{
  "title": "DRACULA",
  "category": "[COMEDY-SERIAL]",
  "article": "Mentioned by John Rayburn in his memoir, Cat Whiskers and Talking Furniture…\n[Rayburn] “A late night, early 1960s program on KOA radio in Denver was the Wayward\nBarker Show. It featured the front row, stretched-out Bill Barker, one-time Denver Post\ncolumnist. It began as a straight interview show but soon began to feature a Friday night ‘Crazy\nCrew’. Among their antics was a comedic treatment of Dracula… Due to station power (50,000\nwatts) and the late night time slot, the program attracted mail from 38 states.\n“On the considerably less serious side, the ‘Crazy Crew’ did a comedic rehash of the Bram Stoker\nclassic, Dracula, a suspenseful tale of the nocturnal atrocities of a vampire. We played it strictly\nfor laughs, spread out in short episodes over a period of weeks. The only suspense was whether or\nnot we’d crack up laughing, which we did quite often, thereby softening the horror aspect.”",
  "origination": "",
  "duration": "",
  "personnel": "",
  "extant_recordings": "",
  "chronology": "THE WAYWARD BARKER SHOW (KOA, DENVER)\n[Friday—\nCirca 1960s\n“Dracula”\n[Number of episodes unknown]",
  "sources": "",
  "gallery": "",
  "images": []
}