Posted on 03/29/2015 1:06:12 PM PDT by Vision
Friends, it's Sunday night again and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio Americana.
Info *tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow.
Official OTR blog of "The Big Broadcast" thread:
We've got a 50/50 show tonight...Phil Harris and Lux are fantastic...Father Knows Best (or Father is an idiot) and the Great Gildersleeve vary from terrible to listenable.
Got to run to enjoy the sunshine, talk with you tonight...
Love the Suspense blog post:
The play was the thing, and [the performers] knew that contributing to a superior product would enhance their reputations far more than reading some feeble film condensation. Suspense was one of radio’s glamour showcases, but it never seemed to be trading on celebrity. People like Henry Fonda, Frederic March, and Humphrey Bogart appeared each week, but in scripts fine-tuned to their talents. [Creator-director] William Spier became known as ‘the Hitchcock of the airlanes.’ With the stars he was flexible; he required little rehearsal, just a few hours before air time. He wanted them tense at the microphone. They rewarded him with performances that were almost uniformly fine, matching the levels achieved by their underpaid supporting players, the professional radio people.
It's a Spring lineup.
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2015 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. September 8, 1957. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Charmona Matter". A sunken yacht and a missing captain are both heavily insured. The grieving wife isn't exactly heartbroken about the loss of either! Bob Bailey, Dan Cubberly (announcer). 25:43. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
7:30 Dragnet. June 14, 1953. Program #208. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Big Lilly". Mrs. Rockman has been beaten to death...no, she's been shot...no, she killed herself. See cat. #47087 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Hal Gibney (announcer), John Robinson (writer), Walter Schumann (music), Lillian Buyeff, June Whitley. 25:10. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. June 3, 1956. CBS net. "The Pacifist". Sponsored by: Chesterfield, L & M. Hardin Hook is a peaceful little man who only wants to be left alone, despite two Missourians trying to settle a Civil War debt with him. The system cue is added live. William Conrad, George Fenneman (commercial spokesman), George Walsh (announcer), Parley Baer, John Meston (writer), James Nusser, Vic Perrin, Harry Bartell, Paul Dubov, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Howard McNear, Georgia Ellis, Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns). 25:43. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
8:30 The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show. May 1, 1949. NBC net. Sponsored by: Rexall. Phil sings, "Everybody Dances" ("Silas Lee From Tennessee"). Phil and Remley begin a Spring cleanup project and wind up with Alice's living room looking like a minstrel show! Alice bloops a line and Phil pounces. Alice Faye, Anne Whitfield, Bill Forman (announcer), Dick Chevillat (writer), Elliott Lewis, Jeanine Roos, Phil Harris, Ray Singer (writer), Robert North, Walter Scharf and His Orchestra, Walter Tetley, Griff Barnett (Rexall druggist). 29:34. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:00 Father Knows Best 03/04/54 #193 Spring Cleanning (Sus.) (NBC) (29:04). Synopsis is missing from the Index.
9:30 The Great Gildersleeve. March 26, 1947. NBC net. Sponsored by: Kraft American Cheese, Velveeta, Kraft Mustards. Gildersleeve is about to end Leroy's piano lessons, but then meets Joanne Piper, the new music teacher. Earle Ross, Harold Peary, Jack Meakin (music), Janet Waldo, John Laing (announcer), John Whedon (writer), Lillian Randolph, Louise Erickson, Richard LeGrand, Sam Moore (writer), Walter Tetley. 29:25. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. October 3, 1949. CBS net. "It Happens Every Spring". Sponsored by: Lux. Ray Milland, Colleen Townsend, Ted de Corsia, Wally Maher, Ed Begley, William Johnstone, Eleanor Audley, Ken Peters, Clarke Gordon, George Neise, Cy Kendall, Robert Griffin, Herb Ellis, Gil Stratton, Edward Marr, Howard McNear, Jean Ruth (intermission guest), Valentine Davies (screenwriter, author), Shirley Smith (author), William Keighley (host, speaking from New York City), John Milton Kennedy (announcer), Dorothy Lovett (commercial spokesman, as "Libby"), Fred MacKaye (director), Louis Silvers (music director), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects), Sanford Barnett (adaptor). 57:35. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
Great line-up
Wonderful show.
Thanks for the info!
Spring has sprung on the Big Broadcast! :-)
You’re welcome! Enjoy the show if you’re able to tune in. :-)
Hey Gina. What you up to?
Not much info about Lux but if it’s got Howard McNear I’m happy.
Hope you stick around.
Evenin’
Hi, Vision! Just a beautiful Spring day here. The live oak leaves are finally done falling, so I’ve had lots of work in our yard and other people’s yard bagging them up. Massive amount of leaves!
Other than that, all’s well here.
How about you? Did you have a good week? Any new recipes?
You can’t believe this, but the other evening I made my first homemade apple pie (well, I cheated on the crust and bought the Pillsbury pre-made kind in the grocery cooler). I had a bunch of apples that were getting old, so I cut them up, soaked them in lemon juice then drained it, added some nutmeg, cinnamon, and a little bit of flour, butter and salt, and baked it for an hour or so. BAM! It was excellent.
Apple pie. Nice. Never made it either. What's the lemon juice do? Brighten the flavors?
My father makes a good one. One thing I think is a critical touch is to have sweetness in the dough. Make the dough sweet enough to eat on its own. You can probably dress them up too. Like adding bourbon or balsamic vinegar.
This week was simply a pork shoulder to 185f with a pan sauce. Love it.
Lemon juice keeps fresh-peeled-and-cut apples from turning brown (works on bananas, too). While fresh is always best, I just used some of the bottled lemon juice from concentrate. Put about a cup of it in a large bowl with a little water to add volume, and then put the apple slices in as I cut them. Once I was ready to mix the filling with the apples, I just drained off the lemon juice. There was still just a bit of juice left in the bowl, which is fine—tangy.
I forgot to say that I added a bunch of sugar, white and brown, to the spices, flour and salt. The crust doesn’t need anything extra, since the filling is quite sweet, but you can always doctor it up however you like.
Other than cutting the apples, if you use a pre-made pie crust, this is super easy! Don’t forget the garnish of vanilla ice cream or Cool Whip like I did, though. :-)
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