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Familiar voice returns to WEOL broadcast boothIf there’s a familiar- voice heard on the WEOL Radio airwaves Monday, don't think it’s an early Halloween prank.Regular morning man and station program director MikeJames is baek!James (Whitmore) hasn't been on the air since June 18, when he had the first pangs of a heart attack during a dance rehearsal for Lorain Community Music Theater’s production of “Brigadoon” at Admiral King High School.After medication for the heart attack at Lorain Community Hospital resulted in a cerebral hemorrhage, he was flown to Cleveland Clinic for surgery. Eventually he returned to LCH for rehabilitation, and was released Aug. 10.Since Aug. 20 he has been back in the station office part time, working on record programming and shuffling papers.cabinet, a chauffeur, a valet and a Depression-era Hooverville bum in ‘ Annie.*9Now he’s ready to face the microphone again, so starting Monday he’ll get an early birthday present (he turns 37 Oct. 28) by taking over the 10 a.m.-noon shift.The rest of the lineup then will be Joe Patton 5-10 a.m., Cam Brown noon-6 p.m., Bruce Van Dyke 6 p.m.-midnight and Wally Mintus midnight-5 a.m.James made his acting “debut” with LCMT in 1989, playing an on-stage radio announcer, three off-stage radio announcers, a member of FDR’sDid you just want out of this year’s cast. Mike, because all you got to play was one basic part, a resident of the mythical Scottish town of “Brigadoon?” Or was Jeddi Driscol’s choreography too complicated even though you’d tied a red ribbon in your right shoe?Rumor has it you just panicked when you got a mental picture of yourself prancing around the Lorain Palace Civic Centerstage in a kilt!Only your wife, Kathy (an advertising sales assistant at The Chronicle-Telegram who has worked on and in several LCMT shows) knows for sure.The community theater, by the way. dedicated the July performances of the musical to Mike and Kathy.ClosedcapDonedprogramminglncca*esMovjeLOCAL VIEWING8PM3 NBCWKYCParenthoododjWofWofiQ5 ABCWEWS9 S8Getting‘Achrenmre*Nwtg8 CBSWJWBiMfcaS:ISMWorid11 CBSWTOLSasabail; 1590 WorldSants, Gam* Sants, Gam13 NBC 19 IND 23 ABC 25 PBSWTVG W0I0 WAKCPif»nthood jHid. 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HISS!: I look forward to at least occasionally being home to catch Dick Clark’s new game show “The Challengers” at 4:30 p.m. weekdays on Channel 8.The station’s Halloween “trick” for me is moving the show to the 10:30 a.m. time slot starting Oct. 29.Now I’ll be stuck with avoiding catching “Geraldo” in the 4-5 p.m. slot. Wonder what's on Nickelodeon at that time?The new morning lineup, by the way, also moves “The Joker’s Wild” from 4 p.m. to 10 a.m.* * *OPRAH UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL: That’s what Wilma Smith will offer Monday at 8 p.m. in her latest “Close-Ups” special on WEWS-TV Channel 5.For the half-hour special Smith interviewed talk show host Oprah Winfrey and followed her around for a typical day in her Chicago studios.* * *ROBOT MEET AND GREET: If you’re an early TV watcher, you may be familiar with a hip, full-functioning robot called DECKS” - short for DigitalC-T photoMIKE JAMESElectrosonic Cassette-headed Kinetic System.it-icDECKS” is the co-star of Wake, Rattle and Roll,” the 7:30 a.m. kids’ show weekdays on WOIO-TV Channel 19.“DECKS” also will be the featured attraction for a “safe trick or treat” day Oct. 27 at Cleveland’s Galleria, where kids dressed in costume can go store to store from 11 a.m.-7 p.m.The station also will present live stage shows from Fox-19’s Kids’ Club at 1 and 3 p.m.“DECKS” is “great. His legs are speakers, hs chest is a video monitor. It’s a chance to interact with a fully-functioning robot,” says Channel 19 spokesman Debbie Guerney.The robot also will make an appearance at the Hudson Haunted House Friday night and be a guest disc jockey for the annual Club Coconuts Halloween bash.* * *BROWNS FEVER: The temperature may have dropped after last Sunday’s failure, but interest will be high for Monday’s Cleveland Browns-Cincin-nati Bengais “ABC Monday Night Football” contest.Channel 5 has scheduled “Browns’ Town '90” for the 8:30 p.m. pre-game time slot, with sports reporter Bob Stevens hosting the live special.There will be interviews with Bengais’ head coach Sam Wyche and Channel 5 Sports Director Nev Chandler analyzing the Browns’ standing — from the roof of Cleveland’s stadium.Reporter Rebecca Shaw also “risks a trip ‘behind enemy lines’ to Cincinnati” to report on the state rivalry.* * *NYUK! NYUK! NYUK! WOOB! WOOB! WOOB!: The “high priests of low comedy” will be remembered Wednesday on Channel 19 in a two-hour special, “Disorder in the Court: A 60th Anniversary Tribute to the Stooges.”The special —- airing Wednesday at 9 p.m. and repeating Oct. 27 at noon — will feature clips of Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp, Joe Besser and Curly Joe DeRita and all their belly-punches, eye-pokes, faee-slaps and nose-tweeks.There will be never-before-seen films, rare home movies, outtakes, long-lost footage and family interviews.Alan Thieke of “Growing Pains” is the host, with appearances by Gary Owens, Wil Shri-ners, Jeff Altman, “Downtown” Julie Brown and the Stooges’ oldest sidekick, Emil Sitka.
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The Chronicle Telegram
Elyria, Ohio, US
Sat, Oct 20, 1990
Page 26
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