{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Presenting the Transcription Feature 185: LEAVE IT TO JEEVES & X MINUS ONE","description":"\u201cForecast\u201d was a radio show specifically designed to try out new shows.  Both \u201cSuspense\u201d and \u201cDuffy\u2019s Tavern\u201d got their starts there.  Tonight, we present the pilot for a show I would have absolutely loved had it gone to series, but alas it did not.  \u201cLeave It To Jeeves,\u201d was inspired by the P.G. Wodehouse tales of young man-about-town Bertie Wooster and his personal gentleman\u2019s gentleman, Jeeves.  Starring Edward Everett Horton and Alan Mobray, respectively, this tale doesn\u2019t actually adapt any of the Wodehouse tales, but it does take the structure and pay homage to the sort of situations in which Bertie and Jeeves were always finding themselves:  engagements, errands for aunts\u2026 Any Wodehouse fan will be at home in this comic, twisty misadventure.  Then \u201cX Minus One\u201d adapts Murray Leinster\u2019s science fiction tale of time travel by phone call, \u201cSam, This Is You.\u201d Episodes Forecast August 12, 1940 \u201cLeave It To Jeeves\u201d 2:49 X Minus One October 31, 1956  \u201cSam, This Is You\u201d 34:18 ","author_name":"The Chronic Rift Network","author_url":"http:\/\/chronicriftnetwork.libsyn.com","html":"