later after Dick Barton ,Jock & Snowy came The Daring Dexters, who remembers Valentine Dyall in The Man in Black on the radio where he invited you to switch off the light and listen to his creepy tales ? Mrs Dale she kept saying every so often" I'm worried about Jim" to her daily woman.
Going back even further on tv who remembers a cowboy puppet called Hank and his horse Silver King and his arch enemy Mexican Pete the bandit ? Hank use to sing "oh theyre tough mighty tough in the west a vodee oh doh", used to love that one.