means, bringing them to Justice through fair means, not foul.

He [Sergeant Preston of the Yukon] set a model for us that is sadly in abeyance in these fraught days.

Subject: RE: Obit: Sargent Preston of the Yukon
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 11:29 AM

ON YOU HUSKIES, MUSH! MUSH!

Look what's for dinner, Yukon King! Mush, mush!

Hmmmmmm, now I'm trying to remember whether there was any REAL mush....did Sgt. Preston fool around with girls?

What I DID love was his grey uniform, grey huskies, and all those grey villains. Damn, that was a long time ago!

Powerful Pierre, the Mad trapper

Subject: RE: Obit: Sargent Preston of the Yukon
From: Charley Noble
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 12:00 PM

Rick-

Shame!

"On, King! On, you huskies!"

Don't think I ever saw the TV version, and as I recollect the radio Sargent Preston was represented by someone else. Was that William Boyd?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Obit: Sargent Preston of the Yukon
From: catspaw49
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 12:45 PM

This Ohian loved Sgt. Preston. Richard Simmons made a dashing hero, even if he was gray!!! Ya' gotta' love the old black and white stuff....Somehow it allowed just a bit for the imagination.

Simmons only did the character on TV. On radio he was portrayed by Jay Michael, Paul Sutton, and Brace Beemer (briefly at the end in '55). BTW, on radio, Dewey Cole was the "voice" of Yukon King supplying the barks and growls.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Obit: Sargent Preston of the Yukon
From: Charley Noble
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 01:28 PM

Thanks, Spaw.

My brother and I, of course, named our German Shepherd mongrel pup "King" but I have to admit he made a less than stellar sleddog.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Obit: Sargent Preston of the Yukon
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 02:01 PM

Brace Beemer also played Superman on radio.

Subject: RE: Obit: Sargent Preston of the Yukon
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 02:19 PM

And briefly......the Lone Ranger. I gather he was a good studio voice. I wonder if someone like him ever reaped any internet benefits..like fan clubs, trivia stuff, shopping mall openings etc.

I just had this MONSTROUS image of Sgt Preston being played by OUR generation's RICHARD SIMMONS!!!

My gawd I'll have to stop thining of the possibilities or I'll be in very homophobic areas....

I picture him showing up at a mad trapper's cabin (they WERE all mad weren't they?) in his red uniform with curly perm showing from under his Mountie hat.....with tears in his eyes, BEGGING the trapper to try and understand that with a proper diet he wouldn't be as mad. Possibly a tad rough, but NOT mad.

Later, Sgt Richard is back at home, curled up in his stylish but woodsy cabin with Yukon King at his feet and his two cats Snowball and Nanook.

Stop me...

Jaques Galoshes

Subject: RE: Obit: Sargent Preston of the Yukon
From: Jeri
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 02:30 PM

Rick, stop thining.

Subject: RE: Obit: Sargent Preston of the Yukon
From: Mark Clark
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 03:00 PM

Like Charlie Noble, the only Sgt. Preston I remember wore bright red. Everything on radio was always in vivid color, much better pictures than we got later on TV.

I remember the sponsor (Shredded Wheat?) used to print cutouts on the cereal boxes. One could have all of Dawson City put together on the living room floor, stern-wheeled river boats, the whole works. The downside was eating Shredded Wheat.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: Obit: Sargent Preston of the Yukon
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 04:33 PM

My brother still has certificates that show he owns several whole SQUARE INCHES!!! of the Yukon Territory. Later, though, Canada repossessed the whole lot from the show's sponsor for nonpayment of taxes. There went Tony's hopes of retiring to the Yukon and panning for gold.

Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear....

Subject: RE: Obit: Sargent Preston of the Yukon
From: Charley Noble
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 04:36 PM

Ah! It was the voice of Brace Beemer we heard on radio, and I do recall it was the same voice as the Lone Ranger's, a really deep and dangerous voice if riled. And, yes, his uniform coat was bright red!

This generation's Richard Simmons would have made good mush for the sled dogs...

I thought the sponsor was Quaker Oats. You know, that cereal which was shot from guns. Although, come to think of it, when my brother and I tried to do that the cereal didn't seem to work very well, and father wasn't very pleased with the mess in his shutgun barrel...

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Obit: Sargent Preston of the Yukon
From: SharonA
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 04:49 PM

Okay, Charley, it's your turn to be told: Shame! :^)

The cereal that was "shot from guns" was Quaker Puffed Wheat and Quaker Puffed Rice.

Quaker Oats was – and is – the dry oatmeal in the cylindrical cardboard container that you have to heat in water or milk.

I couldn't tell you which was the sponsor of the radio program, however. I'm afraid that that was all before my time. Frankly, I think I missed out on a wondrous era.

Subject: RE: Obit: Sargent Preston of the Yukon
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 04:50 PM

you may HATE me for the thread I'm starting in twenty seconds, and I KNOW there was a related thread here.....but we have new people at the cat, and just the mention of the "Square inches of the Yukon" have put me into a VERRRY nostalgic mood.

Forgive me......

Subject: RE: Obit: Sargent Preston of the Yukon
From: Charley Noble
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 05:02 PM

You're right, of course, Sharon. :~(

Damn, Rick, I haven't got a clue where my "Square inches of the Yukon" is filed. Probably my brother ripped it off, like so much of my great stuff. I don't even remember how many box tops we had to collect.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Obit: Sargent Preston of the Yukon
From: Art Thieme
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 08:41 PM

As far as my memories go, Brace Beemer was the ONLY voice that was the Lone Ranger. Even Clayton Moore was a wimp compared to Brace.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Obit: Sargent Preston of the Yukon
From: John Hindsill
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 10:20 PM

For Guest,Kendall--are you sure Beemer played Superman? The Ranger was a show out of Detroit, Superman from New York. Supposedly Beemer was disallowed from other roles during the run of the Ranger show (ended 1954), but did play Preston briefly after that. Checking Superman pages shows that only Bud Collyer (Collier) played Superman/Clark Kent during the radio years, and the animated cartoons (movies and TV) 'til his death.

For Mark--I remember Nabisco Shredded Wheat as the sponsor of Straight Arrow; Quaker Puffed Wheat (Sparkies) & Quaker Puffed Rice sponsored Preston.

FYI, the other major radio show from the Ranger/Preston company was The Green Hornet, who was the grand (or great-grand) nephew if the Lone Ranger. All three originated in Detroit and had much the same repetory company playing in each of those shows.

Subject: RE: Obit: Sargent Preston of the Yukon
From: DonMeixner
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 10:29 PM

I recall watching the show and learning how to make ice goggles so when I crossed the frozen wastes to Bruce Holbrooks house I wouldn't go snow blind. ( Black Bruce! I arrest you in the name of the Crown!) You could get the pattern in the cardboard biscuit dividers from the boxes. And in central New York, if you were lucky you might find a free movie ticket to, Old Yeller, on them as well.

Don

Subject: RE: Obit: Sargent Preston of the Yukon
From: kendall
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 12:03 AM

My mistake, B. Beemer played the Lone Ranger, not Superman. Bud Collier was Superman.

Subject: RE: Obit: Sargent Preston of the Yukon
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 12:59 AM

It looks as though Sgt. Preston episodes are available on video. There is one listed about half way down on this page.

Subject: RE: Obit: Sargent Preston of the Yukon
From: Bev and Jerry
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 01:50 AM

There is a radio station in Los Angeles (KNX - 1070 AM) that plays old radio programs seven nights a week at 9:00 PM. Each night they run two half hour programs. With a good radio they can be heard all over California and in the neighboring states, too. They rotate programs but, in the last year or so they have run several episodes of Sgt. Preston, The Lone Ranger, and The Green Hornet. Now that y'all mention it, the three protagonists do sound much the same.

Bev and Jerry

Subject: RE: Obit: Sargent Preston of the Yukon
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 02:08 AM

Just like those portentious narrators you hear in all the movie trailers now, combining a shout with a snarl with a stage whisper...while someone gits kilt or something gits blowed up real good...all at several thousand decibels, in case you weren't paying attention. They all sound the same too (sort of like Steven Seagal would struggling with REALLY bad constipation), but it's quite a different sound from the old radio heroes. I avoid scores of new movies entirely because of the trailers...obviously I am not in the demographic they are aiming for.

I loved "Seven Years in Tibet" and "Anna and the King"...two movies that didn't last a week in Orillia.

Okay, back to Sergeant Preston...

- LH

Subject: RE: Obit: Sargent Preston of the Yukon
From: JJ
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 08:08 AM

"Come on, King. This case is closed..."

And for Canadian summers, when he could use a horse, the Sergeant had Rex.

I also had my square inch iof land in the Yukon from the Quaker folks.

Shredded Wheat, Straight Arrow, and a fingerpuppet theatre you could make from the box and the cardboard dividers inside!

(The REALLY odd thing is that I LIKED shredded wheat!)

Subject: RE: Obit: Sargent Preston of the Yukon
From: Winters Wages
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 09:58 AM

I still have my deeds to land in the Yukon given out as a sales pitch by Quaker Puff Wheat...Lts see Hmmm I own 10 square inches of land WW