"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 11/4 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 11/4/12 | Ed Walker

[Vision]

Friends, it's Sunday night again. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio programs...

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[Vision]

"The Big Broadcast is a Sunday night tradition for families throughout the WAMU listening area. Each week, Big Broadcast host Ed Walker offers listeners priceless recordings of popular radio programs from the '30s, '40s and '50s. Priceless, especially, for a man whose first sentence as a child was, 'Turn the radio on.' "

[Vision]

Happy Sunday Night...Classic Radio Time...

(((((Early Ping)))))

[Vision]

• 07:00 p.m. Johnny Dollar
  12/05-06/55 Cronin Matter Pts. 1-2 (Sus.) (CBS) (27:02)
• 07:30 p.m. Dragnet
  11/02/50 #073 Big Church (NBC) (26:20)
• 08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  02/20/54 #096 Last Fling (Sus.) (CBS) (24:22)
• 08:30 p.m. Father Knows Best
  10/05/50 #050 Family Spending (Maxwell House) (NBC) (29:34)
• 09:00 p.m. Boston Blackie
  04/30/46 #055 The Frances Gielding Murder (Synd) (27:02)
• 09:30 p.m. Mystery House
  1940s #41 Bury Me Not (Synd) (25:48)
• 10:00 p.m. NBC University Theater
  03/06/49 #30 Tales Of Edgar Allen Poe (Sus.) (NBC) (59:46)

[Vision]

Ed is still running with scary stuff after Halloween...

I've be volunteering today and back sometime around 7pm. See you then...

[WXRGina]

Hello, FRiends!

I'm looking forward to the Poe stories in the last hour!

Thanks to J. David Goldin's RadioGOLDINdex for these synopses.

7 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. December 5, 1955. Part 1. CBS net. "The Cronin Matter". Sustaining. Old Mrs. Cronin is determined to wear the famous "Circle Of Fire" necklace to a wild party! The system cue has been deleted. Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Barbara Fuller, Benny Rubin, Bob Bailey, Jack Johnstone (director), John Dehner, Les Crutchfield (writer), Parley Baer, Roy Rowan (announcer), Shirley Mitchell (?), Virginia Gregg, Vivi Janis. 13:42.

7:15 PM Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. December 6, 1955. Part 2. CBS net. "The Cronin Matter". Sustaining. A man who's afraid of his shadow, a girl who's afraid of nothing, and a stranger who strikes in the night! The system cue has been deleted. Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Barbara Fuller, Benny Rubin, Bob Bailey, Jack Johnstone (director), John Dehner, Les Crutchfield (writer), Roy Rowan (announcer), Shirley Mitchell (?), Virginia Gregg, Vivi Janis. 13:53.

7:30 PM Dragnet, 11-2-50 "Big Church." Synopsis is missing for this episode.

8 PM Gunsmoke. February 20, 1954. CBS net. "Last Fling". Sustaining. Two harmless old geezers come to Dodge for a good time, and accuse Kitty of trying to kill them! Maybe they're not so harmless after all! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on March 23, 1957. William Conrad, John Dehner, Ralph Moody, Helen Kleeb, Norman Macdonnell (director), John Meston (writer), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), George Walsh (announcer). 24:40.

8:30 PM Father Knows Best 10/05/50 #050 Family Spending (Maxwell House) (NBC) (29:34). Synopsis is missing.

9 PM Boston Blackie. April 30, 1946. Program #55. ABC net origination, Ziv syndication. Commercials added locally. A psychiatrist is framed for murder. Blackie tries to prove him innocent. Richard Kollmar, Lesley Woods, Maurice Tarplin. 1/2 hour.

9:30 PM Mystery House. May 26, 1946. Program #41. Mutual net, WGN, Chicago origination, Harry S. Goodman syndication. "Bury Me Not". Commercials added locally. Nanette Sargent, Forrest Lewis, Rye Billsbury (announcer). 25:47.

10 PM The NBC University Theatre. March 6, 1949. NBC net. "Tales Of Edgar Allan Poe". Sustaining. Three short stories written by Edgar Allan Poe. "Nose-ology" ("A Comic Masque"), "A Cask Of Amontillado," and "The Fall Of The House Of Usher." Andrew C. Love (director), Stan Waxman, Joseph Schildkraut, George Lefferts (adaptor), Lester Schott, Georgia Backus, Jack Kruschen, Berry Kroeger, Steven Chase, Miriam Jay, Don Diamond, Parley Baer, Tony Barrett, Shepard Menken, Margaret Brayton, Lynn Allen, Albert Harris (composer, conductor), Don Stanley (announcer), Edgar Allan Poe (author), Harvey C. Webster (intermission commentator). 59:30.

[Vision]

Hi Gina, thanks for the info.

FR is slow. Your week was good? There was drama but Sandy decided to move north at the last minute and spared us.

[Viking2002]

Evening, folks......

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

[Vision]

Hey! Whats going on with you?

[WXRGina]

Hi, Vision!

I’ve been on the phone with my liberal uncle in Tucson and missed Dragnet and Gunsmoke. Gads, it’s hard to talk to a true-blue liberal. I love him to pieces though.

Yeah, FR is buggy around election time and debate times. I know FReepers are frustrated.

Our week was uneventful, thankfully. I’m nervous about next week.

I hope your week was good and the next one better! :-)

[WXRGina]

Hi, Viking! It’s good to see you!

I know the site is really hard to post comments on right now, but I surely hope you and Mrs. Viking are getting along very well!

[WXRGina]

Hi, Viking! It’s good to see you!

I know the site is really hard to post comments on right now, but I surely hope you and Mrs. Viking are getting along very well!

[WXRGina]

Man! NBC really changed Poe’s stories from what they really were. I’ve read most of Poe’s work, and I can hear the changes.

[Vision]

Yea, I'm sad to say I was nodding out and missed some of it. I take it it was disappointing?

In other news I just ordered a wifi tableside radio to listen to otr every night! lol

[Vision]

BTW, if you turn your sidebar off FR gets much faster.

[WXRGina]

The Poe stories weren’t disappointing, but for a purist, I noticed the slight story changes. No biggie, really.

Thanks for the sidebar tip!