Word: chickenman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Tyson, like Chickenman, seems to be "everywhere, everywhere." When Rucker juggled a 17-yard pass on the Harvard 11 in the second quarter, Tyson snatched it away and scampered 15 yards. When Thornton seemed about to waltz into the Crimson end-zone on a six-yard roll out around left end early in the fourth quarter, Tyson came from out of nowhere to drop him on the one-yard line. Driven almost by instinct on a second-and-8 play in the same quarter, Tyson moved up from safety to stop Smith's slant off tackle for no gain...
...change of pace from radio's hot-and-heavy barrage of records, news, and commercials, Chickenman was hatched 16 months ago on Chicago's WCFL. He is an ineffectual superhero, like television's Captain Nice and Mr. Terrific. Unlike them, Chickenman is genuinely witty. His real name is Benton Harbor, and his game is selling women's shoes in the Midland City department store, so he is available to fight "crime and/or evil" weekends only. "I don't want to be bugged at the store," he keeps having to remind the police commissioner...
...stuck. During one flap, he accidentally glided through a closed window. "How do you do?" was his greeting. "I'm the wonderful white-winged warrior, and I think I'm bleeding to death." Of course, the police commissioner shrugs away the fact that since the coming of Chickenman, the "level of sin, debauchery and gambling" has increased. Good, he says, "we'll have tourists coming out of our ears...
Trooper 36-24-36. The originator of the series is Richard Orkin, 32, WCFL's director of creative production. A Yale Drama School dropout, he is also the voice of Chickenman and other male characters. The rest of the cast are Disk Jockey Jim Runyon, as the pomegranate-voiced announcer, and, in the female roles, Jane Roberts, WCFL's ex-traffic reporter ("Trooper...
Eight months ago, Orkin found himself "going buggy" over the series and abruptly stopped taping. Listeners and Chickenman fan clubs protested the abortive end. So stations that had already completed the 195 episodes started rerunning them. Orkin ponders launching a second cycle, but that would require bringing back Co-Stars Runyon and Roberts, who have since married and moved to Boston. In the mean time, Orkin has founded Amazon Ace, a cross between Tarzan and the Lone Ranger. Syndicated only six weeks ago the Ace and "his faithful Indian com panion Bernard" have already spread from WCFL Chicago...