CP wrote --

> I lost all my old time radio files (had some good ones -- several seasons of the Bickersons, & lots of Laurel & Hardy's full radio shows)

  I love The Bickersons, with Don Ameche.  Not so much with Lew Parker.
  I had a cat once named Blanche.  She was a b/w long hair that looked like
Sylvester, the cartoon cat.
  She was a stray and already had one cat, Molly, a tabby I got at the
shelter. 
  I couldn't find the seconds former slave (dogs have masters, cats have
slaves) and resisted naming her.  You know what happens when you name an
animal.
  Nearly a week passed and I knew she was going to stay but no name.  I
name my pets after their personality.
  One night I was dead tired and she came up wanting some attention.  My
first thought was "Blanche, let me sleep" like John would say.
  That became her name, Blanche Bickerson DuBois.  The DuBois was after
Blanche DuBois from the play/movie A Streetcar Named Desire who had depended on
the kindness of strangers.
  Re: your lost OTR shows you can check: 
  https://otrrlibrary.org/version1.html
  https://www.otrcat.com/old-time-radio-listener-s-gift-guide#downloads
  https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/jack-benny
  For some shows.  The library is the best site.
 
> Same. I can't commit myself to watching X in a Y time frame.

  In the olden days I would borrow a tape from the library, free, unlike
other rental places one had to pay, and intend to watch it.  But it seemed
every one of the three days I had something happened to keep me from doing
that.

> I only insist on ewatching all in a franchise in order & usually in close time  to each (I'll spend a week watching one a day maybe, or binge for a weekend)

  I use IMBd to get the dates on shows, unless its marked S01E01, etc.
  Characters come and go, referenced later, etc and unless in order that
often makes no sense.
  I can also watch the characters revolve and become defined as the one the
viewer came to know.
  I'll watch two half hour shows but usually only one one hour show at a
time.  Unless the one hour show is a two parter.
  I also like to watch the shows on the days they originally aired.

> Lots of good stuff out there I've not found yet. Can't find any free online sources for older(pre-1980) TV series. 

  Almost all the shows I watch are pre-1990.  Unless its a particularly
long running program, such as Columbo, which went from the late '70s to the
mid-90s.
  Plus a few shows I wasn't interested in during the '90s but am now.
  Joe
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