Posted on 08/24/2014 2:06:41 PM PDT by Vision
Friends it's Sunday night again, and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another four hours of classic radio Americana.
*tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow.
We're looking good tonight, Father Knows Best is the weak spot but the Casebook of Gregory Hood seems like a new show, Gina will like Sherlock Holmes, and...not only do we have Lux but it's To Have and Have Not. Love that film.
Looking forward to this evening...
Looks like a fine lineup with a Lux and a Sherlock Holmes. Ed is acknowledging the passing of Lauren Bacall with her performance with Humphrey Bogart in "To Have and Have Not" on Lux.
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2014 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. September 28, 1956. Program #4. CBS net. "The Meg's Palace Matter". Sustaining. The motive for arson and murder begin to take definite shape, in the form of a confession. The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Jack Johnstone (writer, producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Jack Kruschen, Byron Kane, Forrest Lewis, Stan Jones, Bert Holland, Austin Green, Bob Bruce, Harry Bartell, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Carl Fortina (music supervisor). 14:20. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. September 29, 1956. Program #318. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Meg's Palace Matter". Episode #5. The conclusion of the story. A killer strikes again, but one of his victims rises from the grave to strike back. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Jack Johnstone (writer, producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Jack Kruschen, Byron Kane, Forrest Lewis, Stan Jones, Bert Holland, Austin Green, Bob Bruce, Harry Bartell, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Carl Fortina (music supervisor). 13:34. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
7:30 Dragnet. November 16, 1952. Program #178. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Big Walk". Sgt. Friday poses as a buyer of heroin from San Francisco to break up a narcotics gang. A similar script to cat. #46964, but not the same. See cat. #47056 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Whitfield Connor, Harry Bartell, Lee Marvin, Hal Gibney (announcer), John Robinson (writer), Walter Schumann (music). 25 minutes. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. November 6, 1955. CBS net. "Second Choice". Sponsored by: Chesterfield, L & M. Andy Hill, a reformed gunfighter, must be returned to Oklahoma Territory to stand trial for murder. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), John Meston (writer), Sam Edwards, Vic Perrin, Joseph Kearns, Howard McNear, Rex Koury (music), George Walsh (announcer). 25:09. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:30 Father Knows Best 06/18/51 Wedding Preparations (Maxwell House) (NBC) (29:20) Synopsis is missing from the Index.
9:00 The Casebook Of Gregory Hood. September 30, 1946. Mutual net. Sustaining. Ken Froelich is murdered in Washington D. C. The two suspects are Gregory Hood and a red-headed man. The red-head is then found murdered! See cat. #73171 for another show in the series with the same date. This date is subject to correction. Bob Latting, Edmond MacDonald, Elliott Lewis, Gloria Blondell, Howard McNear, Jeff Chandler, Paul Frees, Richard Aurandt (music). 29:44. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:30 The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes. January 25, 1948. Mutual net, WOR, New York aircheck. "The Case Of The Engineer's Thumb". Sponsored by: Clipper Craft Clothes. A hydraulic engineer has a narrow escape with a demented German Colonel. Sherlock has a narrower escape, trapped in a hydrualic press! The script was previously used on the program on December 14, 17, 1931, October 20, 1940 and June 4, 1943. John Stanley, Alfred Shirley, James Monks, Arthur Conan Doyle (creator), Edith Meiser (writer), Basil Loughrane (producer, director), Hal Reid (sound effects), Don Williamson (engineer), Albert Buhrman (music), Cy Harrice (announcer), Michael Fitzmaurice (New York commercial spokesman). 29:25. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. October 14, 1946. CBS net. "To Have and Have Not". Sponsored by: Lux. As great a radio play as was the movie. Great performances in an action packed story of Caribbean intrigue during the war. The program was produced on The Lux Video Theatre on January 17, 1957. Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Tim Graham, William Keighley (host), John Milton Kennedy (announcer), Thomas Hanlon (second announcer), Louis Silvers (music director), Carrie McCord (intermission guest), George Sorel, Jack Kruschen, Betty Alexander, Jack Lloyd, Robin Hughes, Stanley Farrar (doubles), Herman Waldman, Herb Lytton (doubles), Charles Seel, Doris Singleton (commercial spokesman: as "Libby"), Janet Scott (commercial spokesman), Truda Marson (commercial spokesman), Jules Furthman (screenwriter), William Faulkner (screenwriter), Ernest Hemingway (author), Fred MacKaye (director), Sanford Barnett (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 1 hour. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
You’re right on Bacall. How you doing?
"Sherlock Holmes...Thumb" is from an original Conan-Doyle story, but he's only credited with being the creator.
Hey, Vision! We’re HOT. It’s been a scorcher this week. There’s a good chance of rain tomorrow. I surely hope we get it. Our yard needs it badly.
All’s well here. The usual Sunday. Cheap chicken for the grill. What are you smoking?
“Gregory Hood” is also new to me. And, I’m trying to place the Sherlock Holmes story. Even though I’ve read all the Holmes stories Conan-Doyle wrote, I can’t bring that one to mind.
How hot is hot?
I’m hanging chicken wings over an open pit, and have a potato chopped, seasoned, with duck fat in foil over the fire.
Any way, a train conductor brings the thumbless guy to his own doctor, Watson,...to Holmes, and relates the loss of his thumb...Germans...
Upper 90s with about 70 percent humidity, according to our outdoor hygrometer.
Dinner sounds great!
I know some of those radio show stories are only loosely based on Conan-Doyle’s stories. That may be why I can’t remember it.
Yuck.
Andy seems to be a poc.
I had him all wrong.
Yuck is right (I assume you’re talking about the heat). We’re kinda used to it, but it usually rains a little more than it has lately.
We've gotten into the high eighties with high humidity and 10 more degrees can't be fun.
I’m tuning out for FKB. Who listened to this?
I don’t know. We don’t like it much, either. It was the beginning of the leftist Hollywood making the father look like an idiot.
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