{
  "title": "AND ADAM BEGOT",
  "category": "[RADIO-SCRIPT]",
  "article": "A prime example of Arch Oboler’s skill in infusing an anti-fascist message into a horror script.\n[press release] “The young dramatist expects to face his biggest casting problem in filling the\nroles of the two Neanderthal men which he has written into ‘And Adam Begot.’ He wants a voice,\nhe explains, which will instantly suggest a cave-man to the radio listener. With that in mind, he\nconducted a survey of what people expect in a Neanderthal voice.\n“‘A cross-section of the answers,’ Oboler says, ‘suggests a bass-voiced prizefighter, talking\ndouble talk with his mouth full of hot potatoes.’”\nIt was reprinted in the anthology… and retitled “Neanderthal” for Oboler’s 1970 Lights Out\nrevival series, The Devil and Mr. O.",
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  "chronology": "LIGHTS OUT (WMAQ, CHICAGO—NBC-RED)\n[Wednesday—11:30 PM-12:00 MIDNIGHT]\nMarch 31, 1937\n“Homus Primus”\n[“…the story of two men and a woman, people of London’s upper strata\nof society, who suddenly through a weird twist  are projected back in time\n50,000 years and find themselves at the mercy of a tribe of\nNeanderthalers, the pre-men of the third glacial age…”]\nPERSONNEL: Arch Oboler (scriptwriter).\nARCH OBOLER’S PLAYS (WEAF, NEW YORK—NBC-RED)\n[Saturday—9:30-10:00 PM]\nSeptember 9, 1939\n“And Adam Begot”\n[“…a powerful social play depicting struggle between force and reason, in\na setting of 50,000 years ago… Three moderns—American, French and\nEnglish—who find themselves whirled back in time and two cavemen are\nthe characters… The drama, presenting contemporary characters moving\nagainst a background of Neanderthal men, poses a question old as time\nitself—that of parenthood. Oboler’s fantasy will show that parenthood is\nneither a duty nor an obligation, but a rare privilege which is abused\nmuch too often. It also shows the unending struggle between brute force\nand ethics…”]\nPERSONNEL: Arch Oboler (scriptwriter, director).\nEXTANT RECORDING\n[OG-NOTE: “And Adam Begot” was scheduled for the October 25, 1940 broadcast of\nOboler’s Everyman’s Theatre, with guest stars Walter Huston and Nan Sunderland.\nInstead, in a last-minute switch, the Hustons appeared in another Oboler script, “Mr.\nand Mrs. Chump.” The original press release for “And Adam Begot” described it as “a\nstory of courage that conquers despair, told in a manner that combines fantasy and\nrealism. The background and incidental music by the NBC Orchestra conducted by\nCharles Dant will be taken from the score of Death and Transfiguration by Strauss.”]\nTHE DEVIL AND MR. O\nCirca 1971\n“Neanderthal”\n[OG-NOTE: Oboler used the 9/9/39 recording for inclusion in this series.]\nEXTANT RECORDING",
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}