it's still fascinating. And wasn't it interesting that "Sky" was a New York City advertising executive? (The late ad genius David Ogilvy once said if you think you have to use sex to sell your product it's because you believe it's too boring to sell itself. In that case, there must be a LOT of boring product out there.)

Dennis, I appreciate your thoughts. But I think you've got the CBS RMT mixed up with some other radio series. Almost to a program ("The therapeutic cat" might have been an exception, where witchcraft was almost played for a laugh) the RMT warned about the danger of witchcraft and, yes, satanism (and indeed frequently they linked the two).

Ever hear the solo song by the Eagles' Don Henley called "You better hang up"? A line from the tune: "You're from New York City, where they don't say no prayers...everything goes, nobody cares." Upon rediscovering and heavily listening to the RMT 11 years ago I found myself asking over and over, "How did they get AWAY with saying those things in New York City?" The RMT was astonishingly conservative for its day.*

(*One last thing. Chris Pine has talked about the RMT's "big sis" (by a decade plus) "The Twilight Zone". A retrospective book I once read on the TWZ said that during filming of the episode "The howling man" (featuring a captured Satan at a monastery) the director wanted to prominently use a cross but the producers nixed it saying it was too religious for the viewing public. This being the early 60s, CBS executives said the same thing a couple years later about Charles Schulz' "A Charlie Brown Christmas" (they also said the public "wouldn't understand the music") which has only become one of the most popular American Christmas shows and TV soundtracks of all time.

Somebody at CBS Radio in New York didn't get the memo. In the RMT episode "The Raft" biblical scripture was quoted no less than FOUR SEPARATE TIMES. And there were a lot of other controversial subjects (abortion, homosexuality/lesbianism, religious cults, islamic terrorism, communism) that the RMT took on in ways that would be controversial today. ))

Again, I don't know how the CBS RMT did it in post-late-60s NYC, but I'm glad they did. (But I'd better get off my soapbox and get back to life.) BTW, if "Andy and Kathy" had done their schtick in a drag club somewhere it might have had an all-adult audience, but live on CNN's New Year's special? Shame on both of them.