# Lamont Cranston **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 25, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamont-cranston/710869 "2015-01-25T16:56:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamont-cranston/710869/1 "2015-01-25T16:56:10Z")
Not the band, but without searching for it can you identify this fictional person? Can you name some others like him from memory? Wouldn’t it be cool if Lamont and Bryan were related? ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamont-cranston/710869/2 "2015-01-25T16:57:37Z")
Yes. He was Kent Allard. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamont-cranston/710869/3 "2015-01-25T16:58:30Z")
I don’t know the band, but I can definitely name the character, and semi-spoiler: and even the famous person who played him for a bit…I had those on cassette tape for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamont-cranston/710869/4 "2015-01-25T17:16:57Z")
Thanks to both of you I have learned some things I didn’t know. I used to spend Sunday afternoons listening to the Mutual Network for the show and others like it. Margo Lane was my secret girlfriend (along with _Champagne_ from the _Kerry Drake_ comic strip) until I discovered Hedy Lamarr! Ah, memories! ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamont-cranston/710869/5 "2015-01-25T17:19:06Z")
He’s that gad about town. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamont-cranston/710869/6 "2015-01-25T17:36:35Z")
Yep. Never heard the series on radio as we had a tv in 1948 and I bypassed radio. 🙂 Speaking of other alter egos, knowing who Billy Batson was won me contest prizes many a time. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamont-cranston/710869/7 "2015-01-25T17:38:59Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Margo Lane was my secret girlfriend (along with _Champagne_ from the _Kerry Drake_ comic strip) until I discovered Hedy Lamarr! > > Ah, memories! That’s _Hedly!_ ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamont-cranston/710869/8 "2015-01-25T17:44:57Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Yep. Never heard the series on radio as we had a tv in 1948 and I bypassed radio. 🙂 > > Speaking of other alter egos, knowing who Billy Batson was won me contest prizes many a time. There were three Batsons that I can recall, but I’m not sure I could name them all. Do you know the words behind SHAZAM? ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamont-cranston/710869/9 "2015-01-25T17:47:23Z")
he’s a wealthy man about town. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamont-cranston/710869/10 "2015-01-25T17:48:22Z")
> [@Aquadementia](#): > > He’s that gad about town. I had to look it up to square it with my memory, but I believe it was: > [@](#): > > “wealthy, young man about town”. ETA: ninja’d by **johnpost** ---
**Author:** ![Uniqueorn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uniqueorn/32/2807_2.png) [@Uniqueorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniqueorn)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamont-cranston/710869/11 "2015-01-25T17:50:39Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > There were three Batsons that I can recall, but I’m not sure I could name them all. Do you know the words behind SHAZAM? Without looking it up: Billy Batson, Mary Batson, Freddie Freeman, there was an Uncle, who probably had the last name Batson, Hoppy the Marvel Bunny and 3 hillbilly Batson sidekicks, I think. Salomon, Hercules, Achilles, Zeus, Atlas, Mercury? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamont-cranston/710869/12 "2015-01-25T17:52:49Z")
Right on, **Uniqueorn**! I loved those redneck Batsons! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamont-cranston/710869/13 "2015-01-25T18:18:22Z")
> [@Uniqueorn](#): > > Salomon, Hercules, Achilles, Zeus, Atlas, Mercury? If my memory of the 70s Saturday morning TV show is correct, you switched the As around. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamont-cranston/710869/14 "2015-01-25T18:21:05Z")
Name the hero who was the great-uncle of the Green Hornet! ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamont-cranston/710869/15 "2015-01-25T18:37:04Z")
The Lone Ranger. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamont-cranston/710869/16 "2015-01-25T20:32:32Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > The Lone Ranger. Damn, I thought that would take longer. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamont-cranston/710869/17 "2015-01-25T21:19:01Z")
[He knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMlRpN8ANrU) I love the laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamont-cranston/710869/18 "2015-01-25T22:39:57Z")
Name the _other_ superheroes created in the accident that gave Daredevil his powers. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamont-cranston/710869/19 "2015-01-25T22:43:38Z")
One of them does machines. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamont-cranston/710869/20 "2015-01-25T23:07:22Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > he’s a wealthy man about town. No, you’re thinking of Lamont Sanford. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamont-cranston/710869.md?page=2)