# The Doctor will no longer be in **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [June 2, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-doctor-will-no-longer-be-in/1019108 "2025-06-02T15:36:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2025, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-doctor-will-no-longer-be-in/1019108/41 "2025-06-03T20:35:02Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I was going to say, I don’t _think_ any central WI stations carried it, so if you heard it in the 70s, it would retroactively make me mad that I missed it. My friend who introduced me to Dr. Demento was going to college at UW-Green Bay, but was from the Chicago area, and had a bunch of homemade cassette tapes he’d recorded of the show. I don’t recall that the show was being carried by a Green Bay station at that point (I kind of doubt it). ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2025, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-doctor-will-no-longer-be-in/1019108/42 "2025-06-03T22:35:32Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I think Milwaukee carried it, but we couldn’t get those stations. As I mentioned before it was WRKR in Racine/Kenosha that carried it. When I first discovered the show in the late 70’s/early 80’s I lived almost 40 miles north of Milwaukee which is even further north of Racine and Kenosha. So some nights it was difficult to tune in. I know I have multiple cassette tapes of the show somewhere in boxes in storage at my Ma’s house. ---
**Author:** ![ewomack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ewomack/32/19149_2.png) [@ewomack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ewomack)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2025, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-doctor-will-no-longer-be-in/1019108/43 "2025-06-03T22:45:20Z")
Like a few others, I didn’t know he was still going, unfortunately. But, to keep a radio show going until you’re 84 is quite a feat in and of itself. I’ve heard a show here and there over the years, but I’m not sure if his show played regularly in my area. He did interview Captain Beefheart years ago, which is an interview that I still enjoy listening to. The Captain left us a while ago. I’m glad the Doctor kept going in any case. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2025, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-doctor-will-no-longer-be-in/1019108/44 "2025-06-03T23:05:18Z")
_And now, folks, my show, it is ended,_ _I do hope you liked it a bit,_ _But if any of you were offended_ _You can just stick your head in a pile of…_ ---
**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:** [June 3, 2025, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-doctor-will-no-longer-be-in/1019108/45 "2025-06-03T23:24:01Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > _And now, folks, my show, it is ended,_ > _I do hope you liked it a bit,_ > _But if any of you were offended_ > _You can just stick your head in a pile of…_ - …_shaving cream. Be nice and clean. Shave every day and you’ll always be keen._ ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-doctor-will-no-longer-be-in/1019108/46 "2025-06-04T03:36:00Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > There are two- the martial arts school one and the Will. _Ti Kwan Leap_ and _Last Will & Temperament_ by The Frantics. I also recommend their _The Human Race_ and _Architecture Today_ (that last one is not safe for work). > [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > There’s Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow _scrape 'em off, Jim!_ ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-doctor-will-no-longer-be-in/1019108/47 "2025-06-04T03:50:26Z")
A couple Dr. Demento memories from my college days. Among my college friends were Ed and Graham (from Guam). At some point, Ed mentioned that he’d called the show to request a song, and the call was played on the air. Graham had collected tapes of the show. He went through his tapes and found the one with Ed’s call. Another friend of mine was a big fan of avant garde, 20th century classical music. One of his favorite composers was Harry Partch; he wrote music for a 43-note scale and had lived some portion of his life as a railroad hobo. One of Partch’s pieces was _Barstow_; a collection of eight bits of graffiti found at a hitchhiking spot in Barstow, California, set to music. Each is preceeded by a musical motif, and the number. My friend was listening to it, and that motif sounded very familiar. Finally I placed it; it was the intro to song number 3 in the Dr.'s “funny five” every week. [Here’s “Barstow” cued to the relevant part.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFhtP-OrsWo&t=125s) That Dr. Demento knew the work Harry Partch still strikes me as kinda wonderful. W-, w-, w-, wind down your radios. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-doctor-will-no-longer-be-in/1019108/48 "2025-06-04T14:35:36Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > I’ve had _There’s Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow_ stuck in my head for over 30 years. That’s the alarm on my phone! I wake up to that every day. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-doctor-will-no-longer-be-in/1019108/49 "2025-06-04T14:39:57Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > _Ti Kwan Leap_ and _Last Will & Temperament_ by The Frantics. I also recommend their _The Human Race_ and _Architecture Today_ (that last one is not safe for work). I recommend _Roman Numerals_. “I won’t understand this if I live to be C!” > [@Atamasama](#): > > It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it. > Not as we know it. > Not as we know it. It’s worse than that, it’s physics, Jim! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-doctor-will-no-longer-be-in/1019108.md?page=2)